Megan Williams 🐌🎨👩‍🦼🇵🇸

part time artist, full time sick person.

No disability justice without a free Palestine 🇵🇸

[Sam Connor @criprights]

Introducing RoboNDIS. We built a tool that applies the same automated assessment logic from the NDIS Sustainability Bill 2026 - the one that lets a computer cut your support without explanation, without appeal, without a human in the room - to federal politicians.

Search your favourite MP. See their attendance record. Get their "adjusted salary" after deductions. Receive their automated debt notice.

The point is not that politicians should be treated this way.

The point is that no one should.

Try it: https://t.co/gMFyOHjkjX

#robondis #NDIS #ProtectOurNDIS #disabilityrights #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #auspol

[Andrea Fighting for #MECFS Diagnostic Biomarkers @MECFSNanoneedle]

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome #MECFS is the most underfunded condition.
80% of patients are women.
#MECFS lacks a diagnostic blood test and treatment.
Please donate to Open Medicine Foundation to help ME/CFS patients
https://t.co/ZrGyzAeq5U

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

@CovidSolidarit1 After many years of hearing “Don’t worry, MOST RECOVER!” a large 3-year study found a whopping LESS THAN 2% recovered.

[Maryam @hell_line0]

“Women talk more than men”

In a recent study it was found that when women talked 15% of the time (and men 85% of the time), men perceived it as equal participation. And when women talked 30% of the time, men perceived it as women dominating the discussion.

[Lizzy H @hopefullizzy]

“Another very severe ME sufferer, ‘C’ said, ‘33 years like this. No medical help, whatsoever, too ill to see family or friends. It could have been so different!’”

https://t.co/Y5N4oDeGyT Read in full here.

Thank you.

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

The UN has warned of total collapse in Cuba. This is deliberate punishment imposed by the most powerful nation on earth on one of its poorest neighbours that dares to have a different political system. Australia should not stay silent while bully USA starves the people of Cuba.

[Harriet Carroll: Long Covid Scientific Consultancy @angryhacademic]

This is absurd. He gives the example of an athlete breaking their finger during a game and not realising until the end. Apparently there's no biological reason for this 🧐🧐🧐

*Whispers* adrenaline

[IntegralAnswers @IntegralAnswers]

Prof. Klaus Wirth proposes that a substantial subset of Long COVID—the group that clinically resembles ME/CFS—is driven by a vicious cycle involving vascular dysfunction, impaired sodium handling, calcium overload, and ultimately mitochondrial injury.

In his model, exertion does more than temporarily deplete energy reserves. Instead, exercise may trigger abnormal sodium accumulation within muscle cells. Excess sodium then promotes calcium influx, including into mitochondria. Calcium overload is a well-established mechanism of mitochondrial injury in other diseases, and Wirth argues that repeated episodes may progressively impair cellular energy production.

This hypothesis attempts to unify several observations reported in Long COVID and ME/CFS research: orthostatic intolerance, impaired cerebral blood flow, elevated lactate during exercise, post-exertional malaise (PEM), cognitive dysfunction, autonomic abnormalities, and exercise intolerance.

Importantly, this remains a hypothesis—not a proven mechanism—but it offers a biologically plausible framework linking many seemingly disconnected findings.

[Adam @ABrokenBattery]

In 1988, Ean Proctor, a 13-year-old boy with ME, was removed from his parents and institutionalised for over 5 months. Wessely was one of the psychiatrists, he said Ean didn’t have ME and supported the separation from his parents. See excerpts from Malcolm Hooper.

[Adam @ABrokenBattery]

🧵I want to highlight one paragraph from the Wired article and some key facts that it left out.

It states Wessely was accused of throwing a sick boy into a pool, but provides no context.

It actually relates to a well-documented case in which Wessely was involved.

[Ruth Ann Crystal, MD @CatchTheBaby]

Children with Long COVID had measurable retinal microvascular changes. https://t.co/eIElYHievL

In 74 kids ages 7–17, scans found wider arterioles, wider venules, and a higher A/V ratio, consistent with endothelial dysfunction.

The eye may help track pediatric Long COVID.

[Dr. Alice 💕 @calirunnerdoc]

Stop quote-tweeting her, stop making threads in her replies, and stop feeding her algorithm. Outrage-bait is her business model, and engagement-even angry engagement-directly funds it.

If her content offends you, vote with your feet. Mute, block, and starve her platform of attention. Let’s end the era of these medical shock jocks by making “influencers” and “experts” exploiting patient suffering completely irrelevant.

[Louise Greene @GreeneLouiseAus]

Tammy Shipley was 47 years old. A mother. A grandmother. A woman experiencing acute psychosis. She should be alive today.

I've spent 7 months in 4 NSW prisons and what I witnessed was deeply disturbing. Women with severe mental illness who clearly needed psychiatric treatment, not incarceration. One woman could barely dress herself. She was profoundly unwell yet she was in prison.

When I entered prison, authorities had my prescriptions and my doctors' details for major depression and PTSD. Despite that, I was not given my medication for weeks. I was effectively forced off it cold turkey. I developed psychosis and suffered akathisia, one of the most distressing conditions I've ever experienced. Later, I developed severe shingles and was given nothing. No treatment. No meaningful medical intervention.

The reality is that there was virtually no access to healthcare. No doctor. No nurse. The only option was to call the Justice Health line and hope someone could help. Meanwhile, prisons are increasingly housing women with severe trauma, mental illness, addiction and brain injuries.

This is not just about Tammy Shipley.

More than 80% of women in prison have histories of physical or sexual abuse. More than 70% have experienced domestic, family or sexual violence. Australia's female prison population is growing more than twice as fast as men's.

Prisons are being used as mental health facilities without the resources, staffing or expertise to provide proper care. That is not rehabilitation. It is systemic failure.

Tammy Shipley should be alive today. And until we confront why women in acute psychological crisis are ending up in prison instead of treatment, more women will continue to pay the price.

My article https://t.co/Pq0JAActCt #PrisonReform #MentalHealth #TammyShipley #WomenInPrison

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

One of the grimmest political tricks of the last 15 years has been convincing the public that disabled people are a bigger economic threat than tax avoidance, private outsourcing failures, or housing costs.

[Todd Davenport @sunsopeningband]

People living with disabling chronic illnesses are already some of the grittiest and most resilient people I know just to do basic things in life. I can’t imagine a reality in which the curative intervention would be to try to promulgate more of what they already have in spades.

[Disabled Doctor @DisabledDoctor]

Scent is a disability rights issue.
This includes perfume, air fresheners, scented hair products, scented deodorant, scented lotion, and yes, even essential oils.

Not only are they harmful and even potentially dangerous for some disabled people, mounting evidence suggests scents are likely harmful for people in general. So, please, be mindful of your scent in public spaces

[ꫀꪜꫀ ᧒ꪮ᭢ꫀక - ʇɟǝꓶ ɔᴉʇɐunꓶ ☭🔻 @eve_eats_apples]

Hardly anyone reads/likes/shares my stuff but I have to try

Disabled Aussies are being fucked over

Are we being misled about NDIS fraud? Yes, we are

#NDIS
#AmendmentsBill2026
#AusPol

https://t.co/dl9EEOYaee

[plague ralph 🐀 (capo) @x3r0gx4]

The worst sentence in this:

“Right up until the last moment, Miriam held onto hope that medical research would discover a way to heal her.”

While the medical research world looks upon these desperate, dying patients barely clinging onto life with disdain

[Carole Bruce @CaroleBruce17]

Sadly a lot of us can relate to this. Seriously ill #ME and #LongCovid patients who are offered no serious medical treatments turn to brain retraining in desperation often when feeling particularly vulnerable only to be abused and dismissed when they get worse. It’s so cruel.

[fish marriage @corviiid]

the panic when i accidentally hit the dumbfuck gr*k button is the closest ive come to re-experiencing the panic of accidentally hitting the internet button on my phone in my teens and had to back out before it cost me millions. in the present example the currency is my integrity