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@chalupaconspiracy / chalupaconspiracy.tumblr.com

I'm Bee, 25, queer, and I live in Midwestern corn hell. ~Icon by Paperized~ (Formerly cupcakes-and-tea)
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narwhalsarefalling
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scumtrout

fun fact about aging: you don’t perceive yourself as being older but you perceive young people as being younger. today I was in a zoom meeting with a bunch of young men and I kept thinking ‘who put beards on these children’.

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randomslasher

Correct. High school kids are WAY younger than I was when I was in high school. So are college kids. When I was in high school and college we were full grown adults. But now that I’m almost 40 the high school and college age kids are actually babies. It’s crazy how that happens. 

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sandersstudies

I remember when I was in middle school I would hear my dad calling college students and 20-something employees “kid,” as in “oh yeah this kid that just started in marketing is really talented,” or “the Johnsons’ son is a really nice kid” talking about like a 22-year-old and at the time I was like “what haha those aren’t kids those are clearly adults”

And now I’m a 24-year-old who sees my 18-year-old coworker as a baby and I’m like ah. I think I am coming to an understanding.

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what-even-is-thiss

Everyone on planet earth currently is the oldest and most mature that they’ve ever been. And they always will be.

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actual-sleeping-beauty

My residents at the retirement home regularly refer to 60 year olds as kids. Because those people are the same age as their kids. This is not something humanity ever grows out of and it’s honestly kind of cute.

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karnalesbian

learning that apparently several hundred people have been pronouncing 'miette' as 'mighty' has actively worsened my day

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lafortis

you mispronounce miette?? you butcher miette name????

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rudjedet

Should make a Controversial Truths about ancient Egypt version that’s specifically about the medical papyri, with thrilling entries such as:

  • There is no evidence the ancient Egyptians used tampons to collect menstrual blood; this idea probably comes from misinterpreting the various recipes for vaginal suppositories in the medical papyri
  • The sometimes-cited “abortion” recipe from the Ebers papyrus is not an abortion recipe but rather a contraceptive treatment. The medical papyri do sometimes use ambiguous language in similar treatments, which have been cited by non-Egyptologists as referring to abortions, but these cases deal with contraceptive measures or stillbirths/miscarriages
  • Egyptian medicine didn’t “resort to magic only when purely rational treatments didn’t work”. While we do see an increase in treatments that invoke heka to effectuate a cure for ailments that may have been beyond the skillset of the Egyptian physician, heka does crop up in a lot of perfectly manageable situations such as treating a stuffy nose or untying a bandage. Heka was an integral part of medicine, not something that was “a last resort”
  • Egyptians didn’t have a form of proto-electroshock therapy for migraines/gout/other types of chronic pain; this idea comes from a paper that features a mistranslation of a recipe against migraines/headaches in the Ebers papyrus, which left out half of the remedy, imposed modern English idioms upon the original Egyptian, and ignored basically everything we know about Egyptian medical practices in order to make the electrotherapy claim hold weight
  • Yes, the Egyptians did have a pregnancy test that also doubled as a gender prediction test. A study from the 1960s found it fairly accurate when it came to predicting pregnancy, but it did not have a good track record for gender prediction. However, it is also true that we’re not altogether sure which grains respectively should be used for the gender prediction part of the test, so we can’t make any definitive claims
  • The Edwin Smith Papyrus makes mention of using the pulse as a measure of overall health, citing “if it (the heart) is weary to speak” as part of the diagnostic process. While there is some discussion on what the phrase used means exactly, it’s likely that the Egyptians knew of the connection between a strong pulse and good health roughly a millennium before the advent of Hippocratic medicine
  • Contrary to popular belief, the Egyptians didn’t think the brain was completely useless: they actually knew it was vital in life and that damaging it could lead to injury and even death, they just didn’t know exactly what it does. This knowledge becomes clear in the Edwin Smith Papyrus; this textcontains the earliest known mention of a contrecoup injury and accurately ties the effects elsewhere in the body (a partially paralysed leg) to head trauma sustained after a fall
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cuuno-moved

does anyone have that one painting with the ghosts standing in the water?

like theyre in the water and they’re staring off to the side and there’s something so very wrong about it and they’re bending over and trailing along like deer in the headlights but you can’t see what they’re staring at which might make it even scarier

like this

beach day beach day

by the way, the artist is olivia steen (website linked above) and apparently, her other works are just as breathtakingly eerie

look at this!!! it’s cool as hell!!

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jays---wing

I thought the last one was very familiar to me and turns out it’s painted over a photo of john lennon !

and after looking at the first one again it is also, a beatle photo

Not going to lie the first picture like the ghost on the water It kinda is referenced on the one picture where the Beatles are in Miami for the Help! shooting I dont have the picture but it really looks like! Especially the bending ghost resembles Ringo and The other Picture where the ghost is sitting down I also remember so much remember that that picture is Brian Epstein sitting I also don’t have the picture cause I cant fine IT aaaaa HAHAH

Now THIS is some fucking forbidden fandom lore lmao

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talking-perfectly-loud

ETA THIS IS THE ONE!!!!

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ainyan

Google is actively blocking Captcha on Firefox

Firefox users have noticed that captchas - both the picture kind and the click the box kind - are not resolving on Firefox. Tests on Chromium based browsers show that it works perfectly fine on them. It is also known that Chrome will be disabling all ad-blockers in June when it moves to Manifest v3, which will greatly limit what extensions can do.

If you use Firefox, there is an extension called User-Agent Switcher and it allows you to change your browser's UA to Chrome. This will allow you to bypass reCaptcha/Captcha blocks set up by Google and make them function properly.

It could be a code snafu on Google's part - but given how predatory they have been acting lately, I'm going to guess not. Don't get locked out of your websites or feel forced to use Chrome again just to browse.

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emiett

Q+A from library visit where I read my comic about a skeleton that plays the fiddle

Kid: Is this fiction?

Me: Yeah

Kid: I kinda thought so

Me: Oh really? Why?

Kid: Because skeletons aren't real

Me: Skeletons are real. You have one!

Kid, jumping up out of his seat: Yeah but they don't move around!!

Me: Your skeleton's moving around right now!

Kid, yelling: THAT'S!! DIFFERENT!!!

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hyrude

i love to learn about my cat i love to google “should you trim cat last claw? trim all cat claws? cat last claw called? cat fifth claw? cat claws labelled. trim cat dew claw?” and then say hi graham i learned something about you! your weird claw is called a dew claw and it will not be worn down by regular walking so it is extra important to be diligent about trimming to prevent it growing into your paw pad! and he bites me and bites me

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hyrude

i wish graham could google. maybe he’d google “human skin thickness? humans skin cut bite? humans red line arm leg? how hard bite humans? human pain tolerance? human vs kittens safe play” and then he would say mads im so sorry i didnt realize that humans are prone to injury from skin punctures. we should engage in remote play through means of toys as you were suggesting

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