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“Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases

tl;dr A typical vaccine teaches the human immune system to recognize a virus or bacteria as an enemy that should be attacked. The new “inverse vaccine” does just the opposite: it removes the immune system’s memory of one molecule.

Only in lab settings at the moment but still.

https://pme.uchicago.edu/news/inverse-vaccine-shows-potential-treat-multiple-sclerosis-and-other-autoimmune-diseases

If you have #LongCovid or #MEcfs and are considering filing a long-term disability claim, this white paper by my old lawyer, Barbara Comerford, is a must-read.

Barbara has been helping people win lawsuits against insurers for three decades now.

She took my case against Prudential to federal court & kicked their asses so hard the judge wrote an absolutely scathing ruling against Prudential that set some precedents.

#disability #legal #lawsuits #ERISA

(pdf)
https://www.omf.ngo/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Disability-Insurance-ME-CFS-paper-for-OMF-FINAL.pdf

You know people tend to act like it's a sign of low effort to make a mario clone but as someone who has been working on exactly that for a few years now I can assure you that nailing that mario game feel has been one of the biggest challenges of my career

I just learned that my husband has possibly the most cursed WFH technique I've ever heard of:

1. He sets an alarm to go off every 30 minutes.

2. When the alarm goes off he checks his work email, makes calls, fills out forms etc

3. When he has finished whatever task he is doing he IMMEDIATELY falls asleep

4. The next time the alarm goes off he wakes up and repeats this process

It's like pomodoro technique for snorlax

STOP SAVING DAYLIGHT

* CLOCKS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE CHANGED TWICE A YEAR

* YEARS OF 'SAVING' yet NO NET GAIN OF DAYLIGHT

* Sunset keeps getting earlier by a few minutes per day, which is sad but we can adjust to it, but then BAM we are all supposed to change the clocks so that it's suddenly A FULL HOUR EARLIER and it's PITCH DARK AFTER WORK what the hell.

"Hello I would like my saved daylight back please"

They have played us for absolute fools.

real talk: I've been quietly revolutionizing my life by shifting away from thinking of domestic and bodily upkeep as personal virtues and obligations, and towards concretizing them as things that make me feel better.

Like to take a specific example: folding and putting away my laundry. It's something I'd been habitually not-doing for years, and honestly it's something I still don't do consistently.

If I always tell myself "I should put away my laundry, leaving laundry unfolded is bad", I'm like... never gonna do it. Demonstrably. It's a line of thinking which, for me at least, produces anxiety but no action.

These days what I try to do is say "it's morally fine if I don't fold my laundry. If I *do* fold my laundry now, it means I'll be able to spend less effort trying to find socks before work tomorrow, and I won't be annoyed at the floor space taken up by the hamper of clean clothes." Framed that way it's like cool, I can do the thing because there's obvious, positive results from doing so.

And this applies to like, so many things? Dishes. Getting on the bike. Cooking more, and eating things which make me feel better. Not sleeping so late that I feel tired all day. Fuckin' flossing. It's nice.

I have an article out today that's about how one person's determination to solve her own complex health problems led to an extraordinary effort on the part of one lab at NIH & a discovery that could lead to treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome & #LongCovid.

#news #journalism #health #MEcfs

https://wapo.st/3Pem0G4
(gift link)

I woke up around 5am, looked out our bedroom sliding door and gasped. Got dressed and went outside to take some phone pictures of the #yeg fog.

Be more ska!

It's okay if you failed today. You can try again tomorrow.

Are you a hacker/maker/nonprofit in the UK? Would you like some free 64×16 px RGB LED panels? We have a lot. We need to get rid of them.

https://led.limehouselabs.org/docs/giveaway/

Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain.

In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food.

Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..