[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[bread-and-roses-too]

A lot of people saying "they're dead" and that's true, but a lot of them are also permanently disabled

[flip-this-table]

"WHERE DID ALL THE PEOPLE GO THAT WE GLEEFULLY SACRIFICED ON THE BLOOD ALTAR OF WALLSTREET? WE NEED MORE SKULLS FOR THE SKULL PILE!"

[scififantasystuff]

Dead

Permanently disabled

Families that were forced to adjust to being single-income households for childcare purposes and stuck with it

Older folks who retired early because they didn't want to die

People who are still stuck at home because they're severely immunocompromised and new variants are still breaking out

[whatbigotspost]

Goddamn am I tired of human lives being constantly called “workers.”

[feministism]

[wizardstan]

During the 2019 flu season in Canada, 46k people were diagnosed with influenza. That's not people who "felt sick", that's people who went to their doctor or emergency, had a test done, and were told "yup, that's the flu".

Of those 46k, 2000 had symptoms severe enough to be hospitalized so they could be monitored.

Of those 2000, 600 ended up in ICU, connected to machines to breath for them.

Of those 600, 200 died.

2019 had a fairly average flu season.

During the 2020 flu season, that was 69. Total. Zero hospitalization. Zero ICU. Zero deaths.

The 2021 flu season is almost over and since people were "more comfortable" this year not wearing masks where they should have been the numbers are higher, but still only in the hundreds of cases, with zero deaths to date.

If anyone tries to tell you masks don't work, there are statistically at least 400 people who did not die of the flu who prove otherwise.

[mierac]

WE PROBABLY ELIMINATED TWO STRAINS OF INFLUENZA IN HUMANS. WE CUT TRANSMISSION SO MUCH THE STRAIN DIED OUT BECAUSE IT COULDN’T SPREAD TO PEOPLE.

WEAR THE GOD DAMNED MASKS. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/03/02/children-flu-deaths/

https://www.livescience.com/flu-virus-types-extinct-covid-19.html

[fdsfjdsfjkf93723679267-deactiva]

um. fat people are allowed to be outside btw. fat people are allowed to wear clothes that do not completely flatter them. fat people are allowed to have their belly showing or wear clothes too small for them. fat people are allowed to exist in whatever they want and we dont have to constantly make ourselves look appealing + attractive. skinny people can wear lazy clothes and be called gorgeous but god forbid a fat person not put 100% into their fucking appearance every single day of their life

[fdsfjdsfjkf93723679267-deactiva]

please dont ignore this post.. thanks..

[whatbigotspost]

It doesn’t surprise me that op deactivated. Of course I don’t know if this post is actually why. But as someone who made pro fatness posts in 2015 that have 1/1000th this many notes, I’m sure the comments on this are a total shit show. (Resist the urge to tell me about it. Not looking for a reason)

Anyway, are we ready yet to finally accept the simple truth that no matter what someone else’s body looks like, they can dress however the hell they want?? It costs you and your judgy aunt Barbara $0.00 to just keep your bigotry trash can mouths closed for once.

[soberscientistlife]

Americans have questions

[fuckyeahreligionpigeon]

[depsidase]

[biocheminpics]

I want to expand here.

The whole point of an economy is to facilitate the human experience. Economies are a forum to exchange goods and services for society to operate etc.

If the economy has to run at the expense of human experience, that system has failed in its only purpose and must be replaced.

[depsidase]

[eviltmbg]

thinking about this again

[cyberm0sh]

hey fun fact this album is actually named after a book called steal this book (first edition came out in the 70s)

here’s the 2023 version, it’s got everything from how to apply for work, ways to feed yourself for cheap, how to start your own printing workshop, bunch of stuff. the pdf is tiny so personally i have it downloaded on my phone

Steal This Book (4th Edition) : Steal This Wiki : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

2023 edition of Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book.This book provides a huge wealth of information about practical living.Great thanks to the l

[ravencromwell]

Fellow history nerds I need your best Gay Regency era resources. I'm particularly interested in gay activity in the Navy round about let's say 1870, and Polari.—My GOD someone! has to have written a good academic history of Polari or compiled a dictionary we cannot have just let an entire queer language slip away. And if you've got good life in the navy or London regency era—esp for working-class folk recs, o—podcasts, books, articles I'm all ears.

[firawren]

I'm no expert, but over on my @janeuary-month blog, I've been reblogging several resources related to these topics:

Gay activity in the Royal Navy

Navy info in general

Gay info in general here and here and here

[aster-tech]

workin on a thing

(mid finals so im busy)

[geologyingeneral]

[frank-bennedetto]

Ok I looked this up and the discription is half true but not in the way you would think. The fossil is a real example of a Stupendemys geographicus, a pre historical turtle species that could grow to the size size of a small car. The man however is misidentified. "Carlos" is actually Dr. Rodolfo Sánchez, Director of the Paleontological Institute and Museum at the University of Zurich in Sweden, who was the team leader of the paleontologists that found the fossil.

[x]

[harocat]

Rodolfo for scale

[todaysbird]

The standard unit of measurement: one Dr. Rodolfo Sánchez.

[the-haiku-bot]

The standard unit

of measurement: one Dr.

Rodolfo Sánchez.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[pawsitivevibe]

I saw a video where it was a little white fluffy dog competing at a big agility trial and the whole audience is clapping and awww'ing every time it does anything. Like it's so cute and so wild that this little dog could ever possibly do an A-frame! The dog seemed really upset and confused by the crowd constantly doing this.

Lots of people seem to consider anything other than a Border Collie or Aussie to be an "off breed" in agility. But clearly they've never been to a real, local agility trial. Every kind of dog under the sun is out there competing in agility ... They're just not the Fastest Ever so they don't necessarily go to huge events. But they can certainly do it! No need for the condescending "aww look at that cute wittle doggy, she's sooo bwave." Nah that little dog's owner is just out here training and bonding with her dog. It's not a novel concept. It's cool, but it's not actually anything YOU can't do with YOUR dog. The treating it as something special actually bothers me, because it feels very defeatist. Like "MY dog could NEVER do that." Yes it could!! Put the effort in!! Go have fun with your dog!!

[tookas-have-teeth]

Y’all “critical thinking” does not equal “criticism”.

[tookas-have-teeth]

I am very tired of saying positive things about characters and getting told I need to do some critical thinking (so that I’ll see the characters are actually bad). No. That’s not how that works. I already did some critical thinking and came to the conclusions that these characters are wonderful. Criticism or straight up character bashing is not more enlightened and is not how critical thinking works. “Critical thinking” is not “thinking about all the bad or problematic aspects of something.” It’s looking objectively at evidence, looking at context, recognizing and examining personal biases and assumptions, considering what assumptions and biases are being used in a given argument by other people, etc. Sometimes this process brings up criticisms, yes, but sometimes it also leads to the conclusion that something is actually good despite it being made out to be bad. 

[athingofvikings]

[scriptmedic]

Critical Thinking means making room for nuance and shades of gray. Not criticize stuff I don't like.

Also, it's okay to find something you absolutely detest and still recognize the craft and genius in it.

[leofwines-deactivated20250831]

[raccoonmilf]

I know this is a joke but like, yeah. It is. I promise you.

See, I had graduated early from highschool and then got my associates in Zoology. But then, from ages 18-23, I was medicated with antipsychotics and (for those last two years) a deadly combo of sedatives due to misdiagnosis after misdiagnosis, and then a psychiatrist who was legitimately on drugs and just writing random shit that almost killed me.

Anyway, needless to say, my brain turned to mush and stopped working, and it took me 6 years to get some sort of bachelors degree (in fashion??) and I graduated at the bottom of my class.

And then I got properly diagnosed (the “psychosis” was just narcolepsy) and got off all those meds. And I was so afraid my brain was permanently fucked. And it is, cause of the narcolepsy part, but the narcolepsy doesn’t kill the parts of your brain where your smarts are.

But I went back to school. Got another bachelors studying sustainable tourism. Turns out my smarts hadn’t gone anywhere when my brain turned to mush. I graduated with a 3.98 GPA.

Now I’m getting my masters in biology studying the intersection of tourism and the conservation of the critically endangered Cozumel raccoon. And doing well. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[1thousandminus7]

Your brain is not a muscle in the literal sense, but it is a muscle in the sense that the more you use it, the better developed it becomes. Not using it might make its usefulness dip for a bit, but that doesn't mean it's gone forever. You might have to work your way back up, start with easier exercises (puzzles, creative exercises, critical thinking questions) before jumping back into the stuff you used to do, but like a couch to 5k slowly ramp up the difficulty and you'll get there in the end. No one's brains are useless, you just gotta meet 'em where they're at.

[smallswingshoes]

The brain can literally rewire itself around MISSING PHYSICAL PARTS OF IT. Which is so cool! The brain is amazing in its resilience.

[knifefightscene]

Anyone can be discarded by society

[maythray]

the persistence of "he or she" makes me slightly insane. youre willing to adapt and learn nearly every other linguistic change in modern times but yet you stlll refuse the singular they, which has been around longer than you've been alive. annoying.

[desultory-suggestions]

You are allowed to completely change as a person by the way. You don’t have to stay trapped in the versions other people created of you.