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laura 🩷 (they/it)

@infinitelaura_

26 ⋆⭒.⋆ minecraft builder, aspiring blockbench modeler & occasional twitch streamer ⋆⭒.⋆ keep moving forward | pfp by @Dove_Dust

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ky@snoopyllenhaal·
saw someone saying that everyone likes astronomy now because of phm and artemis ii but as someone who has been fascinated by astronomy since a young age nothing makes me happier than seeing people dreaming big again
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Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
In 1935, two American doctors examined seven women's ovaries and saw small lumps. They called them cysts and named the disease after them. They were wrong. It took 91 years to fix. What we called PCOS is now Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS), announced today in The Lancet by an international panel of doctors and patients. The renaming followed more than a decade of consensus work and 22,000 patient and clinician survey responses. The lumps Stein and Leventhal saw were never cysts. Modern imaging shows they were follicles, the tiny sacs inside the ovary that grow and release an egg each month, frozen partway through by a hormonal imbalance. PMOS is a multi-system disorder centered in the endocrine system, the body's network of glands that produces hormones like insulin (controls blood sugar), cortisol (the stress hormone), and thyroid hormones (set the body's metabolism). The ovary trouble flows downstream from there. The naming choice is not academic. When doctors hear "ovary" in a diagnosis, they look at the ovary. "Metabolic" and "endocrine" send them to the whole body. PMOS affects roughly 1 in 8 women worldwide, more than 170 million people. The WHO estimates 70% have never been diagnosed. Among those who do, 1 in 3 wait more than 2 years, and nearly half see 3 or more doctors first. The CDC reports more than half of women with PMOS develop type 2 diabetes by age 40, a risk 5 to 10 times higher than women without the condition. Around 37% have clinically significant depression, compared with 14% in women without it. Anxiety runs at 42% versus 8.5%. A label born from a 1935 look at seven ovaries is finally going away. The new diagnostic guidelines roll out fully in 2028. By then, a woman walking into a clinic with these symptoms should hear questions about her blood sugar and her mood alongside her cycle. Those are the parts of the disease the old name hid for 91 years.
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PCOS is being renamed to PMOS. (Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome) The change comes from experts that say the old name was misleading, stating that it inaccurately suggested ovarian cysts as a defining feature.

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free 🇵🇸@tdmybeloved·
my tremendously specific niche for black hole themed characters with a complex about mortality
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🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 oleks / c0mms closed
since it is also Chornobyl catastrophe remembrance day, daily reminder that chernobyl is a russian transliteration, same as kiev, kharkov, odessa etc. please use the correct transliteration, as the russian ones are a consequences of centuries long imperialism
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luanne (LemonThyne)@lemonthynealt·
smile dont forget that when more people charge around that range it becomes the standard pricing for clients to expect so make sure to charge higher for the greater success of the mc skin artist community <3
Campestral@CampestralCamp

Wait... Are some of you Minecraft skin artists only charging < $15 USD for Minecraft skins that most certainly take over an hour to make for YouTubers with THOUS/MILLIONS of followers to MAYBE credit you You gotta eat!! Please charge more if you're pulling clients like that

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Enii 🌻 COMMS OPEN 🌻
Enii 🌻 COMMS OPEN 🌻@Enii_draws·
We love you all the same🐱🌙
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