books, words, left politics, learning stuff. Long Covid since 2023 (the ME/CFS kind, but on the milder side). A citizen of the world. He/him.
Views expressed here are my own.
Call me Ishmael
The women's Giro was spectacular, well worth seeking out replays of.
This has been 🚲 Bike Racing Corner 🚲.
1) 🇳🇱 The Dutch research agency ZonMw announced € 1.5 million in funding for 4 new Long Covid studies.
It includes a project by Dr. Rob Wüst that will investigate physical changes (muscle, blood, autonomic function) in people with severe Long Covid who are homebound.
A reminder of Joshi's Workslop Postulate
Exciting stuff!
“Ensitrelvir administered to household contacts of a patient with Covid-19 within 72 hours after symptom onset in the index patient was effective in preventing Covid-19 in the contacts.”
Covid incidence in the ensitrelvir group was 2.9% compared to 9.0% for placebo (RR 0.33).
Release the Epstein Files, of course, but spare a thought for a trafficking empire of possibly equal scale, involving Trump, his admin, & foreign gov't leaders, *happening right now.* You knew Tate was a creep. But it's bigger than that. Heidi Blake reports. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
"Major Study Validates a Long COVID Autoimmune Subset"
Guenter GR: "The best Long Covid study to date has now been published"
Article: www.healthrising.org/blog/2026/06...
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"Contrary to the assumption that long COVID is a legacy of early waves of the pandemic, the researchers also found that cumulative prevalence continued to increase across all regions studied." www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/new...
“Some comrades started saying that they wanted to ‘go back to normal,’ and it absolutely crushed me. We poured so much of our lives into fighting ‘normal.’ ‘Normal’ was never okay before.”
How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.
Jonas Vingegaard still masks. Be like the pros - protect your performance with a respirator. www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/ving...
ME/CFS Science
NEW: "We deserved much better, much earlier."
RECOVER's first clinical trials are failing. And people with #LongCOVID say the federal research program ignored their concerns. One behavioral trial even tested...computer games. @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social's latest 👀
thesicktimes.org/2026/05/12/r...
