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I have a friend who's still highly cautious around covid because she's high risk but she keeps posting all these screenshots of tweets about covid studies on her instagram in an attempt to convince people that covid is still very dangerous
and it's not that covid isn't still potentially dangerous, but one quick google search has allowed me to find every study that she has referenced, and without fail, every single one of them has been working with pre-vaccine, pre-omicron data. the most recent one she's posting about is about cardiac conditions post covid, and wouldn't you know, the entire sample was taken from people who caught covid between march 2020 and january 2021.
this was pre-vaccine, pre-omicron, hell, it was pre-delta variant (remember that one). this was the wild type covid, which our bodies were least immune to. it was the type that was most known to be causing cardiac symptoms and blood clots. besides delta, it was the most deadly. and no one was vaccinated.
so yes, in that group of people, who were unfortunate enough to catch covid during that period, the results of this study are likely very valid- they are at increased risk of heart disease. and that should be talked about and studied more and if those people end up with cardiac symptoms they need to be receiving proper care.
but we should not be assuming, without further study, that these risks are still the same for those who've been vaccinated, or who only caught covid after the omicron variant became dominant (the omicron lineages have been pretty different from the wild type and other pre-omicron variants, so it's worth noting that). like this is a study that must be replicated with a post-vaccine, post-omicron sample before you will even remotely convince me that those cardiac risks are the same as they were before.
and it is driving me crazy that my friend, who is also fucking trained in how to read science, is posting this shit seemingly without looking at the actual papers or thinking about the context at all. like it is driving me absolutely bananas. these posts aren't even like, direct quotes from the papers, they're screenshots of randos on twitter talking about these papers, as if twitter rando knows jack shit about what they're talking about. like it's all well and good to still care about covid but could you at least do it with less of the fear mongering?
#that's what bothers me I think#these posts always have a flavor of 'you should still be just as afraid of this virus as you were in march 2020'#and that's just...not true#that is patently not true#even if you're high risk the situation has changed a bit it's not as dire as it was though you should still be more concerned obvs#like I'm still all for wearing masks in public spaces#especially crowded ones#but the fear mongering has to stop we cannot talk about this like it's 2020 anymore#and the solutions cannot be the 2020 solutions anymore either#like I agree the government just dropped covid like a hot potato and way too quickly but just...why can't we just say that?#I have enough health anxiety I don't need these kinds of studies thrown in my face when they're all backlogged#...that's probably my real issue is that I read this shit and then get sent all into a tizzy because I had covid last summer#only to go and fact check shit and find out that the data isn't even useful or applicable to someone like me#who caught covid after three vaccines and during the BA.5 omicron wave#arguably one of the mildest of the variants#so it's just like#can you not#and there's no fucking filters on instagram
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Just a random question to my artist followers: does anyone enjoy posting their stuff on tiktok? I can't tell if its just a me thing or if that app and its userbase are the most obnoxious compared to other social media
#txt#like any time i post something the comments are 10% related to the art#and then 50% is 'omg did you know this guy draws porn!!' and then LINKING THE FUCKING ACCOUNT#35% is someone complaining about gay people or women#and then the last 5% is someone yelling at me because they confused me with some other guy with a similar name/art style#ive also been sent genuine death threats over my dragon ball ship art. something i drew a YEAR ago#because tiktok's privacy policy is so bad that people can't dm you but they can still send message requests#is it because tiktok has a much younger userbase?#like we know how batshit twitter is and instagram is pretty annoying as well but tiktok feels like nobody knows what a filter is
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sorry idk why i keep going back to that fucking “is sabrina carpenter hot” poll filled with tumblr’s most ghoulish misogynistic high school bullies. it’s like looking at a car crash to me. but are all the people saying she’s had so much filler and surgery she looks like an uncanny valley doll… looking at the same sabrina carpenter? like don’t get me wrong i’m sure she’s had some work done because every celebrity has but to me this is literally like, 10% filler 40% natural aging from early to mid 20s and 50% people not understanding quite how much a different & heavier makeup routine can change your face 😭
#i’m pretty sure if you put pics of me at 20 and 27 side by side it’d be a similar transformation and i’ve had sweet fuck all done#‘she looks like a plastic doll’ that would be the instagram filters my love
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*watchmojo lady voice* hey guys 👋 did you know 🤔 that some game 🎮 of thrones 🪑 characters looked 👀 totally different 👱♂️≠👱♀️ in the books📚❓ today 📆 we are gonna show 👁 you what these game 🎮 of thrones 🪑 characters were supposed 👍 to look 👀 like
aka i was trying to draw show joffrey and then slapped long hair and green eyes on him because. idk i was bored
#edit why the fuck did i say blond hair. long i meant long. why did nobody tell me :(#my art#got#asoiaf#kinda#no worm lips they looked weird#this would hit a lot harder if i was good at drawing actors#does it look like him i dont know lmao#my brain tells me yes kinda but that's bc i know who its supposed to be lol#why does it look like its slathered in 34 instagram filters? idk i started fucking with layer modes#thinking about those shitty 'how they should look' videos now#when a character is described with long hair so they give them a mullet that hasnt been washed in 30 years
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The absolute LOVE I feel immediately when an attractive female "influencer" takes the time to correct comments praising her "all natural beauty" and she just lists all the procedures and surgeries and upkeep it takes to look like that. Fucking. Thank you. Thaaaaaaaaank. You.
#theres sooooo much ignorance in this area#and it fucks so hard with peoples perceptions#they aren't at all obligated for sure#but its so damn helpful#also girls who have started bluring out ppl in the background of their videos? fuckin legends#doing the lords work#instagram#tiktok#models#perception#depression#beauty#unnatural#surgery#cosmetics#cosmetic surgery#makeup#filters#filter#reality#real vs fake#fake#influencer#influencers#popular#celeb#viral#text#rant#personal
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MFs be like "omg the new qunari design is good actually! I'm gonna make a hot, smooth qunari!" OK, admit you're boring then and go away. You obviously don't like cool race designs and just want everything to be human + one quirky feature. Go play with ur barbies because that's all that's fucking LEFT.
#im so fucking livid#dragon age#why cant we have unique designs anymoe#its all just botox instagram filters from here on out fellas#no texture allowed!!#no flaws or anything#enjoy what youve created
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#almost came unglued in my cubicle bc I got a bunch of queer instagram reels#and specifically these ‘what it’s like as a lesbian dating someone whose only dated men’#and it’s just like…oh I really Haven’t ever been in a fulfilling relationship with anyone huh#and then there were videos explaining hand positions and exercises to help with cramping and stamina and I’m just…#I just feel like the biggest loser#which is so stupid bc I would never even think to judge anyone else who is like me and has no experience#but gOD I FEEL LIKE A LOSER#ugh FUCK I’m so tired of feeling like an absolute outsider to the queer community#I’m so tired of feeling like I’m wasting time and missing out and like I’m going nowhere#but I can’t fucking navigate dating apps I can’t talk to women at the bar#had to delete the one app I was using bc I refused to pay $30 just to be able to filter for monogamous#I would run out of swipes on poly and causal only people#and then shit like ‘oh but THESE people didn’t meet until their 40s/50s/60s/etc!!’#and it’s just like!!!!! I DONT WANT TO WAIT THAT LONG!!!!!#i would like gay sex before menopause absolutely wrecks my body!!!!#bc if watching what it did to my own mother is any foreshadowing it’s going to thoroughly wreck me!!!!!#and that’s getting closer and closer every fucking day!!!!!!#AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA#negative
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i don't mind tumblr copying features from other sites bc tumblr as it exists has never been profitable and we the old fogies have never been a profitable userbase etc etc. changes happen. however. why can't the change be locked/f-locked/private accounts please staff i am begging you just give me a fucking private account that i don't have to give people a fucking password to view
#neutral feature copy: the sidebar#bad feature copy: whatever the fuck is going on with tumblr live#SO WHAT IF MAYBE WE DID A GOOD FEATURE COPY!!#VERY POPULAR PART OF TWITTER AND INSTAGRAM!! GIVE ME A LOCKED ACCOUNT!!#i also Desperately desire a way to filter/make a version of my dash that only shows original posts from everyone i follow#i want lists bitch.#but whatever. let's start with locked accounts
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yeah thanks for forcing me to see a pro-ana/thinspo account instagram. totally not triggering to ppl who have eating disorders or might have had in the past. truly you know a lot of your users might develop eating disorders from seeing skinny ppl all the goddamn time in your platform congratulations 👏🏼👏🏼
#/sarcasm#lotus.txt#unfortunately instagram sucks at filtering out content#it was a fucking ad by the way
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Those zoom in make-up mirrors are evil actually because you see all your pores and little pimples or scars much more clearly than normal and it makes you think something's wrong with you
Instagram filters that give you makeup or slightly change your face shape or smooth your skin are obviously evil too because it makes you think that's what people look like and then when you see yourself in the mirror you think something's wrong with you
I especially abhor filters that also change other things (like, normal colour filter, fun colourful makeup, stars or fireworks on screen), but then also subtly change your face shape. You might not even notice it when you use the filter for fun. But it's there and it's going to be in your subconscious memory of what a human face should be if you look at it for too long.
#sorry I'm having Thoughts but the roommate has one of these mirrors and it took me five minutes to tear myself away from it and stop poking#at my nose and my chin and the barely there pimples on my cheek that I wouldn't have noticed otherwise (so like noone else probably noticed#either!! i don't need them to go away!!! they're just tiny irregularities that get visible under that damn magnifying glass of a mirror)#and it reminded me of how the insta filters fuck with self perception too#x#instagram filters#makeup culture#make-up culture#why we need feminism#feminism#anti make-up#anti filters#body positivity
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#as far as celebrities who’ve been openly discussing i/p jameela jamil has been on the positive side afaik#what I’ve seen from her has been compassionate & humanizing to ppl in both countries & careful to separate govt from the ppl#some takes I’ve seen that have been iffy & some I disagree with but broadly speaking not the worst#but it feels like she’s losing it over her instagram stories being ‘shadow banned’ posting dozens of stories abt & calling it ‘black mirror#like yeah meta has been heavily criticized for allowing ppl to spread misinfo abt global conflicts so training algorithms to deprioritize#content from accounts that are spamming a whole bunch of sensitive content about an ongoing conflict#it’s not a person at the switch saying ‘you talked about palestine specifically so fuck you’#it’s a algorithm trying to filter content based on datapoints that correlate with a whole bunch of different factors#it could be posting like 20-30 stories in a 24 hour period getting your stories flagged as spam#it could be the algorithm picking up that people click away or mark ‘not interest’ bc they don’t want to see war content from actors#i know i’ve had to actively tell pretty much every platform I’m on repeatedly that I don’t want to see that kind of content on my feed#& yet it still shows up so i get the furstration at the inscrutability of the algorithm & platform inner workings#but the ‘i tried to mute/unmute content & the platform didn’t recognize it’ cuts both ways#and leaning into conspiracism that basically implies the media is being controlled to ‘punish’ ppl for being pro-palestine is dangerous#like yeah that’s the kind of thing platforms *should be deprioritizing*#not content about palestine but the spam & the content with a conspiratorial bent#i/p
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huh okay so I'm not going to post original art on twitter anymore (since that's where the AI art freaks like to do their dumbassery the most)
#ethical and social implications of AI art aside why in gods name are you giving an AI program your likeness#its not an instagram filter they're literally going to use that for surveillance reasons you absolute fucking walnuts
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I love narcistoru precure so much you guys you have no idea i am kissing him on the mouth as you are reading this and i would be way more annoying about him if only tumblr had fucking content
#kissing#<- filter tag for someone#making the rest of you read this though ig bc if i don't mention how in love i am with him every now and then i will literally explode#i'm sayin 💥#pre/cure tumblr.... such a sad place#LIKE WHY. I AM NOT GOING TO TWITTER I WILL NOT I WILL NOT I WILL NOT#AND I WILL ALSO NOT GO TO INSTAGRAM. FUCK YOU.#AND THERE'S ALSO BARELY ANYTHING ON AO3. WHY.#AO3 AND TUMBLR ARE MY MAIN AND KIND OF ONLY SOURCES FOR FAN CONTENT
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YouTube trying to be TikTok is soooo annoying
#also the fact that the new stupid fucking ad I keep getting is totally triggering to my misophonia doesn't help at all#text#paersonal#like I don't have TikTok for a reason. if I wanted TikTok I'd go to that app.#same w Instagram but YouTube's intrusive ass ads are so garbage#I hate it sm and it's so stupid I feel like a boomer abt it frankly but like#bobblehead filter and someone doing makeup as corn to lipsync to nothing is just so brainless idk
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