Katie Klocksin, by the wayside

@katieklocksin

One of the #MillionsMissing with #LongCovid #MECFS JohnVsJon.com // Once a radio and podcast producer, always a Transom alum // native plants 🌻🪻🌼

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Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· 28d

Halictus ligatus (ligated furrow bee) sleeping in a just opened black eyed susan flower. #NativePlants

A very small, sleeping bee on a flower with a brown center and yellow petals

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· 28d

Screen shot from Twitter. It’s a quote tweet from @Real Check Marker that says “Fun Fact: Cyclosporiasis is an AIDS-defining disease. Only in patients with severely compromised immune systems (CD4+ counts <200 cells/μL) can cyclosporiasis present this aggressively.
#LongCOVID is #AirborneAIDS so #WearN95” My quote tweet says “if covid was really making us an immune compromised population there would be signs.”

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· 29d

🔥 🐶 🔥 This is fine

Green on black image like the Oregon Trail video game. It’s a covered wagon being pulled by an ox (?), and the text says “you have died of diarrhea lettuce.”

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Jul 3

Black swallowtail butterfly on butterfly milkweed. A large black butterfly with blue and white spots on a plant with orange flowers and thin green leaves.

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Jul 3

First black swallowtail butterfly of the summer! #NativePlants

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Jun 29

A cartoon of a car crash scene where a man on the pavement, ignoring the victim, says, "NOT BUYING IT. I CROSSED THE ROAD YESTERDAY AND I WAS FINE."

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Jun 25

(I recognize that this is satire but also like…… look around.)

Vertlartnic headline: Loads of kids with chronic conditions is a price worth paying for normal childhood. Image is of a young child in bed looking miserable, maybe five years old.

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Jun 24

#NativePlants

Very closeup photo of a small bee on a purple coneflower

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Jun 15

Screen shot of a Sonturan from Dr. Who. A neckless, unintelligent villian.

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Jun 9

Caterpillar count is up to four! I got this photo of two of them together. #NativePlants

Two monarch caterpillars in butterfly milkweed some orange flowers, dark green leaves, and two lil guys. The caterpillars are yellow, white, and black striped.

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Jun 8

Earliest ever monarch caterpillar in my butterfly milkweed patch! Two months ago these plants were only just emerging from the ground, I’m glad their intended audience approves. 🐛❤️ #NativePlants

Closeup photo of a small monarch caterpillar on a butterfly milkweed plant, with a white woman’s hand for scale. It’s real little.

Wide shot of a patch of butterfly milkweed plant— two foot tall bushy plant just beginning to flower with small orange blooms.

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Jun 2

I hate that every Vertlartnic article is responding to a real event. At first I thought it was more like “ha ha yeah things are almost that bananas, good satire.”

Vertlartnic article: long covid estimate revised up after researchers include people with long covid. Image is of a desk strewn with papers that have graphs and images on them, and the hands of two people who are leaning over the table looking at the data.

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· May 11

Happy Mother’s Day to the trees 🌳 ❤️🌲

Screen shot of the audio book Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard. Image is a large tree trunk covered in lichen (?) with a small pine tree growing up against the trunk.

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Apr 18

“Our religion is supposed to be about hate!” The Pope is the current hero of the culture wars but for the record he still sucks on trans people and has decreed that all Catholic hospitals cease doing trans healthcare, so get better heroes.

A screen shot from the other site from the account @ Liza Outlives.

“Liza Minnelli has outlived Sean Hannity’s Catholicism. The Fox News host says he’s leaving the church and that Pope Leo has “totally lost sight of the true meaning of the Bible and its teachings.”

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Mar 26

A satisfying cartoon for all the chronically ill folks who have been told to just think themselves better!

Page from a Far Side calendar, March 17 2026. A speaker on a stage says “and so, without further ado, here’s the author of Mind Over Matter…” Walking towards the stage a man has walked into a post and his glasses are flying off his head.

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Feb 23

❤️❤️ Yes, please ❤️❤️

Aerial photo of Alyssa Liu in her final Olympic performance. She’s doing a spin, her face looks blissed out, she’s holding one of her skates in her hand, and her hair & skirt are sticking out from the force of the spin.

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Feb 19

I just saw a great post on Instagram about this, with a focus on children. As it is now we are teaching children and everyone else that “harm is the price of belonging” and whew! We could do so much better, but it would require some shifts & listening to ppl that I guess ppl don’t like to listen to.

Instagram story from @blezzingdada - “Children inherit the conditions adults set out and normalize.
If we accept preventable exposure as ordinary, we teach them harm is the price of belonging:
If we choose care, we teach them interdependence is strength.
Disability justice is not about fear of illness: it is about refusing to treat preventable harm as inevitable.”

I added at the bottom: “WHEW! I've been looking for these words. Yes.”

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Dec 3

I haven’t fact checked this but I’m sure it’s true. The process of applying for disability is truly awful.

White text on a black background: Nothing radicalised me like realising it costs the government more money to put disabled people through degrading tests and assessments, and stage tribunals to deny them benefits, than it would if they just paid everyone who applied the full
nount straight up

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Nov 16

Autumn!

A background of small red leaves on the ground with a few larger, green leaves still growing out of the ground near the top of the frame.

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Nov 13

AND they’re also supporting the trans community!! 🏳️‍⚧️ ❤️

Purity Ring has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 per ticket goes to support The Black Trans Prayer Book, and their work to celebrate and uplift Black Trans & Non-Binary people.

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Nov 13

Let the record show it’s possible to be COOL AF, acknowledge covid, and perform a kick-ass show simultaneously!!!

Screen shot from Instagram, photo of the singer from Purity Ring wearing and holding branded masks with text: submissions are now closed. We were overwhelmed with SO MANY lovely mask distro volunteers, and don’t need anymore. Thank you so much for being amazing.

The band kindly requests that you wear a respirator (N95 or KN95) for the duration of the show. There will be free high filtration mask at the door for those who don’t have them. We want our shows to be a place where we take care of each other. Wearing a high filtration mask is an act of material care and a show of solidarity with disabled and immunocompromised people. It’s a small thing we can do to keep each other safe. Covid and other airborne diseases continue to disable and kill people in our communities. 1 in 5 COVID infections results in long term symptoms and the risk of long term symptoms increases cumulatively with each infection. Everyone is vulnerable to these impacts. To learn more about Covid’s impacts on the brain and body and why this all matters read this zine.

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Nov 5

Reductress headline: establishment democrats just not sure if Mamdani went about decisive, crushing victory the right way, with a photo of Mamdani smiling in front of a blurred New York background of buildings

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Oct 15

You all are welcome to advocate for improved indoor air filtration any time! The Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics says long covid is now the most common chronic illness in children. The biggest misconception is that only the (already) vulnerable are at high risk.

From The Sick Times on Instagram: a new study found that one in seven children under age six with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection met the probable diagnostic criteria for long COVID. Studying over 1,000 infants, toddlers, and pre-school aged children, researchers revealed differences in how long COVID presented between age groups. “Young children have been largely excluded from public conversations about the impact of COVID,” said one co-author. “[This research] should be a wake-up call to providers and parents: babies and toddlers can develop long COVID.” The authors also put together a resource designed for caregivers of children with long COVID, which identifies long COVID as “the most common chronic health problem in children.” Citation: journal of the American medical association pediatrics.

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Sep 16

Covid’s surging again www.instagram.com/p/DOpsOS6jdm...

A covid map of the u.s. showing high spread. An estimated 1 in 38 Americans are infectious.

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Sep 14

Happy Great British Bake Off season to all who celebrate! 🎂 🥧 🧁

A picture of Natalia’s Ukraine Landscape Cake on Great British Bake Off. It’s on a red and white gingham tablecloth, there’s maybe some mountains and a river, with a heart on Kyiv.

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Jul 23

Here’s the stats, see the alt text for numbers at the bottom covered up by my weak screen shotting game. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Table two: causes of death in people with ME and CFS (N = 56)

Suicide (N 15) 26.8%

Cardiovascular problems (N13) 23.2%

Heart disease (N 6) 10.3%

Stroke (N 4) 6.9%

Pulmonary embolism (N 2) 3.4%

Aortic dissection (N 1) 2.6%

Cancer (N 10) 17.9%

Influenza, pneumonia, or infection (N 9) 16.1%

Other (N 6) 10.7%

Accidents / homicide (N 3) 10.4%

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Jul 21

The #GreatestMEdicalScandal has taken another person who should have been in the prime of their brilliant life. She spent so much of her last years howling for better understanding & treatment of this neglected disease. 1/ #JohnVsJonVsME www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/c...

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· Jun 25

Cw: pet death RIP to the best boy, who I bottle fed after finding in an alley when he was three weeks old. Now I have to see if I can figure out how to be 90-95% bedbound with moderate to severe myalgic encephelomyelitis without a soulmate-level cat. 😭💔

Two close-up portraits of an orange tabby cat. In one he’s inside a maroon play tunnel.

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· May 27

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social This illness is stigmatized, under-funded, and 80% of those affected are women. It’s usually caused by a virus, so many more people are affected since Covid began, & more continue to get this. It’s an absolute life-ruiner, in need of more advocates. ❤️

From Not Just Fatigue’s Instagram, yellow text on a black background reads: before the pandemic, as many as 2.5 million Americans had ME/CFS, but now an estimated 9 million Americans do.

Katie Klocksin, by the wayside@katieklocksin· May 14

I nominate @AndreaGrimes.com to help expose the #GreatestMEdicalScandal for this #WorldMEDay #DisabilitySOS. Thank you for speaking up about ableism on this app recently, please visit JohnVsJon.com to learn more & help us raise awareness for this neglected, stigmatized disease.