Lucy Earth

Substack at untell. Side Project @bcad_dot_one Regularly orbiting around @Mars_College I love human very much.

[ScienceFocus @ScienceFocusonX]

Doctors watched a woman with late-stage Alzheimer's wake up and start telling stories from her own life. She'd barely said a word in five years.

The patient, a Japanese-American woman in her 80s, had been declining for a decade. For the last five years she communicated mostly in single syllables. She couldn't walk well, couldn't dress herself, couldn't control her bladder. Her family had watched her slip further away every year, the way millions of families do.

Then, under medical supervision and with her caregiver's consent, she was given 5 grams of psilocybin mushrooms. A big dose. She sweated heavily and sank into a deep, sleep-like state.

Around 19 hours later, she woke up and started talking.

Full sentences. Memories from her own life, flowing out for nearly four hours straight. In the days that followed she began recognizing family members again. She dressed herself. She walked more independently, held eye contact, smiled, even cracked jokes. Her bladder control came back. A second, smaller session a month later brought more of the same: humor, emotion, connection.

Now, the honest part. This is one patient. One case report, published in Frontiers in Neuroscience by researchers in Brazil. No brain scans, no standardized cognitive tests, no placebo. The disease itself wasn't reversed, and the gains were temporary. High-dose psilocybin also carries real risks, especially for frail elderly patients, so nobody should try this at home.

But here's why scientists are paying attention anyway. Alzheimer's this advanced was assumed to be a one-way street. This case hints that some of the brain's circuits may still be in there, quiet but not gone, waiting for something to switch the lights back on.
She was never really gone. We just couldn't reach her.

Source: Frontiers in Neuroscience case report by Brazilian neuroscientists, covered by ScienceAlert, The Conversation, and Vice.

[Astropics @astropics]

Did you know that rainbows can also form at night?

This is the lunar rainbow or "moonbow".
It appears thanks to moonlight reflected by drops of water in the air, often near a waterfall or under a clear full Moon.

Rarer and paler than a classic rainbow, because the Moon is less bright than the Sun.

[goma @soigomaa]

Do you know what's unfair?
Women take birth control even though we're only fertile around 6 days a month. Men are fertile every single day yet male
contraception trials were stopped because participants reported mood swings, acne and depression. Those are
literally our daily PCOS symptoms. Still no cure. Stil under-researched. The burden always stays with women. So
please cyster, treat the root cause. Take that inositol and keep your Briom PCOS streak going.

[Lucy Earth @KSeisai]

always needed that more than swes

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Over the past year, nearly all net job growth has come from healthcare and social assistance, per WSJ

[Bea Jaspert @hogotheforsaken]

How did the trans movement lose power?

1/ Massive over-reach in its demands.

2/ Clear conflict of trans demands vs rights of women, same-sex attracted people, & children.

3/ Effective grassroots activism by seasoned women’s rights activists well used to fighting male power.

[🔻🚀 Insert 🇵🇸🪂 @Insert66438804]

They got rid of DEI and companies stopped having to hire men.

[Lucy Earth @KSeisai]

Give me more plants I’m tired of human

[Shafeeq @Y2SHAF]

i really wish we only had news like this on the internet

[Lucy Earth @KSeisai]

I’ll take it that the only thing worse than getting cancelled is not even being remembered as the funny one for it

[Lucy Earth @KSeisai]

I love trading because it feels way more controllable than the rest of the world.

[Kara Dansky @KDansky]

This is so painfully accurate it hurts. 🤣

[Enrique @enriqdev]

Google fue muy listo; usan los acelerómetros de miles de teléfonos Android cómo una red global de sismos, toda esa data se envía y Google logró una forma de detectar esas ondas a tiempo y enviar las alertas.

[★опа Шмеля⚢ @IzKpJISPsOuvFZu]

Тред🚩

Как патриархат, складывавшийся тысячелетиями, способствовал _селекции_ женщин и девочек в сторону меньших габаритов и слабой физической силы.

Объясняю эпигенетикой.

[Lucy Earth @KSeisai]

Part of the reason I’ve been avoiding going back to a China lmao

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@miroirdufou A woman is an adult human female. A female is a member of the sex whose bodies are organised to produce large gametes (eggs). Women's rights are predicated upon that accurate definition. Any false definition that includes men, including men in dresses, eliminates women's rights.

[joy @joyfeminist]

my problem with neutral language is that it is always used in context where the issues affect particularly women (periods, pregnancy, etc), but not when issues affect men

[🦢 @damnidc__]

They'll do research on everything but PCOS and endometriosis

[Lucy Earth @KSeisai]

My new writing: How many trans are there? https://t.co/luCiplH6Sx

[Lucy Earth @KSeisai]

I think I solved the mystery of trans.

[Lucy Earth @KSeisai]

Every time I wrote a feminism piece Claude refuses to edit I know I’m onto something.

[Lucy Earth @KSeisai]

Wait a sec why his last name is Asian? So identify as Asian is also a thing now?

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

Even if all of this was true - and it isn’t - it still wouldn’t explain why women are expected to give up our rights to these men.