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YOU GUYS WILL N O T BELIEVE WHAT I FOUND IN MY SMALL TOWNS MARKET TODAY
Hi so yesterday on my birthday I accidentally set my apartment on fire because I left a candle burning before I went to work and everything is pretty much gone I mean all I have is my phone charger and my laptop and my childhood stuffed animals so far from my apartment so anything you could possibly spare would really help me right now
I’m completely broke now and I don’t have a penny to my name until I get paid Thursday. If I could just get gas money because I’m living out of my car that would help me more than anything.
Hi so I have no money for food or gas and I really need something to eat and be able to get to work today so I don’t have to call in and spend all day in my hot car because I have no gas to get there or run the A/C :)
hey, hi, I was just on the former bird app and came across this info from a brand new study and now I cannot stop screaming internally??? what the actual fuckkkk
theres' an article from the guardian here and here is the actual study:
TLDR: New study is good. New study uses expired donated blood to test the absorbency of menstrual products. New study also tests comparatively newer products like discs and cups, which the current validated medical assessment tool has yet to integrate, likely due to a simple lack of data.
Old studies exist for tampons and pads--however none of them used blood. Old studies used saline or water, which have a very different consistency than blood, and may not accurately indicate actual absorbency of menstrual blood.
People in these posts are upset to find out that the old studies did not use blood to test menstrual products, and that it took until now for a study to consider something so important.
It is good that this new study used blood instead of water, and I personally hope to see more of its kind in the future! :D
It’s funny how science fiction universes so often treat humans as a boring, default everyman species or even the weakest and dumbest.
I want to see a sci fi universe where we’re actually considered one of the more hideous and terrifying species.
How do we know our saliva and skin oils wouldn’t be ultra-corrosive to most other sapient races? What if we actually have the strongest vocal chords and can paralyze or kill the inhabitants of other worlds just by screaming at them? What if most sentient life in the universe turns out to be vegetable-like and lives in fear of us rare “animal” races who can move so quickly and chew shit up with our teeth?
Like that old story “they’re made of meat,” only we’re scarier.
mikhailvladimirovich
HOLY SHIT THEY EAT CAPSAICIN FOR FUN
YOU GUYS I HEARD A HUMAN ONCE ATE AN AIRPLANE.
A HUMAN CAN KEEP FIGHTING FOR HOURS EVEN AFTER YOU SHOOT IT
humans are a proud warrior race with a pantheon of bloody gods: Ram-Bo, Schwarzenegger, etc.
REMOVING A LIMB WILL NOT FATALLY INCAPACITATE HUMANS: ALWAYS DESTROY THE HEAD.
WARNING: HUMANS CAN DETECT YOU EVEN AT NIGHT BY TRACKING VIBRATIONS THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE
WARNING: HUMANS CAN REPRODUCE AT A RATE OF 1 PER SPACEYEAR. DESTROY INFESTATIONS IMMEDIATELY
THE HUMAN MOUTH HAS OVER THIRTY OUTCROPS OF BONE AND POWERFUL JAW MUSCLES.
HUMAN BITES CAN BE FATALLY INFECTIOUS EVEN TO OTHER HUMANS
WARNING: HUMANS CAN AND WILL USE IMPROVISED WEAPONS. SEE CLASSIFIED DATA LABELED J. CHAN.
HUMANS CAN PROJECT BIOWEAPONS FROM ALMOST EVERY ORIFICE ON THEIR BODY. DO NOT INHALE
OH GOD THE HUMANS FIGURED OUT DOOR HANDLES OH GOD OH GOD
More seriously, humans do have a number of advantages even among Terrestrial life. Our endurance, shock resistance, and ability to recover from injury is absurdly high compared to almost any other animal. We often use the phrase “healthy as a horse” to connote heartiness - but compared to a human, a horse is as fragile as spun glass. There’s mounting evidence that our primitive ancestors would hunt large prey simply by following it at a walking pace, without sleep or rest, until it died of exhaustion; it’s called pursuit predation. Basically, we’re the Terminator.
(The only other animal that can sort of keep up with us? Dogs. That’s why we use them for hunting. And even then, it’s only “sort of”.)
Now extrapolate that to a galaxy in which most sapient life did not evolve from hyper-specialised pursuit predators:
- Our strength and speed is nothing to write home about, but we don’t need to overpower or outrun you. We just need to outlast you - and by any other species’ standards, we just plain don’t get tired.
- Where a simple broken leg will cause most species to go into shock and die, we can recover from virtually any injury that’s not immediately fatal. Even traumatic dismemberment isn’t necessarily a career-ending injury for a human.
- We heal from injuries with extreme rapidity, recovering in weeks from wounds that would take others months or years to heal. The results aren’t pretty - humans have hyperactive scar tissue, among our other survival-oriented traits - but they’re highly functional.
- Speaking of scarring, look at our medical science. We developed surgery centuries before developing even the most rudimentary anesthetics or life support. In extermis, humans have been known to perform surgery on themselves - and survive. Thanks to our extreme heartiness, we regard as routine medical procedures what most other species would regard as inventive forms of murder. We even perform radical surgery on ourselves for purely cosmetic reasons.
In essence, we’d be Space Orcs.
friendlytroll
Our jaws have too many TEETH in them, so we developed a way to WELD METAL TO OUR TEETH and FORCE THE BONES IN OUR JAW to restructure over the course of years to fit them back into shape, and then we continue to wear metal in out mouths to keep them in place.
We formed cohabitative relationships with tiny mammals and insects we keep at bay from bothering us by death, often using little analouge traps.
And by god, we will eat anything.
- We use borderline toxic peppers to season our food.
- We expose ourselves to potentially lethal solar radiation in the pursuit of darkening our skin.
- We risk hearing loss for the opportunity to see our favorite musicians live.
- We have a game where two people get into an enclosed area and hit each other until time runs out/one of them pass out
- We willingly jump out of planes with only a flimsy piece of cloth to prevent us from splattering against the ground.
- Our response to natural disasters is to just rebuild our buildings in the exact same places.
- We climb mountains and risk freezing to death for bragging rights
- We invented dogs. We took our one time predators and completely domesticated them.
- On a planet full of lions, tigers and bears, we managed to advance further and faster than any other species on the planet.
Klingons and Krogan and Orcs ain’t got shit on us
We drink ethanol (in concentrations high enough to be used as an effective as microbicide or a solvent!) for the express purpose of achieving blood toxicity and disrupting normal brain function… AS A RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY!
On the same subject, we also deliberately incinerate assorted substances and then inhale the particulate-heavy smoke and vapor resulting for the same effect. EVEN IN THE FACE OF SAID SUBSTANCES BEING CARCINOGENIC, BECAUSE WE JUST DON’T GIVE A FUCK.
Humans do not have biological castes. Kill their commander and another will take its place. Soldiers left alone on a planet will start farming and manufacturing to survive. Farmers and manufacturers will take up arms and kill you if pressed. Just because two humans look different doesn’t mean they cannot do each other’s jobs.
Breeding does not kill them. A single human can mate dozens or hundreds of times in a lifetime. They often do so as recreation. Xenobiology team six believes they do not have a mating season but this is too strange to be true.
Their appendages are not designed for hitting, so they developed special training to make them very good at hitting anyhow.
The proteins making up their bodies are toxic and cause prion disease. Do not touch anything humans have touched. Do not consume earth foods. Fire does not adequately remove this contamination.
Humans perceive sixteen times the colors we do. Do not hide in bushes or vines from humans. They can distinguish your pelt from the foliage with ease.
We tried venting waste gas into the tunnels to kill the humans when they attacked. Turns out they breathe it.
Everything on their planet came from a single biological strain. They developed comprehensive genetics BEFORE they developed space travel.
They lack radio receptors and cannot be brought into compliance with right-thought simply by broadcasting to them. Even after we learned how to translate it into sound-waves one of their hatchlings drove the Great Authority mad by responding to every demand with a single question: “Why?”
#an individual human being is actually a microbiome in its own right—you are dealing with a legion each time you approach them #they carry pathological agents inside their deep tissues and this is advantageous to their health #one of the most widespread and resilient viruses on their planet is treated as mildly hazardous—even though it causes #massive disruption to the body’s homeostasis #(their young offspring endure multiple rhinovirus infections EACH YEAR yet they seem unperturbed by this) #they have developed such long lifespans that now their primary threat is their own body’s degeneration #humanity has literally figured out how to survive so long that their body gives out under them #and they are not satisfied with that #stupid willful vengeful survivalists who treat mortality like a challenge
I am speechless
cause-of-chaos
We are the real terror to the aliens. That’s why they don’t come around
HERITAGE POST
this is the OG humans are scary space monsters post!
@hellsite-hall-of-fame tell me you’ve got itttt
OH MY GOD THIS POST
Forgot I never showed my poster designs for this pride month
I did this for uni
gifted kid burnout things that no one seems to talk about:
- the raw panic of hearing about your potential, positive or negative
- a weird brand of imposter syndrome where you genuinely think you’ve fluked your way through every success and you’re gonna be Exposed as a Fraud
- never having learned how to study and having no idea where to start now that you need to
- reading college level books as a kid but being basically illiterate now
- dismissing your struggles as irrelevant because other people have it harder and i should be smart enough to handle this
- feeling like you’ve lost all control over your life (maybe manifesting into depression, anxiety and disordered eating in a grasp for control over something)
- being unable to decide on a career path because you could have had everything, only to watch those opportunities disappear as you fail to commit
The most important Gifted Kid thing that most people miss:
- Being gifted doesn’t cause these problems later in life, it lets you cover up your other problems because you can brute force your way past anything that might hinder academic progress and the stereotypes of gifted kids keep people from looking to see if you actually have some other issue like ADHD or depression or whatever.
Gifted kids who grow up relatively well-adjusted didn’t “overcome” being gifted, they just didn’t have anything else to overcome. The gifted kids who fall apart as adults just managed to paper over their other problems until later.
Stigmatizing “gifted kids” both perpetuates anti-intellectualism and keeps kids with actual problems from getting the help they need.
bluedskyforever-deactivated2020
i feel personally...heard?
Me: Is getting attacked by RSD
Literary everyone: Just calm down, it isn’t that big of a deal
Me: gets more RSD because everyone is mad at me and they all hate me and im such a fucking baby and im such a failure is should just die, if i died, i’ll calm down and everything will be okay again and no one will be mad and no one will have to deal with me ever again i should just DIE-
What people think ADHD is: “So I wanted to talk abou..SQUIRREL!”
What ADHD actually is:
RAGE
Crying
“I havent heard a word you’ve said for the last 5 minutes because I had a thought and I wanted to tell you about it and if I dont focus on holding onto it it will go away”
“My wife didnt sit next to me on the couch, she must not love me anymore”
“I need to clean everything spotless, NOW”… and then ignore all messes for the next month.
How do people sleep?
Not understanding why someone is still upset when you had the fight at least 3 minutes ago.
Obsessive thoughts about any possible point in the future that you might fail occupying all your brain power during a lecture/conversation/training and having no idea what was said because all you could think about was how ashamed you’d be if you failed.
And…SQUIRREL
Just ADHD things
- Huh?
- Foot wiggle foot wiggle foot wiggle
- Where did I put the- oh got it.
- Clenching your jaw
- There's 23 songs, 12 vines/tiktoks, a television line, and a dial-up noise all in my head at the same time
- D I S S O C I A T E
- Are you going somewhere?
- What was I doing?
- Ooop bad noise don't like that noise
- Simultaneously recite Shakespeare and stare blankly at the wall
- Stare blankly at the wall
- COLLECT THE THINGS
- I've repeated the same movement twelve times because it somehow brings me comfort
- Blankets blankets blankets BlAnKeTs
- I'm sorry, could you repeat that? I'm sorry could you repeat that? I'm sorry could you-
- Nod and smile
- Cry at the sight of a stack of papers
- I don't see it, it no longer exists
- I'm looking right at it, it somehow STILL doesn't exist
ADHD Moods: A Collection
* Bored.
* move move move move move move move move move
* “What month is it again?”
* SHIT
* “Aren’t you supposed to leave at 3:00?” “Yeah but it’s only like 1:30 I’ve got time” “Dude it’s like 2:57” “FUCK”
* Focus level: non-existent
* Focus level: EXTREME
* “Listen I know you told me to do this thing and explained it three times already but could you maybe explain it again”
* “I forgot”
* MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE
* I had three assignments due today and I forgot about all of them kill me
* The face you make when a NT tells you to “just write it down”
* MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE
* “Can I touch your stim toy?” “NO”
* It’s been 14 hours since I ate bc I forgot
* It’s been 38 hours since I ate bc I forgot
* “iF it wAs imPoRTanT yoU wOuLd’Ve rEmeMbeReD iT”
* “When the hell was the last time I showered?”
* Yes I know I need to calm down but THEYRE TALKING ABOUT MY HYPERFIXATION OVER THERE
* MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE MOVE
* I’m hungry but all I want is strawberry jello
* Too Much™
You know what?
I am annoying sometimes.
And that’s okay. It’s not the death sentence I was led to believe. People will love me even if I can’t read their signals sometimes. Not understanding is forgivable. I don’t have to hold myself back so I don’t annoy anyone ever.
The people who love me know I get excited. And I am still loved.
Well shit
do you ever go in the bathroom to pee and then you’re like well fuck if i’m already in here i might as well also shower?
happy international women's day this is a special message to my fellow trans men to support and have solidarity with trans women and to stop talking to and about them the way cis mras talk to and about cis women.
transmisogyny is alive and well and is literally killing our sisters, on this day of all days, we should be advocating for their liberation.