Rula Corleone

[剑女友 sword gf ☭ @punishedgarage]

fully subscribing to the žižek/kirke theory of self

[Veronica, Collagen Scientist 🇵🇱 @celestialbe1ng]

Two months before she killed her children with exercise bands, Lindsay Clancy told her prescriber she was unable to determine what was real. Disoriented, forgetful, confused, disconnected.

They kept writing scripts.

Here's what she reported and what they gave her, in order.

Mid October 2022. A psychiatrist starts her on 25mg of Zoloft. Within days it's doubled to 50.

She reports she hasn't slept in 48 hours. Racing thoughts. Worsening anxiety.

20 October. She reports heart palpitations and says her mental health is getting worse.

They take her off the Zoloft and prescribe Ativan and Benadryl.

16 November. She goes to the ER with insomnia, anxiety and heart palpitations.

She's sent home with trazodone.

20 November. Her mother in law rings a perinatal behavioural health programme.

Lindsay tells them she's "very frustrated, scared" with extreme insomnia and racing thoughts. They prescribe Prozac.

24 November. She reports the Prozac is making her insomnia worse.

So they add Ambien, Remeron and Klonopin. Three more on top.

The very next day she tells the practitioner she's unable to determine what's real. Disoriented. Forgetful. Confused. Disconnected.

Nobody stops.

28 November. She's getting three hours of sleep. Disoriented and scared.

They prescribe Seroquel. Her husband testified last week that this is where "her big spiral started".

2 December. She reports she's suicidal and hearing things.

Three days later she rings a crisis hotline asking to be admitted. She's told she doesn't meet the criteria.

6 December. She and Patrick go back to the practitioner together. He tells them she's far worse since starting the Seroquel.

They increase the dose.

20 December. Back to the ER, suicidal. The next day she admits herself into a programme and is removed, because the doctor says she's just overmedicated and doesn't have a mental health issue.

She admits herself to a different hospital. She's discharged with trazodone.

10 January. A psychiatrist prescribes Valium, then amitriptyline.

On 24 January she reported hearing a male voice say: "This is your last chance. Kill the children so you can kill yourself."

Her kids were 5, 3 and 8 months.

13 psychiatric drugs in four months. She reported it was getting worse at every single stage and every single time the answer was another drug.

Not one person in that chain asked whether the treatment had become the illness.

This was not a mysterious psychiatric event appearing out of nowhere. It was a progressive collapse of brain function under postpartum stress, extreme insomnia, autonomic overdrive and relentless pharmacological interference.

The warning signs were explicit: racing thoughts, palpitations, worsening anxiety, disorientation, derealisation, suicidality and hallucinations. Yet every sign of deterioration was interpreted as a reason to add, switch or increase another drug.

Psychiatry cannot keep pretending that SSRIs, benzodiazepines, antipsychotics, sedating antidepressants and hypnotics are inert tools with no capacity to induce activation, akathisia, paradoxical reactions, delirium, withdrawal states or psychosis. These outcomes are documented, and this is not the first case in which severe behavioural disintegration followed escalating psychiatric polypharmacy.

The most disturbing fact is not that one clinician made one mistake but that an entire system repeatedly watched her lose contact with reality and still treated the worsening condition as proof that she needed more chemical suppression.

At some point, the treatment became part of the disease. The establishment does not want that sentence said out loud, which is exactly why it needs to be said louder.

[yimika. @yimikaaaa]

My mom told me 'Addiction is proof that you are capable of intense devotion.... You just serve a false god'
I haven’t been the same since.

[P🏹 @1namill_e]

toronto really moving like gotham a bitch can’t even salsa on st clair

[B/R Football @brfootball]

Lamine Yamal caught his little brother on the big screen 🤣

[Rula Corleone @rula1791]

Live, laugh, rage bait

[Ayanokoji @layeee09]

Le vieux du quartier m’a dit : « N’oublie pas que la boussole a été inventée avant l’horloge parce que la direction est plus importante que le temps. »

[𝒩🐆 @blessedtashi]

ME CENTERED

[✧♡° ₛₐffᵢᵣₑ°♡✧ @fknfairygoddess]

No revenge because the woman I’ve become wouldn’t notice you.

[dior ✞ @deeore5]

the older i get the heller the no

[soilliam @soilliam]

The secret to life is having clothes you like wearing 

[blue @bluewmist]

if you don't connect w bigger things (sunlight, history, art, nature, love), you will make the ill mistake of believing you are the big thing

[Nornal Guy 🧙‍♂️ @theralkia]

Because physics, neuroscience, and psychology, when followed all the way down, lead undeniably to God

[soup🌱 @thrluv]

“no one is coming to save y-“ the universe will literally rearrange itself for me, please

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

Canadian doctors when you visit them with a cold:

[🎒Shailja #FreePalestine Patel @shailjapatel]

Your scheduled reminder that the U.S. bombing of Baghdad in 2003 burned Iraq's National Library and Archives, which housed all the PhD dissertations ever written by Iraqi women.

[Interesting STEM @InterestingSTEM]

They capture the exact moment when a developing heart shifts from silence to its first beat. There is no “switch”: many cells gradually become active and, upon crossing a critical threshold, the entire tissue suddenly synchronizes.

[Elliot Overton @EO_Nutrition]

This man singlehandedly destroyed science as an institution

His name was Robert Maxwell, and he was the father of Ghislaine Maxwell

He turned scientific knowledge into a commodity, locked it behind a paywall, a created the system which breeds authoritarian, conformist scientists who are terrified to challenge established dogma

His system weaponized science for elite control

British jew, media tycoon, and Mossad agent

He was the first to turn scientific publishing into a ruthless commercial business, locked behind steep paywalls.

In 1951 he founded Pergamon Press, which launched hundreds of niche scientific journals - each a tiny monopoly in its field, demanding expensive subscriptions

Overnight, freely available public-domain scientific knowledge became gated behind high costs, accessible only to an “intellectually elite” class… the new “intelligentsia”

He called this setup “a perpetual financing machine.” and it became the template for the entire industry today.

This commercial monopoly on science extracts free labor from scientists, who work tirelessly to write papers, review work and edit manuscripts to further their career prospects - all at no cost,

The profit margins for scientific journals far exceed almost every other industry. The top publisher’s margins are higher than Google and Apple. Elsevier, for example, brought in ~ $1.4 billion profit in 2024 alone.

This is a huge business which artificially inflates the cost of knowledge dissemination - that is ironically funded in large part by the taxpayer.

Unfortunately the entire business model incentivises VOLUME over QUALITY: Careers, grants, and promotions tie to publication count in "prestigious" (high-fee) journals.

This means that researchers are penalized for publishing less, and are instead rewarded for pumping out high quantity with little inherent value.

In other words, there are tangible benefits to publishing junk science, manipulated data and fabrication.

This model disincentivizes and actively punishes genuine scientific curiosity, independent thinking, long-term/risky work, and controversial opinions or lines of research which challenge established dogma.

It breeds authoritarian, conformist, self-censoring scientists who are averse to risk.

Furthermore, it laid the foundation for a gated elite class of “intelligentsia”. Only those in the “club” at wealthy scientific institutions, who tow the party line, are granted access to scientific knowledge. Those who stray too far from the norm are shunned and expelled.

The ultimate result? A bloated, generic mess of low-rigor, irreproducible papers

This model, which still dominates to this day, facilitated the corporatization and weaponization of of science

What began as a relentless pursuit for truth was coopted and sacrificed for endless greed & elite control of knowledge itself

[cherrie @cherrishkhera]

every time i try to have an original research idea but Zhang et al. already published it 3 years ago