When you're edgy but it's Eurovision season.
reblog for a larger sample size because I’m so curious
The end where they’re two people fucked me up the most
You know what, fuck you. *Romanticizes the monstrous in a way that is deeply compelling to people who feel they've been ostracized from mainstream society in one way or another, and also at least a little bit horny*
Reblog and say in the tags if you have any keychains or key charms and what they are.
my take on the whole “is therapy speak making us selfish” thing is no, it’s not. it’s just giving people who were already selfish some extremely annoying new vocabulary
i think queer people should be more confusing actually. i think we should make everyone as confused as possible until they give up and realize that total understanding of other people isnt the gateway to respect and compassion
Someone in my fb chicken group has a little bearded bantam that likes to sit on shoulders so they did a pirate photoshoot and I am losing it
Just look at it!! THE LITTLE HAT!!!
People talk about "The Shape of Water" like it's just the fish fucking movie as if it wasn't about a mute woman feeling truly understood for the first time in her entire life and then yeah fucking a fish
Making a new rule for straight creators along the lines of "don't kill off your lesbian couple it's homophobic" but this time it's "if you're going to put a lesbian in your show you can't make her a cop"
scotty-summers
Still thinking about this
Item: Saxophone of Iguana Summoning, by which I mean she lives in there and if you play it she comes out
Source: archive.org
ever have the nagging feeling that everyone has been getting dumber recently
After casting an open invite for people between the ages of 18 and 60 who previously had a mild case of COVID-19, Romano-Silva and colleagues in the preliminary study tested a group of 130 volunteers comprised mostly of women with a mean age of 38 years about four to six months post-infection with mild COVID-19. “We found mild COVID was associated with the development of important persistent cognitive deficits even in younger adults,” Romano-Silva says.
Researchers found 1 in 4 showed significant cognitive impairment in visuoconstruction skills — the visual ability to spatially reproduce designs or patterns — matching the increased levels of inflammation they were seeing on blood panels as well as in neuroimaging.
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The researchers ruled out vision problems with neurological and ophthalmological exams. In addition, they conducted a battery of tests: psychiatric and cognitive assessments, and MRI and PET/CT neuroimaging. When they compared results of these tests with the drawings, they say the alterations were consistent. Those who were drawing the bad copy showed increased volume of white matter on their brain MRIs, likely due to swelling from inflammation, while their PET images showed decreased brain glucose uptake, which researchers surmised was possibly due to cells being less active and thus consuming less glucose.
Romano-Silva adds it’s “really worrying” because the group’s mean age was 38 and mostly highly educated professionals such as physicians and nurses, as recruitment took place during the initial stage of the pandemic. Interestingly, he notes participants did better on the memory and recall portion of the test, drawing the complex figure from memory better after five minutes and again after 30 minutes. “This shows it’s specialized to visuospatial organization,” Romano-Silva says. “A person looks at it and cannot organize visuospatially what they are seeing. But by memory, they are able to recruit other areas of the brain so they can make the drawing much better.”
I want to add the images from this study because they are chillingly illustrative of what is going on here:
The pen drawing were done while the participants were looking at the image! They did a better job five minutes later, and had even closer results after 30 minutes which suggests that it's pretty pure visuospatial impairment and calling on other parts of the brain to help reconstruct the image works over time.
Unfortunately, a lot of people who have been impaired in this way are still driving, which very much relies on quick reaction times and good visuospatial skills. I'd be really interested to see collision statistics for the past couple years compared to pre-covid levels.
Unfortunately, a lot of people who have been impaired in this way are still driving, which very much relies on quick reaction times and good visuospatial skills. I'd be really interested to see collision statistics for the past couple years compared to pre-covid levels.
Uuuhhhh
friendly-neighborhood-patriarch
terrifying and incomprehensible to the human mind?
