Tumblr user haunteddollsgeorg:
As a society we have benefited so much from successful public health measures that we now have the privilege of declaring that we must not need them anymore
Bitch before enriched flour, neural tube defects like spina bifida were far more common. Even now, spina bifida clinicians and researchers are begging to have salt and maize fortified to reach groups that don’t use as much flour. Before iodized salt, the United States had a fucking GOITER BELT (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3509517/). Eleven years after the introduction of fluoridated water, a city in Michigan found the rate of dental caries among school children dropped a staggering 60% (https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/health-info/fluoride/the-story-of-fluoridation) — in an era where tooth decay regularly fucking killed people
I’m literally not even going to start on vaccines, which are among the most successful and robustly studied public health measures in world history source
As a society we have benefited so much from successful public health measures that we now have the privilege of declaring that we must not need them anymore
Bitch before enriched flour, neural tube defects like spina bifida were far more common. Even now, spina bifida clinicians and researchers are begging to have salt and maize fortified to reach groups that don’t use as much flour. Before iodized salt, the United States had a fucking GOITER BELT (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3509517/). Eleven years after the introduction of fluoridated water, a city in Michigan found the rate of dental caries among school children dropped a staggering 60% (https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/health-info/fluoride/the-story-of-fluoridation) — in an era where tooth decay regularly fucking killed people
I’m literally not even going to start on vaccines, which are among the most successful and robustly studied public health measures in world history source
Transcript: Velveteen Eyes
“People who think we need 'straight pride parades' or a 'white history month' are kinda like people who look at handicapped parking spaces and say 'Why don't I get something like that, huh?!....
"They don't care why it exists, they don't care that they get the whole parking lot, they're just mad that there's 4 spaces in front of the Walmart that aren't just for them." source
“People who think we need 'straight pride parades' or a 'white history month' are kinda like people who look at handicapped parking spaces and say 'Why don't I get something like that, huh?!....
"They don't care why it exists, they don't care that they get the whole parking lot, they're just mad that there's 4 spaces in front of the Walmart that aren't just for them." source
Transcript: "eternal-fractal
"Can't express how stress free being open minded is.
"Some lesbians use he/him? Oh cool.
"Some people have people inside their head and sometimes it's fictional chars? Sick your brains like a pirate ship they're all working to run.
"Some people like being treated like a pet dog? Bark bark bro.
"Being fat isn't unhealthy but a perfectly normal type of body to have? Kinda beautiful how different we can all be.
"Something doesn't make any fucking sense? Cool an opportunity to learn. And even if I can't figure it out it's cool we still have mysteries today."
OwenTheTokenCisHet
"It's just... idk man. People are weird. Being a person is weird. Society is weird. The universe is weird.
"Rather than having to "normalize" everything, just accept that some people are weird. So are you.
"Nothing is normal. the rules are all made up.
"I once saw a Klingon pushing a baby stroller down the street in toronto. source
"Can't express how stress free being open minded is.
"Some lesbians use he/him? Oh cool.
"Some people have people inside their head and sometimes it's fictional chars? Sick your brains like a pirate ship they're all working to run.
"Some people like being treated like a pet dog? Bark bark bro.
"Being fat isn't unhealthy but a perfectly normal type of body to have? Kinda beautiful how different we can all be.
"Something doesn't make any fucking sense? Cool an opportunity to learn. And even if I can't figure it out it's cool we still have mysteries today."
OwenTheTokenCisHet
"It's just... idk man. People are weird. Being a person is weird. Society is weird. The universe is weird.
"Rather than having to "normalize" everything, just accept that some people are weird. So are you.
"Nothing is normal. the rules are all made up.
"I once saw a Klingon pushing a baby stroller down the street in toronto. source
Tumblr user byjove:
stoned and autistic at a party trying to make conversation: I find the comparative lifespan of organisms so interesting. Spiders are comparatively long lived animals. Female black widows can live up to 3 years but their male counterparts rarely live four months. Some tarantulas live upwards of 20 years. The longest lived spider was around 43 years old when she was cruelly assassinated by a parasitic wasp. Domestic rats have a lifespan comparable to female black widows. To put things into perspective, there are spiders that remember a pre-pandemic world but it is likely every rat on earth was born post-COVID. There could be a spider out there born when Reagan was in office. source
stoned and autistic at a party trying to make conversation: I find the comparative lifespan of organisms so interesting. Spiders are comparatively long lived animals. Female black widows can live up to 3 years but their male counterparts rarely live four months. Some tarantulas live upwards of 20 years. The longest lived spider was around 43 years old when she was cruelly assassinated by a parasitic wasp. Domestic rats have a lifespan comparable to female black widows. To put things into perspective, there are spiders that remember a pre-pandemic world but it is likely every rat on earth was born post-COVID. There could be a spider out there born when Reagan was in office. source
Tumblr user gloamses:
with love. you have to fact check shit. yes you. you still have to fact check shit. a lot of people are great at fact checking stuff they don’t want to be true, but somehow are still absolute ass at fact checking stuff that’s rhetorically convenient to them. even people my age, who I KNOW grew up doing internet/bibliography literacy workshops, and being warned not to believe anything that isn’t reliably sourced, people who DO harp on fact checking conservative output or whatever, are still kneejerk sharing unsourced shit that is partially or wholly untrue or misleading, because it suits whatever narrative they’re pursuing in that moment, without even a “take this with a grain of salt”. fact check!!!!!! look at the sources!!!!! yes it’s a drag!!! do it!!!!!
Tumblr user wiisagi-maiingan: source
with love. you have to fact check shit. yes you. you still have to fact check shit. a lot of people are great at fact checking stuff they don’t want to be true, but somehow are still absolute ass at fact checking stuff that’s rhetorically convenient to them. even people my age, who I KNOW grew up doing internet/bibliography literacy workshops, and being warned not to believe anything that isn’t reliably sourced, people who DO harp on fact checking conservative output or whatever, are still kneejerk sharing unsourced shit that is partially or wholly untrue or misleading, because it suits whatever narrative they’re pursuing in that moment, without even a “take this with a grain of salt”. fact check!!!!!! look at the sources!!!!! yes it’s a drag!!! do it!!!!!
Tumblr user wiisagi-maiingan: source