Chloë Lum
@compulsiveobserver.bsky.social
Installation artist. Perfume fanatic. Chronically ill. Concordia University PhD student(disability studies + performance studies + practice-based research.) Ex jammer, current failure. She/her Montréaler in Edmonton. https://linktr.ee/ChloeLum
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Chloë Lum
@compulsiveobserver.bsky.social
· Nov 14
New folks following me from starter packs, hi! Unfollow if you find me boring. I’m a chronically ill middled-aged grad student & artist in Edmonton. I’m not famous & I’m not especially funny. I don’t have a newsletter but I might post about sickness, vegan snacks, prog rock, or performance art.
I’m *finally* starting to feel normal (well, my normal) after having the flu for the past 2 weeks and change. That’s cool, I didn’t need a break.
January 13, 2026 at 12:20 AM
I’m *finally* starting to feel normal (well, my normal) after having the flu for the past 2 weeks and change. That’s cool, I didn’t need a break.
The amount of delusion of some of commenters defending our PM is *really* something to behold next to the PM’s actions in office.
January 12, 2026 at 7:43 PM
The amount of delusion of some of commenters defending our PM is *really* something to behold next to the PM’s actions in office.
My brain can’t help but put this to Ace of Spades by Motörhead.
January 12, 2026 at 7:29 PM
My brain can’t help but put this to Ace of Spades by Motörhead.
Anyways, why are cops apparently the only people who need to be trained to not brutalize and kill people on the job? Somehow the rest of us are’t doing that.
January 12, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Anyways, why are cops apparently the only people who need to be trained to not brutalize and kill people on the job? Somehow the rest of us are’t doing that.
Nevermind that ‘more training’ always means more funding and thus mire money to buy military gear.
January 12, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Nevermind that ‘more training’ always means more funding and thus mire money to buy military gear.
Reposted by Chloë Lum
'The Los Angeles Police Department has released little information about the killing of Keith Porter, 43, and the ICE agent who shot him has not been identified.'
Why No Charges? Friends, Family of Man Killed by Off-Duty ICE Officer Ask After New Year’s Eve Shooting.
Keith Porter, 43, had been firing a gun into the air to celebrate before he was killed, family members say. If the shooter weren’t an ICE agent, ‘We would expect that there would be an arrest,’ a comm...
capitalandmain.com
January 11, 2026 at 11:53 PM
'The Los Angeles Police Department has released little information about the killing of Keith Porter, 43, and the ICE agent who shot him has not been identified.'
The most feckless bullshit you can imagine.
January 11, 2026 at 11:10 PM
The most feckless bullshit you can imagine.
This is what ‘elbows up’ always meant, refusing to upset the US far right even if that means staying on the nazi/CSAM website for government communications.
“The Liberal government has continued to use X despite the controversy”
Canada not considering a ban on X over deepfake controversy, AI minister says
The platform, which is owned by Elon Musk, has been embroiled in controversy over sexualized deepfakes of women and children created by X’s chatbot Grok.
www.thestar.com
January 11, 2026 at 9:38 PM
This is what ‘elbows up’ always meant, refusing to upset the US far right even if that means staying on the nazi/CSAM website for government communications.
He’s also pretty explicit in implying that the folks out there protesting ICE are attacking cops, and where the fuck is the evidence for that?
January 11, 2026 at 5:56 PM
He’s also pretty explicit in implying that the folks out there protesting ICE are attacking cops, and where the fuck is the evidence for that?
This should be illegal. I’ve seen it a bunch at Pharmaprix.
January 11, 2026 at 5:45 PM
This should be illegal. I’ve seen it a bunch at Pharmaprix.
It’s so frustrating.
January 10, 2026 at 12:47 AM
It’s so frustrating.
Thank you for this work.
January 9, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Thank you for this work.
I wonder how many Canadians don’t currently have a doctor?
It seems like individual public health is an *especially* bad strategy when so many premiers are wrecking health care access.
It seems like individual public health is an *especially* bad strategy when so many premiers are wrecking health care access.
January 9, 2026 at 3:21 PM
I wonder how many Canadians don’t currently have a doctor?
It seems like individual public health is an *especially* bad strategy when so many premiers are wrecking health care access.
It seems like individual public health is an *especially* bad strategy when so many premiers are wrecking health care access.
This excerpt seems pretty inline which today’s doctor’s office thoughts.
Big Think: 'The medical myth that still shapes misunderstandings of women’s health'
'Emily Mendenhall traces the medical myths, gender bias, and neurological truths behind hysteria, one of history’s most damaging diagnoses.'
bigthink.com/books/invisi...
'Emily Mendenhall traces the medical myths, gender bias, and neurological truths behind hysteria, one of history’s most damaging diagnoses.'
bigthink.com/books/invisi...
The medical myth that still shapes misunderstandings of women’s health
Emily Mendenhall traces the medical myths, gender bias, and neurological truths behind hysteria, one of history’s most damaging diagnoses.
bigthink.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:05 AM
This excerpt seems pretty inline which today’s doctor’s office thoughts.
People who can work full time pay taxes and spend money. People whose illness prevents that contribute way less to the GDP.
January 8, 2026 at 11:59 PM
People who can work full time pay taxes and spend money. People whose illness prevents that contribute way less to the GDP.
It makes no sense at all!
January 8, 2026 at 11:32 PM
It makes no sense at all!
When I hear Mamdami taking about sick people becoming healthy, I’m *hopeful*!as a chronically ill person. I don’t accept that I’m just meant to remain in extreme pain and crushing fatigue for the rest of my life. That I’m meant to be nauseated forever. I *want* research towards treatment and cure.
January 8, 2026 at 11:30 PM
When I hear Mamdami taking about sick people becoming healthy, I’m *hopeful*!as a chronically ill person. I don’t accept that I’m just meant to remain in extreme pain and crushing fatigue for the rest of my life. That I’m meant to be nauseated forever. I *want* research towards treatment and cure.
Yep. I truly believe many chronic illness could be totally manageable if there was well under research. So many of us are cut out of our own lives for no reason other that inaction.
January 8, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Yep. I truly believe many chronic illness could be totally manageable if there was well under research. So many of us are cut out of our own lives for no reason other that inaction.
Another part of my ongoing medical mystery, my blood pressure goes from low to concerningly high from one medical appointment to the next. It’s a repeat of my thyroid levels going up and down each blood draw.
January 8, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Another part of my ongoing medical mystery, my blood pressure goes from low to concerningly high from one medical appointment to the next. It’s a repeat of my thyroid levels going up and down each blood draw.
If our lack of productivity was a threat, there would be funding for research towards treatment and cure, not just leaving us to wither on the vine.
January 8, 2026 at 10:57 PM
If our lack of productivity was a threat, there would be funding for research towards treatment and cure, not just leaving us to wither on the vine.
I’ll often read people who say that chronic illness is threatening to capitalism because they demand rest; while imo the reason so many of us are stuck with unrestful rest as our *only* option is because capitalism doesn’t value funding research for conditions that largely affect women.
January 8, 2026 at 10:55 PM
I’ll often read people who say that chronic illness is threatening to capitalism because they demand rest; while imo the reason so many of us are stuck with unrestful rest as our *only* option is because capitalism doesn’t value funding research for conditions that largely affect women.
Yep. I refuse to just accept untreatable illness as a natural fact and not a descision that gets made over and over.
January 8, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Yep. I refuse to just accept untreatable illness as a natural fact and not a descision that gets made over and over.
Maybe I’m naïve but i believe many chronic illnesses *could* be cured if there were actually the will to put real resources into research. There is no reason that we don’t have decent treatment for diseases like fibromyalgia or ME except for misogyny and lack of medical interest.
January 8, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Maybe I’m naïve but i believe many chronic illnesses *could* be cured if there were actually the will to put real resources into research. There is no reason that we don’t have decent treatment for diseases like fibromyalgia or ME except for misogyny and lack of medical interest.