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You never had to question the breathing. ~ Terami Hirsch

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Explosions in Kharkiv ‼️ our city is under russian drone attack right now ‼️

12.03.2026 00:44 👍 108 🔁 23 💬 5 📌 2

March is Long Covid awareness month, and one thing you should probably be aware of is no matter how back to normal you are, you are at risk of complications from Covid, including LC. And those excess death numbers aren’t great either.

11.03.2026 20:02 👍 96 🔁 57 💬 4 📌 2

For my entire existence, at least the parts I could remember, I had done nothing but accept the inevitable. I was tired of it.

11.03.2026 21:15 👍 76 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 1
A vertical column of folders with labels on the right fanned out and curving towards the right.

A vertical column of folders with labels on the right fanned out and curving towards the right.

Nice cards fanned out in a subtle arc.

Nice cards fanned out in a subtle arc.

Circular options with icons around another circular item in the center with a star icon.

Circular options with icons around another circular item in the center with a star icon.

Curious about custom <select>?

I wrote about some of my recent demos over at @css-tricks.com!

Take a look ✨ css-tricks.com/abusing-cust...

11.03.2026 15:32 👍 45 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0

also I clicked the weather app to check sunrise time to find Google have nuked another thing and are redirecting to search.

11.03.2026 06:14 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

As morning makes an appearance I note someone didn't take their Mirtazapine once again. 🙃

11.03.2026 06:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Getting tired of hearing how "brave" I am for transitioning.

I transitioned because trying to be a guy was going to kill me.

And I don't want to have to be brave. I want to be joyful. I don't want to live my life fighting someone's indifference or hatred.

How about you be brave & fight for us?

11.03.2026 05:20 👍 94 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 0
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Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It. Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.

Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.

(Published July 2025)

11.03.2026 03:00 👍 1297 🔁 702 💬 38 📌 40
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Russia committed crimes against humanity through deportation of Ukrainian children, UN inquiry finds The forced deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children by Russia throughout its full-scale war in Ukraine amounts to crimes against humanity, a United Nations (UN) investigation published on March ...

⚡️Russia committed crimes against humanity through deportation of Ukrainian children, UN inquiry finds.

The forced deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children by Russia throughout its full-scale war in Ukraine amounts to crimes against humanity, a UN investigation published on March 10 found.

11.03.2026 02:37 👍 460 🔁 209 💬 8 📌 17

id like to point out that health secretaries are not supposed to be dictating what medications or treatments are available on the nhs.

that's not actually part of wes streeting's job. he has emergency powers to intervene. he's not supposed to be abusing that power to ban treatments he doesn't like.

10.03.2026 21:34 👍 74 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 0

The public health field has bent over backwards to assuage the ‘concerns’ of anti-vaxxers for almost 3 decades now. It’s not working.

The way forward is stigmatizing these child-killing freaks and mandating that every kid gets a jab. Expand access, sure but that’s not going to move the needle.

10.03.2026 17:12 👍 939 🔁 167 💬 17 📌 15
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a night sky with a lot of stars and mountains in the background Alt: a night sky with a lot of stars and mountains in the background, the Milky Way is faintly visible.

"The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home."
- Carl Sagan.

10.03.2026 19:29 👍 118 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 1
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New NHS England Review Excluded 97% Of All Trans Studies To Say Care Doesn't Work The new review has led to a ban for HRT through the NHS England system under the age of 18.

1. A new NHS England Review excluded 97% of all trans care studies to conclude that trans youth care doesn't work.

It explicitly violates several guidelines around reviewing literature, and appears to be politics masquerading as (shoddy) science.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

10.03.2026 16:26 👍 1508 🔁 557 💬 22 📌 28

Explosion in Kharkiv ‼️

10.03.2026 17:18 👍 76 🔁 15 💬 4 📌 0

gender affirming care for trans youth is about suicide mitigation so if you remove that you are obviously intending to ramp suicides.

the idea that wes streeting and hilary cass don't know what they're doing is silly. they are absolutely trying to kill those children and they both belong in prison.

10.03.2026 16:34 👍 270 🔁 90 💬 2 📌 0

I don’t have a developmental disability, I’m not terminal or receiving palliative care, I’m under 60. So basically I’m fucked. I haven’t been able to work in 14 years. If I have to reapply for AISH it will ruin what’s left of my health (I never recovered from applying for DTC/CDB last year). 1/

10.03.2026 02:43 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Explosion in Kharkiv ‼️ our city is under russian drone attack right now ‼️

10.03.2026 00:33 👍 176 🔁 41 💬 9 📌 4

Pot, kettle.

10.03.2026 01:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This is an apartment building in Kharkiv, destroyed by a russian strike on March 7.

​If you zoom in, you can still see the remaining fragments of people's homes and lives: a kitchen stove, a chair, a washing machine... just normal homes. In a single moment, russia stole the lives of 10 people.

09.03.2026 20:11 👍 193 🔁 65 💬 7 📌 3

The reviews used to justify this excluded nearly 97% of all studies from inclusion in their analysis. This is an absolutely obscene hatchet job by the NHS specifically created to eliminate access to hormones for trans youth.

09.03.2026 20:19 👍 2541 🔁 832 💬 28 📌 51
A scan of a section of torso listed as belonging to Majd Abu Shamala.

A scan of a section of torso listed as belonging to Majd Abu Shamala.

I have more good news today. Majd made it through his surgery yesterday and is no longer in such severe danger. He still needs specialist treatment to help his nerves reconnect often the prolonged pressure on his spine. Please help if you can gofund.me/6b0df7824 @gofund-gaza.bsky.social #MutualAid 🍉

09.03.2026 20:41 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 3

There was a loud explosion in Kharkiv about half an hour ago. Russian drone struck near an apartment building. Apartments on lower floors and cars in front of the building are on fire‼️

09.03.2026 19:35 👍 218 🔁 47 💬 9 📌 1

Toad was sitting on his front porch. Frog came along and said, “What is the matter Toad? You are looking sad.”

08.03.2026 13:37 👍 135 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 2

The reason I fight so hard for trans kids is because I was a trans kid myself. I knew who I was in the year 2000, 12 years old, behind my computer, using the name Erin. I wanted puberty blockers so badly. My body shifted and changed in horrifying ways that I suffered for 15 years over.

08.03.2026 16:45 👍 3141 🔁 438 💬 48 📌 27
VOY "Scorpion, Part II"; Seven of Nine is fully Borg with the pale skin and the ocular implant and a red laser, with text: You are small and you think in small terms.

VOY "Scorpion, Part II"; Seven of Nine is fully Borg with the pale skin and the ocular implant and a red laser, with text: You are small and you think in small terms.

26.02.2026 11:41 👍 102 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 6

Picard creativity tip: By all means, draw from your own experience, but also find enough empathy to draw from the experiences of others.

08.03.2026 16:04 👍 135 🔁 37 💬 0 📌 41

hitting the dopamine machine for more dopamine and only getting atrocities and bad takes

08.03.2026 02:39 👍 112 🔁 5 💬 8 📌 0

Just heard from a friend in Tehran who says reality is even worse than the pictures. When they hit the depot in Aghdasiyeh, he could hear and feel it from 15km away.

He says if he could reach internet he’d say: “today is the day the world shall end, as the scripture has foretold,” he says.

08.03.2026 00:35 👍 275 🔁 94 💬 6 📌 2
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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

07.03.2026 10:34 👍 4265 🔁 1649 💬 67 📌 121
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The oil is flowing into the sewers and the streets are on fire in Tehran

07.03.2026 23:44 👍 276 🔁 189 💬 17 📌 32