#and there's no fucking filters on instagram

[likeabxrdinflight]

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?

[francy-sketches]

*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

[lambergeier]

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

[inyourroomzephyrmix]

[politischerbloedsinn]

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.

[notaplaceofhonour]

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[bloodclotbitch]

No sweetie you can’t see any pictures of mummy as a young woman because mummy had chronic whack-a-horrific-filter-on-that-shit brain disease

[ghoul-haunted]

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)

[zukoromantic]

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

[the-tubort]

My DonBrothers Episode 15 Thoughts

[desolationsuperfund]

[paeinovis]

YouTube trying to be TikTok is soooo annoying

[doctorharleenquinzell]

If the history of queer horror show on shudder doesn't talk about Vincent Price I'm going to become the joker

[jademight]

Hulk emitting radiation in a Specific Way that it fucks with cameras and causes him to be constantly photographed Wrong is a vibe actually

[extemporary-username]

I feel like my head is gonna explode :)

[whonsper]

EPIC FUCKING WIN FOR STAYS AND ALSO HAN AND LEE KNOW LOVERS ALL AROUND THE WORLD