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Marushka-T

@marushka-t.bsky.social

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PwME since 2000. Focused on queer & disability rights and advocacy. Allergic to pseudoscience. Concerned citizen of a dying 🌎. Looking forward to the decline and fall of the neoliberal empire. 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🇵🇸 #ME/CFS #2SLGBTQIA+ #covidcautious #norightwingnuts

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Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · Jul 7

A trustworthy resource that explains the whys and hows of keeping schools safer in this ongoing pandemic.

#COVID #pandemic #disability #vaccines #maskup

Bete N0ire @beten0ire.bsky.social · Jul 7

www.covidsafetyforschools.org

COVID Safety For Schools

Resources to help schools keep students and staff safe

www.covidsafetyforschools.org

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 9h

Every smartphone in the world contains a CPU descended from one designed by a trans woman in the 1980s. The Matrix is one of the most influential movie franchises of all time. Electronic music was pioneered and popularized by a trans woman. I could go on

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 16h

i think my favourite part about being a trans woman is how much of an impact we have on culture. a friend reminded me today about a popular meme format she created. another friend today casually told me about how she was the most notorious roblox hacker when she was a child.

just a day in the life!

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Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 14h

Excuse me no queer man would ever dance that badly in public.

Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 14h

Couldn't help myself, I snorted when I saw that headline.

#disability

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 17h

AI data centres are gobbling up environmental resources.

Billionaires are flying around on private jets.

Endless amounts of money & resources spent on wars around the globe.

But inhalers are the real threat to the climate?

They really will blame disabled people for everything

Screenshot of a post from local 12 WKRC TV which reads “inhalers contribute significantly to global warming study finds” and then a photo of two blue inhalers

Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 14h

These faux-soldiers are the January 6 insurrectionist thugs that Trump pardoned. Same vibe.

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Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 14h

Pam Bondi makes this SNL character look warm and approachable.

Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 15h

If validated and approved, this could be huge for PwME.

Unless it comes with a £1000 price tag per test.

#healthcare #MECFS #MillionsMissing #chronicillness

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16h

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed Scientists say they have developed the world’s first blood test to diagnose myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). There is no currently no test for the condition and patients tend to be diagnosed based on symptoms, which means many can go undiagnosed for years. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 15h

Oh ffs I had to look up who Lee Greenwood is and now I'm just crying

Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 15h

Lots of people have assumed they were flame-proof but were wrong. For that matter, Trump could turn on her before the law ever catches up with her. Or vice versa. Trump & Co. are self-serving sociopaths and may end up cannibalizing each other. Won't be the first time (see also: Trump's 1st term).

Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 20h

It's also a fight between Con ideology and legitimate science. Conversion therapy is psychological abuse and IT DOESN'T WORK. Which is why it's illegal in Canada.

#fascism #lgbtqia+ #gender #queerphobia

Xander vs. The 21st Century @futurexander.bsky.social · 21h

The Supreme Court's deliberation on conversion therapy reveals a stark conflict between conservative ideologies and LGBTQ+ rights. This isn't just about therapy; it's a fight for dignity, acceptance, and the right to exist authentically.

The Supreme Court weighs conversion therapy in a case from Colorado

The case pits conservative Christian groups against the LGBTQ+ community.

www.npr.org

Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 20h

"A warzone". 🤦

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 21h

Leena Minifie has heard many horror stories of the discrimination Indigenous Peoples face during her more than 20 years as a journalist, film and television producer.

But, she was taken aback by some of what she heard while working on The Good Canadian.

The Good Canadian documents discrimination against Indigenous Peoples

The documentary The Good Canadian documents various forms of discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

www.aptnnews.ca

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Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 1d

Same old shit. Deflect, deny, dissemble.

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 1d

Please support Dr David Tuller's important work: he has the necessary skills, knowledge & networks to be able to challenge those who promote dubious psychobabble theories & that conditions can be overcome with enough effort/discipline

crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/47768

#MEcfs #LongCovid #PwME

Trial By Error: Reporting on ME, ME/CFS, Long COVID, & so on...

Ten years ago this month, I launched Trial By Error with a 15,000-word investigation of the fraudulent PACE trial, which tested cognitive behavior therapy and graded exercise therapy as curative treatments for what was then being chronic fatigue syndrome. What I thought was a one-off somehow morphed into an extended academic project on psycho-behavioral research across a broad range of conditions, including what is known as Long COVID.

Amazingly, the pandemic and its consequences have rendered much of my earlier work relevant in a way I could never have anticipated. I had planned to end the project a couple of years ago, but decided to continue as I saw the same investigators I'd already criticized for their flawed research pursuing the exact same strategies in taking on Long COVID.

This current crowdfunding will cover my work on Trial By Error and my position at Berkeley from January-June, 2026. Assuming it goes well, there will be one more crowdfunding campaign next spring to cover July-December, 2026. I plan to retire from Berkeley at the end of 2026. (I will be 70 on October 10, 2026.)

I have been busy since last spring’s crowdfunding!!!

*I’ve written dozens of posts on Virology Blog, many explaining why awful papers about psycho-behavioral interventions for ME/CFS and Long Covid are, in fact, awful.

*I've covered news events and developments not only in the UK and US but also in multiple European countries as well as Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.

*I've posted video interviews with Yale immunologist Akiko Iwasaki about the latest in Long COVID research, University of Edinburgh geneticist Chris Ponting about the DecodeME findings; Columbia University's Ian Lipkin about immune-related abnormalities in ME/CFS; the UK ME Association's Charles Shepherd about the UK government's pathetic plan for ME/CFS; and others.

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Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 1d

No confusion here. As always, Greta gets right to the real point.

#fascism #genocide #Gaza #Israel #racism

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 1d

"If thousands of studies are telling you to look for a certain kind of harm and then millions of people start wondering why they are experiencing exactly that type of harm, is it so hard to connect those two dots?"

Or has #COVID has destroyed people's ability to reason...?

#disability #pandemic

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 2d

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"Anti-LGBTQ+ school policies remain among the most unpopular pushed... in red states and by the Trump administration. [A] poll published in August 2023 found that fewer than 25 percent of Democrats and independents—and only half of Republicans—agreed with them."

#lgbtqia+ #education #fascism #🇺🇸

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 2d

How to manage a population in a despotic country: keep people poor, hungry, fearful, divided, under-educated, unable to access healthcare, and propandized. Meanwhile, enable the billionaire class in every way possible. Check marks all the way down for the Trump administration.

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Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 2d

Call her politics whatever she likes but it still smells like opportunism.

Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 3d

When Amnesty International makes your country part of a letter-writing campaign you know things have gone downhill. Both 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇦 have made the list recently.

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Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 4d

And not a single trans person among them. Not that it should even need to be said.

Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 4d

Trump likes to put his surrogates out front and let them take the heat when the message is going to be unpopular. Also, he's too busy golfing to show up.

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Still COVIDing Canada @stillcovidingca.bsky.social · 4d

Long COVID exhibition co-produced with community opens at the Museum of Vancouver

Simon Fraser University
October 3, 2025
By Sharon Mah, Gladys We

stillcoviding.ca/en/news/long...

#COVID #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #Vancouver

Long COVID exhibition co-produced with community opens at the Museum of Vancouver

stillcoviding.ca

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Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 5d

#healthcare #COVID #MECFS #disability #chronicillness

Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 5d

WHN: 'Seven Things to Know About Long COVID'

whn.global/seven-things...

Seven Things to Know About Long COVID - WHN

This post is part of a new blog series focusing on long COVID. See part 2. After nearly six years of living with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, everyone knows about COVID-19. However, public awareness of long ...

whn.global

Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 5d

Uncomfortably close to reality in my house! 😅

Gotta love this from @whitneydafoe.bsky.social. Give him a follow. 💙

#disability #chronicillness #MECFS #MillionsMissing

Whitney Dafoe @whitneydafoe.bsky.social · 5d

The *official* ME/CFS Food Pyramid! Your path to better health and a brighter tomorrow, running over green hilltops with the wind in your hair, flying kites with loved ones, everyone laughing, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit 😘😉

💙 Whitney

#mecfs #LongCovid #ChronicIllness

Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 5d

People trying to bring aid to starving people in Gaza have been kidnapped in international waters by Israeli pirates.

#fascism #genocide #Gaza #FreePalestine

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 5d

🇿🇦 #WATCH | A message from a Global Sumud Flotilla participant, to be shared in event of interception. If communication is cut, assume they have been detained and raise your voices louder. Demand safety, release, and the end of the illegal siege. Your solidarity is protection

Bring Them Home Now🎗️