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I've seen a lot of people missing blackouts lately; I can't see a reason not to pick a day and just start doing it again.
It used to be the 6th day of every 3rd month. The next one would be on June 6th.
Why not bring it back?
June 6th, hope I see you there.
Putting this under a post where we are discussing the overwhelming and omnipresent justification - yes justification, not just tolerance, actual justification - of the genocide of Palestinians is not great.
I have to get on this app and go about my life irl daily hearing justifications about how actually yes we should be killed it is the moral solution to our existence because we are inherently subhuman.
Yes there are more than 1 genocides going on, but your news cycle isn't spending 24 hours of the day 7 days a week creating propaganda to justify the others and leading you to believe the people being killed are devils who deserve it. They do not put up the killers and torturers of them and make the plausible spokespeople for the extermination of those peoples.
And most importantly, don't just use those genocides as an allegorical cudgel. Educate yourself and take action. Don't just bring them up when the conversation is about Palestine. They're worth talking about outside of our political context. For fucks' sake.
Like maybe I'm crazy but it feels like we're not being listened to at all sometimes. How do we go around screaming "We are not numbers!" Every day and y'all turn around and turn... GENOCIDES into a number... show these peoples more compassion and dignity. You owe them that.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a law that prevents cities or counties from creating protections for workers who labor in the state's often extreme and dangerous heat. Two million people in Florida, from construction to agriculture, work outside in often humid, blazing heat. For years, many of them have asked for rules to protect them from heat: paid rest breaks, water, and access to shade when temperatures soar. After years of negotiations, such rules were on the agenda in Miami-Dade County, home to an estimated 300,000 outdoor workers. But the new law, signed Thursday evening, blocks such protections from being implemented in cities and counties across the state.
So when workers comp cases rise are they just going to deny them?? When folks die and people start refusing to work outside in the summer when it's at its worst, and the local economy falls then what??
2010s Black Tumblr didn't die organically. It was killed. Not just by staff, not just by the porn ban, but by the white userbase as well. Black bloggers were (and still are) being mass-reported and harassed off the platform constantly. White Tumblr users would post gore in problack tags, racefake left and right in Black people's askbox, pick random AAVE to call racist/misogynistic/transphobic, etc then get the Black people who were nice enough to explain what it means to them mass reported for harassment, the list goes on.
#yeah people forget the black community on tumblr was once so visible and massive we had Events#the blackout has p much been forgotten#the popular aesthetic blogs that created things like the art hoe movement are GONE#black tumblr is still here its just suppressed by unbearable whiteness#thats why we all get genuinely annoyed by your silly little polls and posts proclaiming loudly that you dont know donna summer.#or james baldwin#black people had a very active and connected community here once with its own subcultures and we were sundown towned out
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This isn't even the first time this has happened, for anyone doubting it's real. The USA also did this in Vietnam.
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide has issued a genocide alert for the West Bank
The Lemkin Institute is horrified by the dire situation transpiring in the West Bank. During what has already been a devastating six months of conflict in Gaza, the Israeli military and far-right settlers have used the cover of war to conduct continuous attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, often leading to death and forced displacement. These attacks have been underreported in the mainstream Western press, which has also failed to tie Israel Defense Force (IDF) and settler violence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem to the genocide being committed in Gaza. These processes are all part of an overwhelming push on the part of Israeli authorities to oust Palestinians from their remaining ancestral lands. In other words, Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians across Palestine.
this seems self-centered you know โstereotypical American bsโ but Iโm curious
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 wordโโdeconditioned.โ
Maybe my resting heart rate spikes to 180 bpm because Iโm just โdeconditioned.โ
She told me many of my problems could be resolved if I โjust start exercising.โ
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 Iโd 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 hadnโt 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, โyou could start slow.โ
I said, โwhat exercise is slower than using the stairs? Iโve read that exercise might actually harm me rather than helpโฆโ
She finally said, and this is a verbatim quote, โlook, many of the women who come in here complaining about tachycardia are whackjobs. But you seem serious. I donโt know much about POTSโwhich I think you probably haveโso Iโll refer you to my colleague.โ
I was astounded that she 1. Outright called suffering patients โwhackjobsโ and 2. That she felt the need to specify that these โwhackjobsโ 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 hadnโt lived such a rigorous lifestyle before that convinced her that now Iโm โreallyโ sick.
Until I stated my case, multiple times, this cardiologist I waited months to see simply decided I gave up my entire lifestyle forโwhat?? Presumably no reason?
She heard, โIโd do anything to be active again,โ and her response was, โhave you tried being active again?โ
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 ๏ฟผarbitrarily ๏ฟผdecided 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๏ฟผโtooth and nail. And even then, it may not be enough. But do what you can.
ghost choir ๐ปย ๐ต
I DID NOT THINK ANYTHING COULD TOP GHOST DUET
I WAS WRONG
I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY TO BE WRONG IN ALL MY LIFE
Happy Halloween the 1st!
You can see that last ghostโs sweat, theyโre trying so hard and itโs amazing!!!
You can see that last
ghostโs sweat, theyโre trying so hard
and itโs amazing!!!
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
She has survived an attack on her life and the lives of her brothers while distributing aid using our donations. And now she's gone back to her neighbourhood to see it completely leveled. Everything they've ever known is gone. Please help them. They're close to their goal.
so funny hearing americans pronounce "iran" .... like girl you ran where????
He has a tumblr, and it seems he's very new to it and doesn't know how to use it properly so he ends up looking like a bot but dw he is legit. I had a long conversation with Mahmoud over DM's just to go over everything. It all checks out. Please consider donating to get his family out of Ghazzah! Additionally, his brother-in-law is special needs and cannot be taken care of in a tent!
A type of flu virus that used to sicken people every year hasn't been spotted anywhere on Earth since March 2020. As such, experts have advised that the apparently extinct viruses be removed from next year's flu vaccines. The now-extinct viruses were a branch of the influenza B family tree known as the Yamagata lineage. Scientists first reported the apparent disappearance of Yamagata viruses in 2021. At that time, experts speculated that precautions taken to stop the spread of COVID-19 โ such as masking and social distancing โ had not only driven the overall number of flu cases to historic lows but may have completely snuffed out this type of flu virus.ย
Absolutely wild how COVID precautions might've led to the die-out of an entire flu branch in humans. Anyhoo, if you wanna read the actual paper that led to this conclusion, it can be found [here]
extirpation (celebratory)
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Maternity kits, medical threads and scissors, water testing kits, anesthetics, mobile desalination units, etc do you see the pattern? Israel is not only starving the people of Gaza but it also wants to ensure the spread of disease through contaminated water and surgical tools, as well as ensuring injured Palestinians suffer through horrendous pain.
It's beyond sickening.
