GOD I need to stop listening to The Silt Verses right before bed
Not cause it's scary - I mean, it is scary in a way, in several ways, and frankly this episode (33) had its goddamn moments what the fuck - but because I get hype and want to come on here and verbally shake people until they understand.
I'm especially caught right now by the juxtaposition of the Roemont and Val scenes. Frankly, I'm really tired of people acting like how they're remembered is the important part of their lives, and it was INFURIATING to listen to Roemont wax poetic about all the things he's done for the Faith and how all of the work of his life will be undone if future editors of the Verses think Faulkner's story eclipses his, and cut him out as irrelevant. Like. Come the fuck on dude, the work of your life wasn't to do all these things, but rather to continue to receive acclaim for them centuries after you're dead? The complete lack of self-awareness or perspective is distasteful.
But then. The Last Word, the Retcon God. THIS is what it would be to have the work of your life erased. HE is the editor snipping events out of reality itself.
Roemont is whining about how someone he hates is gonna be more popular than him in a century or two, and up north Val is rewriting perceptions on the fly. Roemont is mad some people who never met him will forget that he gave the order to reclaim the Gulch, and up north Val is forcing a woman to forget that her husband and son ever existed, and because she said so, they actually didn't!
sometimes i get soo pissed at faulkner cause he does so many stupid things but you need to remember he’s just a kid. like he honestly can’t be older than 23. he’s the youngest katabasian and he’s just dug himself into this hole because he needed any form of validation. i’m glad he’s regretting all his actions and realizing he made some shit choices now but the boy just needs a break :(
Inviting my besties to the tea party and it's the most depressed and suffering trio of prophets you've ever met
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Two venn diagrams. The first is about Faulkner and Paige and says, "I accomplished what I set out to do and it's the worst thing in my life. I hate the role I've trapped myself into" in the overlapping section.
The second diagram is about Val and Faulkner and says, "I've done a lot of bad things but it's fine, the end result will be worth it guys I promise this had to be done hey-"
My favorite character is Carpenter bc of her middle aged poor little meow meow swag, but my favorite duo is Paige and Hayward bc I love it when men are hopelessly devoted to hot cool competent women. Either way it's #feminism
COVID vaccine efficacy against severe illness just under 50%, per early estimates from 2023 - Published Aug 20, 2024
Two European observational studies estimate the vaccine effectiveness (VE) of the COVID-19 XBB.1.5 vaccine approved in fall 2023 against hospitalization, the first one finding 49% overall VE in adults, and one showing good protection—but uneven uptake—among pregnant women.
Steep declines in VE after 1 month
For the first study, published in Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, researchers with the European Hospital Vaccine Effectiveness Group conducted a test-negative case-control study on the VE against hospitalization of the XBB.1.5 COVID-19 vaccine in the first months of its rollout from October 2023 to January 2024.
The XBB.1.5-like+F456L variant was dominant in Europe from fall to mid-December 2023, when BA.2.86 supplanted it.
The participants were 622 adults hospitalized for COVID-19 and 3,457 control patients admitted for a different severe respiratory infection to 41 hospitals at 7 sites participating in the Vaccine Effectiveness, Burden and Impact Studies (VEBIS) study. In total, 27% of COVID-19 patients and 44% of controls had been vaccinated after fall 2023, most with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
The median time between vaccination and symptom onset was 58 days for COVID-19 patients and 52 days for controls.
Overall VE was 49% against hospitalization (range, 69% at 14 to 29 days to 40% at 60 to 105 days postvaccination), although confidence intervals overlapped for all estimates, indicating uncertainty. VE was over 70% in adults ages 65 years and older up to 1 month after vaccination. VE in patients ages 80 and older declined from 76% in the first 29 days to 39% after 60 days.
The study authors noted that their VE estimates are lower than those of three previous European studies but in line with a fourth, except for a greater decline in VE with increasing time since vaccination (TSV), proposing that the differences could be attributed to different TSVs bands.
"The findings of our study suggest that the adapted COVID-19 XBB.1.5 vaccines provided protection against hospitalisation in the first 3.5 months post vaccination, by reducing the risk of COVID-19 hospitalisation by approximately half among the vaccinated individuals," they concluded.
Uptake highest in those with chronic conditions
The second case-control study, published in Vaccine, included all 47,046 pregnancies ending from June 2021 to August 2022 among 39,213 women seen at Northwest London general practices. In 57% of pregnancies, the mother had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine during their pregnancy, with 91% of them receiving a second dose.
Pregnant women, the study authors noted, are at higher risk of COVID-19 complications such as hospitalization, intensive care unit admission, invasive mechanical ventilation, and death.
"They are also at increased risk of pregnancy-related complications such as preeclampsia and emergency cesarean delivery, and their infants are at higher risk of being preterm or stillborn," they wrote, adding that uptake has been suboptimal.
Most pregnancies (80%) were among women aged 25 to 39 years, those who were White (39%) or Asian (34%), and those living in areas in the second (35%) or third (29%) most deprived quintiles of socioeconomic deprivation. The most common of the five risk factors studied was asthma (9.9%), and chronic heart disease was the least common (0.68%).
A total of 180 women were hospitalized for COVID-19. Admission for COVID-19 was much less likely among vaccinated women than among the unvaccinated. A conditional logistic regression model suggested a five-fold decrease in the chances of COVID-19 hospitalization in vaccinated women, compared with their unvaccinated peers (odds ratio [OR], 0.22).
Vaccine uptake was lowest in women ages 18 to 24 years (33%), Black women compared with White (37%; OR, 0.55), and those in socioeconomically deprived areas (50%). Coverage was higher among women with chronic conditions, with the greatest uptake among those with chronic heart disease (75% for first dose, 94% for second).
Among women with chronic conditions, women with asthma (OR, 1.20), chronic heart disease (OR, 2.34), diabetes (OR, 1.54), and morbid obesity (OR, 1.15) had significantly higher odds of receiving at least one vaccine dose during pregnancy, compared with those without the condition.
The probability of receiving a first dose of the vaccine was nearly six times higher in the 45- to 49-year) age group than in those ages 25 to 29, compared with 18- to 24-year-olds.
Second-dose patterns were similar. Hospitalized women were much less likely to have been vaccinated than those not hospitalized (22% vs 57%; OR, 0.22). "This association reinforces evidence on the real-world effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and consequent hospital admission among pregnant women," the researchers wrote.
"COVID-19 vaccine uptake among pregnant women is suboptimal, particularly in younger women, Black women, and women in more deprived areas," they added. "Interventions should focus on increasing uptake in these groups to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities. Future vaccination programmes should engage pregnant women earlier and communicate with them clearly and carefully."
Link to study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/irv.13360
Sybsybsyb!! For the TMG ask, I'll say a song from a few of the albuns you picked bc I'm curious to hear your takes!! You can pick one song or all of them, your choice
Outer Scorpion Squadron
Southwestern Territory
White Cedar
Broom People
Heretic Pride
Outer Scorpion Squadron, from Heretic Pride -- you know what, I don't linger on this song a lot but I should, the instrumentation is lovely. Anyways:
Find a place where there's water, // hold you under till you're still
Not to sound silt-pilled but this reminds me of my specialest worst boy Faulkner (oooh you want to listen to TSV podcast soooo bad)
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Southwestern Territory, from Beat the Champ. God. one of my favourites, no doubt. From memory:
I try to remember to write in the diary // that my son gave me
climb the turnbuckle high // take two falls out of three // black out for local TV
Just. the tenderness of a travelling wrestler, doing their damndest to snatch time for the thing that makes them feel alive. Trying also to do right by a son, so far away on the road...it gets me, you know?-
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White Cedar from Transcendental Youth. Honestly, it's rare for me to say this, but it's not the lyrics that get me in this song. It's the swell of the horns. But in any case, this one:
Woke up on lockdown one more time // My visions won't ever learn
But I see the light that much clearer // Every time I return
Yeah.....
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Broom People from The Sunset Tree. Man. I almost wrote a fic on the energy of this song. Obsessed in particular with this line, godddd:
I write down good reasons to freeze to death // in my spiral ring notebook
But in the long tresses of your hair // I am a babbling brook
It's so... young, this song, and hurting and trapped like this whole album and finding small, young loves as the only reason to survive. The evoking of "freezing to death" gets me.
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Heretic Pride, from Heretic Pride, the song that turned me on to the album! As a devout atheist (Christian cultural, and full respect to the fact that JD writes a lot from his Christianity), and a freaky queer, I couldn't love this song more.
And I start laughing like a child // and I mark their faces one by one
Transfiguration's gonna come for me at last// and I will burn hotter than the sun
I could have loved any god. That’s what occurs to me now.
I could have shaped my body and spirit into any image I chose, monstrous or beautiful or both at once - and at the very least the choice would have been mine.
Instead I let them choose a shape that was useful, that served a function. Because I wanted to impress you, and I wanted to become something you could be proud of. Something you could love.
I could have changed for myself, but instead I did it for you.
— Chapter 33: And Where Once Its Howling Forebears Walked.
Jugendturnier TSV Reichartshausen am 29. und 30.06.2024
Rekordbeteiligung; leider spielte das Wetter nicht mit
Insgesamt 124 Mannschaften aus 3 Sportkreisen hatten sich dieses Jahr für unser Jugendturnier angemeldet. Dies bedeutet Rekordbeteiligung für unser Jugendturnier. Leider machte das Wetter dieses Jahr nicht mit. Samstags bei den E- D- und C-Juniorenturnieren herrschten tropische Temperaturen und alle stöhnten unter der extremen Hitze. Das krasse Gegenteil am Tag darauf. Zwar gab es keine Gewitter, aber es regnete fast die ganze Zeit. Während die beiden F-Juniorenspielfeste am Morgen und am Mittag noch gespielt werden konnten, brachen bei den Bambinis alle Regendämme. Und man musste schweren Herzens nach den ersten Partien das Bambini-Spielfest abbrechen bzw. die 2. Gruppe ganz absagen. Wenn alles normal gelaufen wäre, hätten sich an diesem Wochenende über 1.000 Mädchen und Jungs auf unseren beiden Sportplätzen getummelt. Fußball ist aber eben ein Sport im Freien und das Wetter kann man nicht beeinflussen. Trotzdem sahen die zahlreichen Zuschauerinnen und Zuschauer gute, faire und teilweise sehr spannende Spiele und oftmals entschieden Kleinigkeiten über Sieg oder Niederlage.
Bei den Turnieren kam es zu folgenden Platzierungen.
Bei den F-Junioren (33 Mannschaften) sowie bei den Bambinis (34 Mannschaften) fand ein Spielfest ohne Turnierform statt bzw. hätte stattgefunden.
Die Jugendabteilung möchte sich noch einmal bei allen Helferinnen und Helfern bedanken, ohne die eine solche Mammutveranstaltung nicht durchführbar wäre. Ein Dank gilt aber auch den Eltern für die vielen Kuchen- und sonstigen Spenden und der Mithilfe in der Cafeteria und im Ausschank sowie den Jugendbetreuerinnen und Jugendbetreuern, die teilweise die kompletten 2 Tage auf dem Sportplatz verbrachten und besonders Dagmar Schilling, welche die komplette Organisation der Cafeteria und der Schichten übernommen hat. Und zu guter Letzt natürlich dem Schirmherrn unseres Jugendturniers Emil Eckert, der wieder alle Pokale und Medaillen für das Jugendturnier gespendet hat.
Austria: Waldviertel last semifinalist! Ried defeated in straight sets. Klagenfurt ok in relegation Round
🇦🇹| Waldviertel last semifinalist! Ried defeated in straight sets. Klagenfurt ok in relegation Round
March 3, 2024 | Quarterfinals Game 3:
• Union Raiffeisen Waldviertel - UVC McDonalds Ried/Innkreis 3-0 (30:28, 33:31, 25:21)
Relegation Round:
• VBK Wörther-See-Löwen Klagenfurt - St. Polten 3-1 (25:19, 21:25, 25:13, 25:19)
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🏐| Powerfusion Austrian Volley League 2023/24 | QUARTERFINALS (best-of-three)
GAME 1
Saturday, February 17, 2024
• 18.00 (Local Time) | UVC McDonalds Ried/Innkreis (6) – Union Raiffeisen Waldviertel (3) 3-1 (34:32, 22:25, 25:15, 25:21)
• 19.00 (Local Time) | TJ Sokol V/Post SV Wien (7) – TSV Raiffeisen Hartberg (2) 0-3 (21:25, 17:25, 21:25)
Sunday, February 18,…