Children on Medicaid are 4x more likely to be on antipsychotics than those with private insurance.
I learned this the other night while reading The Body Keeps the Score (which is so far excellent and everyone who can should read it). The whole book is powerful and validating, but this particular fact keeps unsettling me.
I work with one of these children. Four antipsychotics in a year. None of the professionals who work with them will name trauma as the real reason for their behavior. Its just “severe autism.” It hurts and it hurts and it hurts.
I was one of those children. I was put on a high dose of Geodon from the age of 12 to the age of 14 and suffered semi-permanent neurological damage from it.
I had no idea this was such a widespread problem, but it makes so much fucking sense that it is.
This is great! I was trying to look up what kind of genetics could cause a marking like this and found a few pages that feature DA Remote Control as a possible example of a Somatic Mutation where the genes for her dark coat randomly “switched off” creating the very interesting star field on her left side.
Matthew Simmonds Carves New Medieval Interiors Into Raw Marble Blocks
Matthew Simmonds is a British art historian who has reverted to stone carving. Gifted with a profound knowledge of historical monuments, and inspired by his rich academic background, the sculptor took on the initiative to restore these important landmarks literally with his own hands. Turning to stone sculpting, Simmonds carves elaborate miniature medieval interiors into raw slabs of marble, accurately documenting the structures like Westminster Abbey and Ely Cathedral in his astounding artwork.
“The patient: this 3-day-old little boy was born with torn upper and lower wings. Let’s see how we can help!”
Today the Department of Awesomely Good Deeds salutes costume designer and master embroiderer Romy McCloskey who used her fine skills with delicate materials to help a monarch butterfly she’d raised and who’d emerged from his cocoon with damaged right wings.
“The operating room and supplies: towel, wire hanger, contact cement, toothpick, cotton swab, scissors, tweezers, talc powder, extra butterfly wing”
“Securing the butterfly and cutting the damaged parts away. Don’t worry it doesn’t hurt them. It’s like cutting hair or trimming fingernails”
“Ta-da! With a little patience and a steady hand, I fit the new wings to my little guy”
“The black lines do not match completely and it is missing the black dot (male marking) on the lower right wing, but with luck, he will fly”
“FLIGHT DAY! After a day of rest and filling his belly with homemade nectar, it is time to see if he will fly”
“With a quick lap around the yard and a little rest on a bush, he was off! A successful surgery and outcome! Bye, little buddy! Good luck”
I just don’t understand how this happened. But here’s a picture of a lemon from my backyard
WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK
when life gives yoǘ̻̬͓͎̣̟̩̦͢ ͪ̂̀̆҉̳̘̝̺̀l͇̬̹̞̻̥͕̥̗̒̎ͩ̋ͥ͆e͙̭̭̠̣̠̊́ͩ̂̓̀ṃ̛̍̂͛̈̏o̠̪̪ͤ͗͘n̵͉̣ͭͧ̿ͧ͛̀s̷̠͑ͬͫͦ̅͡ ̸͐ͤ͘҉̦̺M̰̹͙͇ͮ̉ͫͅȦ̻̔̅̇̑ͭ͛͋͘K̠̻̫̤̇̀ͥE͂ͪ͏̱̤͚͕ ̞͔̜̬̑ͯ͑͢ͅŞ͔̦̩̳̣̖ͮ͊ͨA͈̓͂̈́̀̀̚͘C̡̠̟͉ͪ͆̔ͤ͂ͪR̬͙͕ͪ̀͠Ĩ̵̖͚̑̊̓́F͎͕̄Iͬͧ̀̂̑ͪ͟͏̴̪̤ͅC̢̰̝͓̗͛ͬ̔̍̓́́̚̚Ḙ̶̠̰̳̩̳̊ͭͮ̇̇̚̕S̻͖̣̰̒̈͟
it’s back
Satan lemon
every villain is lemons
And finally, dear listeners, a reminder; several concerned citizens have brought to the city’s attention an irregularity surrounding this summer’s citrus harvest. City council would like to remind all enterprising fruit pickers to exercise reasonable caution when acquiring these fruits. Grasp the fruit firmly around its circumference, pull slowly but steadily to avoid damaging the tree, and under no circumstances heed its demands of you. Do not acknowledge or obey the depraved whisperings of the demon fruit.
And now: The Weather.
This kind of looks like a Buddha’s hand to me
they’re a type of Citron, a citrus closely related to lemons. I wonder if whatever causes that twistedness in Buddha’s hands is present but dormant/recessive in other citruses?
a lot of people having been messaging me about this, and honestly i had no idea that Buddha’s hands existed and it totally seems likely to me??? like honestly that seems like a really plausible explanation, especially because when we look at the demon fruit, the twisty ‘arms’ are going off in all different directions when the only place i can see a twisty arm happening on a lemon is on the top. like if the fruit is developing from the original growth point into a body then why are the offshoots developing the opposite way, from a body into a twisty thing? when in a Buddha’s hand, it totally makes sense because the twisty things are growing outward anyway.
im no pomologist but the similarities in the growth patterns really do reflect in The Demon Fruit.
The short version is that Citrus is a slutty, slutty genus of plants that can knock up pretty much any other member of the genus and uh… it’s mots recent relative as of 7 million years ago, becuase why not. Usually that makes for tasty children like tangerines and whatnot, but sometimes Weird Shit happens.
All modern citrus are descended from Mandrin oranges, Pumelos and Etrogs, the latter being closest to lemons and which looks like this:
It’s big and lumpy and mostly pith but also tasty as hell so Ye Ancient Malay Archipeligo Orchard Guy gets to breeding these for more tasty innards, presumable inventing lemonade in the process. YAMAOG also finds out that it’s REALLY easy to seriously mess with the overall appearence of the fruit of these very inbred etrogs, and starts breeding all kinds of nonsense, like Bhudda’s palms, Modern Lemons and Grapefruit.
YAMAOG also noticed that in addition to the occasional ugly inbred mule child, you can also get really strange looking fruit if the tree gets sick, is malnourished, if any part of the flower is damaged, or if the weather just sucks that year. In addition to being a Major Slut, Citrus is also a Fussy Bitch.
Looking at the Demon Fruit, my best guesses are
If you’ve had weird-shaped fruits off that tree before, you might have a very strange hybrid tree like the dachsund-pitbull one of my neighbors owns.
If it’s only the one fruit, and your tree is producing otherwise normal lemons, that particular flower or branch took some kind of damage or had a viral infection, which fucked up all the hormones and hence your lemon has gone all Ending-Of-Akira on you.
GOOD NEWS FOR BOTH SCENARIOS: unless the fruit looks like it’s actually rotting, it’s safe to eat! weird fruit shapes in lemons pretty much never makes them dangerous, just maybe a bit more tart than usual.
My feeds are pretty solid because I’m blockhappy but thru friends I’m seeing women I used to respect, former sex workers, feminist band managers, the like,, talk about how it’s not sexual assault, if she didn’t want it she would have left, &c&c&c.
These two women sum up in under 300 characters things it takes me paragraphs to say.
If all this is new to you, think about it even tho it makes you uncomfortable.
If you work around sex, consent, or sexual assault, maybe they will help you articulate things you have trouble articulating. At the very least, I hope they make you feel more sane and less alone (they did me).
“However the Great majority of us have not had healthy introductions to sex and consent.”
THIS. This so much.
Also @sw-or-gtfo said this elsewhere but it’s short and to the point so I want to keep it with these:
The “misread” or “bad at reading signals” phrasing bothers me so much, too. That account doesn’t depict a man who had any interest in signals at all. The prerequisite to miscommunication is communication, and she didn’t describe any attempts to communicate with her; she described commands being issued at her. It’s not that her signals were misinterpreted, it’s that they were irrelevant.
Colin Kaepernick donated $25,000 to group named after convicted cop killer and former Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur who broke out of jail and fled to Cuba
Colin Kaepernick’s foundation made the donation to Assata’s Daughters in April
The Chicago-based charity is named in honor of cop killer Assata Shakur
Shakur was convicted in the 1973 shooting death of a New Jersey state trooper
The Black Liberation Army member escaped from prison and lives in Cuba
She was godmother to rapper Tupac Shakur, whose stepfather aided the escape
i mean, maybe this is my inner “survivor of child abuse” talking, but I am not going to tell abusive parents that they’re bad at bringing up their children without a bullet proof plan with regards to how I could protect my student from the emotional and physical backlash of that meeting.
Important thing to remember about intervening in abuse in general. Any actions taken by others to hold the abuser accountable WILL be taken out on the victim and not the person doing the confronting. Do not confront an abuser about their actions unless you know for absolute certain that you can protect their victim from the fallout.
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