@Ramyisback I'm so sorry. Family are the people who can hurt us worst in the world, without meaning to or wanting to. I hope he can grow into someone who hurts you less
@annamv10 for a vagina to reach the top 1% is functionally impossible without its having engaged in wage theft, union busting, or other unethical business practices
@VladVexler Over a hundred years of 'if we just hypothesise the same aetiology over and over again, and if we just hate women *hard enough*, eventually we'll be right'
@AndrewG76201347@iseeuliars I had a surprising number of dudes from 'eToro' willing to put up with this treatment, the interesting thing was that I started telling them what I'd done with previous callers and they'd still talk to no-one for five minutes
๐งตI want to highlight one paragraph from the Wired article and some key facts that it left out.
It states Wessely was accused of throwing a sick boy into a pool, but provides no context.
It actually relates to a well-documented case in which Wessely was involved.
One thing I have noticed about patients with diagnoses such as fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, and increasingly Long COVID is how often the conversation revolves around explaining why they cannot move forward.
Thereโs an extraordinary effort devoted to protecting the illness narrative.
in canada, mind body practices dominate medicine to the extent that my endometriosis excision was delayed by an additional 3 years bc, at my hospital, we have to complete a mandatory program that includes MB techniques before going on the surgery waitlist
It's a measure of just how much the average person hates the chronically ill, that our opposition is working at this level, has been for decades, and is winning so hard
"Isn't it cuuuurious how when you repeat a bunch of unfounded dangerous health-related claims, the patients whose lives have been immiserated by those claims turn up and tell you to fuck off? Makes you think"
"...yeah, fuck off"
"SEE! SEE! CHECK MATE LIBRULLS! QED"
Explaining to children that they shouldn't worry about a career because the world will be completely unlivable in 15 years and that death will be a sweet relief from living in a nuclear wasteland is probably the hardest part of working at Build-A-Bear.
im terribly sorry but there was a mistake during surgery and your body has been fused with an evil garbage truck and the only way to fix it is to win the twisted metal tournament, your handling is 2 and your armour is 5
One of my favourite things I've ever read is about a woman who said that whenever she had a negative thought about herself, she would shout "GUARDS!" and imagine old knights entering and carrying the thought away.