chloe

Sometimes all a woman has is being a bitch // she/her pronouns

[chloe @ChloeMRay]

People without depression really don’t understand suicide ideation. The amount of time it crosses your mind a day, even on good days.

[maddy catgirlprostate @catgirlprostate]

It really is incredible how literally everything done by the boomers was painfully shortsighted for no reason

[sara @saradotxyz]

Halsey says doctors missed her lupus for years because she looks white, and told her it sucks she looks so white when they finally found it

Benny: "It's very hard to have lupus if you're white. Correct?

Halsey: "It's predominantly African-American women, Latin women. And I'm half black, so that was another thing too"

"A lot of my doctors were like, that sucks, you look so white, because we probably would have found this a lot sooner if we knew"

"And I was like, I told you guys. And they're like, yeah, we didn't really take it serious, didn't really consider it"

"The genes are the same, brother"

[Professional Vibe Curator 🦧🥇 @GumboGoon]

Your problem is you looking at him like a hero and we look at him like a nigga who get shit done

[Wayne Waldrop @WayneWaldropW]

The Declaration of Independence quite literally tells us to overthrow a government exactly like the one we have right now.

[Jes @bloodstarvedjax]

I'm so fr you should be burned at the stake for saying this

[haze. @OhHalesNaww]

because he’s a psycho who does this shit for the love of the game.

[mitra @mitrajoy_]

having our first trillionaire before everyone has access to clean water is a failure of the human species

[chloe @ChloeMRay]

I miss you dad

[joce ;༊⋆˚࿔ @desolatist]

linda & bob being bi4bi & all their kids being pansexual is so beautiful i will cry

[♀️ Patriot Terf 🦖 @USAsweetTerf2]

Sperm is the vehicle that transports your mother’s DNA to your wife.

[Viathan 🔆 @VermilViathan]

the Reimer case quite literally validates the identity of trans folks in that forcing a gender identity onto someone who does not align with said gender identity has detrimental effects on mental health but transphobes use this case as a gotcha because they are braindead

[jezz @JezziiB]

99 years is the amount of prison time a doctor in Alabama will receive if they perform an abortion.

6 months is the amount of prison time you will receive if you rape an unconscious girl next to a dumpster.

Wake up.

[Chaser Racer @SeaGL_]

We know what we missed out on. We literally saw it get pulled from our grasp the second we almost got to take part in it

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Many of them didn't. Your great-great-grandmother was probably drinking opium for her nerves, sold at the corner shop as cheap as a pint of beer. It was called laudanum, a mix of opium and alcohol that doctors handed out for anxiety, sleeplessness, and "women's troubles." Mothers fed it to crying babies. The babies often stopped crying because they stopped breathing.

The men drank. By 1830 the average American was putting away almost two bottles of liquor a week. Whiskey cost less than coffee or milk. People started their day with a shot and ended it with another. Toddlers drank from their parents' rum mugs.

ADHD has a long paper trail. A Scottish doctor described kids who couldn't focus in 1798. By 1846 there was a popular German children's book about a boy called Fidgety Philipp who couldn't sit still. In 1902, a London children's doctor named George Still wrote a famous paper on the same kids and called it a "defect of moral control." Same kid, three different centuries.

Depression and anxiety had old names too. Melancholia, hysteria, the vapors. Treatments included bloodletting, ice baths, and chaining people to a wall. By 1937, American mental hospitals held 451,672 patients and took up more than half of every hospital bed in the country. Inside the walls, about 1 in 10 patients died each year.

Then came the lobotomy. Between 1949 and 1952, around 50,000 Americans were strapped to a chair while a doctor hammered an ice pick through the thin bone above their eye and wiggled it around inside their brain. It took about ten minutes. Sixty percent of the patients were women. About 1 in 20 died from the procedure. Many of the ones who lived came out with no personality left. The man who invented the procedure won a Nobel Prize.

Britain's male suicide rate hit 30.3 per 100,000 in 1905. The lowest rates ever recorded in British history are happening right now.

Plenty of our ancestors didn't make it. They drank themselves dead. They overdosed on shop-bought opium. They got locked in asylums and never came out. They had picks driven through their eye sockets. They killed themselves in numbers we don't see today. The conditions were always there. The treatments just used to be worse than the disease.

[💗 @ma1ybe]

The fact that this man was saving the lives and upholding the autonomy of thousands of women despite multiple attempts on his life since 1973…Absolute Hero

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A 17-year-old in Iowa boiled beets in her chemistry class and turned them into stitches that change color when your wound gets infected. Her name is Dasia Taylor. It started as a science fair project.

She wanted a low-tech version of the "smart stitches" Tufts researchers built in 2016. Those used thread wired up with sensors and a tiny chip that pinged your phone if something went wrong. Cool, but useless without a phone or a hospital that can afford it.

Her version doesn't need any of that. Healthy skin is slightly acidic, like lemon juice but much milder. When bacteria grow in a wound, the chemistry flips and turns more like soap or baking soda.

Beet juice has a quirk. The same red pigment that stains your fingers when you cook it shifts color based on what it touches. Bright red on healthy skin. Dark purple on infected skin. The switch lines up with infection almost exactly.

She tested ten threads before finding a cotton-polyester blend that soaked up the dye and changed color within five minutes. That was the prototype.

Around 1 in 40 American surgeries end in an infection at the cut, costing hospitals more than $3 billion a year. In poorer countries the rate is closer to 1 in 9. In parts of Africa it's 1 in 6. In some Ethiopian hospitals, up to a quarter of surgery patients leave with an infection.

The whole game is catching it early. Spot it in time and antibiotics handle it. Miss the window and the patient is back on the operating table.

Dasia filed a patent in 2021 and started a medical device company called VariegateHealth in 2022. The stitches haven't been tested on real patients yet. New medical device patents can take a decade. She's also looking into a side benefit: the beet pigment kills bugs like E. coli and Klebsiella in lab tests.

Smart stitches need a phone to read them. Hers just need eyes.

[Gatwirii♊ @thatgeminibloom]

Give her all the funding imagine just 4 cycles a year 💃🏽

[chloe @ChloeMRay]

🙋‍♀️ right here bitch

[loid @Iveslueur]

I've never met a girl who supports abortion who hasn't had an abortion. Big cope