Ilia
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“The less prestige a disease has, the less likely it is to be researched. This reinforces the gaps in collective knowledge about it and further marginalises patients with it.”
From Chapter 5 of my book Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing
From Chapter 5 of my book Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing
March 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“The less prestige a disease has, the less likely it is to be researched. This reinforces the gaps in collective knowledge about it and further marginalises patients with it.”
From Chapter 5 of my book Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing
From Chapter 5 of my book Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing
THIS is a SCIF. It's a secure, climate-controlled, Faradized office with a safe door. Not all SCIFs are made of shipping containers like this one, but most of them are.
I dare you to tell me some fool could accidentally put a journalist inside one of these things by accident.
I dare you to tell me some fool could accidentally put a journalist inside one of these things by accident.
March 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
THIS is a SCIF. It's a secure, climate-controlled, Faradized office with a safe door. Not all SCIFs are made of shipping containers like this one, but most of them are.
I dare you to tell me some fool could accidentally put a journalist inside one of these things by accident.
I dare you to tell me some fool could accidentally put a journalist inside one of these things by accident.
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The new screening test replaces the Pap test in Ontario as of this month.
"The new screening tool, which is administered similarly to a Pap test, is significantly more effective at preventing and finding cancers early than the previous test that looked for changes at the cellular level"
"The new screening tool, which is administered similarly to a Pap test, is significantly more effective at preventing and finding cancers early than the previous test that looked for changes at the cellular level"
'My story doesn't have to be your story': Advocate says new test can prevent cervical cancer
It could have changed her life, but instead of looking back with regret, Alicia Hilderley wants others to use a new cervical cancer test.
ottawacitizen.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The new screening test replaces the Pap test in Ontario as of this month.
"The new screening tool, which is administered similarly to a Pap test, is significantly more effective at preventing and finding cancers early than the previous test that looked for changes at the cellular level"
"The new screening tool, which is administered similarly to a Pap test, is significantly more effective at preventing and finding cancers early than the previous test that looked for changes at the cellular level"
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Thanks science!
March 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Thanks science!
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What do you see when you see the cybertruck? For my friends @themorningsnows.bsky.social & @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social it's the Casspir, the armored personnel carrier of apartheid South Africa. slate.com/news-and-pol...
We’re Scholars Who Study Africa. The Cybertruck Looks Kind of Familiar.
Elon Musk was growing up in Pretoria when the Casspir patrolled the townships.
slate.com
March 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
What do you see when you see the cybertruck? For my friends @themorningsnows.bsky.social & @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social it's the Casspir, the armored personnel carrier of apartheid South Africa. slate.com/news-and-pol...
First they came for the disabled, but this verse was never written—and us disabled folks know damn well why.
Disability isn't rare. It isn't a niche issue. If you live long enough, it will affect you or someone you love. These cuts aren't just an attack on us-they're a warning to everyone.
March 9, 2025 at 5:54 AM
First they came for the disabled, but this verse was never written—and us disabled folks know damn well why.
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NEW: A Kentuckian with measles went to a gym in Frankfort while infectious. Measles is extremely contagious. The individual had recently traveled internationally to an area with an outbreak. www.whas11.com/article/news... #BlueSky #MedSky #IDSky #SciSky
Kentucky health officials identify measles case in Commonwealth
The Kentucky Department of Public Health and the Franklin County Health Department said a Kentuckian went to a gym in Frankfort while infectious.
www.whas11.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
NEW: A Kentuckian with measles went to a gym in Frankfort while infectious. Measles is extremely contagious. The individual had recently traveled internationally to an area with an outbreak. www.whas11.com/article/news... #BlueSky #MedSky #IDSky #SciSky
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Weiss remains, as ever, truly repugnant.
I don't expect anything from Bari Weiss' publication, but they seriously just ran a piece defending subminimum wage for disabled people where no openly disabled people were interviewed, just parents of disabled people.
February 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Weiss remains, as ever, truly repugnant.
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The way we're already pricing in authoritarianism is very, very bad. Trump is using his power as president to openly retaliate against a law firm for representing Jack Smith and it's barely news. The signal this sends is chilling to anyone who would oppose him. What else will he do to his opponents?
February 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
The way we're already pricing in authoritarianism is very, very bad. Trump is using his power as president to openly retaliate against a law firm for representing Jack Smith and it's barely news. The signal this sends is chilling to anyone who would oppose him. What else will he do to his opponents?
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So this is how the Trump administration intends to replace migrant farm workers—by enslaving those who are "not disabled enough."
It's scary enough when your peers think of you as "not disabled enough". It is a constant fight to avoid being ostracized and have your limits respected.
It's scary enough when your peers think of you as "not disabled enough". It is a constant fight to avoid being ostracized and have your limits respected.
RFK Jr said he wants to send folks who are taking antidepressants and ADHD medications to "wellness farms" in rural America where they will be forced to labor by growing organic food to "cure their addictions."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr. wants to send people addicted to antidepressants to government "wellness farms"
The farms will "reparent" them.
www.motherjones.com
February 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
So this is how the Trump administration intends to replace migrant farm workers—by enslaving those who are "not disabled enough."
It's scary enough when your peers think of you as "not disabled enough". It is a constant fight to avoid being ostracized and have your limits respected.
It's scary enough when your peers think of you as "not disabled enough". It is a constant fight to avoid being ostracized and have your limits respected.
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Holy forking shirt balls
"Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "
"Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "
January 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Holy forking shirt balls
"Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "
"Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "
Today at 2:00 p.m. Rudy Giuliani thoroughly do-nothing-ed himself into conceding a motion for contempt in the DC defamation case brought by two Georgia election workers.
The penalty will be decided at a hearing next Thursday. All signs point to incarceration.
The penalty will be decided at a hearing next Thursday. All signs point to incarceration.
December 6, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Today at 2:00 p.m. Rudy Giuliani thoroughly do-nothing-ed himself into conceding a motion for contempt in the DC defamation case brought by two Georgia election workers.
The penalty will be decided at a hearing next Thursday. All signs point to incarceration.
The penalty will be decided at a hearing next Thursday. All signs point to incarceration.
I'm fortunate enough that my lifelong chronic illness is treatable. I don't have any toxic positivity to add here—my experience has made me even angrier at how chronically ill and disabled people are treated. Hindsight has brought to light some disturbing revelations: 1/
Being disabled and chronically ill is beyond lonely. Far too many people in society can’t comprehend illnesses which are permanent & unrelenting but don’t necessarily kill you. As a result they EXPECT you to get better.
When you don’t - they abandon you.
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When you don’t - they abandon you.
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November 25, 2024 at 8:07 PM
I'm fortunate enough that my lifelong chronic illness is treatable. I don't have any toxic positivity to add here—my experience has made me even angrier at how chronically ill and disabled people are treated. Hindsight has brought to light some disturbing revelations: 1/