Alexa

[Shane @sbliss89]

New level of Catholic guilt unlocked: the pope wants to know why you haven’t finished that draft yet.

[bitterroot @soothsayher]

Not sure how to articulate this exactly but there’s a certain tendency with some people where they won’t speak about anything substantive when you talk to them, and the conversation is entirely like a perpetual “bit”. I don’t know how to relate in that way it’s so exhausting.

[͏b͏l͏a͏n͏c @dqveed]

Without exaggerating, it's my favorite video in the world

[Gülce @exitsenses]

You know you’ve lost your cluster b spark when it’s three in the morning and you’re casually discussing glaciology with your ex boyfriend without a knot in your stomach

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[bbl septic shock @haleyvemealone]

Guests use the weirdest cups 😂😂 nobody uses that one 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Examining Kate’s 1%

She has suspected endometriosis. This affects at least 1 in 10 women, likely more.

Here she’s getting an ultrasound.

Historically you needed surgery just to diagnose it (incisions are made in the abdomen). We're doing a non-invasive route.

Typically women live with endometriosis for 7-10 years before being diagnosed. It’s the leading reason women aged 30 to 34 get hysterectomies (permanent surgery to entirely remove the uterus).

This condition is where endometrial-like tissue starts growing outside the uterus, in ovaries, bowel, bladder, even the diaphragm. This tissue inflames, scars, and glues organs together.

Our first step is to find out if @_katetolo has it.

Initial measurements we’re doing:

+ trans vaginal ultrasound
+ pelvic MRI w and w/o contrast
+ hormonal labs

All during the early part of her cycle to get the clearest picture.

During her ultrasound, a slim probe, about the width of two fingers, 10-12 inches long (although only a small portion is inserted) is covered with a protective sheath and lubricant and gently inserted into the vagina (patient has to empty their bladder first). This creates real-time images of the uterus, ovaries, and surrounding pelvic structures. While inserted, the probe is turned 90 degrees to evaluate all the various structures, angles and views. There is no radiation exposure.

The technician is looking for scarring, ovarian cysts, adhesions, and for organs that are fused together with tissue. This ultrasound can confirm endometriosis but it cannot rule it out.

What endo does to the body:

+ 90% report pelvic pain
+ 50% report severe fatigue
+ 26% report infertility. However many sources cite 30 to 50 percent.
+ 50% experience pain during sex.
+ Many have pain with ovulation, bowel movements, and urination
+ Severe bloating called “endo belly” where the abdomen visibly distends

There are a handful of theories about why endometriosis develops but the honest answer is no one is quite sure.

We’ll keep you posted on her results.

[doomer @uncledoomer]

america is dotted with these graves, in towns that used to manufacture things, their only product now death from senseless violence and drugs, and those left behind there go about their lives in hollow numbness, because the alternative is a rage that would conflagrate the earth

[low yield lucy @picotop]

*popping a Zyn, sipping a Celsius, hitting the cart, eating Chipotle with extra e. coli, all while wearing polyester pants* so how concerned should I be about this hantavirus?

[AZ @azcontour]

The best olive oil I had in my life was from a moroccan woman whose family cold pressed it for personal usage in her homeland. It was in a scrunched up plastic bottle and very green. I have not tasted anything like it, not even in fine dining restaurants in greece or italy.

[www @w__h_]

design teams will need to bring back cities that fund art and design schools first

[Alexa @sigmund_foid]

This is life in Cleveland too

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

I miss New York so much and I miss the days when my calendar had daily drinks, dinner, and post-dinner drinks, all separate engagements, often also a coffee and / or lunch, and I would schedule in one STAY HOME ALONE night once every other week to preserve my sanity and liver.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

He started at 17 and retired at 85. In private letters, he referred to the condemned as "patients" rather than criminals.

In his spare time, he made money selling umbrellas to tourists — unaware they were buying from the Vatican's chief executioner...

[ida @saintgumi]

today i visited a cafe ran by an elderly couple and it made me wonder how many times they had to forgive each other

[Alexa @sigmund_foid]

Ever since I left the city Hi

[julian @YEAROFTHEWIZARD]

My bad, I thought you said 2 Brilliant dollars. No i dont have that much

[Lissa♥️♥️ @lizzkelly7]

The fake urgency created in corporate life for absolutely no reason is one of the worst things humans have invented.