i think we should all consider getting emotional over this xkcd. as a group. let's get emotional about it

i like that we all think about a rock's journey so often no matter our education on the subject

My cat has to wear a cone this week and it made me think of an angel whose halo is a cone.

Local idiot is cone-free and back on his regular sillyzone nonsense.

I am obsessed with the theological implications of this

spock you did shrooms like at least once

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good work everyone

i think about this one so fucking often i had to clip it

that was like watching someone very skillfully assembling a stained-glass window just to watch someone else dropkick it

I can literally quote this clip word for word

Anecdotes by medical practitioners 

“I had a patient come in for an STD check. She was very upset and continued to tell me that she only had one partner. Progressing through my assessment, she further divulged that even if he was sleeping with other people it shouldn’t matter ‘because he uses a condom every time and he makes sure to wash it thoroughly after every use’.”

“Had a lady who measured her baby’s temperature by pre-heating the oven and putting one hand in front of it while the other hand was on the baby’s forehead. She told the nurse her baby’s fever was about 250 degrees.”

“Lady has to have foot amputated and is given waiver forms to sign pre-op. Buddy asks if she needs time to think about it. She’s very nonchalant and doesn’t seem to care much what they do. He gets suspicious and probes a bit as to why she’s not more concerned. She says she gets that they have to operate and it’s OK because the foot will grow back.”

"I had a couple who had been trying to conceive for over two years. I asked all the usual questions, how often do you have sex, any previous pregnancy, etc etc. Something seemed off to me during the consult, so I continued to ask questions. Finally I asked if he ejaculated while inserted into the vagina. Both parties looked confused.Turns out the couple was not having insertional sex at all. I had to awkwardly explain to them how insertional sex works. Diagrams were required.”

"Patient comes in, she’s upset. She’s pregnant, and she doesn’t understand why. She’s on the pill. Upon talking to her at great length, I find out that she only takes the pills on the days that she is sexually active – no other time.”

"Patient comes in with her bf. They are indignant, as if somehow I could’ve prevented [the pregnancy]. The problem? Well, the pills were bothering the girl’s stomach, so, being a gallant bf, he decided to start taking them instead.”

“I was explaining the treatment to the husband of a patient about to be discharged. He kept nodding and agreeing with me, but I knew it was flying over his head. Turned out a fundamental problem was that I was describing the drugs as ‘tablets’ and he had no clue what those were.”

Reddit thread 

Hahah

Oh my god… I can’t decide if I should laugh or cry…

People sometimes doubt the that standardised health and sex education is necessary. This is why those people are wrong.

Absolutely amazing 🏳️‍🌈🫶🌈

HERE ARE THE PICS causw I wanted to see and saw no one posted (link to profile: https://instagram.com/henryjimenz?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= )

So beautiful!!!

I vote we stop calling it inflation at all. Seize the language. It's price gouging, not inflation. Inflation is a nebulous concept that invokes feeling of being too complex for the layman, a struggle as old as economy itself against a beast no one has ever truly slain.

Price gouging is the truth of it. And it makes it very clear who is to blame, and what must be done to end it.

Can confirm this works wonders. Australia is in a cost of living crisis rn and the two major supermarkets are a big part of it, as they pretty much have a duopoly on not just the grocery shopping market, but a bunch of others considered to be essential (things like fuel). They are trying to blame their price rises on inflation, but the media recently started reporting it as price gouging (which it is), and it got the average person pretty worked up, better than blaming inflation did.

US state borders but they are based off rivers and mountains

@blinded-by-love

I think we should do this but leave Colorado alone so there’s just an extremely jarring rectangle in one part of this

I like how you think.

enough. to the Box with you

LOL

Ok but this is such an existential horror.

Imagine if this was a human walking in the park and they see another human and they go over to socialise only to see that there is something not quite right with this person.

They move wrong, they speak with the wrong inflections, their hair and skin seem false. Their eyes are dead and unmoving.

It is the puppet of a being with higher intelligence beyond your own understanding, mimicking your humanity for its own amusement.

But yeah this is a really cute video 

You forgot the bit where this puppet human is holding the biggest most succulent and fresh smelling blunt you’ve ever seen

that’s literally just ep 1 of the magnus archives

Comfort place - the bathtub (Part 1/?)

More of my favorite bl-tropes-collection.

btw the thing she couldn’t ignore was someone calling her out for saying anti-depressants/hormone therapy are only perscribed by lazy doctors

Update:

J.K. Rowling is apparently now filing a defamation lawsuit against someone who made fun of her for saying this, which means its time to spread this like wildfire!

I mean, we knew, but it's nice to hear so succinctly

Description:

A white person with long dark-blond hair and excellent cheekbones stands in a generic room and says, "Why do boomers hate young people so much? Obligatory 'not all boomers'."

Cut to a white man standing outdoors. He has dark, slightly greying hair, a beard and mustache, and black-framed glasses.

"So I won't get into the survivorship bias thing because that's already been covered, like the fact that a lot of boomers died younger because of institutionalized racism or the AIDS epidemic or a bunch of other things. Due to my age, however, which is 38, I have a pretty good memory of the boomers I grew up around.

Now obviously, I can't speak to the experiences of people who weren't cis white men, because that is what I am. However, there is an element to the experiences of specifically cis white boomers that I do wanna talk about, and that is the way they were raised.

Now the boomers were raised primarily by the Greatest Generation, or the War Generation, which is the individuals who survived the Great Depression, and then went on to fight World War 2. They were born primarily in the late 40s through the 50s, and raised in the 50s and 60s, and an element that needs to be recognized is the fact that the generation that raised the Baby Boomers, despite how we venerate them in this country, was deeply, deeply traumatized. The generation that raised the boomers had just survived the Great Depression, and then survived the greatest war the planet had ever seen, the most violent and horrific conflict that humanity had pretty much ever known up to that point.

The stifling social conformity of the 1950s makes a lot more sense when you consider it as the psychological reaction of a generation that's just been through something horrifying, trying to reclaim a sense of normality basically.

The Baby Boomers were raised by a generation with a massive amount of trauma they were carrying around in very little institutionalized support to help them manage that trauma. So what did they do? They passed it on and fed it to their kids.

This whole pull yourself up by your bootstraps, nobody's coming to help you thing, they were fed that by their parents, because their parents actually lived it. The Greatest Generation did their best to psychologically prepare their kids for a world that could fall apart at any second, and then they built a world that wouldn't.

So now you have the Baby Boomers, who have been raised by deeply traumatized parents to believe that self-reliance is the only way to survive in the world, and then they step into a world of unprecedented prosperity which goes on to completely distort their idea of what actual self-reliance looks like. And as a result of this, they started to believe that the prosperity they existed in was the baseline for what actual difficulty looks like, and thus that their self-reliance was what allowed them to succeed.

It's really not surprising that a lot of these guys voted for Reagan, because they didn't understand the reason that the pillars he was disassembling were there to begin with. They didn't understand the world they lived in to begin with, because it was completely at odds with the ideals they were raised with. And then when Reagan started disassembling it, well, they didn't understand why that was a bad idea, because they didn't understand the whole thing to begin with.

And now they're dealing with a generation that actually does know what's going on, so the cognitive dissonance has gotten even worse, and they lash out because they're traumatized and they're falling back on the things they were told as children, even though those things are completely at odds with reality.

The ones who hate young people do so because the ideas they were raised with and the world they were given do not match up, and they do not understand this. So they lash out because the truth is confusing and frightening and they were never taught how to cope."

The video ends with a TikTok attribution to @josephabrassey.

one of the weirdest experiences ive had being trans and out so far was when i went to the doctors about hrt and she walked me through the consent form (the one that tells you youre doing irreversible damage to your body and you're a freak) with a pen in her hand like crossing shit out and being like "this isn't true, this is actually completely false, this is totally an exaggeration" and it was stuff like "research on hrt is limited poor and speculative" or "hrt can increase risks of disease" or "testosterone makes you more violent and angry" like idk having it written in a way intended to make you feel like you're making a big mistake is one thing but the fact that the form has like literally proven false info in it and the doctor had to verbally be like sorry this isnt even true its just on there because society hates trans people. is wild

I don't know how auto clicker extensions work, but I am determined to win.

thank you dildo-smith Matt for chiming in, and while we're at it let's actually just go through the whole tl;dr pros/cons of the different families of lube!

water-based:

silicone-based:

oil-based:

#literally not into sex in the slightest but i feel this information is important enough for a reblog

I really appreciate when people share info even when it's not relevant to them personally! you never know who might be following you who will really benefit from seeing it :)

I don't use silicone based lubes for that reason and others-

Sliquid makes water based, paraben free, propelene glycol free lubes in a full range from watery to thick and anal-play friendly. They use things like hydrolized cellulose or algae gum to make their stuff thicker instead of using petrochemicals.

A lot of lubes contain ingredients that are not really great long term (esp being absorbed by mucous membranes) or things like glycerin which can really throw off your pH (I don't even know why any vaginal use lube even has that in there tbh).

Useful PSA, but also fails to fully satiafy the curiosity, so. I'll ask then. Why is it that you should not use oil-based lube with latex condoms? I have never used either and my sex education back in the US of A's public education system was... Let's just say "less than completely comprehensive."

it breaks down the latex and decreases the efficacy of the condoms! not awesome 👎