Che la mia ferita sia mortale

I'm Andy. I'm a Jayhawk. I'm a weirdo leftist, a recovering conspiracy theorist, and I'm fine with that. This is where i post funny, interesting, and thought-provoking things that i find on the internet. I also reblog a lot. So there. Get off my lawn.

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Send Help (2026) dir. Sam Raimi

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Conwy Castle, Wales.

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It's my 17 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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If I angle my face away at a certain angle, you can barely see that I got pink eye from my asshole rabbit shitting on the pillows.

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The asshole in question, Tofu⬇️⬇️

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If I angle my face away at a certain angle, you can barely see that I got pink eye from my asshole rabbit shitting on the pillows.

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I am somebody.

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So sad to hear that @whatleighdoesnext has passed. 😢

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 Laurel and Hardy, in The Music Box, 1932.

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The Radium Girls were a famous group of women who worked as dial painters in the late 1910s to the 1920s. While there were dozens of women who worked in these factories, only a small group of women challenged the company they worked for over their illnesses, which they eventually came to believe (rightfully so) were due to the radium they worked with. All other medical professionals and owners of the companies were aware of the dangers, but failed to warn the dial-painters of the dangers of radium, which had previously been marketed as a miracle element. In fact, the luminosity it gave to one’s skin was considered beautiful and desirable.

The girls painted radium onto the dials of watches in the factories, and often tipped the brushes, still coated with radium, in their mouths. Other radium companies also faced lawsuits after the initial court case, as they had used similar procedures. Numerous girls died due to radiation poisoning, and their battle to recognize the source of their suffering was a long and arduous one. 

Kate Moore has written an excellent book about this topic, aptly named “The Radium Girls,” that I’m reading now. So far, I’d highly recommend. It embellishes points of view and some details to kind of keep the reader in the era, but it’s very well researched and written. There are some graphic descriptions of what happens to these girls, so be wary of that.