Meg seanchaibeag
@seanchaibeag.bsky.social
Writer. Disabled (CP, RA, Long Covid and more). Lifelong political nerd (US/UK/RoI/RU/UKR/etc). Owned by cats. Yes, that's Paul McCartney in the profile pic- and me, left.
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The chasm between the spectacle and the implications of everything that is happening is vertigo inducing.
I laugh, then I realize, and then I laugh, and then I realize again.
It all leaves me feeling nauseous.
I laugh, then I realize, and then I laugh, and then I realize again.
It all leaves me feeling nauseous.
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The chasm between the spectacle and the implications of everything that is happening is vertigo inducing.
I laugh, then I realize, and then I laugh, and then I realize again.
It all leaves me feeling nauseous.
I laugh, then I realize, and then I laugh, and then I realize again.
It all leaves me feeling nauseous.
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So they officially want their livers eaten? Good to know.
Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and one of the world’s most influential tech pioneers, is officially returning to hands-on leadership as co-CEO of a new artificial intelligence (AI) venture called Project Prometheus. trib.al/YSsdKSD
Jeff Bezos is reportedly becoming a CEO again—and it's for a $6.2 billion AI startup called 'Project Prometheus' | Fortune
Prometheus brought fire to humanity in Greek myth. Could Project Prometheus help make Bezos' dreams of "millions of people living in space" come true?
trib.al
November 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
So they officially want their livers eaten? Good to know.
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Our new paper: protocol for a NEW kind of systematic review of mask efficacy.
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
Protocol: a systematic review+ (SR+) to combine associative and mechanistic evidence on the efficacy of face masks in reducing transmission of respiratory diseases
link.springer.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Our new paper: protocol for a NEW kind of systematic review of mask efficacy.
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
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When A.I. has stormed out and walked home alone from a high school party on a cold night in a not-warm-enough jacket and kicked a bottle off the sidewalk while glaring at the moon through the bare winter branches because even the moon doesn't understand it, then I might listen to one of its songs.
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
When A.I. has stormed out and walked home alone from a high school party on a cold night in a not-warm-enough jacket and kicked a bottle off the sidewalk while glaring at the moon through the bare winter branches because even the moon doesn't understand it, then I might listen to one of its songs.
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Hi, folks. I wrote about my buddy @leslieleeiii.bsky.social. He had #LongCOVID and passed away this week. Thanks for reading. adamumak.medium.com/leslie-lee-i...
Leslie Lee III: Funeral for a Friend
Explaining the one important lesson that he wanted you to learn.
adamumak.medium.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hi, folks. I wrote about my buddy @leslieleeiii.bsky.social. He had #LongCOVID and passed away this week. Thanks for reading. adamumak.medium.com/leslie-lee-i...
Thinking not-so-fondly of the three cardiologists and two pulmonologists who snorted "I don't know about THAT," when I tried to show them a paper on LC and microclots a few years ago. (No, they didn't bother to read it - and they assumed I hadn't read it either. Oops.)
"Strange Structures Found Lurking in The Blood of People With Long COVID."
Analysis found long COVID patients had far more microclots than healthy controls — a median 19.7-fold increase — and the clots were also significantly larger than those seen in healthy blood.
Source: archive.md/iqny3
Analysis found long COVID patients had far more microclots than healthy controls — a median 19.7-fold increase — and the clots were also significantly larger than those seen in healthy blood.
Source: archive.md/iqny3
November 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Thinking not-so-fondly of the three cardiologists and two pulmonologists who snorted "I don't know about THAT," when I tried to show them a paper on LC and microclots a few years ago. (No, they didn't bother to read it - and they assumed I hadn't read it either. Oops.)
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1/ People treat willful ignorance like it's harmless but it's literally how atrocities happen. "I didn't know" becomes "I didn't want to know" becomes "I knew but it wasn't my problem" and suddenly you're on the wrong side of history wondering how you got there
Willful ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to engage with certain truths
November 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
1/ People treat willful ignorance like it's harmless but it's literally how atrocities happen. "I didn't know" becomes "I didn't want to know" becomes "I knew but it wasn't my problem" and suddenly you're on the wrong side of history wondering how you got there
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I wonder how many employers might actually refuse to hire the post-ChatGPT generation or they might end up fired because they cant do the things their degrees say they can do
Id be very angry with universities for hyping gAI the way they have, if I was a student or parent, tbh.
Id be very angry with universities for hyping gAI the way they have, if I was a student or parent, tbh.
New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
November 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I wonder how many employers might actually refuse to hire the post-ChatGPT generation or they might end up fired because they cant do the things their degrees say they can do
Id be very angry with universities for hyping gAI the way they have, if I was a student or parent, tbh.
Id be very angry with universities for hyping gAI the way they have, if I was a student or parent, tbh.
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NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Another trip around the sun. Can year 44 please suck less? Between the global moral injuries coming thick and fast, 80% of my friends being dead, mom’s cancer, and my own shit health, it’s hard to reach for more. Since there's no one left to come to a party, I'm throwing a party for one at 3:30am...
November 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Another trip around the sun. Can year 44 please suck less? Between the global moral injuries coming thick and fast, 80% of my friends being dead, mom’s cancer, and my own shit health, it’s hard to reach for more. Since there's no one left to come to a party, I'm throwing a party for one at 3:30am...
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The coarsening of society due to the unmitigated ableism ouroboros has already killed people and I am scared it’ll get worse, but we get called hysterical for even thinking about it.
November 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The coarsening of society due to the unmitigated ableism ouroboros has already killed people and I am scared it’ll get worse, but we get called hysterical for even thinking about it.
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This being the last post Alice made for herself makes me incredibly sad. We need more spaces for us. We need more places where voices like Alice’s are uplifted so that others can learn from the wisdom that needs to be shared.
It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
This being the last post Alice made for herself makes me incredibly sad. We need more spaces for us. We need more places where voices like Alice’s are uplifted so that others can learn from the wisdom that needs to be shared.
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Pete Townshend Brings ‘Quadrophenia, A Rock Ballet’ to NYC on His Own Dime, Dedicates U.S. Premiere to Late Choreographer Paul Roberts
Pete Townshend Brings ‘Quadrophenia, A Rock Ballet’ to NYC on His Own Dime, Dedicates U.S. Premiere to Late Choreographer Paul Roberts
Pete Townshend dedicates ‘Quadrophenia, A Rock Ballet’ to late choreographer Paul Roberts during its U.S. debut in New York City.
bit.ly
November 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Pete Townshend Brings ‘Quadrophenia, A Rock Ballet’ to NYC on His Own Dime, Dedicates U.S. Premiere to Late Choreographer Paul Roberts
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Respect Alice Wong’s call here:
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life.
"When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving."
www.teenvogue.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Respect Alice Wong’s call here:
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
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Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
"Pluribus" captures the isolation of COVID-awareness in a COVID denialist world
For years I've described having Long COVID as living in a horror movie. Now that horror movie (well, prestige Apple TV show) is here.
www.thegauntlet.news
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
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Pete Townshend Extended Interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 11/12 #TheWho www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukBw...
Pete Townshend On The Who's Farewell Tour, "Quadrophenia," And The Best Thing He's Ever Written
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Pete Townshend Extended Interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 11/12 #TheWho www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukBw...
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would you like to see the ancient medieval wooden winch that Durham cathedral used to hoist great tonnes of stone up several stories to build the nave?
silly question, here it is
silly question, here it is
November 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
would you like to see the ancient medieval wooden winch that Durham cathedral used to hoist great tonnes of stone up several stories to build the nave?
silly question, here it is
silly question, here it is
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along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president
"The Democrats negotiate with the GOP the way Charlie Brown negotiates with Lucy for the football" has been a recurring 'gotta laugh or we'll cry' joke since at least 1994, to my recollection. One would think Dem leaders would be eager to try NOT falling for it, and yet, here we are again.
November 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
"The Democrats negotiate with the GOP the way Charlie Brown negotiates with Lucy for the football" has been a recurring 'gotta laugh or we'll cry' joke since at least 1994, to my recollection. One would think Dem leaders would be eager to try NOT falling for it, and yet, here we are again.
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There will be 12 gazillion columns this week but the real takeaway is that the strategy of people with all the money + power telling everyone to shut up & wait in line isn’t delivering as it once did because they got so drunk on their own hype they starting using cruelty and violence for the lulz /1
November 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
There will be 12 gazillion columns this week but the real takeaway is that the strategy of people with all the money + power telling everyone to shut up & wait in line isn’t delivering as it once did because they got so drunk on their own hype they starting using cruelty and violence for the lulz /1
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i call this view 'reactionary centrism' - the problem with it is that modern fascism *cannot* be appeased; they don't want a few compromises in women's sports, they want a total social transformation and the end of liberal democracy
you give them a bone, then another, then they want your arm
you give them a bone, then another, then they want your arm
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
i call this view 'reactionary centrism' - the problem with it is that modern fascism *cannot* be appeased; they don't want a few compromises in women's sports, they want a total social transformation and the end of liberal democracy
you give them a bone, then another, then they want your arm
you give them a bone, then another, then they want your arm
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On this day in 1973, The Who released ‘Quadrophenia’ — a thunderous rock opera about mods, identity, and rebellion. Pete Townshend’s masterpiece turned teenage confusion into one of rock’s most powerful anthems of self-discovery.
October 27, 2025 at 3:20 AM
On this day in 1973, The Who released ‘Quadrophenia’ — a thunderous rock opera about mods, identity, and rebellion. Pete Townshend’s masterpiece turned teenage confusion into one of rock’s most powerful anthems of self-discovery.
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SSDI/SSI is an appalling amount of work for people trying to inform the government they cannot work. Nondisabled people assume it’s as simple as getting your doctor to sign a note saying “please excuse Anna from work; she really is disabled.”
It’s not even that easy for the parking permit.
It’s not even that easy for the parking permit.
Beyond the shame, something truly pernicious about public assistance in
the US is how much administrative burden applicants face when trying to get help. The bureaucracy and paperwork are incredibly daunting. The two big exceptions to this are Social Security and Medicare.
the US is how much administrative burden applicants face when trying to get help. The bureaucracy and paperwork are incredibly daunting. The two big exceptions to this are Social Security and Medicare.
October 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
SSDI/SSI is an appalling amount of work for people trying to inform the government they cannot work. Nondisabled people assume it’s as simple as getting your doctor to sign a note saying “please excuse Anna from work; she really is disabled.”
It’s not even that easy for the parking permit.
It’s not even that easy for the parking permit.