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Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds

Hi.

Stop letting your kids get Covid, I absolutely beg you as a fully grown adult who can’t believe how little of a life I have after 3 years of LC.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...

I know I buy too many books but I like to think that lining the walls of my house with them warns off evil in some deeply important way.

Note from my notebook (2017).

A photo I took of a crunchy autumn bridleway in Gloucestershire

"A culture is no better than its woods." - WH Auden

Old door in wall portal

Lime kiln portal

Glassless barn window portal

Fallen tree portal

There are interdimensional portals all over the British countryside. You just have to look.

Things I thought were real because of Star Trek:
Free health care!

Ha-ha. JK. I never thought that. My parents complained about the cost every time.

Erica Ortegas sits dejected on an alien planet. Text reads "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!"

Marvin the Martian looks through a telescope. Text reads "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!"

I can't have been the only one thinking this #StrangeNewWorlds @openpike.bsky.social #Terrarium #Moretegas!

Instead of telling a disabled person what they should or shouldn’t be able to do… ask them how you could help them accomplish what they need.

Listen to their struggles. Approach the situation with compassion.

Offer genuine support.

That’s the best way to be an ally.

Good news! After last week's hearing, which 100+ people attended, the picture book "A Map for Falasteen" by Maysa Odeh and illustrated by Aliaa Betawi remains on the Watertown library's suggested summer reading list! Thanks to @wbur.org for reporting on this story: www.wbur.org/news/2025/08...

Two things:

1. Large language models like ChatGPT are statistically likely word generators; they don't have "expertise" in anything.

2. I have seen a team of PhD level experts fail to assemble a dresser from IKEA.

From Project Endo on X:

1 min. Real talk. Real change.

Tell us what you’ve lived — & how Below the Belt shaped your view.

"Beyond the Belt: A Patient-Centered Study on Endometriosis and Impact" survey here: forms.gle/hvgLRR27o5Vpyb…

#Endometriosis #BelowTheBelt #PatientVoice

Period pain, disability rights, and a $500K lawsuit: What it means for you A federal judge just ruled that severe period pain caused by endometriosis can qualify as a disability under the ADA.

THIS IS HUGE.

A federal judge just ruled that severe period pain caused by endometriosis can qualify as a disability under the ADA.

www.wfmynews2.com/article/news...

I'm not a doctor, I've just been dealing with this disease and misinformed Drs for 30 yrs. If you're satisfied with your care, great!

If not, read everything at the Nancys Nook Endo group (medical sources cited) on fb and see if you need a second opinion.

Nancy Petersen RN retired on X: "Check out my latest article: ENDOMETRIOSIS: a gyn questions why patients are drawn to Nook. https://t.co/8lP2nVYMo0 via @LinkedIn" / X Check out my latest article: ENDOMETRIOSIS: a gyn questions why patients are drawn to Nook. https://t.co/8lP2nVYMo0 via @LinkedIn

...um....yeah. "(patients are commonly told they have pristine uterus tubes and ovaries and do not have endo, these are statistically the least frequently involved tissues)" --Nancy Petersen, endo advocate and nurse to Dr. David Redwine. x.com/nancynursez6...

Sorry if you've already been over all of this. I just hear too many stories of people who have been told they didn't have it. Only to have another, more qualified surgeon look and say they do.

Even "minimal" endo tissue can cause great pain. Was this surgeon an endo specialist? Some gyns don't know how to identify endometriosis in its different appearances. A neg biopsy from one site is only that site. No endo on your ovary does not equal no endo on your bladder, for example.

I'm so sorry. I know that sinking feeling I got after my last surgery. The worst was when the nurse came in and said with a big smile, "No endometriosis! That's great!" and I started crying and said, "Then why am I still in pain?"
Have they checked for adenomyosis?

Great episode, guys! I'm late, but I have to share my song for the episode. Bon Jovi's Livin' on a Prayer:

Whoa, we're halfway there
Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer
*Take my hand* and we'll make it, I swear
Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer!
😎

An image of new Wicked tie-in crap includes pink- and green-stemmed wineglasses; hideous green Crocs; some Lego bits; a tarot deck, Funko pops, a gold necklace, and a microwavable cup of macaroni and cheese that comes in MYSTERY COLOR: will you get pink or green?

I thought "Wicked tie-in crocs" was going to be the thing that wrecked me from this image but then I looked more closely at the bottom right corner

I'm so sorry I missed it! I got the days confused. But you got my money, and that's the important part. 😄

I have strung this series out for yeeears because I didn't want it to end. I began around 2012. It feels so much more final when both the author and the reader have passed on. I'm starting the final book. Raise a glass to L.A. Meyer and K. Kellgren, for bringing Jacky Faber to life. #BloodyJack

Disabled people aren’t stealing your tax dollars

We aren’t the reason for rising costs & inflation

Most people would be shocked by what we’re expected to live on

We’re a scapegoat

It’s the billionaires who are doing the real fiscal damage

When you blame us, you’re giving them what they want

Healthcare in these United States.

Superman (Jon Kent) protests the illegal deportation of refugees in Son of Kal-El #3.

For… no reason, here’s that time Superman (Jon Kent) stood with protesters to stop the illegal deportation of refugees in Superman: Son of Kal-El #3. Art by John Timms.

I have read the KnowYourMeme page, and now I am 'hip to the jive.' And of course saying that means I am totally NOT.

So I guess this is a thing? I'm too old to know.

Oh, the shade!

Photo of a close-up of a number of highly decorated eggs in different colours and stulised images of deer, flowers or bees as well as individuap patterns

A pysanka is a Polish-Ukrainian #Easter egg, decorated with traditional folk designs using a wax-resist method #WomensArt

A breathtaking display of giant whale-shaped kites soaring above the beach at the 38th International Kite Festival (RICV) in Berck-sur-Mer, northern France, on April 16, 2025. The inflatable kites, resembling blue, black, and striped humpback whales, fill the sky while crowds of spectators admire the spectacle from the sandy shore. The clear spring sky in the top image and overcast tones in the bottom image highlight the contrast between atmosphere and artistry, capturing the playful grandeur of one of the world’s most iconic kite festivals.

Whales in the sky! 🐋✨ From the beach to the clouds at the 38th International Kite Festival in Berck-sur-Mer, France. Absolutely surreal!

You know, when we all decided where to live after college, we Gen Xers were considering climate, not the politics of the state we were choosing. And now here we are.

Two friends of mine are literally moving to Canada. Because they can. But most of us are stuck with our choices.