Stray Amanuensis

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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The outfit

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So if someone is asexual they have dress like a nun or something???

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Heaven forbid we want to look cute.

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That's what I'm saying! And outfit is very cute

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An interesting rear window view into the same psychological politic that asks assault victims whether their clothes were "asking for it"- IE, how dare YOU fail to take responsibility for the actions I choose to take based on MY reaction to your appearance.

Failing to understand that "the way I choose to act on my own private feelings is my own responsibility, and I cannot blame others for those actions when I decide to make them."

It's absolutely wild to me that there are grown adults who think- what? That laying eyes on an attractive body invites a demon to posess you and get boner-happy?

Like. People wear whatever they feel good and comfortable and pretty in, my guy. Nobody is asking for sex unless they are literally verbally to your face asking for sex. Nobody hands me sacks of flour when I put an apron on. How the fuck are fishnets a game changer

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Ever have a dream so normal it feels weird how normal it is?

I trimmed my goatee last night, and then had a dream that I’d “missed a patch” but it was like, 8 inches long.

Frustrated, I stopped fussing with it (an inability to do incredibly basic obvious things is a common feature in my frustration dreams), and went to watch a show, and that was the rest of the dream, that cartoon.

It was an adult animated sitcom and somehow reminded me of shows and comics from my youth (with a kind of intentionally “ugly” or “gross” style, a bit like Home Movies, or Beavis and Butthead, or… what was it called, oh god, The Head!). All the characters were different anthropomorphic things, so it reminded me of Chowder too. The entire cast was different flavors of queer, and the humor was often raunchy (though there was also a pair of token straight sisters that got up to more debauchery than the rest put together). The main girl was a pokemon clearly inspired by (or played by?) Divine. The plot of this episode involved relationship drama between two main characters, and the b-plot was other characters getting ready for an orgy.

I think tumblr would’ve been deeply divided on it.

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my ancestors seeing me shrug off a diarrhea session

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People in the notes confused because they're so accustomed to running water they don't know how close diarrhea might have otherwise come to killing them if they've had it even once lol it's killed more humans than just about anything in history

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We’re the granddaughters of the bowels you couldn’t irritate

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Mine would be baffled that I've gone 5+ years with bloody diarrhea. Inflammatory Bowel Disease has probably always existed, but they didn't have treatment.

I do want to specifically shout out Dr Thomas Latta, who is the person who gave us IV hydration, and pretty much magically cured cholera with it in his first attempt. From his diary:

I attempted to restore the blood to its natural state, by injecting copiously into the larger intestines warm water.. trusting that the power of absorption might not be altogether lost, but by these means I produced, in no case, any permanent benefit.. I at length resolved to throw the fluid immediately into the circulation. In this, having no precedent to direct me, I proceeded with much caution. The first subject of experiment was an aged female. She had apparently reached the last moments of her earthly existence, and now nothing could injure her – indeed, so entirely was she reduced, that I feared I should be unable to get my apparatus ready ere she expired. Having inserted a tube into the basilic vein, cautiously – anxiously, I watched the effects; ounce after ounce was injected, but no visible change was produced. Still persevering, I though she began to breathe less laboriously, soon the sharpened features, and sunken eye, and fallen jaw, pale and cold, bearing the manifest impress of death's signet, began to glow with returning animation; the pulse, which had long ceased, returned to the wrist; at first small and quick, by degrees it became more and more distinct ... and in the short space of half and hour, when six pints had been injected, she expressed in a firm voice that she was free from all uneasiness, actually became jocular, and fancied all she needed was a little sleep.

Diarrhea can very easily be death by dehydration, especially when you can't consume oral fluids (Cholera causes extreme vomiting as well). Not only did we solve part of the problem with clean water, the other half was learning how to put clean water into our bodies (with salt).

Also fun fact, Thomas Latta was active in England at the same time as John Snow, the father of epidemiology, also in response to the Cholera epidemics at the time.

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Throughout history, so many people have worked so hard to alleviate human suffering, misery, and death. You will never know the names of all the people who have spent their life’s passion to take care of you, someone divided from them by decades, even centuries, someone whose existence they’d never know, whose name they’d never hear. But they did it, all the same.

I think this is an important thing to keep in mind.

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