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Nov 19 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@NTFabiano Obesity causes changes in t/brain endocrine system & body’s homeostatic set point—your entire brain & body are a memory
This is also what accounts for ppl “feeling fat” after significant weight loss..
I call it “phantom fat syndrome” b/c t/ homunculus didn’t loose feeling
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@NTFabiano This is a highly complex topic that can not be reduced to this or that variable. It should be obvious that we are made up of memories both physiologically and psychologically-emotionally.. it’s a moment by moment reflexive recursive dynamic.
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Nov 10 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
@ISASaxonists @ProfSunnySingh The “yt privileged” who flee Twitter dont get no matter what platform those minoritized (as @ProfSunnySingh writes) will be subject to abuse regardless. Why give up my follows/followers or those I interact w/just b/c a white supremacist So. Afrikkaner
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@ISASaxonists @ProfSunnySingh buys Twitter w/nefarious intentions as if that’s not reality everywhere.
If I let white supremacy run me outta town they win and there will be no spaces in which we can exist. We exist in the face of daily white supremacy-this ain’t nuttin new
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Nov 4 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
THREAD: TIME TO GET HONEST
Although I don’t look it at first glance, I am Lebanese and Af-Am. Because my heart is embedded in both communities I have wrestled with voting daily & still do…
Some might say I should not be wrestling but I am a woman, I have a daughter &
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2 communities my vote impacts.
I of myself cannot bring myself to violate every single living value I hold by voting to save my rights over t/bloody genocide of Palestinians.
I cannot live w/such a schism.
But I am not just my single vote—
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Nov 4 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
@NTFabiano You know we do so much research and yeah we find interesting things…
But I gotta ask
WHY ARE WE NOT LOOKING FOR FOLKS WHO BREAK THAT MOLD OR THOSE “NORMATIVE” RULES…
I’ll give you an example
Way back when when (2012-13) it was though APoE was an AD sentence
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@NTFabiano I stood up at the conference and asked
1)Could you tell me how prevalent APoE is in the general population 2) and of that pool how many DO NOT develop AD?
(Yeah that went over as you’d expect too)
I mean clearly those with AD had APoE
BUT THATS NOT THE PROBLEM
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Nov 2 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
CORRECT
From a paper on genocide I wrote way back when:
“These events—ethnic cleansing/genocide/crimes against humanity ARE MASSIVE OPERATIONS
that require a majority, if not the whole of
society’s focused motivation & participation to accomplish.
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None of this comes down to one man, one leader or one action.
And what drives ethnic cleansing/genocide/crimes against humanity is typically as old as the nation itself and embedded from the beginning (ie., foundational) within the
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Nov 2 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
@threadreaderapp @GaryMarcus PS. I meant to include these links in the thread 1/ theaftd.org/f2023de_/?utm_…
@threadreaderapp @GaryMarcus 2/
@GaryMarcus Again…
Here is what I wrote in 2018
that was updated in 2019
medium.com/@kateshaw_2309…
@GaryMarcus The prognosis for FTD-behavioral variant (what I suspect but it could be another type) is continuous decline but as with all dementias ITS NOT A STEADY STATE. Hes been using gestures instead of words for yrs-which might argue for semantic but there’s too much loosening of
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Oct 24 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
@ArabicPrincessV @hebagowayed Koolaid Keith and Kathy that’s who!
This whole thing really pissed me off— and the following
THREAD ABOUT BLAMING T/VICTIM is about as much straight talk as I can manage without sounding insane!
There is NO lesser evil.
Evil is evil!
Is there a less evil version of
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@ArabicPrincessV @hebagowayed white supremacy?
NO!
The concept of a lesser evil is a consolation prize.
It means pick for survival so you can change conditions after
—I get that—
IVE VOTED LIKE THAT MY WHOLE LIFE—
But even when given the Trifecta majority have DEMS even signed one-just
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Oct 23 • 28 tweets • 4 min read
THREAD FASCISM OF CIVIL WAR TYPE VIOLENCE—WE ARE IN TROUBLE
Listen MIKE FLYNN says there WILL BE VIOLENCE Nov, 6th if the outcome of t/election is unclear 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Bear with me here b/c there’s much to say!
(Video courtesy of @FLWillRegret22) 1/
Not only do we need to pay atten to this—
WE NEED TO ASK DEMS
1)What theyre doin abt this now
2)What’s in place or that they’re going to put in place at this late date to either prevent or avert the very worst come Nov 6, 2024
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Oct 23 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Yes we need to pay atten MORE WE NEED TO ASK DEMS
1)What they doin abt this now
2)What’s in place to either prevent or avert t/very worst in Nov
Listen in t/public sphere ppl are fired, arrested & kicked out of DEM rallies for speaking against genocide
Frankly speaking—dealing with this IS ABOVE OUR PAY GRADE…
We are captive to what the gov’mt does or doesn’t have in place—
So yall need to start CALLING YOUR HOUSE AND SENATE REPS..
And asking candidates the hard questions!
Oct 17 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
I warned day 1 this was an ongoing genocidal land grab that at best now had an opportunistic window and at worst had been constructed as an excuse for the same.
I also knew fairly quickly that the music festival had been moved close to the Gaza fence, soldiers made busy on
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on the WB that morning & that NOTHING goes on in Gaza that is not recorded & monitored via the most sensitive devices, watched via drones 24/7 and that this was deliberately allowed to occur for horrifically terrifying reasons..
THERE WAS NO WAY IT DIDN’T GO DOWN LIKE THAT;
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Oct 12 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
@RaniaKhalek They tried this before
Didn’t work then… won’t work now…
If you know anything about EU/US & Z—ist settler colonialism—you know that w/out Hezbollah—politically & militarily, Lebanon would NOT exist.
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@RaniaKhalek Hezbollah IS Lebanon—T/ONLY ppl repping Lebanon, Lebanese interests, politics government, security & ppl IS HEZBOLLAH & EVERY LEBANESE CITIZEN & THOSE OF US IN T/DIASPORA KNOW IT
T/Lebanese standing army has BEEN WEAK b/c US
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Oct 12 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
@EsheruKwaku If you know anything about EU/US & Z—ist settler colonialism—you know that w/out Hezbollah—politically & militarily, Lebanon would NOT exist.
Hezbollah IS Lebanon—T/ONLY ppl repping Lebanon, Lebanese interests, politics government, security & ppl
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@EsheruKwaku IS HEZBOLLAH & EVERY LEBANESE CITIZEN & THOSE OF US IN T/DIASPORA KNOWS IT
T/Lebanese standing army has BEEN WEAK b/c US bought a puppet Lebanese government that then centered itself around
Z—ist Israeli-US policy.
And now b/c Lebanon/Hezbollah (who has teeth)
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Oct 11 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
@RnaudBertrand @adam_tooze Ive said from git Biden was working off a template that doesn’t address t/world as it is but rather t/world as it was & thinking that “restoring” alliances would magically drop us back into what was considered “peacetime”
HIS MODEL IS AS OUT DATED AS B/T/UN & ISRAEL ARE—
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@RnaudBertrand @adam_tooze And the damage he’s done to the US with that bygone days ill fitting model is frankly irreparable.
Same this occurs with Pelosi Schumer etc
BY 55 or 60 folks time has expired b/c THEYRE NO LONGER WILLING TO ADDRESS T/WORLD AS ITS BECOME—
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Oct 10 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
THREAD: HOW WHITE SUPREMACY WORKS
Y'all need to pay very close attention here and take
1)—note of the colonialist CIA/MSM/DEM/GOP OPS BS—PR pivot the US just took at the UN today to avoid responsibility, appear sane
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& protect DEM/Biden Admin reelection bid
YET WE’RE STILL SENDING BOMBS $$ PLANES TROOPS ETC…SO TO BELIEVE WHAT T/US NOW SAYS ASKS US TO IGNORE REALITY
Meanwhile in FL
And 2)—note that the US is now rabidly advancing
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Oct 10 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
THE REAL PROBLEM:
Here’s the thing.. smart folks constantly underestimate the number and power of the masses…
Know why?
They expect everyone or at least a majority of folks to think reason and act like smart principled ppl—like themselves.. logical no?
I mean just look around and it’s clear to see right?
Wrong!
Most smart ppl have no clue the masses— WP & those who run “game” adjacent ARE NOT SMART OR PRINCIPLED and get whooped every time!
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Even smart folks got blind spots…
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Oct 9 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
@assoc1counsell Look it’s so far beyond that now—Online 24/7 is causing MEGA epidemic proportions of obsessive self centered immature & insecurity loops dug so deep ppl CAN NO LONGER take others into account—b/c now EVERYTHING IS PERSONAL..& you gain credibility by turning a strangers words
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@assoc1counsell into slights—and how caustically you respond is what gets you cred—
Alla that 👆🏽b/c who we are now is determined by our online interactions; thus how you understand yourself is inexorably tied to and centered in external “likes” from folks YOU DONT KNOW
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Oct 6 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
@arianek @katiamek @Papatasso33 In the meantime @katiamek worst case scenario here are a medical research g couple articles (posted below) that may help. Let me explain:
I don’t know where you are but some places you have to go through a magistrate to do an involuntary admit
If that is the case
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@arianek @katiamek @Papatasso33 A) the articles below will help you make your case credible
B) if that is not the case— (if you can print them out/if not keep them posted in your texts for easy access) during the admit SHOW THEM TO THE ADMITTING PSYCHIATRIST/DOC/PSYCHOLOGIST SO THAT THERE IS ENOUGH DOUBT
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Oct 6 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Oh I have to say this…as someone who got COVID 2020 I can tell you going back to work as a neuropsychologist I FELTAS IF I WAS STARTING OVER FROM SCRATCH—I mean I couldn’t put a/thing together & I WAS SLOW…but I kept at it! & if starting over was needed THATS WHAT I DID IT. 1/
One of the things absent from this convo IS REHAB & WHAT IT TAKES!
COVID may/does change cognitive function for some folks, but if you keep going, you CAN/will rebuild—either via compensatory pathways that access 2ndary & tertiary
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Oct 6 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
@gparkin @inkblue01 Ok as someone who got COVID 2020 I can tell you going back to work as a neuropsychologist I FELT LIKE I HAD TO START OVER FROM SCRATCH—I mean I couldn’t put it together & I WAS SLOW…but I kept at it! & if starting over was what was needed THATS WHAT I DID IT. 4 yrs later I’m ok
@gparkin @inkblue01 One of the things absent from this convo IS REHAB & WHAT IT TAKES!
It may/does change cognitive function but if you keep going, you CAN/will rebuild—either via compensatory pathways that access 2nd & tertiary areas providing functions or by building NEW neural architecture
Sep 30 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
@cd_hooks THREAD OF MAPS
Don’t forget the huge Christian Muslim Druze & Mizrahi Lebanese/Palestinian/Iraqi/Arab pops living in No./So. California, IL & up & down Chicago Burbs, NJ, NYC & NY, OH, So C., Minn., VA., TX., FL., PA., Mass and Wash DC.
& students protesting
It’s not just MI
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@cd_hooks Let’s start with a 2024 US Arab peoples state map 2/
