David Archer

❗️The BC gov has defunded my chronic illness clinic, and I am asking healthy people to act. ➡️ Visit lifelineBC.ca, click Campaign, and use their mailing tool to tell your reps to reverse the MSP cuts that will trap #LongCovid, #MECFS, and #Fibromyalgia patients in bed. #bcpoli #bcelection

lifelinebc.caHomeURGENT: Help Stop Nov 1st Cuts Now!

But again, the thing you can do RIGHT NOW to help the clinic's 8500 patients suffering from a devastating, underfunded, lifelong illness is visit lifelineBC.ca. Kudos to them - they've been working on this a lot longer than me!

And I need to figure out how best to add to the chorus of voices at a large scale, or who else should be coordinated together. So I'm all ears if you have thoughts. And I have PEM, so bye for now. 🤡

Since then: It has breached my little bubble and I'm hearing from many current patients, especially on IG, who are just as mad. People who wish they were patients and need a similar type of care are also adding their voices.

I'm not excited about our BC Conservative gov, but regardless of who got in, the job was always going to be to cause enough of a ruckus to get our clinic back. So now I'm thinking about how to help coordinate enough people to relentlessly tell our reps and the health ministry to change this.

I've had an interesting few days online. Thu: I rage-skyed against the @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social. Fri: The BC Greens shared a commitment to restore that specific funding. Definitely not a result of my shouting, but it sure felt cathartic. Thx @emilylowan.bsky.social and @bcgreens.bsky.social.

instagram.comDavid Archer on Instagram: "Visit lifelineBC.ca and tell your BC reps to reverse the MSP cuts! 8500 patients need you. This video doesn’t do justice to how mad I am but I’m too tired to give it more ...448 likes, 57 comments - davidaetc on October 23, 2026: "Visit lifelineBC.ca and tell your BC reps to reverse the MSP cuts! 8500 patients need you. This video doesn’t do justice to how mad I am but I...

Fri night: I made and posted the video above to IG and FB, where I know many locals and people w chronic illnesses. www.instagram.com/p/De3SHfdSa1z/

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Ada Palmer

@adapalmer.bsky.social

Solar farms in the Gobi are cutting dust storms. A study of 17 farms found the panels slow surface winds by more than 9% and make soil up to 17% less erodible, reducing springtime dust by about 352,000 tonnes a month. RenewEconomy buff.ly/bambHT8 #ShareGoodNewsToo

buff.lySolar farms can help stop the spread of dust storms, new study findsNew study demonstrates that solar farms can have a material impact on reducing dust pollution reaching major cities.

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Elizabeth Bear

@matociquala.bsky.social

While I'm here, a small reminder that I have a new novella at Clarkesworld this month, one I'm very proud of. clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_10_26/

clarkesworldmagazine.comThe Job by Elizabeth BearClarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Richard Vallée

@richardvallee.bsky.social

One remarkable dynamic when it comes to how health care systems fail chronic illnesses like Long Covid and ME/CFS is that every single assessment, any time in any country, has concluded that it's completely inadequate and must change. And nothing ever changes. Never has, not even one bit.

Long Covid Advocacy@longcovidadvoc.com

A working group appointed by Iceland's Director of Health has produced a strong in-depth report with 42 recs for healthcare, social services, uni's, insurance and public funding It clearly states the need to move from psychologisation to funding & support. www.icelandreview.com/news/iceland...

icelandreview.comIceland Report Calls for Overhaul of ME and Long COVID CareA new Icelandic report sets out 42 recommendations to improve care, research and social support for people with ME, long COVID and POTS.

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Leslie Hermelin

@lbherms.bsky.social

This is the best article I've ever read describing the LC experience. It was helpful when I needed my family to understand what I was experiencingand couldnt find the words

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anildash.comWe are going to kill “unalive” - Anil DashA blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Great post by @anildash.com about continuing to say what you mean on the internet. Fwiw, a couple weeks ago I used the word “killing” in an IG video for the bookshop (which also mentioned Cornell 7) and had many of these thoughts. No silencing happened, I think. www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...

This post also reminded me of the very specific place in history I come from lol Be sure to like and subscribe

And another thing I remembered after thinking a tiny bit more (in my bathrobe) is that these days, the performance of most comms delivered by algo depends a lot on how angry it might make someone. You know, if we must define "performance" as clicks or likes or re-toots or whatever.

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Naomi Klein

@naomiaklein.bsky.social

#1 in Canadian Nonfiction for the 5th week in a row - bowled over by the reception at home. This country is in a fighting mood!

anildash.comWe are going to kill “unalive” - Anil DashA blog about making culture. Since 1999.

And because the algorithm’s rules are hidden, those engagement bait habits every content creator uses have piled up over time, with some sticking around long after they lose effectiveness vs the changing algo. Because it’s impossible to REALLY know why your post was seen by 200 or 20,000 people.

And now we’re in a culture where a decade+ of gaming the systems has really distorted the ways we communicate.

anildash.comWe are going to kill “unalive” - Anil DashA blog about making culture. Since 1999.

@alexgorlando.bsky.social

Not that there couldn’t be/isn’t silencing based on keywords, but the core problem is that the rules are opaque on purpose, which puts all the power in a single California office building. And every cipher word we come up with is going to be added to the Meta naughty list anyway.

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Alexandra Orlando

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

litsadremousis.substack.comTen Things Not to Say to a Person with a Disability and/or Chronic Illness Unless You Want to Get Tossed Down a WellOkay, I don’t have the strength to toss you down a well, but I’ll find someone who can.

10/10 title and a great piece too

Litsa Dremousis@litsadremousis.bsky.social

Sooooo, this has taken off😎 "Ten Things Not to Say to a Person with a Disability and/or Chronic Illness Unless You Want to Get Tossed Down a Well". My newest Substack piece is up: #WriterSky #BookSky #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #Cancer litsadremousis.substack.com/p/ten-things...

@bcndpcaucus.bsky.social 300,000!

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Hey @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social, I’m one of these 8,500 people! Why don’t we deserve healthcare? Your cut to MSP funding for the BC-CLMF clinic will have *massive* repercussions for all of us #MECFS #LongCovid patients in the province. Your decision will keep more of us trapped in bed.

Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (health break).@ratnegative.bsky.social

The BCNDP has chosen to deprive up to 8,500 severely ill, often bedbound people of telehealth access to one of the only LC clinics in BC. cheknews.ca/b-c-quietly-... Just as COVID is surging again and creating 1000s of new patients. Tell your candidates: lifelinebc.ca

@bcndpcaucus.bsky.social You’re putting one of the only resources we have into the wood chipper. But you can reverse course. BC-CLMF is incredible. It serves an underfunded, under-researched group of chronically ill folks. IMO it’s an incredible case study for what’s possible.

@exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social

@bcndpcaucus.bsky.social BC-CLMF deserves more support, not less. You could celebrate it instead. It’s a potentially world-leading project in its field. The economic argument is right there in this article. So is the argument for human dignity and care. Do better. Kudos, @cheknews.ca ❤️

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It's ME(Jaime)

This is the disease for which I research and advocate: #MECFS. Even mild presentation is life-changing, and this is what severe looks like. People are surprised so many of us were athletes. They want to believe this can only happen to people who were already unwell. www.bbc.com/sport/athlet...

bbc.comBeth Dobbin: British Olympic sprinter in bed for 22 hours a day after ME diagnosisBeth Dobbin ran for Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Five years on, she is largely bedbound after being diagnosed with ME, a devastating illness for which there is no cure.

equator.orgApocalypse Now and Then • EQUATORArtificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination

an incredible essay

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app

Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination -- Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru... 🧵

@senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social

What is #MECFS? A widespread, under-researched, life-stealing chronic illness. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Laura J Mixon@laurajmg.bsky.social

I'm a big believer in finding moments of joy in the now, and I have a lot to be thankful for. But ME/CFS is such a devastating disorder—not just for us sufferers, but also for our caregivers. And without more funding to find biomarkers, official treatments and a cure, our lives are pretty grim.

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John Wiswell

@wiswell.bsky.social

BALE SNAILS

Lisounours@lise-l.bsky.social

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦

I didn't mince my words. Alberta's anti-immigration referendum questions are racist. They are also a potential disaster for Alberta's economy. Last night, I rose in the Senate to denounce them - and to thank all the thousands of Albertans fighting against them. Please share. #notothenine #cdnpoli

youtu.beWatch: Senator Paula Simons denounces Alberta's anti-immigrant referendum questionsYouTube video by Senator Paula Simons

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Adam

@abrokenbattery.bsky.social

“If we weren’t so ill, those of us with this awful disease would be shouting it from the rooftops.” Eleanor Dent describes being largely housebound with #MECFS, from difficulties getting benefits to harmful advice, and still no treatment after 24 years.

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Jeff VanderMeer

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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joe

@shariauncle.bsky.social

increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple

@litsadremousis.bsky.social

Manicules!

Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

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Litsa Dremousis

Thanks so much to the great science writer George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social for once again covering the ongoing systemic neglect and abuse of patients w/ #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis Essential reading for #pwME, #MedSky, and allies: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comAbandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George MonbiotChanges in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It should be a scandal, the way ME/CFS and Long COVID patients are treated. Millions and millions of people. Most of us are too tired to effectively advocate, which is why it’s such a relief to see real attention. Help this break containment!

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Also, shout out to writers like @juliametraux.bsky.social @slooterman.bsky.social @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social for being on this beat too

techspot.comThe largest all-electric plane ever flew for 27 minutes, on $5 of electricityHeart's X1 demonstrator flew for 27 minutes from a regional airport in upstate New York, running on battery power the entire time. The aircraft reached 1,100 feet...

Bad news if, like me, you believed for 24 hours that you had two brains

John Timmer@jtimmer.bsky.social

So, I turned my chaotic little developmental biology rant into an actual article that is hopefully somewhat less chaotic and a bit more approachable.

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The Sick Times

@thesicktimes.org

The Telegraph recently published an article about "sickfluencers" titled “How having a disability became cool." We've republished a piece by Julia Doubleday at The Gauntlet pushing back against the article, which she calls "absurd on its face." thesicktimes.org/2026/09/21/c...

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John Scalzi

@scalzi.com

22 Sept

I'm of two minds about this information

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Ada Palmer

@adapalmer.bsky.social

20 Sept

The world’s largest battery-electric aircraft flew for the first time on the 12th of August, a 27-minute test flight over upstate New York that cost about five dollars in electricity. Heart Aerospace’s 30-seat prototype is a big step toward a commercial version. buff.ly/i3f0PhR #ShareGoodNewsToo