Links etc

[flamingsword]

Violet Affleck's essay in Yale Global Health Review links COVID denialism to climate denialism: https://yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a-chronically-ill-earth-covid-organizing-as-a-model-climate-response-in-los-angeles/

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/gileads-trodelvy-with-keytruda-cuts-breast-cancer-risk-by-35-trial-2025-05-31/ “Gilead's Trodelvy, with Keytruda, cuts breast cancer risk by 35% in trial” Admittedly it is only for a specific subset of triple-negative breast cancers, but those are an aggressive and fast-moving set of cancers. So yay! Good news!

https://www.audhdflourishing.com/podcast/episode/4217e513/101-time-cannot-be-wasted - Y’all, Mattia Mauree cannot keep doing this to me - they walk into my house and then they say something that hits me where I live. I feel like I’ve been very gently murdered. It’s good for me to look at ways my life aligns with other people’s, but for serious y’all, sometimes I just cannot with all this personal growth. Anyway it’s a good podcast but if you were a parentified kid, maybe go in prepared for some light emotional manslaughter.

https://bigthink.com/smart-skills/how-curiosity-rewires-your-brain-for-change/ How Curiosity Rewires Your Brain for Change, in BigThink magazine.

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The other day I got cat pics, and the fur babies are doing well. Then that reminded me to send him stuff, so today I sent Ghost some old pics of him and his friends. He’s doing okay, too, I think? I’m like 60% sure he’s no more miserable now than he was when I decided to get the divorce, anyway.

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[sabethea]

How are YOU doing compared to then? You matter too, remember.

[flamingsword]

I mean, apart from the being murdered in the face with some truths about my childhood I had been convincing myself we’re not that bad? I’m mostly fine. Last week I had a mental health wobble but it has sorted itself out mostly.

[sabethea]

*offers gentle hugs and sparkly stones*

…yeah, that’s a complex one to cope with. I’m sorry.

I’m glad the mental health wobble is clearing up. They’re particularly difficult at the moment as circumstances around the place aren’t conducive to helping one recover from downs, I find. So pulling yourself out of that is really good going and I think you’re excellent ❤️

[flamingsword]

*many belated hugs*

[minoanmiss]

"very gently murdered" is an exactly awesome description of how these things feel.

[flamingsword]

Thank you. I have been reading poems in my sparse spare time instead of fanfic (mistake), and I always get slightly purpler of prose when I do that.