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This article is so good, I’ve shared it many times! It’s unclear if the archives of Self will stay online, I’d recommend saving this article so you have it now that this publication has folded.

Microbiome signature of Parkinson’s disease in healthy and genetically at-risk individuals - Nature Medicine Microbiome analysis suggests that gut microbial changes in Parkinson’s disease evolve progressively from healthy individuals to genetically at-risk individuals to clinically affected patients, with th...

We've known the gut-brain axis is a key underpinning of Parkinson's disease. Today, for the 1st time, a gut microbiome signature denoting risk found in healthy individuals with genetic predisposition

nature.com/articles/s41...

My singing voice is almost unrecognizable compared to how it sounded the first 30 years of my life. I love the way it sounds now, but it takes me a minute to realize “wait, that voice coming out of my mouth is actually mine”

No donations for 2 days. Please help Jamal's family keep him alive through Israel's genocide. He's in the ICU with asthma, diabetes, & injuries from IDF attacks. His parents can't afford medication & insulin. He's just 2 yo, & can barely breathe. You can help sharing & donating:

Ahmed is like many Gazans trying to raise money to help cover the basic needs of himself and his family. Please help them gain more visibility by sharing this post.

Abo Jameel needs antibiotics for his shrapnel wounds, and his wife still needs medical care for her shoulder and collapsed heart valve. Can we help them?

CW: disordered eating mention

Ever since I gained weight/started recovering from OSFED, my singing voice has gotten so much louder. I am still getting used to it. The sheer volume when I support notes properly still startles me. It’s a bit unnerving.

ICYMI a short 🧵!

I'm not the least bit surprised. The reasons for leaving substack grow by the day.

@bibiblossoms.bsky.social - Your products are so fun!!!!

One of the best parts about earning an English degree where you actually paid attention to historical context of the works you studied... you know this statement isn't true!

It's actually bonkers levels of untrue!

A lot of books that are the most popular of their time are pretty mid.

Dorothy Confronts Dr. Budd, Finds Strength, and Celebrates with Friends. - Golden Girls HD YouTube video by GoldenGirlsHD

If you have a mystery health condition I promise someday there will be a way to find proof and vindication. Took decades, but there was for ME/CFS (what Dorothy has in this clip) and fibromyalgia. Until then I pass this clip unto thee. youtu.be/WzUEyic68Qc?...

How white male supremacy gets encoded.

Technopolitics 101

Love this! Scapegoating AI art on disablility is trash, people with no hands paint with their feet. Artists through history are disabled! I'm one & tons of my homies. And bad art is great! People are allowed to make bad art. I wanna see every shitty amateur poem written for National Poetry Month!

“Vashti was right.” -Esther 1:12.5

Second half of the month:

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Graphic with a dark red background. Text reads, "There is no such thing as “mild” autism. "If an autistic person is not “obviously” autistic, either they are masking for their safety or others’ convenience—which in the long term imperils their mental health—or they are actually getting the supports and accommodations they need, so they aren’t forced to demonstrate distress or dysregulation." Smaller text in the lower right corner reads, "@ThinkingAutism ThinkingAutism.com" The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism logo is in the lower right corner.

There is no such thing as “mild” autism.

If an autistic person is not “obviously” autistic, either they are masking for their safety or others’ convenience, or they are actually getting the supports & accommodations they need—so they aren’t forced to demonstrate distress or dysregulation. #autism

Okay, fine, I wouldn’t—you don’t do martial arts for 20 years without learning self-restraint—but it would be tempting as fuck to throw hands.

If some fuckhead in a white coat told me to slow the destruction of my bodymind that is happening on a molecular level due to the chronic stress of living with multiple axes of marginalization by “practicing gratitude,” I would actually put a boot up their ass.

I’m literally crying and too angry to sleep. As a woman and as a geneticist by trade, I…fuck, man, I don’t have words.

I will already be mad about Dr. Rosalind Franklin (z’’l) getting fucked over until the heat death of the universe, but this?

This broke something in me. I now know that “seeing red” can happen literally.

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Everything is shit.

Here are kittens and coparenting ca moms.

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Also it pisses me off so fuckening much when ND egotypicals say that PD sufferers “target neurodivergent people” like motherg-dfuckjesus personality disorders are inherently neurodivergent per the original coiner’s definition

(“Egotypical” is a word I coined for people without personality disorders because “motherfuckers who love using pop psychology to demonize people for whom existence is suffering” wasn’t pithy enough.)

As a Jew, I don’t believe in hell.

I wish I did, because egotypical neurodivergent people who are laterally ableist against cluster B disorder sufferers deserve the special hell from Firefly.

AI is theft. It's anti-Black. It's ableist. It's a wealth transfer from the poor and marginalized to the wealthiest corporations on earth. It destroys water tables and accelerates climate change.

What is ‘Ozempic personality,’ and why does it make life feel ‘meh’? Doctors and patients across social media are reporting a kind of emotional flattening while on GLP-1 drugs.

This is an interesting article: anhedonia (a reduced ability to feel pleasure) as a possible side effect of GLP-1 drugs. Something for folks to be aware of, at least.

What is ‘Ozempic personality,’ and why does it make life feel ‘meh’?
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

I am 99% sure that I have motor dyspraxia that manifests as having trouble steering and using the pedals.

Also, I don’t have the cognitive processing power to take in, filter, and react to what’s happening around me when driving.