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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 22d

I don’t do the disability advocacy thing out loud as much anymore, but being at school this week had me thinking about the way well-meaning abled people move to help and what actually helps.

This is not shaming anyone. But I appreciate when folks who do instinctually help move intentionally. 🧵

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Lindsay @studyinmovement.bsky.social · 21d

Shout-out Big Mike at the Keene, NH Pride Festival who manhandled my wheelchair tire back into the rim it had yeeted itself off of - may your pillow always be cool. 🏳️‍🌈🌈🥰

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Lindsay @studyinmovement.bsky.social · Aug 28

Check your cyclobenzaprine!
#NEISVoid
#chronicillnes
#disability

I slapped SCOTUS and Ouiser Boudreaux @nwayne66.bsky.social · Aug 28

They mislabeled #cyclobenzaprine as #meloxicam. #Pharma #Recall

I slapped SCOTUS and Ouiser Boudreaux @nwayne66.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is a really important #recall. #Cyclobenzprine

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · Aug 21

There is a kind of mouse that has been bred over decades to be suitable for skin cancer research. They are *ridiculously* expensive. They're also living animals. You have to feed them and clean their enclosures and take care of them, or they die.

Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · Aug 21

Biomedical research isn't a YouTube video, you cannot hit pause for an indefinite period of time and then hit play whenever the regime wants.

Samples are destroyed, labs dismantled, scientists leave...

Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · Aug 21

Here's what this means: it's probably unlawful forPOTUS to stop NIH funds from going to medical research, but POTUS can stop that medical research for a lengthy period of time while the Court of Federal Claims hears lawsuits

This, essentially, destroys the capacity for medical research in the US

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Lindsay @studyinmovement.bsky.social · Aug 22

I do this even for our smallest local conference. It's the right (and not *that difficult*) thing to do!

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · Aug 21

If we’re going to make any progress, we’ve got to quit engaging with the pretext. The DC invasion isn’t about crime, is about authoritarianism. Occupying LA isn’t about immigration, it’s about the racial hierarchy. Stop engaging with the phony pretext.

Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · Jun 9

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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Lindsay @studyinmovement.bsky.social · Aug 22

...great...

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · Aug 21

America’s fragile drug supply chain is extremely vulnerable to climate change arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

America’s fragile drug supply chain is extremely vulnerable to climate change

More than 60 percent of US drug facilities are in areas with weather disasters.

arstechnica.com

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Aug 18

We just learned about a 3rd dimension of how Covid can affect our arteries.
erictopol.substack.com/p/covid-and-...

Covid and Our Arteries

A new study on acceleration of vascular aging adds to the body of evidence

erictopol.substack.com

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Lindsay @studyinmovement.bsky.social · Aug 19

Oooo, I was just looking for some new, good historical romance recs!

SuperWendy @superwendy.bsky.social · Aug 18

For a sub genre that's supposedly dead, these posts sure are taking me a lot of time to put together. 17 Unusual Historicals on tap for August, with just one reprint. Head on over to the blog to read all about 'em wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/08/long... #RomBkBlog #Romancelanedia

Unusual Historicals August 2025. Shows book covers for The Warrior's Forbidden Viking Bride by Sarah Rodi, Gabriela and His Grace by Liana De la Rosa, The Fortune Hunter's Guide to Love by Emma-Claire Sunday, Touched by a Traitor by Mihwa Lee, The Unexpected Heiress by Cassidy Crane, The Governess and the Rogue by Mimi Matthews, This Gentleman of Mine by Collette Perri, The Gilded Heiress by Joanna Shupe, A Lady's Rules for Seaside Romance by Arden Conroy, Heart of the Hunter by Lois Templin, The Sound of Seduction by Sara Adrien, Seducing the Spy by Kelsey Swanson, A Waltz on the Wild Side by Erica Ridley, A Lady of Letters by Andrea Pickens, A Lyon's Promise by C.H. Admirand, The Lyon Loves Last by Charlie Lane, Doubts and Desires by Charlotte Wren

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · Aug 13

NEW: Scientists made a sugar-coated nanoparticle that blocks the SARS-CoV-2 virus from binding to human cells — cutting infection in lab tests by ~99%.

Not a vaccine. A microscopic shield. 🛡️🦠 www.news-medical.net/news/2025081...

#BlueSky #MedSky 🧪 #IDSky #SciSky#fmsky #pedsky

Synthetic sugar-coated nanoparticle blocks Covid-19 from infecting human cells

Groundbreaking research led by a Swansea University academic has revealed a synthetic glycosystem - a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle - that can block Covid-19 from infecting human cells, reducing i...

www.news-medical.net

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · Aug 12

“[service or place] is not wheelchair accessible” in 2025 is going to make me lose whatever shreds of calm I had left.

Looking at you, Europe, and your oh-so-sophisticated public transit.

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Finch in Al-BOO!-querque 👻 @finchinabq.bsky.social · Aug 7

If you have republican senators and representatives, call them and say, “I didn’t vote for CANCER! Come on now, canceling mRNA research is too far.”

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Lindsay @studyinmovement.bsky.social · Aug 7

Well this was an absolute delight, all around- from chatting with the other attendees to @miasosaromance.bsky.social interviewing @oliviawrites.bsky.social, to getting to meet and take a pic with Olivia! 🥰

@eastcitybooks.bsky.social

The extensive romance section at East City Bookshop!

The view from my seat, showing Mia Sosa interviewing Olivia Dade in the downstairs area of East City Bookshop, centered between two speakers, in front of many bookshelves

Lindsay, a white woman with a glitter cane, a striped shirt and a black facemask, and Olivia on the right, in a white and red flowers dress with a white facemask on.

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Lindsay @studyinmovement.bsky.social · Aug 6

Today is @oliviawrites.bsky.social 's event at East City Bookshop in DC and I am SO EXCITED!! 🎉

Olivia Dade @oliviawrites.bsky.social · Aug 5

💜 TODAY'S THE DAY! The zombies are going down!** 💜

**and so is Max, albeit in a very different way

AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/Zamz
B&N: go.oliviadade.com/Zbn
Kobo: go.oliviadade.com/Zk
Bookshop.org: go.oliviadade.com/Zbs
AMZ UK: go.oliviadade.com/Zamzuk
Other links: go.oliviadade.com/Zprh

The illustrated cover of ZOMROMCOM by Olivia Dade, featuring the tagline: Love can make you lose your head. The background is a speckly bright purple, and in the foreground are a man dressed in black and a woman in bright pink overalls and a white tank top standing back to back and holding hands. He has a huge sword at the ready, and she is brandishing a shiny cleaver. All around them, clutching at them from the edges of the image, are bright green zombie hands.

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Brother Manns From The 5th Floor @kmanns.blacksky.app · Aug 5

“Defund the police was a bad slogan.” Yeah whatever. Call it what you want, but this is a conversation about money, and what local governments choose to prioritize

Rust Momster @cambrianera.radical.town · Aug 5

When people talk about how systemic and structural issues don't exist but the data all looks like this.

A tweet saying "every single municipal budget looks like the dril candle budget tweet" with a graph showing Police taking like 90% of a city's budget. Baltimore specifically.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Aug 2

Disability is not a vacation.

It’s not like that time you took a week off sick from work.

It’s a 24/7 job. It’s unrelenting pain, fatigue and suffering.

It’s dealing with a medical system that ignores and gaslights you, a society that views you as expendable & people who resent you for existing

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Lindsay @studyinmovement.bsky.social · Aug 2

I'm really interested to see studies like this and with bigger sample numbers- how I describe my quick muscle fatigue to my PT is like: that lactic acid buildup feeling that I used to get after a long workout, I now get in my arms when I try to fold laundry for 30 seconds.

ME/CFS Science @mecfsskeptic.bsky.social · Aug 2

1) Spanish researchers exposed muscle cells to serum of ME/CFS and Long Covid patients and found:

- reduction in muscle contraction strength

- upregulation of genes involved in protein translation

- elevated oxygen consumption

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Aug 2

Don’t worry, I’m about to take my morning nap, as per usual.

Mr Wizard @angrymann.bsky.social · Aug 2

Why y’all up this early?

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Lindsay @studyinmovement.bsky.social · Aug 1

And we are still actually doing it for covid

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Dunkin’ Cruller Carl @keithdecent.bsky.social · Jul 29

A candidate who is willing to throw transgender people under the bus is a candidate who will use anyone’s rights as a bargaining chip to win elections.

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · Jul 25

Right now is a perfect moment to push pause & check n w/ what your body is telling you.

Just saying.

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Lindsay @studyinmovement.bsky.social · Jul 26

Reposting to read later.

Chris Gibson Photography @lensjuggler.bsky.social · Jul 26

@willbunch.bsky.social is speaking the truth here. Read and learn, then raise hell.

“Yet, if we don’t raise our voices immediately, that ability could disappear quickly. The moment to scream “Never Again” is right now, not during your grandchild’s history class.”

share.inquirer.com/Oom3jO

This column on U.S. concentration camps is the one I hoped I’d never write | Will Bunch

Andrea Pitzer literally wrote the book on concentration camps. I talked to her about how they came to America.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jul 26

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · Jul 26

Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Jul 25

RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF).

This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.

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Lindsay @studyinmovement.bsky.social · Jul 11

So y'all are masking, right? 😷

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Jul 10

Today a doctor asked the question most disabled patients dread…

“What do you want ME to do about it?”

I wanted to scream:

Your job!
Help me!
Solve the problem!
Provide treatment!

But I didn’t. I remained calm. I avoided being “difficult”

I left with no answers 🧵

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