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Every single american alive gets palpably horned up at the fact grant was a humble son of a tanner born on the American frontier and Lee was the son of a some wealthy war hero born in a mansion. And Grant beat him and reunited America. As they should lol
Like, if I could time travel, I’d time travel here. Although I giggle when I’m nervous so I guess I would ruin the mood.
I love living in the future sometimes.
people are way too comfortable being dismissive of children and teenagers. if a toddler comes up to you and starts explaining skibidi toilet lore or if a 13 year old asks you if you want to hear about their mha ocs you have to listen with utmost sincerity or at least pretend to. this is the only way you will get into heaven.
genuinely depressing how people will dismiss the interests kids have because all it does is make them retreat into shame and never want to talk to you about anything again
people don't share information with you for no reason. nobody walks up to someone and starts explaining something they enjoy for no reason. If it doesn't pertain to a task or a mutual goal or a nearby danger, they're telling you, "I want to share a connection", and that's equally important. If you push them down, they'll stop trying. Don't make kids stop trying to build connections. Don't make kids stop looking for people who love them
nothing makes me feel more well adjusted than hearing about the problems that straight people in the periphery of my life are always having
my aunt's new guy broke into my ex uncle's garage and filled his bowling balls with caulk
As I was suffering through the spreadsheet from hell at work today I was also passively taking in the anecdote my coworker was telling about how her ex recently smeared her entire car with ketchup and mustard
Things that work in fiction but not real life
which lucky lady gets to be subjected to me behaving like this 24/7 🧍🏻♂️
I'm literally this dad
I love these videos they're all having so much fun
omg this was hilarious 💀
the editing ✨ the acting ✨ the tension build-up ✨ the line delivery ✨ 100/10 video
There should be a fanfic writing game called the showrunners challenge where someone writes a story and partway through someone else can play things like "actor leaves after 4000 more words" or "topic now too politically sensitive due to unforeseen world events" or "lost rights to that reference"
I need this to be a real game right the hell now
Enough people have said this that I'm musing on logistics, here's what I've come up with:
I like the idea of a Google doc you can use for the last two options, because then you could also make yourself a deck of cards from those to draw from if you wanted to play alone. You could also play it in a realtime chat -- have the "show runner" start with a pitch for a story, and say every (designated time period) they are given a new challenge to incorporate into the description of the story they would be telling. Winner is the person who finally makes them admit defeat, which they do by saying, "and then we do the clip show episode".
(for those raised in the Netflix era of two-season cancellations, a clip show is where the show has run for so long that they do an episode where the characters do nothing but reminisce, interspersed with clips from previous episodes, giving the crew a break from filming.)
Google doc! I added suggestions from the notes.
And AO3 collection, if anyone actually goes for it
Oh, awesome! Great work, you should be very proud of compiling all this. I may attempt a story or two in this fashion at some point relatively soon....
The only thing crazier than a character clearly intended to be gay but kept in the plausible deniability subtext zone due to censorship issues is a character in a series where only like one of the writers clearly intended them to be gay. So this character is just gay sometimes and nobody acknowledges it
Sometimes you'll be watching star trek tos and it'll be a Gay Spock Episode. Like really blatantly. As clear as you could possibly make it without the network tearing you asunder in 1967. And other times they'll have Spock making out with a cavewoman for some reason. And that's just how having multiple writers is
This also happened to my buddy Castiel
Full Transcript at the link; 3-minute listen.
Quote:
By taking biopsies from long COVID patients before and after exercising, scientists in the Netherlands constructed a startling picture of widespread abnormalities in muscle tissue that may explain this severe reaction to physical activity.
Among the most striking findings were clear signs that the cellular power plants, the mitochondria, are compromised and the tissue starved for energy.
"We saw this immediately and it's very profound," says Braeden Charlton, one of the study's authors at Vrije University in Amsterdam.
The tissue samples from long COVID patients also revealed severe muscle damage, a disturbed immune response, and a buildup of microclots.
"This is a very real disease," says Charlton. "We see this at basically every parameter that we measure."
I feel insane seeing stuff like this because this research already exists for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, a post viral condition caused by multiple types of viral infections that a LOT of people with "Long Covid" meet the diagnostic criteria for.
This article mentions that ME/CFS is a "similar complex condition" but that's DEEPLY underreporting the similarities. The phrase "post exertional malaise" (now researchers are trying to replace it but this article uses that phrase) was INVENTED for ME/CFS. It's the only known condition, before "long covid", that causes these kinds of symptoms after exertion!
It's good to know for sure that it's the same mechanisms at play when the inciting viral infection is Covid and not, for instance, Epstein-Barr or RSV, but half the time it doesn't seem like researchers are making comparisons at all, just reinventing the wheel and acting like "long covid" is a totally new phenomenon with no previous point of comparison. There are literally drugs in human trials to try to treat the mitochondrial dysfunction in ME, this dysfunction is well-established and fairly well understood and I feel insane when ppl report on long covid without mentioning that there is already a named and studied condition that accounts for this subset of symptoms!!
SOME researchers are drawing comparisons but they're largely ME researchers who everyone else is largely cignoring because of the widespread perception that ME is a fake disease for lazy women.
That same perception btw is why "graded exercise therapy" (GET), or exercise gradually increasing in intensity, cwas for years the go-to treatment despite MOUNTAINS of evidence that it makes ME patients sicker. Some end up permanently bedbound and unable to even eat or drink without a feeding tube/IV because the damage is so bad! The GET recommendation was finally changed only in the past few years in the US and the UK, and many doctors hate that they're not allowed to recommend it anymore, because they insist despite the evidence that ME/CFS is psychological and ME patients are just "deconditioned" and too lazy to do anything about it.
Now the same kind of "treatment" is being recommended for long covid patients despite evidence showing exercise is having the same kinds of cellular effects as it does in ME patients. "Taking PEM into account" sounds gentler but I'm deeply concerned about the reinvention of GET for patients who meet all the criteria for an illness that's been shown definitively to become permanently worse with GET. This mitochondrial damage is progressive in ME, and there's no reason to believe patients who meet all the criteria of ME after Covid won't experience the same progression if they force themselves past their energy envelope in such a systematic way.
PEM happens in part (it's complex) because your anaerobic threshold gets dramatically reduced with this mitochondrial damage. Every time you hit that anaerobic threshold, you're injuring your cells more and more. It's deeply worrying that GET is being recommended for long covid patients who meet the criteria for ME when research like this study keeps showing it's the same phenomenon.
If you have Long Covid
for the love of your remaining life
DO NOT LET THEM MAKE YOU DO GRADED EXERCISE THERAPY
I have Long Covid. I recently got in with a cardiologist who used exactly that word—“deconditioned.”
Maybe my resting heart rate spikes to 180 bpm because I’m just “deconditioned.”
She told me many of my problems could be resolved if I “just start exercising.”
I very, very slowly and painstakingly explained (for the third time in just this one appointment) that I am a marine biologist who, prior to having Covid (and then until three months after my infection), maintained a level of daily physical activity that would be impossible for most people. Even with severe Asthma that was sometimes disabling, I lived a more active life than most.
I told her that in July I was hauling in salmon nets by-hand, hiking 10-30 miles a day, commuting on a bike, transporting hundreds of pounds of equipment on-foot in the backcountry, and I’d recently begun training as a free-diver. I was diving in a 7mm cold water wetsuits in difficult currents between small islands with relative ease.
By October, going up and down the stairs could spike my heart rate to 200 bpm and I began experiencing fainting spells for the first time in my life. I tried to dive one day and nearly fainted in the water. I hadn’t even begun a breath-hold. I was just swimming. My diving partners had to rescue me and haul me to shore, where it took me an hour to recover.
It was like night-and-day.
She said, “you could start slow.”
I said, “what exercise is slower than using the stairs? I’ve read that exercise might actually harm me rather than help…”
She finally said, and this is a verbatim quote, “look, many of the women who come in here complaining about tachycardia are whackjobs. But you seem serious. I don’t know much about POTS—which I think you probably have—so I’ll refer you to my colleague.”
I was astounded that she 1. Outright called suffering patients “whackjobs” and 2. That she felt the need to specify that these “whackjobs” were women.
Presumably, men are perfectly sane and to be believed. Not like those silly women.
I could only be relieved that I somehow triggered her bias in a way that made her believe me.
What might have changed that? If I were fat, if I were a person of color, if I simply hadn’t lived such a rigorous lifestyle before that convinced her that now I’m “really” sick.
Until I stated my case, multiple times, this cardiologist I waited months to see simply decided I gave up my entire lifestyle for—what?? Presumably no reason?
She heard, “I’d do anything to be active again,” and her response was, “have you tried being active again?”
And then she gave me dangerous advice. My only saving graces were that I did extensive reading before I saw her and that I matched whatever patient profile she has arbitrarily decided to respect.
Healthcare for people with new and long term dysautonomia and fatigue is a nightmare!
Unfair as it is, you must do your own research and be prepared to self-advocate—tooth and nail. And even then, it may not be enough. But do what you can.
whatever
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE l APRIL 2024
Mosaic from the impluvium of the House of Gometric Mosaics, Pompeii
Roman, 1st century AD
Round 3 - Final
Please reblog with the bird you voted for and why!
This ABSOLUTELY works.
I have used this for many years. Definitely b do it.
This article was super long-winded so I screenshat the important part
the fact we’re responsible for getting doctors to “lower their defenses” in order to literally just do their jobs is ✨INFURIATING✨
This literally leaves me shaking in rage
Yeah, while I was actively in the throes of dying, I had to politely hedge my way around asking doctors if they thought it might be XYZ that was causing my totally weird symptoms because so-and-so told me I reminded them of their mum's friend who had a similar problem.
If I tried to be direct or disagreed, I was politely rebuffed with the suggestion that I might benefit from "prolonged psychiatric care," i.e., fuck off, or we'll put you on a psyche hold. And I knew on some level I would not survive that. I just knew my time was running out, and I was still having to be polite to these fucking assholes who looked at me and saw a mad woman who'd somehow escaped her attic.
I remember the exact moment I was sitting in the hematologist's office, politely trying to float the idea of MCAS past him by talking about it in abstracts in the desperate hope it might connect some dots for him and make him think he came up with it by himself.
And he just looked up at me, and I could see that he knew what I was doing. That I was feeding him breadcrumbs. I also saw the moment when he realized I was likely right, and he put his ego aside in favor of helping the patient in front of him. He was frank; he told me he didn't know how to help me, but he had a former colleague who specialized in mast cell disorders, and I should talk to her.
But before that, he wanted to look at my blood more closely because he had a gut feeling and oops, look at that. I was literally hours away from organ failure because the lifelong pernicious anemia I'd been afflicted with had been misdiagnosed as a mood disorder.
I'd been living on borrowed time for so long my body had been shutting down in front of him, and I'd still dragged myself to the clinic, dressed nicely, and put makeup on because failure to do so made me a Bad Patient who didn't take care of myself. And all the while, I was still playing fucking 4d chess with doctor's egos because God forbid a patient know their own body and have thoughts about it.
Anyway, shout out to U of M hematology department for not being filled with egotistical cunts and saving my life ✌
We shouldn't have to jump through these hoops, but this is the hell world we live in.
my 8 year old has some emotional regulation difficulties, and I've done my best to help him with those.
unrelated, I gave him a shovel a couple of days ago and told him to go have fun in the field because I was tired.
He suddenly seemed happier, having less trouble breathing through disappointment and just being generally all around more cheerful and able to focus in school better. Sure, my partner had to pull him out of a six foot by three foot hole today, but he was stoked about it!
Marked places in the yard where I needed holes and he happily dug them and helped me plant trees, then helped me turn the compost pile and dig the garden beds. He is happy, my back isn't killing me, and we have discussed erosion and soil quality with the gravitas of an 8 year old discovering something they enjoy
Congrats on your future landscaper. Make sure he catches you reading books that will take him up a good path to a rewarding career.
Or gravedigger. Boy might just be in it for the holes.
