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How is it that you can a music library of like 1,200+ absolute bangers but as soon as you put it on shuffle in a group setting it's like. anime opening you added in 2010. homestuck parody song. musical artist who was cancelled last year for kidnapping and eating children in his basement. Hamilton
"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you š" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence
they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.
people always go "Instead of spending all that time on a study they could have just listened to us when we said these thing happen"
they did listen, that's how studies work, they asked people about their experiences and put all the data together in a nice package that can be cited
all i want for 2026 is that gigantic rancid AI bubble to finally burst in such a catastrophic way that the consequences will be so good and i'll never have to see another AI generated image ever again
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Meanwhile this was what various medical professionals in that reddit thread had to say about it.
They do not, in fact, love it.
The proof that chiropractic is an utterly failed medical profession is not that adjustments can cause harm, but that the profession has responded by ignoring and denying the harm, rather than studying it.
All medical treatments (other than complete placebos) have some risk of harm, but for real treatments given by real professionals, the harms are tracked, measured and warned about. If the harms are too severe, the treatment is no longer used.
One of my colleagues was a chiropractor. After a while he began to suspect that a lot of his patients actually just had muscle tears, not spinal issues. He bought an ultrasound machine, learned how to use it and how to read ultrasound, and found that to be the case. Between that and the constant pressure from management to get customers (because lbr, they're not patients, they're customers), he got sick and tired of it and bailed to become a sonographer full time.
And before people pipe up with "but my chiro is good, they have me do exercises and so on!" that's just regular ass physiotherapy. See a physiotherapist. A lot of people who sing the praises of chiros because they saved them from chronic pain would have gotten the same benefits from seeing an actual licensed physio, who can prescribe the same or even better exercises because they have an actual fucking education.
The amount of fucking charts I've seen where a patient went to a chiropractor and now needs a surgery is fucking insane. All I do is medical charts, day in and day out doing medical code. I've gone over hundreds of patients whole year of appointments. Unless the chiropractor is also a physical therapist, that patient is going to get worse and need surgery with very few exceptions. It doesn't matter when they mention seeing a chiropractor, by the end of the year they need surgery for issues that started after *shock and awe* a chiropractor appointment! I've seen patients needing multiple surgeries to be functional after chiropractors. I've seen patients lose their ability to walk because of chiropractors. And all the way up till they need surgery, through the issues piling up and needing more pain meds, the patients insist it's helping because the want so badly for it to be helping. I wish it did
Women in Shakespeare
Also like to point out that when her mother says āI was your mother much upon these years that you are now a maid,ā (translation: I had you when I was your age) you have to remember her fatherās words: āearth hath swallowed all my hopes but she,ā (translation: all the other children died.)Ā The whole plot point of Juliet being an only child is explained by her mother being a Margaret Beaufort type who had her first child too young and it damaged her past the point of being able to bear more children.
Margaret Beaufort died in 1509. She was a major player in the Wars of the Roses, the swirling on-again-off-again civil wars that consumed England from 1455-1487. Romeo and Juliet was written and first performed in the early 1590s. Your average English person of Shakespeareās day would probably have had at least a vague understanding of who she was and what happened to her, because she was a key figure in recent history and was still getting passed around as a cautionary tale.
There are two great problems with what happened to Margaret (and that her parents are trying to do to Juliet). One is easy for modern people to spot (but was also a common response back in her own day). And thatās the moral implications of what was done to her. She was too young to be married, and it was horrifying that she was forced into it so young. Every one of the adults around her either acted immorally or failed to protect her. They were wrong. This is what modern people see, and itās important to remember that people back in her day mostly agreed with it. Youāre supposed to think itās fucked up! When girls were married that young (and it didnāt happen often!) it was a formality 99% of the time. It was for dynastic or financial reasons (the girl has lots of money and/or land and/or a title that her husband wants), but the ācoupleā donāt consummate their marriage for years. And itās not just that they would have separate bedrooms. They might not even live in the same country until the girl was in her late teens and physically and mentally mature enough to bear and raise kids. Hell, a lot of times they didnāt even meet until the girl was older! They had this thing called āproxy marriageā where you would have two separate ceremonies, in two separate places, with each party saying their vows separately, one in one city and the other in a different one. So, yeah, sure, the girl was technically married at 12, but she didnāt actually meet her āhusbandā in person until she was 17 and they didnāt start sleeping together until she was 20. That was a thing they did.
The other problem, the one that modern people donāt notice, is dynastic. See, marriage wasnāt generally because you loved someone. It was because you had the resources to support a family, and you or your family wanted to pool those resources with someone. Itās about āour family has these resources, and we want that to continue.ā Itās about continuity across generations. Itās about making sure that your children and grandchildren have the best possible resources to survive and thrive, whether those resources are land or a trade or a title or money or whatever. In order for this to work, you have to have kids! The family and the familyās resources depend on the married couple having children. If the couple doesnāt have children, the marriage is a failure. And that failure affects not only the couple, but both families. This is a really big problem. And you canāt have just one kid to pass on the family name, because half of all kids die in early childhood. If you want to be safe, you need several kids, to be sure at least one will survive to adulthood (when they can marry and pass on the family name and resources.
You know what happens when a girl has her first pregnancy too young? She is very likely to either die in childbirth, or have complications that destroy her future fertility. Just like Margaret Beaufort. Just like Julietās mother. In other words, the marriage is a failure, not just for her, but also for her family, and her husband (who canāt divorce her, itās not allowed except in extremely rare circumstances), and her husbandās family. So even the people who didnāt have a moral problem with adult men having sex with pubescent girls had a practical problem with girls married too young because you are very likely to destroy the entire purpose of the marriage by doing it. As Shakespeare reminds us in the play through Julietās mother having been married too young and only having one child.
Shakespeare is telling us āyeah, this is fucked up. but even if youāre the kind of awful person who doesnāt think girls marrying too young is morally wrong, itās also a problem for practical and dynastic reasons, donāt forget that by doing this wrong thing you are very likely to destroy what you most want out of it.ā
Interesting
It bears repeating:
donāt forget that by doing this wrong thing you are very likely to destroy what you most want out of it.ā
yes, excellent discussion!
another thing i noticed, the year my local community shakespeare theater did r&j, and i made the costumes so i got to watch the show every night: part of why capulet is telling paris, take your time, get to know each other, no rush, is that he still has his nephew tybalt as his heir. as long as tybalt is in the picture, there is no pressure on juliet to go further with paris, than get acquainted. once tybalt is killed, then suddenly capulet needs an heir, he needs a husband for juliet, now, this week. (the role of capulet is best given to the actor in the company that can do over the top apoplexy, you need to believe his urgency comes at least in part by how clearly he could drop dead any moment from giving himself a stroke)
i feel like this play is often taught in middle schools as if it was somehow relevant to, or about, teen hormone storms. really it's got more to do with the social structures around family and inheritance. leaving that context out makes it confusing, why is capulet suddenly flipping from nice dad to evil dad?
art history matters.
I've been thinking about this play a lot lately. I really wanna highlight that Lord Capulet asks Paris to wait and get to know her, and to woo her, while Tybalt lives. While Tybalt is alive, Juliet has something of a reprieve, and her wellbeing as his only child matters more to Capulet. But once Tybalt has died, the gloves come off. Lord Capulet was worried about his daughter's wellbeing when he felt he had the space to care, but as soon as his dynasty is at stake, as soon as this becomes larger than Juliet's happiness, his consideration for her health and mental wellbeing get thrown away. Which also is due in part to the fact that Capulet's family is implicated in a brawl that has left several dead after the Prince's family EXPLICITLY told the Capulets and Montagues to stop fighting or face dire consequences, AND Capulet is trying to align himself with the Prince's family by marrying Juliet off to County Paris, a relative of the Prince. So to Lord Capulet, it is now less important that Juliet is happy, and more important than he reminds the Prince of his loyalty via this marriage and aligns his family with the Prince's before it's too late. And he believes this must be done, at any cost...until Juliet kills herself. And that's when he realises the devastating cost of treating his family as chess pieces. He realises his wrongdoing far too late.
Seriously Romeo and Juliet is HEAVY on the dynastic politics, and I think you can't fully understand the play without understanding how that all works, especially because the impact of dynastic marriages on women and girls is like. THE POINT of the play
Please fucking lie to your employer. Like they donāt need to know your mental health issues or what drugs you do. Ffs
its not lying if its to employers or cops
and look up ur rights on what they can and cannot ask u many places ban asking about ur record and transportation status and things like that resources will also tell u how they reword sketchy questions so ur prepared
Hey. Take it from a former HR person⦠this goes double right now. I just spent some time putting in some job applications myself (not for HR, lol) and got about 15 interviews. And idk if itās because of COVID uncertainty or if places just donāt fucking care anymore because they know people are desperate for work, but the amount of straight up illegal shitĀ my interviewers asked me was appalling. (Thatās not even counting the questions that were technicallyĀ legal but clearly fishing for information theyāre not legally allowed to ask.)
A tame example? Two questions into a phone interview, the guy on the other end of the line asked:Ā āHow old are you?ā I saidĀ āExcuse me?ā - giving him a chance to rethink that. He didnāt.Ā āHow old are you?ā āSir, you are not allowed to ask me that question.ā āWell, I want to know. Iām asking.ā āAnd youāre legally not allowed to ask me that. Iām not required to tell you my age.ā At that point, I guess he managed to remember an old HR bulletin or something (I hope to god he wasnāt actually HR himself), and he said,Ā āWell, I need to know if youāre over the age of 18.ā (Which is what he should have asked in the first place⦠or not, since that was in the application that he could have read.) āYes. Iām over the age of 18.āĀ And we moved on. Two questions later, he tried another illegal question. I called him on it again and ended the interview, citing that a workplace with such a clear disregard for the law, especially upon first contact with a potential employee, was not going to be a good fit. (They offered me the job anyway, lol. I didnāt send a thank-you or a response.)
At a different interview, the majority of questions wereĀ āfishingā questions - just looking for that info theyāre not actually allowed to ask. (This person was also either not really HR or an HR person who was exceptionally bad at their job.)
I could tell they were getting frustrated when I dodged answering the personal stuff, and they actually got extremelyĀ upset when I mentioned later in the interview (re: less relevant work experience) I had worked in HR. They were super flustered for the remainder of our time, and I watched them skip over questions on their sheet they had clearly planned on asking. They KNEW they were being sketchy and were counting on me not knowing anything about HR - or my rights - and so they got upset when I did. These were super tameĀ examples. Iām begging you, if youāre job searching right now, PLEASEĀ know your rights. Please know what interviewers are allowed to ask. Please donāt volunteer information or elaborate more than youāre required to about personal things. Save your words (and everyoneās time) by elaborating why youāre good for the position/what you can do. I may create a resource list on this shit later but PLEASE PLEASE KNOW THIS STUFF BEFORE YOU TALK TO AN EMPLOYER. This goes for anywhere youāre interviewing as well as your current employer. This also goes for HR. HR may be the person you go to when shitty stuff happens, but that doesnāt mean theyāre your friend (or competent). They donāt need to know your age (beyond 16+, 18+, or 21+, depending on the job). They donāt need to know your medical history. (For the love of god, do NOT answer theĀ āhave you been diagnosed with depression?ā question.) They donāt need to know if you have kids or whatever. They donāt need to know a LOT of those things that may appear on an application, including your veteran status, whether youāre on/have been on unemployment, etc. Theyāre not entitled to know specifics about your transportation (unless youāre using that transportation for the job, like Uber/delivery drivers). Look this up for your state/the jobās state. Beware questions likeĀ āWhat year did you graduate?ā if youāre like me and donāt put dates on your resume (I just put amount of time spent at employers, not dates of employment). Theyāre fishing for your age. Itās āOh, you know, 100 years ago,ā if you feel comfortable making a joke, orĀ āAbout [generic number, like 5 or 10] years agoā if not. Also beware things like theĀ āWhat do you do in your free time?ā question, even if you already work there. This is not a friendly getting-to-know-you question. This is a basis for judgement. Not up to an invisible standard? Theyāre going to be biased against you for pay raises, promotions, etc. Mention kids/lots of family/social engagements? Thatās a tick against you for not being the kind of person who lives to work (yes, itās gross and stupid). Mention lots of solitary things? Cool, thatās their mental note to ask more from you because youāreĀ ānot doing anything anyway.ā By all means, be friendly with your coworkers/talk about shared interests if you want, but it is noneĀ of your bossās business, and be aware what could get back to them.Ā Donāt. Tell. Employers. Shit.
We wrote up a handy list of those illegal questions here:
10 Questions You Should Never Be Asked in a Job InterviewĀ
Hopefully people already know this by now, but I saw way too often back when I worked in retail. Donāt add your coworkers or boss on social media. Yes, your coworkers too. You donāt want to accidentally say something to them or have them see a post and mention it to your boss. Iāve seen it happen.

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The KIDS Act received broad bipartisan support. But the legislation is expected to face challenges in the Senate.
This is a worse version of KOSA.
The KIDS Act, which contains provisions previously found in the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), could silence online speech and jeopardize us
DO NOT TRUST DEMOCRATS ON THIS ONE!!!
If you canāt safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Senators:
Five Calls to your critters:Ā https://5calls.org/
Here is one that will send your reps a fax:Ā https://resist.bot/
And another:Ā https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php
āCongress. gov:āĀ https://www.congress.gov/
The KIDS Act, ostensibly aimed at protecting children, will raise the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers.
things in phm that really tickled me as a marine biologist:
the concept of star-eating microbes causing a crisis and the solution being the introduction of space wolves to space yellowstone to control the space elk population. i love a good trophic cascade
dr ryland grace immediately pitching "turn the spaceship into a giant centrifuge to generate gravity" and then not balancing his actual centrifuge later on
the entire "life is reason" scene really
grace forgetting to open the mystery alien container in a fume hood AND immediately sticking his nose in it. if we did this in chemistry lab we were executed on the spot
academia drama being one of the cornerstones of grace's character
grace switching through every spectrum setting on the microscope to try to see into the astrophages and not being able to (relatable)
also: the astrophage dying and grace going "ohhh it died..." (very relatable)
grace having his not-scientist buddy Carl to give him frank solutions when he's overthinking. yes, often the solution is just to put the box in another box
copious duct tape usage
just sticking a filter into the path of the petrova line to collect astrophage goop
eva going "so it's alive" when grace tells them the astrophage are moving, and him being like "WELL ok that could be for a lot of reasons" in the tone of someone who doesn't even know where to start explaining why that's a hasty assumption
grace referring to the first new astrophage as his and carl's baby multiple times (HIGHLY relatable)
humanity's greatest hope being a teacher. humanity being saved by grace's ability to find novel ways to communicate well with others -- something that made him excellent as an educator, and enabled him to bond with rocky
It's been a while since I said "this person wins the internet", but today it is merited.
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(The classic XKCD comic)
āTrans men donāt make good music itās all cringey ukulele indie popā name a trans male musician who makes music like that other than cavetown
You know what? Name any trans male musician at all who isnāt cavetown
i dont want to derail from op's original point, but there have been a lot of wonderful reccs on this post, and i DO think we as a community need to do more to uplift trans men/transmasc musicians instead of stereotyping all transmasc musicians as "cringy". so, i sat down and went through every comment, tag, and reblog on this post (at least, all of the ones that are visible to me) and compiled a list, and i included some of my own favorites that i didnt see mentioned!
this list is not in any order, and i am not familiar with most of these artists, so an inclusion on this is not an endorsement of anything! if ive made a mistake anywhere, just let me know!
schmekel - transmasc jewish folk band (they seem to have deleted the majority of their music off most platforms, unsure why? but this link is to a playlist of re-uploads)
exiliahu - very vocally pro-palestine jewish trans man
noah finnce - british trans man, pop rock
ellyotto - canadian trans man, hyperpop
jesswar - fijian-austrailian trans man, hip hop
2am ricky - Black american trans man, hip hop/soul/jazz/house
rahim redcar - french trans man, indie/alt-pop
elio mei - american trans man, indie folk
anjimile - Black american trans man, indie folk
the oozes - queer punk band w/ a trans man lead singer
sushi soucy - transmasc, folk rock
dopamine - band of scottish transmascs
boy jr - transmasc, indie/alt rock
great grandpa - queer indie rock band w/ trans man lead singer
riotnine - transmasc punk band
the muslims - transmasc poc anti-fascist punk band
TR sun - Black american trans man, hip hop
billy tipton - american trans man, 1940s jazz star
mal blum - american trans man, indie rock/folk punk
dayflower - british transmasc "dreamcore" indie pop band
ryan cassata - american trans man, folk punk
ezra butler - british trans man, indie pop
bells larson - canadian nonbinary trans man, indie pop
sasha allen - american trans man, indie pop
boy bowser - american trans man, energetic hip hop
mikah amani - Black american trans man, folk music
jake edwards - british trans man, pop music
jakey bake - trans man, super indie/underground
king aiden - Black american trans man, indie pop
addison grace - american transmasc, indie pop
dylan and the moon - british trans man, indie folk
searows - american trans man, indie folk/bedroom pop
elio kennedy yoon - Asian-american trans man, indie pop
beverly glenn copland - Black canadian trans man, art/folk pop
REVENGEOFPARIS - nonbinary transmasc rapper
V3CTORGRAPH1CS - nonbinary transmasc, hyperpop
Um Jennifer? - american indie rock duo ; one is transmasc, the other is transfem
jigsawllie - transmasc, indie "weirdcore" vocaloid music
Jupi77er - brazilian trans man rapper

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Stay engaged.
Even though it's hard...stay engaged.
Keep fighting, keep resisting. It's only over when you give up.
if they're gonna remake The Princess Bride, it should open with a kid sick in bed scrolling on his phone. his grandpa arrives with a gift--it's a DVD player with a disc already inside. grandpa hooks it up to the TV and presses play. and we all just watch the original 1987 film again.