free Palestine 🍉

trans/queer/dykefag 🌈
he/hir ✨
cripplepunk & autistic ♿
anarcho commie 🏴✊🏻
20 something

[free Palestine 🍉 @qwuur]

I'd like to think I have a look™ but I just wear the same 5 outfits with the same fuckin jean jacket over and over.

[tern @1goodtern]

The mechanisms by which covid infection causes this harm HAVE NOT CHANGED OR GONE AWAY.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

Make masks FIT and FREE! As we experience a record breaking flu surge and the ongoing effects of COVID, now would be a great time to ramp up efforts to make high quality N95 masks free and widely available. Free mask distribution should be a regular feature of progressive events.

[Harry Spoelstra @HarrySpoelstra]

The COVID generation: the neurodevelopmental consequences of in-utero COVID-19 exposure

😡A USA study that really frightens me!

In-utero COVID-19 exposure associates with early brain alterations and toddler developmental delays, warranting long-term monitoring of these children.

➡️They conducted a prospective longitudinal study with 142 mother-baby dyads(mother-infant pairs): 39 exposed to COVID-19 in utero (2020–2022) vs. 103 pre-pandemic controls (2016–2019).

➡️Neonatal brain imaging used quantitative 3D volumetric MRI (2 weeks corrected age).

➡️Toddler assessments (2 years) included Bayley Scales (BSID-III) for cognition/social-emotion and ITSEA for behaviours.

➡️Exposure linked to reduced neonatal brain volumes in cortical/subcortical gray matter, cerebral white matter, and left hippocampus (all significant after FDR correction).

➡️At age 2, exposed toddlers showed lower cognition and social-emotional scores (BSID-III), plus higher internalizing behaviours (ITSEA).

➡️Reduced cortical gray matter partially explained lower cognition (21.9%); lower cognition mediated increased internalizing behaviours (61.0%).

➡️Conclusion:
1. “Children exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in utero display lower cognitive abilities than children who had not been exposed, mediated in part by the neonatal cortical gray matter volumes.”

2. “Cognitive ability in toddlers also mediated the association between in utero SARS-CoV-2 exposure and their early social-emotional development.”

3. “These findings highlight the need for continued surveillance to best identify and provide early interventions for at-risk children and provide new insights regarding prenatal exposures on early fetal programming."

4. “Further studies into the longitudinal effects of this exposure are currently ongoing.”

So, frightening and making me angry:
In-utero exposure to COVID-19 is associated with reduced neonatal brain volumes and persistent neurodevelopmental delays in cognition and social-emotional functioning by age 2.

‼️Please mothers, get vaccinated and AVOID sarscov2!
https://t.co/OGjwDlTNQG

[tern @1goodtern]

I think we've let the damage that covid infections do to *linings* slip into the background of all the other problems that covid infections cause.

I think this may be a *big* problem.

[fran @galacticidiots]

“I’d die for you” is nice and “I’d kill for you” is fun but “I’d live for you” is where it’s really at because isn’t that the hardest one of all

[Devon Price @drdevonprice]

The Tinder model scares me. You actually should have to speak to people you're not into on the most superficial level. Letting down people you're not attracted to while treating them as a full human is an important skill. And who knows what conversations you're missing out on!

[reb @rebmasel]

“um as you should?” to my best friend describing a felony

[November @postoctobrist]

Just got my films back and I have taken the most powerfully lesbian photo of my life

[Mia Mulder @Potatopolitics]

Hogwarts house in bio is maybe the worst thing I've ever seen

[free Palestine 🍉 @qwuur]

@AliceAvizandum SHE'S RIGHT!!! LET HER SPEAK!!!!!

[November @postoctobrist]

ME: the internet isn’t damaging my brain
ALSO ME: Bunty from the Chicken Run movies has butch realness

[free Palestine 🍉 @qwuur]

@viconsumer I am also autistic, but I don't use that as an excuse to ask pointed questions to trans women when the answer to said question is so widely available by a simple google search that it's the definition of "transgender" that even cis people can parrot. Be sensible fr

[chris person @Papapishu]

Wait a god damn minute

[November @postoctobrist]

often hear a submissive call a dominant ‘sir’ but seldom ‘guv’. speaks to lack of cultural impact of policing