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Cate

@midcatecrisis.bsky.social

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Chronically ill, autistic, demi/greyace (mostly in bed, mostly homebound) ME/CFS and probable LC 😷😷😷 Interests: climate, COVID, disability justice, nature, parenting, socialism Ltd cog energy, don't tend to follow back. Toronto, Canada She/her/they

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Cate @midcatecrisis.bsky.social · Nov 8

Reintroduction of me:
- kind of a mess
- parent of middle grade kids (10&12yrs)
- have myalgic encephalomyelitis probably triggered by COVID before community spread was recognized, mostly housebound and only a few hours out of bed a day
- still a climate person in my heart but no energy to activism

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 7h

Have you filled a city kermit for this protest?

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 5h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 11h

Traveling halfway across the world & packing into a room for a conference panel on the theme of resisting eugenics.

But not wearing a respirator during a surge in the ongoing pandemic.

What a fun way to show how the research & scholars you’re there to ostensibly listen to mean jack shit to you.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10h

I like how it looks like a bunch of happy cartoon animals have chased the goons up a tree

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 14h

This is awesome.

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Hazie @hazie.bsky.social · 11h

“If we assume, conservatively, that it takes 12 to 15 years to develop acceptable therapeutics for Long COVID, and then another 18 years for them to reach clinical practice, people my age — and yours — will have passed before they get help. We need to accelerate this.”

The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 12h

A group of 53 people with #LongCOVID joined a clinical trial for Vyvgart. For many of them, the treatment changed everything.

Then, without warning, Argenx canceled the trial.

Most of them have now relapsed.

They're calling on the NIH and HHS to study the drug: bit.ly/48l1Qp5

A photo Nicole Barrick, a woman in a pink KN95 mask, receives an infusion of Vyvgart. The text reads, "The Sick Times. Vyvgart brought us back to life, but the Long COVID trial was canceled. We are calling on the NIH and HHS to study the drug. By Clare Banaszewski, Nicole Barrick, Mike Bilik, Addie Davis, Mia Delli Gatti, Ellie Hayes, Roman White."

"For those living with Long COVID, every ounce of hope is hard-won. This isn’t just about physical symptoms. It’s about the emotional toll of being given hope — and then having it taken away." - Vyvgart clinical trial participants
Clare Banaszewski, Nicole Barrick, Mike Bilik, Addie Davis, Mia Delli Gatti, Ellie Hayes, Roman White

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Anna Carey @annacarey.ca · 11h

Authoritarianism is a high-control philosophy that requires absolute authority to determine social norms. If we can show up to serious moments in frog costumes, it's a blatant refusal to recognize that authority even in the face of weapons of war. Creative shit matters.

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 13h

Do you all think it’s inhumane to leave people rotting in bed (literally, not metaphorically)? Im talking about people who cannot tolerate light and sound, and maybe even touch. People who can’t drink or chew on their own. For decades.

If so then you should look up Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.

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Anna Carey @annacarey.ca · 13h

The thing I love about the frogs is the potential for folklore. I live for a good modern folklore.

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 14h

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 2d

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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Cate @midcatecrisis.bsky.social · 16h

Unfortunately the climate crisis makes that a much less reliable clue than it once was 😭

Cate @midcatecrisis.bsky.social · 16h

You found it! Excellent research skills!

Cate @midcatecrisis.bsky.social · 16h

I think I remember this from earlier this year, it was in a town or city near LA, not Chicago? It's good to see, but people are probably recycling clips now.

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Cate @midcatecrisis.bsky.social · 16h

Rounds of empty pill organizers are my main way of orienting myself in time as well!

The Real McCoy @rippermd41.bsky.social · 1d

Realized I mostly notice the passage of time because of my supplement organizers.

When every day is the same, it’s hard to know it’s Thursday.

#MECFS #NEISvoid

Color photograph of 2 large supplement organizers. One is purple and blue (blue side isn’t visible in this photo) and one is rainbow colored. Both are empty except for Thursday and Friday. The organizers are sitting on a grayish purple sheet.

Cate @midcatecrisis.bsky.social · 1d

I honestly think that spending all my time this summer on the alt I made for big brother is responsible for me getting back to the baseline I had been at before having surgery this spring. Constantly seeing terrible things I can't affect only hurts me and doesn't help.

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Jeffrey Sens @jeffreysens.bsky.social · 1d

Just to give an idea of climate.

Oregon bootlickers are getting slagged on social media by normie Portlanders for the fascist frame of a crime ridden, antifa city.

Tactically, groups are firm to not give them a photo opp of unrest. News is hosting a 24-hour live stream of the ICE building.

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West Coast Environmental Law @wcelaw.bsky.social · 1d

PM Carney once called climate change “the most pressing issue of our time.” So why then is his government fast-tracking fossil fuel projects that turbo-charge these types of climate disasters? Our latest blog warns that this approach puts Canada’s climate goals and our communities' health at risk.

Prime Minister Carney’s climate track record: grand bargain or bargain bin?

Carney once wrote that “climate change is the most pressing issue of our time.” It’s time to act like it. Canadians deserve a government that meets its climate obligations, not one that gives up on th...

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

YES: “If parents get their information about parenting autistic kids from the autistic community, they will find people who think their kids are awesome and deserve to be happy, and want their parents to feel the same way. The parents will learn about autism from people who had autistic childhoods.”

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

"Because of the media's relentless negativity, fearmongering, & pseudoscience in covering autism, “ #profoundAutism " communities are often magnets for parents whose goal is to cure or treat autism, instead of understanding how to support an autistic child."

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/04/crea...

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 1d

"The reality is that joy, laughter, and rest are not only the best medicine; they are also the best measurements of our mental health. To paraphrase Emma Goldman, if we are not laughing, dancing, or singing, there might be something wrong with our revolution."

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

A timely excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, written by my friend Aaron Goggans, who has supported many frontline activists struggling with their mental health during moments of mass protest and upheaval. Thank you, @pempem.bsky.social for uplifting.

A Letter from an Organizer on How to Fight While Feeling Broken

An excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart.

mentalhellth.xyz

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Cate @midcatecrisis.bsky.social · 1d

This thought brought to you by initially not even remembering the algorithm for how to multiple and divide fractions yesterday and then suddenly later remembering HOW to do it and also being able to explain to my kid WHY it makes sense.

Brains, man.

Cate @midcatecrisis.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes it feels like I know using my brain for a specific thing is going to be overdoing it. Like the feeling of straining to hard to open a jar, but it's cognitive exertion instead.

And then other times, even in the same day, I can sit back and the information just sort of unfolds for me.

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Cate @midcatecrisis.bsky.social · 1d

(but England jumped it first so...)

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Cate @midcatecrisis.bsky.social · 1d

The frog as a collectively imagined figurehead, like Ned Ludd, Captain Swing, and Robin Hood.

Anna Carey @annacarey.ca · 1d

I hope we never find out who the frog is. I hope the frog insists on remaining agender. I hope the frog becomes a character rather than an individual person. I hope the frog is everything we always needed.

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Willow, but not Vamp Willow @salixwrosette.bsky.social · 1d

You’ve heard about “carcinization?” Get ready for psilocybinization!

Taylor Mitchell Brown @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Scientists recently found two evolutionarily distinct mushrooms converged to produce the same psychedelic molecule—psilocybin.

The “surprising” results underscore the significance of the hallucinogen but leave questions about its ultimate purpose.

#Psilocybe #MagicMushrooms

New at @science.org 🧪🏺

In mind-bending twist, ‘magic’ mushrooms evolved twice independently

Study identifies entirely new suite of enzymes that can make psilocybin

www.science.org

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