total amateur

  amateur ‎(n.)  (1)  A lover of something (2) A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science without pursuing it professionally  (3) Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful.  

[bearloonz]

”how do i get people interested in my ocs” TAG THEM. BY NAME. HAVE AN ORIGINAL CHARACTER TAG I CAN LOOK THROUGH. PLEADE. SOURCE TAG AND THEN INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER TAG. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I HAVE CLICKED THROUGH THREE DIFFERENT VARIATIONS OF “#OC” ON SOMEONES BLOG TO GET THE FULL EXTENT OF THEIR ORIGINAL CHARACTER ART I REALLY WANT TO SEE. TOO MANY. THREE HUNDRED POSTS HIDDEN BECAUSE I WAS GOING THROUGH THE “ORIGINAL CHARACTER” TAG AND NOT THE “OCS” TAG ON THEIR BLOG. YOU MUST DO THIS FOR ME.

[loveridden1999]

when england lose, women bruise

[osmanthusoolong]

Seen in downtown Toronto as well

[allegedly-human]

nothing is more tumblr than having a tumblr sexyman wiki and then warn you to not find some of those men sexy because it's problematic

[jewish-culture-is]

(CW spoilers for Project Hail Mary)

Jewish culture is watching PHM and during the part where Rocky gets tangled in the measuring tape thinking “he’s wrapping tefillin.”

(If I could draw better I would 100% draw Jewish Eridian fan art)

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[transhuman-priestess]

putting on the high vis corset and running in front of cars across a dark country road like a deer

[randomitemdrop]

Item: Corset of Visibility

[obscurelocalstranger]

[fittingoutjane]

Pair this with a black skirt and boots, and you, too can be a Visigoth.

[argentsunshine]

still thinking about the time my bf asked about favourite dinosaurs and my brother said quetzalcoatlus (pterosaur (not a dinosaur)) and my bf said dimetrodon ((synapsid (stem mammal) (went extinct 50 million years before dinosaurs evolved)) and i said crows (bird (dinosaur)) and yet i was judged to be the incorrect one in this scenario

[magnetothemagnificent]

What word/name does your culture use as a placeholder name for an anonymous/everyman person?

For example, John Doe and Joe Schmoe in American English, Chaim Yankel in Yiddish, Ploni Almoni in Judaism.....

And also whether there are different names for when talking about more than one person, such as Berel and Schmerel in Yiddish, Reuven and Shimon in Judaism, etc.

I'm really curious, so please reblog/comment with what your culture/language is and if such names exist and what they are!

[genderkoolaid]

saw a woman talking about how betrayed she felt by her female gyno who really hurt her during a pap smear & claimed the cervix has no nerve endings. & i really do feel for her but also I think this is the problem with people only viewing medical bigotry and abuse as a problem that is the byproduct of other forms of bigotry & not tied to how the medical establishment works inherently.

it's not just "that doctor has internalized misogyny" it's that western medicine is, as in so many parts of our culture, deeply authoritarian. the patient is meant to be a passive problem to be solved by the active doctor. there is meant to be a stark harsh line between you and the doctor, where you are pure of any medical knowledge and simply report the raw data & let the doctor interpret it. this is how the system works. it fucks over marginalized groups the most because that's how marginalization works, but even a thin white abled cis man could get fucked over by this shit if he's unlucky.

female doctors will not save us! trans doctors will not save us! doctors of color will not save us! these are all GOOD things and we DO need more representation in the medical field, it DOES help. but it will not save us. the same goes with teaching as well frankly. these issues cannot be reduced down to simply getting more people from columns B C and D into the same fucked system. nothing can make up for the societal change of heart we really need.

[mackerelgray]

#I'm biased because i work primarily with residents

#but i really do think changing the culture of residency is the key to changing so many problems in medicine

#if you're expected to work to the point and past exhaustion you're going to expect your patients to tough it out

#if you're expected to treat your attending as an unquestionable authority then you're going to expect your patients to treat you that way

#diversity is not going to fix the issue that doctors have to endure legitimate trauma to get their license

#and are also discouraged from getting therapy for that trauma for fear of losing that license which absolutely happens

#the fact that therapy is discouraged and can risk your job rather than MANDATORY for physicians is so backwards

#i know what viewing all those pathology images did to me i can't even imagine what that does to someone working in clinical care

#i think the way doctors behave make more sense if you realize that every single one of them has unprocessed trauma

(Tags from mixedmeter-wav)

[queermania]

i think before you marry someone, you should sit down and go through the AITA subreddit with them and see what their take on those situations is

[queermania]

does your potential future spouse think it's reasonable for their mother to be involved in your family planning? or to make comments about your body? do you? how does your future spouse feel about girls and/or boys nights? situations involving exes? cancelling trips last minute? under what circumstances do they think it's reasonable to host somebody in your home and for how long? etc.

and the goal of doing this isn't to agree one-hundred percent on every single thing. it's to understand how you both view obligations, family, friends, finances, conflict, etc. and to make sure that even if you don't have the exact same perspective, you can understand where the other person is coming from without feeling like they're a crazy person. you have to be able to come to reasonable compromises and sometimes that involves one person fully caving, and sometimes it involves the other person fully caving, and sometimes it's both of you giving a little, but you need to understand what things you both are and aren't willing to compromise on because those types of situations are going to come up in a marriage.

[queermania]

also, since this has turned into actual advice: you should talk through why you think what you think, even when you agree, because you might not be agreeing for the same reasons.

[amazoogle]

the enemy drank water today. did you?

[ewoly5]

i drank water three days ago. im several steps ahead of the enemy. this is what it takes to win

[free-my-mindd]

[rincewitch]

surely there’s a less alarming way the boston globe could have communicated this

[raccoonmilf]

Chat, is it considered “abusive roommate behavior” to release a raccoon into the living space after you have asked your roommate for months to please clean up their messes (they do not pay any of the mortgage)

[raccoonmilf]

For context, when I used to live alone I would do something called “Princess Time” where I would do an initial sweep (to remove any significant hazards) and then I would release a raccoon into the living area and clean. This helped because I would 1) feel like a princess and 2) the raccoon would bring attention to things my ADHD brain had decided to ignore and I’d quickly clean that stuff up.

So like, if I’m expected to clean the house now, I will be doing it in the way that is most effective for me. And anything that has not been cleaned up after months of having sit-down talks and sending reminders and being promised things will change, might be deemed “trash” by the trash panda and thrown away.

[raccoonmilf]

We haven’t done since we moved into the house, because I didn’t want to cause my roommate or their cats destress or have their things destroyed by a raccoon

[raccoonmilf]

I am a raccoon biologist and one of the few people in the state allowed to take in captive bred raccoons that had been possessed illegally. The raccoon in the photos is Moonshine, but she is currently at the animal sanctuary where I work as I had been quarantining multiple new intakes from an abuse case. I still have two males (Rum Tum Tugger and Electra) left in my home enclosure as we are getting them neutered and then hopefully sending them to an AZA accredited zoo.

I wanna make things very clear that underneath all the whimsy, I am a trained professional.

[raccoonmilf]

Those vibes are likely because I’m the original creator of Dashcon and my personality has not changed since 2012 lmao

[fipindustries]

[mariacallous]

I think it’s kind of insane to think that blocking defensive aid like Iron Dome would mean that Israel would be *less incentivized* to engage in military offenses, or be more restrained in what it does.

[mariacallous]

[inlowearthorbit]

It's born of a severe lack of understanding of what motivates Israel and Israelis.

[imyourbadjew]

They really do believe that if not for the iron dome and bomb shelters Israel would just steamroll all over the Middle East and create the grand judean empire…

The only thing that will happen is that more innocents will die and Israel will be incentivised to more aggressively eliminate threats. The iron dome is what allows it to have MORE restraint.

But I guess it’s too much to ask AOC to actually understand geopolitics.

[chutzpahchesed]

In seismic shift, more than 100 House Democrats vote to end Israel aid

The amendment to block military assistance failed, but partisan split cemented the increasingly polarized view of the U.S. ally.

[mariacallous]

[thequeeranachronism]

I left this as a comment but I wanted to add on. Without the Iron Dome Israel would need to be more aggressive not less. Israel would need to take out the governments trying to bomb them into oblivion. The Iron Dome allows them to be more moderate not less.

[chutzpahchesed]

I keep thinking about this quote from the Politico article:

that's fine, I even agree, but it's not what's being done.

for example:

x

Israel is not being treated like other countries, and not being held to a standard set for other nations, including for the United States itself. instead, it's being held to a much higher, much more exacting and demanding one, and the threats against it are minimized or legitimized as Israel itself becomes seen as a global pariah.

I don't absolve or excuse Netanyahu and his right wing government for their actions and contributions to that, but the problem is...even if he were a dovish prime minister, in the aftermath of 10/7, I believe what we've seen happen in the world would still be the response, no matter what Israel did. we saw this in the reactions beginning on 10/8. because it's not about Bibi, it's far more existential than that. if it weren't, these politicians would support defense apparatus (the Iron Dome isn't even a weapon, it's a shield. it just stops more civilians from being killed), and they wouldn't align themselves with virulent antisemites or support an isolationist's bill that would even negatively impact aid for the people they pretend to care about. the dignity and safety of Palestinians is not their driving motivation.

the symbolism here to appease the loudest of their constituents is not really about curtailing weapons or moral standards or a response to conduct in war or affordability (which foreign aid doesn't impact domestically at all) or whatever else they're pretending it is. they don't simply want Israel to "live up to standards" set for other countries, the problem they have is with Israel's existence.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

they should give you the option to unblock in these circumstances. just to see the drama unfold

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[damsel-understresss]

im so sorry i never participated in the reblog game you tagged me in i love you very much im just so tired