Reblog if you’re a true 90s kid and you remember this tumblr

In retrospect it was high key insane that they had the activity feed embedded into your dash board like that

It’s why you never wanted a post to escape containment here. It literally made your dashboard unusable for days or longer, obscured by notifications that didn’t even stack. It was wild. I miss it.

Really, the answer to most 'so many cases of X didn't use to exist!' complaints is that THEY USED TO DIE.

Allergies? Gluten intolerance? Cystic Fibrosis? Seizures? Asthma? Diabetes?

THOSE USED TO BE ALL BUT DEATH SENTENCES.

Y'all ever notice that when people say "There were never that many X people before!!!" X people almost always seem to be Housebound due to Lack of Accessibility or Chance of Severe Illness, Unrepresented because no one Put A Name to the Demographic, Oppressed with Physical Violence and Societal Ostracization, or straight up fucking Dead?? Just me?

on top of all that, people might not have come into contact with the things they're allergic to in the past. or not as much. how would a European person with a peanut allergy have ever encountered the things before American colonization? one of my friends is very allergic to bell peppers, but her Scottish ancestors c. 1700 would probably never see one in their lives. we often have much more diverse diets nowadays

(if it was a mild-moderate enough allergy, they might also just call it an "intolerance" and avoid the thing in question as much as possible. they might not have known why it got them sick, but they could definitely put two and two together)

Hi I have IBS and an intolerance is not automatically mild or moderate, you are severely misunderstanding that term! A food intolerance involves your gastrointestinal tract rather than your immune system. It can be as severe and life-threatening as anaphylactic shock, and the reason I am nitpicking is that the attitude that it's 'lesser' has actively threatened my life. Intolerance is not a 'step down' from an allergy, that's not what that word means.

I will use myself as an example: I am allergic to bananas and pork, they bother my immune system and so they are allergies; but my intolerances have to do not with my immune system but my gut flora not having the right staff-member to process, say, fructans. My intolerance to alliums is severe and can be life-threatening; my allergy to pork is mild and never is.

I agree with everything else being said--but, and I cannot emphasise this enough, people also used to die of 'intolerances'. Intolerance to a food still causes severe illness, and yet because we have 'intolerance' and not 'allergy', well... I know people with allergies don't even get their life-threatening allergies taken seriously, so you can imagine how bad it is when 'it's not even an allergy you're just intolerant'.

And to the larger conversation I'd like to add: Diarrhoea may just an embarrassing, minor, temporary affliction today in the developed world; but that is recent and only possible because we have access to clean water to drink, toilets indoors, and modern antibacterial chemicals. It was a death sentence for most of human history. It still is if you're part of the developed world and on the street, or in an institution, where you don't have access to those things!

'Why is IBS so prevalent' because like above people said, we have access to more kinds of foods AND people aren't dropping dead from dehydration from diarrhoea all the time! For fuck's sake, cholera and dysentery used to be YEARLY OCCURRENCES, and people died EVERY FUCKING TIME.

Don’t forget the swaths of people who would have died of chicken pox, measles, TB, polio….if your immune system is already kind of sucky, those things are gonna be way worse.

survivor bias is real

Not to mention the part where people with disabilities used to just be shoved off into asylums and nursing homes until they died, and literally, with disabled children, when they stopped warehousing them, it turned out a lot of "very fatal" things weren't so fatal after all. The life expectancy for Down Syndrome used to be 12.

We were literally told that 50 years ago we would have been told to put our disabled child in a hospital and leave her there. By her doctor.

When she was first diagnosed (not Downs, something else chromosomal) we were told 70% mortality by age 2. She's 18 and they now thing it's less than 20% by age 5.

And we know that institutionalization kills, but it also (like "ugly laws") gets people out of sight.

But also endocrine disruptors and other side effects of modern life do have effects on the body, but there have been many such things through the years. Do more people have allergies now? Maybe. Does that mean they're lying or making shit up, or that something about the modern world makes their bodies get confused about what is food to be used for nourishment and what's a problem to be fought with all the force the immune system can bring to bear? (and also many "allergies" are undiagnosed mast cell disorders, because we literally did not understand these things well in the zeitgeist until very recently, or like, at all, because they're still not fully grokked. People weren't diagnosed with ME/CFS or mast cell dysfunction as often as they are now because those diagnoses are RECENT discoveries.)

Barriers to Intimacy by Olivia de Recat

heartbreaking:

girl has sooooooo many ambitions and ideas for projects but can only get 1.5 basic tasks done per day

finally I got them all

me searching my blog for something i know for a fact i have posted about multiple times only for tumblr to show nothing

“that search was weird and we didnt really get it”

Tumblr is gaslighting us with the broken search function for real 🤧 like I'll find a cool blog and go to search and it's like

Tumblr: this person posts a lot about #birds and #crows! :)

Me: *clicks #birds*

Tumblr: um... what? This blog has NEVER posted ANYTHING about birds. Actually I've never even heard of that and you're kind of weird for saying that. Maybe u should get ur house checked for carbon monoxide 🫤

bosohurricane

reasons we need video game cheat codes back:

- funny big head weird gravity play as a weird character etc etc

- becoming invincible is an accessibility feature. look i know being good at games is very important to people who are good at games but if youre missing out on the story of the game because youve been stuck on the same level or fight for a week that kind of sucks ngl. i say this on behalf of both the people with physical disabilities and the people who just arent very good at video games

ppl managing to live where they grew up is really bizarre to me

Hi! Croatian here. As an inland country, I found a job processing uranium. We have a lot of it.

God I wish I was processing uranium in Croatia

I think about this post every day

Hey, another Croatian here! Croatia has a coastline and I can’t find a single mention of uranium in Croatia. I don’t know what kind of paralel universe this person is from.

He Would Express Those Sentiments, But Not In That Vocabulary

He Does Not Fucking Talk Like That

This is about characters using 21st-century social justice lingo in the 1500s, but it is also about people making Aragorn say "kinda-sorta".

The stages I went through:

1. Lmao

2. No you’re right OP… he wouldn’t fucking say that

3. I do have a little grace to spare for these writers though! I do have quite a bit of patience! So much grace! It’s hard out there! I can be kind

4. Lmao, though. Lol.

5. …Oh my god though.

6. Oh my goodness. This is a Challenge. Challenge to the writers. Red rag to the bulls!!

7. Can you, in 100 words (or equivalent) write Aragorn saying “kinda sorta” while having it in unmatched character?

"I don't recognize that name," said Frodo, puzzled.

"Qinda Sor-tah," said Aragorn, "is a story that the Elves tell their children. According to the story, he never liked things either one way or the other. He drank his drink neither hot nor cold, he slept in a bed neither hard nor soft, he wore a hat that was neither large nor small. In time when he was called to the Halls of Mandos, he refused to go, but Mandos would not allow him to return, so he dwells now forever upon the threshold, neither within nor without, and will stay so until the world is unmade."

Living With The Pet.

Artist Yaoyao Man Van

Peek-a-boo Pachy

Peek-A-Boo Pachyderm- Ready or not, here I come...

Hide and seek by Staffan Widstrand

An elephant in the African savanna tries to camouflage itself behind a bush that is too small compared to its size, in a humorous attempt to hide from the park visitors’ gaze. When it finally realized it had been discovered, it calmly walked away.

fried chicken and mashed potatoes

effervescent

CollegeHumor is dead. Long live Dropout. 👑

The Shape of Ideas

@practising-writer