Meep Morp
@meepmorp.bsky.social
writer, senior software engineer, amateur archivist. Chronically ill and neurocomplex advocate for disability justice, labor rights, open tech, art, liberatory and human-centered places.
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Meep Morp
@meepmorp.bsky.social
· Oct 25
Food resources Portland, OR
Made with Padlet
padlet.com
padlet starting to collect food resources in #portland ahead of SNAP abandonment, including if people doing individual and neighbor group efforts want to put any info there (anyone can add): padlet.com/peridotcoded...
We have deep cleaned a lot in the battle with carpet beetles, but between that and the volatile Portland air pressure I’m now incapacitated. Reached out to a housekeeping place who said they won’t touch us bc larva. The Biohazard place rejected us saying we needed traditional services. Helpppp #pdx
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
We have deep cleaned a lot in the battle with carpet beetles, but between that and the volatile Portland air pressure I’m now incapacitated. Reached out to a housekeeping place who said they won’t touch us bc larva. The Biohazard place rejected us saying we needed traditional services. Helpppp #pdx
For chronically ill people the holiday season is just the “season when I can never travel or congregate again because public health matters to no-one”
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
For chronically ill people the holiday season is just the “season when I can never travel or congregate again because public health matters to no-one”
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The problem with asking abolitionists how to prevent violent and sexual crimes is that it presupposes that the current system actually addresses sexual or violent crimes when it categorically does not. The United States has the lowest clearance rates for violent crimes in the developed world.
December 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The problem with asking abolitionists how to prevent violent and sexual crimes is that it presupposes that the current system actually addresses sexual or violent crimes when it categorically does not. The United States has the lowest clearance rates for violent crimes in the developed world.
Holiday reminder that the best prevention for norovirus is proper handwashing. Hand sanitizers don’t harm it.
December 15, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Holiday reminder that the best prevention for norovirus is proper handwashing. Hand sanitizers don’t harm it.
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25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
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Eugenics is the long & short position of this administration. #IllnessPolitics
Convinced that someone in the Trump regime has taken a substantial long position in Measles.
December 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Eugenics is the long & short position of this administration. #IllnessPolitics
I try not to use Google ai results much but lately it’s become way worse. More claims without citations that are clearly hallucinations. Really disconcerting
December 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I try not to use Google ai results much but lately it’s become way worse. More claims without citations that are clearly hallucinations. Really disconcerting
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A night out in Cedar-Riverside
December 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
A night out in Cedar-Riverside
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"For the second time in just over a month, a large-scale raid by dozens of immigration agents in New York City was met with a similarly large-scale counter-protest. This time, however, the protesters thwarted the authorities' plans before they began."
How 200 New Yorkers Foiled an ICE Raid Before It Even Began
New Yorkers thwarted an ICE raid before it could begin. The incident highlights the challenges ICE will face in the city
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
"For the second time in just over a month, a large-scale raid by dozens of immigration agents in New York City was met with a similarly large-scale counter-protest. This time, however, the protesters thwarted the authorities' plans before they began."
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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A little hope
"A survey of 800 health care providers who are treating more than 350 individuals with long COVID with tirzepatide indicated that between 60% and 90% of the patients with long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome responded to this treatment in days to weeks"
"A survey of 800 health care providers who are treating more than 350 individuals with long COVID with tirzepatide indicated that between 60% and 90% of the patients with long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome responded to this treatment in days to weeks"
NIH researchers shared new progress on long COVID.
Four treatments low-dose naltrexone, baricitinib, GLP-1 agonists and stellate ganglion block are now moving into clinical trials to ease symptoms like fatigue and brain fog.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Four treatments low-dose naltrexone, baricitinib, GLP-1 agonists and stellate ganglion block are now moving into clinical trials to ease symptoms like fatigue and brain fog.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Progress on the pathway to long COVID treatments - Nature Immunology
The US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Foundation for the National Institutes of Health convened a 2-day workshop announcing four agents to enter RECOVER–Treating Long COVID ...
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A little hope
"A survey of 800 health care providers who are treating more than 350 individuals with long COVID with tirzepatide indicated that between 60% and 90% of the patients with long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome responded to this treatment in days to weeks"
"A survey of 800 health care providers who are treating more than 350 individuals with long COVID with tirzepatide indicated that between 60% and 90% of the patients with long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome responded to this treatment in days to weeks"
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The Long COVID Treatment Trial – Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T) is open for enrollment for people with Long COVID. More info at visit longcovid.scripps.edu.
Home - Long COVID Treatment Trial
Be part of groundbreaking Long COVID research from Scripps Research. We endeavor to conduct a portfolio of Long COVID clinical trials.
longcovid.scripps.edu
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The Long COVID Treatment Trial – Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T) is open for enrollment for people with Long COVID. More info at visit longcovid.scripps.edu.
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The Long COVID Treatment Trial – Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T) is now open for enrollment for people with Long COVID in all states but Hawaii (due to concerns about maintaining temperature control in shipping), DC, and PR:
longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...
longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...
October 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The Long COVID Treatment Trial – Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T) is now open for enrollment for people with Long COVID in all states but Hawaii (due to concerns about maintaining temperature control in shipping), DC, and PR:
longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...
longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...
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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org : "we need more at-home clinical trials for Long COVID. Here’s how we designed the largest one yet"
thesicktimes.org/2025/10/30/w...
Register for trial
longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#LongCovid #PASC
thesicktimes.org/2025/10/30/w...
Register for trial
longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#LongCovid #PASC
November 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org : "we need more at-home clinical trials for Long COVID. Here’s how we designed the largest one yet"
thesicktimes.org/2025/10/30/w...
Register for trial
longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#LongCovid #PASC
thesicktimes.org/2025/10/30/w...
Register for trial
longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/
Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update
#LongCovid #PASC
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~ timeline cleanse ~
parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
~ timeline cleanse ~
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Rip Oscar Wilde you would have loved Substack
to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Rip Oscar Wilde you would have loved Substack
as someone who has worked in startups for almost a decade I think about this all the time. What could our world look like if smart people’s labor weren’t trapped in cycles of venture capitalist shell games?
too much of the economy now is not built around solving a problem or meeting a need
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
as someone who has worked in startups for almost a decade I think about this all the time. What could our world look like if smart people’s labor weren’t trapped in cycles of venture capitalist shell games?
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A lot of Native folks are critical of land acknowledgements, myself included, and in some spaces, that criticism has led folks to incorporate actual calls for material solidarity with Native folks, or to meaningfully draw connections between types of actions people can take against colonial violence
November 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
A lot of Native folks are critical of land acknowledgements, myself included, and in some spaces, that criticism has led folks to incorporate actual calls for material solidarity with Native folks, or to meaningfully draw connections between types of actions people can take against colonial violence
The Beths played an utterly perfect set last night in Portland, and the crowd was so high energy!
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The Beths played an utterly perfect set last night in Portland, and the crowd was so high energy!
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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“Authoritarians don’t stop because you’re reasonable. They stop when you make the cost of continuing too high.”
Yes, This Was a Betrayal
Democrats Are Bringing Facts to a Fight For Power
antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
“Authoritarians don’t stop because you’re reasonable. They stop when you make the cost of continuing too high.”
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
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I must not discourse.
Discourse is the mind-killer.
Discourse is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face the discourse.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
Discourse is the mind-killer.
Discourse is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face the discourse.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
May 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I must not discourse.
Discourse is the mind-killer.
Discourse is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face the discourse.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
Discourse is the mind-killer.
Discourse is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face the discourse.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
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The victory of progressive candidates is a byproduct of our work caring for one another and building a better world, not the goal of our work.
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The victory of progressive candidates is a byproduct of our work caring for one another and building a better world, not the goal of our work.
Obama facts.
I’m thrilled about Mamdani, hoping he will be a better official than Obama was.
I’m thrilled about Mamdani, hoping he will be a better official than Obama was.
Remember when yall had a super majority, but did nothing with it, because it wasn’t proper or some bs? Remember that? When my family lost our house to a predatory second mortgage and you bailed the banks responsible out, to the tune of 1 trillion $? I remember that. You sold me hope,then sold me out
November 5, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Obama facts.
I’m thrilled about Mamdani, hoping he will be a better official than Obama was.
I’m thrilled about Mamdani, hoping he will be a better official than Obama was.