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purge of 2002? of 2012? what ARE those?

Oh, how quickly the past is forgotten. 

They are part of the reason A03 is a thing now. Not the whole reason, but part of it. 

The Great Purges of 2002 and 2012 are when ff.net got a wild hair up their ass about THINK OF THE CHILDREN and nuked any fic posted on there that was explicit. Thousands upon thousands of nc-17 smutfics were lost.

It’s what led to the creation of alternate hosting sites for smutty fic…AdultFanfiction was the one I went to…but thousands of fics would never be recovered. 

Thank you @whitephobic-cyclonus for this I owe you my life

1700's medical illustrators be like "hey boss can I put a rhinoceros behind this anotomically correct sketch of the human skeleton" and the boss be like "only for the books being published in these specific european countries" and then they high-five and go out for drinks

*doctor voice* hmmmm…..have you tried this revolutionary method called painmaxxxing? it is where you do not bother me and adjust to being in agony all the time and we do nothing to resolve the root cause or treat the symptoms. you don’t wish to try painmaxxxing? you’re being non-compliant with the treatment plan I have just provided you?

THIS IS BRILLIANT.

So this just showed up as an ad for me. Don't know what algorithm put it there, but wtf.

Doxycycline?!?!?! To treat acne?!?!

Buckle up, because a member of the microbiology side of Tumblr is about to go off.

Do yall know what this stuff is. It's an antibiotic. I (and many others) was prescribed this for the first 90 days I was in Afghanistan to prevent malaria. Other times I've seen it used was for when people were exposed to highly pathogenic bacteria while necropsying sick animals. Other uses, to treat venereal diseases caused by bacteria.

What I'm saying is, this stuff will mess you up. It doesn't target a specific single bacteria, it indiscriminately wipes out many bacteria it comes in contact with.

Now, that may seem good right, kill the bacteria causing whatever, but there's a reason antibiotics are for a relatively short term and require a prescription. Not only will it kill the "bad" bacteria, but it will also kill off a lot of your "good" gut microbes, which is really bad in the long-term. We're in a pretty symbiotic relationship with our own microbiota. If you've ever been prescribed antibiotics, you've probably experienced the effects of killing off all the bacteria in your GI tract i.e. diarrhea, malaise, maybe some depression, and a whole host of other side effects. That's because you don't have the "good" bacteria helping you with your digesta. You're not getting all of the nutrients you'd normally get because your ingesta isn't getting fully broken down before passing through you.

Another downside of killing off all of these bacteria, they provide provide an immunologic barrier for you, meaning they have established populations that require resources to sustain themselves. Having an established microbiota makes it harder for a new "bad" bacteria to establish itself before the immune system can mount a strong response because they have to compete for limited resources with a strong well-established gut population. This is one of the main reasons yogurt is a suggested post antibiotic food, it has those good bacteria in it and it helps to reestablish a good gut microbiota. If you wipe everything out though, this provides the bad bacteria with a chance to take up residence and potentially make you VERY sick or even kill you.

Finally, this seems like it'd be a pretty unsupervised deal. We already have a problem with antibiotic resistance from people not following through with a complete antibiotic regiment. Can you imagine what can happen if a bunch of people are taking this, experience the side effects, and then stop taking it. It'll make stronger, more pathogenic bacteria that will cause a lot of harm.

What I'm saying with this is, the purported benefit of getting rid of "acne causing bacteria" (I honestly don't know the validity of this claim, but I am going to be in the literature after I make this post to followup) is definitely not worth the side effects of taking this.

TL;DR version: doxycycline is a strong antibiotic that's used for a lot more than just acne.

Taking it without first consulting a doctor can and will lead to much more harmful effects than clearing up acne.

I'm begging anyone who follows me to please reblog this because word needs to be spread about why this is a REALLY BAD IDEA.

friendly reminder that if u don't feel comfortable talking about the genocide that's happening in iran rn in the city of zahedan and sanandaj and god knows which city next, just becuz the whole uprising started with the brave women of iran burning their scarves as a fuck u to the islamic regime for forcing literally every fucking thing on them in their lives ,hijab included, whilst providing them zero social equality and rights, and yet u fear to be canceled bcuz of possible "islamophobia", when ur actual phobia must be of this regime and their version of islam that they force upon people, u are not only ignoring them but also siding with the mullahs and regime as they're taking hundreds of other innocent young lives as i type this down;

be the voice of the voiceless!

ps: the islamic regime has enough support from most of ur governments, so please try to not be like ur representatives, thank u so much <3

hope this explains it

The Taliban heartlessly beat women in Badakhshan province of Afghanistan today to prevent them from entering the university. And yet the silence from the world continues.