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so on my journey last night i think i realized i’m not cis and i think i might wanna try she/they pronouns for now. also cut my hair in a manic state last night so that was fun. it’s cute though and definitely feels more me. it was a long night. anyway love you fam.
Don Wilson:
"I have noticed a significant increase in general laxity about PPE since COVID masking has been dropped. A significant % of OR staff (esp anesthesia & RTs) not bothering to mask inside actual OR even when sterile fields are open & set up.
Nurses inside OR generally much more consistent (they directly handle & set up sterile equipment).
I’ve seen unmasked anesthesiologists & RTs for emergency CS & gyne cases… I don’t get it. We mask to prevent contamination of open surgical wounds. Just because COVID mask mandates are over doesn’t mean INSIDE an operating room is a mask free zone.
Used to be that it was unthinkable to be unmasked inside an active OR. Even in the hallways during active OR time. It’s a sad commentary on the impact of the antimask stupidity spilling over to areas where it can impact quality & safety of the patient care environment.
I’m just one person who chooses to be fastidious about masking inside the hospital, I can’t take on the entire system. But it’s discouraging to see & I wonder how many patients go on to have nosocomial surgical infections because of relaxed cultures around masking now."
Yesterday I saw an article about Hantavirus prevention that didn't mention respiratory protection when cleaning up mouse poop. Just gloves, bleach, and wetting rather than sweeping. Which is better than nothing, but for a disease as dangerous as HPS, I'm going to put in the tiny extra effort of an N-95 also.
Construction workers are masking less around sawdust and worse.
The anti-mask brainrot runs deep.
^ this exactly.
Linking other post involving now occupational hazards and injuries to workers due to managers and owners' attitudes on PPE:
I keep quoting “my acocunt” for several months and I just realized it’s from my own screenshot and not a popular post
Well NOW it’s going to be from a popular post
I love Matilda because it's a story about a child who sees injustice around her and gets mad about it and questions why things aren't fair, and instead of the ending being that she learns how the world works and that life isn't fair, she catapults one of the adults who abused her out of a building with her mind
"School districts that don’t respect transgender and nonbinary students’ pronouns or force them to use restrooms that don’t align with their gender identity could be committing federal civil rights violations beginning this fall.
Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced the issuance of a final rule under Title IX to protect people in public schools from sex-based discrimination and harassment. The announcement marks a significant update in federal efforts to combat sex discrimination in federally funded educational institutions. During a call with reporters, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona emphasized the administration’s dedication to ensuring that Title IX effectively serves all students by providing safe, welcoming, and rights-respecting educational environments."
“Both sides are equally bad” is false. “Both sides are bad,” sure, but in no way are they equal.
just kidding. nap strength of 10,000 sleepies
4:35 Blaze it sorry traffic was crazy
oh we missed the ten year anniversary of the worst post i’ve ever made
traffic again?
Okay, so I have seen that cat-paw x-ray a few times, and always assumed it was fake, but before posting to say that, I did some digging, and I am super glad I did, because the truth turns out to be way more interesting!
Here's an actual paw of an adult cat:
You can easily find a lot of images like this in a simple google image search for "cat paw x-ray." (A lot of them are contrasting the normal paw with a declawed paw.) This particular one is from the imaging anatomy website at the University of Illinois School of Veterinary Medicine, which is a study tool for students to review normal anatomy.
That same Google search also shows a lot of social media posts using this image or one like it to "debunk" the ridiculously fake-looking x-ray at the top of the post. But I noticed that I wasn't seeing anything like that that was coming from something more reliable than Just Some Guy--no news articles, and no social media posts from veterinarians/students, or organizations, or well-known public science education accounts, etc.--and no one was going into any depth about it. Just random users pointing at the obvious fake and yelling "fake."
So I kept looking, and eventually found some places where the top image was posted with context, and it turned out--surprisingly! I was surprised!--not to be a fake, but an x-ray of a very young kitten, where the bones are not fully developed, and therefore don't show up well on the x-ray. This veterinary reference source has x-ray images of a neonatal puppy, including this one:
If I'm reading the article correctly, it sounds like this image--and probably the kitten one--was done at a very low power, to minimize radiation exposure to such a tiny patient, which results in a lower-quality image with less detail, contributing to the cartoony appearance.
The kitten x-ray has also been cropped to leave out the forearm bones, which--being bigger--show up with more detail in the image and therefore make the whole thing look less ridiculously fake:
(The article has a couple of paragraphs of technical detail about equipment settings and techniques to improve sensitivity and get more detail; if the person taking the kitten x-ray wasn't able to use all of those tricks, that would probably explain why the puppy one is a bit more realistic-looking.)
So there you go! Turns out teeny-tiny kittens actually are mostly fluff with cartoony little bones! Now we know.
Y'all need to stop saying shit like “songs with the same bpm”
Beats per minute is a unit. The word you’re looking for is tempo.
If two songs have the same tempo, their bpm are equivalent.
You wouldn’t say two people of the same height have “the same inches.” You would say height. So stop saying two songs have “the same bpm” when you can just say tempo
I’m an assistant band director don’t argue with me
I have a music degree and taught for over a decade. You can say BPM or tempo it’s basically all the same. Don’t let the classical music snobs get you down
Oh no, I made a post voicing a pet peeve of mine and suddenly I’m a “classical music snob” even though I’ve been playing baroque flute for over a decade professionally…
Yeah I mean… Well there it is
I’m now going to refer to things that are the same height as having the same inches. I like that.
Tempo indications (either in-score or in reference/conversation) are often not as specific as bpm. You can technically say that two songs are the same tempo, for example, Allegretto vivace (fairly brisk and lively), without their bpms matching exactly, or without their having consistent bpms (plenty of songs do speed up and slow down). If you’re specifying bpm, you probably have a reason to; you might be trying to make a mashup, where it’d be inconvenient if not disastrous to combine two songs with equivalent tempi but slightly different bpms.
Analogically, if two people are the “same height”, they might be level to the naked eye or to a relatively well-calibrated measuring instrument, and they can for example both be pallbearers at the same funeral, but you’d probably want to know how many millimeters tall each one was if they were both going to, say, stand on a level surface under the surprise shot of a deadly horizontal laser (and we might try to stand behind the one with the extra 2mm).
I appreciate not only that you explained this in a way that I, a non musical fool, can understand, but also your incredibly gratuitous and yet desperately needed use of deadly horizontal lasers.
I love that the flute snob is like “oh NOW I’m a SNOB” yeah it happens. The flute does it. Sucks the common sense right out of your brain. At least it’s not the piccolo, though.
June 28, 1998. Both flags measured approximately 50 feet wide and 75 feet long.
Friendly reminder that the leather flag predates almost every other flag. We owe this community to leather daddies and kinksters
In the era of corporate sanitization never forget it was leather daddies and S&M folks who protected some of the earliest pride parades.
more rings anatomical edition
Pov you've been judged and found wanting
Anyways, just felt like drawing older Zuko and Azula
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this guy suuuucksss he can't catch anythingggg
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They only showed two hunts, and said one in three is successful. So he's probably on par. That said, 1 in 3 is pretty good numbers for a lot of predators. Hunting is really hard it turns out.
Leave him alooooone his legs are too short and his paws are cold😭
excellent faces on this guy
government is trying to ban tiktok meanwhile millions of poor and disabled americans are about to completely lose their internet access at the end of april because congress wont renew funding for the affordable connectivity program
hell fucking world
if you want to help us convince congress to do something that actually benefits society, please check out the link below. we only have roughly 45 days of affordable internet service remaining from the time this post has been written
guys the email stuff seems super intimidating but it's so easy. put your name, email, and city and they'll send in the emails FOR YOU. all repaired and written
HAAANK! THAT'S NOT ART BY THE OP HANK! OP REPOSTED IT WITHOUT CREDIT! HANK!
IT'S AI-GENERATED ART HANK! HAANK! THE FLOWER LINEWORK IS NONSENSICAL AND THE ROOM CORNERS DON'T MEET. IT'S AI! HANK!
