“average user only sees 25 posts per session so they have to be good and varied” factoid actualy just statistical error. average user lives in cave and views 10,000 posts in one unending session. Normal Guy Georg, who has a job and social life & checks tumblr once or twice each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote: “When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.
And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”
And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”
And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “Win” at them.”
“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.”
I need this quote framed in every room of my house, thanks.
I could write 20 pages against exclusionist arguments but nothing I could say would be as efficient as this
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[ID: A reddit post from tomohawk12345 with 10 upvotes that says, ā"this sexual minority group isnāt part of the sexual minority groupā š¤š¤". End ID]
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Your mom and aunts arenāt on tumblr.Ā Please warn them about this as well.Ā
[Image description: Two smartphone screenshots of a Facebook post by a person named Sheila Toll posted 2 Sep. It is black text on a white background and the post is public. The post reads:
I am a Family Doctor and I want to keep a promise made to a patient.Ā
Julie was a healthy, post-menopausal woman in my care who came in for a periodic health examination. One of my routine questions, in what is called theĀ āReview of Systemsā, was to ask if she had experienced any vaginal bleeding.Ā
She saidĀ āNoā but then laughed and added,Ā āOther than when my period came back for a few months last yearā.Ā
All health care professional are taught early on thatĀ āvaginal bleeding in a post-menopausal woman is Cancer of the Uterus until proven otherwiseā. This comment by Julie was, therefore, a red flag (no pun intended) prompting further questions, an examination and an ultrasound of her pelvis.Ā
Julie was surprised to see me so concerned, especially since the symptoms had not recurred over many months.Ā
Sure enough, a pelvic ultrasound and tissue sampling confirmed Cancer of the Uterus.Ā
Julie underwent a hysterectomy and radiation therapy. She is now healthy, cancer-free and is expected to stay that way.Ā
After all this was done, Julie sat ME down for a talk. She told me sheād had no idea aĀ āshort returnā of her period after menopause was a danger signal. Furthermore, she addressed the topic with friends over coffee and discovered that, out of 20 women, NONE of them knew this symptom was abnormal! She admonished me toĀ āTell women this! Donāt assume we know it!ā
From that day on, I have kept Julieās advice in mind when talking with post-menopausal patients. But recently my wife suggested that I should take this to a wider audience.Ā
So, Julie, this is for you:Ā
If you are a post-menopausal woman and your periodĀ ācomes backā or you have even one episode of vaginal bleeding, TELL A HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL and insist on having it investigated!Ā
Wishing you all good health and long lives. End image description.]
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