wish it was easier to tell the difference between ‘pain that will get better if you use the body part’ and ‘pain that will get worse if you use the body part’ and ‘pain that is indifferent to you using the body part’ tbqh
It’s going to vary a lot from person to person, but as a rule of thumb:
- If it feels tight/locked up/achy it needs to move, but be aware that it almost certainly needs to move slowly and gently until the pain begins to ease
- If it feels sharp/hot/tender and/or gets worse with pressure/weight, it needs to rest. Massage, heat, or ice may help.
- If you move the body part and feel grinding/clicking that’s new or worse than usual it needs to rest or possibly to get a brace on it
- Electrical pain or pain that comes with numbness and tingling is probably nerve pain, and nerve pain cares not what you do with your body but it might care what position it’s in, so it’s less about using the body part and more about how you’re using the body part.
- You can have multiple things going on which get worse or better with different things, and the best thing to do here is vary what you’re doing. Lying in bed like a slug is what you’re going to want to do. But you’ll feel better if you get up and move around for just a few minutes before going back to resting.
why is it so hard to find pictures of whale nipples
like I know they’re retractable and kept inside the mammary slit but surely someone has photographed them
my marine biologist friend who does whale necropsies says I won’t find any images online but if I want to see whale nipples I’ll have to get a degree and a new job or volunteer at a marine mammal center that does necropsies so I can see them first hand
this is not a quest I thought I’d have to commit to
I don’t know why I’m so fixated on this… being denied information that I know is out there, in the age of the internet? unthinkable! I’ve seen all kinds of esoteric shit I’ve never wanted to see, without even looking for it, but the moment I want to see cetacean tiddy the universe is suddenly reticent with me? maybe this is a uniquely 21st century kind of entitlement but I’m angry about this.
I have sent Emails:
What if whale mamalry slits is where angels live and the reason you can’t find pictures is because the angels are interfering or maybe make human minds explode
oh fuck I should have asked that
I've gotta stop talking about mermaids
.....oh damn, did you know that male baleen whales have nipples but male sperm whales definitively don't? (I do not seem to have access to this paper and I'm also very mad about it.)
anyway here's your whale nipples, via Sarano, F., Sarano, V., Tonietto, M. L., Yernaux, A., Jung, J. L., Arribart, M., ... & Adam, O. (2023). Nursing behavior in sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus). Animal Behavior and Cognition, 10(2), 105-131..
You know. If you gotta know.
I have access to the Clarke 2005 paper!
It has two photos, one of them showing a hint of male whale nipples!
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men with high voices ❤️
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seriously though, no matter what voice you use whether it be your natural voice or something you've trained, your voice is beautiful and you should never be ashamed of how it sounds under any circumstances
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Why You Should Always Wear Your Helmet.
PSA: never put stickers on your helmets (unless you have checked with the manufacturer) because the adhesive can weaken the structure!
One day my health teacher in middle school just like … didn’t show up for class. And so of course we were all “oh if he doesn’t show up in fifteen minutes we’re legally allowed to leave”, giggling about it and all the bullshit. He did eventually show up, ten minutes into the class time. He looked haggard as fuck, sweating all over, hair messed up, beaten to hell and back. We stared at him and were about to ask what in the world happened to him when he stopped in front of his desk and smacked his bicycle helmet down on it.
His helmet had this odd discolored patch on it. Like, white against white, but … weird? It’s then that I realized his helmet didn’t have a discolored patch, it had a patch missing. A big chunk of his helmet had just been shaved away, the curve of the helmet gone and sanded flat by whatever it had been scraped against. And running through that patch, from one side of the helmet to the other, was this big crack, like the whole helmet had split like an eggshell.
Our teacher took a couple deep panting breaths and then told our class: “And this,” he took another deep breath, “is why you always wear your helmet”.
And that’s the story of how an entire class of middle school students took helmet-wearing very seriously for the rest of their lives.
My sister was doing a charity cycle, and on the last day there was awful rain. Going down a steep hill her brakes failed. I got a selfie from her missing her front teeth and she had a black eye. Before I can even lose my mind about her injuries, my dad sent me a picture of her shattered cycle helmet, the tattered ruins of her Alice in Wonderland costume and the scuffs on the shirt and cycle leggings she’d been wearing under it.
The helmet prevented her skull/face from taking serious damage and the long sleeves/leggings meant she got grazes on her limbs instead of needing skin grafts. Honestly - safety first.
The VERY FIRST BIKE RIDE OF HIS LIFE, my four year old lost control of his bike, panicked and forgot how to use the break and flipped over his handlebars and went head first into the curb.
He got up like it was nothing, got back on his bike and finished the bike ride.
No bruises, no cuts or scrapes and just a couple tears for fears.
His helmet has a HUGE dint in it. Nothing punctured through. Structural integrity is still fine. All the paw patrol characters are still there. That 12$ saved us a trip to the emergency room.
Hey PSA!
YOU MUST GO TO THE HOSPITAL IF YOUR HELMET LOOKS LIKE THOSE ABOVE!
Helmets prevent you from dying but you could STILL BE CONCUSSED or have internal injuries!
And always replace a helmet after a fall where you hit your head! Even if it doesn’t look dented, the padding inside can still be damaged enough that it’s much safer to get a new one!
any helmet that suffers a crash impact is almost always without any more structural support and will completely shatter into pieces if you crash on it again
Always replace it
I don’t have the helmet anymore to take pictures of it, but I’ve had a speeding car plow into me on my bike before. My head went through the windshield and then I got launched when they slammed the brakes. Helmet broke into four different pieces right there. With it on I got KO’d, a not too serious concussion (as far as any concussion can be not too serious), and some road rash. Got to go home that afternoon. The docs say that if I hadn’t been wearing it, I probably wouldn’t have survived.
ALWAYS WEAR YOUR HELMETS, KIDS
(That includes the straps)
Ex got hit by a car while riding and was flung into the air so hard he smacked his head on the stop light. He’s alive today because his helmet kept his head from being cracked open like an egg
Wear. Your. Helmet. When. Riding. Horses.
I’m not being a controlling asshole. I just want you to stay ok!
Back in the early ‘90s, when I was in my late 20s, I was running some errands around town on my bicycle. I stopped to lock it up, and a couple of kids (junior high? High school? I don’t remember) noticed that I was wearing a helmet. They helpfully informed me that the local bicycle helmet laws didn’t apply to people over 18.
I helpfully informed them in turn that I worked at the hospital up the hill, right across the hall from the emergency room, and I’d seen exactly what happens to people who don’t wear their helmets on more occasions than I really wanted to remember.
They looked VERY thoughtful.
About a decade later, I went over the handlebars of my bike after a dog ran in front of me. Wound up flat on my back, with a cracked rib or two, a hairline fracture in my elbow … and a noticeable mushy spot on the back of my helmet that COULD have been a mushy spot on the back of my SKULL.
Reblog In 5 seconds for good luck
this worked last night lets go for round two
*LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER*
*EVEN LOUDER MORE INCORRECT BUZZER*
CARCASS IN YOUR NECK
*INCOMPREHENSIBLY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER*
this is so obviously sarcophagussy in your thrussy