A Wikipedia poem about Falling inspired by @headspace-hotel. Thank you for the lovely poems.
And dedicated to my darling husband whom I love so very very very very much. Who helped me turn from one sort of falling into another. ❤️
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I want to publicly announce that no one ever needs to ask or apologize for a rant about their special interests on my posts. My posts are, in fact, nets constructed for special-interest-fueled-rant fishing. I want to hear everything.
@headspace-hotel hit the nail on the head with this one.
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headspace-hotel replied to your post: i stopped writing and making art a few years…
don’t try to force the art, it will not come until you are ready and it wants to come. find things to learn and observe and absorb and it will come back
it’s hard because the only reason i’m forcing it is because it’s been gone for years and i don’t know how much longer i can hang on without it. i need purpose, i need something to hang onto, because right now my life is desperately empty and it’s killing me a little each day. i know that sound melodramatic, but it genuinely feels that way as i’m spending my days doing nothing but social media doomscrolling and staring at the wall
cleonibbles replied to your post:
If nothing else your situation sounds like it sucks! And I’ve been there, still kind of there? Feeling stuck and unable to try things or the things being suggested not working. Its rough and it sounds like its been complicated by loss on top of it all
i’m so sorry you’re stuck here too, love. i wouldn’t wish this on anybody. that absolutely shattering feeling of knowing things would get better if you just do something but not being able to move and get up and do anything is just. it’s so fucking much
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headspace-hotel's blocked me as have dozens of TRAs and TRA adjacents but like. why are their takes so bad? do they block ppl so their terrible takes don't get torn apart
I forget why, but I was on the Wikipedia page for polycystic ovarian syndrome, and I started researching hirsutism in women, and I learned the following things in this order:
there's a diagnostic criteria used to evaluate how hairy a woman is
This is important because being too hairy is a diagnostic criteria of most disorders that cause hyperandrogenism
Disorders that cause hyperandrogenism can be diagnosed by...measuring how hairy you are (this is the main and most important diagnostic criterion for PCOS)
Disorders that cause hyperandrogenism are important because they are correlated with obesity, infertility, and...being too hairy?
I think to myself, wait, what is a normal range for testosterone in women? I find this article...which set reference ranges for "normal" testosterone levels in women...EXCLUDING WOMEN WITH PCOS?
Quote: "Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is another notable condition in genetic (XX) females, which is characterized by excessive ovarian production of androgens. This condition is included for comparison with DSD, as the affected females with PCOS are genetic and phenotypic females. The elevated levels of testosterone in these females can lead to hyperandrogenism, a clinical disorder characterized variably by hirsutism, acne, male-pattern balding, metabolic disturbances, impaired ovulation and infertility. PCOS is a common condition, affecting 7%-10% of premenopausal women."
So: the study claims to demonstrate a clear distinction between the normal range of hormone levels in "Healthy" men and "healthy" women...with "healthy" being defined in the study as...having hormones within the "normal" range.......................
So I researched what the clinically established "normal" range for testosterone in women is
THERE ISN'T ONE????
Quote from the above article: "Several different approaches have been used to define endocrine disorders. The statistical approach establishes the lower and the upper limits of hormone concentrations solely on the basis of the statistical distribution of hormone levels in a healthy reference population. As an illustration, hypo- and hypercalcemia have been defined on the basis of the statistical distribution of serum calcium concentrations. Using this approach, androgen deficiency could be defined as the occurrence of serum testosterone levels that are below the 97.5th percentile of testosterone levels in healthy population of young men. A second approach is to use a threshold hormone concentration below or above which there is high risk of developing adverse health outcomes. This approach has been used to define osteoporosis and hypercholesterolemia. However, we do not know with certainty the thresholds of testosterone levels which are associated with adverse health outcomes."
What the fuck?
What the fuck?
It's batshit crazy to make a diagnostic criteria for medical disorders by placing arbitrary cutoffs within 2-5% of either end of a statistical distribution. What the actual fuck?
"The results came back, you have Statistical Outlier Disease." "What treatments are available?" "Well, first, we recommend dietary change. You should probably stop eating so many spiders."
Another article which attempted to do this
Quote: "Subjects with signs of hirsutism or with a personal history of diabetes or hypertension, or a family history of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) were excluded."
"We're going to figure out the typical range of testosterone levels that occur in women! First, we're going to exclude all the women that are too hairy from the study. I am very good at science."
Anyway I got off topic but there are apparently race-specific diagnostic tools for "hirsutism." That's kinda weird on its own but when I looked more into this in relation to race I found this article that straight-up uses the term "mongoloid"
🙄 no doubt 'hirsutism' is "race" related, certain population groups are more likely to be genetically predisposed to hairiness than other, i.e. Mediterranean and middle eastern women. 'mongoloid' is just a really outdated term that's offensive now.
but performative rage and pearl-clutching signal your virtue to the rest of the babbies, i'm sure.
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I am learning to imagine the future.
-- @headspace-hotel, post of the same name
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(1) "my package of dried mangoes assures me that they are made from “only the juiciest” mangoes, which is an interesting sentiment to me. “You would not BELIEVE how much water these bad boys had in them before we removed almost all of it.”"
(2) ""This beef jerky was made from the juiciest goddamn cows you'd ever laid your eyes on. You could slap a side of this beef and hear a basketball hitting a gym floor. We had to wring those fuckers out like a shamwow for days.""
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Hey tree savers of Tumblr uh
What do yall. Do. With the saplings you save. Are you saving them for later projects or do you just… have them.
I’m asking because I don’t have any future Rewilding Plans (I have neither the courage nor energy right now) but I found these 2 saplings in the landscaping but I know my parents would just kill them, should I like… do something?
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