read this instead of drinking booze, you beautiful recovering al

[kaijuno]

I found god in a hopeless place

[i-am-a-fish]

thank you for participating in wednesday with me today

[i-am-a-fish]

as this wednesday settles to a close, I'd like to thank you again for this wednesday. I look forward to the next one

[trovaami]

[nilovalentine]

See the thing is that if you keep saying "I bet everyone hates me I'm so annoying" is that its annoying. And people hate it. So it's a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy isn't it. You know what's also a self fulfilling prophecy? Acting like you're hot shit until you become hot shit

[hedgehog-moss]

It snowed all day 😊 Pandolf is delighted.

[radicalgraff]

Class war poster spotted in Liverpool, UK

[captain-kampari]

Claudia Cardinale

[helenish]

Ask yourself, would a small woodland mouse wearing an apron and/or jaunty corduroy vest do this activity? If not, stop immediately.

[karenfreethekids]

[chrisflemingfleming]

here's the pilot we made in 2021 that never aired :) please enjoy our Bimmi Gardens

[whattoreadinsteadofdrinking]

CHRISTMAS CAME EARLY. thank u god thank u small baby jesus. thank u Chris Flemings deeply spiritual and ungainly legs

[lingonberry24]

Y'all.

Getting Covid can reactivate Epstein-Barr Virus (what causes Mono)

I have been wondering for a year now how I got mono while masking everywhere and sharing drinks with no one.

They think some long Covid symptoms are actually attributable to EBV getting reactivated.

COVID Long-Haul Symptoms May Be Caused By Another Virus

The strange neurological symptoms of "long-COVID" may have an explanation: another virus. A study has examined whether COVID promotes the re

[swampgallows]

The article above also describes how Covid is reactivating other herpes viruses, which is true: people are also getting shingles after Covid because it's reactivating their latent chicken pox. If you're born after 1995 you may already be vaccinated for chicken pox, but you may also need the booster; two shots are the standard now but might not have been available for 90s babies. Check your immunization records and talk to your doctor.

If you have ever gotten chicken pox at any point in your life, there is always a chance you can get shingles later. It is painful and contagious, and I personally know of THREE people who got Covid and then only a month or so later had shingles. Luckily there is a shingles (herpes zoster) vaccine, which is separate from the varicella (chicken pox) vaccine.

This is one of many reasons why those of us who are "covid conscious" stress the importance of prevention: even if you get Covid and it's "mild", any infection can still trigger a cascade of more severe health problems down the line, especially if you've had Covid more than once. As OP said, EBV can cause mono, and mono can lead to ME/CFS, of which Long Covid shares many symptoms.

Do your part in prevention: wear a mask, stay home when sick, and keep up to date with all of your vaccines. Get your shit today!

[islamprotestan-blog]

only 5 seconds

[zanyflowerpizzatrash]

i wasn't ready for that..lol

[lamentablesquonk]

Immediately recognized that look

[hthrrloooo]

Tony Hoagland, Turn Up the Ocean (2022)

[adiabat]

i’m not aromantic but i believe in their beliefs

[adiabat]

for me being bi has contributed a huge amount to noticing all the ways in which romance and friendship run together and i think in general people would benefit from recognizing that romance and friendship are socially constructed categories used to describe a vast, nebulous, and often overlapping range of feelings

[asteroidtroglodyte]

My way of parsing it:

Every Relationship is actually a specific, unique thing. We invented Shorthands, such as Friend or Husband, to help describe recurring motifs in Relationships. But. The labels are simplifications. They will always fail to adequately contain the entirety of the Relationship.

[opencommunion]

[galactic-dragoness]

[thebreakfastgenie]

I think one aftereffect of the pandemic is that because delivery was normalized for a year or so, people stopped perceiving it as a luxury service and started expecting it. And it wasn't just normalized--it was being widely promoted as the responsible choice, because under the conditions of the pandemic that's what it was, and we were constantly fighting this battle because Republicans were willing to kill and die for their right to go sit in a Bob Evans. I think we would have had a problem with adjusting expectations post-pandemic anyway, but I think it's probably a lot worse because people absorbed so many "just get everything delivered to your door, that's good!" messages aimed at the people who refused to stay home during a pandemic. If acknowledging the seriousness of the pandemic hadn't been so politicized I don't think it would be this bad now.