A black and white photo of a woman's hand showing the back side of her hand, she wears nail polish and her nails are cut short. And on the back of her palm are four blisters caused by burning with a dolorimeter

Mar., 1951 INFLUENCE OF ANALGESICS ON PAIN INTENSITY DURING LABOR (WITH A NOTE ON "NATURAL CHILDBIRTH") * CARL T. JAVERT, M.D., AND JAMES D. HARDY, PE.D. New York, New York Received for publication August 9, 1950

Am teaching a course on Pain & the humanities this yr, and I can't stop thinking about this 1950 experiment conducted in New York hospitals and Cornell University hospital, where physicians burned the hands of women in labor (IN LABOR) to create a measure for pain/study pain thresholds.
#histmed

Goodness, this truly is grimly sobering. Just shows we really do have the money to fix the major issues of the world, and instead we're just creating more. :/

Quick round up:

- the government is covering up evidence the president is a pedophile
- he’s openly taking bribes from foreign governments
- his masked agents are shooting citizens in the streets
- the FBI is helping him steal the election
- he’s threatening war against multiple allies

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THOU SHALT NOT PROTECT PEDOS!!! WHY THE FUCK IS THIS SENDER’S NAME REDACTED?!?

3 panel comic Panel 1: Two characters are lying on a conveyor belt that is slowly feeding them into a meat grinder. A Pink Guy is closest to the grinder. He is duct taped and tied up. A Blue Guy in sun glasses is next to him. He is not tied up and there is a lever saying “Stop” above his head. Pink Guy yells, “HELP! PULL THE LEVER!” Blue Guy casually says “No can do, bro. Empathy is toxic” Panel 2: The Pink Guy is crushed by the grinder as the Blue Guy folds his arms across his chest and says “Caring is weakness, bro” Panel 3: The Blue Guy starts to get crushed by the grinder. His agonised last words are “What’s in it for me, bro?”

empathy is toxic, bro

"Everybody pay attention... this isn't a little hint. He is saying, 'We shouldn't have an election'. Two weeks ago, he said, 'I should have seized the ballot boxes'... He is telling us exactly what he thinks. He wants to rig the outcome of the 2026 election."

Marc Elias

Scanning faces. Building databases. Fascism is here. 🇺🇸

And all the “tyranny” “don’t tread on me folks” are silent. Turns out they meant “tread on them” 🤷🏼

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Born to play D&D, forced to be productive.

My soul craves dice.