Baker Street Doctor

Julia/29/Germany. Mostly just trashposting with some feminism, animals, science and fandoms strewn in. Great Northern War enthusiast. Idk I've been on here for too long, this site has ruined me. DNI Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, supporters! Yes, I'm a Slytherin. Ex-edgy teen. Unironically straight edge. If you need anything tagged, message me! I'll do my best about it. If you want to avoid seeing my blorbos please block 'max and karl', any post by me is tagged 'personal'. My inbox/IM is always open to all of you and I appreciate every message I get. It's to be seen if you appreciate my answer though.

[bakerstreetdoctor]

In my freak era

Educate yourselves

[suratan-zir]

If I ever post complete gibberish, know that I've been framed by this menace

He learned to jump onto the laptop table, and now it's all he ever wants to do. Yesterday, Zhab chewed off an earbud and hid it somewhere while I was out of the room. He also tried to duckduckgo the following: "4444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444333aad"

I don't speak rat so idk

[prideprejudce]

so today a public health official guy came into my class to give a lecture on disaster awareness and he was talking about house fires and mentioned that the reason people most likely die during a house fire is because they refuse to leave their pet inside or they go back to get their pet. and right when he said this my friend immediately turned his head and looked at me and in that moment I had the most complete and genuine acceptance take over my body. I would 100% in front of my family and Jesus himself walk straight back into some raging inferno that was once my house to go get my fat cat. I nodded back

[prideprejudce]

the best part of this post is reading all the tags from animal people who would also go back to save their pets. like no hesitation. walk backwards from heaven straight back into hell. someone even said they would go back for their fish. amazing

[sterna-hirundo]

If you are a person who would walk into a blazing inferno for your animal, and your pet has free movement around the house, here’s a training exercise that could help save you both:

1) Set off your smoke alarm or play the sound on your phone (if your home has no smoke alarms, pease get some!)

2) stand BY THE FRONT DOOR to hand out treats

Do this a couple times and then keep it up NO EXCEPTIONS. Accidentally set the alarm off cooking? Treats by the door. Smoke alarm sound on TV? Treats by the door. Changing your smoke alarm batteries twice a year like you’re supposed to? Give them a test run and your pets get treats by the door.

Most dogs and cats will clue in VERY quickly that hearing that specific sound means go to the front door and wait for treats.

If there’s an emergency and even if you leave by another way, you will still know the most likely place your pet(s) is and can direct first responders to help.

You can also do this for any other kind of emergency alarm. My friend had both her cats trained to go to the front door for a tsunami siren.

[messmikkelsen]

#my cursing queen

[themadamejane]

Whenever someone tells me I curse too much, I consider cursing more like this baddie.

[butchbackmountain-deactivated20]

Brokeback mountain if it were based

[thehumantrampoline]

This is your reminder today that Irene Adler in the original Conan Doyle story is literally not a criminal. She never commits a crime.

[thehumantrampoline]

Nor is she a seductress in any kind of negative or manipulative sense - she has a mutual relationship with a powerful man who then breaks up with her, and afterwards she keeps protection against him in the form of evidence that the relationship existed. She HAS blackmail material, she even waves it at him threateningly because he treated her like shit, but she never even uses it.

Irene Adler is not a thief, femme fatale, or blackmailer. She's just a cool lady that wants to be left alone.

[thehumantrampoline]

@delphi-star You do recall correctly!! She does not give a shit about that man! She's happily married! She tipped him for being a witness at her wedding!

If your Sherlock Holmes adaptation has a character whose identifying qualities are that she is a seductive criminal in love with Holmes, you have created a character that is basically the literal opposite of Irene Adler and you should name her something else.

[tzikeh]

She's also -- and I cannot stress this enough -- from New Jersey. IMO this is the single most important detail missing from all the adaptations -- IRENE ADLER IS FROM NEW JERSEY.

Please just once in my life I would like to see this adapted faithfully it would be the funniest fucking thing ever.

[asunnydisposish]

During WWII, the Imperial Japanese government forced hundreds of thousands of women into sexual slavery. This International Women’s Day, I want everyone to remember all the “comfort women” and their continued fight. “Comfort women” is a euphemism that was used by the Japanese army to refer to Women from all around the world - including Korea, China, Philippines, Vietnam, and the Netherlands - who were kidnapped and forced to provide sexual services to their soldiers. How can you help boost their voices? Support organizations advocating for survivors.

House of Sharing: Home for Korean survivors 

Korean Council for Justice & Remembrance 

Lila Pilipina : Organization for Filipina survivors

If you want to financially support survivors, considering donating directly to the Korean Council and the Butterfly Fund - which was established by survivors Kim Bok-Dong and Gil Won-Ok to help victims of sexual abuse around the world: [x]

If you want to help raise awareness for comfort women survivors, please follow Girl of Peace Documentary and donate to our Kickstarter. We’re hoping to create a documentary for an English-speaking audience. There are now only 22 Korean survivors left. It’s imperative that we act now to demand justice for comfort women. 

[rabbitheads]

this is so important. Japanese government is not admitting this and tell their people that these survivors were volutary prostitutez back then and now they are gold diggers looking for compensation and attention.

These women had to go through horrible misogynistic stigma from BOTH Japanese and Korean men even after the war and still are suffering so much. Please help.

http://m.joinheeum.com/index.html?refdoc=index.html

http://m.marymond.kr/

Both sell products and the profit goes to help th survivors!

[vimbry-moved]

bears

[fioweress]

i'm not immune to older korrasami

[crimes-chevalresques]

me (circa. 2018) v.s. me (circa. 2025)

[tributary]

many things going on here, not least of which is the chosen designation of One Person In The Room Who Doesn’t Have Her Head Up Her Ass. anyways we should be ‘regressive’ (decide what kinks esteemed historical communists mao and lenin had and then shame them in OOP’s presence)

[onevoltperoctave]

can we bring back the future is female as a slogan. i know it got co-opted by random companies putting it on shirts and people kept changing it n stuff but like seriously the future is fucking female. can we start saying that again it'd be so cool

[sprinkledsalt]

In the tags of one of my posts, I pondered the overlap between tumblr tankies and anti-anti-Ai people, suggesting the common link is anti-intellectualism and the disrespect for the arts and humanities that comes with it. Someone left this reply.

I think this is correct (and am only blocking out their name so idiots don’t attack them).

It would sound mean out of context, but we’ve all been on here for a while and know that tankies are genuinely some of the laziest, stupidest, and most incurious people alive. They’re losers who are mad at anyone who finds any success through effort, because they’ve made inadequacy and doing nothing parts of their political praxis. These people aren’t researchers saying “actually this AI model makes this kind of research easier”, but people who’ve seriously argued with me that artists are “gatekeepers” because they…can actually draw or paint, and say you’re not an artist if you can’t draw and instead make a computer program do all of it for you. I said before that it's like crying that it’s “gatekeeping” to say someone who does nothing but order takeout isn’t a chef lol.

But these people act victimized by the idea that you need to put time and effort into something to get better at it. It’s the same with academics; as I’ve said before, this type of person doesn’t want to increase accessibility to education, they want to attack the concept of education itself to justify their own refusal to learn and insecurities over being willfully stupid. How dare you say they should actually read something, or that someone who has studied something and demonstrated their knowledge through getting a degree knows more than they do. These people want the recognition and respect they think artists, academics, and professionals get while putting in ZERO of the time, effort, or work. I repeat: the core here is anti-intellectualism. It sounds a hell of a lot like the right, who feels threatened by experts and the very concept of expertise. Anti-intellectuals of all stripes feel oppressed by the stance that you need to gain knowledge and develop a skill set in something to be taken seriously about it, or achieve something to be rewarded, and they see generative AI as their savior because they don’t have to DO anything, but can have some kind of a result and demand to be seen as on the same level as people who actually put the fucking work in

[nitpickspot]

I have, just yesterday, caught out a student for turning in an AI written essay into my English class (it all appeared in a single chunk over 30 seconds of version history and is using English skills she simply does not possess as an ESL learner. I don't say that to impugn on ESL learners, but she's an ESL learner in MY class so I know her skill level and progress point).

And she's arguing against getting in trouble because she "doesn't need the skills I'm teaching" for her trade. And that I'm "slowing her down from doing actually important things"

She wants to be a nurse. I am trying to teach her how to read and write in the English language. Yknow, so she doesn't kill somebody.

[sprinkledsalt]

That makes me laugh out loud, as someone who works with ESL speakers every day who have a hard time finding jobs due to their limited language skills! I've seen people argue that some ESL students will use AI programs like Grammarly to check their grammar because they're not confident in their language skills, but this is clearly a different scenario of a student just using entire AI-generated chunks in the assignment, being outright disrespectful to the instructor and, yes, engaging in anti-intellectualism by acting like literacy is ever a frivolous skill. How in the fuck are you going to be able to understand complicated medical texts in English if you can't write a simple essay in the language lol. But this is part of the larger, anti-intellectual attack on literacy and the humanities. The right has argued against the utility of English class "because science and math are more important!!" for a long time, and a lot of these people's mindsets are antithetical to higher education in that they don't believe a college graduate should be a well-rounded adult who is expected to have baseline knowledge in multiple respects (math, English, science, etc.); they think universities should function like trade schools

But frankly, how English class could benefit her in her chosen field doesn't even need to be part of the conversation. The fact of the matter is that there's no scenario where a student isn't an asshole for signing up for a class and then refusing to do the work and telling the instructor that it's all a waste of time lol. It doesn't matter what excuse she has, it's just not acceptable behavior (and I don't know what fantasy world these people live in where they think they won't have to do things that aren't personally useful or interesting to them in the workforce, either...). I've been saying for years on here that there's this bullshit "the customer is always right" attitude towards education right now, and it's infuriating.

[charlesoberonn]

No offense, but the group with some of the most unexamined internalized privilege are right-handed people.

A right-handed co-worker told me once that I put the papers in the plastic sleeve upside-down. I joked that from my perspective, she's the one putting them upside-down and she just didn't get it and started arguing with me.

I had to physically demonstrate to her that the papers are right-side up when you hold the sleeve so that the opening is on the left.

[charlesoberonn]

I feel you. I'm left-handed but I can't use scissors in my left hand (even left-handed scissors) because I got used to only using them with my right.

[shofarsogood]

All the desks are my university are right handed. You know, the kind where you flip up the top to get seated and flip it back down to write? All right handed. There's no place to rest my arm. By the time class is over, I have a line on my arm from where the edge presses in. It's just uncomfortable. (Not to mention that those desks are hell for anyone who is not super super skinny and athletic. There's no space for bigger people.)

We have the same thing at the local movie theater which means that I'm constantly elbowing my girlfriend's drink trying to eat popcorn. It's less of an issue at a movie theater, though.

[meshaamem-li]

ever tried to use a computer mouse with your left hand? your pointer finger naturally rests on right click so you gotta move it to press left click. very inconvenient. (I just recently thought to change my mouse settings to switch left and right click but I haven't tried it yet) and that's not even mentioning those specialized computer mice that are designed to fit your hand shape more, those are so inconvenient for left handed people.

also, left handed people have actually been openly discriminated against up until pretty recently. my grandmother got her left handedness "corrected" at school and she's not the only one from her generation who have. I've heard of tactics from slapping them with a ruler to tying their left hand to the back of the chair.

isn't this kinda crazy how this discrimination existed and still exists independently in so many places in the world and against such a simple and unimportant human trait as a dominant hand?? it's not a different look, it's not a differebt gender, it's not a different lifestyle or culture, a different belief, or a different way of acting, it's literally just which hand you use for tasks.

[jewish-rock]

my kindergarten teacher, I was 5 and struggled with fine motor tasks so making a solid line without breaking the pencil or ripping the page was a success, made me switch to my right hand. (my autistic stubbornness meant I switched back every time she wasn't looking).

and talking to other friends of mine, as recently as the 2010s teachers have forced leftie kids to be right handed.

[meshaamem-li]

as recently as 2010???? holy shit.

[jewish-rock]

even worse, one person I know this happened to started school in 2012 (she's 19 now). haven't met anyone younger than that who's been forced to be rightie, but then again I just don't know a lot of people who are younger than that.

[natequarter]

[ID: 1. A diagram of papers in a plastic sleeve, showing how it would be orientated the right way for a left handed person holding it but the wrong way for a right handed person holding it, who would be holding it upside down. 2. Tags reading, "This is also why broomhandles and my tablet pen keep unscrewing themselves. And why I can't hold my phone in my left hand. Because the flip cover opens to the left. Scissors cut wrong. Doing anything with screws... I am basically ambidextrous for a lot of things at this point simply because the world is designed for right handed people." /end ID+

[runawaymarbles]

I don't disagree it's possible to vote out fascists, but I think the real question is whether this accomplishes anything beyond giving them a couple terms' vacation before they can slip back in and pick up right where they left off. Especially in the USA where it seems no amount of Repub fuckups can ever actually put their chances of winning below 50%

I mean it accomplishes getting them out of office, which is extremely fucking important, and then, yes, you have to keep campaigning and voting against them for the rest of your life. There is no one election that is going to #own the other party into not existing anymore.

We vote in every election forever. That is how this works.

If you get tired of that, the fascists are happy to provide an alternative.

[bisexualhunterbiden]

People like anon piss me the fuck off and I'm tired of being nice about it.

You will have to engage in democracy for the rest of your life. You are a citizen, not a subject. Fucking act like it.

[ralfmaximus]

It's a well known cycle. A pendulum that swings.

assholes gain power, fuck things up

sane people regain power, fix things

people forget how fucked up things were

repeat

But here's the deal: with every swing of that pendulum, history gets a little bit better. After the hateful 1950s the US got the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Interracial marriage was legalized. Freedom of the press was institutionalized.

After the shitty 1970s Viet Nam war & Nixon, we got women's liberation, voter rights, the EPA, affirmative action, and a zillion consumer protection agencies.

After 1980s Reaganomics shit the bed, we got an economic boom, the beginning of gay rights, and the internet. We started treating AIDS as a disease to be cured and not a curse on queers.

After the 1990s Bush era we got gay marriage, ADA, Obamacare, and the decriminalization of marijuana.

Now in the 2020s we're in a backwards swing, back towards fascism and the bad old days of racism. But it's temporary [IF YOU VOTE and are allowed to vote]. The majority of people actively dislike what's happening in the USA and are pissed off.

When the pendulum swings back it's gonna swing hard, and things will be SO much better.

Please, hang on.

[skoomabong]

sure

[centuriespast]

Indonesia

Eastern Java

Piggy Bank, 14th/15th century

Art Institute Chicago