Apparently this is a running gag in math textbooks
Oh, no, my friend, @aceyuurikatsuki . It’s not just that. It is so much more. Settle down and let your friendly neighborhood x-ray tech explain you a thing.
Throckmorton’s Sign, otherwise known as Throckmorton’s Principle, does in fact have to do with dicks. Because it is fairly normal for a dick to show up on a hip or pelvis x-ray. But the thing about Throckmorton’s Sign is, it’s not just that the dick is visible. It is a legitimate diagnostic tool.
Let me explain: let’s say a person equipped with a penis is in a car accident and has right leg and right side hip/pelvic pain. Their doctor will order x-rays. Unfortunately, sometimes fractures are so small that they can be missed, or, because the patient is in such bad shape and the images obtained aren’t the best quality, the radiologist can’t be sure for one reason or another if what they’re seeing is actually a fracture.
So what do they do? They look for the dick.
You heard me correctly. The dick.
Throckmorton’s Sign is when “the penis points to the area of pain.” So if the above-mentioned AMAB patient’s xray aren’t displaying a clear, obvious fracture, but their dick is pointing to the right side, 9 times out of 10, the injury or fracture is on the right hip or leg area, so then the radiologist will focus on that side while reading.
Now I know what my non-radiology followers are thinking. “Ace, this sounds like bullshit. This can’t be true. You’re lying through your teeth.” But I swear to you, it is 100% accurate. I have seen a positive Throckmorton’s Sign multiple times with my own eyes over the course of the past 7 years. Ask any x-ray tech, and they will probably agree with me.
Your dick is good for at least one thing, and that thing is helping a radiologist diagnose your upper femur, hip, or pelvic fracture.
Right now Oregon and California are experiencing one of the worst wildfires to date. The sky is orange and everything smells like a campfire and I’m bad at articulating but it’s really serious. Thousands have had to evacuate and lost they’re homes in the process. I don’t like talking about topical stuff on the blog v often but I’m in the midst of the evacuation zone in Oregon and shits scary. I’m afraid of losing my home and I’m afraid for my family and friends.
Idk what the point is of this post but I feel like not many people outside of the northwest know how bad it is rn cus it’s bad. The moment I find donation links I’ll link them to this post but I haven’t found any yet. And if you’re in the northwest rn, please be safe.
two step evolution variants: extended royal family. they can each move one square in one direction and they are all the worst pieces possible
one-step top row? simpsons, but with some surprises. second row? steven universe so i don’t care. but the third row? now this is where things start to get interesting. that’s the nun class, and they are so lethal in combat that if i told you how the pieces work, you would die
independent evolution is a real mixed bag – from top left we’ve got:
a pawn but it’s very fragile
capybara (senses betrayal)
dilbert
somebody’s mom from rugrats
a hybrid between the suit of spades and a christmas tree
the molten salt reactor
a manlet
becky with the good hair (useless in combat against capybara)
bishop, but it has eyelashes
even fragiler pawn
rocketship
ancient giant mushroom
undercover nun in training (oh fuck watch out for that one)
tea kettle (if you capture this, the extended royals die)
diamanda galas
mothman statue
the wizard
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Fun facts about some of these pieces:
The Mothman Statue moves three-dimensionally, and is difficult to track unless you have multiple boards stacked atop one another.
The Ancient Giant Mushroom moves like a Rook, except on days containing the sound ‘oo’ when it moves like a Bishop; this means its moveset depends not only on the player’s native language and accent, but also on what language its player is currently thinking in.
The two fragile pawns may be werewolves, working against the rest of your pieces; you will not know for sure until they have been captured or until they attack and overwhelm your own side (this famously cost Vassily Ivanchuk a championship game against Artur Yusupov in 1992).
The Bishop with Eyelashes is only loosely anchored in time, and frequently will capture pieces before it moves to them. If you fail to then move it appropriately, you will create a temporal paradox and the Bishop, along with all pieces that have ever been adjacent to it, will cease to have ever existed. Any game once played with those pieces may therefore retroactively have had a different outcome; several chronoludologists believe that Rotlewi vs. Rubinstein (Lodz, 1907) originally ended in a stalemate involving a unique piece believed to be called the “Treble Mule”, but that a paradox in the 1953 Zurich Tournament using what turned out to be the same set of pieces erased the only extant Treble Mule from history, leading to Rubinstein’s decisive victory.
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The Molten Salt Reactor is unstable and will explode if captured en passant, destroying neighboring pieces and rendering nearby squares uninhabitable for upwards of one thousand turns.
The Rocketship, due to a typo in the original rules of chess, cannot move.
