through pure random chance someone said “jerma rip your shirt open” and he said no i like this shirt. let me put one over it and rip that instead. and he gave the nation of mexico an eternal gift
Oh man! Spin this Wheel to get randomly assigned a statistic, then answer the poll with your opinion on how that affects you in a way that completely obscures what answer you got, thereby losing most of the humour of the situation!
here’s your regular reminder that if you consistently, regularly get headaches, you are almost certainly having migraines, not regular headaches.
MOST recurrent headaches are migraine headaches.
“migraine” does not mean “extremely painful headache.” it is a type and source of pain, not a degree of pain. migraines can also include some or all of the following: fatigue, sensitivity to light and sound, visual auras, nausea or vomiting, dizziness, cognitive impairment, etc. these symptoms can be mild or severe and it may actually be difficult to determine if you have them. (who wants a bright light in their eyes during a headache?? i thought that’s just how headaches were lmao.)
this is important because while aspirin, NSAIDs like ibuprofren, and other over-the-counter pain meds can effectively alleviate migraine pain, getting diagnosed with migraines allows for a wider range of treatments and preventatives.
it’s also important because, in my opinion, your average general practice doctor is not equipped to diagnose you with chronic migraine. don’t go to one expecting them to. a neurologist with migraine specialty is a better option, although a regular doctor can still be useful if they listen to you lol.
my life would be miserable and unmanageable without sumatriptan. and i never would have gotten a prescription for sumatriptan if i hadn’t gone to my GP and said, “i have migraines and want to try migraine medicine,” even though at the time i wasn’t 100% sure that was true.
if you have chronic headaches, they’re almost certainly migraines. if no one has said that to you before, let me be the first. start treating your migraines.
multiple times in my youth, i went to the doctor expecting them to figure out and tell me if i had migraines. each time, the doctor asked, “do you see an aura?” and when i said no, they determined i must not be getting migraines. no one ever told me that only 20% of migraine sufferers experience auras. that means 80% don’t, yet that is frequently used as important diagnostic criteria! what!
a book i recommend over and over is The Keeler Migraine Method by robert cowan. highly recommend if you’re trying to figure your migraine situation out.
Migraines don’t have to involve headaches! Turns out I’ve had migraines my whole life and I didn’t know, because it doesn’t cause headaches. Rather, I get
Extreme irritability
Photophobia
Sound sensitivity
Tingling and numbness
Inability to remember words
Trouble remembering
Trouble with basic arithmetic
Dizziness
Visual changes (stop being able to perceive depth)
Back and shoulder pain
Fatigue
I chalked a lot of this up to autism and overstimulation.
I saw a neurologist and now I have medicine to treat my migraines. What I have are called ocular migraines.
Please look into migraines without headaches. You may be totally unaware that you have migraines.
Migraines without headaches are called silent migraines, and they’re absolutely a thing. For me they’re even more frequent than painful ones.
Here’s a test which, while not infallible, has led to multiple of my friends realizing that they had migraines and didn’t know it: Do you feel nauseated? Confused? Like you pulled an all-night even though you didn’t? Or are you feeling just generally off in a way that’s hard to define? Go into a really dark room and shut the door behind you. If whatever weirdness you were experiencing gets suddenly better as soon as you’re sitting in the pitch-dark, you almost certainly are having a migraine.
I’ve mistaken migraines for food poisoning and car sickness. I’ve had friends who have mistaken them for everything from seizures, to covid, to a poor night of sleep, to even just having had too much alcohol to drink. The symptoms of migraines are extremely varied, and very few people have all of them - but light sensitivity is common and a bit of a dead giveaway. If you have light-sensitive anything, bring it up with a doctor as a possible migraine symptom.
Bayard Rustin: a pivotal, yet underrecognized, activist in the civil rights movement. It’s worth it to take the time to look into him and his work, especially if you haven’t heard of him until now.
Thurman (deserves to have his name spelled wrong. cunt.): a republican member of the senate, and a clown. From his wikipedia page, “Thurmond conducted the longest speaking filibuster ever by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.”
Ida B Wells: Prolific member during the early civil rights movement (active during late 1800s- early 1900s).
[who i assume to be] Benjamin G. Harris: Worked to enforce slavery. From his wikipedia: “[He was] forever disqualified from holding any office under the United States Government. U.S. President Andrew Johnson pardoned Harris several weeks later.”
through pure random chance someone said “jerma rip your shirt open” and he said no i like this shirt. let me put one over it and rip that instead. and he gave the nation of mexico an eternal gift
taking the porn off tumblr just made us all hornier. it used to be that we’d only sexualize basic things, like human bodies. but now?? you wouldn’t believe the things my mutuals are getting off to
2016 tumblr porn: straight up just a gif of penis in vagina
2025 tumblr porn: video of someone slowly bringing a magnet to a CRT tv screen while static is playing
i took my friend to Hocking Hills state park yesterday and on our hike I talked all about the (now retired) park naturalist who mentored me years ago, along with the professor who also mentored me and how they got me my first job in my field after college, like I went on and on about my memories of them and the time I spent with them in the park, and then we got to a cave and they were both inside. I hadn’t seen either of then since I moved away seven years ago and then I went back to the state park for the first time since and they were just there. in a cave. they went to the cave together. one of them saw me and said “oh hi! what are you doing here?” like hey fancy us all being here in this cave together huh.
i can’t express how much this felt like a video game cutscene encounter. i established the lore for two hours about these specific two Guys and then they appeared, like, in their map.
why do i end up sitting straight up in my sleep. ignore how many blankets I use.
Bestie it is impossible to ignore the amount of blankets you use at first I assumed this was a meme and those were the layers of the crust of the earth
I actually have 4 more blankets I sometimes add but I didn’t want to make my blanket number look excessive
Are you okay
The results are inconclusive on that.
Bestie. the reason you end up sitting up is your lungs think you are being crushed.
I genuinely think there was no greater insight into the modern Christian mindset than when the Pope said he very much hoped Hell was empty and he was absolutely hounded by both Catholics and Protestants outraged at the idea of a man who wanted a place of infinite suffering to have nobody in it.
I genuinely think there was no greater insight into the modern Christian mindset than when the Pope said he very much hoped Hell was empty and he was absolutely hounded by both Catholics and Protestants outraged at the idea of a man who wanted a place of infinite suffering to have nobody in it.
That is a mistranslation though, the article used for the ‘another man’ is the feminine one, which is believed to have a diminutive meaning. Which is to say, the 'another man’ is probably a child, which makes sense considering what was happening close by in Greece at the time this was written.
Additionally, the more complete version of this quote is “A man who lays with another man like with a women should be stoned”. Now, It’s important to know that when the bible says “lays with someone” that always means sex, and due to the culture of the time, very often also means rape, since the consent of the one being penetrated was not considered notable. (Women were objects to be owned, etc.)
Additionally, being penetrated, even in places like Greece which didn’t ban gay sex, was considered extremely shameful and humiliating.
This could therefore also be interpreted to mean “Don’t humiliate other men by raping them”.
Remember, people at the time when this was written did not think homosexuality is a thing that exists while the people who translated it were very much homophobic and bigoted, as usual for their time.
January 1, 2025 - A stray dog in Petea receives applause for being the first to cross the newly visa-free border between Hungary and Romania, as Romania joins the Schengen area.
For context this was in response to someone saying their cybertruck was heavy duty
oh no no NO no no I am sorry my dear @thebirdtm you are NOT underselling one of the most seminal pieces of television of my entire childhood like that on MY watch.
“How is claiming they drowned a Hilux possibly underselling it” GREAT question.
To start with a little disclaimer, Top Gear’s Hilux did not start off, as in the video above, in pristine condition. It started off with nigh-on 300k kms (for you yankees, that’s about 8.4 million Boeing 737 wingspans) and a condition to match.
And it’s only once careless driving around town yielded zilch in given shits…
(look, I found a local newspaper picturing it being driven around!)
…that they decided to drown it. Now, the underselling part: if you told me that they drowned a pickup the first place my mind would go to would be “driving it through a river a bit too deep for it, perhaps as deep as its height, until it stalls and then tugging it back out. You will concede that’s rather different from tying it down on the seashore with the second highest tide in the world…
…and leaving it there until it engulfs the whole truck…
…only for the ropes to snap…
…and for the truck to be lost to the tides for FIVE HOURS.
(and for those wondering, yes, just as promised, well within an hour and the mandatory limits of basic tools and no spare parts, up the mechanic made the thing fire and away the presenter drove it - I must imagine doing a number on his clothes in the process.)
Oh also I would have mentioned the caravan.
Or at least the wrecking ball.
But hey, at least the fire was mentioned.
Still, I feel it’s criminal to leave out how they celebrated it surviving all it did: by parking it at the top of a 23 story building for all to see! :)
Wait NO-
Well, that was uncalled for. Given what it survived, it deserved to rest in a museum instead of being unceremoniously cleared out with the other chunks of public housing that buried it.
Or at least, given that buried it wasn’t…
…to be tumbled down from the rubble utop which it sat…
…and be fueled up.
"be fueled up”, pfft, what for?, I hear you say. And you are right.
Look at that thing, you say.
Let’s be serious now, however pretty of a story it would be that’s not a truck that will do anything remotely in the ballpark of firing up, let alone running.
And again, you are right.
The battery was disconnected.
Sorted that, tho
“You can’t be serious.” Oh darling I sure can! “Well the presenters can’t then” no no, I assure you, it lived. Go see it for yourself! It’s at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieau, England!
I grew up watching Top Gear and it shaped me in many ways. My adoration of old Toyota Hiluxes is one of them.
The Toyota Hilux is absolutely the small god of endurance and defiance (and possibly masochism).
yes I’m reposting about a small god truck are you kidding me
Fever is a hilarious immune response. Our bodies tell the disease “hey, wanna see which one of us dies of overheating first? No? Too bad.” and honestly they’re not even the winners a decent chunk of the time but it works often enough that we never evolved it away or anything. Fantastic work.
this reply is killing me
Our bodies adapted the same response to disease that Japanese honeybees use against Japaneae giant hornets: Biologically cook it to death.
The problem is that our bodies aren’t well designed for this, while the bees are, and instead we just cook ourselves instead.
What I’m saying is that colonies of bees are smarter than our biology. Yet another strike against creationism and intelligent design. If any god designed a perfect creature, it was a Japanese bee god. We’re just pale imitations.
Confirmed: Our white blood cells are just worse honeybees. Thanks, science side of tumblr!
Shout out to the little girl at my store today who had a shirt that said “skeleton mouse” and she was carrying around a plushie of a rat, had hair clips in her hair that had rats on them, and a necklace with a rodent skull on it.
As I was checking her mother out at the register she pulled out a handful of rubber rats from her pocket and put them on my counter, to which her mother sighed and said “no sweetie, he doesn’t need rats” to which I just looked at her like this
I know we all have social anxiety, but I am so very serious about the importance of being able to identify “safe strangers” and be willing to talk to them, especially when you are traveling alone.
It can be hard but like, I always look for people with anime/pokemon/fandom merch. Weeaboos and other nerds can be found all around the world, it doesn’t matter if they speak English or not. Even just pointing at their merch and smiling can do so much good.
Additionally:
If you are some sort of scientist or researcher traveling, reach out to researchers wherever you are going. They want to share their passion with you. *I* want to share my passion with you. Like if someone emailed me like “Hey Nessie, I’m studying mongoose or something on the other side of the world, but I’m coming to the US and want to see a raccoon,” I would 100% make time to pick them up and get them to a raccoon.
For real, I’ve got a bat biologist in Mexico taking me out to look for bats tonight. Do I speak Spanish? No. Does he speak English? No. But frankly it doesn’t matter because science is universal. You would be surprised at how easy it is to communicate when the subject of communication is something like field work and animals.
Was Elrond in a gay marriage? We don’t know, because it’s none of our goddamn business. … No matter what Elrond got up to, it didn’t effect his ability to perform his job like a boss. And that is to provide travelers with great directions.
reblog if you would also like to be ruled by a well-appointed bisexual elf wizard
as someone who is friends with multiple well appointed bisexual wizards i would very much like to see them in leadership roles
i’m in Ireland and the search for that bastards name is still blocked and hidden… the legnths the british go to defend and protect their instruments of colonialism and violence is beyond belief. no justice for the victims and yet every measure taken to protect David James Cleary and his fellow murderers.
Never a better time for the Streisand Effect than when it’s a government covering up acts of brutality and evil.
if you complain about the Chinese government covering up Tianamen Square, then complain about this, too.
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