As someone around for 9-11 and the “NEVER FORGET NUMBER #1 GREATEST TRAGEDY EVER IN HISTURY” response to it I am in thrilled and invigorated by the fact that younger people just make amogus memes and TikTok nonsense about it. A huge chunk of America cared more about it than any entire genocide and thought you would cry learning about it. They hoped it’d make every generation patriotically angry forever and ever and want to join the military. Instead you Photoshop the towers into squidwards house and shit. Never stop lol
I’m physically unable to take 9/11 seriously, entirely because my grade 9 english teacher was bizarrely obsessed with it. We basically had an entire unit on 9/11. We watched that documentary from those students that were doing a documentary of firefighters and wound up getting the only footage of the first plane hitting. We did a novel study of a book about some kid being in one of the towers for take your kid to work day and him and his dad squeezing past the wreckage of the plane to escape in time. We watched that Nic Cage movie of him being a firefighter during 9/11 that gets stuck in an elevator shaft when the place collapses. I am dead fucking serious, we had to make up fictional people that died in the attack, write an obituary for our 9/11sona’s, and then write and deliver a eulogy as their grief-stricken parent. At one point in the unit the teacher clarified that she hadn’t personally lost anyone to the attack, nor was she anywhere near New York when it happened. She never bothered to ask if any of us had actually lost someone in the attack, which kind of seems like a thing you should do before making us invent fictional victims to give eulogies for. The unit began with her demanding to know where we all were on the day of the attack and what we remembered, and she started crying when we told her that 1. we were two years old at the time and couldn’t remember shit fuck, the closest thing was one of the older kids kind of thought they remembered being very confused at adults freaking out over the TV but that could have been literally anything, and so this meant that 2. we were the last class she would ever teach that could possibly remember 9/11. Probably didn’t help that someone pointed out that we were the class born in 1999, so in two years she’d have students that hadn’t even been born during 9/11. That may have contributed to the teacher crying over the whole thing.
Hand mixers and Sewing Machines are Two different Types of horses
These are wild animals… Untamed Stallions…
They respond well to a confident handler, but they can smell fear and will act up if they don’t respect you. Other horses include printers and hot glue guns.
Yeah, sorry, we still don’t actually know 100% what causes SIDS. The enzyme found is a potential (!) biomarker, which can indicate a vulnerability but in no way definitively proves that this is the singular cause for SIDS. There are several limitations to the study, including the samples being approx. 2 years old, and more importantly, that we don’t know how many people who are healthy/don’t die of SIDS have this abnormality. This is a cool finding and definitely one that will be the basis of a lot of important research in the future, but it’s overblown and inaccurate to claim that we have finally found the singular cause of SIDS. More importantly, I see people claiming that now we can stop telling people only to let their babies sleep on their backs, without toys, etc. These are well-established recommendations whose implementation caused a notable decline in SIDS cases worldwide. Please don’t put the cart in front of the horse with this one.
Say “hi” to the Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea)! Like other similar-hued birds, it doesn’t have a true blue pigment. Rather, its feathers refract blue light. (Only males come in shades of blue, while females are brown). The Indigo Bunting has a wide range and can be spotted across North America, down through Central and South America, and even into parts of the Caribbean! It prefers brushy habitats near the edge of a forest, where it snacks on seeds and insects.
Photo: Shenandoah National Park, Public Domain Mark 1.0, flickr
Previously, parents were told SIDS could be prevented if they took proper precautions: laying babies on their backs, not letting them overheat and keeping all toys and blankets out of the crib were a few of the most important preventative steps. So, when SIDS still occurred, parents were left with immense guilt, wondering if they could have prevented their baby’s death.
Dr. Carmel Harrington, the lead researcher for the study, was one of these parents. Her son unexpectedly and suddenly died as an infant 29 years ago. (…) Harrington explainedwhat she was told about the cause of her child’s death.
“Nobody could tell me. They just said it’s a tragedy. But it was a tragedy that didn’t sit well with my scientific brain.”
Since then, she’s worked to find the cause of SIDS, both for herself and for the medical community as a whole. She went on to explain why this discovery is so important for parents whose babies suffered from SIDS.
"These families can now live with the knowledge that this was not their fault,” she said.
(…) As the cause is now known, researchers can turn their attention to a solution. In the next few years, those in the medical community who have studied SIDS will likely work on a screening test to identify babies who are at risk for SIDS and hopefully prevent it altogether.
TW: discussion of sudden and sleep-related infant death
I am extremely concerned that the above reblog cuts out (without even indicating the cut with an elipses) a VITAL paragraph when quoting the article.
After the paragraph about preventing SIDS through various precautions, it should read “While safe sleep practices are still important for protecting infants, many children whose parents took every precaution still died from SIDS. These parents were left with immense guilt, wondering if they could have prevented their baby’s death.”
Without this paragraph, the text as widely spread on Tumblr (where following through to the original article is low) implies that precautions such as laying baby on their back, keeping toys out of cribs, and temperature regulation are not important. This is an extremely dangerous take to spread uncritically.
While this part of my professional life isn’t something I go into online, my line of work is such that–over my lifetime–I have held and washed far, far more dead children than living. Some have been SIDS deaths, some ultimately found to be related to other previously undiagnosed congenital issue, but in the overwhelming majority of the cases I’ve seen, suffocation due to an unsafe sleep environment was the sole cause or at minimum a major contributing factor of death. Infants with faces pressed against a stuffed animal or fold in a blanket, infants who fell off an adult bed or sleeping caregiver and become wedged, infants unintentionally smothered by a sleeping or incapacitated adult’s body weight, infants laid down on an adult pillow, and on and on and on and on. In almost all these cases the adults thought they were being safe, because they had done the same thing without incident for most of the child’s life or with previous children. That’s why Safe to Sleep programs are so important.
If people walk away from the news of this enzyme discovery thinking that internal biochemical factors are solely to blame for sleep related deaths in infants rather than an explanation for why some infants die even if all recomended precautions have been taken, the infant mortality rate will not improve, and families will continue to suffer preventable tragedies.
Tw: death, infant death, SIDs
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This this this. All of this is so important to read, even if the paragraphs can be a challenge to you.
Sudden infant death is a horrid thing to experience as a parent or caregiver. It’s amazing a potential reason has been found. But don’t forget to still do the things recommended to reduce risks of infant death from suffocation etc (as above reblog states) because not every infant death will be because of SIDs.
AU where anakin doesn’t get horribly mutilated or publicly take a sith name, so he’s just that one jedi anakin skywalker who stayed loyal to the emperor and commands the imperial navy. meanwhile luke is hecking around on tatooine still using the skywalker name. so one day he gets those droids and meets ben kenobi and obi-wan’s like “yes your father was betrayed and murdered by a jedi named anakin skywalker. no relation to your father ani.” and luke falls for this because, well, it’s a big galaxy, and his family can’t be the only one with the name skywalker, right?
all this to say that when luke comes barging into leia’s cell on the death star and says “I’m luke skywalker, I’m here to rescue you” she’s like “you’re wHO NOW?” and luke has to really fast go “OH uhhh yeah no relation to anakin skywalker, just a funny coincidence” or else she would have socked him in the face
someone in the notes said bespin would be funny and I was thinking the exact same thing so–
Can someone tell me why this matters? Not trying to be rude I genuinely don’t know, it just looks like a poll
This Poll is about which concept will get their very own mini series. This is important to me bc a) this could mean Conner gets his own mini series!!!! b) someone has been cheating to help suicide dark win. whether its dc themselves or some asshole fan
ala, actual adult. I like to put things in boxes and have a compulsive need to fact check. warning: blog contains copious references to comics, sci-fi, history, movies, cats and general nerdery.
