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[bedbugbiting]

My face is having uncontrollable spasms. Great. It hurts really, really, really bad.

I think part of why I have trouble explaining pain to the doctor is when they ask about the pain scale I always think “Well, if someone threw me down a flight of stairs right now or punched me a few times, it would definitely hurt a lot more” so I end up saying a low number. I was reading an article that said that “10” is the most commonly reported number and that is baffling to me. When I woke up from surgery with an 8" incision in my body and I could hardly even speak, I was in the most horrific pain of my life but I said “6” because I thought “Well, if you hit me in the stomach, it would be worse.”

[bomberqueen17]

I searched and searched for the post this graphic was from, and the OP deactivated, but I kept the graphic, because my BFF does the same thing, uses her imagination to come up with the worst pain she can imagine and pegs her “10″ there, and so is like, well, I’m conscious, so this must be a 5, and then the doctors don’t take her seriously. (And she then does things like driving herself to the hospital while in the process of giving birth. Probably should have called an ambulance for that one!)

So I found this and sent it to her. Because this is what they want to know: how badly is this pain affecting you? Not on a scale of “nothing” to “how I’d imagine it’d feel if bears were eating my still-living guts while I was on fire”. 

I hate reposting stuff, but I’ll never find that post again and OP is deactivated, so, here’s a repost. I can delete this later, i just wanted to get it to you and I can’t embed images in a chat or an ask. 

[derryderrydown]

This is possibly why it took several weeks to diagnose my fractured spine.

[petralemaitre]

Pain Scale transcription:

10 - I am in bed and I can’t move due to my pain. I need someone to take me to the emergency room because of my pain.

9 - My pain is all that I can think about. I can barely move or talk because of my pain.

8 - My pain is so severe that it is difficult to think of anything else. Talking and listening are difficult.

7 - I am in pain all the time. It keeps me from doing most activities.

6 - I think about my pain all of the time. I give up many activities because of my pain.

5 - I think about my pain most of the time. I cannot do some of the activities I need to do each day because of the pain.

4 - I am constantly aware of my pain but can continue most activities.

3 - My pain bothers me but I can ignore it most of the time.

2 - I have a low level of pain. I am aware of my pain only when I pay attention to it.

1 - My pain is hardly noticeable.

0 - I have no pain.

[airagorncharda]

It’s also really important to get this kind of scale to people who have chronic pain, because chronic pain drastically lowers your perception of how “bad” any kind of pain actually is, and yet something like this pain scale is extremely user friendly. 

For example, if someone asked me how much pain I’m in at any given time, I’d say hardly any, and yet I’m apparently at a chronic 2.5, and it only goes up from there depending on the day. 

There’s also a similarly useful “Fatigue Scale”

[jedijenkins]

I haven’t been below a 5 on this scale for 4 years 

[nerdgasrnz]

Here’s the fatigue scale

[sunny-day-sky]

Fatigue scale image desc:

10: can barely move; can’t talk

9: can barely move; can talk

8: can move, but can’t do much more than watch TV

7: can watch TV and play a game on my phone simultaneously

6: can do work on my computer lying in bed

5: can get around the house, but definitely couldn’t go out

4: can run a light errand

3: can get in my 10,000 steps, making my fitbit happy

2: can do three or more activities in a single day

1: going clubbing!

[eruvadhril]

See also the Mental Health Pain Scale by Graceful Patient:

Mental Health Pain Scale transcription:

MILD

1 - Everything is a-okay! There is absolutely nothing wrong. You’re probably cuddling a fluffy kitten right now. Enjoy!

2 - You’re a bit frustrated or disappointed, but you’re easily distracted and cheered up with a little effort.

3 - Things are bothering you, but you’re coping. You might be overtired or hungry. The emotional equivalent of a headache.

MODERATE

4 - Today is a bad day (or a few bad days). You still have the skills to get through it, but be gentle with yourself. Use self-care strategies.

5 - Your mental health is starting to impact on your everyday life. Easy things are becoming difficult. You should talk to your doctor.

6 - You can’t do things the way you usually do them due to your mental health. Impulsive and compulsive thoughts may be hard to cope with.

SEVERE

7 - You’re avoiding things that make you more distressed, but that will make it worse. You should definitely seek help. This is serious.

8 - You can’t hide your struggles any more. You may have issues sleeping, eating, having fun, socialising, and work/study. Your mental health is affecting almost all parts of your life.

9 - You’re at a critical point. You aren’t functioning any more. You need urgent help. You may be a risk to yourself or others if left untreated.

10 - The worst mental and emotional distress possible. You can no longer care for yourself. You can’t imagine things getting any worse. Contact a crisis line immediately.

[kingspadedying]

These are so important! SO SO IMPORTANT SHARE THIS AND SAVE IT TO SHOW YOUR DOCTORS!

[mrswhozeewhatsis]

This is the first time I’ve seen the fatigue scale, and HOLY MOLY that’s a revelation!!! These should be on all hospital and doctor office walls.

[thesaltofcarthage]

I’ve never seen the mental health one! or the fatigue one! I printed out the pain one and gave it to my GP. 

[pbqacessible]

Needed to pin this somewhere, decided this blog was good.

[givingbadpeoplegoodideas]

now.

[pbqacessible]

[ID: a two panel meme.

Panel one reads "what people think the autism spectrum looks like:" and has a spectrum graph that fades from green, which is labeled "less autistic" to red, which is labeled "more autistic"

Panel two reads "what it can actually look like:" and has the logo for the internet series The Magnus Archives in it.

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[spaceyjules-deactivated20180305]

If you call pedophilia a kink please unfollow me and never talk to me again

[spaceyjules-deactivated20180305]

Isn’t it disgusting that 23 people just unfollowed me

[clarknokent]

Unfollow me too

[gothhabiba]

this goes double if you call paedophilia a disability. unfollow me twice

[closet-keys]

and if you call pedophilia an “orientation” or in any way compare it to being LGBP+ you can unfollow, delete your blog, and set yourself on fire. 

[peachypastel]

I just lost 50 followers.. bye

[katiemcgrxth]

clearing out the trash

[bway-grimes]

GO ON AND S M A S H THAT UNFOLLOW BUTTON

[moonedknights]

BUHBYE U McNASTIES

[bogleech]

I’ve seen this circulating forever and genuinely thought “no way do I have any of them following me” until this week when it turned out I had all these fuckin “MAP” (pedophile) followers sad to find out I’m an “anti” (normal person) Please leave and also please get guinea worm.

[soothifying-sounds-asmr]

Please Help Me Describe This Sound so I can Accurately Caption It 

via hattiebag

[sonicxshadowgenerations]

good luck dude i dont think anything could have accurately prepared me for the sound that made

[pbqacessible]

Uh that is pinging but with a w clearly

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[20th-centuryghost]

[pbqacessible]

Video description:

Tik tok that says "musicians I am challenging you to play your instrument as incorrectly as possible" and then "this trend was made for me" a man plays a chello like it is an electric guitar end video description

A screenshot of aggressively-crying responding to a post "instructions unclear, instrument played so correctly the old way is now wrong"

[meangirlnurse]

shlep is one of the best yiddish words and we don’t talk about it enough

[meangirlnurse]

there’s no other word that specifically means 1) i am going somewhere, 2) it is a long and not very pleasant journey and 3) i am complaining about it

[godlessondheimite]

[pbqacessible]

[ID:

A screenshot of a tumblr tag reading “#isn’t it great how millennia of persocution all amounted to a word that means “i had to go to the east side while carrying a fucking bag””

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[banshees-deactivated20180812]

i dont understand half of the words here but god if this isn’t the funniest thing i’ve ever read

[trenchgun]

im pretty sure red and blue weren’t programmed but just sort of… mutated into cartridges

[prettyflyforajeskai]

Red and blue are why QA teams were invented

[biggaybunny]

for fuck’s sake they weren’t badly programmed. They were bleeding edge. It’s so easy to forget that but Red and Blue were literally pushing the limits of what they could fit on the cartridge. They used every trick in the book. In that way, the programming behind them is GENIUS. It’s frankly a lost art, in this era where hardware is insanely cheap and scalable, when you can just keep throwing more resources at the problem. But Red & Blue were when programmers had to get creative. Not currently using a piece of memory? Repurpose it, we can’t just leave it lying around. Only have a couple registers? Juggle them, keep careful track so we can restore them when we needed. Does this data need to be single purpose, or can we also use it for, say, a seed value? And all this WORKED. I guarantee you 99% of children playing this never saw a bug in casual play. MODERN games are buggier by a landslide. Remember when X&Y came out and there was an ENTIRE CITY you couldn’t save in because it’d DELETE YOUR SAVE? Imagine that happening in the days of Red&Blue. It couldn’t have. I can turn on my red cartridge TODAY and have it work. And the bugs that did exist, those edge cases they missed? They produce this behavior because the game REFUSES TO CRASH. Sure, you can make it crash if you try hard enough, but goddamn it’s resilient. It just plugs away with garbage data in memory for as long as possible. Y'all looking down from your 64-bit quad-core smartphones with 128GB SD cards like Red & Blue were programmed by amateurs. What, you also going to bitch that the Wright Brothers didn’t make a jet engine? These are artifacts from pioneers who wrote the goddamn book that others would use as gospel. Sincerely, a pissed off goddamn programmer.

[chongoblog]

In case anyone is wondering, Pokemon Red is 1 MB. Not one of the images. Not its Pokedex system. Not its map. The entire game is 1 MB.

[theoscout]

@adobe-outdesign

[adobe-outdesign]

To emphasize how tightly programmed this game was, they had to cut down their original roster down to 150 Pokemon. The only reason they managed to squeeze Mew in there at the last second (like two weeks before release) was because they literally deleted the debug features and used the last bits of data left over to slip it in.

[pbqacessible]

[ID:

a screenshot that reads “Attempting to use the Mew Encounter exploit with a Pokemon with a special stat of over 250 results in encountering a glitch trainer who causes the game to just flip the absolute fuck out when trying to calculate how much money to award you afterwards. This causes the relevant memory pointer to shoot of to god knows where, and as a result it just sets a solid two hundred unrelated hexadecimal values in the game to 99 in the process, filling your party with level 153 Bulbasaur that could only use explosion.”

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[tikkunolamorgtfo]

WATCH THIS: MAN SHUTS DOWN ANTISEMITIC WHITE POWER PREACHER

One of my friends in the Boston area took this video and gave me permission to post it. She writes: “ I stood there for twenty minutes, easily. Hitler Youth kept trying to preach about “the evils of the Jews” and the big guy barely let him get a word in edgewise. At one point, the big guy yelled, “I will be here ALL DAY” and the crowd cheered.”

I promise this will be the best thing you see today.

[be-blackstar]

Where’s a goddamn bullhorn when you need it?

[laura-palmers-ex-boyfriend-deac]

wow that preacher is probably shitting his pants low key with some big ass biker that close to his face 

[xekstrin]

Caption for those who need it– the guy in the suit is saying shit like “all races must serve us as put here by God” and a lot of racist/anti Semitic drivel.

Every time he opens his mouth to speak though, the biker yells “AHHHHHHH!!!” Until the man in the suit shuts up again. When the man in the suit takes a breath and opens his mouth, the biker doesn’t even let him get started and just screams “AHHHHH”…. This happens a few times.

The guy in the suit plows ahead but the biker screams and says “No no no no!!!”

I love biker dude

[winterpunk]

Make racists afraid again.

[xmasterassassinx-blog]

Um, sorry, but the guy in the suit deserves to speak his opinions. How’d you like to get screamed at everything time you spoke about what you are passionate about? I’m not saying I agree with his opinion, but that doesn’t make shutting him down like this right. Freedom of Speech. Just agree to disagree and walk away.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

1) Freedom of Speech means you have the right to speak your mind without being punished or censored by the government. It does not mean other people have to listen to you, and it does not mean they can’t yell over you if you’re saying something disgusting and inflammatory. The Biker Dude has just as much right to do what he’s doing as the Neo-Nazi. Nobody’s right is being infringed upon here.

2) The guy is “passionate about” hating and inciting violence against Jews. I’m passionate about information literacy, candle-making, and giving snuggles to my pet rabbit. There’s a fucking difference, there. 

3) “Agree to disagree” is something you say when two people can’t come to a consensus over whether or not The Empire Strikes Back is the best Star Wars movie. It’s not something you say when one person is Jewish and the other person believes Jews are a evil satanic cabal trying to enslave the white race who must be stopped at all costs. That’s not an “agree to disagree” topic. We don’t “agree to disagree” over the issue of whether or not Jews are people. We don’t “agree to disagree” over whether or not black people, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ folks, etc. are deserving of basic human rights. These things are not up for debate, and there is no middle-ground to be had with people who think otherwise. 

[welkinalauda]

“I can’t remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you’re saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it’s not literally illegal to express.” – Randall Munroe

[sleepydumpling]

Always reblog the anti-hate bikie.

[assassinationtipsforladies]

In Scotland it’s traditional to have at least one bagpiper at any Antifa counter protest. They’re situated as close to the police cordon and any speakers the Nazis might have brought and they play just anything. If you managed to get a few they usually play different songs. If you’ve only ever heard bagpipes on a recording you probably don’t appreciate how loud those mother fuckers are, these are war instruments designed to terrify your enemies as you approach from across the glen, not yet visible in the horizon. Needless to say you can rarely still hear the Nazis

[catblog-weatherwax]

Ok but that’s a tradition we can all get behind. May we share it please?

[justashipperyo]

They really came in here like “let nazis speak” no sis. No. We don’t do that here.

[unconstrained-frivolitea-deacti]

Freespeech doesnt cover hate speech and inciting violence. It doesnt stop consequences from anyone save the gov and it sure as fuck doesnt mean you cant be booed off stage and have someone shout you down.

And that nazi shit? Deserves to be shouted down.

[anexperimentallife]

[pbqacessible]

[ID:

Video one: In a crowded square, two men stand. One is standing on the edge of an elevated square, and the other facing him is on the top step going up to the square. The man on the steps is bulky, heavily tatooed, bald woth a long beard, and wearing sunglasses, a black tee shirt with ripped of sleeves, and genes, with a chain hanging around one of the pockets. he is right up in the other mans face. The other man looks young, skinny, and well groomed. He wears a white dress shirt, black dress pants, and a black tie. Every time the fancy man tries to speak, the bulky man drowns him out, yelling “aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh” “no no no no no nope” and occasionaly waggling a finger in fancy mans face. 

Image one: A six pannel comic.

pannel one has “Public Service Anouncment:” written at the top of it, and depicts a stick figure saying “The Right To Free Speech means the goverment can’t arrest you for what you say.”

pannel two, to the right of pannel one, has only the stick figures head and torso in frame. above the stick figure are two speech bubbles that read “It doesn’t mean that anyone else has to listen to your bullshit,” and speech bubble two, slightly below it, reads “or host you while you share it.”

pannel three, to the right of pannel two, again shows the whole stick figure, and the speech bubble above it reads “The 1st amendment dosen’t sheild you from critisism or consequenses.”

pannel four, below pannel one, shows the headshot of the stick figure saying “If you’re yelled at, boycotted, have your show canceled, or get banned from an internet community, your free speech rights aren’t being violated.”

pannel five, right of pannel four, shows the full stick figure, with its arm to the left raised as if it was shruging, although the other arm remains at its side. the speech bubble above it reads “It’s just that the people listening think you’re an asshole,”

pannel six, the last pannel, and to the right of pannel five is a simple line art of an ajar door. over the door the words “and they’re showing you the door.” are displayed.

image two: A three panel comic

above pannel one the title “The Paradox Of Tolerance” is shown, and a smaller line of text directly below it reads “By Philosopher Karl Popper*” to the right of the title, the head and shoulders of a man, plus his arm pointing at the title, are depicted in a simple, infographic-like, style. He has white hair, squinted eyes, and a red polo shirt with a white collar.

pannel one shows, left to right, white text written on the red backround reading “Should a tolerant society tolerate intolerance?”; head and torso illustration of an angry looking woman with pale skin and dark hair; slightly overlapping an ilustration of a man of simmilar description, pointing to the right; Both of them have their mouths open, as if they are shouting, and between the two of them there is a speech bubble said by both of them depicting a crossed out swastika; next is another speech bubble, in yellow with black text, reading “You want more tolerance? Respect my ideas!”; next to the right is the man speaking those words, he is facing the other two people and also looks like he is angry and shouting, and has pale skin and dark eyebrows, he is bald, and on his forehead there is a tatoo of a swastika, one of his eyebrows has a line shaved through it, and he wears a black jacket open just wide enough to show the large swastika on a white shirt he wears underneath. in his hand further from the other people, he holds a tiki torch, which is lit; finally, there is more white text on the backround, reading “The answer is NO.” the word No is in a bigger font then the rest of the text

Below pannel one is the text “It’s a paradox, but unlimeted tolerance can lead to the extinction of tolerance.”

Below the text are pannels two and three, divided by a slightly slanted, dark brown staff with an eagle at the top and a white circle containing a black swastika in the middle. pannel two is the left half and pannel three is the right

at the top of pannel two are the words “When we extend tolerance to those who are openly intolerant...” written in white on the maroon backround. the rest of the pannel contains the head and torso of two figures facing one another. the figure on the right is Hitler. the figure on the left is a fat white man with white hair and mustache in a navy blue uniform and a dark brown hat with a grey spike on top. to his left he has a yellow speech bubble in which he says “Lets give them a chance!”

at the top of pannel three there are the words “...The tolerant ones end up being destroyed.” written in white text. below that there is a single line of yellow text reading “And tolerance with them.” The bottom half of the pannel depicts the sillouette of a man standing on a podium, saluting, and below him, covering the entire width of the pannel, a line of six soldiers carrying swastika flags.

pannel four is located below pannels two and three. in the upper left hand corner there are the words “Any movement that preaches intolerance and persecution” and as a thid line to those words, but in light blue “must be outside of the law.” from the center top of the frame to the middle of the left half of the pannel there is a leg in red dress pants and a black shoe, it is kicking the butt of hitler, who is falling over forwards. Starting from the very bottom of the image (slightly below pannel four) and going up through most of pannel four is the same man depticted next to the title, with his arms up as if he is shrugging. above his left hand are the words “as paradoxical as it may seem,” in white and “defending tolerance...” in light blue. above his right hand are the words “...requires to” in white and “not tolerate the intolerant.” in light blue.

in the very bottom left corner of the image the text “* Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies, Karl R. Popper” and in the bottom right corner of the image a logo of a pig with a flag next to the text “pictoline.com”

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[plounce]

me trying to comprehend anything anyone says to me

[pbqacessible]

[ID: a picture of a light colored ferret on a maroon crocheted material. The ferret takes up the right half of the image. The left half of the image reads "noises and what they mean". The word noises is bigger than the rest of the words, and in a very bold light red colored font. The other words are in a less bold, white font.

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[mapsontheweb]

Countries that meet the requirements of the 2016 Paris Agreement

[foxgirltail]

Nice work all

[in-a-state-of-trance]

Posts that make you want to take world leaders hostage

[laeffy]

[pbqacessible]

[ID: image one. A world map, with the entire map colored grey, save for a small sliver reaching east from the northwest coast of africa, which is red. The sliver is Gambia, although it is unlabled. The key is a single box of the color red, labeled as “countries that meet the requirements of the 2016 paris agreement”

image two. a picture of a person squinting at a very small slip of paper

image three. image one, but zoomed in on the red sliver in africa so that it can be seen clearly and easily, the picture appears moderatley pixelated at this level of zoom.

image four. a picture of a man in semiformal attire sitting in front of a curtain and behind a desk. the desk has a michrophone and an unidentifyable can on it. the mans hands are raised above his head and out of frame, as if in celebration. his face looks as if he is cheering with accomplishment. the word “GAMBIA” is printed in traditional meme text about halfway down his torso (not on his clothes, on the image). 

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[best-blurst-of-times]

[mckitterick]

this feels relevant

[pbqacessible]

Image ID: a two part comic of the "everything is fine" meme (the one with the dog at the table in the fire) panel one shows a dog sitting on a stool in a burning room. Panel two is somewhat zoomed in on the dogs face, and his mouth is open. He says "But what do we know about the long term effects of fire-extinguisher foam?"