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I think sometimes people think eugenics is bad but its still true, like thinking that if people with certain traits have children it will change society for better or worse based upon what traits are promoted. I think its important to emphasize that eugenics is not only wrong morally it's also fake and stupid bullshit

Like eugenics was supposed to be based on the idea that "If it works with animals to select only the best ones to breed, why wouldn't it work with humans?"

well it doesn't work with animals, that's the thing. applying the eugenics ideas to domestic breeds of animals hasn't made better animals it's just made animals with more extreme expression of certain traits. turns out that when you decide which traits are the "best" and become obsessed with the genetic purity of the animals that have the "best" traits, you might well end up with some sad suffering creature like a Pug, or the Persian cats with the smashed faces that are in constant pain because their teeth and airways and brains are getting crushed by their skulls, or those meat chickens that grow so fast they can hardly even stand up after a few weeks old, or inbred race horses with tiny feet and fragile toothpick legs

like almost all traits are neither "good" or "bad" they're way more complex than that. a long tail or a long snout or a stubborn, independent personality can be good or bad depending on the situation. Who gets to decide what is a "good" trait or a "bad" trait? It's arbitrary and selecting for traits that are "good" in your opinion will often have both "good" and "bad" outcomes because the "good" and "bad" are part of each other and not separate its just part of being alive

Obviously oversimplifying everything but you get it. we did eugenics with dogs and how did that go? not very well

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Every fucking word

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because that one post went around: i will never ever judge you if you take a what you think 'too long' time to answer. i will always be happy to get a text from you, so please, please, don't beat yourself up if you left me on read for some time. i dont care if you answer me one day, one week or one month later. i would however miss you if you stopped answering completely, but really genuinely no pressure to answer fast.

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are instagram reels meant to be like this

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as Christmas quickly approaches I wanted to give a word to people who celebrate. if you have people in your life who struggle to/can't eat for whatever reason please be kind and patient with them. Christmas is a very food-centered holiday so when you can't eat or have a hard time eating it becomes a very stressful and isolating holiday. when you are sitting at a dinner table surrounded by people eating it's often a cruel reminder of what you can't do and how you don't fit into the group. be kind to your disabled loved ones if they choose to excuse themselves from the dinner table entirely.

to the people who can't/struggle to eat, I know the impending doom of Christmas dinner is arriving. you are part of the group that you chose to celebrate with even if you can't celebrate the same way. it's easy to feel excluded from the group when you can't participate in a core part of the celebration but you are so important to that group of people. you are not obligated to sit at the dinner table if it brings up negative feelings for you and you certainly do not owe anyone making yourself sick for the sake of participating. dealing with gastrointestinal disease is more traumatic than people realize and you're allowed to have a complicated relationship with food that might even include not wanting to be around it. be gentle with yourself 💕

-> this post is about gastrointestinal disorders but people with other conditions affecting Christmas dinner are welcome to relate as well

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sometimes it's really triggery and weird talking to people about long covid, I think bc I have been sick from postviral illness so long. talking to people desperate not to live your life. I get it - postviral illness ruins lives. I had my future obliterated like 15 years ago, maybe that's why I feel this way. I don't want to minimize this suffering - it's very real and changes your entire life. it's not easy by any means. I just want to add -

in those 15 years I have found so much joy and connection and care and love. i have been sick long enough to know there will be better and worse times. things can always improve, this illness isn't static and some meds are game changers. my online friends are so wonderful. my little hobbies I do from bed are so wonderful. I know who really cares about me in the hard times. sometimes I grieve and wish I could do more. there will be grief and fear and hard times. but that's not all there will be.

life with chronic illness is still life, is still worth living.

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Got a glimpse of where we're at as a country medically via the r/nursing subreddit. People are really not okay and it's deeply scary. 'Letting it rip' when it comes to covid is killing thousands and disabling millions. With the latter, here's what it looks like:

Nurses saying they are seeing ear infections in kids all the time secondary to other illnesses (or routinely in adults which they have never seen before), nurses saying their hospitals are overrun by flus, rsv, norovirus, mycoplasma pneumonia. many people saying they went to the doctor sick as a dog and came out with 3 different illness diagnoses at the same time or that they and their kids get sick over and over and over. it is not normal for this to happen. we were lied to about covid, y'all.

have you and the people around you been physically as well this last year or two as they were in 2019?

If you didn't know, as a lot of people don't - covid makes you immunocompromised. It damages the immune system, blood vessels and organ systems. It's a vascular infection, not a cold. the more infections you get, the worse it is. In the lab it's considered a level 3 pathogen (categories are for risk level/safety protocols), in the same category as tuberculosis. People are being treated with IVIG, because it's for immunocompromised people.

Also there is improper preparation and tracking for a h5n1 (type of bird flu) that has a very real chance of evolving to become a pandemic this and/or next flu season. they are finding it in wastewater all over the country, someone in Louisiana is in critical condition with it. Flu vaccine provides partial protection to it so I'd highly recommend getting that this and next winter.

Following epidemiologists is really important and helpful. The government wants you to go to work and think things are normal so they don't have to send you another check - they are not invested in our collective wellness (in fact, they take tons of lobbying money from insurance companies invested in keeping you sick). With some of these folks saying it is taking them weeks to recover from the flu, I wonder if some of it isn't bird flu, though it could be just being significantly immunocompromised.

fwiw masks work. I haven't gotten as much as a cold in years. well fitting kn95s and n95s protect you. even if you can't wear one at work, wear one to the doctor, at the grocery store and pharmacy. it would really help disabled people in general too.

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PonyHenge is just what the name implies, a Stonehenge-like monument but made entirely of ponies. It is not really known who started putting the horses in this field, but it began in 2010.  The field that the horses now call home is along Old Sudbury road in Lincoln, Massachusetts. The field might be private property, but the owners don’t mind sharing it with these wayward ponies. One rumor of how it began was from a child’s lemonade stand - the children left after their stand was done, but the horses stuck around. Another theory was that someone just left one horse in the field, and then another popped up. After while, it started growing and the horses began multiplying. Sometimes the herd moves to a new pattern, sometimes horses are exchanged, but it all remains anonymous. The owners of this private field like it that way, it adds to the mystery that is PonyHenge

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A group of rough looking boys walked past me today and all I heard of their conversation was “he’s got that anxiety disorder bro so I went with him so he’d be more comfortable” and it made me realise the world isn’t all that bad

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Briana Boston didn't threaten anyone.

When my grandmother was sent a death threat through text message, I reported it to the police. The officer told me that "it's not considered a death threat unless the message mentions a weapon and a deadline".

As a result, they didn't do anything. Not even a verbal warning to that person.

Or, there's a double standard when it comes to billionaires and big corporations. Who'd have thought.

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I don't wanna make ppl feel guilty for celebrating Christmas but I think how crazy it is that so many American Christians r pro israel and go on "pilgrimage" to occupied palestine and palestinian Christians living in the birth country of Christianity have refused to do celebrations in the midst of the genocide

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a much older man, probably in his 60s, sat next to me. turns around, and goes are you grateful for your friends? and I'm like yeah, yeah I am. and he goes do you show them that? so I give this awkward laugh, and I say 'i try my best' and he nods thoughtfully and he turns around and he's like that's good. show them. or you'll be like me before you know it. friendless and trying to make amends too late.