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I mean, in some very interesting Technically Correct ways, they didn't actually die? Now, they're very much no longer alive. But the forces involved are such that they didn't get any of the usual cellular processes of death, they simply went from biology to physics in less time than it takes a signal to travel down your optic nerve.
if you go from biology to physics without dying first you donāt go to heaven the uber driver went over this
hopefully i'll get to do something other than endure soon. that would be really nice
Those who say the Black Widowās fighting style is just movie bullshit can see the above. ^ Shit is terrifyingly real.Ā
I think Iām in love.
Sheās so tiny.
But she could kill me.
Great.
^ That
I will reblog this flying head scissors every time it comes on my dash because itās so fucking awesome.
A little vovinam to start the day. I guess the flying scissors is kind of their signature technique.
Vovinam is something I would love to try to see if I liked it! Itās a Vietnamese martial art, and used by black widow as is mentioned above.Ā
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āworld of averagesā - composite images culled from thousands of individual portraits resulting in symmetrical average faces.Ā
this was too cool not to reblog
I donāt care if I have reblogged this already, this is awesome for those āHow do I draw someone who looksā questions.
Iām shook because my friend from Hungary looks EXACTLY like the average Hungarian in the pic omfg
Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."
It fucking better.
Like to charge, reblog to cast?
On Discomfort and Morality
My father finds gay men uncomfortable.
He's told me before that it's like a knee-jerk for him. Something he doesn't consciously control. He sees two men behaving romantically, and his body reacts with mild discomfort.
In the 1960s, when he was in high school, most of the boys in his form thought he was gay on the simple fact that he wasn't homophobic. He wouldn't participate in insulting queer people, he didn't care if someone was gay, he wouldn't have a problem hanging out with gay people. So people thought he was gay. That's how prevalent homophobia was in his formative years.
When I was 10, my dad told me very seriously that Holmes and Watson were gay. That it was obvious from the literature and the time period that they were meant to be a gay couple. When I was 14 and I came out to my parents as bi, when my mum was upset my dad ripped into her for it. Told her that she was being stupid, that it was my life to live how I wanted to and that she needed to get over herself.
My dad formed my views on censorship: that being that it was completely ridiculous and thoroughly evil. He didn't believe in censorship of any kind. If I asked him a question about sex, he answered it honestly. When I was 12 and I asked him about homosexuality, still young and uncertain, he told me that there was nothing wrong with it. That it was just how some people were. That there was likely an evolutionary reason for it. And that for some people it was uncomfortable on an instinctual level.
He taught me that just because you're uncomfortable with something, doesn't make it wrong. He also taught me that most people don't understand this.
I see a lot of this on the internet as of the last few years. The anti shipping movement, the terf movement, the anti ace movement. It all stems from discomfort that people have crossed wires into believing means wrong. Really every -ism and -phobia out there stems from this same fundamental aspect of humanity.
The next time you see something and you automatically think it's disgusting, or wrong, or immoral, I invite you to ask yourself: is this actually wrong or does this just make me uncomfortable?
Rewatching Truman Show for the first time in a long time, and the detail thatās stuck with me this time is the set design.
The characters drive modern cars and hock modern products, but itās all presented with a veneer of 1950s wholesome applecheeked Americana. Trumanās life is presented as an escape for the audience from the drudgery of the modern day, and the aesthetic theyāve chosen for this is the post-war economic boom. This is the simple time, the movie says. This is the good time. Doesnāt the modern day suck? Letās go back and see our friends from the days when life was good.
And itās a lie. Trumanās life is a lie, and the image of white picket fenced suburbia theyāve presented is a lie. Itās an elaborate construction to recreate a false memory thatās comfortable for advertisers. The movie is a satire, but itās also a very blatant statement against the nostalgia for a golden age which never existed. Itās a lie. It doesnāt exist.
I donāt know. Iām spitballing. Iām biased because I despise mid-20th century Americana and I naturally treat it with hostility, but itās very gratifying to see a movie kind of agree with me.
Let me tell you a story.
Earlier in the summer, I went to Florida with my friend. We decided to visit a town nearish to where we were staying called Seaside, as we had heard it was a cute place. What I did not know at the time was that Seaside is the place where they filmed The Truman Show. It was a "master-planned community," constructed in the 80s to be the perfect beach town.
Seaside, FL
Seahaven
And yes, it really does look Like That. Not just in their tourist-agency photos, in real life it looks like that. Arguably the irl Seaside is even prettier than movie Seahaven, because the the office buildings where Truman works don't exist; the town is 100% cutesy homes and little shops.
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She glows now, just so you know, and she's full of string deliciƶusee string
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A lot more than 4 of us are impressed
I wanna lick it
(getting a taste of my own medicine) actually this is okay. Is this what you guys have bene whining about? Jesus christ
One more for the collection. Book is Stars at Last by Jessica Jocelyn
i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping
this also goes for aesthetic or -core titles. 'y2k tank top' is going to get you resellers and fast fashion brands advertising to people looking to meet a current trend. 'thin strap crop tank top' is going to get you a diverse group of results and not upcharge you to hell and back
additionally, shop second hand when you can, second hand and thrift sites typically organize clothes by the cut and color. theyll be more affordable than a depop seller curating you a style to sell you
useful terminology for different kinds of clothing shapes :)
I think i may have reblogged this before, but it's so useful I'm gonna do it again just in case, lol
I cannot get this poem out of my head. It haunts me. Joyously, it haunts me.Ā
This poem format is my favorite thing and this is the first time Iāve ever seen itās origin story. I love it. Every time.
THE SACRED TEXTS!
I forgot the context! Itās beautiful!
In search of obscure smutty delights
Hello my lovelies (I might be a teensy bit sloshed), I am seeking your most secret, hidden gems from indie authors. Preferably featuring (though exceptions made for fantastic stories):
Third person perspective
Decent plot
Well written in general but extremely well written smut is a must
Any genre is fine
Obscure! Please donāt rec me Haley Cass or Milena Mckay or any of the other fabulous authors that are regularly seen here. I love them but Iām hoping to branch out to indie authors in need of support ā¤ļø
Thank you in advance and hope youāre all having a delightful day.
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Okay, if self promotion isn't gauche, I've written some fantasy erotica. They are short stories, with my first story being the shortest but they get longer as I put more effort into my smut framing device.
I wrote a few stories before I stopped due to mental health reasons. I am trying to get back into writing, but it is a bit of an up hill climb for me.
If you decide to check them out I would love to hear about it, but no pressure. There is the first (cough only cough) collection, which has the first five short stories and a bonus story.
Lovers of the Unbound Kingdoms: Volume One - Kindle edition by Kay, Sharon F. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones
This was the going to be the first story for the second volume, as it stands it is just a stand alone.
Siren's Song: A Lovers of the Unbound Kingdoms Story - Kindle edition by Kay, Sharon F. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device,
This is one I actually got published! And was the last story I wrote before the mind goblins put me down.
Lovers of the Unbound Kingdoms: Volume One - Kindle edition by Kay, Sharon F. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones
You ever think about how unified humanity is by just everyday experiences? Tudor peasants had hangnails, nobles in the Qin dynasty had favorite foods, workers in the 1700s liked seeing flowers growing in pavement cracks, a cook in medieval Iran teared up cutting onions, a mom in 1300 told her son not to get grass stains on his clothes, some girl in the past loved staying up late to see the sun rise.
there are scriptures all over the world painstakingly crafted hundreds of years ago with paw prints and spelling mistakes or drawings covering up mistakes. a bunch of teenage girls 2000 years ago gathered to walk around their hometown, getting fast food and laughing with their friends. two friends shared blankets before people lived in houses. a mother ran a fine comb through her childās hair and told it to stop squirming sometime in the 1000s. there are covered up sewing mistakes in couture dresses from the 1800s, some poor roman burnt their food so well past recognition that they just buried the entire pot. there are broken dishes hidden in gardens of people no one even remembers anymore
children eleven thousand years ago enjoyed jumping around in puddles made from the footprints of a giant sloth. children loved muddy puddles so long ago there were still megafauna alive
Thereās a record of an emperor of Japan in the 9th century talking about his cat - how pretty it is, and how it stalks birds and curls up in a circle and meows mournfully for company and escaped its collar. All completely normal ordinary cat things. And then it ends with him sayingĀ āit is superior to all other catsā. I am delighted to be united across 1200 years with this fellow cat owner with exactly the same feelings about his cat that I have about mine.
Remember, history was awful. Never trust the romantics.
#you want to know a sentence that rewrote my brain:#most people have never been 20#more than half of humans ever born never made it to 20#which. is so crushingly sad to me i can't think about it for too long and also weirdly tempering when i'm angry at the state of the world#most people have never been 20! is it any wonder we're bad at being people sometimes! it's so new. we're young to it#anyway#i'm so stupidly grateful to live in the present and for modern medical technology (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse)
XKCD: Degree Off
Never Forget what Childhood Vaccines and Antibiotics have done.
The two most powerful words in the English language, owed entirely to the efficacy of vaccines, are thus;
āSmallpox was.ā
For most of history, smallpox was (!!!) the scourge that haunted human civilisations. We have evidence of smallpox from mummies c. 1350BCE in Egypt. Itās speculated to be one of causative agents of the Plague of Athens c. 430BCE. There were outbreaks of smallpox in Angola in 1484, in South Africa in 1731 that wiped out entire clans of Khoisan people. There was at least one major smallpox epidemic almost every decade across Europe.
Smallpox was transmitted by droplet/aerosol infection; it tore through even the smallest population centres. Typical smallpox incurred a blistering fever, raised pustules, debilitating joint and back pain; if you lived ā and that was a fat fucking if, as typical smallpox had a mortality rate of 30% ā youād have tell-tale pockmark scarring, and face stigma for the rest of your life. Some were left blinded.
The worst form of the disease was haemorrhagic smallpox; all the agony of typical smallpox, with the addition of skin haemorrhage and pinpoint haemorrhage in the spleen, liver, kidneys and gonads. Near-universally fatal, haemorrhagic smallpox made up 5-10% of all cases. Of this number, 72% were children.
The global smallpox vaccination campaigns of 1958 to 1977 were a monumental effort by the World Health Organization and its global associates, backed by incredibly diligent public health work and epidemiological monitoring.
Wherever there were outbreaks, there was herd immunisation. Health bodies campaigned tirelessly for the general population to be immunised. In the ā70s, a concerted effort was made by the WHO to ensure vaccines were administered in the most remote and vulnerable communities in the Horn of Africa, South Asia and the Pacific.
In 1980, the world was officially, finally free of one of itās oldest adversaries; universal vaccination had been achieved, and there was no population that could act as a reservoir for smallpox.
If mankind has only one great achievement, itās the smallpox vaccine; to date, smallpox is the only human disease to be completely eradicated.
After over two millennia of suffering, mass disability and death, humanity finally had the means to give one of itās biggest threats the biggest possible fuck you, and through scientific and public health collaboration, careful epidemiological monitoring and countless hours of on-the-ground vaccination efforts, managed to blot it from existence entirely.
Where there is vaccine coverage, childhood diseases with high morbidity and mortality rates like whooping cough, diphtheria, influenza B and have dropped.
We have vaccines for TB, another of our greatest and longest adversaries.
With enough effort to counter misinformation, more people fighting for vaccine equality, patent free medication for communicable disease, and universal vaccine coverage, and everyone making sure to keep up to date with their vaccinations, one day, we could be fortunate enough to be able to say;
āTuberculosis was.ā
āSmallpox was.ā
Fuck. That hit me hard.
death and the stars
I'm quite fond of the heroes of my field have slain one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse
One of my friends was a university lecturer who had worked in the lab where the final smallpox case escaped from a lab and killed Janet Parker, a medical photographer who worked in the room upstairs. He was a very funny man, always "on", but once a year when he taught the lecture about smallpox and about 'swiss cheese' risk management, he looked like a dead man walking.
Iām sure Iāve reblogged this before, and Iām sure Iāll reblog it again.
But scroll up and look at that first graph. Really look at it. For 2000 years, for every society for which we have data, roughly 1 in every 2 kids died. I have two kids ā statistically, one of them would have died (to be fair, my daughter was medically complicated in utero and the medication that saved her was developed in the 1960s, so in my personal case, thereās no āstatisticallyā about it). Do you have a sibling? One of you probably would have died. Are you from a big family with lots of siblings? Your parents would have probably buried more than one of you, assuming that both of your parents had managed to make it to adulthood in the first place.
And to be entirely fair, there are reasons beyond modern medicine why childhood death rates have dropped in the last 200 years. Obviously, medical care is not the only place where weāve made significant advancements in ways to reduce mortality rates in children. Like, 100 years ago children were still sent to go work in mines and factories in an era where OSHA did not exist. The fact that we donāt do that anymore also helps.
But medicine is a HUGE contributing factor to the childhood mortality rate plummeting. And some of it is big, exciting stuff, where a child is obviously dying, and a doctor gets to be a hero with a life-saving medication or procedure. Thatās what happened with my daughter. And in cases like those, itās super easy to draw a line of cause and effect. Childās life was in danger -> medication given -> childās life no longer in danger. Medicine saved the child.
But itās actually much more common for a childās life to be saved by the quiet, everyday work that primary care pediatricians do. Some of that is education ā SIDS rates were cut nearly in half in the first ten years of the āBack to Sleepā campaign, which was just doctors telling parents that itās safer to put your infant to sleep on their back rather than their stomach. But a lot of it is vaccination. Like, A LOT a lot.
I went looking for exact numbers, and I found this study from 2024. And I just want to quote the findings section of their abstract:
Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years of whom 101 million were infants younger than 1 year. For every death averted, 66 years of full health were gained on average, translating to 10Ā·2 billion years of full health gained. We estimate that vaccination has accounted for 40% of the observed decline in global infant mortality, 52% in the African region. In 2024, a child younger than 10 years is 40% more likely to survive to their next birthday relative to a hypothetical scenario of no historical vaccination. Increased survival probability is observed even well into late adulthood.
Those numbers are huge. 154 million lives saved. 10.2 BILLION extra years of healthy lives. And the study didnāt even account for smallpox. Because as mentioned above ā smallpox was. But the cause and effect line is much harder to draw. Itās easy to see how stabbing a healthy baby with needles makes the baby cry, and potentially get a little sick for the next few days and these things all seem negative. Itās much harder to see how stabbing a healthy baby with needles will keep them safe from a disease that they may or may not get in the future. And it much harder to see how stabbing my healthy baby with needles helps protect that other baby who is too sick to get stabbed.
But we are all being chased by a very slow tiger called āvaccine preventable disease.ā And getting yourself/your children vaccinated is how we build tiger proof shields before the tiger ever gets close enough for us to notice him. Because if you can see the tiger, itās already too late.
I also want to add something which is: you canāt have this without the ability to produce and distribute vaccines and medicine and INFORMATION on a massive, broad and rapid scale.
You canāt have mass vaccination in a world of bespoke individual crafters; you NEED a large scale production system. You canāt have mass medical and public health care on a 1:1 lifetime mentorship basis; you NEED to be able to spread the new info to thousands, quickly.
Your homestead dreams donāt get modern survivals without hanging onto the belt of an integrated industrial society with widespread information dissemination and media.
This is not me defending the downsides that exist in current or historical manifestation of said; we do not have to accept the horrors that exist just because they too are industrial; but the trick is maintaining those gains while removing the horrors.
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