me, having stupid thoughts & feelings about fictional characters: ugh. Fine.
From Girl Scout’s social media. The original Twitter thread is here.
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In light of Fall Out Boy’s GARBAGE cover of the song. Let’s learn about the original. Notice how they’re actually in chronological order instead of just random references 😒😒😒😒
Check out this playlist on @8tracks: 31st Century Breakdown by kaijuno.
Ayyyyyyy
being a female means needing to see 10 different doctors to get a proper diagnosis because they always think you’re exaggerating and/or lying
define proper diagnosis. I mean, does that just mean the diagnosis you want?
no :) it means going to 10 different doctors who disbelieved your symptoms until the 11th found cysts on your ovaries :) which may mean infertility :) sit on a cactus :)
I call bullshit
Of course you do. Like the first 10 doctors. 😒
I call bullshit on the story. If you think you have an issue you should see a specialist not just your PCP.
Like the 4 “specialists” I saw for the crippling numbness in my face and legs I had for over a year while they told me it was “stress”? When it was finally found that I had scars on my brain and spine? Those “specialists” we’re male neurologist who wouldn’t give me an MRI because “women stress too much”. Go fuck yourself.
MY SPINE WAS BROKEN FOR 2 YEARS BECAUSE MY DOCTORS TOLD ME I JUST HAD BAD CRAMPS AND REFUSED TO TAKE XRAYS. FUCK YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. WHEN WILL BOYS REALIZE THEIR EXPERIENCES ARENT STANDARD???? I ALSO LOVE THIS IDEA THAT YOU CAN JUST GO TO A SPECIALIST WHENEVER YOU WANT LOL IF OUR PCP DOESNT BELIEVE US WHEN WE TELL THEM OUR SYMPTOMS THEY ARENT GONNA REFER US TO A SPECIALIST YOU FUCKING MOLDY WALNUT
My parents began noticing something large in my throat, saw a specialist….Guess what? Told me to lose some weight..even though I wasn’t overweight. I would have my period for weeks at a time. Was told that it was teenage hormones and stress.
Two fucking years later I attempted suicide they ran a battery of tests as required and bam! They find out that I have untreated Hashimoto’s. The “thing” was a goiter. Possible symptoms of an untreated thyroid disease is the goiter, unexplained weight gain, and depression. All they had to do was test my blood, but they said young people don’t have thyroid problems. 😒
-Allie
Ten years ago, my mother—who is a pretty tough cookie—started feeling both ridiculously wired, anxious, and incredibly emotional. Every doctor she saw told her she was going through early menopause, even though she was still menstruating. Her health declined to point where she was barely sleeping, losing weight, and crying constantly, which was a huge red flag because my mother never cries. Finally, she went to see another doctor 2.5 hours away who referred her to an endocrinologist. And what did the endocrinologist say? He diagnosed her with one of the most advanced cases of Grave’s Disease he had even seen, and said if she had gone just a few more months without being treated, she could have FUCKING DIED.
Also, it turned out that her thyroid levels had been moving out of the normal range in a progressive pattern for years, but nobody bothered to look at her past test results until after the diagnosis. They would just do a test, see that it was “in the normal range” and leave it at that. She could have caught it before she even had symptoms, instead of basically being accused of having hysteria.
i had a brain aneurysm/hemorrhage ten years ago, doctors still tell me im faking my disability
BECAUSE YOU CAN TOTALLY FAKE LIMITED MOVEMENT OF THE LEFT SIDE
My sister had intercranial hypertension which was causing headaches, dizzy spells and loss of vision, and you know what the hospital told her? She was being a hysterical girl and making it up.
A few weeks later she spent roughly a month in hospital and had several lumbar punctures to relieve her RECORD HIGH spinal pressure that was causing so much strain on her brain and optic nerves she was being sent blind.
Everytime I see this post (and it’s been a good 5/6 times), it has different stories and experiences of women who have been horribly mistreated by doctors and it just blows my mind that this is so big. It’s absolutely disgusting how terribly women are treated in the medical world and something needs to be done about that.
my friend lea had back pain, then pain in her legs and feet, and then numbness. despite seeing 7 different doctors over 2 years, by the time they found the cancer it was inoperable. chemo and radiation didn’t work. the cancer spread. she died and left behind a 5 year old daughter.
A few years ago I would go through spells where I literally could not stand on my own and I couldn’t get out of bed. I would be freezing and too weak to eat. I would keep having heart palpitations as well. I got up the money to go to a clinic and they told me it was just stress and to basically just work on chilling out. I saved up money for a few weeks to do this and I pretty much get a “chill out” from them.
As time went on it got worse, most noticeably the heart palpitations were happening almost constantly. I went again to a different clinic and was told it was normal and that it was probably stress. They did no tests, and they told me it would “just go away”.
Two weeks later I ended up collapsing going down some stairs, and at the hospital it was discovered that I had such severe anemia that my heart could barely keep up with trying to get enough oxygen to my body. I had developed left ventricular hypertrophy (my heart muscle is too big) and because of them ignoring me and dismissing me I’m at a much higher risk of heart attacks and stroke now.
I went to the doctor with severe intermittent pain in my upper right stomach area that was so bad I had to miss school. Despite the fact that my period has been on a regular 3 month cycle for years, and I still had two months left until my period, my doctor told me it was period related cramps and or indigestion. 2 months later I’m in the hospital getting my gallbladder removed. It was so obstructed that there was gangrene developing my my system.
So…everyone who’s given me shit for that one post (about medicine and equal treatment and shit) can just read this because I’m sick of defending my case.
i know this post is already long but here’s a pretty good article about how gender bias in medicine is quite literally killing women. it focuses a lot on heart attacks but it applies to all areas of medicine
Fuck doctors I mean they’re important but fuck doctors
I’m kinda drunk so bare with me.
It’s really difficult to word the way I want it to but I agree. I hate that when a popular person asks a disabled child to prom they’re seen as “brave” and “heroic” when in reality this isn’t about the popular person. People always make it about the popular person. It’s not. It’s about a disabled kid that usually wouldn’t get an opportunity to shine like this. People always focus on and applaud the other person for asking a disabled person to prom/a dance/whatever. But it’s about the other person. It’s about them getting to shine and have fun. And it’s not the popular person’s fault, either. Most of the time they have a similar mindset where they want a disabled kid to have something special. I hate that the media always focuses on the able bodied person instead. It’s not about them. Stop putting the spotlight on them.
the sheer energies present here..
for the uninformed i would like to point out the many layers of this tweet:
the op, whose name is currently "captain a.c.a.b.", is jeffrey cranor, writer of popular podcast "welcome to night vale"
the quote retweet is cecil baldwin, voice of said podcast, "welcome to night vale"
the tweet is liked by noelle stevenson, showrunner/creator of popular netflix show "she ra and the princesses of power"
the joke itself is comparing the tulsa trump rally to tumblr dashcon, which is a circa-2014 tumblr joke
which implies that all three of these internet pseudo celebs found the dashcon joke funny enough to like/retweet/quote-retweet im reeling
WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE WAS SCHEDULED TO PERFORM AT DASHCON YALL THEY PULLED OUT BUT THEY WERE THERE
Man, how soon we forget. History is being unwritten before my eyes.
Night Vale had to pull out of Dashcon, yes, because Dashcon refused to pay them. Likewise, Noelle Stevenson was there, & had to pull out part of the way through the con when she found out that she would have to pay for her hotel room. The Night Vale group let Noelle Stevenson stay with them in their room. (She has since designed merch for them + been invited backstage to their live shows.)
This post is not just random internet celebrities posting old memes. This is also a toast to the beginning of their friendship.
Kilroy was here is an American popular culture expression that became popular during World War II; it is typically seen in graffiti. Its origins are debated, but the phrase and the distinctive accompanying doodle — a bald-headed man (sometimes depicted as having a few hairs) with a prominent nose peeking over a wall with the fingers of each hand clutching the wall — became associated with GIs in the 1940s.
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im screaming can you imagine dictators freaking out trying to understand a meme
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wow, i have a post with 300k+ notes thats SOO popular, my life is so hard.. im going to reblog it anyways tho but dont acknowledge it because that will piss me off ):< being popular on the tumblr is so hard! im definitely not doing this to get my post even more attention from my followers
That’s exactly what I’m doing u figured it out YOU FIGURED IT OUT
So there’s a new article in Popular Mechanics
We know how Popular Mechanics feels because the link embedded in “plane” above is this:
But if like me you wondered if we needed a new fighter jet, especially after dropping literally, and I mean literally, a trillion dollars on the F-35, here are all of the US’ air-to-air losses in the last three decades, keeping in mind that in that time the Cold War ended and our state-of-the-art planes would have no reason to fight anybody’s contemporary fighters:
That’s 5 unmanned craft, two helicopters from friendly fire, and one aircraft from two generations of fighters ago not counting this mysterious new one.
But it’s a little more complicated than another fighter jet we don’t need and haven’t needed for a couple decades, if ever. Here’s Popular Mechanics again:
Let’s just ignore the bootlicker fawning over killing machines and think about this for a sec. The latest stealth fighters from Russia and China both took at least a decade to develop each, but their contemporary in the US, the F-35, also took over a decade and quite a lot of money. Except now the US is suddenly capable of developing, testing, and producing a new top of the line fighter jet all in one year? I have a few likely ideas:
1: The fighter doesn’t exist. The military budget has been increasing but it didn’t balloon enough to cram the decade-long, trillion dollar creation of the F-35 into a single year. Why fake it? Tr*mp has been disastrously escalating a trade war with China and if we don’t want it to go full USSR and pull us into a proxy war where their new fighters piloted by their proxy fight ours, we need to project a better craft than the F-35 and its quick development broadcasts vastly superior production power.
2: It does exist, but it might suck actually. More locally, Tr*mp wants to show he can make a better and cheaper fighter faster than the previous two administrations. It also shows the supposed benefits of deregulation and the rebirth of American manufacturing. Or, this is a new, futuristic (or futuristically styled) variation of the F-35 (remote operated maybe?) meant to be the flagship of the Space Force. Or an entirely new but rushed plane for that purpose; not valuable on its own as a fighter jet, but like I outlined above, more about broadcasting superiority at home and abroad.
So if you’re wondering why Americans can’t have healthcare, it’s because a significant amount of our taxes are spent making useless pieces of shit intended to kill and terrorize poor people (if they a. Exist and b. Can even get off the fucking ground).