Michael Askren
@yungfetus.bsky.social
Former video game industry person disabled by Long COVID. Leftist. I like vinyl, animation, and reading.
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Michael Askren
@yungfetus.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Hi, first time poster here. My name is Michael. Feel free to follow me if your interests include:
- Anime & Animation
- Bass Guitar
- COVID & Chronic Illness
- Disability Justice
- Gaming
- Gunpla
- Jazz & Metal
- Leftist Politics
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books
- TTRPGs
- Vinyl Collecting
Welcome! 👹
- Anime & Animation
- Bass Guitar
- COVID & Chronic Illness
- Disability Justice
- Gaming
- Gunpla
- Jazz & Metal
- Leftist Politics
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books
- TTRPGs
- Vinyl Collecting
Welcome! 👹
I truly hope that after what they did to Legends of Runeterra that Riftbound goes tits up
November 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I truly hope that after what they did to Legends of Runeterra that Riftbound goes tits up
Been reading the Wounded Storyteller by Arthur Frank. It’s incredible reading something that can so clearly elucidate the patterns of my experiences, but it’s also bringing me that much closer to understanding them. Which… is very saddening.
November 1, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Been reading the Wounded Storyteller by Arthur Frank. It’s incredible reading something that can so clearly elucidate the patterns of my experiences, but it’s also bringing me that much closer to understanding them. Which… is very saddening.
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"The risk of myocarditis after COVID-19 infection is approximately 42 times higher than the risk after COVID-19 vaccination"
Of course, COVID's harms are not limited to myocarditis
Of course, COVID's harms are not limited to myocarditis
October 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"The risk of myocarditis after COVID-19 infection is approximately 42 times higher than the risk after COVID-19 vaccination"
Of course, COVID's harms are not limited to myocarditis
Of course, COVID's harms are not limited to myocarditis
So are people actually going to hold a general strike now that Brandon Johnson is suggesting it
October 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
So are people actually going to hold a general strike now that Brandon Johnson is suggesting it
Average NYT opinion saying incredibly ignorant ass shit
yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable.
October 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Average NYT opinion saying incredibly ignorant ass shit
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Drew Struzan might be most famous for Star WARS, but he did plenty of Star TREK over the years. And they were always gorgeous.
October 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Drew Struzan might be most famous for Star WARS, but he did plenty of Star TREK over the years. And they were always gorgeous.
Whoa. My insurance just approved my IVIG. I’ve been waiting… three years for this medication. Feels a bit surreal right now.
October 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Whoa. My insurance just approved my IVIG. I’ve been waiting… three years for this medication. Feels a bit surreal right now.
Someone who’s read the rest of the Sun Eater series, please tell me that it gets better after the first novel 😩
October 12, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Someone who’s read the rest of the Sun Eater series, please tell me that it gets better after the first novel 😩
I’m pretty sure my insurance is never going to approve any treatments that would actually help me.
October 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I’m pretty sure my insurance is never going to approve any treatments that would actually help me.
This is just a reminder that it’s okay to hate the people that did wrong by you. If they gave you good reason then your feelings are valid.
October 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is just a reminder that it’s okay to hate the people that did wrong by you. If they gave you good reason then your feelings are valid.
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🚨 post by @ahandvanish.bsky.social on Twitter:
"5 different models show the incidence of #LongCovid has not decreased over time, and remains high."
OP: x.com/ahandvanish/...
"5 different models show the incidence of #LongCovid has not decreased over time, and remains high."
OP: x.com/ahandvanish/...
September 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
🚨 post by @ahandvanish.bsky.social on Twitter:
"5 different models show the incidence of #LongCovid has not decreased over time, and remains high."
OP: x.com/ahandvanish/...
"5 different models show the incidence of #LongCovid has not decreased over time, and remains high."
OP: x.com/ahandvanish/...
It’s honestly offensive that the CIA could take out Fred Hampton as a supposed threat to our government but they didn’t see the bumbling, hamfisted danger of conservative manosphere podcasters. They could have all been psy-oped into chugging bleach if we had just tried hard enough
September 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM
It’s honestly offensive that the CIA could take out Fred Hampton as a supposed threat to our government but they didn’t see the bumbling, hamfisted danger of conservative manosphere podcasters. They could have all been psy-oped into chugging bleach if we had just tried hard enough
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I’m choked up seeing this—it’s shameful.
Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood.
We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?
Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood.
We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?
June 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I’m choked up seeing this—it’s shameful.
Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood.
We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?
Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood.
We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?
It’s genuinely so obvious that Nihachu has long COVID the way she talks about her health. But she keeps going to conventions and getting infected. 😮💨
June 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
It’s genuinely so obvious that Nihachu has long COVID the way she talks about her health. But she keeps going to conventions and getting infected. 😮💨
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I cannot tell you how bad this is. We've handed over the health of all Americans to this deranged zealot and his flunkies and mini-Mes. This is going to get people sick, some will die. Nothing good will come of this.
In an unprecedented move, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed all 17 members of the CDC's expert panel of vaccine advisers, citing conflicts of interest. cnn.it/4mYohFy
June 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I cannot tell you how bad this is. We've handed over the health of all Americans to this deranged zealot and his flunkies and mini-Mes. This is going to get people sick, some will die. Nothing good will come of this.
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Blaming “The Antivaxxers” for measles outbreaks is a wild double standard coming from people who magically believe COVID isn’t harmful and that we can’t do anything about it so they live in make-believe (or glass houses I guess)
May 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Blaming “The Antivaxxers” for measles outbreaks is a wild double standard coming from people who magically believe COVID isn’t harmful and that we can’t do anything about it so they live in make-believe (or glass houses I guess)
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Cuts to NIH will keep science exclusive. Already training programs that open doors for those who are not rich & are underrepresented. Cuts to budgets will decimate public institutions & communities. We write to say save NIH & keep science for the working class.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Disaster Awaits Us if the NIH Dies
We need to be sending more federal research dollars to more people in more places. Instead, the government is doing the opposite.
www.thenation.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Cuts to NIH will keep science exclusive. Already training programs that open doors for those who are not rich & are underrepresented. Cuts to budgets will decimate public institutions & communities. We write to say save NIH & keep science for the working class.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
I really have to get my CPTSD looked at
May 18, 2025 at 5:25 AM
I really have to get my CPTSD looked at
It’d be cool if people stopped using AI to make mediocre crap they mistakenly label as self expression
May 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
It’d be cool if people stopped using AI to make mediocre crap they mistakenly label as self expression
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Profiles in cowardice. #BillCassidy owns every death, every illness that comes from this Administration. He is a coward who has betrayed his Hippocratic Oath. #RFKJr #publichealthmalpractice.
May 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Profiles in cowardice. #BillCassidy owns every death, every illness that comes from this Administration. He is a coward who has betrayed his Hippocratic Oath. #RFKJr #publichealthmalpractice.
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Trapdoor spider, oils on gold painted panel, sold
May 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Trapdoor spider, oils on gold painted panel, sold
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The subtext here is that none of these clowns—Bhattacharya, Kennedy, Makry, or Oz—believe government has any business protecting people from disease threats or doing public health.
It’s just social Darwinism.
It’s just social Darwinism.
Dr Oz on Fox: "It's your patriotic duty to be as healthy as you can."
May 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The subtext here is that none of these clowns—Bhattacharya, Kennedy, Makry, or Oz—believe government has any business protecting people from disease threats or doing public health.
It’s just social Darwinism.
It’s just social Darwinism.
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Again for those in the back:
👏🏼 PEM 👏🏼 is 👏🏼 NOT 👏🏼 deconditioning
Symptoms associated with effort expenditure in #LongCOVID, #MECFS and other energy limiting illnesses are physiological, not “preferential”
Thanks to @RobWust for this incredible work.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
👏🏼 PEM 👏🏼 is 👏🏼 NOT 👏🏼 deconditioning
Symptoms associated with effort expenditure in #LongCOVID, #MECFS and other energy limiting illnesses are physiological, not “preferential”
Thanks to @RobWust for this incredible work.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Skeletal muscle properties in long COVID and ME/CFS differ from those induced by bed rest
Patients with long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) suffer from a reduced exercise capacity, skeletal muscle abnormalities and post-exertional malaise (PEM), where...
www.medrxiv.org
May 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Again for those in the back:
👏🏼 PEM 👏🏼 is 👏🏼 NOT 👏🏼 deconditioning
Symptoms associated with effort expenditure in #LongCOVID, #MECFS and other energy limiting illnesses are physiological, not “preferential”
Thanks to @RobWust for this incredible work.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
👏🏼 PEM 👏🏼 is 👏🏼 NOT 👏🏼 deconditioning
Symptoms associated with effort expenditure in #LongCOVID, #MECFS and other energy limiting illnesses are physiological, not “preferential”
Thanks to @RobWust for this incredible work.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...