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Life with a Low Battery: Living with ME/CFS

From the Bateman Horne Center:

Bateman Horne Center https://batemanhornecenter.org/ understands that it can be incredibly frustrating and difficult to explain how to live in a body that functions differently than it once did. In response to feedback from the lived experience community, we created an animated video, "Life with a Low Battery: Living with ME/CFS,"  explaining energy utilization in a fun and engaging way.

This video aims to help your friends and family members understand what it is like to live with ME/CFS and to help you identify ways to close unnecessary “apps” (when possible) to conserve energy.

To accommodate the sensory sensitivities of our community, there are several versions of, "Life with a Low Battery: Living with ME/CFS," available for viewing:

Read the content: 

A version that has dialogue audio only 

A low sensory video with muted colors and no background music

One with full color, with no background music 

And finally, a version that includes full color and background music

This is one you may want to share with people in your life who don’t have sensory sensitivities because it is the most engaging version.

You can find links to these in the YouTube descriptions at batemanhornecenter.org. We hope you enjoy this new resource created by the OMF-supported Medical Education Resource Center at BHC, with support from the Whittemore Peterson Institute and our generous donors.

Help make ME/CFS common knowledge by liking and sharing with your friends and family.

Read more about the inspiration behind this video by co-creator and Bateman Horne Center's Education Director, Tahlia Ruschioni. The Story Behind "Life with a Low Battery: Living with ME/CFS."

The Story Behind “Life with a Low Battery: Living with ME/CFS”

I am thrilled to announce the release of our latest educational video, Life with a Low Battery: Living with ME/CFS. This video was created n

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[horrorfag420]

HAPPY FAGTOBER EVERYBODY

[valdevia]

"Snakes" aren't real. It's a camera artifact that happens when one of these extremely fast, tiny lizards runs past while the shutter is open.

The long, legless animal is nothing more than a myth perpetuated through culture and media. It's time to wake up and see the truth.

[making-you-in-spore]

this is true. i made one in spore [2008] to prove it

[valdevia]

I GOT SPORED!!!

[valdevia]

Finally found evidence of the Sassquatch... I've been hunting it for years now, following its prints, listening for the faint sounds of clapping in the night. You all told me I was crazy. Well, who's the fool now?!

[making-you-in-spore]

i made the assquatch in spore [2008]

i also happened to get close enough to peel it of its features

[valdevia]

THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE

[plastiboo]

[singlesilverearring]

why is everyone so mean. how aren’t you tired

[tamagotchikgs]

i m;iss when u could touch a tv and feel its fur

[theskydoesgreatthingsnow]

When an old tv died it was always very understandable. Screen busted. Tubes broke. Animal sick. Smart TVs will have psychosomatic problems that clear within a day. Ur Apple TV gets mental illness.

[oarfjsh]

tech used to die a honourable death of Blow Up The Fuck And Burn The House Down. now its all like waahh wahhhh mommy i camnot update :((

[sneezest]

Institutional COVID denial has killed public health as we knew it. Prepare to lose several centuries of progress.

by Julia Doubleday

[9fruit]

deeply obsessed with this

[barrel-fish]

A comic based on this poem

[onedollopofsourcream]

Please please please keep reblogging and please consider donating we are flat broke. We can't even go to where they are handing out supplies as we have no money for a ride. Please, we've been without power or money for 3 days school won't open back up to Tuesday. The kids are bored, frustrated and very hungry. We just want to live and not be in survival mode 24/7.

Please if you're unable to donate please just share

[onedollopofsourcream]

Still broke please keep reblogging we need all the help we can get

[onedollopofsourcream]

I know so many more people who have it worse that my complaints or problems seem childish and offensive. I know and I know people don't have much money to spare and are stressed and stretched thin, I know I'm 'lucky' to be alive. But in my world this is emergency. My mom and siblings and the kids lives are at stake to me. Every day I wake up filled with anxiety and nausea wondering what we will do, wondering what will go wrong, for what past mistake will we all be punished for. I know this is boring an nonsensical but I wanted to explain my perspective some.

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I just want to help my family to survive, to return all the love and support they gave me during the hardest years of my life. Please help us by reblogging or donating, even 1 dollar is more than what we had before.

[ladygolgotha-deactivated2025012]

Remember: if you're ever in a war against 2 different countries you're trying to colonize and the most powerful nation in the region is destroying your military assets using ballistic missiles you are incapable of shooting down and your southern ports are closed because a different country has successfully blocked off shipping and is also shooting missiles at you, antagonize another even more powerful country with military bases in the region which has so far remained neutral towards you. this is how you win.

[luntfontanne]

Biden moving forward with plan to cement asylum restrictions at U.S.-Mexico border

The Biden administration is planning to issue a regulation to cement the sweeping asylum restrictions it enacted at the southern border over

(26 September 2024)

President Biden's administration is planning to soon issue a regulation to cement the sweeping asylum restrictions it enacted at the southern border over the summer, two U.S. officials told CBS News, describing changes that would make it far less likely for the strict rules to be lifted in the near future.

In June, Mr. Biden issued a proclamation suspending the entry of most migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. The Department of Homeland Security and Justice Department implemented his directive by enacting a rule that has virtually shut down asylum processing between official border entry points. After the stringent measures took effect, illegal border crossings plunged to a four-year low.

The administration is planning to announce changes to the regulation as early as Monday to implement an amended proclamation, said the U.S. officials, who requested anonymity to discuss internal government plans. … Taken together, the planned updates would likely ensure that Mr. Biden's move to severely restrict asylum will remain in place in the foreseeable future, through the election and beyond.

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In recent months, Democrats, including Vice President Kamala Harris, have sought to alter that narrative by embracing tougher immigration measures, including a bipartisan border security deal that collapsed in Congress after Trump urged Republicans to reject it. That bill would have enacted permanent restrictions on asylum and boosted the ranks of border agents, asylum adjudicators and immigration judges.

Harris is expected to travel to Douglas, Arizona, on Friday for her first visit to the southern border since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.

The asylum restrictions enacted in June marked a significant political and policy pivot by the Biden administration, which came into office in 2021 promising to expand access to the U.S. asylum system.

The measure, which relies on the same legal authority the Trump administration invoked to justify several immigration restrictions, means that most migrants who cross the southern border illegally are ineligible for asylum. It also ended a long-standing requirement for border agents to ask migrants if they feared being harmed before deporting them.

Harris to call for tougher security measures in first trip to southern border as nominee

Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver remarks in Douglas, Arizona, her first trip to the U.S.-Mexico border since becoming the Democrati

(27 September 2024)

Vice President Kamala Harris is set to visit Douglas, Arizona, on Friday, marking her first trip to the U.S.-Mexico border since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee. Harris will deliver remarks to call for tougher border security measures as part of her efforts to address border issues, according to a senior campaign official. 

Harris plans to say that American sovereignty requires setting rules at the border and enforcing them, stressing that Border Patrol agents need more resources.

The vice president will make combating the flow of fentanyl a focal point of her remarks and refer to it as a "top priority" for her presidency. Harris will propose adding fentanyl detection machines to ports of entry along the border and will call on the Chinese government to crack down on companies that make the precursor chemicals utilized in the making of fentanyl. 

[luntfontanne]

Harris in Arizona visit vows to outdo Biden on border security

It was her first trip to the southern border as the Democratic nominee.

(27 September 2024)

Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday that she won’t just keep in place President Joe Biden’s sweeping asylum crackdown if she wins the White House. She’ll take it even further.

After spending the afternoon at the southern border in Douglas, Arizona, the vice president proposed toughening the president’s policy that suspends asylum claims in between ports of entry when border crossings reach a certain threshold.

Harris promised to ramp up prosecutions for people who cross the southern border illegally, including felony charges for repeat offenders — a break from her 2019 stance during the Democratic primary, when she supported decriminalizing illegal border crossings. Her proposal would also make it more difficult to lift the asylum restrictions by requiring the number of average border crossings be lower for a longer period of time than the Biden administration’s policy.

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It’s a striking and aggressive move from Harris in the final stretch of the campaign, as she doubles down on her efforts to cut into former President Donald Trump’s advantage with voters on immigration. The new proposal came during her first trip to the southern border as the Democratic nominee, a campaign stop she used to emphasize her opponent’s role in killing the bipartisan border deal.

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Harris’ strategy pulls a page directly from Rep. Tom Suozzi’s playbook after he won his February special election in New York by running on strengthening border security. Democrats across the country have adopted an aggressive posture on the issue since the collapse of the border legislation earlier this year, solidifying the party’s notable shift on immigration.

[luntfontanne]

U.S. won't extend legal status for Venezuelan migrants who arrived under Biden program

The Biden administration will not extend the legal status of tens of thousands of Venezuelan migrants who were allowed to fly to the U.S. un

(3 October 2024)

[iv0rys0da]

Struggling to be financially responsible, a moodboard

[dduane]

23andMe is on the brink. What happens to all its DNA data?

The once-hot Silicon Valley startup has seen its stock’s value decline 99% and is struggling to survive. That has put the spotlight on the g

Folks -- if these people have any of your data, this is a really good time to DELETE IT. They're circling the drain, and there's no way to tell who'll get their mitts on that data once they fully go under.

[conzoop]

I love how thre headlines have gone from plausible deniability about targeting civilian and economic infrastructre for the sake of oil hedgemony to "the president has discussed comitting terrorism on Iran today"

[kaijuno]

And SSRIs 🤪

[carolxdanvers]

Oral medication in general actually

[stephaniematurin]

it's intended to clean you out with great efficiency, so don't consume it if you're not near a really good bathroom