Sparrow / Liz
@untonuggan.myatproto.social
angry mast cells (HaT and #MCAS) + #POTS + neurodivergent. ♿ queer. white. emperor of typos. brain fog zone ⚠️. they/them
🎶 iii'm still masking 🎶
working on porting more of my body science infodumps and such to:
liminalnest.wordpress.com
#NEISvoid
🎶 iii'm still masking 🎶
working on porting more of my body science infodumps and such to:
liminalnest.wordpress.com
#NEISvoid
Pinned
I've got a lot of new followers, so fair warning I yell A Lot about my mast cells + mast cell disorders #MCAS
This may seem niche
But COVID infection can trigger mast cell dysfunction
So it is becoming more common, and there are not enough doctors who know how to recognize and manage it
This may seem niche
But COVID infection can trigger mast cell dysfunction
So it is becoming more common, and there are not enough doctors who know how to recognize and manage it
I guess I'm starting a thread of pinned posts now?
Here's a little bit about my immune disorder, MCAS, and why I yell about it so much
Here's a little bit about my immune disorder, MCAS, and why I yell about it so much
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
Well this story just keeps getting worse. Well done Labour, well done police.
"one of the women—Ayeshah Behit—was denied anti-seizure medication during her arrest and told that she wouldn’t be released if she kept asking for it. Anyone who knows anything about epilepsy knows how dangerous this is."
"one of the women—Ayeshah Behit—was denied anti-seizure medication during her arrest and told that she wouldn’t be released if she kept asking for it. Anyone who knows anything about epilepsy knows how dangerous this is."
Palestine supporters have convictions for "harassing MP" overturned
In one of the UK’s more disturbing shifts towards authoritarianism, two supporters of Palestine were convicted in June of harassing an MP because they dared challenge her on Gaza.
www.councilestatemedia.uk
November 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Well this story just keeps getting worse. Well done Labour, well done police.
"one of the women—Ayeshah Behit—was denied anti-seizure medication during her arrest and told that she wouldn’t be released if she kept asking for it. Anyone who knows anything about epilepsy knows how dangerous this is."
"one of the women—Ayeshah Behit—was denied anti-seizure medication during her arrest and told that she wouldn’t be released if she kept asking for it. Anyone who knows anything about epilepsy knows how dangerous this is."
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
hey fellow POTS people who also dip into anemia from time to time: I'm trying to shorten the time between when anemia happens and when my Spidey sense tingles that this might not just be my POTS. have you noticed any telltale signs that distinguish their symptoms?
November 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
hello #NEISvoid thank you as always for being here 💛
does anyone have a pair of house slippers they like? orthopedic house slippers?
i live in bed except for short trips to the kitchen or restroom and my slippers are well worn out
hope you have a nice day 💫
does anyone have a pair of house slippers they like? orthopedic house slippers?
i live in bed except for short trips to the kitchen or restroom and my slippers are well worn out
hope you have a nice day 💫
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
hello #NEISvoid thank you as always for being here 💛
does anyone have a pair of house slippers they like? orthopedic house slippers?
i live in bed except for short trips to the kitchen or restroom and my slippers are well worn out
hope you have a nice day 💫
does anyone have a pair of house slippers they like? orthopedic house slippers?
i live in bed except for short trips to the kitchen or restroom and my slippers are well worn out
hope you have a nice day 💫
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
Is anyone running against Hakeem Jeffries? Anyone? I have money for them
November 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Is anyone running against Hakeem Jeffries? Anyone? I have money for them
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
Overjoyed to learn that my hospital system has returned to masks required. 👏
Masking at UHN
Policies about wearing masks change in response to respiratory virus season or other outbreak conditions.
www.uhn.ca
November 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Overjoyed to learn that my hospital system has returned to masks required. 👏
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
In California that’s illegal now to do in job postings!
I get why but every time I see a job posting on indeed that requires a car/license/clean driving record for jobs whose don't require you to drive anywhere while on the clock makes my blood pressure go up.
November 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
In California that’s illegal now to do in job postings!
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
also, reminder that fatmisia/fatphobia intersects with all the other axes of oppression: race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, etc etc
for those of you who didn't know that fatphobia and transphobia are intertwined:
trans people seeking trans-specific medical care -- care that would otherwise be covered -- are often turned away until they lose weight. sometimes they're turned away full stop.
health care is held for ransom.
trans people seeking trans-specific medical care -- care that would otherwise be covered -- are often turned away until they lose weight. sometimes they're turned away full stop.
health care is held for ransom.
Earlier this year I hauled my fat ass over to New Jersey for a consult appt for top surgery.
I will not be going with that doctor, in part because her skinny ass was shocked that I estimated it would take me 3 months to lose 15 pounds.
"That long?!" she exclaimed.
It's definitely entwined.
I will not be going with that doctor, in part because her skinny ass was shocked that I estimated it would take me 3 months to lose 15 pounds.
"That long?!" she exclaimed.
It's definitely entwined.
November 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
also, reminder that fatmisia/fatphobia intersects with all the other axes of oppression: race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, etc etc
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
this.
also, if you care about disability justice, hope you’re also pro-fat liberation.
do you know how many people have gone to the doctor for troubling symptoms, been automatically dismissed and told to lose weight, and then developed late-stage/severe chronic and acute illnesses?
also, if you care about disability justice, hope you’re also pro-fat liberation.
do you know how many people have gone to the doctor for troubling symptoms, been automatically dismissed and told to lose weight, and then developed late-stage/severe chronic and acute illnesses?
It also fucking sucks that so many people on the Left(s) refuse to understand anti-fatness as a system of oppression, and fat liberation as a legitimate anti-oppression movement.
It sucks, because it's all connected, and if you don't see this part, you don't have a clear understanding of the whole.
It sucks, because it's all connected, and if you don't see this part, you don't have a clear understanding of the whole.
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
this.
also, if you care about disability justice, hope you’re also pro-fat liberation.
do you know how many people have gone to the doctor for troubling symptoms, been automatically dismissed and told to lose weight, and then developed late-stage/severe chronic and acute illnesses?
also, if you care about disability justice, hope you’re also pro-fat liberation.
do you know how many people have gone to the doctor for troubling symptoms, been automatically dismissed and told to lose weight, and then developed late-stage/severe chronic and acute illnesses?
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
Hey, since Patton Oswalt was reinstated, maybe Bluesky moderation can reinstate someone who was banned for doing the exact same thing.
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hey, since Patton Oswalt was reinstated, maybe Bluesky moderation can reinstate someone who was banned for doing the exact same thing.
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
I have zero idea what that ghoul MTG's resignation portends. But given her well proven track record of being a brazen opportunist, I'm not entirely ruling out a "rats abandoning a sinking ship" rationale.
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I have zero idea what that ghoul MTG's resignation portends. But given her well proven track record of being a brazen opportunist, I'm not entirely ruling out a "rats abandoning a sinking ship" rationale.
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
Black Women Shouldn't Have to Engineer Their Survival in the Delivery Room www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Opinion | Black Women Shouldn't Have to Engineer Their Survival in the Delivery Room
Medical racism is not a bygone problem
www.medpagetoday.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Black Women Shouldn't Have to Engineer Their Survival in the Delivery Room www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
I got another one of these today from a different UK address. They are bypassing gmail spam filters despite me reporting them as spam. Again: DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS, report it as phishing to your email provider. Warn your loved ones. Maybe pitch in for your people vulnerable to this financially.
Hey so bad news, there's a phishing email going around pretending to pay for free Thanksgiving dinners at Costco. Please tell your leas internet savvy friends this is a horrible, heartless scam and they SHOULD NOT CLICK ANYTHING
![Gmail preview of a phishing email pretending to be Costco.
I have included the titles exactly as they appeared.
Title: You've won a Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner from Costco [myemail] [thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:09:21 +0000] red emoji exclamation point
From: Costco - Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner etdenix@iszgxhz.aaq.missouri.uk.com
To: me@aol.com (not my actual email)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rspmvkykyekzvboa4kalkzy6/bafkreigkvh2cafvfzijskbmnbiqnohezcd36clsa7kk2hbx2pydllz7efy@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I got another one of these today from a different UK address. They are bypassing gmail spam filters despite me reporting them as spam. Again: DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS, report it as phishing to your email provider. Warn your loved ones. Maybe pitch in for your people vulnerable to this financially.
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
what if we kissed at the pope rave
November 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
what if we kissed at the pope rave
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
This is why I have stopped using Gmail except as the email that I give when online shopping. My main email is Proton now.
Google turned their service into a dumping ground for spam.
So that's how I use it.
Google turned their service into a dumping ground for spam.
So that's how I use it.
Gmail set this up so that, if you do opt out, you lose all of the useful features like mail filtering, spam filters, spell check, and shit that has been around for years. It turns your inbox into a dump full of everything, making it essentially pointless to use gmail at all.
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
This is why I have stopped using Gmail except as the email that I give when online shopping. My main email is Proton now.
Google turned their service into a dumping ground for spam.
So that's how I use it.
Google turned their service into a dumping ground for spam.
So that's how I use it.
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
Not the face of someone who knocked a jade plant to the floor an hour ago. Or is it?
November 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Not the face of someone who knocked a jade plant to the floor an hour ago. Or is it?
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
I feel like evacuating a city of 14 million because they are going to run out of water should be a bigger story regardless of where it is.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I feel like evacuating a city of 14 million because they are going to run out of water should be a bigger story regardless of where it is.
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
Always take sentences using “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.
October 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Always take sentences using “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
I didn’t know it was possible for your big toe to be swollen and very painful because you need arch support, but apparently feet are the most delicately interconnected system this side of a rain forest.
November 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I didn’t know it was possible for your big toe to be swollen and very painful because you need arch support, but apparently feet are the most delicately interconnected system this side of a rain forest.
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
Friends, this is a low hanging boycott action.
Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions.
You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice.
The working class has much more power than they think.
Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions.
You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice.
The working class has much more power than they think.
Spotify is helping ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. Stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops running ads for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Friends, this is a low hanging boycott action.
Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions.
You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice.
The working class has much more power than they think.
Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions.
You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice.
The working class has much more power than they think.
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
I wrote about the impact of declining insect pollinators on the global food supply. 🧪🌎
A looming 'insect apocalypse' could endanger global food supplies. Can we stop it before it's too late?
Insect populations are in steep decline, which could endanger the food supply. But there are things we can do to reverse the trend.
www.livescience.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I wrote about the impact of declining insect pollinators on the global food supply. 🧪🌎
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
If you're looking for another way to divest from Amazon and instead support your local community, hi, nice to meet you 👋
When you buy audiobooks through us, a portion goes to your independent bookstore. It's an easy way to shop small all year long.
When you buy audiobooks through us, a portion goes to your independent bookstore. It's an easy way to shop small all year long.
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
If you're looking for another way to divest from Amazon and instead support your local community, hi, nice to meet you 👋
When you buy audiobooks through us, a portion goes to your independent bookstore. It's an easy way to shop small all year long.
When you buy audiobooks through us, a portion goes to your independent bookstore. It's an easy way to shop small all year long.
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
New #sciart! Watercolor brains expressing different states of mind. Original paintings, not prints; one of each. artologica.etsy.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
New #sciart! Watercolor brains expressing different states of mind. Original paintings, not prints; one of each. artologica.etsy.com
Reposted by Sparrow / Liz
But yeah the formula is “I used to do sports! But now I can’t do [basic activity of daily living]. I have tried graded exercise therapy and was concerned when it didn’t help because I want to be Productive Under Capitalism!”
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
But yeah the formula is “I used to do sports! But now I can’t do [basic activity of daily living]. I have tried graded exercise therapy and was concerned when it didn’t help because I want to be Productive Under Capitalism!”