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allistertrudel.bsky.social
@allistertrudel.bsky.social
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I'm queer and teach french and make art (rarely though, I'm disabled) and watch series and movies, and believe in mutual aid, human rights for all and community building✨
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This chart shows how much of an outlier Trump is historically. Even Biden, who had the next highest disapproval when he took office, still had a plus-20 differential. news.gallup.com/poll/655955/...
January 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Extract from "Frailty and Fleeting Independence", a blog post where a woman with ME, who is a published writer, describes the onset of the new symptom when out shopping.

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This horrendous ordeal was a sharp reminder as to how little independence I actually had with ME in my life and how fragile that independence had become. Most ME patients will agree with me when I say living with ME is like living with a constant threat over your head… Do too much and you will crash, crash and you may not recover, or will partially recover and end up with a further reduced baseline. In that moment, I had the sudden realisation my independence was akin to a wave on a seashore. It was something which could be whipped from me at any moment and without any unicorns or rainbow endings in sight, my fight continued…
January 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM