Lindsay

Please teach your parents and grandparents that ChatGPT isn't an authority?! I'm in the waiting room at a big cancer institute and overheard an older person explaining to a nurse that "ChatGPT told me to take this medicine at this time of day..." even though the actual instructions say differently 😱

Test as much as you can, mask, HEPA filters, crack a window!

I'm so curious to hear if anyone in South Korea has used the LG Electronics MediPain MSP1 device. It was made to stimulate the c fibers to relieve small fiber neuropathy pain. It looks like they're not produced anymore, but may be available used in SK? #chronicillness #smallfiberneuropathy

Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.

We white folks need to come right out and say, not just defund ICE, but ABOLISH ICE. We should not have these jackbooted thugs abducting people off the streets and abusing them in illegal concentration camps.

When Ezra Klein of all people says the Dems are losing by compromising, you KNOW you fucked up

What happens to disabled people WILL ALWAYS happen to you.

I love this. I have hated that in the past few years it has felt like American flags are reserved for Republicans. Fuck that shit, this is our country too.

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. 🧵

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. 🏳️‍🌈🌈🥰

Check your cyclobenzaprine! #NEISVoid #chronicillnes #disability

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.

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

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

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

“[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.

“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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Reposting to read later.

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”

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 🧵

PSA: There’s a difference between wearing a mask or respirator & wearing a gaiter or face covering to disguise identity. It’s important to discern & communicate this nuance because if you don’t, you might encourage elected officials to ban masks for everyone, which would be a public health disaster.

I just finished reading Back After This by @lindaholmes.bsky.social and it was SO delightful. I genuinely laughed out loud so many times, I scared my cat. Highly recommend!! 🥰

Five years we have been asking and five years we have been ignored. Now we have blatant eugenics and people wringing their hands and wondering how we got here.

DOE wants to eliminate regulations which require buildings receiving fed funding to be accessible to disabled people. We need comments submitted by TOMORROW MONDAY 6/16 Pls help push back! Instructions+template: dredf.org/action-alert... More background: www.disabilityscoop.com/2025/06/09/e...

Masks are under serious threat at being banned widely due to politicization. This would be a public health disaster. If you are only wearing a mask at protests, please consider also wearing them elsewhere. The more people mask, the more we normalize masks and protect them against bans.

Best is if you do these things while listening to World's Greatest Dad: open.spotify.com/track/0eOosm...

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...

If I am wrong about masks, which I'm not, and you wear one, it costs you, what? A moment of discomfort? I have large breasts. I wear a bra on a daily basis. There are way worse discomforts than masks in this world.

If I am right about masks, which I am, and you wear one, you protect yourself and others from a disabling disease that we are still learning fun new (horrible, upsetting) things about. You also protect yourself against other things, including allergens, cigarette smoke, and lettuce in your teeth.

Trump's rhetoric works because he TELLS LIES and then USES MEDIA AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES TO REINFORCE THOSE LIES. Trying to prove him wrong doesn't work because he'll just tell more lies. The people in his thrall are not convinced because they examined the evidence and found it supports him.