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awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?
i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users
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 drowning—Dr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guard’s On Scene magazine, described the Instinctive Drowning Response like this:
“Except 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 people’s 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 people’s 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 water’s 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 people’s 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.”
This doesn’t mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isn’t in real trouble—they are experiencing aquatic distress. Not always present before the Instinctive Drowning Response, aquatic distress doesn’t last long—but 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 legs—vertical
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 OK—don’t be too sure. Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up at the deck. One way to be sure? Ask them, “Are you all right?” If they can answer at all—they probably are. If they return a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. And parents—children 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?
I’ve been a lifeguard for 6 years now and of all the saves I’ve 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 person’s head is going in and out of the water but it isn’t long enough to get any air. Mostly you recognize drowning by the look on someone’s face. If someone looks wide eyed and terrified or confused, chances are they’re drowning. That look of “oh shit” is pretty easily recognizable. And even if you can’t tell for sure: GO AFTER THEM ANYWAY. I’ve done “saves” where a kid was pretending to drown and I mistook it for real drowning, but that’s 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 they’re 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 can’t recommend trying to get them. Lifeguards literally train to escape “attacks,” 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 won’t want to go under water and should release you. Shove up at their hands and push them away from you as you duck under. Don’t 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 someone’s 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 didn’t hear him call for help.
People seriously need to learn the signs.
http://spotthedrowningchild.com/ really demonstrates how easy it is to miss drowning
joining the war on kids reading any book they want on the side of kids reading any book they want. simply you will be fine. it's even good to be confronted with things you don't understand and even find upsetting, uncomfortable and difficult. it's a surprise tool that will help you later.
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literally ok so not a funny story but kind of funny? when I was nine I encountered rape in a book and I was like hey mom what’s this mean and she explained it and I was like oh. gross. and then like two weeks later a girl on the bus abruptly disclosed her csa and we were all like ????? what ???? but I was like wait hang on there’s a word for that ☝️🤓 and explained what it meant and that it was illegal and that you could talk to a teacher or my mom if it had happened to you and everyone was like ohhhhh I see I see and very somberly comforted the girl (she was safe she was removed from her home and living with my neighbor at the time so it wasn’t Urgent)
And this is a perfect illustration of why it is important for kids to read or variety of things, and why abusers don’t want them to.
“scientists don’t want you know” is a phrase that always cracks me up because if you actually meet a scientist they will be shaking and crying like an overstimulated chihuahua with the need to let you know
Someone at dreamworks really likes the secret-family-member trope...
And I'm here for it everytime.
Because that someone is pretty good at it.
"she holds the record for the most days spent in space by a woman!" this "she was part of the only all female space walk!" that, she's on the list of people who have spent the most time in space, period. she's spent more time in space than any of her crewmates - one of whom hasn't been into space at all. her time in space is only three days less than what all of her crewmates have combined. she has had as many spacewalks as all of her crewmates combined. she's not there because she's the best female nasa astronaut they could find and they wanted the diversity quota or whatever, she's there because she's part of the most qualified and experienced nasa personnel they could send up there
Call me old fashioned, but I think the president saying "a whole civilization will die tonight" is the part where he should be deposed immediately.
*touching his extremely defined six pack* who did this to you.....
*gently lifting a cup of water to his lips* it's going to be okay. *choking back tears* just a few more sips and then we'll get you a sandwich...
Reblog to give a glass of water to every dehydrated actor with shrink wrapped abs whose life was endangered for a shirtless scene
reblog to shrink wrap their director forever
I often wonder sometimes how writers come up with the absolutely fucked up shit that either motivates their villains or is their villains' end goals,
And then I play the Sims 4 and I'm like, oh!
The "Block AI Enhancements" toggle was originally introduced in Firefox 148 Nightly in January following significant community backlash afte
The Firefox "AI kill switch" is here.
Go to Settings > AI controls. There, you can toggle the "master kill switch" on to fully block all the features, which means two things:
you won't see them,
you can't even be asked about them.
The default state is, like before, "available". This means the features are NOT on by default (they never were), but Firefox will let you know about them where they exist (e.g. when you create your first tab group) so that you can choose to opt in.
Please note that Firefox for Android or iOS have never included AI features, so you won't see these settings on your smartphones or tablets.
Please also note that, unlike popular belief here on Tumblr, besides "chatbot in sidebar" (which is simply embedding the same page you'd have normally browsed to), none of these features have ever interacted with anything outside your PC, because they download a small model to your computer, to do everything locally. These small models have never been and are not downloaded until you explicitly agree to turn on one of the features.
ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds
I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study
after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines
et voila
and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)
and now, the birds
Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus
Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius
hoo boy, ok *out of breath*
GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!
this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render
speaking of obnoxious coverts:
bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata
the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it
Madam....
birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female
pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr
*melts into goo*
BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus
genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??
nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)
in other news, I am losing my mind hairline
This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years.
If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life.
I reblogged her late last year and my 2024 has been very satisfying work-wise and (secure enough to not stress out) money-wise so far. Money Snake is wise and good.
always reblog money snake
I know this is a deeply American thing to say but I am begging everyone to stay the fuck away from military recruiters. Especially high school kids. You are going to be seeing an unholy amount of them in schools or around schools or literally anywhere kids are known to congregate. THIS INCLUDES ALL FORMS OF ROTC. Stay the fuck away from military recruiters. As someone who’s familiar with entirely too many branches through entirely too many friends and family, including my partner, recruiters are authorized to say literally any fucking thing they think will make you sign on that line. They cannot and will not deliver on those promises. They need bodies for the war they’re pretending is only now starting up again. That’s all you are. A body. Stay the FUCK away from the military.
RECRUITERS LIE
has anyone noticed that after the porn ban of 2018 tumblr was essentially killed from the mainstream and everyone flocked to other social media sites like twitter and meta. then those sites got enshittified to where twitter became Nazi Central and meta sites had an entire meme around getting “zucced” aka mark zuckerberg himself would ban you for saying a no-no word like fuck. and then the mainstream shifted to tiktok where infamous toddlerspeak sentences like “he got unalived by a pew pew” were born because if you once again say a no-no word like kill or gun or any other word that isn’t corporate i mean kid friendly then the algorithm will bury your post into the ground. and somehow we’ve come full circle and tumblr is now the most bearable social media site because although we can’t have female presenting nipples we can at least talk to each other like adults. has anyone noticed that at all or is it just me and the flaming skull
Okay so this is a random unfinished thought I've had for a while and it's usually something I'd keep for myself, but I remembered I have free will and I want to complain so bear with me
Friendly reminder that this isn't me talking about any person in particular and also people are allowed to like and do whatever they want in the fandom. At the end of the day we're all people playing with dolls and the way people play with dolls isn't any less dignified than the way I want to play with them. But I do want to talk about this larger fandom trend I noticing.
Honestly, something about how fandoms often treat gender expression really bothers me, and I don't think I've ever been able to articulate why until now.
I'm writing my own iteration of TMNT, rigtht? And without giving too much away, my version of Casey is going to be some flavor of trans (FTM, MTF, or nonbinary is still something I'm deciding but that's not too important) and while I'm thinking about that, I've come across a lot of genderbent TMNT content, and it almost never fully sits right with me :////
The problem isn't the genderbending itself. The problem is how shallow it often feels.
Most genderbent versions feel like a new coat of paint slapped onto the character without any real interrogation of what changing that character's gender would actually mean in the broader narrative comtext of the media piece. The core premise stays untouched. The dynamics stay untouched. The character behaves the exact same way, just in a skirt or with a beard.
Take Splinter, for example. Genderbent Splinter is usually just… Splinter. Maybe with a few surface-level tweaks to better fit a "female mentor" archetype, but fundamentally identical. Same authority, same role, same relationships. And that doesn't make sense because a female wouldn't be a ninja, they would be a kunoichi, and that's fundamentally different.
The TMNT characters aren't loose archetypes you can swap bodies on without consequence. Gender doesn't exist in a vacuum (as much as some people would like to pretend it does) and it shapes how people are raised, how they're treated, how much authority they're allowed to have, and how conflict plays out around them.
Take April as an example, as a female reporter, she'd be constantly dismissed or underestimated in ways a male reporter simply wouldn't be. That matters because it changes how she navigates the world. Sure, a reporter talking about aliens would sound just as crazy to a regular person while talking about aliens and evil ninja clans, but how many men have created careers out of talking about secret organizations and chemicals in the water making the frogs gay? Wilder stuff has been said by men who have become rich out of it, while women wouldn't be given as much leeway.
And then there's Casey Jones.
You can't just slap a "tough guy" persona onto a woman without addressing how society treats "difficult women." Rebellious, aggressive men are allowed to be messy, violent, and antisocial. Rebellious women are only accepted if they're still sexually appealing, holding a gun and looking sweaty and sexy with their shirt stuck to their lean body, but not so much with broken noses, missing teeth, and sweaty, but not the sexy sweat that makes nipples come out of shirts, but the "I haven't showered in two days and I just ran a marathon" kind of sweat that makes you smell like it. A female Casey would be read very differently, and ignoring that erases half the character's tension.
And that's before you even get to the turtles.
If the turtles were female, they wouldn't just be "female ninjas." They'd be kunoichi— and kunoichi, at least in how the show frames them, are trained differently than male ninjas. While the TMNT 2012 show doesn't go too deep into it, it's implied that female ninjas are more trained in the art of manipulation, disguise, infiltration. Karai is at her best in the show when she's operating in those spaces. (Because let's be real, she loses pretty much every hand to hand combat that she's in.)
That would completely change the turtles’ upbringing. Their training. Their fighting styles. Their emotional conditioning. You can't just switch pronouns, slap a bow on their bandanas and eyeliner and call it a day.
The same goes for the Shredder and Splinter feud. If they were both women, you couldn't maintain the same narrative for their tragic backstories. Two women wouldn't fight over a man the way Saki and Yoshi did— especially NOT in a traditional Japanese context.
That conflict would be quieter. More subtle. More insidious. Manipulation. Seduction. Some poison that goes wrong. An assassination attempt in the dark that hits the wrong target. The tragedy would still be there, but it wouldn't be "she's not yours" kind of fighting in a burning down dojo the way Yoshi and Saki's fight went down, a female Saki would probably try to kill a female Yoshi in the middle of the night, and a male Tang Shen would probably wake up and try to stop it, and maybe that's when things would turn south.
And that's really what frustrates me.
As someone who's been gender non-conforming from a young age, I notice how rarely people actually think about what it means to exist in a gendered body. I see "character but in a skirt" or "character but a dude," and it makes me roll my eyes.
People slap the turtles in bows and skirts and nail polish and give them the period cramp ray, but Raphael is still hyper violent and has anger issues, Donatello still has creepy incel tendencies, Mikey is still the party dude even if he was raised by what would certainly be a very disciplined japanese woman, and Leonardo is himself but with eyeliner
This also happens far more often with male characters than female ones, because masculinity is treated as the default. When a character is genderbent from male to female, one of two things usually happens:
1. They're exactly the same, just female-presenting.
2. They’re the same character with a "female personality"— same thoughts, same instincts, but plus makeup or traditionally feminine interests layered on top and what people think are feminine personality traits. But the thought processes? How a person actually sees the world and thinks about it? Still a masculine worldview.
And idk if it's because I was raised in a mostly female household, or because my friendships shifted from mostly male to female over time, or because I exist somewhere outside neat gender boxes myself, I just can't help but see how deeply gender shapes behavior, perception, and one's worldview.
The concept of a wise mentor isn't intrinsically male. But the concept of a ninja master is, unless you fundamentally change the gender rules of your world and shifting the power dynamics between men and women just to justify maintaing the character's personality intact is a whole can of worms by itself. You can't just write Master Splinter with boobs and expect everything else to stay the same.
Gender isn't just presentation. It's history. It's perception. It's pressure. It's social punishment. It's your entire life from the moment you are born to the clothes they'll bury you in, and I really think more AUs and fandom content that genderbends characters would be far more interesting when it actually considers how gender would affect a character's upbringing and their story, so that it still maintains the core, but actually feels like a masculine or femine version of the thing.
And I wish fandom engaged with that more deeply instead of treating gender as a costume change for the characters
