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more than half a dozen lesbians in one big trench coat

Amazing how every guide on interacting with police, including ones that are explicitly pro-cop, are indistinguishable from guides on how to avoid being attacked by a wild animal.

Don't make any sudden movements, avoid eye contact, stay calm or you WILL die. Wait, what do you mean this is advice for interacting with a human being and not a hungry bear?

"Keep your hands on the steering wheel and don't have anything in them, a police officer might mistake a cellphone for a weapon." Okay, should I also hold my hand out for him to sniff when he approaches so that he knows I'm not a threat?

Don't worry officer, I'm not reaching into my glove compartment for a gun, I'm grabbing the bag of beggin' strips in hopes that your power trip and homicidal impulses will be appeased with a little treat :3

This is why fat shaming can have tragic consequences.

If this sort of weight-based medical bias happens to any of y'all, politely tell the doctor (during your visit) that you want them to write in your file that they are refusing ordering tests for you because of your current weight. This usually causes them to order the test anyways because they do NOT want a malpractice suit. Remember: You want to make a paper trail to hold them accountable.

This is why fat shaming can have tragic consequences.

If this sort of weight-based medical bias happens to any of y'all, politely tell the doctor (during your visit) that you want them to write in your file that they are refusing ordering tests for you because of your current weight. This usually causes them to order the test anyways because they do NOT want a malpractice suit. Remember: You want to make a paper trail to hold them accountable.

This is why fat shaming can have tragic consequences.

If this sort of weight-based medical bias happens to any of y'all, politely tell the doctor (during your visit) that you want them to write in your file that they are refusing ordering tests for you because of your current weight. This usually causes them to order the test anyways because they do NOT want a malpractice suit. Remember: You want to make a paper trail to hold them accountable.

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Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.

Word for today: wisdom of repugnance

The logical fallacy that because something disgusts you it must be bad

this is probably the funniest example of a tumblr user simply not reading the post theyre reblogging at all

Wait I have something to contribute to in the mammal bias convo.

In the past I've referred to bugs as animals in conversation and people correct me and say, "it's an insect". YAH I KNOW, BUT I CHOSE ANIMAL BECAUSE I THOUGHT THAT WAS THE BETTER DESCRIPTION FOR THE CONVERSATION. BUGS ARE ANIMALS. I CAN CALL THEM ANIMALS. I can't think of an example rn as to why I'd call an bug an animal/refer to all insects as animals, but it's an interaction I've had a couple of times now.

But it like- why are people so resistant to calling bugs animals????

BUGS ARE ANIMALS!!!

Not only are they animals, but they make up MOST of the animals

This comes from: University of Florida, Thomas Earth Center Institute -The Insect Effect: Insect Decline and the Future of Our Planet

And that's not including archanids, which I think is colloquially lumped in with bugs.

Also! I'll be talking about meat and I'll refer to fish or bird meat as just meat because I'm talking about meat in the broader sense of, "flesh that comes from an animal." Like colloquially, I know meat tends to be mammals but like- why do I need to preface it with "fish meat" or "bird meat" while "meat" inherently implies mammal??? MEAT IS MEAT!!!

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Yup!

People really are thinking that the only animals that matter are mammals! Or, if they're a little more enlightened, vertebrates.

It's really, really, REALLY sad.

Most animals are insects!!! 9 out of 10!!!!

Nine of your ten fingers!!!

that one finger left encompasses EVERYTHING ELSE. Not just vertebrates, EVERYTHING.

How many animals are vertebrates?

Less than 7 out of every 200.

How many are mammals?

LESS THAN 7 OUT OF 2500.

MAMMALS. ARE. NOT. EVERYTHING.

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During a hike a few years ago, I was, like, taking the proper tick precautions, tucking my pants into my socks, etc. and everyone was making fun of me for being so freaked about ticks, and later the topic of genie wishes came up and one of the girls there said, "I'd wish that ticks could fly so Newt would kill himself."

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I appreciate the concern, but I laughed so hard I almost threw up.

yknow what would be a fucked up phone feature

No, I don't. Please, proceed.

if whenever you plugged it in you had to manually enable charging mode and there was no built in way to automate it

That would be fucked up.

yknow what would be more fucked up

Football field full of viruses.

Abraham Lincoln teeth sculpture.

Really big vampire.

Inside-out Sweden.

if they added automatic charging mode but paywalled it

Yeah that's pretty fucked up.