do i even have to fucking say it

Me every time Trump mentions DeSantis

best tweet on earth. Sublime

I’m sorry but this is literally fucking hilarious

it feels like the people who are actually sad about the submersible are being more disrespectful than people actively making fun of it. what the fuck do you mean people are writing fanfictions of what they thought happened inside ☠☠☠

DUDE WHAT?????

personally i think there should have been at least one episode where sokka collects aang and zuko and is like, “looks like we’re running low on supplies.  time for a GUYS-ONLY field trip.  three days of hunting and fishing and polishing our swords.  y’know, manly warrior stuff.  (aang, sotto voce: actually sokka i’m a vegetarian as you know–)  you girls have fun sitting around braiding your hair and talking about your crushes” and then the entire episode is just zuko and sokka lying around by a river, plucking blades of grass and staring up at the stars confiding in each other their deepest feelings and most secret insecurities while aang braids flower crowns, and whenever the screen cuts back to katara and toph and suki, they’re fighting and screaming and hacking away at river pirates and evil spirits and legions of assassins and hired mercenaries with swords.  you know, as girls do.

and when the boys finally drag themselves back to camp (they stayed up way too late discussing what true leadership really means and whether or not power always corrupts)  they find suki and toph and katara lounging around with black eyes and fresh bruises and bloodstained weapons and sokka shrieks, “what were you guys DOING while we were gone???”  and karata just shugs innocently and says in her sweetest voice, “oh, you know.  just girly things”

they are absolutely still wearing the crowns and they don’t have a single fish to show for their efforts

i did it

Got his ass together in three words

Apparently I badly want to go on my “stop making fun of plague doctors, they were ahead of their time and doing the best they could with the primitive equipment they had available” rant.

They weren’t stupid.

They shoved herbs in their breathing hose because they knew the air was bad and hoped it would help, and *they were right* in theory. The plague itself was not an airborn virus, but they couldn’t know that and it wasn’t the only thing killing people at the time anyway, and they covered *all* their bases. If they’d had the technological knowhow to make air tanks, or even better air filters, they would’ve. They just made the best air filters they could.

What we think they wore isn’t exactly what they wore, and what they actually wore would later be repurposed into scuba suits (and thus spacesuits too) and *actual hazmat suits*, because the theory was sound, the materials were just lacking, and honestly what they did with the materials they had was hardcore.

It honestly took doctors well into the twentieth century to get that level of obsessive attention to hygiene and cross-contamination back. A whole lot of babies and mothers wouldn’t’ve died, for instance, if a plague doctor instead of an obstetrician supported the birth because A PLAGUE DOCTOR WOULD KNOW TO WASH THEIR GODDAMNED HANDS.

Actual plague doctor’s outfits:

This is all fantastic and as someone who has been into plague doctors since like 1999 I love seeing other people defend them.

I want to point out that midwives knew to do all this stuff as well, and that the reason a lot of 19th century babies and mothers died–up to and including Princess Charlotte–is because male doctors, who had just figured out ‘evidence-based science can be used for medicine’, actively kicked midwives out of the historically women-helping-women profession of delivering babies and caring for pregnant women, and dismissed accumulated knowledge passed down for centuries, just because midwives were women.

Midwives had many practically-acquired bits of knowledge, and were well-known for washing their hands, as well as doing things like making the birthing room dark, leetting pregnant women sit up, crouch, or move around while in labour, and other things that we know now were very good ways to prevent eclampsia and other complications. But literally because midwives said ‘do this’, male doctors purposely did the opposite just to be spiteful (because god forbid a woman be correct without a man’s input) and a lot of women died. Including the princess charlotte and her first child, which is how we got Victoria.

(I did a whole presentation about this in college, and before that spent a couple years writing a couple novels that were about ‘The Triple Obstetrical Tragedy’ as it was called, which was the death of Princess Charlotte, her child, and the attending doctor (the latter becausee he offed himself out of guilt). But the tragedy is where a lot of knowledge we have about midwives vs doctors comes from because she was royal and so there are a lot of records.)

I consider midwives and plague doctors to be peers, and honestly, considering plague doctors were not learned at a university and were simply regular people that wanted to help (for free!–the fancy doctors wouldn’t help without being paid!), I wouldn’t be surprised if at least some of them had also been midwives during non-plague times.

OMG bless you. This is beautiful and a thread nobody has followed yet (I watch this post refuse to die with the accursed exhaustion of all that go tumblr-viral).

Thank you for making this weird 2am rant aimed around a very specific (since lost) *very* tired joke about “lol spoopy birdman so dum” a little less of a burden by actually engaging with me (instead of yelling at me that it’s not a fully cited master’s thesis) and expanding my initial point even. <3

(In other subthreads when I was still enjoying blowing up, I talk a lot about “street medicine” as opposed to “academic medicine” for this exact reason. It’s about who gets accused of selling snakeoil when they’re trying to help versus whose snakeoil gets excused with “it was the best medical understanding they had at the time”. I swear I wrote it pre-covid even. ;-) )

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reblog if your name isn't Amanda.

We’ll find you Amanda.

this has almost 11 million notes what is this

I’ve never seen this post once in 10 years on this site

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

I’ve never even heard of this before tho??? Wtf??????????

oh my god, I didn’t think there were any surviving versions of this post left

For those who weren’t around in the Deep Lore times, this is one of the relics of the editable post era. This post has THE SINGLE HIGHEST NOTES of ANY post on this site, bar none, but with more than a dozen variations. Every single post you’ve ever seen with more than 3 million notes has been a different version of this one.

This is the “Dean’s Gym Shorts” post. This is the Flubber post. This is the original “Reblog if you support gay people” post. it was ALL of them. before half the site got nuked, it had even more notes than it has now - at one point, well over 15 million, and that was years ago.

This, with no exaggeration, is the ONE TRUE heritage post

This website truly is bizarre

if you're an author I wish you a very bigolas dickolas

Inventacos

me and my friends at the thingamabob and doohickey convention

Legitimately severely critically underrated

No more tags, this one wins

hey just so you know, op of that post you reblogged let the dogs out :/

who?

who?

who?

who?

aaron paul has done more for the lgbts by playing jesse pinkman and doing his weird little photoshoots with bryan cranston than harry styles and taylor swift combined

no one is doing it like them

i got anon hate for this post

I feel like the only person not tempted to use ChatGPT like it doesn't even occur to me as an option

Anyway shoutout to the person next to me who just got GPT to do their whole essay. I know you're in the trenches.

impatient man: bus driver can you go faster im late for work

worlds most obedient bus driver: whatever you say boss

guy on the bus who turns in to a hungry pack of wild hyenas whenever hes traveling faster than 30mph: