if I were doctor who showrunner I would instigate a policy that every season should have one episode where the stakes are so low. like the worst possible outcome is our characters are incredibly embarrassed, just some good low stakes shenanigans (pranks, good-natured competition, etc) however I would also instigate a policy wherein every season should have one episode that lacks violence entirely but is still so wildly fucked up and unsettling that you are afraid to go to sleep that night and haunted by it for years to come. these two episodes CAN be back to back.
its like a real life version of that children’s song with the magic bridge that you had to dance across
Highlights:
–all the old people –one dude who starts doing the Cotton-Eye Joe and has the steps on lock –quinceañera girl with a dress bigger than the circle –lots of kids but particularly the dude who’s doing the helicopter with his little girl –an entire section of Millennials doing dance moves I recognize, oh the nostalgia
Additional highlights:
–world’s best grandpa breaking it DOWN
–the dog who gets so excited and wants to participate, but is Too Excited and a Dog, and instead creates chaos but everyone just laughs
–Georgia May Jagger girl with the white jeans
–the people who pass the circle, think “nah,” and then circle back around
–the guy who jumps out of the circle for the tiny baby to try and then stays to watch her moves
I have been a sheep caretaker for like two days and already I’m like. Wow. I get it.
I get why these were some of the earliest mammals to ever be domesticated. They look up to humans with this sort of dumb but all at once innocent and pure and trusting expression. They’re happy to see you. They follow you around. They like to be rubbed under their chins. Maybe its just some latent Scottish highland shepherd DNA I still have in me but I look at my sheep charges and suddenly I see why the love of God for humanity is so often described as a shepherd and his sheep. I’d fight a wolf for these guys. I’d go way the Hell out of my way for them. I’d carry their young for miles on my own back.
nearly 80k reblogs and how many of you eat lamb
The ancient shepherds I’m referencing also ate lamb lol
its important not only to take inspiration from good things but bad things as well. there are few driving forces more powerful than “this fucking sucks i could do it better”
ai makes everything so boring. deepfakes will never be as funny as clipping together presidential speeches. ai covers will never be as funny as imitating the character. ai art will never be as good as art drawn by humans. ai chats will never be as good as roleplaying with other people. ai writing will never be as good as real authors
I’ve got hiccups which is incredibly annoying but it does mean that every 4 seconds or so I’m reminded to think about fish evolution which is pretty cool.
Please talk about fish evolution and how it relates to hiccups I am SO curious
Okay so the thing about hiccups is that you have them by default. There’s a special region in the brain that suppresses hiccups. “Yes hiccups” is the default. “No hiccups” was an ad-hoc addition.
Why?! Why would your body want to hiccup by default? what purpose does that serve? Well, none, for you. But it was very, very important for your ancestors.
Hiccups are a fish reflex. They’re a remnant of the convulsion that fish automatically perform to pull water over their gills. When this system was repurposed for lungs, we eventually evolved a workaround that tells the gill twitch not to fire any more. When this fails, boom. Hiccups.
It’s just your fish nervous system trying to be a fucking fish again.
Is… Is that why I’ve had people telling me I just need to say “I am not a fish” out loud to cure my hiccups??
Also. I am so curious as to what other evolutionary workarounds we have that just?? Break sometimes??
Your entire body is a mountain of code built my many generations of coders who do not in fact know how to code and you don’t want to know how much of it is random hacked-in gotos between functions that once did something very different, or how much is simply commented out entirely and just sitting there in your genome. Your ear bones used to be part of the support structure for gills. Your vocal cords are part of a valve that’s supposed to close off your lungs when you go into water and it’s just good enough to do that while also being shitty enough to relax and push air through because it turned out that being able to Breathe Noisy was also incredibly useful.
That’s why drinking water stop hiccups? :O
You can stop hiccups by temporarily dramatically changing your blood chemistry. This is why most cures involve something that gives you a surge of adrenaline or carbon dioxide or something.
Here’s the cure the med-surg resident told me about the night I was filling in for somebody in the ER.
not joking I would kind of like to brutally murder whoever thought it was a good idea to take away clicking on a person’s name to see their reblog and make it borderline impossible to get to the original version of a post without spending ten minutes scrolling with ctrl f
Helpful tip:
If you have the post date option turned on you can click the date and it will take it to the original post like before. It’s annoying, unintuitive, and harder to click but it should work on mobile or desktop
this is the most ridiculous possible workaround thank you SO much tumblr user suffusionofyellow for sharing
Deleted all the stupid comments. Here’s some practical advice from a actual street medic who spent a chunk of 2020-2021 in jail for protesting:
1 never use plywood or anything so heavy/splinterable for signs or protest shields. Invest time in making a battlejacket, arm shields, and shin shields.
2 you cannot stop a police horse by pressing on its chest. Get out the way. I don’t care what that pink haired rich white kid on tiktok said. Those things are trained to bowl you over and trample you; get out the way.
3 if you wanna trash the cop shields and masks, mix sand, finely crushed (used up) light bulbs, and paint and fill heavy duty water balloons with them (or condoms). If you’re good, these projectiles can be launched from a t shirt gun. When the cops go to clean their gear, the sand and finely crushed glass gouges the face shields/riot shields beyond repair. They must now spend money and time getting new ones, and meanwhile, they’re in short supply for the next riot. Be warned that if you get caught with these (in the USA), they will likely try to charge you with domestic terrorism. Be smart.
4 cover your face and all distinctive tattoos/birthmarks/scars. Don’t post pictures of yourself or others at the protest. It’s not a block party. They arrested a woman who set a cop car on fire because they had a pic of her tattoo and traced her unique shirt from an etsy purchase. Read “In Defense Of Smashing Cameras” and tell photojornos to fuck off; break their cameras if you have to. They will get people killed
5 cops lie. If you get bagged (again us centric advice), keep your mouth shut. It’s “I invoke the 5th” and “I invoke my right to legal counsel” on repeat no matter what they say or do.
6 stop dumping milk in people’s fucking eyes for tear gas. Not only do this mark darker skinned people for arrest, it’s inviting infection. Use only sterile water or saline solution on the face and in the eyes. (Likewise do not dump baking soda solutions in people’s eyes; while this is good for skin below the neck that has been affected by tear gas, it can scratch the cornea of the eye)
7 DO NO HARM. if you are not trained in CPR, how to use a tourniquet, how to intubate someone, tal tal tal, don’t try. Never try to treat people above your skill level because you could seriously injure them instead.
8 riots are often outpourings of grief, anger, built up resentment at oppressive systems. They are truly the language of the unheard but the riot is not where the majority of the work happens; don’t wait until people are rioting in the streets of your town. Plug in to your local outreach; find something to get passionate about, whether it’s feeding people, gardening for sustainability, legal aid for immigrants, housing and rent relief, etc.
