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The biggest lie in fanfiction is that everyone has a first aid kit in their house. I have never owned one in my life

Wait do y’all not have like…first aid boxes in your hall closets? Like just a plastic box that has your basic first aid shit?

...no? Wait, you mean some people actually have first aid kits lying around their homes? 

I... personally don't have a first aid kit at home and never had, neither my parents had, but... I've always had a "medicine cabinet", that always have... things like bandages, peroxide, alcohol, chlorhexidine, anti-burn cream... I don't know, the kind of things you are supposed to find in a first aid kit.

Don't you folks have that kind of thing?

#now#fire extinguishers? that's only for rich people

Realizing our household may be more accident-prone than most because we have a fire extinguisher on both levels and a full-on first aid kit, and we've needed them.

This is terrifying. Please get some of this shit for your home.

If you are renting, your landlord is supposed to provide a fire extinguisher (check local rental laws and your lease, and if you don't know where it is in your home, find out). You should keep it in the kitchen and/or near the fireplace if you have one. You can get these on amazon for $20. Check dates and make sure your extinguisher is not in need of replacement (again, if renting, replacement/reimbursement should be your landlord's responsibility).

They will save your ass and they are not "for rich people", oh my god, holy shit.

For first aid:

First, you should definitely invest in a first aid/CPR course (infant and adult classes cost the same and are more comprehensive, it's worth it). Red cross offers them regularly and all over, and they cost around $100 and take about 4 hours your first time. You renew every two years, and renewing takes less time and costs less because you can take them online at that point, but even taking it once is helpful (but attempting serious FA/CPR if your cert is out of date is a bad idea; you will forget shit and might do more harm than good). You can also put this on your resume! It's especially useful (and required) in childcare/education.

Some basic tips for pretty run-of-the-mill stuff:

And some basic supplies to keep around, in a first aid kit or medicine cabinet:

If you know how to use others things, keep those other things around. Don't try to keep stuff around that you don't know how to use properly (like tourniquet kits), or if you do, make sure anyone using them does know what they're doing.

This list is also tailored to cover a variety of needs; you may not need some of this stuff personally, but if you have a friend over who has migraines, menstrual cramps, a bee sting allergy, or a latex allergy, it's a good idea to have some stuff on hand to help them out.

It's also a good idea to stock this stuff in your car if you drive, and definitely have them with you if you go hiking or camping (especially in a low-or-no-service area). You should also add a warm blanket, granola bars, water (in case you get stuck somewhere), and cat litter (for getting out of snow/mud) to that list for your car.

You should definitely also keep jumper cables in your car at all times, and consider getting a battery charger so you don't need to wait for someone else to show up and help you.

For the love of god, yall, please don't brush this stuff off as "rich people shit". I'm sorry you weren't taught this stuff, I'm sorry it wasn't normalized for you, but it's never too late to learn and make sure you're keeping yourself & those around you safe.

"BREAKING: We just filed a Federal Trade Commission complaint, calling for an investigation into Mastercard’s policies discriminating against online sex workers."

YOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Look, I don't care what you think about porn - you should still be supporting the ACLU in this. Because it meant that EVERY WEBSITE had to make sure no one was selling art that ANYONE called sexy, or risk being unable to process credit cards.

And enforcement was completely haywire. One person might get their account blocked because a bra strap showed, while another person showed closeups of genatilia with no problem. No one has EVER came up with a way to moderate this in a cost-effective way, so it is all based on user complaints and AI - and both overwhelmingly target minority artists. It is pretty easy for male-female porn to sneak by unreported, but two guys kissing fully clothed? Or a black swimsuit model showing a bit more cleavage than some asshole thought was appropriate?

And of course big name movie and game companies could include all sorts of sexy content in mainstream media while even a hint of it got the little independent guys banned.

On top of that, a lot of EDUCATIONAL material got taken down. Want to know what different STDs look like? How to treat an injury to the groin?

A lot of ancient art got blocked too. A lot of cultures - including most of Europe for a long time! - don't have the nudity taboos modern America has, and a lot of the best, most technically skilled and historically important art has - gasp! - nipples bared and cocks out. For most of history, that was not a big deal.

It is still extraordinarily easy to access porn, so the ban did nothing except make it harder for independent artists to survive, in every form of media, and make it more difficult for people to check the health of their bodies.

(Last but not least, I am of the opinion that it is very healthy for people to know what all sorts of different bodies look like, and sexual desire is perfectly natural and does not need to be hidden like it is shameful. I know that is controversial. But even if you think people should never see anyone naked except their wife or husband, it should still be very obvious that this policy did a lot of harm and zero good.)

@is-the-snake-video-cute can snakes eat chicken nuggets?

That's a blue-tongued skink. They love chicken, but chicken nuggets are never okay because of how heavily processed they are and all the spices/flavoring. This bluey is probably okay after a single chicken nugget, but it's definitely something that could make them sick if they eat too many or eat it too often.

Good news is that this is a [very good] photoshop and not a real image! The original image is by Silverfox on twitter, and was part of an art/photoshop challenge.

Original source

Original photoshop source

No skinks ate nuggets in the making of this image!

Oh, good! Ethically-sourced content, and very impressive photoshop job!

I've been every bit as entertained by Musk running twitter into the ground as the rest of us (because hubris hasn't gotten less funny in the last few thousand years), but my boyfriend is getting more anxious about it by the day.

He works in indie games, and they had a meeting today at his studio about how much they rely on word-of-mouth for sales. Most of that has been people being directed to their game via reviews on twitter, posts on twitter, or summaries by game websites on twitter. Their new game comes out later this year, and watching twitter collapse in real time means they have no idea whether they'll still exist by next January.

In terms of getting new jobs for the staff, that also used to be done via twitter. He got invited to give a talk at a conference after a twitter thread, found his previous and current jobs there, made most of his professional connections there.

It's not great that much of the gaming infrastructure was on twitter, but it was. There's not time to build a new one quickly enough for them, and they can't compete with the marketing for triple-A games.

I don't really know what the solution is. All kinds of journalism are nearly dead too, but maybe if people go back to browsing video game review sites they might get lucky idk.

He left triple-A games for this studio. Hopefully indie studios can weather the storm.

according to recent research, brain fog is almost certainly related to microglial activity, the immune response of the brain. this is more or less agnostic to etiology - chemotherapy can trigger it, so can viral infection or the body's own immune response lingering after either one. it also strongly suggests potential treatments; it is likely that in the next 10 years there will be at least some way of suppressing the brain's immune response relatively safely, with "safely" being the big caveat. (most ways we know how to suppress microglial activity are either full-spectrum immunosuppressants or pose way too much risk in other ways to be worthwhile.)

the upshot of this is that brain fog has a physical cause and it's worth reassessing clinical methodologies aimed at treating it as a symptom of depression or disordered thinking, much like chronic fatigue was treated for my entire adult life. (although that's not going to stop incompetent doctors from trying to make you do yoga and exercise about what amounts to your brain having an allergic reaction, sadly.)

this research is likely the result of mass disability among otherwise young and healthy people after COVID-19. it's not like brain fog didn't exist before then, but the rona has had an annoying habit of spotlighting chronic health conditions that millions of people have suffered along through life with largely ignored

also, if you aren't aware of it, naltrexone is a promising medication for chronic fatigue, metabolizing to a mu opioid receptor agonist in the body and effectively mitigating the mu opioid receptor damage believed to be the cause of most cases of chronic fatigue. it's one of those "works like magic for some people, doesn't do anything for others" things, unfortunately, but if you have cfs and haven't looked into it, you should

Some links from a quick google about it, in part adding them so I can go back and read through them later:

apparently netflix is ending their dvd rental service at the end of september and letting people keep whatever dvds they got so. if anyone wants up to 10 free dvds uhh

wait if there's anything niche on there. might be good to order it in case it gets destroyed

end of an era, but at least they're reasonably open about it. they are not accepting new sign ups anymore, so if you don't already have a login you're outta luck

i fucking hate

this is literally just labeling someone’s natural circadian rhythms as disordered.

“may fall asleep later than intended and feel sleepy during the day”

WHAT IF

hear me out

WHAT IF

WE JUST LET PPL LIKE ME W NATURALLY “DELAYED” CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS SLEEP WHEN THEY NATURALLY WANT TO AND STOP FORCING THEM TO CONFORM TO A BULLSHIT CAPITALISM-FUELED NIGHTMARE SCHEDULE!

like!!!!!!!!! WHY is this a DISORDER!!!

i remember during lockdown when i had nothing to do and i just started naturally letting my sleep return to what felt most natural, and that happened to be around 3am-10am ish. and i felt fucking fantastic!!!! i felt the best i’d ever felt!!!!!!

and now i’m back to bullshit trying to knock myself out using nyquil or weed or benadryl so i can wake up at 8am and get to work at 9am which is apparently “late” and i feel like shit all day and can never find the motivation to work on my books!!! during the pandemic i wrote an entire fucking book!!! usually between the hours of 11pm and 3am!!!! and now when i start to feel that itch to write i have to ignore it bc i have to go to bed at a time that feels so unnatural!!!!! fuck!!!!!!!!

i hate everything!!!!!!!!

why have i already gotten two ppl calling me ableist for this post.

Because people have no understanding of nuance and treat the DSM-V like how Evangelical Christians treat the Bible

I keep seeing this reaction to Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder and thinking "There has to be more to it than that. Like sleep time gets progressively later or is irregular or something."

But no, every source I check indicates that it is just going to bed and waking up later. And there's also an "Advanced Sleep Phase Disorder" where you go to sleep at 6-9 pm and wake up at 2-5 am.

And I've run into sources explicitly stating that these involve inability to sleep at a "socially normal" time.

I'm not an expert, but this seems to be just, actually pathologizing outlier circadian rhythms that are otherwise perfectly regular and fine.

Spoopy Season Safety

Oh my god reblog to save a me thank you

Reblogging even though it's way past Halloween bc this is an important reminder!

Stay away from anything with charcoal during this season if you are on ANY medication!!!

If you wanna make your own the two best options I've found are squid ink and Wilton gel coloring. (I've never used the suggested sesame so I have no input)

For Wilton gel color, especially frosting, dye in advance and sit it in your fridge at least overnight. (And yes, gel colors are very very very different from liquid in terms of saturation)

THERE IS. a website. that takes 3D models with seams and pulls it apart to make a plushie pattern and informs you where things need to be edited or darts added for the best effect. and then it lets you scale it and print off your pattern. and I want to lose my MIND because I've lost steam halfway through so many plushie patterns in the mind numbing in betweens of unwrapping, copying all of the meshes down as pieces, transferring those, testing them, then finding obvious tweaks... like... this would eradicate 99% of my trial and error workflow for 3D models to plushies & MAYBE ILL FINALLY FINISH SCREAMTAIL...

so this website let's you:

this is. beyond. this is BEYOND. and as far as I can see it's free???

So right.

I have a PhD in Linguistics. And yeah, I do have a lot of linguistics knowledge in my brain. But I can’t have it all in there, and wouldn’t even if I’d gotten into academia.

That’s why we were taught how to read papers and do research.

war thunder players avoid posting restricted documents for 5 minutes challenge (impossible)

It takes a special kind of person to leak classified documents... documents they can be sent to jail just for keeping in the wrong place... documents they are indoctrinated to keep secret because of enemies... for the cause of video game accuracy.

FLAPPER FANNY SAYS, by Anericn cartoonist, Ethel Hays (1892-1989).

I do not understand why Flapper Fanny has turned into a Lovecraftian Elder God in the Sugar Daddy cartoon.

thats a hat neil

Where else can you do this to a famous author.

I mean, Twitter, but it’s no fun there because Twitter sucks.

Someone should make a zine of 1800s style fashion plates of various lizards dressed as the characters from Dracula and call it Lizard Fashion.

— Ursula K. Le Guin, from The Dispossessed (via firstfullmoon)

terfs celebrating that the international chess federation has banned trans women from competing in women's FIDE competitions, because it's sooooooo feminist to argue that women are so biologically inferior and nowhere near as smart as men and thus can't play chess on the same level. girl that's not feminism that's literally just misogyny

they'll lick any boot that stomps on trans women

The situation is actually considerably more insidious than just saying that women are biologically inferior.

The reason why chess tournaments for women specifically exist isn’t because women can’t compete against men, but because professional chess has a rampant misogyny problem and female competitors often face horrific harassment from their opponents, coaches, audience members, media coverage, and international fans online. Many chess tournaments are actively unsafe for women, so tournaments specifically for women are to not just give them more attention and coverage, it’s also a measure to protect them from sexism and violence.

On August 3rd, an open letter from some of France’s top women players was posted on twitter, talking about the misogynistic harassment and sexual violence that women and girls face in the chess community and that many women are forced to stay silent about. It got dozens more signatures from women around the world. At least one person who signed it and one of the co-writers of the letter, Yosha Iglesias, is a transgender woman (and a very famous player).

For this new rule to be made almost immediately after women, including at least one transgender women, it seems like it’s direct retaliation for daring to talk about misogynistic violence. It’s also very blatantly shifting the blame for that harassment onto transgender players, specifically transgender women (though trans men are also suffering because of these rules), implying that removing trans women from one of the few spaces in professional chess that they can feel semi-safe will solve the issue of sexual harassment.

It’s punishment, plain and simple. Punishment for daring to speak out about misogyny, punishment for daring to speak out about transphobia, and punishment for daring to stand in solidarity with trans women. Women spoke up against violence and hate and the ICF responded by trying to drive a wedge between them, by pinning the blame on their fellow women and fellow victims.

And now, transphobes who have never once given a single fuck about chess or sexual violence among chess players are flocking to praise a transphobic decision that is only being used to further silence victims of misogyny and violence. They don’t care that the letter was made as an act of solidarity between cis and trans women over the violence they all face, they don’t care that this will only further hurt women in the professional chess community, all they care about is that it hurts trans people.

Finally!