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Watching my toddler figure out how to language is fascinating. Yesterday we were stumped when he kept insisting there was a “Lego winner” behind his bookshelf - it turned out to be a little Lego trophy cup. Not knowing the word for “trophy”, he’d extrapolated a word for “thing you can win”. And then, just now, he held up his empty milk container and said, “Mummy? It’s not rubbish. It’s allowed to be a bottle.” - meaning, effectively, “I want this. Don’t throw it away.” But to an adult ear, there’s something quite lovely about “it’s allowed to be a bottle,” as if we’re acknowledging that the object is entitled to keep its title even in the absence of the original function.

#motherhood #Mor

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In 1982, quite by accident, a zookeeper at Izu Shaboten Zoo in Shizuoka Prefecture discovered that capybaras absolutely loved soaking in hot water, and the practice of providing them an onsen, or traditional Japanese hot spring, was born. Source Massimo; video @yu_haradakei.

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Māori child, Aotearoa/New Zealand, by Maania Tealei

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Desi fire fairy mood board

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Conversation

By Eldar Orucov

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The Iranian Regime is going to execute rapper Toomaj Salehi for supporting protests of Jina Amini’s murder by the regime in his songs.

Iranian activist Elica Le Bon says, “Iranians in the diaspora picked up on the fact that the regime tends not to execute people who become known to the international community. We have seen many examples of prisoners that were either released on bail or had their sentences commuted through our “say their names to save their lives” campaign on social media, using hashtags to garner attention for their causes, and even before social media existed, through getting the stories of political prisoners to international media outlets. Once reported on, and once the eyes shift to the regime and the reality of its pending brutality, realizing that the action is not worth the repercussions, we have seen them back down and not execute. For that reason, this is part of an urgent campaign for readers to talk about Toomaj as much as you can, using the hashtag #FreeToomaj or #ToomajSalehi. Every comment makes a difference, and if we were wrong, what did we lose by trying?”

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I want to think this is some sort of troll trying to get in the way of Hindu-Jewish solidarity.

Tragically I have no evidence of that and must accept that, like any other people, Jews can be stupid assholes.

Ugh I hate this account and their rampant islamophobia and hinduphobia.

I don't care what this woman did, wishing death on her for being a bad hindu is wrong

Just reblogged a post where they said we're apparently "rebranding" the Swastika by spreading awareness about how the Hakenkruez is a different thing.

This person's thinking process is just odd to me.

#hinduphobia #Jewish-Hindu solidarity

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“Thinking about compression from a side view”

Source: Anime Private School on Twitter

#art #reference #art tutorial

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These two are amazing!

@x-heesy 💃🏻🕺🏻 Friday vibes!

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it's interesting how 'fact check' and 'vet your sources' seem to be the correct course of action only when it's about things we don't agree with isn't it

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I wanted to put a more positive spin on the popular skeleton leaving meme

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I already reblogged this with a full explanation for what I am about to say so please forgive the brevity and see my previous post. But your post and others like it are freaking me out as a doctor and I feel strongly that I HAVE to correct the misconceptions.

- Retained tissue is always a possibility! Although your risks go down significantly, someone with a hysterectomy/bilateral oopherectomy can have pathology of the retained tissue! PLEASE mention to your doctor if you EVER had an organ even post removal.

Disclaimer: I am a pulmonologist/intensivist and not a gynecologist so I am relating general medical knowledge. Please confirm and double check everything with a gynecologist, preferably the one who did your surgery!

this is a way better model... you'll still get transphobic & intersexist drs of course but i prefer this to male / female or even having separate questions for gender & sex.

[we can't see the full form, but i'd suggest having a "something else" option and dominant hormone question too.]

#doctorposting #medical

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Reeds - Elena Maijala , 2023.

Finnish, b. 1951 -

Oil , gold leaf on canvas base, 175 x 130 cm.

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I’m adding this reluctantly, but I am a physician who has strong feelings about trans healthcare.

Sex at birth is absolutely important for doctors to know. I will provide examples of why from my real life practice.

1. Many trans people have retained sex organs.

- I treated a passing trans woman with abdominal pain and ordered her a pregnancy test. The outcome here is that she laughed at me; it was a harmless mistake. If it had been the other way around, and I hadn’t ordered a pregnancy test for a trans man with a uterus or even with ovaries, it could have been a fatal mistake. Even with a total hysterectomy and oopherectomy, a trans man might have endometriosis, or vaginal cancer from retained tissue, or a higher risk or certain pathologies like venous thrombosis from smoking. A trans woman likewise might have a retained prostate or testicular/penile tissue. Most laypeople understandably wouldn’t know these things are dangerous or even possible; it is not their job to know. It is MY job to know.

2. My primary care patient who is a trans man - I explicitly instructed him to tell all doctors that he is on testosterone. Exogenous hormones are medically active, obviously. They come with their own risks. It is, once again, a doctor’s responsibility to know these; I don’t expect a patient to have them memorised. Obviously all people should take responsibility for their own health, but the entire point of a doctor is to have a specialised extensive knowledge of these matters. I tell my patients they are hiring me to give expert consultation on their bodies and health and for that I need to know everything about their bodies and health.

A desire among doctors to be sensitive to trans people, I find, often paradoxically results in worse care for trans people. As a doctor who cares for trans people I feel extremely passionately about the need for doctors to learn more about how to give high quality care to trans people, who often have specialised medical needs - whether that is from retained sex organ tissue, active medications, post surgical changes, or awareness of common mental and physical health comorbidities in the trans community. Things are getting better - my medical boards had a few questions on trans healthcare- but they need to KEEP getting better.

As a doctor, here are some things I think all trans people should know about their health which may not be intuitive

- Postsurgical genital care can ONLY be safely performed by the original surgeon. A general urologist or gynaecologist CANNOT give good care to a postop trans person. If they say they can, or can’t tell the difference, that is a massive red flag that they don’t know what they are doing.

- Active hormones raise and lower risks for pathologies that I can’t even begin to list in a post. The big ones to know about are cancers (since hormones promote tissue growth they can promote cancer growth) and clotting issues. If your doctor doesn’t have a VERY extensive consultation with you about these before starting them, FIND A NEW DOCTOR. A big example is warning trans women especially from ethnicities as risk, such as Ashkenazi Jewish, that they NEED to monitor especially well for breast cancer and how to do so, even if there is little breast growth.

- There can ALWAYS be retained tissue even postsurgically. Even if you no longer have the organ in question you still need to tell your doctor that you once did. Retained tissue can cause life threatening problems like cancer nobody suspects or ectopic pregnancy or cysts or endometriosis.

My disclaimer - I am a doctor, but not your doctor. I am also not a doctor who specialises trans healthcare, just a pulmonologist who tries to be educated in order to do right by my patients. Trans people, PLEASE vet your doctors. We are getting better and better at this over the years, but we are still nowhere near as good as we need to be.

this is a way better model... you'll still get transphobic & intersexist drs of course but i prefer this to male / female or even having separate questions for gender & sex.

[we can't see the full form, but i'd suggest having a "something else" option and dominant hormone question too.]

#doctorposting #trans health #medicine

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#god yes #I’m so lucky because I have a realistic chance of getting all of this #ok not the alarm clock lol #but my job is so worthwhile and amazing #that I’m willing to work so hard at it #I love what I do and it’s so meaningful and it pays so well and I’m so deeply aware of how rare that is and how lucky it makes me #god #I wish everyone could have what I have #I want to give akiva the first one

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MONTAÑA VINICUNCA - PERU

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In the book Hyperion this gets explicitly discussed! One of the main characters is Jewish, his story arc is incredibly Jewish explicitly and implicitly (without too many spoilers he goes through some Avraham-esque choices), and what happened to the Jews after Earth is destroyed is a major element of the world building (we are ok, we move to a planet called Hebron and have infinite debates about whether keeping the mitzvot is possible after Israel literally got sucked into a black hole.) It’s so authentic to Judaism that I was genuinely shocked that the author isn’t Jewish.

Bonus points for another main character being Palestinian and exploring his culture/what happened to his people too, but I obviously can’t speak to the authenticity. But his character is a hot war hero.

youtube series where i theorize what the jews are doing in any fictional media featuring future humans in space and/or a post-apocalyptic world

#books #Hyperion