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RFK JR'S RULE NO. 3 OF WOUND CARE: go swimming in a creek polluted with fecal material, ideally barefoot so you can get more wounds on your feet (for a full experience of wound care).

RULE NO. 1 OF WOUND CARE: ignore itttt :33

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Reblogging because a) some of these have been in my PT repertoire in the past, and b) I want to try adding more of these to my daily schedule.

From the OP: "If you sit at a desk or stare at your phone all day, this is for you. Here's how to undo the damage: - Banded Chin Tucks - Strengthen your neck flexors and fight forward head posture - Banded Pull-Aparts - Target your rotator cuff and improve shoulder stability - Banded Abduction - Activate the midline of your scapula for better posture - Lateral Deltoid Raises - Build shoulder stability and control - Banded Up-and-Overs – Boost scapular mobility and range of motion These simple banded drills will help you stand taller, move better, and feel stronger - even after hours at a desk."

Some of these are the same or similar to the exercises my physical therapist taught me.

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I'm just over six feet (roughly 1.8 meters) tall, which is well above average for women in the US.

I have not seen this economic benefit and suspect it applies to men more than women. I have to pay significantly more for pants, long sleeved anythings (sweaters, turtle necks, button down shirts), and coats if I want them to fit. I used to have to buy men's pants because I have a 36 inch (91.4 cm) inseam, and those were always loose and huge around the waist.

I have hypermobility, which is not limited to us tall folk, but is apparently (according to my doctors) more common for us. If I want to be able to tie my own shoes and do my own hair I have a 16 mile per day driving limit and a 25 hour per week work limit (if work involves use of hands).

Using kitchen counters for any extended time hurts my back, so when we put in new cabinets, we put them higher (not high enough, because everyone was worried about "resale value").

Women's style bikes don't run tall enough for me. Cruiser style bikes don't run tall enough for me. But I can't have weight on my hands like you do with a road bike or mountain bike. I don't have the balance for a two-wheeled recumbent bike. So 16 years ago I spent $3000 on a recumbent trike, and I can now bike farther than I'm able to drive in a day.

When I took one of my many sociology classes for my degree years ago, one of the things I learned from our textbook was that increased height (as in how tall you are) is positively correlated with economic status, which is already weird to me, because who gives a shit unless you’re literally a fireman or something,

BUT this statistical advantage, economically, only goes up until about 6’7 (or even shorter in certain countries) because going above that height, means basically needing disabled-levels of accommodation in your house and car and clothes shoes (and a million other things). this is why I can’t believe in things like fate . there are stunning graphs about human problems you’ve (an average height person) never even considered before.

anyways if you have a disability related to your height (or even if you’re just. really short or really tall.) feel free to enlighten me about all the stupid things you have to pay extra for. I like to learn about how other people live

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Reminder - Tag Your Tumblr Posts

Tags are how people curate their Tumblr experience. They allow us to seek posts and accounts that have content we're interested in, and they allow us to hide those we aren't so our feed isn't full of a bunch of boring (or offensive) crap.

With all the untagged posts, Tumblr has become less useful, less functional, and less worth my time. And I'm far from the only one encountering this. To keep Tumblr useful, I'm starting to unfollow people who don't tag.

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I get that a lot of high school education can be great brain exercise. However, making all the brain exercises mandatory for graduating high school is shitty.

I have dyscalcula. I would not have been able to graduate if today's Minnesota standards applied when I was in school. I barely passed geometry. I grew up thinking I was stupid. I graduated university in three and a half years, but I still sometimes feel stupid. I only learned about dyscalcula after my now husband heard a public radio show on this poorly understood (but starting to be recognized) learning disorder in the mid 1990s.

My daughter has incredibly gnarly ADHD. She is about to start her senior year and is roughly a year behind on credits. She has passed one quarter of high school English in her entire academic career. She loves books. Her annual MCA tests put her so far above the state average that it's laughable. She edits her friends' stories. But she can't write a paper about something she's not interested in, like literally frozen staring into space unable to start.

Our approach to education is garbage and it needs to be rethought. We do need to bring back shop classes and home economics (aka family and consumer sciences) for everyone because we have a generation of young adults who can't cook and can't repair things that are repairable (which is probably intentional and was promoted by businesses that make money on people eating out and replacing instead of repairing).

It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.

There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!

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I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!

I have multiple versions of this song, which I adore (and my daughter also loves), and this brings me such joy.

OP: Both my bride friend and her husband are amazing at singing, so their wedding turned into this...

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If it's boring for you to write it, it's probably going to be boring for the reader. Don't bore the reader.

I just think people write out of obligation too often.

"How do I motivate myself to write through the boring part of my story?"

"How do I make this boring scene not boring?"

Don't write it.

Don't write boring things just because you think the structure of the story demands it. I promise it doesn't need to be there.

If your characters need to have gone shopping for a later part of the story to make sense you can just have a sentence about how they went shopping and move on.

You are not obligated to write the boring parts. No matter what those parts are.

You are not obligated to make the parts of your story that you're not excited to write interesting somehow.

You can just write the fun and interesting parts and gloss over and summarize boring things.

Your audience will thank you and you will thank yourself.

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So many high school and college students today do not have the stamina to read or write anything of significant length. As noted above, these are both essentially muscles and require practice to get proficient at. If you can't read an article, you're just going to go with the headline or some stranger's 15-30 second bias-fueled take on TikTok. You will be misinformed by well-meaning folks and outright disinformed by those who don't want you to know what's going on (or simply want to sell you their snake oil).

Use of gen-AI for summarizing longer content and for creating text comes with cognitive costs and is actively bad for your critical thinking skills. https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/

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Full speed ahead into full fascism mode.

This is Fascism https://robertreich.substack.com/p/this-is-fascism

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This is the BIGGEST load of toxic positivity bullshit I've seen in quite some time. Our country is leaping into fascism with both feet. Food scarcity is starting to be an issue. I can't find work thanks to generative AI. But sure, my anxiety is of my own doing.

I'm a Buddhist, so I understand what this is aiming for, but worded like this, it's inaccurate garbage.

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Little bit of research for my vampire writing friends and followers.

There’s a lot at stake in this video…

This video was actually a request from a Patron

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This is an excellent follow-up to my post yesterday bitching about tags. On Tumblr and AO3, proper tags are not self-censored, modified, abbreviated or leet speak. Use the actual words so people can block what they need to without trying to figure out all the variations of the words. Tumblr and AO3 are not Twitter or Tik Tok. We encourage clear communication.

I just saw a story on AO3 tagged "pet p!ay"

TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE

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I call it awesome.

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Moment of Peace

We're all living in yet another very stressful time. We can't be on high alert all the time without negative consequences (including, but not limited to, burnout). Take a moment to breathe, relax, and feed your soul before you scroll on or move to whatever you need to do next.

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I Miss the Days When Most Tumblr Users Actually Used Tags

I'm not sure if it's been a gradual migration or if it's the influx of users from other platforms. I can't truly curate my Tumblr experience like I used to, and Tumblr has become a massive waste of time. I can't filter out the tags for fandoms or topics I'm uninterested in, I just have to keep scrolling.

Why should you use tags?

It's polite and has historically been an aspect of Tumblr culture.

People can find your content easier - searching and following tags is a central aspect of discovering the content you want.

People can filter out content they aren't interested in, making their Tumblr experience perfect for them. It's efficient and ensures others don't have to see content they aren't interested in while still following someone with an eclectic or multi-topic blog.

People can also choose NOT to filter tags if they want to see everything and be introduced to new things.

Trigger content can be more easily avoided. Not all triggers are the obvious violence and assault variety.

I'm not using my Tumblr as much these days because it's become a massive fire hose, and I don't have time or energy for it. To get back to something manageable, I think I'm just going to have to unfollow people who largely don't use tags, and I don't want to have to do that.

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As an asthmatic who is triggered by viruses, perfumes, and pollution, I've been masking even outside during physical activity since 2019. I'm even more dedicated to masking now. It would be great if Americans gave a flying rat's ass about others and made a point not to share their sicknesses with others. We don't want them.

I know I'm preaching to the choir but like. You know you can wear masks for other sicknesses. Not just covid. If you have the flu or a cold or a stomach bug you can still wear a mask to help prevent the spread of it to others if you insist on going out! I just think it's the polite thing to do