if anyone feels they're being medically gaslit but also like, no I must be making that up: I just found a 2019 email from a doc abt a medication.

him: “doesn’t have any risk for cancer.”
peer-reviewed article from 3 years prior: “a risk of cancer in the long-term is likely.”
😑

Does anyone else, when stressed/anxious, speak to themself in the tone of like, a sports coach?

'LOOK ALIVE, OWNBEY'

'GET IT TOGETHER, OWNBEY'

This is a valid coping mechanism, yes? Asking for Ownbey.

Abolish credit scores

Drawback of being simultaneously (1) a lit nerd, (2) chronically online, & (3) woefully hypermobile w major joint instability is that you say things like:

The vibes are off in the state of Denmark

to actually mean 'this bone in my foot won't go back into place & it's annoying.'

May I love in ways that devastatingly disrupt organized state violence.

I just discovered that I made a playlist during the most recent period when I was out of my ADHD medication & the pharmacy was out of stock because of the National shortage.

It is titled:

Rage Against the Pharmacy.

We're aiming for $40k by 08/30. We have a really long way to go. Can you help us get there?
bit.ly/SPNYfund

blue moon: a second full moon in a calendar month

supermoon: a full moon occurring when the moon is at or near the closest point in its orbit

Super Blue Moon: tonight

People often say COVID cases are rising but there are far fewer cases than any other time. Wastewater shows that's false. There are far more cases now than the first summer of the pandemic, and this year's pattern is ominously similar to the lead up to the huge Omicron surge.

For combo #ADHD & #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain folks, let me give you a laugh:

1st thing a pain psychologist recommended to me: PACING. Not as in pacing back & forth. But as in pacing myself & planning my time/energy.

Listen. MY KINGDOM for the ability to pace myself, I swear.

'We could've put a HEPA filter in every classroom for $1 billion. And yet, spoiler alert, there are not HEPA filters in every classroom.' 🔥🔥🔥

One of the most important myth-busting deep-dives I've ever done.

What was the real impact of Covid school closures?
Were they avoidable?
Did they cause 'learning loss' & mental health decline?
What's the impact of Covid on kids' health?

Please do watch:
youtube.com/watch?v=-h5xyG…

“You think your pain is unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive” - James Baldwin