Thank you for sharing this! As someone learning to live with FND, it is encouraging to see current research on the biological effects of stress, which will hopefully lead to better treatment and prophylaxis options to combat debilitating functional disorders in the future.
Posts by Em the Starfish Thrower
I love seeing a government leader who not only values the workers who keep the cities running, but who also makes a point to publicly recognize their contribution 🥰
2016 has been trending. Could it be that many are finally grasping the consequences of not looking more critically at the iconoclast they embraced, and subconsciously longing for the relative stability of a government that at least respected the Constitution – and wishing for an impossible do-over?
On their knees in the Oval Office, apparently, but with far worse consequences for the US than when 42 was taking advantage of a star struck intern 😤
(No shade to Monica Lewinsky, who has gone on to become a staunch advocate for survivors of cyber bullying and abuse of power/SA grooming.)
Just as Sec. Worm Brain is MAHA’ing the US back into an era of widespread and unchecked, epidemic Measles and “FluNoroCoCo”viral outbreaks, the only people this administration wants wearing protective masks of any kind are those *purposely* sent into our communities to do harm 🤬
Just seeing this. Y’all get a choice? All the TX DLs/State IDs have only been available as Real IDs since 2016. But my dumpster fire state doesn’t acknowledge a right to privacy unless you’re a pastor or politician(R) with illegal fetishes, so that shouldn’t be a surprise 😐😤
It doesn’t fit the administration’s narrative when we protest without rioting and violence – stay calm, stay focused, STAY IN THEIR WAY. Chaos may look like it’s got the upper hand but they’ll burn themselves out with their own rage.
Grey rock those narcissists until they take themselves out.
Mom 🫎 would have loved this 😍
How did we all end up as characters in a parody written by the staff of The Onion???
Checking a genAI response to a factual or discursive question involves the user simply doing what they would do to find the/an answer to the question by conventional means.
For those who even know how to do this, actually doing it entirely removes the benefit of getting AI to do the job anyway.
This is a welcoming account.
THIS 💔 So many people I love have been seduced into believing that God *wants* us to be a legalistic, everyone-for-yourself society…if by “God” you mean “Donald Trump” I guess that’s true 🤬
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If it's not fascism when he says he's going to send Americans to torture gulags in El Salvador, to the president of El Salvador, on live TV, and everyone in the room laughs... When is it?
The trains have left the station. We just don't know who among us is on them yet.
The biggest flaw with so many in the current administration isn’t that they lack the knowledge to do better, but that they have never learned how to learn — they lack the most basic ability to evaluate the validity & value of different information, & treat fact and opinion as equally relevant 😬
in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list
Someone needs to lay off the meth when they're writing fanfic.
We need to turn the corner from “men are inherently bad” to “male supremacy is inherently bad”
If you need a reminder of why the tariffs are a public health issue as well:
▶️About *80%* of our active pharmaceutical ingredients are produced abroad.
▶️About *50%* of our generic drugs are manufactured overseas
This means increased costs in an inevitably strained generic drug supply. Not good
Usually, when the Dow is down 1,200 points it’s due to some political or economic calamity outside the control of our government and institutions. This is different. The president metaphorically put a gun to America’s temple and pulled the trigger. Apparently just to see what would happen. 🤮
Interesting topic! Artistic work has a very different way of reaching audiences than typical news sources, but no less valid.
My church youth group used to do dramatic readings of Song of Songs in the church van while traveling across the state for Bible Bowl competitions…some of those were QUITE, um, emphatic? 🤣My older cousin by far was the champ at making people blush 🤣
**see: Biles, Simone
Seeing competitors from different countries rejoicing in each other’s successes elevates the experience for me, as a fan. Every time I see this, I notice that it tends to push the level of competition even higher than a bitter rivalry would.
#StrongerTogether
Did #AlysaLiu just pull off a #RudyGalindo for the ages at Worlds in Boston????
HELL YEAH SHE DID!!!!
Watching her tonight brought to mind the Hindu concept of ananda: ✨ a specific, divine bliss that comes through enlightenment and breaking free from the shackles that were holding you down ✨
Depending on when you believe the EO partnership started, this is either their first year together or the year *before* their partnership started.
I’m on early S9 of the original L&O, and there’s very little police work but a whole lot of lawyers lawyering.