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きょうは　こんぱくとすたいるで　ねてみるです

I'm going to take a nap with the compact style

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Did anyone ever like attempt to document and compile the variations of Barney the dinosaur murder ballads across the elementary school system in the early 2000s. Like legit it has always fascinated me as a phenomena and I would love to know if there were like traceable regional variations or what.

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i almost never do vent art, much less post it but man, i have been feeling bummed out recently

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Insane color moth!! These are reminded me of some kind of ice cream

Oriental Orange Banded Green Geometer Moth (Eucyclodes gavissima)

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elf yuri except one of them is high fantasy and the other is one of santa's

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“i’m just so subby i can’t say no even when i really don’t want it” you are an unsafe play partner.

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was talking to my mom about how white people ignore the contributions of poc to academia and I found myself saying the words "I bet those idiots think Louis Pasteur was the first to discover germ theory"

which admittedly sounded pretentious as fuck but I'm just so angry that so few people know about the academic advancements during the golden age of Islam.

Islamic doctors were washing their hands and equipment when Europeans were still shoving dirty ass hands into bullet wounds. ancient Indians were describing tiny organisms worsening illness that could travel from person to person before Greece and Rome even started theorizing that some illnesses could be transmitted

also, not related to germ theory, but during the golden age of Islam, they developed an early version of surgery on the cornea. as in the fucking eye. and they were successful

and what have white people contributed exactly?

please go research the golden age of Islamic academia. so many of us wouldn't be alive today if not for their discoveries

people ask sometimes how I can be proud to be Muslim. this is just one of many reasons

some sources to get you started:

but keep in mind, it wasn't just science and medicine! we contributed to literature and philosophy and mathematics and political theory and more!

maybe show us some damn respect

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Heyo! Got very distracted with another post of yours, but I was wondering if you had a post busting myths about rabies without the scary misinformation attached?

I'm worried people will take their time to read through all those stories, think they're learning something, and not make it to your addition because the whole post is quite long. Or internalize too much fear and wrong info along the way

Correcting misinformation from the viral “rabies education” post

Hi, my name is Nessie/Lochlan O’Neil and I am a biologist and actual rabies educator and this post is to dispel some misinformation on a viral post about rabies that has been going around since 2018. (You have my full legal name so you know I’m not just some stranger. I also did a rabies and raccoons panel at Dashcon 2)

Myth: “You have to take an anti allergic shot in order to get the vaccine.”

Fact: IDK where this person got that idea, but that is not true. There is an HRIG (human rabies immunoglobulin) shot, but that just gives you immediate immunity to rabies, stopping the virus in your body in its tracks, and gives the rabies shot time to work. It’s fine, it’s not scary. It’s a regular sized needle and a regular sized vaccine, they just break it up into a bunch of little shots around your wound like they do with dry needling.

Myth: You have to get rabies shots in each limb and in your ass.

Fact: The poster who was spreading this information received improper rabies PEP. For one, the guidelines since the 80’s have specifically stated NO RABIES SHOTS IN THE ASS. Second, the shots go around the wound. And now, in 2025, it’s just one shot every few days.

Myth: The rabies vaccine is not as effective for immunocompromised people

Fact: Rabies post exposure treatment is just as effective for immunocompromised individuals. You just have to get one extra shot and you're fine.

Myth: Docility is also a very common symptom of rabies

Fact: Docility in rabies is incredibly rare. In reality, animals that are overly docile are more than likely habituated. Or, if they seem sick, they have distemper. STILL DO NOT TOUCH WILDLIFE.

Myth: Rabies makes raccoons’ eyes glow radioactive green

Fact: Distemper makes raccoons’ eyes glow radioactive green (also, I checked with OP who shared this story in the original post, and it was distemper that raccoon had, not rabies)

Myth: “Literally any wild animal is a rabies vector.”

Fact: While any mammal (and some birds) can get rabies, “rabies vector" is a specific term applied to specific species and varies from place to place. In Alaska, arctic foxes are rabies vectors. In Tennessee, red foxes, skunks, and coyotes are rabies vectors. Animals like rabbits and deer and bears are not rabies vectors. The #1 rabies vector world wide is the domestic dog.

Myth: All you need to do to get rabies is come in contact with an animal's bodily fluids through some open wound.

Fact: This one is kind of true, but only certain bodily fluids like saliva, vaginal fluid, milk, eye gunk, snot, spinal fluid, and brain matter. Rabies cannot be transmitted through blood or urine. You can also get rabies through any hole (including your eyes), not just cuts.

Myth: The paralytic stage of the disease is useless for spreading rabies

Fact: The paralytic stage is very useful for spreading rabies to opossums and other scavengers and is just as contagious as any other stage of the disease.

Myth: Opossums are immune to/are resistant to rabies due to their body temperature.

Fact: Opossums are found rabid just as frequently as most other non-rabies vector species. There is no proof showing any kind of resistance due to their low body temperature. Rabies in opossums is likely under reported due to this myth and the fact that they tend to get paralytic rabies and thus are not out attacking people.

Myth: In all of recorded history, one person survived an infection after she became symptomatic

Fact: Dozens of people have survived rabies after becoming symptomatic. You are talking about Jeanna Giese, and even then, we don't actually know if she or any of the other "survivors" actually had Rabies lyssavirus to begin with. There are many lyssaviruses that cause rabies other than Rabies lyssavirus, and there are lyssaviruses that causes survivable diseases that look just like rabies. Although Jeanna’s CSF tested positive for rabies, the test they ran was unable to distinguish rabies lyssaviruses from other lyssaviruses. Lyssaviruses are also under researched and we are still learning about new ones every year. Like frog “rabies.”

For reference, on the left is American treefrog lyssavirus and the right is Rabies lyssavirus. To the test they would be the same.

Myth: Rabies education comes across your dash “because some fuck up calls themselves Rabiosexual.”

Fact: People who jokingly identify as "rabiosexual" are simply having a silly time and have actually been the most receptive to rabies education. Even if the whole rabiosexual meme didn’t exist, you would still be seeing rabies education because I am a rabies educator and I live on tumblr dot com

Myth: If you see any animal other than a dog who’s been attacked by a porcupine? It’s rabid. everything else in the animal kingdom knows better than to mess with a porcupine, unless their brain is being ravaged by something beyond their control.

Fact: Read the actual study. 3 nonrabid raccoons had quills in their face, five rabid raccoons had quills in their face. Small sample size. Anyway, animals are stupid as hell. Raccoons get drunk on human alcohol for fun.

Myth: As a child, Louis Pasteur watched a man from his hometown die slowly, painfully, and unstoppably from rabies from a rabid wolf bite

Fact: It was a dog. DOMESTIC DOGS are the #1 rabies vector worldwide and remembering this fact keeps people safe.

And remember…

Do not get your rabies education from viral posts made by strangers on tumblr dot com

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I've been disabled for almost 29 years. Here's what I've learned.

Tablets sink and capsules float. Separate out your tablets and capsules when you go to take them. Tip your head down when taking capsules and up when taking tablets. Liquigels don't matter, they kinda stay in the middle of whatever liquid is in your mouth.

If your pill tastes bad, coat it with a bit of butter or margarine. I learned this from my mom, who learned it from a pharmacist.

Being in pain every day isn't normal. Average people experience pain during exceptional moments, like when they stub their toe or jam their finger in a door, not when they sit cross-legged.

Make a medical binder. Make multiple medical binders. I have a small one that comes with me to appointments and two big ones that stay at home, one with old stuff and one with more recent stuff.

Find your icons. Some of mine include Daya Betty (drag queen with diabetes), Stef Sanjati (influencer with Waardenburg syndrome and ADHD), and Hank Green (guy with ulcerative colitis who... does a bunch of stuff). They don't have to be disabled in the same way as you. They don't even have to be real people. Put their pictures up somewhere if you want; I've been meaning to decorate my medical binders with pictures of my icons.

Take a bin, box, bag, basket, whatever and fill it with items to cope with. This can be stuff for mentally coping like colouring books or play clay or stuff for physically coping like pain medicine or physio tape.

Decorate your shit! My cane for at home has a plushie backpack clip hanging from the end of the handle and my cane for going places is covered in stickers. All of my medical binders have fun scrapbooking paper on the outside. Sometimes, I put stickers and washi tape on my inhalers and pill bottles. I used my Cricut to decorate my coping bin with quotes from my icons, like "I've seen enough of Ba Sing Se" and "I need you to be angrier with that bell".

If a flare-up is making you unable to eat or keep food down, consider going to the ER. A pharmacist once told me that since my eye flares can make me so nauseous that I cannot eat, then I need to go to the hospital when that happens.

Cola works wonders for nausea. I have mini cans of Diet Pepsi in my coping bin.

Shortbread is one of the only things I can eat when nauseous. Giant Tiger sells individually-wrapped servings of shortbread around Christmas or the British import store sells them year-round. I also keep these in my coping bin.

Unless it violates a pain contract or something, don't be afraid to go behind your doctor's back to get something they are refusing you. I got my cardiologist referral by getting in with a different NP at my primary care clinic than who I usually saw. I switched from Seroquel to Abilify by visiting a walk-in.

If you have a condition affecting your abdomen in some way (GI issues, reproductive problems, y'know) then invest in track pants that are too big. I bought some for my laparoscopy over a year ago and they've been handy for pelvic pain days, too. I've also heard loose pants are good for after colonoscopies.

Do whatever works, even if it's weird. I've sat on the floor of the Eaton Centre to take my pills. I've shoved heating pads down my front waistband to reach my uterus.

High-top Converse are good for weak ankles. I almost exclusively wear them.

You can reuse your pill bottles for stuff. I use my jumbo ones to store makeup sponges and my long skinny ones to hold a travel-size amount of Q-Tips.

Just because your diagnostics come back with nothing, it doesn't mean nothing is wrong. Maybe you were checking the wrong thing, or the diagnostic tool wasn't sensitive enough. I have bradycardia episodes even though multiple cardiac tests caught nothing. I probably have endometriosis even though my gynecologist didn't see anything.

You can bring your comfort item to appointments, and it's generally a green flag when someone talks to you about it. I brought a Squishmallow turkey (named Ulana) to my laparoscopy and they had her wearing my mask when I woke up. I brought a Build-A-Bear cat (named Blinx) to another procedure and a nurse told me that everyone in the hall on the way to the procedure room saw him and were talking about how cute he was. Both of those ended up being positive experiences and every person who talked to me about my plushies was nice to me. If you don't feel comfortable having it visible to your provider during the appointment, you can hide it in your bag and just know it's there, or if you're in a video appointment, you can hold it below frame in your lap.

Get a small bucket, fill it with stuff, and stick it in your bed (if you have room for it). I filled a bucket with Ensure, juice boxes, oatmeal bars, lotion, my rescue inhaler, etc. in October 2023 in anticipation of my laparoscopy and I still have it in my bed as of January 2025.

If your disability impacts your impulse control (e.g. ADHD, bipolar disorder), you should consider setting limits around your spending -- no more than X dollars at a time, nothing online unless it's absolutely necessary, and so on. Or, run these purchases by someone you trust before committing to them; I use my BFF groupchat to help talk sense into myself when I buy stuff.

Feel free to add on what you've learned about disability!

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The above is a video shared by smrchildsadness on Twitter, showing a person participating in a pride parade exchanging a pride flag with a person standing on his (am using his pronoun based on the TikToks/Tweets of what happened) doorway who had a Portuguese flag. There are sounds of cheers and crying and the two people hug each other as they exchange the flags. The man at the doorway then waved kisses to the crowd within the pride parade.

The Tweet says: "NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HE WAS WAVING THE PORTUGUESE FLAG BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE A PRIDE FLAG AND THEY TRADED FLAGS AND HE'S SO EMOTIONAL TO GET HIS OWN PRIDE FLAG I'M EMOTIONALLY RUINED"

For context, apparently they were worried that maybe he's a nationalist because he was waving the Portuguese flag and some nationalists opposing the pride march were waving that flag. But upon interacting with him, it turns out he didn't have have a pride flag and he wanted to wave *a* flag in support of the pride march. So they had an exchange and now he has his own pride flag 😭🥹.

The image above is a Tweet by kunwara_ladkaa that says "I'm crying so much right now (Image taken by Manuel Fernando Araújo/Lusa)". The image shows the same man from the pride parade crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

The above image is a Tweet by dudz_zZzz that says "ainda não parei de pensar nele," which according to Google translate from Portuguese to English is "I still haven't stopped thinking about him." The image is a drawing of the person from the pride parade, crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

Posts were made on July 1, 2024.

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GOG is taking a stand against payment processors caving to fundamentalist religious groups and is offering a bunch of "banned" games for free. (via Ashley Lynch on bsky)

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Made a little something on slur reclamation.

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reminder that if you ever buy wool yarn secondhand you should put it in a plastic bag in the freezer for a week, let it thaw 24 hours, then refreeze another week. this makes sure that if there are any moths or pests they are killed by the first freeze, and the remaining eggs are lured to hatch by the thawing and then killed with the second freeze. until this process is complete you must keep the yarn isolated from your existing stash or you risk any infestation spreading. i buy a lot of wool yarn from thrift and antique shops and always do this and have never had a problem with moths or other bugs. if you buy wool sweaters or other wool things secondhand you should also do this just to be safe