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In 2023 while in NOLA, a Lyft Driver and I had a conversation about leaving home. It led to him telling me about his terminal diagnosis. “An editor told me once that if you want to understand a war, interview the grave diggers. I’d add that if you want to understand a city, interview the drivers.”

HAHA YEEESSS SICKOS

"Nos, there are cicadas other places!" yes dear hearts, I know. I'm holding your hands. Not like here. The trees SCREAM here. Y'all's trees barely whisper. And it takes so much longer into the summer. Nah it's like a thermometer out here. First hot days? aaaaaaAAAAHHHH. y'know?

I'm actually not ready for how summer is going to sound different, if I move out of here. I keep thinking about it because I remember it being different in North Carolina and going oh....oh a whole LAYER of sound is missing... the density of the cicada noise here is so thick, y'know?

one day I'm going to move out of HELL (also known as HEat advisory every day silent double L) and become a weird blogger who alternately releases 5k pieces on gender and 500 word fever dreams about the color green and how I miss cicadas

if nobody got me. unfortunately sorrowscopes got me

imagine thinking....no I can't. i can get in my stupid little online bubble but I simply can't comprehend the way those little freaks think

They're doing unintentional psychological warfare on your block... that's crazy

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

NO. NO!!!

this year california banned the manufacture of quartz countertops after hundred of stonecutters developed irreversable lung scarring from inhaling silica. silicosis is a bad time!

"decisions about trans care for minors should be made by their parents" is an anti-trans policy position, inhumane to the point of absurdity, which only sounds pro-trans to people who aren't paying attention. what those words mean is "the children of bigots should be left to suffer with no recourse"

And I mean IRREPARABLY; my mechanic BIL who will rebuild engines and cars with bent frames looked at it and said ah, nope! SHE'S GONE FOREVER AND I MISS HER EVERY DAY !!! KIA BRING HER BACK TO THE US I WILL SPEND INSANE MONEY ON HER THE SOUL IS N O T THE SAME !!!!

The amount of time I spend pining over the Kia Rondo I once owned... that car was actually my true love, no person could ever hope to compete. A minivan...but shorter! A hatchback...but taller! What a CAR!! Unfortunately I sold it to my nephew who irreparably totaled it hitting a box truck 😭

Improving material conditions is done tandem w meds. And notably, this sample consisted of "individuals with poorly controlled asthma", 3 of which still experienced emergency events with electric stoves & missed work/school days. THIS IS COOL & IMPORTANT but misrepresenting it does no one any favors

all that can really be concluded is kind of what we already knew? That gas stoves are a source of pollutants, and that pollutants make asthma worse. Good to have data directly linking these two things together to follow up on for sure, but not a *treatment* for asthma, nor a substitute for meds

So I'm having a little trouble finding the exact study for sure, but if this is it (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) than the claim that "ditching gas was better than medicine" is a bit of a reach and also not supported by the study itself... With the small sample size (85) & no control group

Me: I just really think Louisiana politicians should be doing more to promote Louisiana seafood! -monkey's paw curls-

I will be calling in to existing this week, because of Bertha in the Gulf. thank you everyone