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Microsoft: We are working hard to restore service.
Users: Please don’t.
1m agoThe least objectionable CEO loses his job.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Resigns, Effective Immediately
18m ago
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Chuck Schumer has been taking credit for Scott Colom's victory in Mississippi, which is interesting since, like in Florida, Schumer turned a deaf ear to Mississippi and held off on sending any money Colom's way until the very end of the election.
Scott is not having any of it...
U.S. President Donald Trump has floated a new strategy for his war against Iran: leave the conflict in limbo and walk away. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/11/13/world/politics/trump-vance-iran-talks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #donaldtrump #jdvance #us #iran #usiranwar
follow up
#Hilfe_zur_Pflege
Nicht nur qualitativ.
Das Jahr 2027 mit Start des PNOG am 1.1.2027 wird neben Millionen Existenzen von Angehörigen u. Pflegebedürftigen auch solche v. Angestellten u. Kleinunternehmern i.d. #Pflege an den Abgrund führen. Und weiter. Dies "weiter" bedeutet v.a. auch demokratiepolitisch. Viele d. Genannten sehen schon lange keine Lösungen mehr bei den vielfach in unterschiedlichsten Farben der Politik Angesprochenen. Und hier reden wir nicht nur v. Hunderttausenden.
Btw, there is no #Microsoft outage when you don’t use Microsoft 🤷
Colon pushes back on Schumer taking credit for his win (cont.)
Sanders Townsend pressed Colom on whether he would back Schumer in his bid to retake his position as Senate majority leader in January.
Colom refused to commit to backing Schumer but stopped short of throwing his support behind anyone else.
“I gotta know my options, and I’m not trying to be cute,” he said.
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⚡️🇬🇧‘Complete Amateurs’: Lord Ricketts Slams Trump’s Kremlin-Compromised Stooges (Times Radio VIDEO) #Ukraine #Press #Kyiv #Odesa #Lviv #America #USA #Kharkiv #Europe #Kherson #Berlin #Brussels #France #Democrats #Germany #UK #US #PACE #CoE #Paris #London #Media #News #Headlines #NATO #Poland #USAIsAStateSponsorofTerror
#12yrInvasionOfUkraine #HybridAttacksAreTerrorism
7m agoDATE: November 12, 2026 at 08:00PM
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TITLE: Tracking the connection between bipolar disorder and sexual distress
URL: https://www.psypost.org/tracking-the-connection-between-bipolar-disorder-and-sexual-distress/
People with bipolar disorder often experience changes in their sex lives alongside their mood shifts, but exactly how these symptoms connect over time has rarely been measured. A recent six-month study of newly diagnosed patients found that depressive symptoms correspond with lower sexual desire and increased distress about sex, while daily mood swings are linked specifically to higher sexual distress. The research was published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research.
Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition characterized by extreme shifts in a person’s mood and energy levels. These shifts manifest as distinct clinical episodes. During depressive episodes, individuals may feel intense sadness, lethargy, and a loss of interest in daily activities. During manic or hypomanic episodes, individuals experience elevated energy, impulsivity, and sometimes a decreased need for sleep.
Clinical observations frequently note that energy fluctuations influence a patient’s sexual life. The risk of sexual dysfunction is often elevated in psychiatric populations. Sexual function generally involves multiple phases, including an initial desire phase followed by arousal and physical climax. In clinical settings, the desire phase is particularly relevant for people with bipolar disorder because a sudden increase or decrease in sexual interest is a known symptom of the condition.
Another component of sexual health is sexual distress. This concept is distinct from physical sexual dysfunction. Sexual distress encompasses feelings of inadequacy, grief, frustration, and worry that arise from a person’s sexual problems. To formally diagnose a clinical sexual dysfunction, a medical provider must confirm that the patient is experiencing distress about their symptoms.
Researchers Helle B. Krogh, Caroline Fussing Bruun, Jeff Zarp, Maria Faurholt-Jepsen, Lars Vedel Kessing, Annamaria Giraldi, and Maj Vinberg conducted the study. The team is affiliated with the Sexology Clinic at Copenhagen University Hospital and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
The researchers noted a lack of longitudinal data tracking sexual health in this patient population. Most previous studies relied on cross-sectional designs, which capture a single snapshot in time. A snapshot approach can obscure how symptoms evolve. The team wanted to track patients over several months to see how formal psychiatric episodes, as well as minor daily mood changes, impact sexual desire and distress.
The researchers recruited 236 adults between the ages of 18 and 68. All participants had received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder within the previous two years. The study spanned six months, with participants attending in-person clinical visits at the start of the study, at three months, and at six months.
During the clinical visits, medical professionals evaluated the participants using standardized rating scales. They used the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale to measure the severity of depressive symptoms. They used the Young Mania Rating Scale to measure the intensity of manic symptoms. These tools assign numerical scores to a patient’s psychological state based on a clinical interview.
Participants also filled out several questionnaires. They used the Changes in Sexual Functioning Questionnaire to report their levels of sexual desire. They used a separate tool called the Sexual Distress Scale to quantify their feelings of frustration or worry regarding sex. Participants also completed a general assessment of their physical, psychological, and social quality of life.
To capture the nuances of bipolar disorder between formal clinical visits, the study utilized a smartphone application. Participants logged their mood every day using a nine-point scale on their phones.
The daily check-ins allowed the researchers to measure mood instability. Mood instability refers to the day-to-day emotional turbulence that patients experience even when they are not in a full depressive or manic episode. The researchers used a statistical formula to calculate how much a participant’s mood jumped around from one day to the next based on the smartphone data.
The data showed a distinct relationship between depressive symptoms and sexual desire. Participants with higher depression scores consistently reported lower levels of sexual desire. This finding aligns with trends seen in people who have unipolar depression without manic episodes.
In contrast, higher scores on the mania scale were initially associated with increased sexual desire. To test the strength of these relationships, the researchers conducted a secondary analysis. They removed the specific questions about sexual interest from both the depression and mania rating scales, aiming to see if the overall mood state still predicted sexual desire.
When the sexual interest questions were removed, the association between depressive symptoms and reduced desire remained intact. The link between manic symptoms and increased desire was no longer statistically significant. The researchers suggest that the initial finding regarding mania might have been an artifact of overlapping questionnaire design rather than a distinct effect of the manic mood state itself.
The team found a different pattern when analyzing sexual distress. Higher depressive symptoms were strongly associated with an increase in sexual distress. Participants who were more depressed felt more frustration and worry about their sex lives. Better overall quality of life was associated with decreased sexual distress.
Higher levels of manic symptoms did not correspond with increased sexual distress. This suggests that the heightened sexual desire or activity that often accompanies manic states is not necessarily perceived as bothersome or worrying by the patient at the time it occurs.
The smartphone data revealed that mood instability is also linked to sexual health. Participants who logged more erratic daily mood changes on the app experienced higher levels of sexual distress. This suggests that day-to-day emotional fluctuations are associated with a person’s sexual well-being, even outside of severe mood episodes.
The researchers observed a massive amount of variety across the participant pool. Statistical modeling indicated that roughly two-thirds of the variation in sexual desire and distress scores was due to differences between individuals. The researchers noted that personal, societal, and relationship factors likely exert a large influence on sexual outcomes, highlighting the clinical diversity of people with bipolar disorder.
Only about 16 percent of the participants met the criteria for overall sexual dysfunction. This prevalence is remarkably low compared to previous studies, which have reported dysfunction rates nearing 50 percent in similar populations.
Several factors likely contributed to the lower rates of sexual dysfunction, creating some limitations for the study. The researchers specifically excluded individuals who were taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. These medications are a common class of antidepressants known to cause high rates of sexual side effects. Excluding these patients likely removed many individuals who were experiencing medication-induced sexual dysfunction.
The participants in this study were also concurrently enrolled in a separate clinical trial testing a daily aspirin regimen. Participating in a clinical trial requires a high level of organization and compliance. This requirement may have attracted a subset of patients who were generally functioning better and experiencing less severe symptoms than the average person living with bipolar disorder.
The study only examined newly diagnosed individuals. The findings might not be generalizable to patients who have managed bipolar disorder for decades. The compounding effects of multiple hospitalizations or years of psychiatric medication could alter how mood impacts sexual health later in the course of the illness. Future research could investigate whether these patterns hold true for chronic patients or utilize qualitative interviews to explore the personal factors driving individual differences.
The study, “The impact of affective symptoms and mood instability on sexual desire and sexual distress in newly diagnosed bipolar disorder: a longitudinal study,” was authored by Helle B. Krogh, Caroline Fussing Bruun, Jeff Zarp, Maria Faurholt-Jepsen, Lars Vedel Kessing, Annamaria Giraldi, and Maj Vinberg.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/tracking-the-connection-between-bipolar-disorder-and-sexual-distress/
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Colon pushes back on Schumer taking credit for his win (cont.)
He admitted his campaign had to win “the hard way” and noted candidates in other states “got hundreds of millions of dollars and “unlimited resources.” If party leadership wanted to show its “commitment to the South,” Colom said, they should start by providing real, tangible support for future candidates fighting in races like his.
“They need to make sure they take actions going forward that make that achievable,” he said.
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Happy Friday to all! I wrote a piece about why I believe that having a personal website is perhaps more important now than ever. There are lots of possibilities to get started - CMS like WordPress or Kirby, hosted website or long-form blogging offerings, and not least AT-protocol social publishing tools like Leaflet, Pckt or Offprint. Why not give it a go, too! 🧑🏻💻💪
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#writing #website #blogging #publishing #contentmadebyhumans
Breaking: "I gotta know my options': Scott Colom holds off on backing Schumer for Senate leader
The Mississippi Democrat also disputed Schumer's claim that he recruited Colom.
“It’s not accurate to say he recruited me, though, because the people of Mississippi recruited me,” Colom said. “You think I was listening to somebody that lives in Brooklyn when I was deciding to run for United States Senate? No, I listened to the people of Mississippi.”
https://www.ms.now/news/scott-colom-interview-mississippi-schumer-senate-leader
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The Map of the Five Realms - a unique commission for a gaming group where each player had created the region their character came from. A really fun collaboration!
#ttrpg #mapmaking #fantasymap #commission #dnd #cartography #commissionsopen #noai
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Grundsicherung - menschenverachtend
Hilfe zur #Pflege :
Der Komparativ zur Grundsicherung.
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Leaked registry data indicates that Vladimir Putin likely has a fourth grandchild. His youngest daughter, Katerina Tikhonova, reportedly gave birth to a son named Adrian in August 2025. https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/11/12/leaked-records-suggest-vladimir-putin-likely-has-a-fourth-grandchild-the-boy-s-birth-was-not-officially-registered-for-nearly-a-year
Our Prime Minister stood in the House and voted against protecting the right to strike (NDP Bill C-247).
Through these actions the Prime Minister sent a clear message to workers, and the unions that represent them that he will not let the constitutional right to strike be an obstacle to his corporate agenda.
We are seeing that playing out with Stelco and again in the Stellantis announcement.
🛑 Bill C-39
✅ Repeal Section 107 of the Labour Code
... und das sind die #alten Zahlen ...
2024
Das #PNOG generiert mittels direkter u. Kollateraleffekten DEN grandiosen Ansturm d. Bevölkerung v.a. im Osten auf "Lösungsangebote" abseits d. Akteure deren Angebote dies bislang nicht einlösten. Und das sind nicht nur "die üblichen Verdächtigen".
Es braucht keinerlei Glaskugel f.o.g. Prognose.
Es hat längst begonnen.
Lange vor Abbrennen Zündschnur #Pflege - #NEUORDNUNG - sgesetz am 1.1.2027.
D. Alighieri:
„Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate“
