Michelle Staub

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You have found me at a very Cosmic Crisp time in my life

I’ve never bought something so fast omg

The science of fetal microchimerism should have broken the internet by now. It hasn’t. When I read about a research I was so curious to know what’s actually happening. Fetal cells — carrying the child’s own DNA — cross into the mother’s bloodstream during pregnancy and never fully leave. They embed into her organs. Her heart muscle. Her brain tissue. Researchers have found a child’s living cells inside mothers in their 90s, from pregnancies six decades old. The child left the womb. The cells didn’t. And they don’t just sit there. They migrate toward damage. Women with heart injuries show fetal cells concentrated at the wound site. Women with thyroid disease show their children’s cells inside the affected tissue. The body that built the child gets tended to, in return, by the child’s own cells. Nobody designed this consciously. Evolution quietly built a repair system out of the mother-child bond itself. The brain side of this is equally staggering. Pregnancy triggers gray matter reorganization — a structural rewiring that sharpens threat detection, deepens empathy, fundamentally alters how a mother processes the world. These changes persist for years after birth. Possibly permanently. A mother’s nervous system doesn’t return to its factory settings. It was updated by the experience of carrying another person, and that update sticks. The part worth sitting with longest — women who experienced pregnancy loss carry fetal cells too. The cellular merging doesn’t require a birth. It doesn’t require years of raising someone. Those cells remain regardless of what happened after. A mother grieving a child she never brought home is grieving someone biologically still present inside her. The world consistently underestimates that grief. The science says we have no business doing that. Mothers always knew the connection didn’t end at birth. Turns out it doesn’t end at the cellular level either.

This makes me emotional she had a dream and she called on her community to help her achieve it

My fan art of the three stooges

guy fieri: okay, little lady, walk me through how we’re grillin’ this cheese me: two pieces of white bread, well-buttered. then the star of the show guy fieri: we talkin’ gruyère? pepper jack? gouda? me: kraft single guy fieri: sleazy does it, sister

If I ever had the money for a fursuit this is the type of style and vibe I’d want

You have no idea how pivotal this was to modern gaming discourse. It all starts here. The shouting, the insults, the deadpan comebacks. This is the genesis of it all.

this!

I know this has been said a million times in a million different ways, but it genuinely is so FUCKING insane that we are now fully aware our government is filled with child trafficker murderer rapist pedophiles and we all just wake up in the morning and go to work and pay our bills and are filing our taxes to pay a government full of fucking child trafficker murder rapist pedophiles. Every day I feel like I’m inching closer to a full manic episode and I’m not being dramatic or funny this shit is not okay or normal what the fuck are we even doing anymore bro

This tweet is evergreen; if you find a way to quietly chuckle at what usually bothers you, you can just glide through life towards what you love + want, instead of being constantly yanked off of your emotional axis, always expending excess energy just getting back to baseline.

i think about this story often now we're all just meatbags

Maybe it all went wrong when we killed the whales. Maybe their songs kept the great dream together. Vast brains slowly, carefully ordering the world with actions subtler than the apes could ever see. God is dead. His blubber lit a lamp in London

“I’m just one person, what can I do?” — 350 million people

hey girl. i noticed you’ve never posted a political infographic on your instagram story. are you a nazi?

I genuinely think that our purpose as humans in the eco system was to care for all the other species. Why else would humans have the capabilities of projecting emotions and empathy onto literally anything? It's because we were supposed to care. And now? All we do is destroy.

Something that breaks my heart as a Millennial is how fucking optimistic and fun our teenage years and 20s were. Like we envisioned a TOTALLY different world from the one that we've got and insanely divorced from what Gen-Z are experiencing. It's hard to put in words how fantastic we thought life was gonna be and how it seemed like we were making tangible social progress. We've had all of that ripped away from us.

do not let the government fool you. they absolutely do owe you functioning systems, they owe you clean water, they owe you access to housing, they owe you opportunities to work, they owe you dignity. that’s within their constitutional mandate, that’s their purpose and their duty.