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[jerkuelyn]

jaqi ♡ twenty - nine ♡ p.s.t. ♡ she / they

vietnamese - hispanic

[baejax-the-great]

Truly, deeply not into this need to diagnose anyone with academic interests as autistic

[politijohn]

Source

Insane what a 5% wealth tax on the country’s 1,000 billionaires could do

[whatbigotspost]

Guys this is REALLY gonna shock you, but CEO, entrepreneur, born in 1964 Jeffrey, Jeffrey Bezos' personal lil newspaper doesn't think this policy is good!

(Which I shan't link directly bc: paywall and they don't deserve the traffic")

Bernie Sanders vs. Jeff Bezos: The Wealth Tax Debate Shakes Up Social Media

Explore Bernie Sanders' clash with the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post over a proposed 5% wealth tax on billionaires, igniting a heated deb

Let's cut to Bernie's reaction

[fandom-geek]

‘Unprecedented’ global effort gives new name to polycystic ovary syndrome – and new hope to millions of women

Decades-long campaign powered by patient perspectives results in switch from PCOS – a name that caused confusion and undue suffering – to PM

After more than a decade of global consultation, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) – a condition that affects one in eight women – has been renamed. The hormonal disorder, estimated to impact 170 million women worldwide, will now be known as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS). The name change was published in the Lancet and announced at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Prague on Tuesday, after 14 years of collaboration between international societies and patient groups across six continents. The renaming was spearheaded by the endocrinologist Prof Helena Teede, the director of Melbourne’s Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation. For too long, experts including Teede say, the misleading nature of the term “polycystic” in PCOS contributed to delayed diagnosis and inadequate medical care. Announcing the new name at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Prague on Tuesday, Teede said the term PCOS didn’t capture the “multi-system burden that people with this condition have suffered”, and that it “directs attention to only one organ”. PMOS is hoped to better reflect the condition’s complex nature – which affects not only the reproductive system in people assigned female at birth but also the metabolism and the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. ‘A much broader condition’ The first thing Maddy Mavrikis was told by her GP when she was diagnosed with PCOS at 15 was that she would probably never have children. She would later learn that was not true. [...]

Mavrikis initially went to her doctor because of irregular periods, and a blood test revealed she had high levels of androgens. All women have these male sex hormones but women with PCOS can have an excess, which also explained Mavrikis’ other symptoms, including acne and excessive hair growth. Hormone imbalances can also result in “polycystic ovaries” – a term which in itself is a misnomer, as what appear on ultrasound to be ovarian cysts are in fact eggs in arrested development. People can be diagnosed with PCOS without ovaries that appear “polycystic” – Mavrikis’ ultrasound revealed she didn’t have any, though her GP insisted she would eventually develop them. The doctor also found she had insulin resistance, which affects most women (about 85%) with PCOS.

[ekjohnston]

LITERALLY THREE DAYS AGO my doctor was all "hey, so the surgeon who did your endometrial biopsy wrote "PCOS?" in your file, and the clinician dismissed it because your biopsy was clear (of cysts), but it turns out insulin resistance is a much bigger thing, so let's work on that next."

Then she apologized (for the clinician), and I was all "in your defense, my first appointment with you was, like, two steps shy of a mental health intervention, and you've saved my life like twice since then", but also: GLAD IT'S OFFICIAL.

(Also: one of the stated goals of the name change is to shift research and treatment away from Fertility Or Nothing, which is, you know, also great.)

[carbon-ate]

[transjester64]

Adding this from the comments...

[witchrealms]

(x)

[foodandfriends]

1 beer in and i start telling people to surrender

[theoneofwhomisblue]

Scooping him

[circumgutter]

[moonshynecybin]

have you guys ever seen a crocodile with its fingies out

[moonshynecybin]

[mumblesplash]

it’s so magical and beautiful that there are sprawling interconnected cave systems carved deep into the earth by various geological forces and you don’t have to go in them. there are miles and miles of stone passageways in total darkness that require you to exhale all the air out of your lungs to squeeze through parts of them and you don’t have to be there. some of these squeezes are underwater and require cave divers to take off their oxygen tanks and push them through ahead of them and me i am above ground looking at the sky as we speak. there are untold subterranean wonders no human has ever seen and i will not be the one to discover them #grateful #blessed

[should-be-sleeping]

[niidsch]

Nintendo Presents: New Style Boutique 2 Fashion Forward ♥ 2015

[stlamb]

koitsukihime, cover of eureka magazine (2004)

[imgdist0000]

drawing people i see in the city (71/?) (i consider this a spiritual sequel to #36)

[gh0st-patr0l]

Btw I loooove starting a post like "also" "by the way" "and another thing" when there was fully no conversation or preceding thought. U will experience my posts en media res

[pangur-and-grim]

Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point

Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.

[pangur-and-grim]

if you'd like to show support, here are some upcoming queer books:

When Life Gives You Corpses is a brilliant YA about a cursed praying mantis who falls for a young witch. Yield Under Great Persuasion is a raunchy, but surprisingly sweet story about two men repairing their relationship. Fabulous Bodies is a horror story about a queer rockstar rising from the dead.

This is Where the Future Bleeds is a fantasy set in a vividly imagined land, where two women (who happen to kiss) are the key to healing the broken sky. You're No Better is a story about a teen struggling in the shadow of his murderous parent. Oil on Canvas is about a woman who finds disturbing paintings in the home of her dead mother.

and then here's a list of 26 queer books by Black authors set to publish this year, and a 10 upcoming books by trans authors. if you want to fight back against queer censorship, use your wallet! or (if that's not an option) you can contact your local library and ask them to stock a copy.

[penelopepennington]

In addition: looking for indie publishers and queer bookshops is a great way to find and support queer authors and stories of so many infinite varieties! (The following suggestions are based on my UK-centric knowledge)

(Some) Queer Presses:

Lurid Editions are "a publishing project committed to intentional and conscientious acts of archival repair". They are "attentive to how marginalised histories are forgotten and remembered, [and] hungry to rediscover overlooked queer books". They've just received funding from Arts Council England to engage queer readers in a project to contribute to the archive!

Cipher Press "We’re really keen on the idea that queer and minority stories are for everybody, and we want to make our books – and the stories they tell - accessible to all" (what an amazing mission statement!)

Anamot Press "Anamot [Անամոթ] means shameless in Armenian. ⁣⁣Anamot Press publishes poetry and prose on intersecting experiences of gender, sexuality, race, migration, class, belonging and loss - with no shame."

(Some) Queer Bookshops

Queer Lit Oh man, I remember when this was just a tiny little shop, and now they're the biggest LGBT+ bookshop in Europe! They do amazing work in donating books about being trans to schools and parliament! They have a pay-it-forward board that will make you sob with its notes of love and support. (You can tell I wish I still lived nearby)

Lighthouse For Scottish friends - "a queer-owned and woman led independent community bookshop. We are an unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space"

Gay's The Word The OG Queer bookshop in the UK. One day I will make my pilgrimage!!

This really is just a tiny snapshot of all the amazing work of celebration and resistance that's being done for Queer literature at the moment. We live in frightening times, but I promise there is still lots of love and joy and hope out there in spaces like these. Support them in whatever way you can!!

[westdogcraft]

I think my cats way cooler than I’ll ever be 🔥

[glassofoj-tum-blr]

The lovely Amanda Grayson (and some cute Vulcan baby idk) <3