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the pokeball glitched and i just slapped the shit out of this poor gabite and I can’t stop laughing
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みなさん めりくりなのです
オレと家主は いつもどおりのシュウマツです
Merry Christmas everyone 💗 we spend calm weekend as usual
ウソです
おふろ しようとしたら きゅうとうきこわれたみたくて 家主ぱにくってるです
ミツビシさんにめーるしたです
Ah... I told you a lie ...my landlady was in a panic because the water heater is broken when she's going to take a bath ...she sent a mail to Mitsubishi san...
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actually carly rae jepsen was a genius when she said “before you came into my life i missed you so bad” and everyone who hated on that lyric just wasn’t smart enough to understand
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This wolf in British Columbia took a break from eating herring roe to investigate a half-submerged object: the photographer’s camera
Photograph by Ian McAllister
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Anonymous asked:
lober
yes boss
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I think, in an able-bodied world, and most importantly, in a able-bodied medical system, we as physically disabled people have to stop trying to assess our impairments from the POV of our own thresholds of pain, fatigue and other dysfunctions.
I struggle with this a lot as well, but if we're trying to get accommodations and treatments in a system created by and for abled and usually healthy bodies we have to speak their language and it really is a matter of having to constantly translate back and forth.
If I want an able-bodied person to take my state seriously I can't just say "I'm a little tired today". Even if to MY chronic fatigue standards that really is just a little more tired than usual. MY "a little more tired than usual" doesn't look like what an able-bodied person understands as "a little more tired than usual" and it sure as hell doesn't require the same care as what they understand by it... But they're the ones with the power to concede or deny me the level of care or at least basic consideration I do need.
Same with pain. The things I consider to be ok regarding pain and discomfort are things an able-bodied person would call in sick for. Same too with the cognitive dysfunction when I'm flaring.
If we as individuals want to get anything from a little understanding to (God fucking forbid) tangible help for our impairments then we have to start articulating what we're going through in terms they could understand. It's why I tend to tell people to "exaggerate"; because most of the time we won't be exaggerating, we'll be more accurate than we otherwise would.
Don't articulate your impairments to able-bodied people based on the bullshit you're used to on a daily basis, articulate them in relation to what's gonna get you the help you need.
I saw these pain scales on another post on this topic. It was largely about why for us numerical scales usually do no good because we mentally recalibrate what we are used to as “normal” and then imagine something like getting shot or run over by a bus as a 10 and work down from that.
These have the number scale but also a level of activity/pain that goes along with it, which based on the responses to the other post none of us had ever seen before.
I have all 3 saved on my laptop, my ipad, and my phone so I have them handy most of the time.
Not to be dramatic but this is the first time I see that fatigue scale and I want to cry because I feel so validated, at best I'm usually at a 7.
I can't provide descriptions for the pictures right now because I'm at like an 8.5 in that fatigue scale but I would really appreciate it if anyone reading this could do it for the visually impaired users who might be trying to navigate this post.
[Begin Image Description. Three images of pain diagnostic charts. From top to bottom, they rate physical pain severity, fatigue scale, and mental health pain scale.
First chart is titled '0-10 scale of pain severity', and is of physical pain severity, rating from the most extreme starting at 10 and lowering in intensity. The scale numbers include a brief description of how the pain impacts the person.
Severity. Description of Experience. 10 Unable to move. l am in bed and can’t move due to my pain. I need someone to take me to the emergency room to get help for my pain.
9 Severe. My pain is all that I can think about. I can barely talk or move because of the pain.
8 Intense. My pain is so severe that it is hard to think of anything else. Talking and listening are difficult.
7 Unmanageable. I am in pain all the time. It keeps me from doing most activities.
6 Distressing. I think about my pain all of the time. I give up many activities because of my pain.
5 Distracting. I think about my pain most of the time. I cannot do some of the activities I need to do each day because of the pain.
4 Moderate. I am constantly aware of my pain but I can continue most activities.
3 Uncomfortable. My pain bothers me but I can ignore it most of the time.
2 Mild I have a low level of pain. I am aware of my pain only when I pay attention to it.
1 Minimal. My pain is hardly noticeable.
0 No Pain. I have no pain. End of first chart.
Second chart is titled 'Fatigue Scale', and lists fatigue severity from most extreme at 10 and lowering in impediment. The bottom of the image includes attribution to a website and a user name. They are www.misstreated.org and @MissKatieErnst.
FATIGUE SCALE 10. Can barely move. Can't talk. 9. Can barely move. Can talk. 8. Can move, but can’t do much more than watch TV. 7. Can watch TV and play a game on my phone simultaneously. 6. Can do work on my computer lying in bed. 5. Can get around the house, but definitely couldn’t go out. 4. Can run a light errand. 3. Can get in my 10,000 steps for the day, making my fitbit happy. 2. Can do three or more activities in a single day. 1. GOING CLUBBING! End of second chart.
Third chart is titled 'a simple mental health pain scale' and lists mental health pain from most mild at number one to most severe at number 10. The individual numbers include a clip art with facial expressions ranging from happy smiles and graduating to extreme distress. The scale is split into three sections labelled 'mild' 1-3, 'moderate' 4-6, and 'severe' 7-10. This scale is attributed to thegracefulpatient.wordpress.com
A simple Mental Health Pain Scale. Mild. 1 Everything is a-okay! There is absolutely nothing wrong. You're probably cuddling a fluffy kitten right now. Enjoy!
2 You're a bit frustrated or disappointed, but you're easily distracted and cheered up with little effort.
3 Things are bothering you, but you're coping. You might be overtired or hungry. The emotional equivalent of a headache.
Moderate. 4 Today is a bad day (or a few bad days). You still have the skills to get through it, but be gentle with yourself. Use self-care strategies.
5 Your mental health is starting to impact on your everyday life. Easy things are becoming difficult. You should talk to your doctor.
6 You can't do things the way you usually do them due to your mental health. Impulsive and compulsive thoughts may be hard to cope with.
Severe. 7 You're avoiding things that make you more distressed, but that will make it worse. You should definitely seek help. This is serious.
8 You can't hide your struggles anymore. You may have issues sleeping, eating, having fun, socializing, and work/study. Your mental health is affecting almost all parts of your life.
9 You're at a critical point. You aren't functioning anymore. You need urgent help. You may be a risk to yourself or others if left untreated.
10 The worst mental and emotional distress possible. You can no longer care for yourself. You can't imagine things getting any worse. Contact a crisis line immediately. End of third chart. End Image Description.]
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trying to explain what daylight savings time is but they just keep staring at me like I’m a fucking idiot who can’t read a clock. IM NOT WRONG YOU ARE.
hi
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Mobility aids and sensory aids aren’t a “worst case scenario”
Stop acting like it’s a tragedy when someone starts using a cane or wheelchair, and stop acting like it’s someone admitting defeat if they need ear defenders or stim toys.
Aids are a good thing. They allow us to live better than we could before, and that’s something to celebrate, not demean and be doom and gloom about.
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hi landlady, have you ever thought of making mr j a little frilly collar like this? I think it would be very dashing and some cats don’t seem to mind…
Oh, it's one of the most famous works of Shotei Takahashi! Although I like his cats but I haven't thought to make it... Please give me some weeks...
おまたせしたですよ
Thanks for your waiting
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the insisting on carrying those massive stacks of folding chairs alone as a kid to wlw and transmasc pipelines
also,
together we can prevent back pain
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Trans women will never be free until people stop having strong emotions about penises. Like we, as a society, have got to stop caring about dicks! Dicks have to stop symbolizing maleness, obviously, but they also have to stop symbolizing power, dominance, sexual agency and aggression, violence, and even sex itself. Like trans women can’t be free if the very conceptual presence of a penis represents an intrusion(!) of unwanted(!) sexuality(!) in public life. Like that’s why trans women are abhorrent to both male chauvinists and radical feminists, because both groups have extremely strong feelings about what a penis *represents*, and find the conceptual and actual presence of a woman with a penis to be simultaneously vile and nonsensical because they’ve loaded so much symbolic baggage onto both women and penises.
Anyway dicks are totally neutral body parts and seeing a dick, or a bulge in a swimsuit, or simply knowing that there’s a dick somewhere in the same bathroom as you isn’t harmful or violent
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Love the puns from Pun Hub
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Yet there are reasons for optimism. Globally, patrilineal culture is in retreat. The selective abortion of girls is declining. The male-to-female ratio at birth peaked in China and India and has fallen since. In South Korea, Georgia and Tunisia, which used to have highly skewed sex ratios, it has fallen back to roughly the natural rate.
Child marriage is falling, too. Since 2000 more than 50 countries have raised the legal minimum age of marriage to 18. Globally, 19% of women aged 20-24 were married by 18 and 5% by 15, according to Unicef, the UN’s children’s fund, but that is down from 31% and more than 10% in 2000. Polygyny is less common than it was, and often unpopular even where it is widespread, because of the harm it does to women and non-elite men. Women’s groups have pushed for bans in countries such as India, Uganda, Egypt and Nigeria.
Even in rural Iraq, some sexist traditions are in retreat. Mr Manshad says it is no longer acceptable for men to pay blood debts by handing over a daughter. “It is haram [sinful],” he says, though local feminists say it still goes on.
Other trends that help include urbanisation and pensions. When women move to cities, they earn higher wages and increase their clout at home. Their clan ties tend to loosen, too, since they live surrounded by non-members.
When the state provides pensions, old people no longer depend so completely on their children to support them. This weakens the logic of patrilineality. If parents do not need a son to take care of them, they may not desire one so fervently, or insist so forcefully that he and his wife live with them. They may even feel sanguine about having a daughter.
That is what happened in South Korea, the country that in modern times has most rapidly dismantled a patrilineal system. In 1991 it equalised male and female inheritance rights, and ended a husband’s automatic right to custody of the children after divorce. In 2005 the legal notion of a single (usually male) “head of household” was abolished. In 2009 a court found marital rape unconstitutional. Meanwhile, increased state pensions sharply reduced the share of old Koreans who lived with, and depended on, their sons. And among parents, one of the world’s strongest preferences for male babies switched within a generation to a slight preference for girls.
The change was so fast that it prompted a backlash among bewildered men. By comparison, it took ages for patrilineal culture to wither in the West, though it started much earlier, when the Catholic church forbade polygamy, forced and cousin marriage and the disinheritance of widows in the seventh century.
Individual attitudes can evolve. In Uganda, which has seen five violent changes of government since independence and invaded most of its neighbours, 49% of women and 41% of men tell pollsters that it is sometimes acceptable for a man to beat his wife. But this rate is in decline.
In the northern district of Lira, which is still recovering from a long war against rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army, domestic violence is rampant, says Molly Alwedo, a social worker. But it is falling. She credits the REAL Fathers Initiative, a project designed by Save the Children, a charity, and the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University. It offers older male mentors to young fathers to improve their parenting and relationship skills.
Gary Barker of Promundo, an NGO that promotes such mentoring globally, says: “There’s always a cohort of men who say, wait a minute, I don’t believe in these [sexist] norms. [They see the] consequences for their mums and their sisters.” It is local dissidents, rather than parachuting Westerners, who make the best messengers. Mentors do not tell young men their attitudes are toxic. They get them to talk; about what happens in their homes and whether it is fair. Peers swap tips on how to control their anger.
It doesn’t work everywhere. But a randomised controlled trial with 1,200 Ugandan fathers found that such efforts resulted in a drop in domestic violence. Emmanuel Ekom, a REAL Fathers graduate, used to come home drunk and quarrel until morning, says his wife, Brenda Akong. Now he does jobs he once scorned as women’s work, such as collecting firewood and water. One day she came home and discovered him cooking dinner. ■
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This little friend was in my dream last night
@elodieunderglass borb with legs
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My kitten Charlie loves the laundry hamper. He'll meow and whine until you put it upside down so he can become a kitty roomba.
KITTY ROOMBA
ID: Video of an adorable kitten playing with a cylinder-shaped cloth laundry hamper, repeatedly trying and failing to turn it upside-down over himself. When his owner helps him out, he joyously scampers around the room within the hamper, occasionally poking his head out of the handhold hole or poking a paw through to bat at a toy.
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tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva
[Image Description: A Twitter thread by Chelsea Fagan (@Chelsea_Fagan) that reads “A lot of things that we think take a lot of courage actually just take a lot of money. Quitting your job with no backup? Money! Calling off a wedding? Money! Starting over in a new city? Money! It’s very easy to have the courage of your convictions when you have a safety net, and very difficult to do anything on principle when you don’t.” It was posted on December 22nd, 2019. End description]