Vlad Vexler
@vladvexler.bsky.social
Philosopher - ethics, politics, music | Slowly writing a book on Isaiah Berlin | Born in USSR, home is London | Living with ME since 2003.
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youtube.com/vladvexler (main channel)
youtube.com/vladvexlerchat (chat channel)
youtube.com/@vladvexlerphilosophy
The fukuyamian mistake we keep making about trumpism and democracy -
November 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The fukuyamian mistake we keep making about trumpism and democracy -
Health update! Covid on top of ME and Long Covid. Day 5 has been the worst yet, with an episode similar to one that sent me spiralling in hospital 5 months ago. Didn’t get monoclonals as impossible to travel by ambulance. Didn’t take anti virals because of drug interaction, reactivity & rebound risk
October 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Health update! Covid on top of ME and Long Covid. Day 5 has been the worst yet, with an episode similar to one that sent me spiralling in hospital 5 months ago. Didn’t get monoclonals as impossible to travel by ambulance. Didn’t take anti virals because of drug interaction, reactivity & rebound risk
Health update! Covid on top of ME & Long Covid. Day 4 has been the hardest yet. I wasn’t well enough to get to the monoclonal antibodies infusion we’d fought so hard for - not even with an ambulance.
If you’re freaking out politically, I got you and watch this space for my return to the channels 💛
If you’re freaking out politically, I got you and watch this space for my return to the channels 💛
October 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Health update! Covid on top of ME & Long Covid. Day 4 has been the hardest yet. I wasn’t well enough to get to the monoclonal antibodies infusion we’d fought so hard for - not even with an ambulance.
If you’re freaking out politically, I got you and watch this space for my return to the channels 💛
If you’re freaking out politically, I got you and watch this space for my return to the channels 💛
"The Coming Age of American Putinism".
Putinism and Trumpism share ideological DNA. They are two versions of the same global ideology - a kind of consumerist monarchism that makes might into right.
🎥Watch now on the main YouTube channel
Putinism and Trumpism share ideological DNA. They are two versions of the same global ideology - a kind of consumerist monarchism that makes might into right.
🎥Watch now on the main YouTube channel
September 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"The Coming Age of American Putinism".
Putinism and Trumpism share ideological DNA. They are two versions of the same global ideology - a kind of consumerist monarchism that makes might into right.
🎥Watch now on the main YouTube channel
Putinism and Trumpism share ideological DNA. They are two versions of the same global ideology - a kind of consumerist monarchism that makes might into right.
🎥Watch now on the main YouTube channel
Slightly odd cameo on BBC, but glad my comments about normalising post-truth populists are getting traction -
September 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Slightly odd cameo on BBC, but glad my comments about normalising post-truth populists are getting traction -
"Trump despises Europe as a project" - my analysis quoted in @indiatodayfacts.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 6:01 AM
"Trump despises Europe as a project" - my analysis quoted in @indiatodayfacts.bsky.social
I wheeled myself in my electric wheelchair to the kitchen and made tea. First time in two months. Don’t know what it will cost.
July 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I wheeled myself in my electric wheelchair to the kitchen and made tea. First time in two months. Don’t know what it will cost.
Is this an intellectually lazy left-wing meme? Yes and no.
Yes - because claiming both are just “oligarchic tyranny” is childish.
No - because neoliberalism has a structural risk of leading to and morphing into exclusionary authoritarianism.
Yes - because claiming both are just “oligarchic tyranny” is childish.
No - because neoliberalism has a structural risk of leading to and morphing into exclusionary authoritarianism.
June 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Is this an intellectually lazy left-wing meme? Yes and no.
Yes - because claiming both are just “oligarchic tyranny” is childish.
No - because neoliberalism has a structural risk of leading to and morphing into exclusionary authoritarianism.
Yes - because claiming both are just “oligarchic tyranny” is childish.
No - because neoliberalism has a structural risk of leading to and morphing into exclusionary authoritarianism.
Day 4 at home. Home feels survivable but not sustainable. Cement in chest. Just feels like drowning and suffocation. Can't stand can't sit. Mental health excellent. Lots of laughter and small victories within limits. Oxygen not offloading into cells and tissues. Speaking to twospecialists tomorrow.
May 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Day 4 at home. Home feels survivable but not sustainable. Cement in chest. Just feels like drowning and suffocation. Can't stand can't sit. Mental health excellent. Lots of laughter and small victories within limits. Oxygen not offloading into cells and tissues. Speaking to twospecialists tomorrow.
Delivered home by ambulance—more disabled than when I left by ambulance 3 weeks ago. Then I could walk and stand. Now I can’t.
It’s risky: I have extreme episodes and depend on lots of medical gear. But there are upsides.
As a bonus, car with my hospital belongings was stolen.
It’s risky: I have extreme episodes and depend on lots of medical gear. But there are upsides.
As a bonus, car with my hospital belongings was stolen.
May 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Delivered home by ambulance—more disabled than when I left by ambulance 3 weeks ago. Then I could walk and stand. Now I can’t.
It’s risky: I have extreme episodes and depend on lots of medical gear. But there are upsides.
As a bonus, car with my hospital belongings was stolen.
It’s risky: I have extreme episodes and depend on lots of medical gear. But there are upsides.
As a bonus, car with my hospital belongings was stolen.
Day 21 in hospital.
I still can’t stand.
I can do 90 seconds in a wheelchair before body goes into shock.
Acute episodes continue. Still no treatment but options are lined up.
I breathe off oxygen only 10% of the time.
I have taken the risk and decided to go home soon.
I still can’t stand.
I can do 90 seconds in a wheelchair before body goes into shock.
Acute episodes continue. Still no treatment but options are lined up.
I breathe off oxygen only 10% of the time.
I have taken the risk and decided to go home soon.
May 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Day 21 in hospital.
I still can’t stand.
I can do 90 seconds in a wheelchair before body goes into shock.
Acute episodes continue. Still no treatment but options are lined up.
I breathe off oxygen only 10% of the time.
I have taken the risk and decided to go home soon.
I still can’t stand.
I can do 90 seconds in a wheelchair before body goes into shock.
Acute episodes continue. Still no treatment but options are lined up.
I breathe off oxygen only 10% of the time.
I have taken the risk and decided to go home soon.
It’s my birthday. I’m 44. I feel deeply happy. That feels extraordinary - after 22 years with ME, and now 17 days in hospital with post-Covid microvascular failure.
What I’m going through feels otherworldly. But it’s common. Not rare.
We must take ME and Long Covid seriously!
What I’m going through feels otherworldly. But it’s common. Not rare.
We must take ME and Long Covid seriously!
May 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
It’s my birthday. I’m 44. I feel deeply happy. That feels extraordinary - after 22 years with ME, and now 17 days in hospital with post-Covid microvascular failure.
What I’m going through feels otherworldly. But it’s common. Not rare.
We must take ME and Long Covid seriously!
What I’m going through feels otherworldly. But it’s common. Not rare.
We must take ME and Long Covid seriously!
Day 16 of hospital. Woken 5.30am by toxic seizure requiring emergency oxygen. Deathly experience. Sleep still under 2h/night. Delirium - last night I talked about “transferring arpeggios into the foundations of rocks”. This evening, so far easier.
May 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Day 16 of hospital. Woken 5.30am by toxic seizure requiring emergency oxygen. Deathly experience. Sleep still under 2h/night. Delirium - last night I talked about “transferring arpeggios into the foundations of rocks”. This evening, so far easier.
11 days in hospital
16 doctors
Today, I finally met one who gets my illness, gets how profoundly ill I am, and is thinking about treatment.
No guarantees I improve, but I’m seen and my face says it all.
16 doctors
Today, I finally met one who gets my illness, gets how profoundly ill I am, and is thinking about treatment.
No guarantees I improve, but I’m seen and my face says it all.
May 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
11 days in hospital
16 doctors
Today, I finally met one who gets my illness, gets how profoundly ill I am, and is thinking about treatment.
No guarantees I improve, but I’m seen and my face says it all.
16 doctors
Today, I finally met one who gets my illness, gets how profoundly ill I am, and is thinking about treatment.
No guarantees I improve, but I’m seen and my face says it all.
12 days since the desaturation event that changed everything. I still can’t stand. I can’t sit in a wheelchair for more than 90 seconds without triggering shock. Acute episodes and chronic toxicity continue. I breathe off oxygen 5% of the time. I’m not better. Still no treatment.
May 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
12 days since the desaturation event that changed everything. I still can’t stand. I can’t sit in a wheelchair for more than 90 seconds without triggering shock. Acute episodes and chronic toxicity continue. I breathe off oxygen 5% of the time. I’m not better. Still no treatment.
Worst crisis since 77% desat ordeal 9 days ago. Now back on 15L emergency O2. Thanks to contributions from ME/LC experts & patients, the pic is becoming clearer: possible microcirculatory failure and “shunting” - blood not offloading oxygen into tissues. 11 days, two hosps, & still no treatment.
May 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Worst crisis since 77% desat ordeal 9 days ago. Now back on 15L emergency O2. Thanks to contributions from ME/LC experts & patients, the pic is becoming clearer: possible microcirculatory failure and “shunting” - blood not offloading oxygen into tissues. 11 days, two hosps, & still no treatment.
I’ve been completely indoors with no fresh air for 9 days. Here was a brief moment in the sun after a difficult scan. Symptoms are hellish, still no solutions or treatment. #pwME
May 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I’ve been completely indoors with no fresh air for 9 days. Here was a brief moment in the sun after a difficult scan. Symptoms are hellish, still no solutions or treatment. #pwME
Hellish day of profound toxicity and brainstem breathing and swallowing problems triggered by stress heart MRI yesterday. Also for first time in life, delirium during night. It’s proving a complex jigsaw puzzle to solve!
May 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Hellish day of profound toxicity and brainstem breathing and swallowing problems triggered by stress heart MRI yesterday. Also for first time in life, delirium during night. It’s proving a complex jigsaw puzzle to solve!
ME is an illness that throws so many different unexpected things at you. Last night I woke up every 30 seconds with central apnea jolts - like being electrocuted. A kind of unintended convulsive dance from bed. #pwME
April 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
ME is an illness that throws so many different unexpected things at you. Last night I woke up every 30 seconds with central apnea jolts - like being electrocuted. A kind of unintended convulsive dance from bed. #pwME
4 days into this hospital stay and still no discussion of disease mechanisms or treatments to stop this crisis. But today, a neurologist actually asked if I’ve just been poisoned by the Kremlin! A toxicology report is underway. I’m deteriorating and no sign of a reversal.
April 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
4 days into this hospital stay and still no discussion of disease mechanisms or treatments to stop this crisis. But today, a neurologist actually asked if I’ve just been poisoned by the Kremlin! A toxicology report is underway. I’m deteriorating and no sign of a reversal.
That’s me being taken from Wellington to London Bridge hospital for testing today - but 15 min into trip I had to instruct to return, as became profoundly ill. Just not well enough for 40 min ambulance trip.
April 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
That’s me being taken from Wellington to London Bridge hospital for testing today - but 15 min into trip I had to instruct to return, as became profoundly ill. Just not well enough for 40 min ambulance trip.
A heroic international effort got me moved by ambulance from Homerton NHS to a private hospital. A 45-minute ambulance trip on oxygen triggered a microvascular episode, but I made it.
April 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A heroic international effort got me moved by ambulance from Homerton NHS to a private hospital. A 45-minute ambulance trip on oxygen triggered a microvascular episode, but I made it.
Just had to be stabilised by emergency team with critically plummeting oxygen levels. My ME is catastrophically deteriorating, no sleep for 3 days, and no understanding of micro vascular crisis by the hospital. Feel on the edge of life.
April 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Just had to be stabilised by emergency team with critically plummeting oxygen levels. My ME is catastrophically deteriorating, no sleep for 3 days, and no understanding of micro vascular crisis by the hospital. Feel on the edge of life.
Cardiologist wants me to stay in hospital, but my ME symptoms are deteriorating - pushing me to leave as soon as possible. No good options here - hospitals are such hard terrain for people with ME. #pwME
April 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Cardiologist wants me to stay in hospital, but my ME symptoms are deteriorating - pushing me to leave as soon as possible. No good options here - hospitals are such hard terrain for people with ME. #pwME
Hospital update:
(1) Beginning to get MS-like paralysis from being in hospital (familiar in extreme ME)
(2) Microvascular post-COVID damage feels like drowning without solution
(3) Troponin rise introduces another potential heart event into picture.
WOWZERS!!! #pwME
(1) Beginning to get MS-like paralysis from being in hospital (familiar in extreme ME)
(2) Microvascular post-COVID damage feels like drowning without solution
(3) Troponin rise introduces another potential heart event into picture.
WOWZERS!!! #pwME
April 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Hospital update:
(1) Beginning to get MS-like paralysis from being in hospital (familiar in extreme ME)
(2) Microvascular post-COVID damage feels like drowning without solution
(3) Troponin rise introduces another potential heart event into picture.
WOWZERS!!! #pwME
(1) Beginning to get MS-like paralysis from being in hospital (familiar in extreme ME)
(2) Microvascular post-COVID damage feels like drowning without solution
(3) Troponin rise introduces another potential heart event into picture.
WOWZERS!!! #pwME