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"The Great and Powerful Trixie, and her Great and Powerful Wife Starlight, welcome you to their blog. Starlight took Trixie's last name when they got married to Trixie, so she now goes by "Starlight Lulamoon" now. We both hope you enjoy our blog." ~Team Strixie blasting off
Please reblog if you think that “they/them/theirs” is a valid set of pronouns.
Trying to make a point to my father.
Reblog if you're bored and you want anons.
Or non-anons. Whatever works for you!
med people are so annoying "This family's 8 year old child who was about to go through a major surgery and kept crying that she was hungry so they pitied her and gave her food, she then had a heart attack in the surgery. They're so stupid 😒" girl they didn't know that could happen or why it happens. it takes so little time to explain to them that will happen instead of telling them "no food" with no explanation 10 times
"Before surgery, your body’s reflexes that protect your airway are relaxed by anesthesia. If there’s food or liquid in your stomach, it will near certainly come back up and go into your lungs, which can cause choking, a severe lung / heart infection or even a heart attack. That’s called aspiration, and it is life-threatening. It's hard, but it's only a single day to prevent near certain death. Not eating or drinking beforehand massively lowers the risk and helps prevent these life threatening situations under anesthesia." <- TIP: patients have brains which allows them to receive information just like you
I have four kids. I’ve had one or another of them need some kind of surgical procedure that requires anesthesia four or five times over the past 15 years.
This Tumblr post is the first time someone has explained to me *why* I couldn’t feed them before those instances.
I’m not stupid. I understood that just fine. Hell, my kids would have understood that just fine. But no one bothered to tell us.
i did know this before having kids (i have six). we have a kid that's needed multiple procedures requiring anesthesia. and every single time, i am asked multiple times if i'm sure he was not given any food or water after a certain point.
every single time i have had to say, "i understand that if he had food or water, he could aspirate it into his lungs under anesthesia. i am not lying to you." THEN someone would make a little note and i would stop being repeatedly asked.
not a single time was that risk explained to me. the only reason it came up was because i already knew. i still don't understand why it isn't standard pre-op counseling or pre-op check information, when me as a parent acknowledging the actual risk also put THE MEDICAL STAFF at ease because i conveyed that i had informed understanding as reason to not lie about giving my kid food.
"maybe some people will get nervous and refuse surgery" okay so they need more counseling about risks and anxiety, not less information in a way that actually does endanger their child or themselves!
Reblogging to save a life and teach medical professionals basic communication skills
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou
Let’s fucking go
This is HUGE.
1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.
2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.
3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."
4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.
TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.
5. If the words are Google's, this solidifies the position of universities who demand that all answers from AI are fully cited. If all the in-line citations now have to be (Google, 2026), that's going to make it obvious when someone's trying to use Google as a source. There's still the difficulty with people who are academically dishonest by trying to pass off the AI writing as their own. 6. 91% accuracy is officially too low to use as a source of references, which means the AI can't be used as a source of references either. This makes it less legitimate for such purposes than Wikipedia of all places (Wikipedia might need date/time proof of when it was accessed for the reference to be valid, but at least it is possible to prove the link existed at a particular date and time). 7. This will help encourage the rollout of courses on how to avoid AI search for students who need academic accuracy, because it's statistically not good enough to use. 8. This strengthens the case intellectual property authors have against Google in the EU, as this is proof that an intellectual property transfer took place.
What, the forest-dwelling entities with imperfect human mimicry who insinuate themselves into groups of hikers? Yeah, we had one of those. Clocked it immediately, of course. Honestly it kind of fell in that so-inept-it's-kind-of-charming range. We just played along until it'd had it's fill of marshmallows and shambled back into the treeline. We might have been violating some kind of killjoy wildlife contact best practices but what the hell, can't plan around every little thing. Why, what happened to you guys
these tags are gold omg
It's a misconception that the mimics are hunting humans when they trail along at the back of hiking groups.
In fact, the creature you'll find suddenly walking beside you and acting as if they've always been there is almost certainly a juvenile, as the adults lose the ability when they reach reproductive age.
Recent studies suggest the forest mimic is less like a preying mantis (mimicry as a hunting strategy) and more like a cuckoo (mimicry as a protective strategy for their young). Adult forest mimics will leave their offspring near a group of hikers while they forage during the day, and retrieve them near trailheads in the evening. Groups of hikers provide safety from predators and allow the parents of the species the freedom to forage more widely.
For this reason, the traditional advice to never let a mimic into your vehicle is still very important, as this would separate the young mimic from its mother. If a juvenile forest mimic does follow your group to the parking lot, you can keep it entertained with trail snacks, dad jokes, and simple goofs. The mother will usually collect them shortly before sunset.
When you notice the woods around the trailhead go silent and feel a sense of nameless foreboding, find an excuse to avert your attention from the juvenile so it can sneak back into the forest to rejoin its mother, convinced it's fooled another party of unsuspecting humans.
surprisingly wholesome takes from the cryptid community here
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Finding a colorblind friendly redesign of the rainbow flag has me happy to see a pride flag for once
This is it btw :) from here
Oh my gods one exists! I have zero colour confusion here!
Approved by my dad who is missing all of his green cones and has kinda defective red ones.✅
Older Black gay men in long term relationships are rarely covered or seen by main stream media.
Here’s the article, very well worth the read
10/13/2022
958 days left
[image ID: a screenshot of an article titled “Black, gay, and graying gracefully in love” from The Washington Post. the cover image is two older black men, Mike Petross and Phil Hugh, sitting together. phil’s hand is rested on mike’s knee, and mike’s hand is laid over top of phil’s. /end ID]
[image ID: a screenshot of a portion of the article. it reads: “"We just want to let young gay people know that they can have something to look forward to when they get old,“ Phil said to me on the second-floor deck of their American Foursquare on Detroit’s West side, one of the greatest prides of their 50- year relationship. “We’ve seen so many people kill themselves - with liquor, with drugs, with sex - because they thought they didn’t have anything to live for.”
“Here we are!” Mike exclaims, suddenly, between puffs of his joint, “Two old Black queens!“” /end ID]
[image ID: a photo of phil hugging mike from behind. /end ID]
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tumblr staff will let the thousands of porn bots on here run rampant yet will take down trans comics with no actual nudity
i originally reblogged this post, but since staff took it down you can't fucking see my reblog anymore. well i liked this comic, i want it on my blog, and it does not include any fucking nudity. especially compared to all the straight up porn staff allows to go free
so here it is
untitled by Pas (paxiti), all pages from May 23, 2018 to June 22, 2023
Princess by Scheadar
• MLP princesses! ☀️🌙💞🌟 •
This drawing is old too lol, maybe i'll change cadance a bit eventually
[MLP - 10/06/2022]
Iirc there was another wave of redesigns going around and I didn't want to change Twilight too much, but I liked the idea of her having remints of the rainbow power from the S4 finale
(I'm alive, yeah-yeah)
Starlight Glimmer and Sunburst!! 💜💛
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Multiple pieces of the little red dot puzzle are coming together thanks to the combined power of the James Webb Space Telescope and gravitational lensing—and a set of fortunate circumstances that made it possible for a team of astronomers to identify and obtain the deepest spectrum to date of a little red dot.
The 40-plus spectral lines of the lucky little red dot, known as GLIMPSE-17775, are literal lines of evidence that support the interpretation that this compact red source is an accreting supermassive black hole enveloped by a hot, dense gas cocoon.
From their initial discovery by Webb in 2022 to GLIMPSE-17775’s incredibly detailed spectrum, the story of little red dots has come a long way in a relatively short amount of time. Discover the lines of evidence: https://news.stsci.edu/4fpl2Wc
