#a worrisome trend

[hustlemeanokay]

Sometimes, I genuinely worry about the, what is it - Generation Z? Those who are about aged 20 or so. A lot of fic writers are in this age range, or at least they write like it/their concept of experiences read like it. (Nothing wrong with that at all, just gives off that vibe.) That's not the worrisome part. Not even the rise in CNC or dom/sub or like degradation kinks or anything like that. Those aren't worrisome - whatever tickles your pickle. What is worrisome, that I often see, is the loop around. I'll explain.

Character A (often male) will be a total and complete fuck-head; an asshole of epic proportions and Character B (often female or "reader") will get pissed about something and tell Character A to get fucked, rightfully so. OR Character A just yells at Character B for something because Character A is so "damaged" and they were pushed "too far" or something and Character B gets their feelings hurt, again - rightfully so. Anyway - so this event happens. Character A will often storm out or leave or something. And Character B will be angry/devastated/crying or whatever.

And okay, drama - I get it. But the issue that happens, the worrisome part... is that they will write Character B looping back around in their head and somehow believing that the whole thing really was their fault? Like "oh I shouldn't have pushed him that far" or "I really was being a bitch that day" or something and then Character B will completely take the blame for the whole thing and will be the one to apologize to Character A. And I'm always left sitting there just blinking at the screen. Because... that's not okay. That's really not okay. That's the loop around.

And I see this a lot. From a lot of different writers. And I genuinely hope that they know... that this is not okay in real life. Because art imitates life. We write about what we know and what we see and experience. And... this is not okay. Sometimes, yes - we can be a bitch and push buttons on purpose (male, fem, non-binary doesn't matter, I use bitch as a descriptive word) but we are responsible for our own actions. Not anyone else's. How someone reacts is their responsibility. While you can totally apologize for your behavior, you absolutely do not take all the blame if their response was to scream at you and storm out, making you think your entire relationship was over. Because keeping someone on edge like that? Pulling the rug out from under them and creating an environment with zero security? That's emotional abuse. Big time.

Over-reacting and loosing one's temper - not okay. Especially when you should be able to be a fucking adult and handle the situation while keeping in mind that you are still talking to the person you supposedly love. That's why things like name calling and shit are absolutely not okay, even in arguments - because they're still talking to their fucking partner. And if their anger has made them forget that? Or if they somehow think it's okay to call their partner names or say things specifically to hurt them? Then they are the asshole in the situation. If they're always threatening to leave or always kicking you out? That's fucking abuse, too.

So while I understand that there are kinks that revolve around degradation (not my bag but hey whatever) - there is a difference between playtime and real time. And when it's not playtime, that shit is not okay. And I really, really hope that these writers know that. Because seeing "reader" or Character B systematically, across multiple fics, multiple writers, take the blame for Character A's shitty behavior? It's worrisome.

[uncanny-tranny]

I dream of a future where all forms of AAC give people the option to swear, to talk about "gross" things, and to have as full a range of vocabulary and topics as the users want. It is no exaggeration to say that limiting a user's ability to speak on certain topics because they cannot access the speech through their AAC is silencing.

[reason-with-the-underdog]

the sumeru AQ's long lasting changes on society (and on hkvthm)

while yes a lot of this progress is due to kaveh & alhaitham working out their differences (they used their words!)

this is also in part due to the sumeru AQ results, specifically that nahida is freed to guide the nation & the anti-arts trend that had been pushed by the akademiya under azar is now much less prominent

kaveh was worried about his rental situation being known bc then his bankruptcy would be public

& as the "light of the kshahrewar" and a prominent figure famous for being passionate about the arts, he couldn't let his personal insolvency look bad for the rest of the arts community/kshahrewar darshan

he's not ashamed of being bankrupt/poor, he knowingly took on that debt & would do it again. but he's always concerned about the weight and cost that fame & titles have on the person underneath (ie, he's expressed concern for the well-being of those lauded as "genius" & "god")

but after the AQ, the akademiya is cleaned out of azar's cronies & new sages are installed, ones that aren't actively trying to devalue arts & personal expression, which means there's less pressure on kaveh to be the perfect exemplar who's the envy of all

so that's a big relief for kaveh mentally as time goes on

also we know he hasn't missed a debt payment with dori, so he's been able to make good progress on his financial situation, so now it's not as worrisome for his living with alhaitham to be known

(he's living there by choice! not out of financial penury)

...plus, he now can admit to himself & to the public that he actually enjoys alhaitham's company now

so yeah now alhaitham & kaveh are just incredibly domestic and hanging out in public in addition to their at home time 😊 (as shown in their birthday letters)

in summary i honestly think that alhaitham & kaveh have been like this (cyno sq 2) all the way since last july 2023 at the time of kaveh's bday letter

its so nice to actually see them interact on screen though

[transmutationisms]

thots on astrology? related, thoughts on mbti?

k i like that you guys just pop in my inbox from time to time and invite me to run my mouth about topics and concepts. like truly what else is this website for.

anyway astrology (& sorry, most of what i know here pertains specifically to europe in the middle ages onward) is genuinely such a bizarro historical case of a science whose core epistemological presupposition (a geocentrist and specifically anthropocentrist cosmology) has completely fallen out of favour in both popular and professional discourse, and i don't think most people appreciate how weird it is for astrology to continue existing with this degree of popular and mainstream participation lol. like most fringe science actually bothers to have some semblence of its own reactionary epistemology to fall back on; astrology just doesn't seem to care. it would be like if the medical guilds fully endorsed the position that blood is circulated in the human body by the heart, but then also recommended as treatments for clotting disorders medical practices that only make sense on the supposition that the liver is the origin of all blood and is continuously creating more of it. like no other science that i can think of tries to have it both ways to the extent astrology does. like, one reason phrenology and eugenics are bad comparison points here is because they're very much copacetic with post-enlightenment naturalism and evolutionary transpositions in the social sciences. astrology, like, intellectually is not and yet here it is anyway. ideology innit.

anyhow i assume the reason you asked about this in conjunction with mbti is because today's astrology is largely purporting to provide psychological analysis and is therefore more similar to a system like mbti than to the historical use of star-reading as a predictive science. obviously both astrology and mbti are deeply reactionary in this respect and belong to a larger trend toward attempting to categorise, measure, and taxonomise the psyche, tho an important difference here is that mbti has hereditarian elements, which no form of astrology that i know of does. i think astrology's shift in the personal-psychological direction has to do with a few different factors, including medical astrological practice (orthodox in the european middle ages, then varying degrees of heterodox from the early modern period onward) and self-help movements in the 20th century.

but in any case it, mbti, and similar attempts at psychometry are, like, staggeringly essentialist in conception and practice, and i do think their current popularity reflects some deeply reactionary tendencies amongst people who often (not always) consider themselves otherwise progressive or leftist. it's honestly kind of worrisome how many people will jump on a project that explicitly aims to define static and immutable human 'types' as long as it's dressed in quasi-spiritual or psy-scientific terminology. like i do think we all need to pause and think about the ideological ends and consequences of how we talk about each other and our bodies, minds, and birth circumstances 😵‍💫

[anachronisticmech]

As a disabled person, the ‘bedrotting “trend”’ is absolutely disgusting.

I don’t even know how to explain all my feelings about it, but seeing ableds talk about it like something they can choose to do, something they can do for fun, even, makes me feel absolutely awful.

Some days I am stuck in bed for long amounts of time because it hurts too much to move or I’m too dizzy to even sit up, and my chronic illness is not the worst example of even people who have the same chronic illness as me.

I can physically feel my muscle rotting on particularly bad days because of my lack of movement. They may not actually be rotting, but that doesn’t change how it feel to me. I feel like my body is dying constantly, and I can’t do anything but lie here and scroll through Instagram reels with a heat pillow between my back and the mattress.

My depression also affects my getting up, though I mainly want to focus on chronic illness and physical disability since I feel like it isn’t talked about enough.

That is not a hobby, a trend, or a past time. That is a seriously worrisome act that shows how much chronic illness (and other disorders) can disable those who have it.

I do not cry at night after a long day of laying in my bed because I was too sore and sick to do anything else for some able bodied person to say that it’s ‘perfect’ and try to make it aesthetic.

Fucking think about what your doing. Us disableds are left out of so many peoples minds, either unintentionally, or because people don’t want to or see the point in thinking of us. And it’s horrible.

I got very upset seeing some of the things people were saying while trying to claim it was a ‘trend’ and just needed to rant about it. Please think about us before you do shit like this.

[sniperct]

See that white line? That's the water line. That shows the highest it's ever gotten. At one point that bar of land there used to be mostly underwater though.

This looks very low. I don't know if it means its in a drought, or part of a more natural rhythm, or something to do with the dams on the river like I read in the reserve's wikipedia article. I'm inclined to think it's just a seasonal low but the wikipedia article did say a lake on the reserve had gotten low due to dams.

For comparison, here is a lake that is literally drying up, you can see the white water line there, and the comparison of those massive towers. Hard to describe the scale but I grew up near this and they're huge:

Uvac Special Nature Reserve, Serbia by Aleksandar Bubanja

[neyafromfrance95]

the scary surge in conservatism amongst some gen z is so obvious even when observing some corners of the fandom spaces.

for example, trop gave us:

galadriel. her main characteristic is that she is a leader who always does things her own way. she is a strong willed warrior; she doesn't conform to the gender norms; she is allowed anger, trauma, flaws such as pride.

haladriel. a very sexy dynamic that is essentially fantastical and metaphorical.

while i believe that these two aspects of the show are the most successful at appealing to the audiences, there are people who are inadequately hateful:

they want to turn galadriel into a tradwife. they want her sidelined and reduced to the role of a domestic nurturer even though she is never defined as such in the lore or in any other adaptation. she has always been a great leader first and foremost.

they have a puritanical disdain towards sauron x galadriel. they lack the media literacy necessary to perceive and analyze the symbolic storytelling, distinguishing it from the real life. the sexual undertones of haladriel's dynamic outrage them and they make it their mission to shame the "horny shippers".

the hate against galadriel has always been misogynistic at its' core and i think hating on the female protagonists is unfortunate and worrisome trend in fandom spaces that remains unchecked. the hate against haladriel also reveals the prevailing sex-negative mentality that goes hand in hand with pro-censorship.

[bordysbae]

26. "do this tiktok with me" with quinn!! it’s the lipstick on your lovers face trend!! he doesn’t like tiktok trends but he likes this one bc he gets a whole lot of kisses!!

“temporary tattoos”

quinn hughes x f!reader

🦋 BORDYSBAE’S 500 CELLY

— ୨୧ —

“quinn, do this tiktok with me!” you exclaim as you turn your phone towards him.

“you know i hate making tiktoks, y/n,” he groans. you look up at him with puppy dog eyes and jut out your bottom lip. he sighs, “fine. only because i get kisses.”

you immediately jump off the couch and take his hand in yours. you rush to the bathroom and put red lipstick on your lips, and you begin kissing quinn all over his face. he laughs a little as you do so, but he’s not complaining. “now i’m gonna smudge my lipstick, and you’re gonna fix it with your thumb, okay? then the camera will pan towards you and you’re gonna have lots of kiss marks on your face, understand?”

“whatever you say missy,” he smiles. you start recording and smudge your lipstick. quinn then wipes it with his thumb, meanwhile you move the camera towards him. his cheeks turn a little rosy as he see’s himself with lots of kiss marks, but as long as they’re from you he’s perfectly content.

“perfect! we got it done in the first take, i’m so proud of us! and yes quinn, you can wash it off now,” you laugh. he gives you a kiss on top of your head as you leave the room to let him wash his face. a few minutes later, he comes out of the bathroom with a worrisome facial expression.

“y/n… it stained my face,” he nervously says. you immediately look up from your phone and giggle at quinn’s red stained skin.

“oh quinny, you don’t like my temporary tattoos?!” you joke, before getting off the bed to grab makeup wipes.

“this isn’t funny y/n!” he groans as he follows you into the bathroom.

“quinn you need to use makeup wipes to get it off. here take these,” you say as you hand him the package. he doesn’t take them from your hands and you furrow your brows. suddenly his eyes turn soft and a small grin appears on his face. “can you wipe it off?” he innocently says.

“really quinn? is this just an excuse to stand between my legs?” you chuckle as you sit on the bathroom counter. your boyfriend stands between your legs, and you pull his brown hair into a small ponytail on top of his head.

“maybe…” he smiles, making you roll your eyes at him per usual.

[xoxochb]

⋆·˚ ༘ * my wait is you and I won’t go on

warnings: angst, self doubt, redeeming fluff, this takes place at chb (post hoo), this is mostly based off of me so please be kind

pairing: jason grace x daughter of poseidon

summary: based on the trend symphonia IX trend!

A/N: okay okay so backstory! I came across this trend and I started scrolling through the videos using the song and I saw the cutest one and this girl said “I wish I had real friends” and her boyfriend said “you’ll always have me” and I knew I had to write this asap!!

the sea is for the people who feel lonely or lost, happily taking in anyone who has feelings of self doubt or any worrisome thoughts, making them disappear forever, never letting these awful thoughts take over the mind of their beloveds

that’s why most of your time is spent by the water, especially recently. you didn’t have many friends except for your boyfriend and brother. why? you were unsure.

did people hate you? did they think you were weird? what made you unapproachable? did people find you obnoxious? did they think you were weird because you didn’t socialize much? were you hated because your father broke an oath and they thought you were in trustable?

you truly did not know

but what you did know was that you missed your brother. he went back to new york while you stayed back at camp to be a year-round camper. you couldn’t help but feel somewhat selfish for wanting percy to stay with you instead of finishing school, and this haunted you.

perhaps you were hated because of your selfishness? would you even consider yourself selfish?

you lay awake in bed thinking about this. when was the last time you slept? you can’t even remember the last time you actually got out of bed before one in the afternoon!

was this dramatic? you don’t believe so, but your self esteem is so low you start believing it is

you sit up from your sleeping position (you weren’t sleeping anyways) and turn to the boy laying beside you, an arm thrown around your waist

you felt bad about leaving him to lay alone but you couldn’t lay in bed anymore, the thoughts would only get worse if you did. you remove his arm from you with a kiss to the top of his head, then make your way out of cabin one (opposed to cabin three, yes, they’re both empty but the more time you spent in your cabin made you think of percy so jason suggested you sleep in cabin one) to sit by the ocean for a while until your doubts were drowned by the waves

it was fine sitting there for maybe thirty seconds? but the more you looked into the ocean, the more it reminded you of percy and then before you know it tears are pooling out from your eyes

this wasn’t supposed to happen

wasn’t the ocean supposed to help? it always helps you!

you wipe the tears away from your cheeks with a sigh and for a moment it’s silent, but that’s until you see someone sit beside you on the sand

and it’s not just anyone, no, it’s your sweet jason grace

“did I wake you? I’m sorry”

“no, you’re fine” he gently takes your hand in his “are you okay?”

you internally curse him for being so gentle with you because at this very moment you feel the tears making their way back out

“I don’t know” you look up to the sky to prevent the tears from coming out “it’s a lot”

“that’s alright. I’ll be here for as long as you need”

you take a moment to form the words into a sentence “I miss percy. a lot.” you sigh before continuing “I wish I had real friends. I love you and percy, I really do, but it hurts to know that nobody even thinks of approaching me”

“you’ll always have me. you don’t need any of those idiots who don’t want to talk to you, they don’t know what they’re missing out on”

you lay your head on his shoulder and look out to the water. It doesn’t seem so depressing to look at anymore

but perhaps that’s because the ocean was only special if you’re there with someone you love

or maybe because jason was your sea

[cuckolding-books-library]

A LESBIANIZED TOWN

=====================

Most people didn't pay much attention to the opening of Tricia's and Naomi's women-only massage studio in the small town of Sanford Hills. The number of costumers peaked quickly, though. The comments posted in the studio's website were uniformly positive and included sentences such as "A life changing experience," "A wonderful, sensual session", "Exactly what I had been missing all my life" and "If you haven't yet visited their studio, you are missing the most wonderful things a woman can experience in her life." Most costumers also advised their friends to visit the studio.

If Tricia and Naomi hadn't advised their costumers to be very discreet and cautious, the massage studio would have been a source of scandal among the inhabitants of the town. The local preacher caught his sister-in-law kissing a woman who had got married at his church a few months before, and in his next sermon he advised his parishioners to be vigilant against the worrisome trends of "unnatural closeness" between women. This was not only followed by a sharp drop in attendance to Sunday mass, but also by a harsh scolding from his wife and his own brother advice to be more open minded.

"Ladies night" at the local pub became "Ladies only night". At first, male costumers tried to oppose the pub owner's decision, but after their initial reluctance, male costumers accepted the new rules without much ado.

There was a sharp spike in demand for couples therapy, and rumours of sexual dissatisfaction from wives. Some couples, sought the advice of one the two male marriage counsellors of the town. The more religious couples, sought the advice of their pastor. Irrespective of whose advice they sought, husbands were told to do anything to make their wives happy.

There was a short lasting peak in the local divorce rate, but the couples that divorced were only the peak of the iceberg, compared with the number of couples whose life was changed forever after the opening of the massage studio.

Your wife, for instance, was one of Tricia's and Naomi's first costumers, one of the first to beg them to finger-fuck her, one of the first to post one of the "life changing experience" comments, one of the first costumers to lick Naomi's pussy. But, most of all, your wife was one of the first to invite over one of the lesbianized wives and to ask her to stay over as you slept in the guest bedroom. However, she cannot claim to be the only one who has blatantly cuckolded her husband with another woman, in her own house, in her own master bedroom, in her own marital bed; the list of competitors is larger than the inhabitants of the town would dare to believe.

Although you probably aren't very proud of it, you were one of the first hubbies of Stanford Hills cuckolded by a lesbian, one of the first trained to serve a lesbian couple and one of the first to wait hand and foot on the women who went to the pub on the "Ladies-only nights". Your wife followed Tricia and Naomi's advice to the letter, "your hubby will never be able to give you the intense orgasms you will experience with women, but properly trained hubbies can still be useful. Once they become cuckolds, once they accept that they are no longer allowed to rule their wives' sex life, or to even comment on it, they can make very good and very submissive servants, whose only aim in life will be making their wives' life easier."

You were not the only one, though. The long list includes your two brothers… but also the two male marriage counsellors of the town. You even heard rumours about the preacher's wife, and one of the rumours is that she and a close female friend of her love to peg him. In one of his most recent sermons he said, "a husband who fails to support his wife friendship with another woman isn't keeping his marital vows and, because of this, he's a sinner." But maybe you'll learn very soon if the rumours have some foundation; the pastor's wife has invited your wife and you over ...

[alohajun]

♡ SHADOW — KIM MINGYU

mingyu x fem!reader | wc : 0.5k words | content : possible grammar and spelling mistakes, lowercase intended, established relationship, fluffity fluff, swearing, playful teasing | loki’s lines : atp i don’t have an excuse maybe i am a seventeen writer at heart

silence. absolute pure silence.

it was pin-drop silent as mingyu walked into your shared apartment, brows furrowed in worry at the lack of noise.

you said you were home, but why is it so silent? were you sick? were you okay?

all sorts of worrisome questions ran through your boyfriend's head as he took off his shoes, wondering what had happened.

and that was when he heard it.

“oh my fucking goodness, what the actual fucking fuckity fuck of a thirst trap is this?!” you screamed, staring at the video you had just received on your phone.

mingyu's soul left his body upon hearing your scream, quickly rushing to your room to see what was the issue.

“babe–”

“you are telling me that is kim mingyu?!” the male paused in his tracks, standing near the doorway as he listened to you talk to someone over the phone. “dude, you are joking.”

jinny laughed, finding her best friend's reaction hilarious. “i'm being for real. his fancam has been trending everywhere,” she commented.

mingyu raised his brow in confusion, wondering why his girlfriend and her best friend were talking about a fancam of his.

stay with me 어느 순간에도.

kim mingyu smiled upon hearing his voice, realising which fancam you were screaming about. it was a clip from their “be the sun” tour in jakarta.

the rain really took the cake, he thought to himself.

“how many more times are you gonna watch it?” jinny questioned, hearing the same lyric around ten times in the past minute.

“as long as it takes me to believe this is mingyu,” you muttered in awe, hitting replay once again.

“y/n, that really is mingyu!”

“you are telling me i'm dating him?! i'm dating the rain-soaked deep-voiced thirst-trapping guy in this video?! that's my mingyu?!”

mingyu peeked into your room, grinning ear to ear. “yep, the one and only, truly yours,” he announced, bowing mockingly.

a quiet gasp left your lips, the disbelief only doubling when your best friend hung up, leaving you to fend your actions alone.

“exactly, how much did you hear?”

mingyu chuckled. “as much as i needed to hear,” he replied, smile widening when your cheeks flushed in embarrassment.

“ah,” you whined. “forget about it. you heard nothing!”

“don't do that, babe.” mingyu joined you on the bed, easily pulling you into his embrace. “it makes me happy when you say things like that.”

you raised your brows, looking skeptically. “me fangirling over your fancam is not cringy at all to you?” you inquired.

your boyfriend rolled his eyes playfully. “i fanboy over you every day, my love. do you find that cringy?” he stated, as if it was the obvious.

“no, of course not! it’s your way of showing your love and i love that.” kim mingyu raised a brow knowingly, smiling adoringly when you realized your own words. “oh … i see.”

“i love you, y/n … especially when you are fangirling over an actual fucking fuckity fuck of a thirst trap of mine.”

[loki-zen]

so now the AI art thing has died down a bit, here’s what I think is an actually worrisome trend in how we as a society use technology:

1. a technology is pitched as able to replicate something else, e.g. ‘you don’t need to travel to someone to see them!’

2. this vastly underestimated the complexity of the steps in between; i.e. every camera and especially your built-in laptop camera is vastly inferior to the human eye in almost every respect, not to mention all the other ways in which a video chat doesn’t replicate seeing someone in real life in the context of eg a doctor’s appointment

3. the technology is nevertheless implemented as if it did replicate the thing perfectly and now you are being awkward if you want the objectively better thing we used to have

[barklikeagod]

ignore that it says dog but AHHHH!!!!!!

can my cat stop waking up every time i go to take his resting respiratory rate. i’m trying to monitor your heart condition loser go to SLEEP!!!

[covid-safer-hotties]

Also preserved on our archive

by Kristen Monaco

Risk of new diabetes diagnosis was higher compared with non-COVID respiratory infections

Children and teens had an increased risk of being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes after COVID-19 infection, a retrospective cohort study of over 600,000 youth suggested.

Adolescents 10 to 19 years old had a 55% higher risk for a new diagnosis of type 2 diabetes 1 month after a COVID diagnosis compared with peers diagnosed with a non-COVID respiratory bug (risk ratio [RR] 1.55, 95% CI 1.28-1.89), reported Pauline Terebuh, MD, MPH, of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and colleagues.

The risk of a new type 2 diabetes diagnosis remained elevated at 3 months (RR 1.48, 95% CI 1.24-1.76) and 6 months (RR 1.58, 95% CI 1.35-1.85) after COVID infection, the group detailed in JAMA Network Openopens in a new tab or window.

"Youth diagnosed with diabetes will carry the burden of diabetes-related complications and increased medical costs for many years," Terebuh told MedPage Today. "All potential contributors to that trend are deserving of our attention, including COVID-19 and the increasing prevalence of obesity."

"COVID-19 is becoming endemic and strategies for mitigating its impact are extremely important," she said.

"SARS-CoV-2 may have the ability to selectively infect human pancreatic β cells, and if this triggers apoptosis, the ability of the pancreas to secrete insulin may be impaired," the researchers suggested. "Though T2D [type 2 diabetes] is usually considered to be a disease of insulin resistance rather than insulin lack, for newly diagnosed patients, the origin may not be entirely clear or confined to a single pathobiologic cause."

This wasn't the first time research suggested a link between COVID infection and diabetes in youth, but up until this point, most research focused on the relationship with type 1 diabetes. However, these studies have shown mixed results, with some studies indicating a linkopens in a new tab or window, and others dismissing the associationopens in a new tab or window.

Terebuh said while data have indicated an overall increase in new diagnosesopens in a new tab or window of type 2 diabetes among youth during the first year of the pandemic, this uptick has been a "worrisome trend" for decades.

"However, lots of things changed for youth during the pandemic from access to food to level of activity and stress," she pointed out. "The association with a COVID-19 diagnosis, per se, was not clear." To delve further into the topic, the researchers reviewed electronic health records on 613,602 patients from the TriNetX analytics platforms between January 2020 and December 2022. This included 306,801 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 (mean age 14.9 years, 52.8% female) and 306,801 with other respiratory infections (mean age 14.9 years, 52.6% female), after propensity score-matching.

Preexisting diabetes was grounds for exclusion.

In a subpopulation of adolescents with a BMI designating overweight or obesity (BMI in the 85th percentile for age or higher), a COVID diagnosis was tied with higher risks for developing type 2 diabetes at all three follow-up points compared with other respiratory infections: 1 month after: RR 2.07 (95% CI 1.12-3.83) 3 months after: RR 2.00 (95% CI 1.15-3.47) 6 months after: RR 2.27 (95% CI 1.38-3.75)

"New drugs for diabetes and obesity, such as GLP-1 receptor antagonists, provided they are safe, may have a role that should be studied," Terebuh suggested. Additionally, the researchers found the risk for developing type 2 diabetes was the highest for adolescents who were hospitalized within 1 month of a documented COVID infection: 1 month: RR 3.10 (95% CI 2.04-4.71) 3 months: RR 2.74 (95% CI 1.90-3.96) 6 months: RR 2.62 (95% CI 1.87-3.66)

Some diabetes diagnoses may have been preexisting and were discovered during the encounter for infection, the researchers pointed out. "Diagnoses made in the first month following infection may well represent preexisting disease, since the diagnosis of T2D is often confirmed by HbA1c measurements, which use mean blood glucose levels over the life span of the erythrocyte, or over 3 to 4 months," they wrote.

It will be important to test whether patients diagnosed soon after COVID-19 infection continue to meet diagnostic criteria for type 2 diabetes to separate patients who had diabetes from those who became hyperglycemic only during the metabolic stress of infection, they added.

Other limitations included potential confounders like vaccination status, socioeconomic status, BMI, or insulin resistance. In addition, patients with obesity and overweight weren't matched for obesity-specific treatments.

Study Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2824731

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

NLG Condemns the US Government Attack on Samidoun and the Palestinian Solidarity Movement, Calls for an End to Resurgent McCarthyism

The National Lawyers Guild strongly condemns the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designation of Samidoun as “a sham charity that serves as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization,” and the listing of long-time Palestinian- Canadian activist Khaled Barakat “as associated with terrorism.” 

Done in coordination with the government of Canada, this designation will have a broad chilling effect on Palestine solidarity work in North America.  Above all, it is designed to disrupt the unprecedented global tidal wave of support for the liberation of Palestine.  The crackdown on our constitutionally protected speech is a worrisome development at any moment in time but in particular right now as social movements confront the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza, the Israeli war on Lebanon, and the general global trend toward fascism.

[thedroneranger]

Giddy Up

Jake "Hangman" Seresin

Synopsis: Mrs. Seresin always picks up Jake when he returns from deployment. He likes to make sure she can easily find him.

Notes: A To-Do List imagine inspired by this.

Warnings: Suggestive, but mostly fluff

Word count: 0.5k

Airport pick-ups were the worst. The traffic alone was enough for her to consider paying a car service to pick up Jake. The drive was always longer than she wanted, and she always held her breath that his Ram 1500 would fit into the garage. 

However, that first hug made the slog worth it.

Her sneakers squeaked as she traversed the corridors between the parking garage and luggage claim. The butterflies in her chest fluttered. The excitement of Jake coming home never ceased. Although the most worrisome part was over—he was coming home to her—her nerves were still electric.

When they were apart for months, or even weeks, things sometimes changed. A haircut, a new piercing or maybe a new fashion trend. Sometimes Jake came home with shorter hair or bulked up from a protein-rich diet and unfettered gym access.

As she neared the luggage carousels, the crowd thickened. She scanned the sea of people, but no sign of Jake. People streamed around her—most careful to mind their limbs. Vigiliant, she kept searching.

There!

Instead of Jake’s blond coif, she spied his fawn-colored, slightly askew, Stetson. He always made a point to wear it so she could easily spot him. It served its purpose both in the airport and at the docks. 

The masses seemed to part and give her a perfect view of Jake in a black v-neck, broken-in Levi’s and aviators hooked on his shirt collar. 

They made eye contact as they floated toward each other. “Hey, cowboy.” She wrapped her arms around his middle as they met. He wrapped his arms around her shoulders and pushed his lips to hers. His hat perched perfectly for her to fit underneath. 

“Hey, pretty woman.” He responded after their kiss. Neither of them could stop smiling. Jake pulled her in for another kiss. This time, his tongue dipped into her mouth. 

Her hands dropped lower until they were tucked in the back pockets of his jeans. 

“I can’t wait to get you home.” His lips remained against hers as he spoke. Then his hands traveled south until they were almost on her ass. She fully pressed herself against his front. 

She bit her lip as she looked up at him. Jake definitely didn’t understand how much power he wielded. His deep dimples and eye crinkles made her weak. And, somehow, his dazzling smile hadn’t killed her yet. 

As she studied his features, he freed an arm to pluck his hat off his head and place it on hers. It slipped over her eyes, but Jake quickly adjusted it. 

“Seems like we have plans when we get home, cowboy.” She glanced up at the brim.

He hummed in agreement. As they separated, she ran her hand down his arm until their fingers laced. Hand-in-hand, they strolled toward the parking garage. 

Suddenly, Jake looked at her. She returned the gaze, waiting for him to say something. “Do you still have your saloon girl outfit?”

A smile broke across her face. “It’s in the closet next to your chaps.” 

He bit his lip. The thoughts flooding his mind were best left unsaid in public. “Dress up for the evening?”

She couldn’t help but laugh. “I don’t mind dressing up to go for a ride.”

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