i should change the url

but i don’t know what to change it to

[charl0ttan]

okay dont be mad but i just scheduled you for every appointment ever. you have an open house on tuesday and a doctor is removing your all of it tomorrow 👍

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

Public service announcement.

Blue/purple lips and fingernails is a symptom of low oxygen in lighter skin tones.

In darker skin tones you're looking for grey or white lips and fingernails. Other places where this may be not evidence is the tongue and gums.

Figured since everyone gets taught what low oxygen looks like on lighter skin. Everyone should know what it looks like on dark skin too.

-fae

[elodieunderglass]

When I was about 20, a slightly younger Black woman had a bicycle accident in front of me. Although she clearly had a bad head injury, she could get up, and in her confusion in distress kept insisting that she wanted to keep cycling to class. I wrapped her in a blanket and tried to keep her sitting down, and was on the line with 911 while trying to keep her calm and in one place, and she kept getting more upset and distressed as she overheard me saying things like how much she was bleeding. So I was trying to do this chipper act on the phone to 911 to stop this injured woman from panicking too much, in a wild teeth-gritted HELP US PLEASE HAHAHA way.

The 911 woman asked me if she was blue, and I looked at this young woman and what came out was “well, in normal life she is a person of color!! and now her mouth is grey, which I don’t think it normally is! Ahahaha!” And the dispatcher was like, tell me more about this, is it blue? And I’m going, “technically no! But it is not a great color! Help us now!” while the student was crying saying WHY ARE YOU SAYING THIS ABOUT ME, and I was trying to explain that it did not look like the right color to me, while assuring the student that I wasn’t judging in the least but she actually looked quite unwell, etc.

To conclude the story, soon enough she went on the ambulance and they said it was very serious but all fixable, and some of the responders said I’d behaved correctly and done things Right, possibly because I was in a state of high tension myself at that point.

I later went and obsessively read about low oxygen in people of color, came up with a better script and endlessly tried to replay the conversation along a better script so that I’d be ready next time.

Unfortunately this formed a core memory. My mind frequently returns to it and the horrible assessment of this student turning more and more cold and grey, while a woman yammered in my ear about whether she was blue and how blue she was, and what I should have said instead, and what I should have done instead, and whether I could have optimised this 5 second exchange to get an ambulance faster. It’s the kind of thing where you’re dreaming, and you turn left and walk into it again, and even though you practiced the Good New Script you’re in a nightmare and can’t express it properly. Or you wake up at 3 am with someone’s mean comment ringing in your ears and you turn over AND THEN ANOTHER THING: you weren’t very fast or clever in that situation with that one 911 dispatcher, were you? It feels pretty bad to not be equipped to respond well, when someone is hurt.

I was just a bystander in a situation that resolved in half an hour, but not having this knowledge firmly in my pocket when I needed it has burned it into my head in an uncomfortable way. You, however, can read this post and remember it, if it’s helpful for you. and if it helps you, then you’ll do better than me, and the people around you will be safer. You can have it the comfortable way! I hope it rests comfortably in your head and does good there.

[byjove]

whenever I see archeological remains of a human who suffered from a terrible disease that couldn’t be treated in their lifetime but could be fixed now, this wave of sorrow and mourning washes over me. a woman in the 14th century who spent her 35 years of life bent at the waist because of congenital scoliosis. a man from the 18th century who died because of a non cancerous mass on his jaw that made eating progressively more difficult. remains of a woman from the Neolithic who died in childbirth having evidence of peri-mortem trepanation on her skull.

and yet she survived to 35. and yet the physicians in his time tried to strengthen his jaw. and yet someone 4,000 years ago tried to save someone they loved from dying of preeclampsia/increased cranial pressure. we tried. we tried and we tried and we tried. we failed and we learned but we tried. that’s what makes humans so beautiful.

[lyricwritesprose]

My mom sometimes talks about a child in her neighborhood who was born with hydrocephaly and died of it. His parents strove to keep him alive for years, but he ultimately passed after a long decline. No treatment available. No hope at all, and the parents knew it from his birth.

Several decades later my sister had an MRI, as a long shot, to try to figure out why she was sick and deteriorating with a number of symptoms that were close to being written off as anxiety. She was sent straight to the hospital for adult onset hydrocephaly. Two days later she had brain surgery to put a shunt down her neck into her stomach and drain the fluid out. (No, you cannot usually get brain surgery that fast. Yes, it was that urgent.) Recovery was long and squiggly but it happened.

I think of that boy every once in a while. The one who died. I have no doubt that treatments developed for people like him, and tested on people like him, saved my sister's life.

He never knew he made the world better. His condition was severe, he never knew much of anything, I don't think. I think if I ever track down a God or something like one, that'll be somewhere on my List of Wishes. To make sure people like him know that they helped.

[mutedtempest]

I think about this a lot.

I've been type 1 diabetic since I was about one and a half, and was incredibly sick. If my mother hadn't also been type 1 and recognized the signs I likely would have died.

I was born in 1982. Insulin was first given to a patient in 1922, and he survived. Before that, type 1 meant death, often very slow and agonizing. Before insulin, doctors advised a super strict "keto" diet to prolong life, and it could work for awhile - up to a year, I believe. But it was a miserable existence as the body was literally eating itself as the blood turned acidic until the patient eventually died.

60 years. Only 60 years before my birth did that procedure work for the first time. That's absolutely nothing given the span of human history and I think a lot about the people who died from it throughout time.

But yes, people tried. Healers and doctors of all sorts tried all manner of things to allow these (mostly!) kids to live. The fact that it was accomplished at all is nothing short of a miracle. The fact that I've been alive 42 years is fucking insane considering my body doesn't produce a hormone necessary for survival. If you think that doesn't blow me away on a regular basis you have another think coming. It's nothing short of a miracle.

Every medical advancement is. The amount of work that goes into it and the vast amount of luck necessary to get it right even when all the research and information is sound is just astonishing.

Thank you, humanity. Thank you ingenuity and determination to save lives and make them better. Thank you to every medical practitioner and medical researcher in existence now and through all of time. Thank you to all the people who died so I could live.

[hyperactivehedgehog]

Diabetes is one of these illnesses that really throws medical history into perspective. It's so common, everyone knows someone who has it, people live pretty normal lives with it. And yet, a hundred years ago, it was an instant death sentence. And then we were able to treat people with insulin and yet - it was extremely disabling. The insulin was extracted from animal pancreas had severe side effects, even with how similar the hormones are, there is always an averse reaction to proteins from foreign species, especially during long-term treatment. Injections had to be given every few hours, at-home-tests were only available from the 70s onwards. Insulin pumps entered the market in the 80s. Genetically produced insulin - humanized insulin - was first available in the US in 1982, in many countries only around the year 2000.

In 1930, having diabetes type I would basically mean being hospital bound, being woken every few hours for regular injections.

In 1965, you'd be able to live at home and get by with a very strict diet and a few timed injections. You'd struggle with chronical side effects. Having children wasn't done - passing on your genes would be immoral, and it might not even be legal for you to marry.

In the year 2000, you'd have a device clipped to your belt that would measure your blood sugar and distribute insulin, you only need to change the needle a few times a day. You might even be allowed to join in P.E. class

In 2025, you stick on two patches that do the same thing. They're synchronized through your phone.

That wasn't fate. It's not natural development that made diabetes a common chronic illness. It was hundreds of people who cared. It was the people who created the keto diet. It was the people who came up with tests. The ones who went through different species, trying to figure out the closest analogon to human insulin. It was the people who fought in court to get genetically produced insulin approved for medical use. It was people who looked at a rare, incurable disease and said "but what if it wasn't?"

[sonicguillotine-deactivated2025]

Charlie Kirk (TPUSA) and Nick Fuentes (Groypers) represented rival factions that emerged in the wake of the bad press Charlottesville and the murder of Heather Hayes created for the Alternative Right.

Until then, the media was largely taking their framing as gospel - that they were merely patriots supporting their President but evil communists who hate America and freedom are unjustly attacking them. This was not a narrative most mainstream news pushed back on. The stabbings and brawls that occurred as a result of far right rallies tended to be blamed upon antifascist protesters. Until Charlottesville, when media began becoming more critical of these groups and their intentions.

Kirk and Fuentes (and by extension, Kirk's killer who was a Groyper) were on opposite sides of the "optics" debate. After Charlottesville many on the far right argued that leading with swastikas and antisemitic chants damaged their public image and that they needed to "hide their power levels" by obfuscating their pro nazi beliefs. Others, including the Groypers, disagreed and believed the movement should be more openly racist and genocidal, not hiding behind dogwhistles and insinuations.

Kirk was a "mainstreamer," someone who sought to give a professional and "moderate" face to the far right. Fuentes is openly a holocaust denier who calls for the genocide of multiple ethnic groups.

This assassination of Charlie Kirk was a gang war between rival factions of white nationalists, with the more radical faction publicly purging a leader of the moderates.

[boppinrobin]

#i think this is important in understanding that CK’s whole thing was obfuscating the heinous nature of his beliefs #repackaging and selling it with a veneer of respectability for the purpose of getting people on his side in a slower and more insidious way #slower indoctrination is harder to recognize and fight than being confronted outright with despicable bigotry #and this plays into the ways people have reacted #for a lot of people they don’t actually know the deeper history of this #they know what the news tells them #and the news is running with a very specific narrative for a reason #and I think that deserves some consideration (tags from @unfuckablebogtroll)

[audarcy]

Found several packs' worth of pokemon cards strewn across a target parking lot and took a pic to show my friends without realizing how much my outfit elevated the scene to "aftermath of a wizard duel"

[genderqueerdykes]

man hating will never be progressive. you can't take terf shit and slap a rainbow coat of paint on it and act like it's somehow now based and woke and pro queer rights. snap out of it.

[ryuutchi]

/stares blankly at the trans theory book coming out next year titled "Trans Rad Fem"/

[vaguely-concerned]

I understand and agree with a lot of the frustrations about the shortcomings of Inquisition as a story. but sometimes when I hear people complain about the chosen one narrative in it I do want to just be like... you know it's a deconstruction of the concept more than anything, right. the inquisitor isn't actually chosen by anything except stumbling into the wrong (right?) room at the right (wrong?) time because they like, heard a noise or whatever. or if you think they are chosen, as many do in-universe, that's something you have to take on faith, the maker-or-whoever moves in mysterious ways indeed-style. the Inquisitor isn't actually a Destined Chosen One, they're a Just Some Guy in a fancy hat, self-delusions of grandeur to taste as you'd prefer.

a running thread that goes through all of the personal quests of the companions is the concept of a comforting lie vs. an uncomfortable truth, upholding old corrupt structures vs. disrupting them, and the role of faith in navigating that. (blackwall the warden vs. thom rainier the liar and murderer. hissrad vs. the iron bull, or is that the other way around? cassandra and the seekers -- do we tell the truth about what we find, even if it means dismantling the old order of the world? and so on.) and your inquisitor IS at the same time a comforting lie (a necessary one, in dark times? the game seems to ask) and an uncomfortable truth (we are the result of random fickle chance, no protective hand is held over the universe, it's on us to make a better world because the maker sure as hell won't lift a divine finger to help anyone, should he against all odds exist). faith wielded for political power... where's the point that it crosses the line into ugliness? is it before it even begins? what's the alternative? will anyone listen to the truth, if you tell it?

interesting how you also get a mix of companion agency in this -- you have characters like dorian who ALWAYS choose one side of the comforting lie vs. uncomfortable truth dichotomy. he will always make up his own mind to go back to tevinter and try to dismantle the corruption of the old system no matter what you say, or how you try to influence him. meanwhile iron bull is on the complete opposite side of the spectrum -- so psychologically trapped and mangled, caught in an impossible spiritual catch-22, that his sense of identity is left entirely to you and your mercy. you cannot change dorian in any way that matters; you can be his friend or not, support him or not, but he is whole no matter what. you are given incredible and potentially destructive-to-him power over bull's soul. it's really cool (and heartbreaking) to think about.

this is a game about how history will eat you even while you're still alive, and shape you into whatever image it pleases to serve it, and for all your incredible power right now you are powerless in the face of the gravitational force of time -- of more than time, of History. you won't recognize yourself in what History will make of you, because you belong to it now. you don't belong to yourself anymore and you never will again. the further you were from what it needs from you to begin with, the more you will find yourself distorted in its funhouse mirror. (why hello there inquisitor ameridan, same hat!)

and to me this is so much the core of what Dragon Age is about right from the Origins days -- how and by whom history gets written, the inherent unreliable narration of it all. I hope you like stories, Inquisitor. You are one now.

I do think it's probably still the weakest of the games narratively, and it's hampered by its structure and bloated systems. but I also find it disingenous to say that there's nothing deeper or actually interesting going on with it, thematically. if you're willing to engage with it there is Some Real Shit going on under the high fantasy-tinted surface.

[angelsdream]

I want to be a creature that lives in the forest and never has to talk to anyone and I want to sleep on the moss and watch rain drop on the leaves

[nosebleedclub]

Are you kept alive by a fantasy?

[trans-writes]

Somewhere there is a world better than this one.

Somewhere there is a world where the buildings are more mural than wall, more vine than concrete, more solar panel than cement. There is a world where the roads aren't there and the train tracks are lined with wildflowers.

Somewhere there is a world where there is warm bread on every table and no one has ever known a cold and aching night. There is a world overflowing with oranges, already peeled. There is a world where children never bleed and where no one has a use for the word billion unless they're talking about the stars.

Somewhere there is a world where the only thing to fear at night is the chill and where they can still hear the moon when she sings. There is a world where the water is a perfect aquamarine and you can see all the way to the bottom.

Somewhere there is a world where every single stranger in the grocery store stops to smile and wave at the baby over its mother's shoulder. There is a world where every clock is shattered. There is a world where the word neighbor means something. There is a world where love has never been dangerous. There is a world where they dance and they dance and they dance.

Somewhere there is a world where I am safe and you are happy and we are not afraid. There is a world where hope is enough to save us. There is a world where we don't need to be saved.

I have to believe somewhere there is a world that is kinder. I have to believe it can be this one.

[fruitsoftheweb]

“LS-DYNAによるプラスチック製バックルの嵌め合い解析“

[genderfluid-druid]

hurr hurr I'm a human body hurr hurr I'm gonna solve all my problems using mucus

[genderfluid-druid]

"i require more fluids" well what did you do with the fluids I already gave you. hmm? did you make more mucus with them? you made more mucus with them.

[mcafan12345-deactivated20250317]

could I cry in your lap maybe

[toskarin]

in my sickly haze I somehow installed 2 tumblrs

[toskarin]

the tumblr brothers

[toskarin]

so interesting news but after using both for a bit, while they initially seemed the same, it has become clear that the right tumblr app takes place in a timeline where 9/11 did not happen

[spookymanners]

is it better there

[toskarin]

you might think so but you'll never believe what happened on 9/12

[foone]

But the 9/11 attacks couldn't happen on 9/12 because all the planes were grounded because of the 9/11 attacks

[toskarin]

that's why it had to be 9/11 that happened on 9/12, because if it were 9/12 happening on 9/11 they couldn't have done it

[red-r0ver]

🌳🌲🌳🌳🌲🌳🌳🌳🌲

Tiny forest for your dash

[bookshelfdreams]

🐿️🦔🦉🐜🕷️

wildlife returning to your dash :)

[swords-n-spindles]

🌳🦆🌿🌈🌅🐸🌱🌳🦋🌳

Look, there's a small river crossing your dash!

[irondoe]

⛰️⛰️🏔️🐏🌲🐐⛰️🌲🦅🏔️⛰️

We're coming up on a mountain range

[shieldmaidenofsherwood]

🌱🌾🌻☘️🌼🌱🏵🌾🌼🐦☘️🌻☘️🌾🌱🏵

Meadow!

[cressthegreenwitch]

🌅🌊🐬🐟🐠🐙🐚🌴

Slowly reaching the coast!

[wonderful-emoji]

☁️🍃🕊️☁️🐦☁️☁️🦅🦇☁️🦋☁️🌤️

Into the sky

[emoji-shitposts]

🌌🌙🚀☄️🌌🪐🌟💫🌌🪐🌠🛸

Made it to space!

[gwyoi]

☢️💥☄️

i killed you all.

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

🔥🪨🔥🪨🪨🪨🔥🪨🪨🪨🌱🪨🪨🪨🔥🪨🪨🔥🪨🪨🪨🪨🔥

and yet, life remains

[pugswithlasers]

🪨🪨🪨🌱🪨🪨🪨🪨🌿🪳🪨🪨🪨☘️🪨

the fire died out. we’re recovering

[flagellant]

🌳🌲🌳🌳🌲🌳🌳🌳🌲

Tiny forest for your dash

[talesfromthecrypts]

Periods should come with some kind of psychic attack so I can like knock the phones out of hands of people who listen to loud videos in public and pop the tires of people with evil bumper stickers. I feel I'm owed that for the horrors

[zagreus]

Visit Original Link

Ever since the original tape of the Wilhelm scream recording session surfaced I have been losing my mind a little bit over it

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

One thing about me is I'm a sweet handsome boy

[cicadaland]

[weirdwyvern]

the photo took a moment to load fully, resulting in perhaps the worst possible version of it briefly being given form