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Chicken Wing Enthusiast.

[🖤 @Colleen1596]

This is the culmination of every ounce of hard work and I can’t believe we really did it. Only 1 more test and I’ll officially be Colleen Fay, PA-C; coming to your local ER in t-minus 1 month! 👩🏼‍⚕️🎉

[🩰 @dqveed]

They’re slowly taking away the second amendment see

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

‘OBSESSION’ is now eyeing a $300–330M worldwide finish.

That would be more than 400x its reported $750K production budget – one of the biggest box office multipliers in film history.

[Empress 🖤 @drrdemon]

I read Invisible Women by Carolina Criado Perez, a book about data bias in everyday life and how our world was not designed for women and phewwww. I can never stop noticing

[🖤 @Colleen1596]

@tetanusrot @drrdemon bad it actually is but I digress so this is just a summary of one way the world was designed for men despite women accounting for 50% of drivers and data showing this actively kills/injures women

[🖤 @Colleen1596]

@tetanusrot @drrdemon time a dummy actually took into account female proportions (bone density, pelvis shape, center of gravity, etc.). Women are 47% more likely to be injured and 17% more likely to be killed compared to a man in the same accident conditions. This doesn’t even fully encompass how

[capsulebunny @capsulebutt]

Because she wasn’t, she was raped in the temple of Athena and when she asked for help she was cursed. Her curse is passive like… the only reason men were dying is because they wouldn’t leave her tf alone.

[🖤 @Colleen1596]

@YikesSoDumb @jdflynn Ok but spark notes, no fear Shakespeare saved lives

[Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, CCMS @DrPlantel]

Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome honestly makes way more sense than Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.

Because this condition was never just about “ovarian cysts” or fertility.

Women with PCOS are at higher risk for:
-type 2 diabetes
-heart disease
-fatty liver disease
-sleep apnea
-high blood pressure

Yet so many women are never properly counseled about these risks or referred for appropriate care early enough. As a cardiometabolic physician, I meet women in their 50s and 60s dealing with advanced disease who tell me:

“I wish someone had warned me earlier.”

We minimized PCOS by treating it like a niche reproductive issue instead of the systemic metabolic condition it often is.

[🖤 @Colleen1596]

@bananalol_3 @CartoonsHateHer I have personally diagnosed 2 different women (not at the same time) with pregnancy after they told me there was no way they were pregnant because they were lesbian and didn’t have penetrative sex.

[official game glenna @glenna_opt]

Your job is to throw away shampoo bottles in remembrance of 9/11. Do not make jokes.

[🖤 @Colleen1596]

@nu_skewl @dr3dn0t @DrJustinSnyder @creepydotorg Shouldn’t that mean the answer is still appropriate education and evaluation before intervention? Like all of medicine has mistakes/human error, the take away should be the importance of risk/benefit education and evidence based practice

[🖤 @Colleen1596]

@vikram_si @jelly_momm It also doesn’t even matter if you’re tall. Like I cannot be below 130 safely and everything from 125-160 puts me in “normal” for bmi. That being said, in this picture I was 170, almost no muscle, all because I’m tall. Height makes a big difference for how weight looks on women

[🖤 @Colleen1596]

The best part of this is the doctor who did the lobotomy actually didn’t have any surgical training and made up his “ice pick lobotomy” technique with horror story after horror story of complications

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

I will never get over the fact that their father forced Rosemary Kennedy to have a lobotomy because she was being a normal 23-year-old girl who wanted to have fun, and her father said she was ruining the family’s image. He contacted a doctor who told him a lobotomy would “correct” her behavior, but it ended up making her mentally and physically handicapped. She could no longer walk or talk properly and had the mental capacity of a child. Her family was then embarrassed by her condition, so they sent her to live at an institution for the mentally impaired, where she lived until her death in 2005.

Her family also didn’t visit her for 20 years, fearing they’d be photographed with her and it would cause a scandal in the press. Most people don’t even know about her existence because the family rarely talked about her. Her siblings didn’t even know where she was until their father's death in 1961. Despite JFK being the president at the time, he still prioritized keeping in contact with her and managing her medical care. It was said that he was extremely protective of her and would visit whenever he was able.

Her mother eventually began visiting her after 20 years. Her father never went to see her after she was institutionalized. He was the reason for her disabilities, and he completely abandoned her. Once her siblings discovered where she was, they visited her regularly, and Eunice Kennedy eventually started the Special Olympics because of her. The surviving Kennedy siblings were at Rosemary's side when she passed.

She could have lived a normal and happy life, but her father took that away from her because she didn’t meet his expectations. Nothing ever happened to the doctor who was responsible for the lobotomy.

[Men's Humor @MensHumor]

The math is, in fact, mathin'.

[🖤 @Colleen1596]

@Her_Nonymous_D When I worked in the dorms there was a free one time lock out per semester because things like this are known to happen. If your daughter has to pay a fee this isn’t the first time this has happened and subsequently this is on her.

[🖤 @Colleen1596]

I love this advice. Also realize their definition of affection and romantic might be different. My husband says he’s not romantic but what I’ve found over the years is he’s not romantic in a hallmark way. He’s still incredibly thoughtful and I find him romantic a lot of the time.

[𝒥𝑒𝓌𝓁𝒾𝑒 @jelly_momm]

Decide if that’s what you want in a partner and if it’s not, leave

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Having a baby physically shrinks part of a woman's brain. Having a second baby shrinks a totally different part. Scientists in Amsterdam just figured out why, and the explanation involves the same process that happens in teenage brains.

This is from a research group in Amsterdam called the Pregnancy Brain Lab. They published their findings in Nature Communications on February 19, 2026. The team scanned the brains of 110 women. 40 were about to have their first baby, 30 were about to have their second, and 40 had never been pregnant. They scanned everyone before pregnancy and again after birth.

The results were so consistent that a computer program could look at any of those brain scans and correctly tell whether the woman had been pregnant. Every single time.

When a woman has her first baby, the biggest changes happen in the part of the brain that handles thinking about yourself and other people. The same region that runs daydreaming and inner monologue. That whole area visibly shrinks. And it stays shrunk for at least six years after birth, according to a 2021 follow-up study by the same team.

When she has a second baby, that same area shifts a little more, but the biggest changes happen somewhere else. They happen in the part of the brain that controls what you focus on, and the part that controls how your body moves. Even the wiring between the brain and the muscles becomes more efficient. Lead researcher Milou Straathof said it looks like the brain rewiring itself for taking care of more than one kid at a time.

The shrinking sounds bad. The lab compares it to what happens in teenage brains during puberty. Hormones flood the brain and trigger a kind of cleanup. Weak connections between brain cells get cleared away. The strong ones stay and get stronger. The brain ends up smaller, but the connections that remain work faster. The hormonal flood of pregnancy seems to do the same thing.

Elseline Hoekzema, who runs the Pregnancy Brain Lab and has been studying this since 2017, told CNN: sometimes less is more.

The pattern is layered. The first pregnancy does the deep work on identity and how a mom thinks about her baby. The second pregnancy adds a new layer focused on attention and movement.

About one in five new mothers globally develops postpartum depression. The same brain circuits being remodeled here are the ones tied to mood and bonding with the baby. Mapping what a healthy maternal brain looks like is the first step toward catching when something goes wrong.

[𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆🫧💚 @beyoncegarden]

OH HE ATE HIM UP SO BAD LMAOOO😭😭😭

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

the CATO Institute.. a libertarian think tank funded by the Koch brothers.. just published a study showing immigrants paid more in taxes than they received in benefits every single year from 1994 to 2023..

not a left-wing university.. not a Democratic PAC.. the Koch brothers' own research institute..

they reduced the deficit by $14.5 trillion over 30 years.. they earn less per hour but work at higher rates.. which means higher per capita income.. which means higher taxes paid..

the country spent 30 years being told immigrants were draining the system.. turns out they were funding it.. and the people who told you that knew the numbers the whole time