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Andrew Hickey Finally Dropped his Halloween Name

12 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1348912741562667008

This is amazing, and it looks like the same technique might also work for other inflammatory illnesses, as if MS wasn't enough by itself. It might (NB *MIGHT*) be possible to use this for ME/CFS, arthritis, maybe depression and some forms of cancer and heart disease.

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1348912741562667008

If this technology lives up to the potential I think it has, we might be looking at one of the big breakthroughs in medical history, up there with the germ theory of disease, the discovery of antibiotics, vaccination itself, and aseptic surgery. Maybe more important than those.

(And even if it doesn't live up to that potential, well, preventing MS and reversing some of the damage in people who already have it would still be an astonishing thing in itself, given how utterly fucking awful a disease MS is. This is amazing news. Just amazing.)

I'm actually in tears about this. Admittedly, I've been crying quite easily for the last couple of weeks, but this... this is even better news than the covid vaccines, honestly, if I'm reading the linked paper right (and obviously if it's replicable etc etc caveats)

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I've been following the rise of the far right for years, and I can tell you exactly who many of them are. They're people *exactly* like me. They're not poor, they're not uneducated.

The *most* dangerous people in the far right now are middle-class cis het men between twenty and fifty, highly educated, usually in good jobs, with tons of spare money, but no social skills.

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https://twitter.com/FactCheck/status/1349318563778203654

If the government's original figures had been correct, and not just lies, I would have been vaccinated by now, as would many of you.

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https://twitter.com/wissewords/status/1349288820085321730

This. Even I, an allocishet white man who uses his real name pretty much everywhere online (and any alts are very connected to my real name) found this the squickiest thing about FB and the main reason I dropped off it.

https://twitter.com/wissewords/status/1349288820085321730

Not just the "real name" thing, but the way it assumes that all your friends know the same version of you.

I'm an honest person, and not someone who context-switches very much. I have one of the most stable identities of anyone I know. But I am still a *different* person around my queer and disability-rights activist friends than I am around the people I know from Beach Boys fandom.

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Whatever happens with covid19 -- and I hope that as few people get sick or die as possible -- I'm already thinking about *after* the outbreak, and what happens then...

Because most of the changes that are being mooted (or in some countries made) to deal with the crisis are changes that would be genuinely good things for the world on a long-term basis.

A lot of the stuff to reduce infection this time will also reduce infection the *next* time there's a pandemic.
And a lot of things like people being able to work from home if their job is one that could feasibly be done from home are accommodations disabled people have wanted.

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