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Educate yourselves

I know toddlers and kids have tantrums, like I'm not unsympathetic, but seeing parents out at a restaurant with their little kids each on a tablet watching youtube slop is soooooo disquieting. don't you want to talk to your kids?? it's like a huge cycle you can't get out of once you start. I actually think a restaurant can be a great place to practice family time and family values and can be pretty rewarding for kids, especially if you frame it that way. I'm not trying to be like "technology bad 100% of the time" but idk. don't you want to hear your kids say funny stuff and teach them things?

fetusdeletustotalus

I think screentime at dinner is one of the worst things about the modern era, and I say this as someone who almost always has to have something on (TV show, youtube video, etc.) when I'm eating. People need to get their kids used to this time as being "unplugged" and spending time talking to people instead. It sucks being an adult who feels dependent on having something on a screen to eat a meal, and that's what they are ultimately conditioning their kids to be.

xcounterforcex

The photos of Chinese sportswoman, track and field athlete Li Meizhen, where she finished a marathon despite of her periods was started unexpectedly, went viral again.

The episode took place back in 2024, when Li was competing in the Hengshui Lake Marathon. The athlete needed to complete two championship marathons that season to earn points for her team. When she was 5 miles from the finish line, Li’s period arrived. But rather than quitting the race to prevent visible stains, the runner powered through, aware that completing the marathon was much more important than getting some period blood on her clothes and legs.

“Thank you to everyone for your support and encouragement,” Li wrote on social media. “Honestly, I was afraid that people online would say, ‘Has she gone crazy? Why didn’t she withdraw when this happened?’ But by the time it happened, I’d already passed the 34-kilometre (about 21 miles) mark. It would have been a shame to withdraw from a championship race. If I withdrew, I would have had to run another full marathon. That’s why I was determined to finish, even if my time wasn’t great. Thank you for your concern, I’m okay and nothing serious happened.”

Li is far from the first marathon runner to deal with the unexpected start of her period on race day. In 2015, Kiran Gandhi decided to run the London Marathon without a pad or a tampon to avoid the risk of chafing or worse, toxic shock from a backup tampon. “To me, it made far more sense to do the race without any foreign objects in my body, take some Midol, and just run,” Gandhi wrote for TIME Magazine. “While I didn’t think this would be such a big deal, as I started to run, I realized it was. I realized that, while I had the freedom to reject my own shame that day, millions of people who menstruate around the world do not because of the stigma still associated with periods.”

Gandhi also stated, “While menstrual practices vary across different cultures, menstrual stigma is the global common thread. The menstrual cycle is the bedrock of the human race. Without it we wouldn’t exist. If we want to make the world a better place, we have to start combatting taboo now—and, in the process, make it easier for women and girls to access their fullest potential. The good news is that this is something we can actually win within our lifetime. The future is female.”

source of the text: https://mymodernmet.com/marathon-runner-period/

cr: https://www.instagram.com/p/DbGdZ1ljJCE/

velvetys

mapsontheweb

US rivers drawn in proportion to how much water they carry

todaysbird

Today's bird is this Australasian Swamphen

venndaai

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

venndaai

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

fluorescentbrains

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

muffinlance

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

pyaarisms

just so you know 'jfc' (which you use in a lot of the tags on your posts) is an abbreviation for jesus fucking christ and you probably shouldnt use it if ur not a christian

I can't believe I read this with my own two eyes

thatstupidache

They gatekeeping blasphemy now too 💀

blackswallowtailbutterfly

jesus fucking christ

manie-sans-delire-xx

disturbing amount of rapist-sympathy these days. "the sex offender registry shouldnt exist" "they cant get housing" yeah thats the point, nobody wants to live with a convicted rapist. parents dont want a pedo in their neighborhood. people want this, society is safer. whatever problems it causes for rapists is the natural consequence of their repeated choices. die slow in the street for all I care. shouldnt even be out of prison, be grateful.

i-like-peach

This sympathetic sentiment towards rapists and such is also quite common towards abusers/domestic abusers I feel.

Even with the very limited and hardly enforced consequences that abusers may experience (not seeing their kids, restraining orders), tonnes of people tend to think that it's too much or that these consequences aren't fair (its cruel to deprive children from their father ( :| ), etc).

Even other 'punishments' like mandatory seminars or whatever are hardy 'harmful' towards the abusers because they just enable them.

In the end it's the people who deserve it least that get help the most.

scramratz

saw a youtube video with a date of 20 years ago and i thought "surely this is a glitch, youtube wasnt even around 20 years ago" and then i watched as my hands shriveled and fell to dust before my very eyes

watermelinoe

somewhere right now a person who censors cr*zy is calling a woman a bitch

sceptixfakemon

taste my steel you stupid citrus

uvb76fan

>video of ukrainian woman staying in bomb shelter

american comment:

albanian comment:

ladjarica

I don't want to comment about americans always showing up and being outraged that people in war zones have the right to do things that resembles normalcy. I want to point out that any video evidence taken now might be used as evidence when Russia faces the international court for human rights and it will face it.