I feel cheated. no one on Reddit told me that tumblr is a serotonin factory. Keep liking and reblogging my posts please thanks
Just don't fly too close to the sun.
Throw me to the sun and I’ll get it pregnant
Fellas (gender neutral), you heard him. Ready the catapults.
This won’t make your blog look ugly. How could you not reblog this? REBLOGGING THIS COULD SAVE A LIFE!!!
This goes for assholes, too, guys. I know a couple who went tubing once, and they had to re-air their tubes, but the guy thought it would be funny to stick the tip of the air compressor up to her bikini trunks, the air ruptured something inside her and she died within thirty minutes.
WHAT?
The thing about this? It’s in every pregnancy book I’ve read.
WHAT?????
Why is it in pregnancy books but not sex ed books?
Because the men in charge only care about the health and safety of women in so far as it enables them to have babies.
Reblogging with a link because I thought this was a legit joke. Never heard it before. Like I knew you could kill a person by inserting air into a vein but still.
WHAT THE FUCL I hate how I didn’t learn this in sex Ed AT ALL
This is very true lol
Yo what the f u c k
not the normal stuff i’d reblog but, uh, this is kinda??? heckin???? important?????
I feel like I first saw this in The Joy of Sex, but it’s definitely a thing.
What the fuck
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….thank you tumblr??
hm.
I legit thought this was a shitpost until I saw the rest of the comments
I first saw this in The Joy of Sex, too.
Well I never
As a general rule of thumb, do not push air into any bodily orifice, regardless of gender. It never ends well. Air compressors and the human body do NOT mix.
Not even the mouth, shit can rupture a lung.
broke: wwx does extremely reckless and dangerous things bc he believes it doesn’t matter if he gets hurt bc of insecurity
woke: wwx does extremely reckless and dangerous things bc he’s confident he’ll actually pull them off, and that even if he does fail, he’ll be able to deal with the consequences better than anyone else could
Now, researchers have put a nail in the coffin of porn addiction. Josh Grubbs, Samuel Perry and Joshua Wilt are some of the leading researchers on America’s struggles with porn, having published numerous studies examining the impact of porn use, belief in porn addiction, and the effect of porn on marriages. And Rory Reid is a UCLA researcher who was a leading proponent gathering information about the concept of hypersexual disorder for the DSM-5. These four researchers, all of whom have history of neutrality, if not outright support of the concepts of porn addiction, have conducted a meta-analysis of research on pornography and concluded that porn use does not predict problems with porn, but that religiosity does
If the concept of pornography addiction were true, then porn-related problems would go up, regardless of morality, as porn use goes up. But the researchers didn’t find that. In fact, they cite numerous studies showing that even feeling like you struggle to control your porn use doesn’t actually predict more porn use. What that means is that the people who report great anguish over controlling their porn use aren’t actually using more porn; they just feel worse about it.
Having moral conflict over your porn use (PPMI) does turn out to be bad for you. But that's not because of the porn. Instead, higher levels of moral conflict over porn use predict higher levels of stress, anxiety, depression, and diminished sexual well-being, as well as religious and spiritual struggles. In one study by Perry and Whitehead, pornography use predicted depression over a period of six years, but only in men who disapproved of porn use. Continuing to use porn when you believe that it is bad is harmful. Believing that you are addicted to porn and telling yourself that you're unable to control your porn use hurts your well-being. It's not the porn, but the unresolved, unexamined moral conflict.
This is a really good writeup.
Incredibly funny thumbnail for this post
This is not an American/non-American thing
This is a CLASS thing
When I (American) went to college (expensive private school on scholarships) (almost everyone there upper middle class or upper class) I and one of my friends (average) incited anger and rejection for asking to ‘tag along’ to the grocery store
They saw it as selfishly asking a favor and were shocked, just like the OOP’s friend, whereas we saw it as a normal and sensible thing to do.
In case you’re uninitiated:
These are the current female volleyball uniforms
The Norwegian team on the left got fined a ridiculous amount of money for wearing shorts to the games
When you compare the men and women, it becomes very clear how sexist the uniforms are.
“Sexism is dead women are so annoying to keep talking about it”
*professional athletes get fined for wearing shorts*
Still reeling from the realization that bullet journaling was essentially created to be a disability aid and got legit fuckin gentrified
Like I'm at work and don't have the time to properly organize my thoughts atm but like.
-bullet journalling was invented by a man with a learning disability (99% sure it was ADHD but his website now just says learning disability so I can't be 100%) as a system for organizing his life/way to work WITH his learning disability
-the general concept is bullet point the important things you need to do and use a simple system of symbols to mark whether it's done, rescheduled, cancelled, etc. with very little fanfare, keeping it all in one notebook so you know where to easily find the information at a glance
-people pick it up and it starts getting popular
-bullet journaling becomes an aesthetic movement largely populated by white neurotypicals
-bullet journaling has turned into creating an extremely pretty notebook that has some function, but largely depends on complicated decoration and aesthetic function that takes more time to set up than is tenable for the people it was created for
-new entries to bullet journaling feel pressure to shop at particular stores, use particular brands, purchase lots of stationery purely for its aesthetic value, and prioritize the artistry of the pages rather than the information being stored on them
-people who would massively benefit from the original system can only really find information on it from members of the aesthetic movement. There is now a barrier to entry for ppl with ADHD and other similar conditions, as bullet journaling now requires a focus and motivation to start that these same people often lack or struggle to maintain consistently
-bullet journaling is no longer a disability aid and has become an aesthetic movement largely for middle class white neurotypicals, pushing out the people who the system was created for to begin with
This is the original guide from the person who made bullet journalling. Super simple. Not at all high maintenance.
It was eye-opening to rewatch this after getting used to bullet journal meaning "work of highly decorative art you might journal in if it doesn't detract from the decoration" everywhere online.
"This story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way."
vs
"This story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way."
demanding a series in the same vein (heh, vein) as Dexter/Hannibal wherein a prolific serial killer plays cat & mouse with the police--except the serial killer in question is a preteen schoolgirl. this would make for compelling television due to the fact that middle school frequently causes girls to become deranged, and more media should reflect this
she hangs out at active crime scenes in a way that should be a red flag, but "evades" the police simply by merit of being in 7th grade
the one 'detective'/nemesis who is convinced she had something to do with The Murders is the classmate who sorta tried to bully her at the beginning of the school year, but then the vibes got all intense and sapphic so she backed off and has been Ignoring the Nerd she does Not have a special interest in. except then The Murders begin and she has so many Suspicions, but every time she confronts the antihero the interaction ends in accidental intimacy followed by furious blushing
the nemesis's father is an (unsympathetic) cop character who repeatedly ignores his daughter's concerns. "dad i think the weird girl in my math class is a serial killer" "that's not an excuse for failing algebra. go do your homework"
Its obvious to me when people who post about canaries in mines have never met a canary. Like yeah the miners had a special device to revive the canary because canaries are one of the most adorable creatures on the planet and they make adorable little chirping sounds and honestly probably loved the sounds of machinery and people talking so it was probably loud and friendly with the workers. Whatever though maybe meet a canary sometime and youd understand
If you see this animal every day at work, and it sings to you during your hardest bouts of labor, you will be distraught if it dies. Even if you know this creature is meant to die in lieu of you, you still hear it when the labor is at its hardest and your muscles are struggling against the weight of your work. It is so small, smaller than your soot-stained hands and louder than the death that follows you. You dont want it to die. The same as a woman does not want her candle to run out ; she knows that is the point, its flame is meant to burn the wick and melt the wax ; but she is not indifferent to its wasting away. She may even save her favorite candle as not to burn it too quickly. Now imagine you are that woman, and there is a way to rebuild your favorite candle that you love the smell of and the way it flickers. Would she rather throw her candle out? Or would she rebuild it? That is a canary to these miners. Would you allow an animal to just die when it has been singing for you? It reminds you that it is alive, and you are too. Its stop of song signifies the lethal danger you are in. Why abandon it? Is the miners' love for a little bird really that surprising?
Why does this read as though written by a coal miner of the era in which a canary was needed.
Because time is an illusion and love is infinite
in the words of the great Elizabethan wordsmith William Shakespeare, in Hamlet Act IV Scene V, “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” or, in the words of the great Twitter wordsmith @Horse_ebooks,
this is 1947 Cincinnati Enquirer erasure
please do not forget your smash mouth
MrBeast being openly and aggressively a trans ally and calling out transphobia bc his bff Chris (any pronouns according to bio) is on HRT and is getting targeted by transphobes was not on my bingo card, but good for them
I have many problems with Mr Jimmy Beast, but his influence is massive. There's no internet micro or macrocelebrity with more power than him at this point. For him to be openly against transphobia is a big deal no matter what.
Like Disney fighting DeSantis.
Really heartening to see Beast and a lot of huge creators defend Chris!
so this thing is a pathological fucking liar lol
It's actually the closest one to me, not in Johannesburg. So the model is not using chats for location data, I think. It says IP but that's false, as I know my IP address shows up as a few towns over.
I got it to show something that looks like an initial prompt (which it might be generating, see below) but the placement of my location data does seem more human than GPT. I'd guess that it's using location data from the phone.
I disabled location services for the app and it stopped knowing where I was, but I wasn't able to confirm by having it state the prompt again (even using the same query).
The first time I asked I'd already primed it with some conversation about GPT and how text completion AI work, which is why I don't fully trust the results to be actual evidence of the prompt it works from. Have to do more testing to see what GPT thinks a GPT prompt looks like...
“cain instinct” this “cain instinct” that. what about the reuben instinct where you hate your youngest sibling's guts but will still go out of your way to minimize the harm that comes to them. what about the judah instinct where you instinctively ask to be punished in place of your youngest sibling. what about the jacob instinct where your sibling is very hungry so u pettily make them promise you unreasonable things so that you'll give them food. what about the miriam instinct where you secretly watch over your baby sibling to make sure no harm comes to them.
[ID: the farquaad pointing meme. it shows lord farquaad from shrek pointing and smiling. overlaid is text that reads, "youngest sibling" in all caps. end ID.]
They should invent healthcare that doesn’t involve phone calls
A while back I asked my GP if there was anything that could be investigated regards my seemingly worsening hearing problems (while I've always had auditory processing problems, hyperacusis has grown over time and tinnitus was new to me)
She said she'd arrange a referral, and shortly afterwards I got a text with a link to a document that had a phone number for me to call to make a hearing test appointment. I say again:
No other options, just the phone number. I tried Googling around it, and no, just the phone number and a street address.
I tried the phone number, and there was a lot of hold music—loud, Vivaldi (a lot of sudden up and down volumes and pitches, a real nightmare for me), interspersed with quiet moments in which in unclear voice would tell me how important it was, before hurting my ears with Vivaldi again. And I don't mean like "haha that music hurts my ears", I mean like, it hurts.
Eventually I gave up and figured I'd go to the physical place.
The receptionist had a mask and a speech impediment and there were fans whirring. Suffice it to say: the conversation was difficult.
Eventually I understood enough to understand: I could not make an appointment there, the only way was to call the phone number. To make a hearing test appointment.
Basically, the HoH equivalent of "if you need the key to the accessible toilet facilities, ask at the café upstairs"
i’m deaf. i’ve seen multiple audiologists in my life. these things have been true for every single one of them:
- either they exclusively communicate via phone or they give you the option for email but when you email them they respond with a phone call and if you insist on email they get Real Weird About It
- they do not know even basic sign language, not even things like “yes” or “no”. your average deaf infant has a better grasp on sign language than any of the audiologists i’ve met
- they refuse to communicate in writing during your appointments and insist on communicating verbally even though they KNOW EXACTLY HOW BAD YOUR HEARING IS BECAUSE THEY TESTED IT
many medical professionals are blatantly ableist and in my experience that extends very very much to audiologists
When Japan decides to do soft and sweet BL they really lean into it. Kieta Hatsukoi, Takara x Amagi, Old Fashion Cupcake, Mr Unlucky Has No Choice etc and now the lovely Our Dining Table.
I'm loving watching Inukai Atsuhiro after his roles in Kei x Yaku and Mob in Absolute BL. He's very subtle in this while he was very much not in those. The kid is delightful, his brother is a cutie and it's all completely fab.
More please.
lots of times if I tell my boyfriend that I am proud of him for dealing with a situation, or that I'm sorry he's having to deal with a situation, he will say "no it's my own fault." meaning that he feels like he doesn't deserve praise or comfort for dealing with a situation that is his fault. (for example a financial problem caused or exacerbated by him having been too anxious or absentminded to deal with the situation sooner.) and I tell him this and I will tell y'all this, that I don't believe that. I think you are even braver and stronger for taking steps to deal with a mess that is of or partly of your own creation, because you have to cope with guilt and shame on top of the thing itself, and because you're fighting against the same ingrained dysfunction in yourself that caused the mess. that's like the bravest and most constructive thing you can do and you should be proud and I am proud of you.
also, mistakes don't mean you deserve to suffer
Wow what an interesting way to say "countries with strong employee protection laws aren't at the mercy of tech billionairs in late stage capitalism" but with a real boot licker angle.
