Nikolaibrarian

very interested in etymology and entomology

[dragongirlsnout]

10 000 dollars a day to every autistic child who grew up into an adult with a weird relationship to eating because parents can in no way be trusted to respect children's issues with food

[nikolaibrarian]

Oh no

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

typecasting sucks unless it's Charlize Theron playing an emotionally unstable woman in an action thriller in which case it fucking rules

[youcanstillwhistle]

I think the "pre" and "post" parts in "preposterous" should cancel each other out but everyone else seems to find my idea completely erous

[revizyonist]

med people are so annoying "This family's 8 year old child who was about to go through a major surgery and kept crying that she was hungry so they pitied her and gave her food, she then had a heart attack in the surgery. They're so stupid 😒" girl they didn't know that could happen or why it happens. it takes so little time to explain to them that will happen instead of telling them "no food" with no explanation 10 times

[revizyonist]

"Before surgery, your body’s reflexes that protect your airway are relaxed by anesthesia. If there’s food or liquid in your stomach, it will near certainly come back up and go into your lungs, which can cause choking, a severe lung / heart infection or even a heart attack. That’s called aspiration, and it is life-threatening. It's hard, but it's only a single day to prevent near certain death. Not eating or drinking beforehand massively lowers the risk and helps prevent these life threatening situations under anesthesia." <- TIP: patients have brains which allows them to receive information just like you

[ancelineonline]

I have four kids. I’ve had one or another of them need some kind of surgical procedure that requires anesthesia four or five times over the past 15 years.

This Tumblr post is the first time someone has explained to me *why* I couldn’t feed them before those instances.

I’m not stupid. I understood that just fine. Hell, my kids would have understood that just fine. But no one bothered to tell us.

[bowditch]

i did know this before having kids (i have six). we have a kid that's needed multiple procedures requiring anesthesia. and every single time, i am asked multiple times if i'm sure he was not given any food or water after a certain point.

every single time i have had to say, "i understand that if he had food or water, he could aspirate it into his lungs under anesthesia. i am not lying to you." THEN someone would make a little note and i would stop being repeatedly asked.

not a single time was that risk explained to me. the only reason it came up was because i already knew. i still don't understand why it isn't standard pre-op counseling or pre-op check information, when me as a parent acknowledging the actual risk also put THE MEDICAL STAFF at ease because i conveyed that i had informed understanding as reason to not lie about giving my kid food.

"maybe some people will get nervous and refuse surgery" okay so they need more counseling about risks and anxiety, not less information in a way that actually does endanger their child or themselves!

[arctic-turtle-cassiopeia]

Reblogging to save a life and teach medical professionals basic communication skills

[tuxedodan]

you know I couldn't be a cowboy because I'd be stuck with my partner in the dead cold prairie night and our horses would be tied up and we'd be huddlin around a crudely made fire because it was too far to go back to the ranch and he'd play the sweetest song on his harmonica, the kind that you felt in your bones and your heart and that the hymns had nothin on, and then he'd finish and we'd both lean in a little too close and my hand would be on his bandanna and his whiskey-breath would be hot on my lips and I'd realize that maybe it wasn't the touch of a woman i'd been hankerin for

[tuxedodan]

yeah I'll be honest I don't know wtf possessed me here

[mercury-moonlight]

[official-josh]

[pikachu-says-peekaboo]

[deviantplum]

Happy Pride Month to the following Bi Icons:

Predator

The Alien Queen

Mothman

Bugs Bunny

(an incomplete list)

[roycohn]

something i've noticed that has become really annoying in the past 10 years or so is this fad of what i've been calling, for lack of a better word, "structural whataboutism." it's that thing where, when faced with a concrete, resolvable problem in your community, your answer is to blame it on a vast, unsolvable issue of structural inequality and then throw up your hands. "there's trash all over the ground in this corner of the park" becomes "well, that's where MEN OF COLOR congregate after their 12-HOUR GRAVEYARD SHIFTS and i'm not going to support a CARCERAL SOLUTION to a CAPITALISTIC PROBLEM. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE POVERTY AND THE SUBJUGATION OF THE WORKING CLASS" and it's like okay but sis. someone still has to go pick up the trash. we don't need a carceral solution, we need more trash cans. you're not going to eliminate poverty and the subjugation of the working class and even if ya did, there would still be trash on the ground. how any of this passes for radicalism within their peer groups i simply don't understand. it's radical laziness more than anything else

[figtreeandvine]

I was on a canoe trip once with a river biologist who worked for the county. After we found and removed a car tire, she started talking about the annual river cleanup her department organized. From a water quality or ecological standpoint, removing shopping carts, car tires, and other macro trash from the river really wasn't that important, she said. The real threat to the river was industrial and agricultural runoff.

"But!" she said:

People who see a clean, trash-free river are more likely support laws to curb more harmful "systemic" forms of pollution. People who participate in river cleanups take pride in their work--their river!--and become evangelists for protecting it.

Immediate action leads to systemic awareness, which leads to systemic change.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[teaboot]

Can I be honest with yall I don't want to hear SHIT against cishets at pride this year

[teaboot]

"But it's not FOR them!!!" The biggest military power in the world belongs to a christofascist nation overseen by a felon found guilty of 34 federal crimes and has greenlit a gestapo with more direct funding than the entire military of Canada for the purpose of ethnic cleansing. Let Hetero Jessica throw some biodegradable glitter at a municipal parade

[teaboot]

At this point if anyone is trying to exclude anyone benignly pro-queer from a pro-queer space I'm just going to assume you're a fed or something idk like something something destabilize the movement from within or whatever

[findingfeather]

I am making a VERY big point of the Ally flag in all my pride stuff at work.

Feel awkward about people maybe thinking you’re queer but still want to clearly signal “queers are okay with me”? SURE. LOVE IT. HERE’S YOUR WEIRD FLAG.

Don’t fucking at me about allies right now, they are ALSO actually getting fucking killed over us. Take your puri-gay shitty tent somewhere else mine is great with people’s cishet friends and relatives showing up to have our backs.

(“but what if they -“ shitty behavior is shitty behavior I don’t care if you INVENTED queer sex, if you’re acting like a douche i’ll kick you out. wanna act decent and accept the premises of queer coexistence and freedom, cool, i’m not judging you for feeling ok with the gender title they gave you in the delivery room or being attracted to people with the other standard issue title, grab a pop).

[goslinggf]

"girl dinner" "boy kibble" can y'all just eat a meal gender neutrally

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

When I was in uni my housemates had a baby, and we taught them some sign language so they could communicate before all their mouth parts were coordinated yet. None of us knew Auslan but two of us were familiar with the signs that the State Emergency Services used in the field so we worked with those.

The kid learned to request a drink, which is great, because that's like the #1 most important thing for a baby to be able to request, but instead of learning any of the other signs they just used modified versions of the drink sign to ask for all kinds of things. They couldn't actually make the proper drink sign (it requires some level of hand control) and used a modified wave, so they ended up with a whole bunch of subtly different waves to ask for stuff. Which was pretty fun in public because strangers would coo over this adorable baby who kept waving at them when, in practice, the baby wanted their ice cream.

[enitnerolf]

Babies are physically capable of making simplified signs from about 8 months. Speech usually comes at 12 to 18 months. That's half a years worth of frustration about not understanding/not being understood that can be minimized by teaching a child basic signs.

General advice is: start signing at 6 months. This gives the child time to observe, draw the connection, and learn. It also gives you the time to build the habit and practice. Start with a few signs, and wait till you see the child react to them before you introduce more. At 8 months you will start to see the child signing at you to communicate. The signs will be botched. That's ok. Just like with speech, make sure your reply contains the word/sign so they know you understand and can see the 'proper' version without feeling corrected.

Another tip: caregivers like to teach signs like tired and hungry and diaper. Signs that they (the caregivers) find relevant. Make sure to also offer signs that are relevant to the child, like their favorite toys, more and done.

[tony-the-tigers-juicy-armpit]

How quickly we forget the dangerous crow boy who’s job it is to destroy plastic

[crownkeeper]

before there were blorbos there were little meow meows and before there were little meow meows there were cinnamon rolls

[crownkeeper]

and smol beans.

[horsewheelie]

I'm never going to hell

[poetrylesbian]

obviously dietary requirements aren't a joke but my grandma sometimes runs errands for her church and i asked her what she's up to today and she said extremely seriously "ive got to track down the body of the gluten free christ, julia"

[ritavonbees]

this totally scans for a swear intensifier btw. what in the gluten free christ is going on here, Julia

[lurking-latinist]

I love the music of the Spanish Civil War for many reasons but one is that almost no one is ever singing in their native language and I think that's beautiful

[animate-mush]

Say more?

[lurking-latinist]

DISCLAIMER: THIS POST WILL NOT TEACH YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, OR EVEN ABOUT ITS MUSIC.

Well, one famous thing about the Spanish Civil War is the International Brigades: volunteers, largely in highly varied shades of leftism, from all over Europe and the world who showed up to fight the fascists. (Anglophone readers may recall Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Orwell's Homage to Catalonia.) So alongside the songs in Spanish and Catalan that came out of or get associated with the war, there are many International Brigades songs in English, German (yes, lots of German communists and other anti-fascists in the '30s went off to fight fascism where it seemed vulnerable), Italian (ditto), French, and this collection appears to have at least one each in Czech, Polish, Hungarian, and one that's attributed to "Yugoslavia" but I do not have the South Slavic expertise to tell you what language it is in. Not a song, but I have seen a poster specifically recruiting Esperantist volunteers. Very multilingual environment already.

And then... the Spanish Republic lost. The fascists won. The songs went pretty quiet in Spain. But the international volunteers that survived and went home kept singing them. And so did one of their sympathizers: Pete Seeger, whose recording Songs of the Lincoln Brigade introduced many of them to a broader audience. On that album you can hear Seeger singing songs in both English and Spanish:

Or how about the German communist volunteer and singer Ernst Busch doing the "Song of the United Front" in Spanish, English, French, and German:

(oh gosh my YouTube music recommendations are going to be so communist for a bit. That's all right, they've been quite Jacobite lately so that will balance it out.)

Of course, fascism in Spain didn't last forever, and today many singers and groups in Spain do perform and record the same songs. ... Including the International Brigade ones. (Unfortunately I can't track it down, so this may not be true to any extent at all, but I have read a remark somewhere [possibly in someone's liner notes?] that after the death of Franco, young people in Spain rediscovered these songs specifically through Pete Seeger's recordings...!)

So you can find the Catalan "Quartet Brossa" singing the Italian Bella Ciao:

Or the evidently Spanish-speaking "Coro Popular Jabalón" doing their best American English in the soldiers-complaint song "Quartermaster Store":

On the same album they have a song in Basque:

And so on and so on.

(You may have noticed Spain's minority languages, including Catalan and Basque, making a good showing here: that's no accident, those were evidently quite republican areas, as will not surprise you if you know anything about Franco's language policy.)

Anyway those are the main historical reasons I'm aware of why music from and about Spanish Civil War is so multilingual. Obviously my original claim that "almost nobody is ever singing in their native language" had an element of hyperbole - the Americans do sing songs in English (as do the Irish), the Spanish in Spanish, the Germans in German, and of course the Catalans in Catalan. But if you look for Spanish Civil War music, many of the "standards" you'll find are International Brigades songs, many others are Catalan as well as Spanish, so no matter what your native language is you will have plenty of songs that aren't in it.

And apparently you sing them anyway. Because, at least for the people making these records, it seems it's not about where you're from, or even whether your accent is any good, it's about standing side by side.

And that's why I said it's beautiful.

[teathattast]