I tore my rotator cuff lifting 2 years ago and resolved then to stay in my lane (i.e. not lifting), but this morning I was in bed reaching for my phone to tweet (i.e. consummately in my lane) and I tore it AGAIN lmaooo
Tanning is not a health behavior. It is an aesthetic choice that causes severe skin damage. Whether you get it from the sun or a sunbed, a tan is the skin's defense mechanism against injury.
@LordofWales@sorrowdrives@dark_salvatoree No, you’re imposing your valid but personal priorities on everyone, belittling people who configure their lives differently, then pretending your choices are “logic” rather than preference. I’m not sure why. You don’t owe other people monogamy, and nobody owes you promiscuity!
@icpolicy@tracewoodgrains No, you’ve asked six different questions that are addressed, to the extent supported by data, in neutral systematic reviews. You can read those, as can anyone; the data are limited, but not discrediting. You’re vastly overstating your case, even moreso than your opponents do.
@icpolicy@tracewoodgrains You’ve forked the thread (too keen), but postop infections are a risk in any major surgery, and many long-term medical treatments cause more common and severe comorbidities than gender-affirming hormomes. I think the issue here is you don’t accept the treated condition as real.
@icpolicy@tracewoodgrains The point of reviews like Cass is to weed out biased work (present in many fields, especially this one). The field is also poisoned by antitrans ideologues. Many patients have good outcomes that justify the care per standard ethical frameworks. Data will help target care to them.
@icpolicy@tracewoodgrains I made no comment about my education. Data on gender-affirming care is sparse, but doesn’t show that outcomes are unusually poor or that the care is intrinsically unethical. Multiple credible reviews, Cass among them, attest to this.
Look, I want to vote for socialists. And I will easily take this one over the Zionist. But the basic critique that wonks and neolibs have of socialist organizing in the US is correct: the Left doesn't filter for Cranks.
if were being so for real genital preference is a sign of a dead imagination and a lack of empathy. if you cannot see a body as relational to a person you aren't having sex but choosing a cut of meat
@icpolicy@tracewoodgrains Many people believe what you say here. They believe it because they haven’t actually looked at the outcomes from a wide range of other medical/surgical interventions, which have similar variation. They haven’t looked because they’re not actually interested in neutral appraisal.
@sorrowdrives@LordofWales@dark_salvatoree I totally get wanting to fuck multiple people, but I also get wanting to just fuck your favorite person and maybe also have a shot at avoiding herpes and its tiresome ilk. People have different preferences and priorities, not necessarily anything to do with prudery!
It's a very obvious point but I love this promo shot because every character is wearing a version of the little black dress that aligns to their personality.
There are only 236 of them left on Earth. Every single one has a name.
The kākāpō is the world's heaviest parrot - a mossy green, owl-faced bird the size of a small dog that cannot fly, may live to 90 years, and only breeds every 2 to 4 years when New Zealand's rimu trees produce enough fruit to trigger the urge.
Rats. Cats. Stoats. Humans clearing forests. The kākāpō never evolved to outrun any of them.
By 1995, 51 birds remained. Scientists, rangers, and Ngāi Tahu - the Māori people who have always known this bird as taonga, a treasure—evacuated every last one to predator-free islands.
Each bird got a transmitter. Each nest watched around the clock.
This past February 14th, the first kākāpō chick in four years hatched. They named her Tīwhiri. By spring, 59 chicks had been born.
236 birds. Every name known. Every nest watched.
Who's counting down the days until the rimu trees fruit again? 🦜
#DemsUnited #Nature
@grover_lou@mtomasky This would all be fine, but she just wasn’t brilliant. There are brilliant writers all across the political spectrum. She has never been one of them! Her mediocrity is an underrated part of what annoys people.
It all can be traced back to that week in April 2017, when The New York Times decided it had to be broad-minded in the wake of the election of the most narrow-minded man to occupy the White House since Andrew Johnson—or maybe ever. https://t.co/I1W2xQMRlZ