Emily R

Actually yes. The amygdala has been shown to shrink in people following Covid infections.

Honestly just hearing the term 'motivational interviewing' is a great starting point for me. I would not have known where to start looking, now I have a keyword to dive into!

Scarlett O'Hara: ✋🏼😤
Shiro wat: ☝🏼🙂

A deep-fried jpg of Kermit the frog scrunching his face aggressively

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

Jesus effing Christ on a popsicle stick

Starting to think that bombarding people with content designed to make them ill-informed, angry, and antisocial for hours upon hours a day has been a real disaster for society and possibly not one we can come back from in our lifetimes

“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case “We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a UFW official about an ICE raid in New York.

On Friday ICE agents stopped a bus in Albion, NY. They had a list of names, and took 14 people into custody

Those workers—and their employer—happened to be involved in one of the most crucial labor struggles in the state in recent memory

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Wild how much the twitter "main character of the day" thing has affected the character of the internet. But per patreon, the next video is about Adobe - so no moral qualms about enjoying the ripping into :)

The overwhelming messaging on Covid in media right now is that it’s something that was once very serious, and now is over. And every week, a new waterfall of studies comes out showing the continued and growing long-term health risks of repeated infections. Our language has got to respect that truth.

If it makes you feel better, when I saw it, I thought "oooh, lovely value distribution"

The number of American adults in the labour force with a disability since Covid

With Support from Heritage Action, Republican U.S. Senator Mike Lee Introduces SCREEN Act for 119th Congress to Protect Children from Pornography Online With Support from Heritage Action, Republican U.S. Senator Mike Lee Introduces SCREEN Act for 119th Congress to Protect Children from Pornography Online

Sen. Mike Lee has introduced the SCREEN ACT, a bill that applies the "harmful to minors" standard used to ban LGBTQ+ books and resources in schools and libraries... and apply it nationally—to the internet.

Under the guise of protecting kids from "pornography"

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Now is a good time to stock up on masks and get used to wearing them again if you stopped. Wear them and be cognizant of how diseases spread. Wear them even if anti-mask legislation passes. Protest that legislation before it does.

Peonies and lupine!

same methods, different era

They were all real sweeties though. Surprisingly chill for 6 weeks

They came from a hoarder house with a dozen dogs running around, most of them mixes, so it's really anybody's guess. I got golden + shepard vibes but I'm sure there's other breeds in the mix!

A stalk full of flowers coated in frost. Behind it is a field full of frosted flowers, lit by the sunrise.

Seeds hanging from a stalk, coated in frost

A backlit field of flowers covered in frost

A close up of small, daisy-like flowers. They are lit by the sunrise, causing the frost coating them to glitter.

I love frosty mornings ❄️

This is it! I'm happy it's getting passed on 🫡

And the lyrics are:

We're selling Girl Scout Cookies here
They only come this time of year
Why don't you
Buy a box of them
Or maybe two or three
You'll get some yummy cookies
And you'll help us don't you see
We're selling Girl Scout Cookies here
(repeat ad infinitum)

YouTube video by nikchi The Song that Never Ends

I tried looking around for it on the internet and can't find anything! So it's entirely possible my troop leaders made it up. It's to the tune of The Song That Never Ends (1/2)

Fantastic for these parents that I can buy cookies online now, so I can't teach their scouts the looping Girl Scout Cookie Song my troop belted out on repeat for hours at a time

Prior to Covid it was normal to mask in the NICU. People understood that premature babies are as vulnerable as they come and need to protected.

Now? Gowns & gloves but no masking.

The damage caused by anti mask rhetoric will be felt for years (possibly decades) to come.

A white woman with brown hair in a striped sweater holds a light colored puppy. It's leaning back away from, neck outstretched, head laying in her hands.

A white woman with brown hair and a striped sweater crouches down and picks a very fluffy puppy up from a bed with five other puppies on it.

A fluffy black puppy with tan marking sleeping on her brothers and sisters

A light golden fluffy puppy sleeping with her front legs outstretched in front of her

A close up of the face of a black and tan puppy. Her face looks soft and squishable.

A pale ivory puppy mid-movement, looking bewildered.

A neighbor's foster puppies needed socialization
One grueling shift in the puppy fun factory complete

Never underestimate the willingness of the democratic party to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

A screenshot of Tiktok on a video from user Preacher from the Black Lagoon. The video is overlaid with a message explaining that tiktok has been banned in the US.

You were the note I went out on. I wouldn't have it any other way

Sen. Romney links TikTok ban to pro-Palestinian content Critics say his remarks belie the "national security" motive and expose free speech suppression.

Reminder that Mitt Romney explicitly said the rationale behind the tiktok ban was pro Palestinian content. The renewed push last year was explicitly to help Israel conduct a genocide without scrutiny on social media.

Imperial boomerang in action.

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