I can't reliably tag stuff b/c of my disabilities. I realize that’s an access issue for a lot of people, which sucks, but I figure it’s best to just put a disclaimer here.
I'm an adult and I post about "adult" topics, including sex, violence, abuse, various forms of oppression, etcetera. This includes posts about real world events as well as fictional portrayals of these topics. Again, I cannot consistently tag things, so please gauge your own risk when following me!
Stuff you might see here: the ocean, anarchism, Judaism, textile art, linguistic anthropology, disability justice & psych abolition, Ursula K LeGuin, Dragon Age, memes, cute animals, and more
This blog is primarily run on a queue.
More about me and this blog below the cut!
I’m autistic and this impacts the way I communicate with people.
I use any pronouns.
I am an antizionist Jew as well as deeply religious. This can be a very lonely position, and I'd love to hear from any other religious AZ Jews, regardless of your style or level of observance 💗
While I don't use CW tags for the reasons stated above, I avoid posting photos of IRL violence and never post explicit portrayals of sexual violence in any format. I do sometimes reblog protest photography, which oftentimes documents state violence.
I categorically do not interact with people in bad faith on here. Niceys time on the computer :)
Not all images on this blog are described for the same reason things are not tagged. If you send me an image description for something I've posted or reblogged, I will happily add it to my post!
I don't post or reblog donation posts. I find it extremely stressful in a way that reduces my capacity for IRL organizing, which I feel is vastly more important and impactful than sharing a post to my <50 followers.
incredible charitable forgiving fatassed breadwinner domestic goddess leftist housewife dilf lounging by the fire playing sweetly with the adorable family pet NEXT TO THE DUPLICITOUS AMNESIA CIRCE STANKPUSSY TWINKBEAST.
one of the most impressive animals I met this year was a huge platyrhacid millipede, found chugging through some bamboo leaf litter in Malaysia.
he was a pleasant weight to hold in the hand, but spread out over so many gentle, graceful legs. the video offers a nice look at his eyeless face—all polydesmidan millipedes lack eyes.
I only hung onto this animated spinal cord for about thirty seconds before setting him back in the leaves, but I recall this encounter so vividly. a truly memorable creature
if you’re curious how I knew this exquisite gentleman was male, sexing millipedes is pretty easy (especially when they’re hand-sized!)
count to the 8th leg (millipedes have 2 legs per “diplosegment”) & if it’s there, you have a female. males instead have their 8th legs modified into gonopods, hook-shaped sexual organs. yep, millipedes have their genitalia on their “necks”! females lay eggs from there too
I wanted to share some more of these, specifically trans women of color. The images I'm posting are from a project called To Survive On This Shore and it's an interview project. I am only posting a handful so it's so worth checking out!
This is Linda, 60
Alexis, 64
Helena, 63
Kendrah, 72 (!!)
Tasha, 65
It was deeply healing to me to discover this project. The site has selected photos and attached interviews and it's definitely worth your time. I didn't include any because the focus of this post imo is transfems but there are a lot of beautiful interviews with transmasc people too if you're interested! But that'll have to be another post 💖
I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up
My favourite ever piece of Disabled Research has always been that, when it was noticed that a lot of schizophrenics own cats, some dorks were like, maybe the cats are causing the schizophrenia?? and came to the stunning conclusion that people must be eating cat poo and thus getting a kind of parasite that makes you schizophrenic.
And of course a lot of these studies suck. A lot of them didn't actually think to ask WHEN the schizophrenic acquired the cat, so it's just always presumed that the cat came before the schizophrenia. Most don't really account for the fact that a schizophrenia diagnosis is often a very slow and complex process due to specific regional legalities associated with having "doctors can turn your rights off whenever" disorder. Basically, the same scientific half-truths that surround the phenomenon of "drug-induced schizophrenia," that is the conflation of schizophrenics self-medicating before their formal diagnosis is set and the ambiguity of proving when symptoms onset in relation to that, has been completely replicated for cat-induced schizophrenia lol.
And I love this because it's kind of a perfect demonstration of how the stigma associated with schizophrenia works in medical and scientific settings, right. Everything becomes possible to pathologize, from smoking weed to owning a cat. While the science here is usually pretty bad, "science communication" outlets make it much worse because they run with the most broad dumbass versions of these stories and present them to the public as if there's a clear causal relationship between owning a cat and having schizophrenia, instead of actually reading through the research with an appropriate critical lens and demanding real actual meta-review of obviously flawed studies.
Which is not to say that schizophrenia can't be caused by cats or THC exposure, but that the standard for a concept to become "scientifically true" when dealing with schizophrenia is uh, let's say lower?
Anyway, the reality is that a lot of schizophrenics have cats because being schizophrenic is lonely so many of us want pets. Dogs are too demanding and require a lot of hands-on exposure time, but having an adult cat is like having a gay little roommate that occasionally breaks your shit and vomits in your shoes, so they opt for that. A lot of schizophrenics also have pet fish for similar reasons and the second psychiatrists learn that fact they'll start punching up studies about how drinking fish tank water makes you schizophrenic and how to some of us born of the degenerate brain it's completely irresistable lol. Then science communicators will be posting articles with like stock image white girls superimposed over a fishtank lookin thirsty, titled things like, "COULD FISHWATER BE MAKING YOU CRAZY?" lol
It's really funny when people think Iran is a desert cause we literally have forests in the north?? The Caspian sea is right up there?? Buddy they're still shoveling snow in Sabalan lmaoo
i was gonna just leave this in tags but i felt i needed to add the picture: it's wild how people don't get how big iran is, obviously it's racism people just don't care and assume "ah must be a bunch of primitive desert huts" or whatever but like, imagine writing off this whole area as probably some desert because there's a desert in the middle and ignore the whole ocean and two mountain ranges and all the forests and whatnot like even if it was just as big as california that's pretty huge and diverse as climate and geography
It's A Test Of Time AU summer cookout time. Maybe a few years after the end of the comic, good excuse to draw bull in the skintight t shirts I used to put him in...
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
"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
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.
I have a lot of rare diseases so doctors tend to have students with them when they see me, and I am never not confused by how shocked they are that when they take their little aside to explain something to the student I lean in and listen because like....why wouldn't I want to know how my body and illnesses work? That's important information for me to have so I can take care of myself and convey my needs to other doctors when the time comes.
Sadly a lot of doctors and medical professionals seem to think patients need to know very little about their own health, hell I've had doctors add entire diagnoses to my chart and never say a word to me about it. Very concerning, especially given how often doctors will say one thing to me and then not write it in my chart so other doctors don't believe me about what was discussed!! Hate this shit!!
A lot of doctors seem to be under the impression that if they tell the patient too much, the patient will become a hypochondriac.
As someone who has struggled with hypochondria... bitch I will literally just Google it if you don't tell me, hell, I'll probably Google it anyway, this is your chance to actually educate your patient instead of leaving them to figure it out themselves. you will not prevent them from experiencing health anxiety by being secretive about their health, that does the opposite!!!
