Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta
@suzanneforbes.bsky.social
Fat queer disabled retired artist with MECFS in Berlin. Still respirator masking and isolating. Trans rights FOREVER. Sex worker ally. She/her.
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Jean Bardot and Steffy the Rubber Doll by Suzanne Forbes drawn live at Montreal Fetish Weekend Aug 30 2008
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Jean Bardot and Steffy the Rubber Doll by Suzanne Forbes drawn live at Montreal Fetish Weekend Aug 30 2008
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we are just over a week out from publication of WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the anthology of speculative fiction, essays, and interviews about collective action I co-edited with @annaleen.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social which means THERE'S STILL TIME TO PREORDER!
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
www.simonandschuster.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
we are just over a week out from publication of WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the anthology of speculative fiction, essays, and interviews about collective action I co-edited with @annaleen.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social which means THERE'S STILL TIME TO PREORDER!
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November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Impfmöglichkeit Booster Auffrischung
💉 Grippe
#Sanofi #Novavax #Nuvaxovid #JN.1
📆 mit Termin (online)
🏥 Dr. med. Ulrike Hackenberg
📍Georg-Hermann-Allee 11
14469 #Potsdam
#Brandenburg
📞 0331-58184455
📧 [email protected]
#COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #TeamVorsicht #Impfung #nuvax25
💉 Grippe
#Sanofi #Novavax #Nuvaxovid #JN.1
📆 mit Termin (online)
🏥 Dr. med. Ulrike Hackenberg
📍Georg-Hermann-Allee 11
14469 #Potsdam
#Brandenburg
📞 0331-58184455
📧 [email protected]
#COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #TeamVorsicht #Impfung #nuvax25
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Introducing “Energy Limiting
Conditions”
The Emergence and Evolution of a New Impairment
Concept
Catherine Hale
Independent Researcher, UK
Dr Anna Ruddock
Independent Researcher, UK
Ana Bê
Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK
#ME/CFS #LongCOVID
Conditions”
The Emergence and Evolution of a New Impairment
Concept
Catherine Hale
Independent Researcher, UK
Dr Anna Ruddock
Independent Researcher, UK
Ana Bê
Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK
#ME/CFS #LongCOVID
www.scienceopen.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Introducing “Energy Limiting
Conditions”
The Emergence and Evolution of a New Impairment
Concept
Catherine Hale
Independent Researcher, UK
Dr Anna Ruddock
Independent Researcher, UK
Ana Bê
Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK
#ME/CFS #LongCOVID
Conditions”
The Emergence and Evolution of a New Impairment
Concept
Catherine Hale
Independent Researcher, UK
Dr Anna Ruddock
Independent Researcher, UK
Ana Bê
Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK
#ME/CFS #LongCOVID
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🚨 Call to action!
The universal Hep B birth-dose vax recommendation is under threat at the upcoming ACIP meeting (Dec 4–5, 2025).
🗣️ Public comment ENDS TODAY! Only a handful of comments have been submitted so far. Your voice truly matters.
💬 How to submit written or oral comments:
The universal Hep B birth-dose vax recommendation is under threat at the upcoming ACIP meeting (Dec 4–5, 2025).
🗣️ Public comment ENDS TODAY! Only a handful of comments have been submitted so far. Your voice truly matters.
💬 How to submit written or oral comments:
ACIP Meeting Information
ACIP holds three regular meetings each year. Learn about upcoming meetings and view materials.
www.cdc.gov
November 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
🚨 Call to action!
The universal Hep B birth-dose vax recommendation is under threat at the upcoming ACIP meeting (Dec 4–5, 2025).
🗣️ Public comment ENDS TODAY! Only a handful of comments have been submitted so far. Your voice truly matters.
💬 How to submit written or oral comments:
The universal Hep B birth-dose vax recommendation is under threat at the upcoming ACIP meeting (Dec 4–5, 2025).
🗣️ Public comment ENDS TODAY! Only a handful of comments have been submitted so far. Your voice truly matters.
💬 How to submit written or oral comments:
Remember, it's not just what they leave behind, it's what they took away with them. A flash drive with my Social Security number and medical history left in the footwell of an Uber in Alexandria, a printout of my student loan debt in a basement in Palo Alto.
The "Department of Government Efficiency" has disbanded eight months early.
DOGE sowed chaos throughout the government and disrupted services relied upon by millions, while finding hardly any savings.
Here's what you should know about damage that DOGE leaves behind.
DOGE sowed chaos throughout the government and disrupted services relied upon by millions, while finding hardly any savings.
Here's what you should know about damage that DOGE leaves behind.
The DOGE Damage Elon is Leaving Behind
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Remember, it's not just what they leave behind, it's what they took away with them. A flash drive with my Social Security number and medical history left in the footwell of an Uber in Alexandria, a printout of my student loan debt in a basement in Palo Alto.
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So excited to share our new article on energy limiting conditions (ELC) and energy impairment in @ijdsj.bsky.social with Anna Ruddock and Ana Be. Open access www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
It discusses the emancipatory research process that gave rise to these terms >>
It discusses the emancipatory research process that gave rise to these terms >>
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
So excited to share our new article on energy limiting conditions (ELC) and energy impairment in @ijdsj.bsky.social with Anna Ruddock and Ana Be. Open access www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
It discusses the emancipatory research process that gave rise to these terms >>
It discusses the emancipatory research process that gave rise to these terms >>
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Next Monday, 11/24, two celebrated writers and scholars explore the craft and influence of Octavia E. Butler. Join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an evening dedicated to the revered SFF author’s luminous imagination. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Next Monday, 11/24, two celebrated writers and scholars explore the craft and influence of Octavia E. Butler. Join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an evening dedicated to the revered SFF author’s luminous imagination. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
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DOGE finished the job it was created to do. Now it's been eliminated to make consequences feel less urgent, and to make them tougher to carry out.
DOGE was a raiding party; let's not be smug that they scattered once they ruined/sold off our public works. That was always the idea.
DOGE was a raiding party; let's not be smug that they scattered once they ruined/sold off our public works. That was always the idea.
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
DOGE finished the job it was created to do. Now it's been eliminated to make consequences feel less urgent, and to make them tougher to carry out.
DOGE was a raiding party; let's not be smug that they scattered once they ruined/sold off our public works. That was always the idea.
DOGE was a raiding party; let's not be smug that they scattered once they ruined/sold off our public works. That was always the idea.
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An author DMed asking how to find a sex worker sensitivity reader for a story.
Any advice from colleagues, sensitivity readers or (lastly) people who think they may know where to start but aren’t sure.
Any advice from colleagues, sensitivity readers or (lastly) people who think they may know where to start but aren’t sure.
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
An author DMed asking how to find a sex worker sensitivity reader for a story.
Any advice from colleagues, sensitivity readers or (lastly) people who think they may know where to start but aren’t sure.
Any advice from colleagues, sensitivity readers or (lastly) people who think they may know where to start but aren’t sure.
And this unfortunate man who died has been othered and minimized in his death, by being "older and with health conditions" and a "mixed backyard flock" keeper. So they can keep mouthing that the risk to the public "remains low".
A potentially concerning reassortment of HPAI H5N1 to H5N5 infected a man at his backyard bird farm in Washington state. He has since succumbed to the virus😔. No evidence of H-H transmission, but every roll of the dice creates more opportunities.
BREAKING: Man from Washington state dies after being infected with H5N5 bird flu
November 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
And this unfortunate man who died has been othered and minimized in his death, by being "older and with health conditions" and a "mixed backyard flock" keeper. So they can keep mouthing that the risk to the public "remains low".
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Apparently P*ypal now asks for customer opinions on accounts sending invoices.
If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.
If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Apparently P*ypal now asks for customer opinions on accounts sending invoices.
If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.
If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.
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This is still available and I just got mine. They were right - this box is huge.
30 bucks for 440 masks is obscenely cheap. Great as it’s getting colder out and flu and covid inevitably peak
30 bucks for 440 masks is obscenely cheap. Great as it’s getting colder out and flu and covid inevitably peak
November 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This is still available and I just got mine. They were right - this box is huge.
30 bucks for 440 masks is obscenely cheap. Great as it’s getting colder out and flu and covid inevitably peak
30 bucks for 440 masks is obscenely cheap. Great as it’s getting colder out and flu and covid inevitably peak
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This is absolutely four-alarm-fire climate news. Astonishing, that this is the first time I've seen it.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This is absolutely four-alarm-fire climate news. Astonishing, that this is the first time I've seen it.
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The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
“People who are performing these studies are extraordinarily ignorant, and their ignorance is dangerous,” said @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social. She and other experts agree these trials are a waste of $$ and will not advance our biological understanding of Long COVID. thesicktimes.org/2025/11/21/l...
Less than 20% of Long COVID trials involving exercise even mention post-exertional malaise - The Sick Times
An analysis by The Sick Times find that less than 15% of Long COVID clinical trials testing the benefits of exercise or cardiopulmonary rehabilitation measured post-exertional malaise, according to th...
thesicktimes.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
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A disabled Indigenous low income friend of mine is fundraising. Please share and donate if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/severely-d...
Donate to URGENT: Disabled elder needs consistent community support!, organized by Friends of Eli
Eli (Elizabeth) is a lifelong and beloved movement worker, or… Friends of Eli needs your support for URGENT: Disabled elder needs consistent community support!
www.gofundme.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
A disabled Indigenous low income friend of mine is fundraising. Please share and donate if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/severely-d...
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Luftbåren.
Spreder fugleinfluenza-virus sig med vinden?
Det er der meget, der tyder på
(hvilket ikke burde overraske nogen).
"..several experts said ProPublica’s analysis underscores the shortcomings of the government’s strategy, which fails to take the wind into account at all"
Spreder fugleinfluenza-virus sig med vinden?
Det er der meget, der tyder på
(hvilket ikke burde overraske nogen).
"..several experts said ProPublica’s analysis underscores the shortcomings of the government’s strategy, which fails to take the wind into account at all"
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Luftbåren.
Spreder fugleinfluenza-virus sig med vinden?
Det er der meget, der tyder på
(hvilket ikke burde overraske nogen).
"..several experts said ProPublica’s analysis underscores the shortcomings of the government’s strategy, which fails to take the wind into account at all"
Spreder fugleinfluenza-virus sig med vinden?
Det er der meget, der tyder på
(hvilket ikke burde overraske nogen).
"..several experts said ProPublica’s analysis underscores the shortcomings of the government’s strategy, which fails to take the wind into account at all"
We got our Novavax JN.1 booster today. As usual, no significant side effects for either of us. My spouse gets sick for days from a lot of vaccinations, especially mRNA, so it's such a blessing to be able to get Novavax in Berlin. We are grateful as hell each time.
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
We got our Novavax JN.1 booster today. As usual, no significant side effects for either of us. My spouse gets sick for days from a lot of vaccinations, especially mRNA, so it's such a blessing to be able to get Novavax in Berlin. We are grateful as hell each time.
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Today, hundreds of millions face #MECFS & #LongCOVID without FDA-approved treatments. Until December 2, your support goes 3X further to advance critical research and bring us closer to answers.
💙Donate today: ow.ly/rZEb50Xr8wI.
💙Donate today: ow.ly/rZEb50Xr8wI.
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Today, hundreds of millions face #MECFS & #LongCOVID without FDA-approved treatments. Until December 2, your support goes 3X further to advance critical research and bring us closer to answers.
💙Donate today: ow.ly/rZEb50Xr8wI.
💙Donate today: ow.ly/rZEb50Xr8wI.
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Considering holding a pay-as-you're-able talk. People in the #NEISvoid, what would you consider valuable to you? Please do share as well ❤️
November 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Considering holding a pay-as-you're-able talk. People in the #NEISvoid, what would you consider valuable to you? Please do share as well ❤️
Can't help but be worried about this, given my experience here in Germany. I desperately hope they don't repeat misinformation and stigma.
Germany Research Minister @dorobaer.bsky.social and Health Minister Nina Warken will give a joint press statement tomorrow 19/11/2025 on #LongCOVID and #ME/CFS.
👉 You can follow the livestream starting at 3 p.m. directly on the 🇩🇪 BMFTR’s X channel.
👉 You can follow the livestream starting at 3 p.m. directly on the 🇩🇪 BMFTR’s X channel.
November 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Can't help but be worried about this, given my experience here in Germany. I desperately hope they don't repeat misinformation and stigma.
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But the most APT observation of dual state theory is that those who are living in the normal state can check out completely to what is happening in the dual state
B/c they assume the laws of the normal state apply to those living under the prerogative state so it will all sort itself out
B/c they assume the laws of the normal state apply to those living under the prerogative state so it will all sort itself out
November 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
But the most APT observation of dual state theory is that those who are living in the normal state can check out completely to what is happening in the dual state
B/c they assume the laws of the normal state apply to those living under the prerogative state so it will all sort itself out
B/c they assume the laws of the normal state apply to those living under the prerogative state so it will all sort itself out
As a New Yorker born, this really struck home for me.
I decided to convert dollars to centimeters. That allows us to visualize, for example, the distance between having no money and being at poverty level — about four city blocks.
2/8
2/8
November 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
As a New Yorker born, this really struck home for me.
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HIV is still just as deadly as it was in the 80's.
Treatment is the reason why now you can live for 40 years with it, instead of 4.
Without that treatment, it will kill you just like it did 40 years ago.
Treatment is the reason why now you can live for 40 years with it, instead of 4.
Without that treatment, it will kill you just like it did 40 years ago.
June 30, 2024 at 11:38 PM
HIV is still just as deadly as it was in the 80's.
Treatment is the reason why now you can live for 40 years with it, instead of 4.
Without that treatment, it will kill you just like it did 40 years ago.
Treatment is the reason why now you can live for 40 years with it, instead of 4.
Without that treatment, it will kill you just like it did 40 years ago.
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So 💔 & angry… that Alice is gone, Teen Vogue is gone, community care is all but gone, but dangerous infectious diseases are still being given red carpet treatment. The disability, Long Covid, & ME communities keep losing people, & it doesn’t have to be this way. We can do better. We must.
Respect Alice Wong’s call here:
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”
COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life.
"When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving."
www.teenvogue.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
So 💔 & angry… that Alice is gone, Teen Vogue is gone, community care is all but gone, but dangerous infectious diseases are still being given red carpet treatment. The disability, Long Covid, & ME communities keep losing people, & it doesn’t have to be this way. We can do better. We must.