Sarah

This cognitive dissonance is my brain constantly

Possible genetic clues to ME/chronic fatigue syndrome identified in massive study DNA analysis of more than 15,500 people with the debilitating condition identifies eight tentative “genetic signals”

ICYMI - this is pretty great:

www.science.org/content/arti...

“wellness” culture feeds directly into eugenics.

It perpetuates the idea that disability is a moral failing.

That we can “try harder” our way out of it and if we can’t, we didn’t really “want” to get better.

It makes it easier to punish the sick & poor.

Disability is not a moral failing.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Should you find yourself
wondering
if any of your precautions
really matter,
remember that many studies
have shown that this virus
causes lasting damage
to the brain,
which should remind you
that the precautions you take
really do matter,
especially to your grey matter.

Chlöe will be our greatest ever PM

You know what kids need to write stories?

A pencil
A notebook
A keyboard
A screen
A dictaphone

BOOKS
READING
PLAY
IMAGINATION
SHARED/CREATIVITY

Kids LOVE making shit up, they're kids.

Taking that away from them is more shockingly soulless than I have words to frame.

Stickers on a plant background. They say "I only date people who vote keep Māori wards'

Sticker on a plant background which says 'Vote ĀE Māori wards'

Sticker on a plant background saying 'I'm voting Keep Māori wards (duh)’

Just saying

Yup! A family testing go through a LOT. Missing them being free here.

20mph is roughly 30kmh, the speed limit that Simeon Brown thinks is too slow for urban streets because he doesn't care if people get killed.

For what it’s worth, as long as I am on council will continue to support beautiful, significant Māori names for places and projects, in partnership with Mana Whenua.

The proof of the pudding is that long COVID has now overtaken asthma as a chronic condition in children. This attendance policy led to this. Along with the failure to mitigate for covid is airborne. Many of us have been saying this for years.

More women than men are getting long COVID. You are also more likely to get it if you are poor and unable to rest or if your child returns to school with Covid. No child should be in school with Covid until a test is negative. Then they should also have a period of time without sports to recover.🧵

Tory Whanau on the phones at green office

I’m one of those millennials who hates talking on the phone… will literally stare at it until it goes to voicemail. But I loved chatting to people about the Māori Ward referendum.

There’s heaps of people who don’t realise there’s an election this year. We’ll need more volunteers soon. DM if keen.

DecodeME: The Results announcement post. The graphic has a blue background with a DNA helix. In the centre of the graphic it says ‘We have released our initial DNA results! We have discovered that your genes contribute to your chances of developing ME/CFS.’ At the bottom left of the graphic is an image of a research paper.

Our initial DNA results! DecodeME have discovered that people with an ME/CFS diagnosis have significant genetic differences compared to the general population.
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Summary of our results: shorturl.at/pgsjk
Check out our full preprint paper: shorturl.at/VwN3s

Quite the chatty ruru outside tonight 🥰

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Latest stats indicating the worst unemployment numbers since the outbreak of the pandemic are further proof that the Govt’s policies are forcing people further into hardship and poverty.

🫶

Yeah, that’s fair enough!

Yup, unfair that the outings you manage to scrape together energy for are the boring (but important) things!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

A fresh glass of sunscreen Headline: Sunscreen Does Not Work, Says Study That Made Participants Drink It Story by Isaiah Thananother and Jorge Philbert Photo from Adobe

Sunscreen Does Not Work, Says Study That Made Participants Drink It

🦜 Celebrate 20 years of Bird of the Year and take home your own piece of history with our limited-edition brick-built model, developed by @bricks.by.mike_ ! Only 200 are available, so get in fast before they waddle away!! 

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I envy you so much right now! 😂

And then there’s the laundry!

Horrible! Some people sure do suck 🤬

It never ends 😭

Hmmm…. that thought appeals right now 🤔

I hope the side effects don’t last too long for you!