meheenie 👩🏽‍🎨♿️ [email protected]

artist, disabled, free palestine, she/her. art at I sell affordable art from my home studio 🥰 podcasting and streamin too

[meheenie 👩🏽‍🎨♿️ [email protected] @meheeeen]

Hey everyone the book I co-illustrated is on the road to printing!
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[Grandcunt Tay @sonic79894]

So this never moved and im in the process of re applying for my food stamps after they lapsed. Anything helps.....

[Masked Rogue 😷 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @unMaskedRogue]

This is Ellen Wiebe. She’s euthanized more people than any other doctor in Canada. Here she is giggling while talking about sedating people who decide they don’t want MAiD when the time actually comes

[Chloé de Canson @chloedecanson]

Why do people with ME claim to know more about the medical aspects of their disease than their doctors? Bc the mechanisms that ensure doctors' knowledge fail in the case of ME, and sick people have created mechanisms of knowledge production and dissemination to pick up the slack

[wor$t ma$c in america @comradedykepop]

this the goal of all the "discourse" about disabled and cc people btw. this is what it's priming you to accept. stop falling for it.

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

Wow wouldnt it be cool if health care professionals could wear PPE so they werent constantly infecting everyone on their wards? Wouldnt it be awesome if we designed even more comfortable N95s? And what if we increased ventilation? And looked into better ways to clean the air?

[meheenie 👩🏽‍🎨♿️ [email protected] @meheeeen]

@blackforager Thank you for not platforming sanism and ableism

[TheDisabilityEnthusiast @twitchyspoonie]

This has been talked about a lot on the podcast Death Panel and idk if I can remember anyone else talking about it. The government is going to keep taking away more and more healthcare, starting with groups everyone hates. That's why we've been seeing so much ableist propaganda.

[dizzy! @dizzydizzydazed]

heads up just so ppl like me know: if you ask this question and you're on some kind of housing voucher, particularly one under HUD, you can and probably will lose your voucher. there are no federal protections for people on MMJ, and the state cannot override that.

[fuck “latinidad” @ytnessisdeath]

Dear comrades, please show up for Maricela, non-cooperating Prairieland defendant by sharing and donating if you can 🖤

[Jack | amatica health @JackHadfield14]

A brief history of how ME/CFS ended up stigmatised and underfunded for decades. It wasn't an accident.

In 1970, two psychiatrists reviewed the case notes from the 1955 Royal Free Hospital outbreak in London and concluded it was mass hysteria. They didn't interview a single patient, but the idea that ME was psychological became the default view in medicine from then on.

In the UK, psychiatrists Simon Wessely, Michael Sharpe and Peter White developed this into the "illness beliefs" model, where a virus might trigger the illness but deconditioning and unhelpful beliefs keep people sick. They had huge influence over funding and policy, sitting on MRC panels and advising NICE and the DWP, and Sharpe and White also advised disability insurers. Much of the UK's ME research funding went into their trials, and their diagnostic criteria only required six months of fatigue, so the trials were full of people who didn't have ME.

The largest was PACE, which cost £5M and was published in 2011 as proof that CBT and graded exercise worked. It became the basis for NHS treatment. PACE had disingenuously loosened its recovery criteria partway through the trial, but still claimed success. A patient, Alem Matthees, took them to tribunal and got the data released in 2016. Under the original criteria, recovery fell from 22% to around 7%, and there was little change on objective measures like walking distance or return to work. CBT and graded exercise didn't work. NICE didn't remove graded exercise until 2021.

In the US, the CDC dismissed the 1984 Lake Tahoe outbreak, named the illness "chronic fatigue syndrome" in 1988, and the media called it "yuppie flu." In the late 90s, auditors found that of around $23M Congress gave the CDC for CFS research, about $13M had been quietly diverted to other programs and misreported. The NIH then spent roughly $ 5-6M a year on ME/CFS for decades, some of which also went to CBT, exercise and psychological research, and a chunk to university overheads, making it one of the lowest-funded diseases relative to how many people it affects. The CDC recommended CBT and graded exercise until 2017.

Most of Europe either followed the UK model or ignored the disease entirely. Germany did both, treating it as psychosomatic while barely funding research.

Long COVID has started to change this, because millions of previously healthy people developed the same illness at the same time and it became much harder to dismiss. Germany has now committed €500M over ten years, and biomedical research is consistently finding immune, neurological and autoantibody changes in ME/CFS patients.

All psychological intervention studies failed and when we finally started looking at physiological mechanisms, we have found hundreds of alterations. The psychiatrists responsible for the history of ME have millions of deaths on their hands and are largely to blame for the modern stigmatisation of patients. Thankfully that won’t continue much longer, I expect we will finally have breakthroughs in the next years now the shift is made.

[PACO @PacoOnPause]

Someone is lying to you about COVID and you can either believe sick people or the government.

[slime propagandist @possumpraxis]

It's illegal to mask in 20+ states w/ some carveouts for "prevention of spread of contagious illness". It's illegal in many places to wear a mask outside when doing yard work.

This gives the police a reason to harass certain people–they arrested antifascists for this pre-2020

[Prof. Denim 𓅊 @DenimFarmer]

BTW this is why you're getting fed anti-mask & COVID minimisation propaganda.

[L., MA @leslieleeiii]

95% of "leftist" COVID deniers are people who had children during the pandemic and decided it was just too much to deal with.

[I Dissent @DissentFu]

2026 update:
Infants born to mothers who had covid during gestation have brain damage.

[Justine B @jewstein3000]

After hundreds of medical researchers, doctors, journalists and others signed a letter debunking the reactionary bullshit in this article, Shure was never hired by the New Republic again.

Wrote about it for @FAIRmediawatch

https://t.co/JgVaEWkoJt

[I Dissent @DissentFu]

You killed 280,000 people and are giving newborn babies brain damage by ignoring the research and not taking any mitigations.

You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You.

[SIREN ⭐️ @theythempress]

hard to fully relate to queers in small town communities.. but i live in brooklyn and i know 7 (trans) folks who’ve caught covid in the last 2 weeks. flattening the conversation around covid consciousness to make it seem like it’s delusional is too psyop coded for me rn.

[Organizermemes @OrganizerMemes]

It's more salacious to talk about the masking lesbian bar, meanwhile big tech is shadow banning queer nightclubs and causing economic using ai censorship tools

[Julia Marie @julia_doubleday]

Notice how the same leftists constantly calling random poor disabled women “insane” for masking in 2026 will be silent here bc social notions of hysteria are colored by race, class, gender. Any leftists going to call Spielberg “mentally ill” or nah