kate

Library ghost with a love of SFF.

Often low on energy due to #MECFS--may be slow to respond. #CripTime

#NEISvoid #Disabled #ActuallyAutistic #pwME #EDS #POTS #queer

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HEADER: Two sculptures facing each other against a background of tress. Sculptures: white letters shaped & connected to look like humans sitting facing one another, with faces not filled in, suggesting openness.

kate boosted:
2025-02-01

Photo taken while cycling about a year and 10 months ago. #spring #flowers #forest #cycling #bloomscrolling #Germany

A forest in spring, the floor overgrown with flowering wild garlic. Slender trees with young leaves.

Article from Dec 2020:

"A century of COVID-19: what history tells us about the long-term effects of a pandemic"

gero.usc.edu/2020/12/08/centur

“The fact that this cohort of people had elevated risks of disease even more than six decades after the pandemic indicates that maternal exposure to the infvirus appears to have had wide-ranging and long-lasting health effects on offspring"

#1918Flu #longCOVID #MECFS #COVID19 #Influenza #H1N1 #longFlu #NEISvoid #pwME

kate boosted:
Metropiametropia
2023-12-17
kate boosted:
2023-12-17

acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/L2
"Our case proves that replication-competent #SARSCoV2 can traffic in blood during COVID-19 and seed tissues throughout the body."

kate boosted:
Tinu - Empress of TwerkTinu
2023-10-30

I barely have the energy to ask for help. It’s been over a year and a half since Long COVID brought my cancer back

- it responds to infections so I knew getting COVID could kill me and it almost did.
I can’t seem to get back in my feet. I get closer and closer only to be knocked down again.

I’m afraid I’m going to die of a treatable cancer. Or die from my body tissue not getting enough oxygen although I am back to using it 7 hours a day in addition to when I’m asleep.

kate boosted:
Tinu - Empress of TwerkTinu
2023-10-30

Good morning citizens of dystopia. I need your help.

For the 10th month in a row I have not my monthly GoFundMe goal in time to pay my med bills.

Particularly chemo & oncologist bills, which is also the only monitoring & care I get for Long COVID.

Late bills mounting for regular bills. I’m about to put groceries for my 2 sets of twins on a credit card.

Please help me.

Patreon.com/Tinu

cash.app/$TinuWrites

@mutualaid

Photo of me, Tinu Abayomi-Paul , A Black Disabled woman with a newly short Afro, smiling slightly at the camera with lips closed, in a purple shirt and purple lipstick and penciled eyebrows but no other makeup.
kate boosted:
2023-10-25

Internal tremors & vibrations in #longCOVID: a cross-sectional study

t.ly/sG8ey

“In a cross-sectional study of people with long #COVID, we found internal tremors were a common symptom, affecting 37% of participants”

@longcovid
#LongCovid #PwLC #PostCovidSyndrome #LC #PASC #postcovid @covid19
#COVIDー19 #COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #SARSCoV2 @novid #novid #CovidIsNotOver #CovidBrain

#NEISvoid ☝🏼

Please consider signal boosting if you don't have the spoons to participate more directly in the campaign.

A new #PeopleOverProfits campaign has begun in #Nerdfighteria. This time the focus is price-gouging on tuberculosis tests, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths for a curable disease.

See the video for and overview 👇🏼

Additional info: tbfighters.org

Background on Danaher, who their board members are, shareholders, etc:
marketscreener.com/quote/stock

How will you help?

#TimeFor5

youtube.com/watch?v=tSC06P9A5W

kate boosted:
Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:luckytran@med-mastodon.com
2023-09-11

We just reached 300 on our scientist letter to Biden calling on the White House to take bold action to stop fossil fuels!

Today is the LAST DAY you can add your name before we deliver the letter.

Please sign on here: bit.ly/ScientistLetterToBiden

#MarchToEndFossilFuels

kate boosted:
2023-07-31

Had a lovely picnic with the lady at the local botanical gardens. We nearly had the place to ourselves, due to the heat. Well worth the sweat. 😉🌸❇️🌼
#Bloomscrolling #Gardening #Nature

A bush resembling a huge rosemary with pink flowers.A bee at work in a small pink flower.Two bees on a purple ball shaped flower.A very large pink and red hibiscus flower.
kate boosted:
2023-07-30

This zinnia is very pink and a bit mesmerizing.

A closeup photo of a pink zinnia flower. Unfurled petals can be seen surrounding the center mass of tiny hair like structures with a tiny hole in the very middle

When you're a #pwME, it far too often feels like the opinions offered by docs were written by AI, sourced from none of the literature about #MECFS, full of errors and prejudices, and containing danger in some circumstances.

Those wonderful docs who listen and research and check their biases, and know the history, are like veteran writers who rigorously check sources, read works that challenge and upend their thinking, and care about the quality they produce.

#NEISvoid @mecfs

kate boosted:
2023-07-26

Once upon a time, there was #Bloomscrolling, and it was good.

Pink blossoms surround a tree branch with green out of focus grass below.
kate boosted:

I’ve had flu the past week (thankfully not covid) so been stuck at home. Finally feel a bit better today so I’ve been sat outside processing verbena seeds I collected last year. I’ve already given away a bunch (and grown more for myself) but packing up the rest to give away to allotment neighbours. This variety grows up to 2 meters tall, I absolutely love it.

#BloomScrolling

Photo of flower heads bobbing around at lofty heights. Each head is a cluster of tiny, bright purple, trumpet shaped flowers.Close-up photo of a pile of collected verbena seeds. Tiny cylinders of different shades of brown from light to dark.
kate boosted:
2023-07-24
A close-up of a purple/blue hortensia in bloom.
kate boosted:
Hannah Kolbeck 🏳️‍⚧️hannah@social.alt-text.org
2023-07-24

Pre-burnout I was a leader, but the nature of my primary #disability since burnout is executive dysfunction. I cannot lead alone, and as an anarchist I have no desire to. If you have an interest in helping me move the alt-text.org project forward, let's chat. I can be reached here or hannah@alt-text.org

kate boosted:
Professor Kerstin Sailerkerstinsailer@sciences.social
2023-07-24
Close up shot of a mint plant in our North London garden with light purple blossoms in a diagonal from bottom left to top right against green background

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