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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 21h

OK so I read through this study, and here are my conclusions:
- What a cool tech to examine epigenetic factors so closely!
- This is a small study
- This only differentiates severe-presenting patients from healthy controls; hasn't been used to diagnose ME/CFS *versus* other inflammatory illness. 🧪

Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 1d

Open Access Government: 'UEA develops blood test for ME/CFS with 96% accuracy'

'A groundbreaking blood test from UEA can diagnose ME/CFS with 96% accuracy, offering hope for patients and new insights into chronic fatigue syndrome'

www.openaccessgovernment.org/uea-develops...

UEA develops blood test for ME/CFS with 96% accuracy

A blood test from UEA can diagnose ME/CFS with 96% accuracy, offering hope for patients and new insights into chronic fatigue syndrome

www.openaccessgovernment.org

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Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness @crankyqueer.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social for reflections on this #MECFS diagnostics study. She concisely states what I believe as well.

It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 21h

OK so I read through this study, and here are my conclusions:
- What a cool tech to examine epigenetic factors so closely!
- This is a small study
- This only differentiates severe-presenting patients from healthy controls; hasn't been used to diagnose ME/CFS *versus* other inflammatory illness. 🧪

Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 1d

Open Access Government: 'UEA develops blood test for ME/CFS with 96% accuracy'

'A groundbreaking blood test from UEA can diagnose ME/CFS with 96% accuracy, offering hope for patients and new insights into chronic fatigue syndrome'

www.openaccessgovernment.org/uea-develops...

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?"

lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth

📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics

Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World"
"Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”
By Lex McMenamin

Politics
Assata Shakur Was a Black Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom Even in Exile
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
By Marian Jones

Politics
Inside Gen Z Candidate Kat Abughazaleh's Viral ICE Rally Tear-Gassing: "Fascism 101"
“If they are willing to do this to a congressional candidate in front of a bunch of press, imagine what they're doing behind boarded-up windows.”
By Maia McDonald

Politics
Hurricane Helene Devastated Asheville. A Local LGBTQ+ Organization Is Supporting Youth — With Cash
“We know that [direct cash transfers] are the number one support for preventing youth homelessness.”
By Colleen Hamilton

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 2d

The sort of organizing we're doing here is honestly crucial right now. If your organization wants to learn more about organizing fans, ping me!

Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 2d

"We saw an opportunity in the final season of 'Andor' and now many more people across races, backgrounds and genders have joined our ranks for truth and reparations — and have already dealt major blows to the MAGA regime’s agenda."

More about Project Fulcrum⬇️
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/why-...

Why fandom organizing is a powerful strategy for movement building

As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Andor” fan community to amp up the pressure.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness @crankyqueer.bsky.social · 2d

Two years of hell. Give all you can. Crips for eSims for Gaza chuffed.org/project/crip...

Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

chuffed.org

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Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness @crankyqueer.bsky.social · 2d

You will develop, present, and oversee training and education activities that inform and inspire systems change and improvement of the wellbeing and quality of life and empowerment of individuals living with or at greater vulnerability to acquiring HIV. www.workingpositive.org/nwpc-hires

Job Opportunity | National Working Positive Coalition

www.workingpositive.org

Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness @crankyqueer.bsky.social · 2d

1) employment services (vocational rehabilitation and/or workforce development) and/or
2) benefits counseling (work incentives advisement) and/or
HIV services (care and/or prevention) or policy, or the equivalent in disability services or policy

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Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness @crankyqueer.bsky.social · 2d

You must also have expertise and experience in at least 1 of the following areas, along with a commitment to self-determination and expansion of opportunities for all:.

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Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness @crankyqueer.bsky.social · 2d

Strong candidates will love the creation and delivery of online and onsite training, along with building and sustaining a training team, and the development and maintenance of online education resources.

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Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness @crankyqueer.bsky.social · 2d

AWESOME REMOTE #JOB ALERT: One of my favorite #HIV orgs -- a small but high-impact organization at the intersection of HIV and employment services -- is looking for an experienced #remote Director of Training and Education!
www.workingpositive.org/nwpc-hires

Job Opportunity | National Working Positive Coalition

www.workingpositive.org

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Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness @crankyqueer.bsky.social · 2d

Panelists:
Dr. Joseph Cherabie
Washington University St. Louis

Dr. Melanie Thompson
AIDS Research Consortium of Atlanta

Dr. Asa Radix
@callen-lorde.org Callen-Lorde Community Health Center

Leigh-Ann van der Merwe
Social, Health & Empowerment Feminist Collective, South Africa

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Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness @crankyqueer.bsky.social · 2d

Strategies to restore trust, sustain programming, and rebuild from the ashes will be explored.

Register: avac-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Do Not Check That Box - Impacts From the Assault on Transgender Communities and DEI + Strategies to Sustain and Rebuild. After registering, you will receive...

Join our panelists for an unflinchingly honest - and interactive - conversation as we assess the impacts of the ongoing assault on transgender communities, gender affirming health care, data collecti...

avac-org.zoom.us

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Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness @crankyqueer.bsky.social · 2d

10/29: 9 am eastern: DO NOT CHECK THAT BOX:

Join our panelists for an unflinchingly honest & interactive conversation as we assess the impacts of the ongoing assault on #transgender communities, gender affirming health care, data collection, & #DEI Diversity, Equity and Inclusion writ large.

Six raised cartoon fists in front of a color gradient of trans flag colors below these words : The Choice Agenda invites you...
DO NOT CHECK THAT BOX
Impacts from the Assault on Transgender Communities & DEI
Strategies to Sustain and Rebuild
Below the fists is the date of the event and registration info: 29.10.25 More info, register:
tinyurl.com/dontcheckthatbox

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PWN-USA @pwnusa.bsky.social · 3d

If you are looking for a way to support women living with HIV, please join PWN Colorado as we hold a viewing party for our National Day of Action Awareness video and discussion on Sun, October 12th from 4-5:30pm MT.

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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 3d

Stephen Miller dumped by own family as humiliating public putdown resurfaces: 'I grieve'

www.rawstory.com/stephen-mill...

Stephen Miller dumped by own family as humiliating public putdown resurfaces: 'I grieve'

Stephen Miller's cousin, Alisa Kasmer, has publicly disowned him in a resurfaced emotional Facebook post in which she condemned his role as the architect of the Trump administration's hardline immigra...

www.rawstory.com

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.bsky.social · 3d

📣 ICE Watch Hotline number is now included in the great SALUTE zine that @meganpiont.bsky.social has created for those of us in NYC. Download, print, cut, fold, distribute!

Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 3d

#NYC! We have an ICE Watch Hotline! I repeat, we have an ICE Watch hotline! I updated the zines to include the hotline #. FINALLY!!!

(If you have the old zines, you have my blessing to write the # in with a sharpie or pen.)

drive.google.com/file/d/1y2S_...

NYC-SALUTE-zine-10-6.pdf

drive.google.com

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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 5d

$2000 tariff rebate checks? Great! That will pay for 2/3 of one month’s health care premium after I lose my ACA subsidy.😕

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 8d

I'm proposing a $2000 stimulus check for all Americans making under 100k.

They have paid too much in unfair tariff taxes.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 6d

If you're in Illinois and facing criminal charges from protesting ICE, or if you were attacked by ICE or law enforcement supporting them, I might be able to represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

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Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness @crankyqueer.bsky.social · 5d

“Allowing the administration to “disrupt as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible“ has been a hallmark of the shadow docket this summer.”

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Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness @crankyqueer.bsky.social · 5d

“This is not law. It is a spell, announced by a phantom. It is an empty decision, but coming as it does on behalf of a majority of the #SupremeCourt, it will have unfathomably cruel effects as it stands up #Noem ‘s actions.

Supreme Court lets Noem end legal status for many Venezuelans in the U.S.

The majority gave virtually no reasoning. The Democratic appointees objected, but only Justice Jackson wrote: "[Y]et another grave misuse of our emergency docket."

www.lawdork.com

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 6d

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

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Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness @crankyqueer.bsky.social · 7d

Unlike previously, online registration for CVS had a Novavax option and searched for stores where it was available.

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Cranky Queer Guide to Chronic Illness @crankyqueer.bsky.social · 7d

UPDATE! Got the shot at CVS today along with the flu shot. All good so far.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 9d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · 11d

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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