The Horrifying History Behind a Beloved Skin-Care Ingredient Retin-A was developed through tests on incarcerated people.

The miraculous wrinkle-erasing, acne-fighting cream, is the result of decades of horrifying medical abuse.

I will admit to finding the “all problems are caused by evil and we could fix every problem without any trade-offs” worldview pretty draining and immature.

the passion to write 13 paragraphs in response; the wisdom to delete 12

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

What's in a name? | Deeply Rooted YouTube video by Cascade PBS

I was labeled as Mount Rainier, but I’m really known as - təqʷuʔmaʔ, təqʷuʔbəd, təqʷuʔbəʔ, taqʷuʔma, təqubəd, təqʷubəʔ, t(xʷ)xʷaq’ʷ. These are just SOME of the names that our ancestors used to reference our beloved mountain 🏔️

Mountains are sacred spaces. Treat them as such. ✨ 🌍 👁️

Me too. You aren’t alone. It’s very hard to balance loving her and lacking respect for her. I often find myself second-guessing my own thoughts because of it.

Yup. I have zero trust in them. I swing between being a complete doomer and trying to have hope but it feels like we already know how it ends 😞

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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists will now host the important medical data the CDC no longer provides, on their website.

Link below: 👇🏼

www.acog.org

Just wanted to check in and see if you’re feeling any better?

It took a solid 10 days for me to recover. My kids bounced back in about 4 days.

Absolutely wrecked my whole family.

just got the call. fired. I was a DEI coordinator for the U.S. Postal Service. My job was to facilitate transgender operations on the mailthems and sprinkle a little glitter in the envelopes

back and white art of Gandalf the Grey with the quote "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

been thinking about this a lot this week 😪

However, a small reminder:

You can't reason with a Narcissist. You can't talk to them or expect them to show understanding.

Behaving like a decent person won't embarrass them or show them up, because they're always right. They will just accept your decency as submission, as is right and proper.

Sometimes I wish I was dumb and and ignorant, that must be nice