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We knew this 5 years ago, Goddammit! #LongCovid My husband did not call scientists from different countries, run around like a crazy man trying to find a dye, take my blood & test it personally to find microclots in the year of our Lord 2021 for you people to call it breaking news in 2026! @resiapretorius has been on this case for more than half a decade now!

Heard it’s the 4-year anniversary of Tom Holland’s most iconic screen role so here are my academic drawings 😇

I feel furious and utterly devastated. I've looked up to Nitasha my whole career and have been jealous of her scoops for as long as I can remember

The Boston Globe has some truly great jobs open, including a sports investigative reporter and a food editor. If anyone affected by Post layoffs wants to talk about working here or freelancing for the Sunday magazine, reach out.

anyone looking to freelance after today's Washington Post layoffs: I'm the editor of Discourse, the magazine arm of Business Insider. I'd love to talk: zjason@insider.com.

for any Washington Post people left dangling: I'm always looking for pitches for the Voices section of @theintercept. Op-eds, reporting with a viewpoint, more. feel free to reach out any time: katherine.krueger@theintercept.com

@K3LLYB33N here in philly

I’m always looking for more #covidcautious connections here. I noticed I’m only about 40 followers away from 3000, so if you are like minded and want to stay current on Covid info, please give me a follow!

For those of you looking for freelance work in the wake of WaPo layoffs: I'm an editor at large overseeing Ideas & Culture at Bloomberg, including our Books coverage. Find me at skillingswo2@bloomberg.net

I’m leaving my six-figure ad agency job in social media to go full-time freelance. Why? In 2024 I was diagnosed with brain cancer… We have unlimited PTO where I work. I was told I couldn’t use that PTO each month while I was on chemo because that “would be considered abuse of the PTO policy”. (This would have been 2-3 days a month over the course of a year.) Instead, I would need to take unpaid FMLA. Imagine telling a chemo patient they couldn’t use their “Unlimited” PTO when they were feeling sick from chemo. It happened. People who are sick are worried about so much already. We shouldn’t have to worry about paying bills. We need reform in our workplaces and in our country for: 1. How we treat people with illness in the workplace. 2. Laws that guarantee full pay for workers going through chemotherapy or other cancer treatment. 3. Our over-prioritization of work and productivity above all. Some of this is policy, some of it’s just heart reform BUT it’s all about putting people first. Until the day I die, I’m going to fight for both. If you could engage with this post in some way — commenting, liking, or sharing — I’d appreciate it. It helps amplify this issue.

a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini

@Meta is shutting down Supernatural - one of the few exercise games that allows options for people who are disabled. I played in a leg brace. I played when I hurt a shoulder. It was one of the few games I could play safely after surgery. This sucks. @GenePark

@lucky9luciano99 @1goodtern It literally says that most of the patients in the study were not vaccinated.

@1goodtern Vax. Not covid - which is the flu.

I tried to warn you. We have cursed a whole generation.

@skrichev13 @hollypret The same thing happened to me. Repeated studies show that women have a sharper sense of smell. Believe us. news-medical.net/news/20230606/…

Smelled gas by the radiator this AM, so I called FDNY — who said they didn’t smell anything (and questioned if it even uses gas; it does). Then National Grid came and sure enough, there was a gas leak As @hollypret put it, I was literally gaslit about a gas leak by the FDNY

Six Years and Six Winters Without Getting Sick I haven’t been sick since 2018. No flu. No colds. No COVID. Nothing. Same for my wife. Same for my son. Six winters. Six holiday seasons. While people around us got hammered by one infection after another, we stayed healthy. There’s no fucking secret. We wore masks, everywhere. Not those useless blue surgical masks that leave gaps the size of freight trains around your cheeks. Not the limp cloth things that might as well be made of tissue paper. Real respirators. N95s and KN95s that actually seal to your face and filter the goddamn air you breathe. Here’s what they don’t tell most: There’s a significant difference between a mask and a respirator. A surgical mask is just fancy fabric that catches, well, spit. An N95 has an electrostatic charge that grabs particles and holds them. Think about rubbing a balloon on your head and watching your hair stick to it. That’s the science working to keep viruses out of your lungs when you breath, instead of letting them waltz right in. I know a nurse. Seventy-three years old. She worked in a busy family practice through the worst of the pandemic. Small exam rooms. Sick patients all day long. She wore an N95 every single shift until she retired last year. Guess what? She never caught COVID. People want this to be complicated. They want it to be about genetics or expensive supplements or some elaborate wellness routine they can sell you. Most of the time, it’s not complicated at all. If a virus spreads through the air, the air you breathe is where the battle happens. A properly fitted respirator changes everything. Can’t take vaccines? Mask up. Immune system issues, well now you have an option, for many viruses. Once I found masks that actually fit my face (Dräger X-plore 1950 for me ), the discomfort I’d imagined just wasn’t there. I can talk, walk, shop, and travel without constantly fiddling with straps. Half the time I forget I’m wearing one until I catch my reflection somewhere. But here’s the real reason I keep doing it. Millions of people are living with Long COVID right now. They’re carrying damage to their hearts, blood vessels, brains, and immune systems. For them, another infection isn’t just a shitty week in bed. It’s another step toward disability. More pain. Another organ system pushed past its breaking point. They can’t afford to get hit again. When I put on a mask, I’m not just protecting my family. I’m breaking transmission chains that could lead straight to someone whose body is already hanging by a thread. The cashier at the grocery store. My neighbor. The person standing behind me in line whose immune system can’t take another round. We’ve normalized getting sick. People shrug and say everyone’s down with something this month. Everyone caught the latest bug going around. That’s one way to live, I guess. Another way is to admit we have tools that work. Simple tools. Effective tools. Tools that can cut your risk of infection dramatically. My family chose the second way. It’s not heroic. It’s not perfect. It’s just looking at what repeated infections do to people and deciding that wearing a piece of filtered material over my face in crowded spaces is worth it. You want to know how we’ve gone six winters without getting sick? That’s the answer. We wore real masks for ourselves and for all the people who can’t survive another hit. The science works. The question is whether you’re going to use it.

@wowzaship @Miazolam Yassss!! Mazel tov!!

THERE WAS A FUCKING MEDICAL EMERGENCY ON THE PLANE AND I WAS THE ONLY DOCTOR 😭😭😭😭😭😭

@musings_blonde @Ev_deGallery Email your dr directly

@Ev_deGallery I had a MRI that day so seems like it would be a pretty big coincidence lol. It was actually my doctors office.

My doctor’s office left me a voicemail at 8 p.m. on Friday saying, “you need major surgery.” No callback number. No explanation of what the MRI showed. No way to reach them for 72 hours. Is that… normal? Because it seems like a terrible thing to do to a person.

@GeauxGabrielle You're right. Luke is also shitty.

EXCUSE. ME?! Luke “I didn’t tell my fiancé about the child I just found out I had and purposely alienated them both” Danes?!

Honestly, so many people are having such a hard time that the posts about living a worry-free life filled with love etc. come across as tone-deaf. People who are lucky enough to have that life right now.. just be grateful.

@GeauxGabrielle The only good people in the whole series are Luke and Lane.

My hottest takes from Gilmore Girls: 1. Rory was a fucking loser. 2. Lane deserved so much fucking better. A better mother. A better friend. A better town. A BETTER husband. A better SHOW. She just deserved better. 3. It shouldve been Lorelai and Max but not really because she’s a BAD person