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Ordinary My love, what if you were not Nietzsche and I was not Gloria Steinem. And I was not Ruth Bader Ginsberg, or Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and you were not Isaac Newton, or Einstein, or Hegel, and we lived Ordinary lives, here and there, foraging for mushrooms in the swamps and children's minds and sometimes find ing chickory root for inflammation, poke for lymphatic tincture, honey for mead. What if sometimes you sang in the kitchen while making bone broth from chicken feet, and played happy snippets on the violin, and I periodically baked bread in a clean (ish) kitchen, sang Broadway, laughed, and sometimes, we held hands in the grocery, took kids to the Asian market, watched Netflix with our eyes closed, spooned in bed, and weren't the next Nobel Prize Winner, breakout academic Wunderkind, surprise New York Times Best-selling magical fairy child. What if we went wild: Mowed lawns. Got mail. Refused to live up to the potential somebody wrote on our report cards long ago, and instead utterly wasted our lives on loving and living and loving and refused to yield to the expectations that anything less fiscally responsible is imprudent. What if what we saved did not end up being millions, my sweet, but our own souls? And all along there will be enough for the movies sometimes, enough for croissants and soft pretzels, and enough to sit and do the crossword and kiss you goodnight. What if instead of being memorable, we make memories, responsible to not the whole world but our world. And what if it is ordinary, and we are inordinately enough. Heather Harris-Bergevin

Ordinary My love, what if you were not Nietzsche and I was not Gloria Steinem. And I was not Ruth Bader Ginsberg, or Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and you were not Isaac Newton, or Einstein, or Hegel, and we lived Ordinary lives, here and there, foraging for mushrooms in the swamps and children's minds and sometimes find ing chickory root for inflammation, poke for lymphatic tincture, honey for mead. What if sometimes you sang in the kitchen while making bone broth from chicken feet, and played happy snippets on the violin, and I periodically baked bread in a clean (ish) kitchen, sang Broadway, laughed, and sometimes, we held hands in the grocery, took kids to the Asian market, watched Netflix with our eyes closed, spooned in bed, and weren't the next Nobel Prize Winner, breakout academic Wunderkind, surprise New York Times Best-selling magical fairy child. What if we went wild: Mowed lawns. Got mail. Refused to live up to the potential somebody wrote on our report cards long ago, and instead utterly wasted our lives on loving and living and loving and refused to yield to the expectations that anything less fiscally responsible is imprudent. What if what we saved did not end up being millions, my sweet, but our own souls? And all along there will be enough for the movies sometimes, enough for croissants and soft pretzels, and enough to sit and do the crossword and kiss you goodnight. What if instead of being memorable, we make memories, responsible to not the whole world but our world. And what if it is ordinary, and we are inordinately enough. Heather Harris-Bergevin

For all my extra gifted 80's and 90's kids who are discovering they are tired, burned-out adults:

Despite promises of cuts from Trump and Elon, the U.S. spent about $220 billion more in the first 100 days than it did last year. We’re spending far more and getting far less. So where is all the money going?

I love that there is peer reviewed research calling ChatGPT bullshit so much 😭

Most people do not understand how much regulation it took to stop food poisoning from being a daily cause of death. They are about to learn the hard way that you can't feed yourself from those apartment deck planters year round.

I’m just a girl who cries about Anakin Skywalker a few times annually, you know?

Exclusive | Top Vaccine Official Out at FDA In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks cited ‘misinformation and lies’ from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.

BREAKING

The FDA’s top vaccine official has resigned.

Dr. Peter Marks wrote this in his resignation letter about Robert Kennedy Jr.:

"It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

I have so many favorite books that are healthcare-adjacent nonfiction so you know, just.. lmk if any of you want to learn but not be bored

In 2021, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social published Anthropocene: Reviewed & it became my whole personality. Like, I gave signed copies of it as gifts regularly.
This week, he published his second nonfiction book called Everything is Tuberculosis and I’ve got a feeling I’m going to repeat my history

Tomorrow!

Love being a queer progressive in a red state rn 🥰 and same!!! Big same! Just love seeing each rendition of your little guys

😂 I wondered if you did know yet or not. I’m hiding (very poorly) in plain sight bc I got paranoid about my online presence in Tr ümp’s America so i am sorry for the confusion

One person is an idea, two is a coincidence, three makes a hypothesis. Who will be third?? (Insert joke about 2 or 3 witnesses here)

Yeah that’s probably why

We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

Deadass sometimes I wonder if it’s caused by my Wellbutrin because it’s like clockwork!!!! I guess it could also be the menstrual cycle/regular hormones. Anyways SAME. Every day.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

God this is so bad in so many ways it makes my skin crawl

inject these images into my veins

One thing about me is situations where people are playing pretend that they’re doctors but with real life consequences (congresspeople, insurance companies, and RFK JR, etc) is going to make me 10 out of 10 enraged every single time

“Why don’t you just move?”
“Oh, you know, my job.. or something..”
completely unrelated but my parents are under the impression I have 0 tattoos

Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.

This is a manifesto against disability.

This is the language of eugenics.

On my meds: I’m a nurse of 3 yrs & a caretaker for my elderly parents. I maintain a healthy relationship with my partner, go to therapy, and try my best to be a resource for friends and family. It’s taken me more than a decade of persistence to get here. So, I think the meds are working, don’t you?

I’m bringing this up bc of obvious reasons. Times I’ve been off my meds, I crashed out regularly, failed out of school, & had s*icidal ideation. You cannot be addicted to something you take as prescribed & for diagnosed conditions. A withdrawal doesn’t equal addiction; it means your body has adapted

A screenshot from Google scholar, listing published studies conducted on addiction being a result of self medication. The search term used is “addiction from self-medication.”

The amount of times I’ve seen this over 3yrs interacting with patients is innumerable. So many break their sobriety & end up hospitalized after a bender bc they’re reacting to adverse life events. However, my experience is only anecdotal. These researchers have done the science and stats.

I just want y’all to know that a significant amount of my patients with addictions - to alcohol, to IV drugs, to opiates, to tobacco - are people who started using those things to self-medicate. They self medicate for pain (both physical and emotional) and for mental health needs that aren’t met.

stimulants for ADHD have the largest effect size of any psych med for any psych disorder out there. they not only improve symptoms, reduce all-cause mortality, and reduce the risk of SUD, they VASTLY improve quality of life

FAA Employees Say Trump and Musk's Purge Is a 'Threat' to Air Safety Donald Trump and Elon Musk fired hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees. The administration argues it won’t affect air safety.

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated."

"This is a very real threat to the American flying public.”

EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

for contrast, there was one all-female student group we played the scenario out with and within 5 minutes, they had descended upon the husband character like a pack of wolves and kicked him out and said he wasn’t welcome back in the hospital