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Geo (they/them).
Sideblog: @ge-yo-photos (wildlife photos, rarely active, TW: insects/bugs)
Art tag: #ge--yo artses
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Music:
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adding to the pile of little colorful dragons i've been drawing lately
(also available on my kofi as adoptables!)
There are many benefits to being a marine biologist
By this point Loch Ness is probably the inland body of water we can be most sure doesn't have a monster in it.
According to the CDC, in 10 percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening. Drowning does not look like drowningâDr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guardâs On Scene magazine, described the Instinctive Drowning Response like this:
âExcept in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs.
Drowning peopleâs mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning peopleâs mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.
Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the waterâs surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.
Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.
From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response peopleâs bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.â
This doesnât mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isnât in real troubleâthey are experiencing aquatic distress. Not always present before the Instinctive Drowning Response, aquatic distress doesnât last longâbut unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in their own rescue. They can grab lifelines, throw rings, etc.
Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are in the water:
Head low in the water, mouth at water level
Head tilted back with mouth open
Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus
Eyes closed
Hair over forehead or eyes
Not using legsâvertical
Hyperventilating or gasping
Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway
Trying to roll over on the back
Appear to be climbing an invisible ladder
So if a crew member falls overboard and everything looks OKâdonât be too sure. Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they donât look like theyâre drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up at the deck. One way to be sure? Ask them, âAre you all right?â If they can answer at allâthey probably are. If they return a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. And parentsâchildren playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.
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Can I just say thank you to OP for putting such a detailed description on this?
Iâve been a lifeguard for 6 years now and of all the saves Iâve done, maybe two or three had people drowning in the stereotypical thrashing style. And even those, like the save I made last weekend, it was exactly like OP describes where the personâs head is going in and out of the water but it isnât long enough to get any air. Mostly you recognize drowning by the look on someoneâs face. If someone looks wide eyed and terrified or confused, chances are theyâre drowning. That look of âoh shitâ is pretty easily recognizable. And even if you canât tell for sure: GO AFTER THEM ANYWAY. Iâve done âsavesâ where a kid was pretending to drown and I mistook it for real drowning, but thatâs preferable to a kid ACTUALLY drowning.
Also please remember that even strong swimmers can drown if they have a medical emergency, get cramps, or get too tired. If your friend knows how to swim but theyâre acting funny get them to land. And even if someone can respond when you ask them if they need help, if they say they do need help? GO HELP THEM.
However . If the victim is a stranger, I canât recommend trying to get them. Lifeguards literally train to escape âattacks,â because people who are drowning can freak the fuck out and grab you and make YOU drown as well. If you do go in after someone, take hold of them from the back and talk to them the whole time. IF YOU ARE GRABBED: duck down into the water as low as you can get. The person is panicking and wonât want to go under water and should release you. Shove up at their hands and push them away from you as you duck under. Donât die trying to save someone else.
Please guys, read and memorize this post. Not all places have lifeguards. Being able to recognize drowning is such an important skill to have and you can save someoneâs life.
Just incase!
In a water park once, I was suddenly grabbed by a child and he dragged me under the water without warning. I was going to get angry with him when I resurfaced because I thought he was being an ass, until I looked at him go back in and out hyperventilating the entire time. I grabbed him under his arms and began trying to drag him out while screaming for the lifeguard.
When the lifeguard got us both out, a woman came running down and accused me of harming him and said he had been completely fine in the water. That there was no reason to drag him out of there. The lifeguard had to explain to her that her son had been drowning, to which her response was to say that she didnât hear him call for help.
People seriously need to learn the signs.
http://spotthedrowningchild.com/Â really demonstrates how easy it is to miss drowningÂ
You are allowed to completely change as a person by the way. You donât have to stay trapped in the versions other people created of you.
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Iâve said it many times but this might be my favorite post ever
wikipedia no longer being anywhere near the top of search results when looking up anything feels eviscerating
#they really said âyou canât use wiki as an academic source-use our garbage AI thatâs even less reliableâ#and you canât even opt out of it
no but you can FORCE it away. use ublock origin and copy paste the blacklist i made into the filters to be able to remove the bullshit AI overview that google forces. it also removes youtube's forced ads (at least until they fix it)
you can also use the ublacklist extension and use this blacklist of AI image generation websites to curate your google image results
there are ALWAYS ways around stuff. it's just a matter of looking into it and asking around
I'M FREE
FOR WIKIPEDIA!!!!
Also: bookmark Wikipedia and if you already know that it's the wiki that you want, go DIRECTLY to Wikipedia and use the search bar there.
Every time you Google anything, they get data that they can sell, their advertisers get exposure that they pay for and their datacenters use a fuckload of energy. Bookmark Wikipedia.
god's weakest soldier is scrolling tumblr instead of being productive or participating in any of their hobbies
tbh i think the funniest phenomena that's been happening in the last couple years is "youtuber, having gone too deep into the research hole, has been made an investigative journalist against their will"
Shout out to the guy who wanted to do some fun & silly little reviews but uncovered an illegal gambling operation
(Review 2)
this guy started out poking fun at australian politicians and ended up investigating the firebombing of his own home, during which he uncovered connections between the same politician he was making fun of + major organized crime
JasperDasper started out just curious why everything had suddenly become about trans people and questioning some of the sources used in a book. He came out of it, 4 years later, with a 5 hour long video that connects all transphobia to less than 60 people. (I'm not joking. literally every single transphobic rhetoric and bill passed is because of these 50 or so people.)
If you wanna watch it I cannot recommend it enough; I just warn that it covers a LOT.
It looks funny, right? You think it looks funny.
I do too. But it lives its whole life. So you have to take it seriously eventually, right? And be respectful and shit.
I think it can digging in the ground for tubers.
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âWell you wouldnât be discriminated against if you just hid everything about who you are from everyoneâ
Hey. Hey. Listen. Come close. Closer. Yeah. Listen.
*blows an air horn in your ear*
You know as a trans person especially itâs wack to hear gay people make this kind of argument.
âYou could just not transitionâ or âYou could just stay stealthâ
And you could just pretend to be straight forever and cheat on your spouse that you never loved in the first place and die of stress and alcoholism related causes in your 60s. But you know that thatâs generally not a good time so youâre not doing that. Connect the dots, bitch. Iâm not the enemy here.
âI donât understand the whole trans thingâ
And a lot of people donât understand the whole gay thing so why donât why donât you shut the hell your mouth up
So, in addition to being queer (see above) and autistic* (wouldn't be discriminated against if I perfectly masked my whole life), I am also an immigrant. And because of that, the whole "you wouldn't be discriminated against if you just hid who you are" thing brings to my mind the people who insist that all immigrants have a duty to perfectly assimilate - only ever speak English, anglicize their names, leave behind any cultural ties to their home country, and so on
So you can probably guess how I feel about that
*self-diagnosed for now, but I am planning to get assessed at some point
Autistic folks of tumblr (including self dx): Is there an experience you associate with your autism that you wish you saw a character experience in a book?
Not making promises but sometimes I can make stuff happen.
Okay so I definitely don't have enough brain to articulate this properly right now but I'll forget if I save it for later so I'm not sure how coherent this will be but.
I've noticed a trend in fiction and fandom of autism turning into this cutesy thing of "everyone was so loud I had to go hide in my blankey fort because I'm a soft widdle baby" and I hate it. I hate how this thing that genuinely makes my life difficult and makes people hate me has become "look how neurospicy blorbo is! ~points at person being an acceptable level of socially awkward~"
Autism can be ugly. Both literally and figuratively because people love a hot autistic man with a sexy hyperfixation but everyone has That One Coworker that everyone agrees is slightly annoying. And I always feel deeply uncomfortable when I'm included in the "you know how annoying he can be!" conversations and jokes because sure, maybe I do think he's kind of annoying but the reason you find him annoying is his neurodivergence so does that mean you secretly find me annoying? Or you would if I let the mask slip ever so slightly?
And I can be mean. Sometimes it's because I'm overstimulated and irritable, sometimes it's because I miscalculated what will land as a joke, and yeah, sometimes it's because I'm feeling jealous or insecure or, well, all the normal reasons people are mean. Yeah, I'm a justice-oriented autistic or whatever the term is, and ideologically I don't think people should ever be mean for any reason, but we still do it, because we're fucking human.
Anxiety says "everyone secretly hates you." Autism says "you will never know if everyone is trying to tell you they secretly hate you." And I can get around that to an extent by reasoning that if someone secretly hates me but still makes an effort to be around me, that's their problem. But I'm also very aware I cannot make the first move in any sort of friendship because I have no way of knowing how that will be received.
And I know we're trying to push back against the stereotype of autistics as "cold" and unfeeling but I really don't feel emotions properly. So it's always a process to figure out what I should be feeling and how I should be expressing that and only later trying to figure out how I actually feel, and it's often too much over little things and not enough over big things. And physical cues don't work because sad makes me tired and mad makes me cry and I haven't figured out the rest yet because since I've always been a books autistic I've only just started to realize that the shorthand emotional cues in most prose literature don't actually work for me.
So I guess that was a long way to saying I want to see autistic rep of masking so hard you don't know how to take it off, and hypercorrecting from the "oversteps boundaries" into "refuses to go near anything that might be a boundary." And autistics who are perhaps kind but not always nice.
This reply in specific makes me very happy because this, right here, is what I am hoping to write. And it makes me really happy to think someone wants this book.
I hope if you ever read this book that it lives up to what youâre asking for here.
Other folks feel free to keep âem coming- big or small I want to hear it
There was a massive shift in how our culture understood morality when, after World War II, the general public realized âjust following ordersâ was not an excuse for crimes against humanity. Now we need another moral shift in which we decide, as a culture, that âfor the benefit of the stockholdersâ is not an excuse for anything.
We kind of need to relearn the âjust following ordersâ part again
i need people to start caring about trans rights all around the world, not just american. the lok sabha (parliament of india) just passed the transgender amendment bill of 2026 according to which they're removing a person's right to self determination of gender unless they're examined & approved by a medical board. it's hard enough for people here to get a gender defining surgery because of poverty and being shunned by society as is, & now they're taking away their right to exist. the medical boards are bigoted as fuck. despite protests all around the country they passed it. it is so fucking bleak out here.
Legislative changes and constitutional protections are crucial in the context of the Transgender Persons Act and the 2026 Amendment Bill. Th
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