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[desicosplay]

Resources

Resources for Justice: contains articles, organizations, tools, self-care, and books on a variety of global issues.

Carrds: links for more information on a variety of causes.

[desicosplay]

Something to give you all hope, one of the providers I’m working with right now in the hospital has a kid who got sick. Out of an abundance of caution, he started wearing a mask. Started exhibiting symptoms yesterday, but he’s been wearing a mask the whole time just to make sure we’re all safe.

[ashleyloob]

what's the most cancelable shit y'all do when ur not online

[predatory-lesbians]

sometimes i like to acknowledge nuance

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[cam1lla]

Want to do something to help stop the tradwife pipeline btw? Include mothers in your feminism. Hold space for women and others who are experiencing pregnancy or motherhood. Listen to their concerns about and unique perspectives on things like universal childcare, bodily autonomy, healthcare. Hold men who disrespect, sexualize, fetishize, shame or harass pregnant women and mothers accountable. Advocate for the right to nurse in public. Advocate for bodily autonomy within the healthcare field. Listen to women and birthing parents who have birth trauma. Listen to women who have undergone things like “the husband stitch”, or medically unnecessary c-sections, or who were given drugs without consent by doctors and nurses violating their birth plan. Advocate for resources to promote an end to the high rates of maternal mortality in the US. Get to know a woman who has children. Get to know the person she is. Know about her likes and interests and hobbies. Unlearn the stigma in your head which makes you see pregnant women as “ruined” or “tainted” and mothers as devoid of individual personhood.

[cam1lla]

As a leftist I will always advocate for the needs of mothers and their children. I refuse to let the right attempt to manipulate people by using the “we’re the only ones who care about mothers and children” talking point. I refuse to let my fellow leftists and progressives continue to enjoy complacency in their exclusion of these two marginalized groups.

[lemeute]

this also means welcoming children at your events and/or offering free childcare. childcare is expensive and many mothers (much moreso than many fathers) can't participate in our movements unless we participate in looking after their kids.

[apikale]

And for the love of all that is holy, STOP IT with the antinatalism! Too often I hear arguments along the lines of, "humanity needs to die out anyway." No, the human race is a beautiful thing, and those who freely choose to perpetuate it should be celebrated, not demonized. Our population is not spiraling out of control, that's a eugenicist myth.

When mothers see that the only people supporting their choice to have kids are right-wing pronatalists (who suck, don't get me wrong), what ideology do you think they're going to align with?

[naamahdarling]

Stop fucking saying you hate kids.

[writterings]

how i'm handling my students using AI to write papers:

-don't accuse them on using AI from the get-go and instead ask them to informally define all the huge words that they used in their essay which i know they don't know the meaning of

-ask to see their original file where they "wrote" the essay. go to version history to see if it was just copy and pasted and then just edited a bit. i keep an eye out for the shit like "certainly! here's an essay about...."

-if they own up to it, they can re-do the assignment for a higher grade even if there will be an automatic penalty. if they don't, i process it like plagiarism and get my supervisor involved.

[manicali]

And this is much better than the immediate accusations. Some students have a good vocabulary. Stop accusing them of faking their essays without proof, and this is a good way to check.

Fellow students please stop using AI, go back to promising not to kill the school nerd if they do all your homework or something.

[kymsys]

but you were never broken, viktor. 💔 🩹

SHOP.

[malfoyesque]

[chipper-smol]

ok i just got this thought out of nowhere but blog divers (people who scroll through a blog and reblog things that were posted YEARS AGO) are actually a super important part of the tumblr ecosystem

With people going inactive and deactivating, a lot of classic tumblr posts and also missed gems get lost because those connections get broken. Even on my own blog I forget about posts I made until I see someone in my activity reblog one of them- which then inspires me to reblog it myself because it was a good post and I want my new followers to see

do not feel bad about diving through someone's blog and reblogging shit from years ago, it keeps dashboards alive

(and if anyone has a problem with that, they can just block you or they can delete the root post ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, two things that have absolutely no effect on the grand scheme of our lives)

[rubiscodisco]

Cycling nutrients (old tumblr posts) from the ocean floor (mutual's blog archive) to increase (dashboard) ecosystem productivity

[teaboot]

Whale Fall Scavengers Spreading Vital Nutrients From The Surface Back Into The Ecosystem

[ocean-of-junk]

[feyspeaker]

oldschool babey 😎 prints | patreon

[ultimatewowdursgate]

BG2 style portraits for the BG3 team?! Genius! I love this so much!

[ryanlewisandclark]

i cannot hate myself into a version of me i will love.

[ryanlewisandclark]

i cannot punish myself in any way that will unmake the past.

[aryisacapricat]

Beware of this imp 🔫

[lumsel]

List of media where the title is significantly more accurate than you expect going in:

- Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

- Everything Everywhere All At Once

- The Thing

[lumsel]

reviews of the most common tags on this post:

Chainsawman: Yeah I guess if you go in thinking "this is a manga about a dude who wields a chainsaw" then you're going to be very seriously surprised. Like "ohhhh. he's a chainsaw man."

Portal: If I had to take points off this one its that the title is Portal in the singular, and lemme tell you brother. There's a lot more than one Portal in this game.

Ultrakill: I gotta be honest here. I don't know what you were expecting when you bought a first person shooter called "Ultrakill".

[lumsel]

I wanna now shout out that one person who mentioned Rain World, and because having now just played it, fuck dude. They weren't kidding. That World can Rain.

[desicosplay]

I will always be here. I will always love you. Feel your emotions like a fucking wave, my loves. Then come to shore - I am waiting with blankets, a warm fire, bared teeth and sharp nails. I will not lose hope. I will not lose love. That would be the truest defeat.

My hope lives in the people I love - in you.

[desicosplay]

D A B I

[geekdawson]

Kindness is often mistaken for softness and let me tell you, friends….that is a mistake you don’t want to make. 

Kind people are not born that way, they do not stumble into it, kind people are forged in fire and darkness and imploding stars…they have steel cores. Throw a punch and you’re going to break your hand. 

[fairiencarnate-deactivated20260]

Kind people are kind because they know firsthand that life isn’t.

[jiemba]

I was just talking to someone about this. Kindness isn’t a natural-born trait, it’s a daily choice, so when you call someone kind you’re not praising their personality, you’re praising their effort. 

[scullyloves-science]

Thank you

[chaotic-carnifex]

Kind people are people who took your “well life ain’t fair” as a challenge and decided to make it fair

[ownworldresident]

❤❤❤

[inqorporeal]

The world is only hard and cold because people choose to make it so and try to normalise it. Kind people know this and fight it every day.

[whatislifeandhowdoidoit]

“Demons run when a good man goes to war.”

[internet-stranger-says-hi]

@hopepunk-humanity

[desicosplay]

Today's attempt to fight of surgery clerkship-induced rage and/or dysphoria

Writing "Sunrise Parabellum" on my arm every time I feel uncomfortable.

[fatliberation]

The reason fat cadavers are not accepted for medical programmes is that you need to cut through every layer of fat carefully. Which takes time, and lab sessions are inherentely limited in that. It's better for med students to spend that time looking at what organs actually look like in bodies. This isn't fatphobia, it's just .. the way dissecting bodies works? In the same way surgeries on fat people take longer because there's just physically more tissue. The alternative would be to force the med students who get fatter cadavers to do more lab sessions at weird times outside of the usual schedules. Or force them to stay over the holidays. Or not let them get enough time to do the lab work they need to. Which imo would be a bit fucked up especially when med school is already so difficult and time-consuming.

It’s fatphobia. Fat bodies absolutely need to be studied. To ignore an entire demographic of oppressed individuals in the medical field for the sake of convenience(?!) is violence. Did you even read the article? They called working on fat cadavers “unpleasant.” It’s fatphobia and it’s unacceptable.

[lorbanery]

lmaaooooooooo

So

The internal organs aren't the end-all be-all of medicine, even for surgeons. It is still incredibly important for med students to learn about the skin and adipose layers. The point of doing these dissection exercises isn't just to give med students a chance to poke around human guts. It is to familiarize themselves with every part of the body. I only got one semester into a nursing career that didn't work out, but in that one semester I took an Anatomy & Physiology course and we did do an animal dissection and the very first thing we spent time on was the skin layer.

Not only is the practice of dissection meant to familiarize med students with every part of the body, it's meant to give them a chance to see real human bodies. Because what you see in anatomical diagrams in text books isn't normal. Bodies aren't mass manufactured, they do not all look the same, and the practice of examining cadavers gives med students real world experience seeing different ways bodies can vary.

Purposefully rejecting a certain body type is actively detrimental to their education. When institutions refuse to teach their students how to work on certain bodies, the industry then treats those people as "difficult to work with" because they don't know how to. You see it all the time in more low-stakes industries as well — fashion institutes not teaching how to dress fat bodies, leading to designers who think creating plus size clothes is too hard; beauty schools not teaching how to work with Black hair, leading to hairdressers who think Black hair is uniquely difficult to work with rather than just a texture that requires a slightly different technique.

How much extra time are we talking here? Because Anon you make it sound like it can take HOURS, if not DAYS. And yet I, a certified Superfat, had surgery on the fattest part of my belly a couple of years ago, and the whole procedure took 90 minutes. And that, of course, included the time it took to put me to sleep and controlling the bleeding, all things that a med student working on a cadaver doesn't have to worry about.

The alternative to med students using fat cadavers is doctors working on living patients who do not have the skills to care properly for their fat patients. Which leads to them either refusing to treat those patients, or to them getting hands-on experience on living patients, instead of on a cadaver, which is the whole point of med students working on cadavers.

So, Anon, what you're arguing here, is that it's far more important and humane to save med students an extra (let's be generous) hour in lab time, than it is for fat patients to have a doctor who's willing to help them and has experience working on bodies like theirs, and therefore is less likely to cause them harm in the process.

[undead-moth]

Over and over, the argument being made, which I'm expected to agree is purely objective, logical, and unbiased is:

It doesn't matter if fat people die.

These are all arguments I've actually heard, and all by people claiming that they don't hate fat people, that they aren't fatphobic, that their argument is just common sense, and everybody knows it:

"If EpiPens aren't made with needles long enough to work on fat bodies, fat people with allergies should just lose weight." - It doesn't matter if fat people die.

"Fat people are a financial burden on the healthcare system. The NHS is wasting money on making ambulances that can accommodate fat people." - It doesn't matter if fat people die.

"The reason firefighters shouldn't have to save fat people from burning buildings is because they aren't easy to carry out, and firefighters can get injured in the process." - It doesn't matter if fat people die.

"Covid is actually a good thing because it's mostly only killing fat people." - It doesn't matter if fat people die.

"The reason so many doctors have patient BMI limits on who they will perform surgery on, treat, or even agree to have an appointment with, is because it's too hard to treat fat people." - It doesn't matter if fat people die.

And now: "The reason fat bodies aren't studied is because dissecting their cadavers is inconvenient."

It doesn't matter if fat people die.

There is nothing that's not more important than fat people's lives. Convenience, money, time, comfort, ease - nothing. Because fat people aren't important at all. We are expendable. We're actually not even something that gets cut because we were never being accounted for to begin with. We are worthless.

It doesn't matter if we die. Actually, if we all died it would be convenient. A bonus.

This isn't fatphobia, "it's just...the way it works?"

[fatliberation]

#It's so wild how often fatphobia is this extreme and yet always coming from someone who consideres themselves completely impartial#The most common fatphobic argument being expressed is literally that it doesn't matter if fat people die.#It is that extreme and yet so commonplace that it's entirely casual and most people don't even blink. Don't think anything of it all.#And I'm just expected to not be in a constant state of seething rage over it like how do you expect me to be normal in this world?#How do you expect me to stay sane? When literally even the most casually fatphobic people in the world can't understand why#fat people shouldn't have to die to save money or time or effort?

[desicosplay]

Also, as a med student, not all med schools have dissection labs. Some have prosection labs, where professionals open up the bodies in such ways for observation. If you're concerned about saving time, that is the better option. I would rather spend an extra hour in lab learning about a body with more fat than time in the classroom being lectured!