SPACE ROCKS

I'm Roman and my pronouns are they/them or he/him. My life's goal is to build a floating island and disappear. __________________________ Previously: abandonedtraincar ~ robot-dragon

[saltysalmonella]

[robotmassesreject-blog]

Photos belong to McMinn Regional Humane Society in Athens, Tennessee.

URGENTLY SEEKING ADOPTION

Edgar Allen Poe - English Bull Terrier

I came across this guy while looking through PetFinder. I am in no way affiliated with the rescue or PetFinder. I just want to see this little guy find a home. The shelter is in Athens, Tennessee. Click the credit at the top to see the ad.

Must be adopted by January 8th, 2016.

[gallicinvasion]

Another woman utterly failed by our society’s devaluation of women’s reproductive health. We can’t wait around for male doctors to decide what we need to know. This is why we need to take control and educate ourselves about our own bodies.

[gallicinvasion]

and here’s some comments i saw under the post. why is this a pattern?? why is this a recurring theme?? why is this information not common knowledge? what the fuck are doctors doing??

[sora2522]

This is news to me so let’s share it so people will know!

[halfhardtorock]

Gross tmi: but i passed a pretty big clot after having my daughter. It was about the size of a baseball. It actually hurt worse because while 15 hours of labor opened my cervix, i passed the clot in 30 minutes. I knew it was a possibility because of my midwife and reading, but everyone Ive told after this (mostly other pregnant women) were shocked that this could happen.

In our culture, it’s much more common to do deep research about what family cars we want to buy than we do about childbirth when we ’re pregnant.

[skeleton-warrior-deactivated201]

Tmi: I passed a huge clot after birth in the bathroom of my hospital room and called the nurse sobbing because I didn’t know it was normal. She treated me like an idiot, but NO ONE told me it was a possibility. And the pain associated with healing for the first couple of weeks after birth was worse than the labor imo. Again, I had no idea. They didn’t tell me a thing besides “sitz bath regularly and change your pads.” Before discharging me from the hospital.

[evashandor]

I was most definitely told about this in school. Fucking hell, 4-6 weeks of bleeding? My periods were/are bad enough, why the hell don’t we get told this?

[love-pro-choice]

I didn’t know it could last so long, wtf? Is the bleeding inevitable after birth? 

[rosietwiggs]

Bleeding is inevitable after birth - your uterine wall is shedding a fuck ton of lining. It can last from three to six weeks (possible longer) and it tapers off.

More TMI - I passed a MASSIVE clot after my fourth birth. At this point I already knew this could happen - it’s normal. What I DIDN’T know, was that I had caused it.

My post birth contractions were so bad after the birth that it felt like full transition labor. And they don’t give you anything for the pain. So I used a hot water bottle, without the nurses knowing, and it caused me to bleed even more. I lost so much blood that by the first time they sat me up to go to the bathroom, I fainted. It took three more tries until I could sit up.

Anyway, that’s not the point. The point is, the next morning I passed a clot the SIZE OF ANOTHER PLACENTA I KID YOU NOT, and I know what is and is not normal. So I called for the nurse and through the door told her I had passed a huge clot, and her response was - “It’s not big. I know what big is.” She hadn’t even looked. So I rolled my eyes and said, “Yeah, no. It’s big, I’m telling you.”

So, sounding extremely put upon, she asked me to open the door. I did, and after a long pause she goes, “Okay, yeah, that’s a little big.”

YOU DON’T SAY.

The point I’m trying to get across is that this shit is so common - women not knowing this stuff is so expected, and it keeps getting reinforced. People don’t expect you to know anything, don’t teach you anything, and then make you feel like you’re totally ignorant and a burden for your lack of knowledge when THEY WON’T SHARE.

Fucking learn EVERYTHING you can when it comes to childbirth, girls. It is the single most empowering thing you can do for yourself. And if you missed something, that’s okay. But the more knowledge you arm yourself with, the more in control of your situation you’ll be.

A few post partum tips:

DON’T use a hot water bottle - lol.

ONLY pads - NO tampons. Tampons can cause severe infection, not to mention, you probably don’t want to be shoving anything up there any time soon.

If you’ve had stitches, sitz baths DO help relieve the pain. Another great pain reliever? Dampen some pads and freeze them. Let one thaw slightly and use it on top of another pad. This will help with the pain as well as reduce swelling. Change the pad out as soon as it’s thawed completely. This REALLY helps on the first couple days after giving birth.

If you pass a clot, don’t sweat it. Even the one I passed, which was fucking massive, just required that we keep an eye out to make sure it didn’t happen again. If it does, talk to your doctor.

Take a pain killer half an hour before nursing. Because YES - your uterus is contracting after you give birth, to get back to its original size, and nursing causes much stronger contractions. Taking nursing-safe painkillers won’t prevent the pain, but it will reduce it. 

Buy disposable underwear for the first few days after birth. They will get VERY dirty. Or use your ratty old pairs that you’re ready to get rid of. Double up on pads - line them all the way up your ass-crack. I am so serious. And wear dark pants.

Pee in the shower. You do NOT want to wipe down there right after birth because ow. Peeing in the shower lets you just rinse afterwards. Especially if you’ve had stitches, peeing in the shower, with the shower-head rinsing AS you go, keeps stinging to a minimum. And fuck everyone else - keep on peeing in the shower until you feel ready to move back to toilet paper. Middle of the night and need to pee? Get your pants off - get in the shower and just go.

This is just a few things, but PLEASE feel free to send me an ask if you have any questions about ANYTHING childbirth/pregnancy/nursing related. I have four incredible kids. I’ve done it all - c-section, vacuume birth, episiotimy, stitches, with an epidural, without an epidural. I’m here.

[thehangryslush]

….I know I keep reblogging this but people keep adding super important information.

[typingsdrawings]

I feel like no one tells women this stuff because if a woman was even a little on the fence about having a baby before this would kinda make them run for the damn hills.

[kaxen]

…..you are correct, typing.

300% EXTRA SURE I’M NOT HAVING BABIES. 

[petitedeath]

peri bottles, witch hazel or anti-pain anticeptic spray are your friends. Also passing large clots after birth is a WARNING SIGN. Bigger than a half dollar is a sign that you have not passed your entire placenta (this is most common in hospital vaginal births where the mother is not allowed to naturally birth the placenta and instead has it ripped out by the doctor) if there is any placenta left in your uterus you can get extremely ill. This happened to both myself and my mother in law

[un-ptit-spleen]

WOW I didn’t know any of this and I’m terrified of what more I’m unaware of about my own body :( Honestly when will we fucking abolish this taboo about the female body…

[artsortment]

I had pretty great sex ed in school (lots of contraceptive information, and totally acknowledged that teenagers might have sex) and all of this is news to me.

And, as a 28-year-old person with a uterus, I’m extremely appalled I’m just learning this.

[deanplease]

Long, but very important information, even for those who don’t plan to have children, because you will almost certainly know someone who will, and you might be able to to help them. Or at least increase your level of empathy for them.

[parentinginplaid]

The shit they don’t tell us.

[ob-nurse--at-your-cervix]

This is just second nature to me because of my job, but I don’t remember where I learned it all. I’ve had moms that have no clue that you bleed after birth. They thought they were dying.

[mrspediatricpa]

Oh.my.effing.goodness I had absolutely no freaking clue this even happened!! What the actual fuck?!! How do they not teach you all of this in sex ed?! I can’t even right now. Saving to reference when I do have my own kids.

[populationpensive]

So when I was in float unit and had my orientation shift on the OB/birth unit, I was blown away by all this stuff. I’m a CNA at the moment, so we get the patient rooms ready post-partum and the girl orienting me was talking about all this stuff that I had NO clue about. The only reason why I learned this was because of that orientation and my human physiology class.

My sex ed in middle school and high school was practically non-existent. Everything I learned I did so through planned parenthood and my own research. This stuff NEEDS to be talked about. Because I, as a 26 year old person with a uterus, was unaware of this until this year. And that is fucking sad.

[forgottenkanji]

I don’t particularly want kids but I only knew a tiny bit of this and that’s not ok! And the little I knew was from EMT/etc. So for anyone interested in kids!

[rinda-rinda]

I only vaguely knew about this before, and it wasn’t from sex-ed.  This shit’s important yo. 

[mulattafury]

sometimes u go on google searching for a reference image and you just find something that is totally not what you are looking for but is better than anything u could have ever dreamed

who is she

[source]

[ka-waltz]

the moment I saw this woman I was completely overcome with the feeling that she was, at that very moment, somehow divorcing me

[glumshoe]

definitely the weirdest (and by far the best) con experience I ever had was when my good friend, who happens to be a paleontologist, was granted the opportunity to explain to a panel full of people roughly how big a velociraptor dick is. I don't know if this is better with or without context.

…..how big IS a velociraptor’s dick?

[robotmassesreject-blog]

I don’t know how big a velociraptor’s dick is but I once accidentally linked a friend to a Wikipedia page on whale dicks

EDIT: In case you were curious, here’s an article on the subject of dinosaur dicks that doesn’t really give a size reference but has some nice mental images if you know what ducks’ weird ass corkscrew dicks look like

[robotmassesreject-blog]

Y’all should go follow @achanceforlife18 who is like the greatest person ever. They’re an adorable band nerd and also so ridiculously nice.

[libraford]

Today I met a woman, whose age she did not mention because she is a lady, was buying a lot of Star Wars merch because we had it on sale. And she was telling me that she couldn’t wait to see the new one and how she was going to stay up and see the midnight release and take pictures of people in costumes. She was so excited, and then she leans in close:

“You know, all these young men at these conventions- they see me and they ask me trivia about this that and the other thing and I tell them- ‘Son, I went to see the first one in 1977 before you were even a twinkle in your daddy’s eye.’ If I don’t know the answer, its because I damn forgot.”

[robotmassesreject-blog]

Boas or Pythons- which is better for a beginner?

Hey, Herpetumblr. I’m doing some research on snakes, as I’ve wanted one for a while now and when I find a job, intend on getting one. I’ve pretty much narrowed it down to pythons and boas, but considering I’ve never cared for a snake before, I’m not sure which to pick. 

I’d like a snake that enjoys being handled, and I can build an enclosure if needed. I’ve cared for a few different types of reptiles and have done a shit ton of research on animals in general, but nothing beats first-hand experience. 

So, tell me: pros, cons, temperament, and health-hardiness of various pythons and boas.

Keep reading

[niyarest]

💪 ( ◕ ‸ ◕ 💪 )

[jigglypuffsvevo]

this is a gift

[nowyoukno]

[sarenraegalpaladin]

oh man i can imagine the screaming fits

[zombie-peach]

oh my god

[not-stacys-mom]

I think the reason we’re born with two hands is so that we can pet two dogs at once

[idiotsonfb]

these are not the stories we deserve but they are the ones we need right now.

[robotmassesreject-blog]

Boas or Pythons- which is better for a beginner?

Hey, Herpetumblr. I’m doing some research on snakes, as I’ve wanted one for a while now and when I find a job, intend on getting one. I’ve pretty much narrowed it down to pythons and boas, but considering I’ve never cared for a snake before, I’m not sure which to pick. 

I’d like a snake that enjoys being handled, and I can build an enclosure if needed. I’ve cared for a few different types of reptiles and have done a shit ton of research on animals in general, but nothing beats first-hand experience. 

So, tell me: pros, cons, temperament, and health-hardiness of various pythons and boas.

The pictures attached are of some of the specific snakes I’ve found that I am considering. Species (and color morph if applicable) will be listed under each photo. These are not the only snakes I’m looking at, just a few specific ones I’m looking for information on.

If anyone could recommend breeders, that’d be great, too. :)

Hypo Pastel Red-Tail Boa, photo from Big Apple Herps

Brazilian Rainbow Boa, photo from SnakesAtSunset

Nicaraguan Dwarf Boa, photo from SnakesAtSunset

Motley Boa Constrictor, photo from SnakesAtSunset

Peruvian Red-Tail Boa, photo from SnakesAtSunset

Butter Ghost Ball Python, photo from SnakesAtSunset

Thanks, everyone! I’m so excited to get a noodle.

[greelin]

oh my goodness gracious i am just so terrible at kissing…….. it’s so embarrassing really…….. someone should help me not be terrible………… by kissing me……… on the mouth…….. multiple times……. come to think of it i am downright dreadful at holding hands and watching movies too………….

[meajoraswrath-deactivated201605]

I fucked up.

I thought some checks had already been cashed, but they weren’t, and I got charged a $29 overdraft fee for each check that cleared, so my bank account is now sitting at like -$100.

I still haven’t heard back from when disability is coming through, but I have my cell phone bill to pay in about two weeks, and therapy appointments to pay for, including today’s.

I’m still offering tarot readings because it’s literally the only thing I can do right now. I still can’t do photography, and I have no car so I’m unable to get a regular job.

If you guys could please please buy tarot readings from me, I’d appreciate it. At this point, I’ll take any amount. Any reading you want and whatever you want to pay for it. If you can only pay $2 for a 15-card reading, I’ll take it. I’m literally in the negative right now. My paypal is [email protected]

[rasec-wizzlbang-blog]

Can someone calculate for me the volume of loch ness in liters so I can figure out how many humans you’d need to drink it

[rasec-wizzlbang-blog]

Ok I had to search a bit, but it’s apparently 7,448,160,000,000 liters? this is a problem, the upper limit of the average human stomach is just four liters, and even then that’s a very uncomfortable amount of water to have in there. Which means there aren’t enough humans on this planet to drink all of loch ness

[jesus-lizard-journal]

what if they drank their fill and then peed it out somewhere where the liquid wouldn’t just run back into loch ness? Then they could go back and drink more the next morning. How many days would that take? Would we end up with a new loch made entirely of pee? Loch piss? 

[rasec-wizzlbang-blog]

possibly, but thats not taking rainfall into account and the amount of water fed into it every day by the River Oich

[sarah-is-always-triggered]

The upper limit for the human stomach is about 4 liters. It takes the human body about 45 to 60 minutes to absorb/expel 1 liter of water (for the sake of this math problem just go with 60 (1 hour). An average person sleeps 8 hours. An average person spends about 3 hours eating (1 hour for each meal of the day) A day is 24 hours.

1 person alone: 572 billion days or all 7.3 billion people just 78.5 days, roughly. Assuming no one died of e coli or something.

[rasec-wizzlbang-blog]

this is good, but again, this doesn’t take rainfall or the river oich into account. It would have to be done during a dryer season in scottland and the river would need to be dammed.

[severalowls]

There is no dryer season in Scotland though. It hasn’t stopped raining since Roman times.

You might need a second team of people to hold umbrellas over the drinking people.

[rasec-wizzlbang-blog]

the rain would still drip off the umbrellas and into the loch, this is gonna be a problem… someone calculate the annual rainfall over Scotland, can 7 billion people outdrink it?

[butch-king-frankenstein]

The western Highlands, where Loch Ness is located, is one of the rainiest places in Europe, with a yearly average rainfall of 4,577 millimeters (12.54 millimeters a day).  Loch Ness’ surface area is 56 square kilometers.  If it rains 12.54 millimeters every day, then Loch Ness will gain 702,240 cubic meters (over 700 million liters) of water per day.  Everyone will have to drink 0.1 extra liters of water to keep up.

[rasec-wizzlbang-blog]

that sounds doable! our goal is now clear

[cocobutterbella-deactivated2016]

ok but why tho?

[rasec-wizzlbang-blog]

if you can think of a better way to find Nessie I’d love to hear it

[poryqon]

“When the weather gets cold in a few months you will complain about it then, so enjoy this heat” I will bitch about it now, I will bitch about it then, I will bitch about everything there is ever to bitch about, because guess what, Im a bitch

[elpiething]

I feel like this needs to be Seussified. 

I will bitch about heat.  I will bitch about cold.  I will bitch about sunshine, and about growing old.  I will bitch about everything, inside and out. You will find there is nothing I can’t bitch about. 

[themightytej]