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Will Earth win? We'll see.

And while you're here, please share and donate of you can to help a family with 2 young children trying to survive a genocide that has already left the children without a father.

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I know I’ve posted about this but I still think about the time I was a dog groomer in the middle of nowhere and that old lady called in and said she had a wolf and we were like whatever and booked her because sooo many people who say they even have wolf crosses actually just have GSD/malamute crosses or whatever so she came in and it was actually a wolf and I was like ma’am idk if I can bathe your wolf actually and she was like I told you it was a wolf and I was like I mean. That’s true you are correct this is on us. However,

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"A promising line of attack against sexually transmitted infections puts a cheap and widely available medication to a new use.

The treatment – a form of post-exposure prophylaxis, or PEP – is a dose of the antibiotic doxycycline taken in the hours immediately after sex which works to extinguish an STI before it leads to symptoms or spreads to others.

A growing body of research shows using doxycycline in this way can substantially lower the risk of contracting three of the most common bacterial STIs — chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis.

Called doxy-PEP, the preventative treatment has instilled enough confidence that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to roll out guidance later this summer [summer 2023, guidance has since been released and is available here] to give doctors and public health departments a roadmap for how to offer it.

While doxy-PEP will not be recommended for everyone, including most women, and the implications for antibiotic resistance need to be closely monitored, experts say its potential to curb the rising rates of STIs cannot be ignored.

"Our efforts to control STIs for the last 50 years have not succeeded," says Dr. Edward Hook, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University Alabama, Birmingham. "It's time to do something different."

Early results show promise

At this point, most of the research has focused on how well doxy-PEP works when offered to gay and bisexual men, and transgender women — groups that have disproportionately high rates of STIs.

"You really see a signal that there are consistent reductions across the board," says Dr. Annie Luetkemeyer, a professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the University of California, San Francisco who led a recent clinical trial on doxy-PEP, based in Seattle and San Francisco. "We saw that this was safe. We saw that it was well tolerated. We saw that it reduced sexually transmitted infections," she says.

Luetkemeyer's study, published earlier this year in the New England Journal of Medicine, found a 65% overall reduction in new STIs among those who took doxycycline within 24 to 72 hours after condomless sex.

Specifically, doxy-PEP cut new cases of chlamydia by about 80% and gonorrhea by more than 50%. It also reduced cases of syphilis, but there were fewer cases to report in their trial, she says. It proved so effective that the trial was stopped early so the control group, which wasn't using the antibiotic, could also start receiving it...

The research builds on promising results from Europe.

For example, researchers in France previously found doxy-PEP led to about a 70% reduction in the incidence of chlamydia and syphilis among men who have sex with men, compared to those who didn't receive the medication. And data presented earlier this year from another trial in France showed a 65% overall drop in new infections, including gonorrhea.

"The evidence is very strong," says Dr. Leandro Mena, director of the CDC's Division of STD Prevention. "More tools are needed in the nation's fight against bacterial STIs," which is why CDC is moving quickly on doxy-PEP, he says...

Antibiotic resistance a concern — but early signs are reassuring

Broadening access to doxy-PEP would raise concerns about its potential contribution to antibiotic resistance, a global crisis that threatens to undermine some of our only treatments for certain bacterial and fungal infections.

"This is a really important novel biomedical intervention," says Dr. Manik Kohli, an academic clinical fellow at University College London. "For an effective rollout, there needs to be clear data and a clear plan in place for how you monitor for new antibiotic resistance."

While there are still questions about what could happen if doxy-PEP gains popularity, researchers have tried to look for signs of increased antimicrobial resistance among those taking the treatment...

Even if widespread use of doxy-PEP runs the risk of increasing antibiotic resistance, Luetkemeyer stresses that using doxy-PEP isn't ultimately "a choice between antibiotics and no antibiotics." That's because many of those who didn't receive doxycycline in her study ended up contracting STIs and needing antibiotics eventually for treatment.

Coming soon to a doctor near you?

The growing evidence and the anticipated federal recommendations [now issued, available here] are expected to help move doxy-PEP more into the mainstream of STI prevention and LGBTQ+ health care.

But it won't necessarily be new to everyone.

Already, some have adopted doxy-PEP to ward off bacterial STIs...

Encouraged by the evidence, San Francisco's health department released its own recommendations on doxy-PEP and began offering it to patients at its STI clinic in the fall [of 2022].

"Interest has been very high," says Dr. Oliver Bacon, who's a senior supervising physician at San Francisco City Clinic, which is run by the local health department...

"Sometimes people think, 'oh, STDs, what's the big deal? It's not HIV. Who cares?'" says Bacon. "People do care. They don't want to get gonorrhea, chlamydia or syphilis. They don't want the symptoms themselves. They don't want to infect their sexual partners. There can be quite a lot of stigma associated with having an infection.""

-via NPR, July 11, 2023

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Re: last post. The especially disturbing thing is the drivers in the notes unironically being like “if you’re riding a bike and you look like a normal person i get it because some people are poor and they have to ride a stupid bike to get around BUT if you’re part of a group ride or you’re wearing spandex or in any way look like you are choosing to ride a bike for recreation I should get to murder you with my vehicle.” Bro i think you might just be a fascist lowkey

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verified as #135 on el-shab-hussein/nabulsi's list

🌿Will you support Mohammed? 🌿

Working as a journalist in Gaza is gruelling, brutal, and horrifically dangerous. Safaa's husband Mohammed is one such a journalist; father to two young girls, Wateen (7) and Naya (4), Mohammed recently took a serious wound to the head that could have cost him his life.

And yet it is his bravery that sees this genocide documented. He is doing a truly invaluable task in ensuring that Palestinian voices are not silenced, that their cries are heard, that the horrific injustices they are being subjected to are brought to light.

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Understandably, Safaa is terrified for him. For the safety of her family, her children's chance at a future.

 My children have seen things that no child should have to endure. They heard the terrifying sounds of missiles and saw the bloodshed. We lived in constant fear. In addition, there was a shortage of clean water and food. They were suffering from gastroenteritis and there was not adequate medical care.

Can you contribute to their fundraiser? They need your support to afford basic necessities, food and water, hygiene products, accommodation, educational material. Safaa, too, would love to be able to rebuild her photographic laboratory and continue her work in photography.

Thus far they have been able to raise €22,709 of their €35,000 target. Can you help them?

If you cannot donate at this time, then please follow Safaa at @safaakhatib and share her posts! Any contribution, no matter how small, will make a difference in this family's lives 💖

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That’s a cute foot fetish you got there, would you mind keeping it 25796323689432 feet away from me?

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he has earned the right to do whatever he wants forever

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Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!

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Hiiiiiiiii. another quiz for u all to take <3 I like doing these

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So a lot of political scandals just dropped in the last 24 hours

-NC Governor Candidate Mark Robinson's online posts were found, including some VERY graphic descriptions (like seriously, do not read if you're not 18) of him cheating on his wife, calling himself a black Nazi, and expressing support for reinstituting slavery. His email address was also found on Ashley Madison

-Robert F Kennedy Jr was revealed to be cheating on his wife with a reporter (and that isn't even the weirdest thing since federal law enforcement opened an investigation into him allegedly cutting off the head of a whale and taking it home with him less than 24 hours ago)

-GOP Senate candidate who is the CEO of a bank has been found accepting millions of dollars from what seem to allegedly be Mexican drug cartels.

-Finally, probably the biggest bombshell, according to multiple eyewitness testimonies within sealed sworn affadavits, Congressman Matt Gaetz allegedly invited a 17-year-old girl to a drug-fueld sex party

And we haven't even hit October, folks. Again, these are all still breaking news stories, so things are subject to change, but oh man oh man.

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That's not how demographics work.

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