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Amanda the Great

@bethama / bethama.tumblr.com

Knitter of adorable dolls, spinner of sparkly yarns, lover of C-List comic book characters, aro-ace with ADHD. Probably older than you think (but not that old). She/they. Prefer gender-neutral nouns where possible.
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WOW okay so! Thank you for all the nice things everyone said about my Boop cross stitch! Just going to address a few comments/questions from the notes here (and also maybe some questions that I'm making up):

  • Yes, I made it on April 1st! I had just finished a much larger project and therefore convinced myself that 30 x 30 stitches or so wouldn't take THAT long, and then I just didn't blink for about five hours.
  • Nobody MISSED the booping! The boops were inside us all along! Your likes and reblogs and comments are the boops we made along the way!
  • Yes, in fact, terfs can ABSOLUTELY fuck right off. Thanks for asking!
  • And - I threw the pattern together right before making it using FlossCross and GIMP, but I've been poking at it a bit over the last week and now have a pattern I like. It just about fits perfectly in a 3" hoop with 14ct Aida. And I threw in a few backgrounds, too. BEHOLD!
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A satirical papyrus showing a lady mouse being served wine by a cat while another cat dresses her hair, a third cares for her baby, and a fourth fans her. The mice have hilarious huge, round ears.

Where: Egyptian Museum Cairo

When: New Kingdom

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neil-gaiman

In this case the word "satirical" is being used to help cover up the existence of the brief Mouse Dynasty, which occurred between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth dynasties, following the death of Pharoah Horemhab and his appointment of the palace Mouse, Pnw I (pronounced penoo) to the throne. Following the death of Pnw XIth, three years later, Ramesses I took the throne and the Nineteenth Dynasty began. Most traces of the Mouse Dynasty were eliminated, but several have survived.

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bethama

But if enough mice dream of it - not that many, maybe 1000...

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nobuddy feels like they have a sharp attention span these days, right? and we all just click “agree on terms of service” because its hard to love yourself sometimes, well

enter Terms of Service, Didn’t Read: a website and a browser addon that streamlines the terms of service of many popular web services to be read by the tech sunday drivers.

It’s graded from A (great) to E (awful) and if you have the addon you have access to the info about the website on your bar

this post came back to me like a dear son from war, hello ol boy

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Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.  Every year, researchers try to predict the four influenza strains that are most likely to be prevalent during the upcoming flu season. And every year, people line up to get their updated vaccine, hoping the researchers formulated the shot correctly. The same is true of COVID vaccines, which have been reformulated to target sub-variants of the most prevalent strains circulating in the U.S. This new strategy would eliminate the need to create all these different shots, because it targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of a virus. The vaccine, how it works, and a demonstration of its efficacy in mice is described in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  “What I want to emphasize about this vaccine strategy is that it is broad,” said UCR virologist and paper author Rong Hai. “It is broadly applicable to any number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus, and safe for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.”
Source: news.ucr.edu
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sunbathe

it’s also fucked up that fat people literally fear going to the doctor for anything because they know the first thing out of their dr’s mouth no matter what their ailment is, is gonna be “lose weight lol” broken leg? lose weight. rash? lose weight. whooping cough? lose weight binch!!!!! like we get it. but can you just write my prescription you bitch so i can go eat a salad and not call you again until im about to die of the plague????

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sourcedumal

I would not be surprised if someone did a study and found an increase in misdiagnosis of fat patients due to doctors focusing solely on weight loss as a panacea and ignoring other vital issues

You mean like this article from the NY Times (from September of 2016) talking about how doctors refuse to consider non weight related issues until they absolutely have to?

Or this study showing that even though the bias is often unintentional it greatly changes patient care?

Or this study that showed that maternity providers have a bias towards obese women and often provide subpar care or push elective procedures?

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slightmayhem

Fat Shaming Tied to Increased Risk of Metabolic Problems this one that says that obese people who are made to feel bad about their weight are 41% more likely to have medical complications as a result of the internalized stress (high cholesterol, high sugars, high blood pressure- or need meds to treat those conditions), versus people who don’t feel stigmatized. 

‘People First’ – Ending Weight Bias in Diabetes Care “ Evidence also indicates that doctors may spend less time in appointments, provide less health education, build less rapport, have lower expectations for medication adherence, and have less desire to help patients with obesity compared with thinner patients. “

I think about this every time I see something saying that obesity is a high risk factor for any other illness.

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Favorite hobby

Are there any men here who embroider with a cross?

Size in crosses: 99x121 Size for 14 count: 18x22 cm Pure shades of DMC: 45

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pitafish

I'm gonna link to the animations in case y'all either don't remember or have never heard of some of these.

A quick note: these were made in the 2000s. Comedy is subjective, there's some strong examples of dark and/or "lolz teh random" humor in these. Maybe some cultural blindness, too. That said, enjoy a time capsule of stuff made before/during the birth of Youtube, now hosted on Youtube.

Honourable mention really needs to go to 'We like the moon' by rathergood

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rb this and tell me what ur accent is. this has no purpose except the fact i just realized i could have like... mutuals with cockney accents or newfoundland accents or something and thats just wild

highlights of the responses:

  • the solid hundred americans saying "idk general american". i dont know what that is so im gonna pretend you mean "I sound like a disney channel character"
  • shoutout to whoever said "gay". also whoever said "autism".
  • to those curious; 'newfoundland' accents are what everyone i know says to refer to the stereotypical "canadian accent" that bad american TV has, 'cause you're basically only gonna hear that in a random fishing town on the Maritimes' coast.
  • the fact that almost every french person called their accent sexy
  • all my fellow canadians who are saying "canadian but i dONT SOUND NEWFIE" like yes babe we are not all One Single Fishing Town Accent (no hate to the newfies tho ily)
  • the one who said "i sound like siri. i have no accent" meanwhile siri is So Fucking Accented to my ears
  • the amount of people with english as a second language in the notes who now love their accents <3 that's great, love urself
  • everyone going "i'm TOLD i sound british. please not that"
  • the one person who described their accent instead of just saying a word. they happened to be canadian and i was like "you just. absolutely and totally described how i talk"
  • the amount of californians going "californian but i dONT SOUND SURFER OR VALLEY GIRL" like the US version of "im not newfie"
  • the one single californian who was like "yeah i sound surfer. what are u gonna do about it"

Excuse me, Newfies do not sound like Canadian accent stereotypes to American ears. Minnesotans sound like Canadian accent stereotypes. Newfies sound to Americans like Irishmen on speed.

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This comic is, as is usual for Wednesday’s comics, chosen by my Patrons. Speaking of…

Check my Patreon out if you’d like to support the comic, even a little bit helps. Or just to check out the reward tiers, there’s some neat bonus stuff and I tried to make them fun: https://www.patreon.com/waitingforthet

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bethama

....this is the worst thing I have ever read, well done.

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