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i do think that disinformation poses a problem but not like from the angle of china is turning our kids into hamasniks but from the angle of "this conservative wellness influencer who's paid to say all this shit about canning is legitimately going to get someone killed"

t4t4ever

any mention of colloidal silver now sends me into a blind rage

queerpunk-kitten

Please tell me about the forbidden silver.

Colloidal Silver sounds like it will give me superpowers. (Cancer)

t4t4ever

In fact it WILL make you a bit more like a low-budget X-Man, but only in the bad way:

Ingesting silver turns you blue.

our bodies need differing levels of many vitamins, and even some metal (namely iron) but one that we do NOT need, and are in fact completely unequipped to process, is silver. Colloidal silver is just the name for the way it exists in many fake medicine supplements. It isn’t a special kind that is safe to ingest or anything. It’s still just silver. And when your body receives more silver than it can remove from your body via waste… it goes to your skin, and you get something called Argyria, which is basically just the medical term for “you et silver and now you’re blue”.

So why do people take it??

Silver *does* have antibacterial properties- in a Petri dish. Many things which have absolutely no place in the human body kill bacteria in a Petri dish. Bleach. Fuckin, lava, I assume. Many things that kill bacteria would also kill *you*. But scam artist fucking assholes have taken advantage of misinformation, ignorance (neutral, not derogatory) and the public’s completely reasonable distrust of the for-profit medical system and uses it to push this stupid fucking poison. Anyway. If you’d like to learn more about this there’s a medical history podcast which I love called Sawbones that has a silver episode, the transcript is also available here.

#medical misinformation #quack medicine #fake supplements #colloidal silver #things that make me entirely too angry

cutecipher

The accidental bans have been reversed.

March 20th, 2026

kohakumeltyblood

Tumblr got caught and is trying to save face. Every blog that was removed except one is a trans woman. Don't let them lie to you.

cutecipher

they're platforming a zionist.

kohakumeltyblood

Anyone remember when prismatic-bell threatened to dox an indigenous trans person, literally saying "you're part of a very small tribe, it'd be easy to track you down"

frankendykes-monster

Admittedly it's been lost in the shuffle amongst other prisma moments like "you know what, fuck Ramadan" or "are Aboriginal people even homo sapiens anymore?"

xenasaur

insane how common the sentiment of "I don't like tma/tme because I use it incorrectly" is

knives-in-the-dishwater

"it's just AGAB again." no actually it isn't; it just describes your relationship to transmisogyny

"it's a gender binary." it's only binary in the way that any catergory plus its inversion are.

"it's like asking what's in someone's pants" why do you associate having a penis with being TMA? or, why do you think bottom surgery magically makes the transphobes change their minds about a trans person?

beemovieerotica

if you work in a creative field...or if you do creative hobbies like writing or drawing...you need to make friends with people who don't do those things. you need to befriend normie Steve who has never written a story in his life. and this is because when you are in a creative job or hobby and spend all your time doing that thing, surrounded by very capable people, who you inevitably compare your own progress and skills to, you forget what the baseline human skill at that thing is. and it's usually zero. normie Steve has not written a story since the 3rd grade when his teacher made him do it. he's very good at other things that are not storytelling - but if you tell normie Steve that you wrote a full 300-page book from start to finish, he will think you're some kind of savant. he does not know ANYONE else who has done this. you need this perspective. because when you're constantly on Let's Write Stories dot Com then everyone on Let's Write Stories dot Com will inevitably be like "oh of course everyone on earth has written a book or several at this point!" and you canNOT let yourself think that. that is not even close to the average human experience. you are in a bubble. do not put yourself down. do not give up.

boringkate

Average internet user: I like pirating MP3s and sharing memes, so yeah! I guess I do hate intellectual property rights! I guess I do want to see private property abolished!

Average internet user upon creating one (1) copyrightable work: I own the color blue now. I already used blue in my MS Paint JPEG, so if you use the color blue too then you're a thief and you're stealing from me. I'm an independent artist and I am being robbed.

Average internet user upon learning about machine generated images: Paramount Global (formerly Viacom) has every right to put anyone that uses the character Squidward without a licensing agreement into a woodchipper. We can't make exceptions for your child or there would be absolute chaos.

quick-to-query

I was told time and again that it would be different, once people violated MY copyright.

Then some rando on tiktok made shitty AI-voice videos of my stories.

It was hilarious. I didn't care. I got new readers out of it. No, it was not different when it was my copyright being violated, I still think copyright is Bad Actually.

leolaroot

average tumblr staff post does read like.

We Heard You. We Understand We Fucked Up. Please Please Please Forgive Us. Ohh Crawling Like A Worm. Sliding Across The Linoleum. We're Sorry. We're Sorry. We're Sorry.

Alrernate Ending:

We Heard You. We Disagree. You Will Get Over This. Please Please Please Stop Complaining. Crawl For Me Like A Worm. Show Us Your Tits. Lick My Heel. Lick My Heel. Lick My Heel.

leolaroot

1st one is for when theyve inconvenienced fan fiction authors Second is for when minorities are being harassed and harmed

rohirric-hunter

We laugh at how The Art of War is basically just, "An army can't fight if the soldiers aren't eating," but I'm reading this document about conservation of ancient yew trees and it legitimately says, "You should never fill the center of a hollow yew with concrete," so I think that probably making blatantly obvious statements is just the bane of being a specialist in anything

v-spicata

Ah yeah, that's actually not so bizarre when you know the reasons behind it. Still extremely wrong but understandable at least.

So yew trees are weird. They are extremely long lived with basically no known upper limit to their age. They do this by simply being extremely good at not dying like other trees do.

When a normal tree gets to an old age what usually happens is a fungus gets into their heartwood and takes hold. Their internal, dead wood rots away and they hollow out, lose structural support and collapse. Depending on the species this process can take decades or a good few centuries or so.

While yew trees do hollow out in this way they simply keep going afterwards. A ring shaped yew tree with most of its trunk missing is actually just middle aged and the most ancient yews get even weirder than that.

Wikipedia has this image of a Scottish yew where the start of this hollowing process can be seen. To be clear - for most tree species this would already have been fatal.

The thing is seeing a very old yew in this condition looks wrong to a tree surgeon, it's like the tree is constantly on the verge of death. So, if it's a well loved tree you try and do what you can to stop it from falling apart entirely.

A hundred years ago people tried all sorts of things like chaining up branches and also, yes, plugging the hollowed trunk with concrete. We know better nowadays.

Funnily enough there are even yews that survived this treatment and are still alive today.

This is a picture of the Tisbury yew in 1998 from the Ancient Yew Group, barely a minute ago from the tree's perspective.

Yews are fascinating plants with roots in European culture as ancient as the trees themselves. A few individual specimen trees are even estimated to be around five thousand years old - literally prehistoric in age.

Oh also they do weird things with sex as well sometimes. One of the oldest UK trees, the Fortingall yew appears to partially be turning from male to female on one side. It'll be interesting to see what becomes of it in the next few centuries of its life.

Sorry if this is all stuff you already know, I couldn't resist a chance to infodump about one of my favourite species.

cerulean235-deactivated

Support a Class Action Lawsuit of Tumblr for its Discrimination of Transfems

I have created a Discord server to, well, do what is in the title of this post. Please join to support this movement, and please reblog for reach. I will not be able to do this on my own.

Check out the Transfem Tumblr Class Action Lawsuit Organising community on Discord – hang out with 2 other members and enjoy free voice and

If you cannot or do not want to join this Discord but want to support, please DM me instead to see what you can do.

cerulean235-deactivated

If you were affected by the recent ban wave or any other moderation action, please either join the Discord or message @transfeminist-action to let us know! We are still working on the lawsuit, we have not just gone down quietly. We've starting speaking with lawyers at this point, and have monthly meetings available to anyone on the server to help guide our progress.

If you can't join the Discord, please follow the linked blog instead! We are setting up monthly announcements and more on that blog. We also have a Bluesky account by the same name if you wish to follow that instead.

epicsause-official

was on the wikipedia page for charleston red rice and i noticed the photo they used was blurry. i went to the talk page to see if this was brought up and stumbled upon this banger of a conversation

lovertm

floralprintsharks

[ID: dark fabric with pink print on it that reads "Don't talk to me about your weight loss journey" surrounded by white stars. End ID]

thismoleculeisacomedian

What is the creepiest part of the US *to you*?

Appalachia

New Orleans

The Ozarks

The Mojave Desert/Southwest

Something else (explain in tags)

Voting ended onMar 25

power-handmaiden

echoing prev that suburban gated communities have THE most unsettling vibes

When I went to pick up my pet rabbits from their foster I had to punch in a code to get into the neighborhood? A couple folks out for a walk asked me why I was there and STARED at my formless blob looking ass in a grubby hoodie and worn out jeans? (I make it a point not to wear anything I value if I know I'm going to be handling a flighty prey animal that does not know me) When the foster posted a photo of me with the bunnies to Facebook she cleaned me up and PUT MAKEUP ON ME???

(if you're gonna cyber-forcefem me at least be horny about it :/ )

I didn't dwell on it at the time because YAY NEW BUNNIES pushed it out of my mind but I still think back on it sometimes like... Huh.... Scary.....

Way more creepy experience than anything that has happened to me in any area that happens to be remote and/or southern tbh

imissthembutitwasntadisaster

Not superstitious and not not superstitious but a third secret thing (read a lot of fairytales as a child and doesn't believe them but also would never be rude to a mountain while still on it just in case)

lasrina

I've said it before but this is both the Icelandic and the Irish approach:

Of course we're modern educated people who don't believe in fairies

But we're also not gonna fuck with 'em, we're not idiots

moorock

trans women should have bodily autonomy. trans women need to be able to access the medical care we need even if doctors don't like it.

moorock

glad you all agree!

i have dentinogenesis imperfecta, or a condition similar to it -- "brittle bone disease" but for teeth only. over the years, i've lost most of my teeth to infection while others have chipped off as i'm eating ordinary foods like sweets or bones. this is an ordinary, every-few months event. It makes ordinary dental hygeine impossible. It hurts to eat most foods and i have to avoid others due to long-term liability.

in the medical industry, it's standard practice to "preserve original tissue" even if it's a permanent source of pain, anxiety, and humiliation. this is not possible. it's a losing battle i don't want to fight. but the medical industry hates this idea to the point that i'm more likely to raise the money to do it privately in the time it takes to get it approved, since a condition like this requires decades of scientific advances to prove and we know how doctors are

i'm going to remove all my teeth and replace them with all-on-4 implants.

that's really expensive and i am a chronically homeless trans woman with no work history at all

tentatively, i'm trying to raise $5000 as start-up funds. please help

ko-fi link

$782/5000

strawhatsufi

if you like my posts you should donate to amina because i owe her seriously like 40 iq points

moorock

Lost a chunk of a tooth today, pretty threatening hairline fracture down another part of that same tooth. Gonna try to get it taken care of at a public clinic next week or so.

1253/5000$

moorock

$1366

Can we get to $1500 by October?

thecuckoohaslanded

I can’t stop thinking about crocodiles for some reason so here’s some cool pictures I found of probably the second largest one in captivity, his name is Utan:

isn’t he beautiful

listen to the SOUND when he bites

and that’s not even a real power bite, that’s mostly just heavy bone falling on heavy bone from his jaws and the air rushing out from between them

specsthespectraldragon

2000 pounds of Good Boy

thecuckoohaslanded

you get me

thecuckoohaslanded

I honestly expected like 5 notes, what HAPPENED here

thecuckoohaslanded

More tags on this ridiculous post:

cn123017-deactivated20181204

Wait, thats the 2nd biggest crocodile? Then what does the biggest one look like?

thecuckoohaslanded

That would be Cassius, a very old Saltwater crocodile who is estimated to be around 114 years old and lives at Marineland Melanesia in Green Island, Australia. His official measurement is 5.48 meters, which makes him the largest in captivity currently. Because Utan is only slightly smaller and much younger, (only in his 50s), he will likely break Cassius’ record eventually. But for now, Cassius holds the title:

He is NOT, however, either the largest crocodile ever captured in Australia OR the largest ever in captivity.

A slightly larger crocodile has been reported (though not yet comfirmed) to have been captured at 5.58 meters.

And while the famous Brutus of the Adelaide River was estimated to be just slightly larger than Cassius at 5.5m, he was driven out of his territory by a younger and even larger crocodile, who as a result has been given the name, The Dominator. He is estimated to be just over 6m.

This is Brutus, with an appropriate caption:

It is believed that he lost that arm in a fight with a Bull Shark.

The Bull Shark lost.

THIS is the crocodile who kicked him out. The Dominator:

And that’s STILL not the biggest.

The largest living crocodile ever reliably measured was Lolong, who for the 1.5 years between his capture and his death was the largest crocodile ever held in captivity, at a whopping 6.17 meters (20 feet 3 inches) and 1075 kg (2,370 lbs). He had been feeding on both humans and very large livestock in the Bunawan creek in Agusan del Sur in the Philippines. It took 100 people all night to drag him to shore during his capture.

And here’s why:

Also, to prevent credit from getting buried on a separate reblog, I have been informed that the above image of the crocodile with the cartoon eyes and halo was made by @rashkah! (And it is wonderful and I would like to thank him for its existence, because it perfectly captures my feelings about terrifying giant primordial reptiles.)

sometimesihavequestions-deactiv

@theonewhocheeps

theonewhocheeps

Holy fuck

simon-newman

As far as Brutus is concerned I was led to believe that he lost that arm when relatively young.

Since then Brutus developed a habit of hunting and eating Bull Sharks.

Here’s him with a prey.

And if you thought that you’ll be safe if you just stay out of Australia then think again!

Meet Gustave the Nile Croc.

This crocodile became almost legendary for both it’s size and the habit of hunting both livestock AND humans.

So how big is Gustave?

No one is sure. Since he was NEVER captured.

His estimated size is of at least 5,5m but some give him over 6m.

The terrifying parts are:

1) He is still growing having only about 60 years.

2) Adult crocodiles often perform a gesture of submission to him - something usually done by young crocodiles toward adults - Gustave is just THAT BIG.

3) His sheer size makes it difficult for him to catch agile prey Nile crocs tend to feed on - hence why he developed a habit of hunting either larger prey like Hippopotamus or creatures which are not good at spotting danger in the first place like livestock and humans.

And this is NOT ALL.

Gustave actually has a noticeable scars on his body - he was shot at east 3 times and stabbed with a spear or something similar at one occasion.

He lived to tell the tale - my question is:

What happened to that one dude who attacked Gustave with a spear?

thecuckoohaslanded

*Crocodile Dundee voice* Mate, that’s not Gustave:

THIS is Gustave:

And he is the PERFECT CROCODILE. He is the perfect example of what I mean when I talk about (as I do) how the morphology of extremely large crocodiles adapts to the changing physics of their bite.

This is a typical adult Nile Crocodile:

And THIS is a god among his kind:

This is it, folks. The Final Form. THIS is what peak performance looks like.

Crocodiles and physics have an interesting relationship. Crocodiles have, by a CONSIDERABLE MARGIN, the strongest bite of any animal on Earth. EVER. Scaled up estimates (based on Nile and Saltwater crocodiles) give the extinct Deinosuchus an estimated bite force MORE THAN DOUBLE the recently updated Tyrannosaurus bite estimates. Living crocodiles have bite forces measured in the range of 5000 pounds per square inch, for an individual around 15-16 feet. It is estimated that modern crocodiles in the range of 18-20 feet would have bit forces around 7-8000 psi or more.

That’s a problem.

Because a crocodile’s skull is only designed to handle so much pressure. Go beyond that limit and the force of impact when those jaws snap shut could literally shatter their own skulls.

But evolution has spent hundreds of millions of years perfecting crocodiles, so PHYSICS ISN’T GOING TO STOP THEM. What ends up happening in the skulls of these extremely large crocodiles is they will increase dramatically in mass to compensate for the increased forces. A crocodile’s skull is almost exclusively solid bone, with only minimal space for nasal passages, a surprisingly advanced brain, and some slightly porous looking framework that helps the bone distribute the force over a larger area. The effect is by far the most pronounced in Nile crocodiles, which most regularly feed on larger prey and need to make use of all that power.

Compare, 26 inch skull:

vs 29 inch skull:

Both of those are Nile crocodile skulls (or rather, replicas thereof).

And just for fun, here are the skulls of completely different (and very extinct species), Deinosuchus:

and Purussaurus:

The bigger the crocodile (within a given species), the more massive the skull needs to be to compensate for that UNBELIEVABLE bit pressure. This is one way to see from a distance whether you are looking at a normal sized crocodile:

and a truly extraordinary individual:

One of the things about Gustave that’s so impressive is how healthy his teeth look. A lot of large crocodiles, in their old age, have very worn down and often missing teeth. They do replace them many times over a lifetime, but when they get very old this slows down. Gustave, at least in every picture taken of him, had teeth that were in very good condition.

Even crocodiles much smaller than Gustave’s reported size (probably similar in size to Dominator or Lolong) tend to have smaller or more worn teeth:

than the pinnacle of his kind:

muchymozzarella

Lolong! It means Gramps or Grandpa, because he’s a relic of an ancient world where crocs more massive than he was walked the earth. His body is on display somewhere right now though I forgot where.

tyrantisterror

Every time I see this post there’s more crocodiles. It’s the gift that keeps on giving.

lesbianismst

just unfollowed someone for rbing anti-manhating sentiments. it's very weird to me and I'm not sorry. there's a rise in conservatism and a big societal push to strip women of our rights and make us men's property, and your biggest priority is lecturing women on how we talk about men?? fuck right the fuck off actually

lesbianismst

"but it hurts their feelings!" it hurts MY feelings when my sisters and mothers don't have rights.

"but it doesn't help your goals!" meanwhile men are beating, raping, oppressing, and killing women everywhere to advance the goals of the patriarchy. don't tell me what I should and should not feel about that.

"but it harms trans men/men of color/other oppressed men!" does it? because trans men and men of color have way more serious shit to deal with than women expressing their feelings on the internet. such as transphobia and racism. meanwhile, women in their communities (trans women, women of color) have to deal with all of that PLUS oppression from the men.

you simply cannot convince me that anti-manhating arguments are anything more than patriarchy propaganda. "unhh we have all the power and rights, but if you don't worship at our feet, you're just as bad as us." fuck offfffff

lesbianismst

just unfollowed another person for rbing similar sentiments. I am NOT in the mood

lesbianismst

congratulations! the award for "first self-victimizing addition" on this post goes to this person

june-egbert-official

so the reblogs are back and a bunch of trans women are MYSTERIOUSLY being fucking terminated with no reason given.

so keep the energy and raise hell about this if you care about us even half as much as you care about your precious number go up.

especially because i would wager good money that they used the feedback forms where we enter our blogs to farm a list of names.

so we put our necks out for you. stand up for us.

june-egbert-official

being told it's users (primarily other trans women) who followed a woman who went by kidnapbait. it should go without saying

THIS STILL IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.

we have actual fucking nazis with hitler pinterests and kiwifarmers bragging about harassment campaigns. we shouldn't be losing friends and mutuals because they followed a woman with a kink you don't fucking like.

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