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A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
hey. talk to your coworkers about this. remember that the "taking advice from everyone except the experts" thing cuts both ways. you can be the guy at work who isnt an expert and gives someone advice they decide to follow based on vibes, but your advice can be the right advice instead. this is something we can all do
oh ok
Also a really useful thing in lefty queer progressive whatever type spaces is "getting over yourself" and really knowing the phrase "sure they get on my nerves but I don't think we should hunt them for sport". Like sometimes your morals/principles/political goals/etc are more important than whatever interpersonal beef you have. I mean just in general you need to be able to be annoyed without killing someone about it but especially if you're aiming for, like... actual meaningful solidarity and community and shit like that
"We're gonna achieve immortality by turning ourselves into machines" buddy I want you to find yourself a 15 year old laptop and try to run a 10 year old piece of software on it please. Connect to the internet, if you can, and attempt to log into any of your online accounts
Good luck cyborg buddy, I wish you the best.
Also, previous tag:
fun fact this is a big issue that museums/archives/preservation professionals run into
This is something I bring up a lot. Digital preservation is not a thing to rely on. Anything digital is inherently ephemeral, fleeting.
All current and former digital storage will eventually fail. Paper tapes and punch cards cards wear and rot. Magnetic tape and disks grow mold and shed their magnetic coating. Hard drives seize and crash, their controllers fail. Optical media scratches, rots, or simply fades. Solid state media loses its charge over time. Cloud services shut down with no warning.
Long-term digital storage is a never-ending process of copying to new media.
And then there's the problem of format.
It took less than 30 years for digital works by Andy Worhol — one of the most popular artists of the 20th century — to be lost to obsolete technology.
A dozen previously unknown works created by Andy Warhol have been recovered from 30-year-old Amiga disks.
We had the disks, we had the computers, we had modern emulators for the computers. But reading the images (PDF Archive) required very specific combinations of operating system and software versions, and in some cases required reverse-engineering image formats for which the correct combination of software could not be found.
This wasn't some obscure machine. Millions of Amiga computers were sold, and Amiga users are among the most dedicated to keeping the platform going long after its discontinuation.
And still the image format had to be reverse-engineered to recover Worhol's images.
How much of our culture from the past 30 years has been entirely digital?
To be fair, this isn't exactly a new problem, or even one unique to the digital era. But I do wonder what will remain for future generations looking back. How much of human history has been pieced together from shards of pottery and clay tablets? With our communications, our documents, our art all moving to digital media, what will be left of us to dig up? What will it tell of our story, of who we are, what we believed, what challenges we overcame?
Important rules for the "age verification" era of the internet that we're living in:
1. Do not do age verification.
2. If you have to do age verification, cheat. Do not under any circumstances give them your real ID.
life is better when you're not malnourished btw
ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to deny location sharing and turn off personalized ads and reject all non-essential cookies and not set up siri and face ID
reblog to save a liFE
Up to now, I have been drawing random generic suit jackets.
Never again.
cc: @petermorwood
Replies are restricted for your posts, so I couldn't reply there, but I literally make posture harnesses out of leather because my shoulders pop out of their sockets due to hypermobility issues. I designed an adjustable version that basically work like belts and also have a clasp so they can be put on easily.
I make these for fun.
I can tell you how to take measurements and then just make you one, if you want, from one disabled peep to another.
I will tell you that you will be very tired for the first week as some Very New Muscles Form, tho.
these RULE. and yeah I've been wearing my rubber velcro ones a few hours a day and using KT tape to realign stuff also. I would love to have something like this in my toolkit thank you so much for offering!
@queendomcum did you follow any patterns or write up how you did it? Same connective tissue/muscle and joint issues and dont have money for very expensive stuff esp if it looks so medical I won't wear it out
It's a heavily modded form of something Bernadette Banner made in one of her videos a while back. There's no existing pattern, so I'm putting together a PDF later this week with everything, including materials, tools, tips/tricks, etc. because clearly this is something people need. It'll be free for download, and I'll also publish the pages here on Tumblr.
Also, I see your tags, and that pain happened to me, too. That's why I make and wear these. And yes, before you ask, my physical therapist was overjoyed because it's a tactile harness that doesn't do the work for you. Braces will make your muscles atrophy because they do the work for you. These don't do that.
Here's the video in case anyone was looking
no one hates you everyone hates texting and their phone
btw if youre young and scared of doing adult things without your parents ive learned that like 90% of the time you can just tell the doctors office or the dmv "haha sorry ive never done this without help before... can you show me how to do this?" the employee will not care. if that means anything to you
literally walked up to a desk in the courthouse, said "is this where I register a car or is it the next one?" and she said it was the next one. and the lady at the next desk helped me. it feels embarrassing but I promise you can just ask
One of the most important lessons I learned in customer service is that no matter how much help you need, as long as you're nice about it, you won't even crack the top five of worst customers they've had to deal with that day. I will walk an old lady through every step on that pin pad with a smile as long as she's polite, because two calls ago I had to deal with someone screaming about politics for 45 fucking minutes because I wasn't allowed to hang up on him.
Everyone has their first time doing something, everyone makes mistakes, everyone has dumb moments, and as long as you're choosing kindness I'll just laugh it off and help out. Because no matter how dumb you think you are, there was already someone who was just as dumb but was determined to ruin my day over it.
And I dont think this is something you grow out of either, theres always gonna be something somewhere thats new to you. Just ask!
it's wild how few people are willing to say "my actions had unintended consequences and i'm sorry about that". like you don't even need to act like it was intentional. you just need to perform not wanting to have hurt someone else. it's literally easy
openin’ the door to the microwave one second early because you don’t need all the hootin’ and hollerin’
the older i get the more it's terrifying to me how much child surveillance is normalized. scared for your child's mental health? here's more tools that will make them feel even more watched at all times. child is experimenting with their gender identity while away from you? we made it this other adult's job to surveil them for you. kid is "enjoying" their "free time" instead of doing homework? we've put parental controls on the things that they like so that you can monitor their private time. like can we fucking stop
The fucking. Polynesians knew
ABOUT BOTH THINGS
i am begging my american followers to learn about tax brackets
Especially how they disincentivize growth and upward mobility.
you have not learned about tax brackets
alright i got this reply so fast i think i need to address this explicitly. tax brackets do not mean you will make less than before when you get a raise! say your income is taxed at 20% but have a 30% tax bracket starting at $10k, this means all the money you make up to 10k is taxed at 20%! anything above that, minus 10k, is taxed at 30%. the $10k you made remains at 20%, unaffected by the higher tax bracket. if you made exactly $10k you’ll have $8k after taxes; if you made $11k that’s 10k at 20% and 1k at 30%, so $8700! you should never turn down a raise because of tax brackets!
it surprised me when i learned this! but it also surprised me that i didn’t already know it because it seems so obvious in retrospect! it’s almost as if…some people…profit from us not knowing it
