ladyyatexelSlightly displaced trans cousin sleeping on my couch tonight because my aunt and uncle have been real fucking tools about everything 🙃
We have some decisions to make in the morning.
good fucking morning *levitates towards you with ill intent*
elodieunderglass
roach-works
“They asked me to tell you what it was like to be twenty and pregnant in 1950 and when you tell your boyfriend you’re pregnant, he tells you about a friend of his in the army whose girl told him she was pregnant, so he got all his buddies to come and say, “We all fucked her, so who knows who the father is?” And he laughs at the good joke…. What was it like, if you were planning to go to graduate school and get a degree and earn a living so you could support yourself and do the work you loved—what it was like to be a senior at Radcliffe and pregnant and if you bore this child, this child which the law demanded you bear and would then call “unlawful,” “illegitimate,” this child whose father denied it … What was it like? […] It’s like this: if I had dropped out of college, thrown away my education, depended on my parents … if I had done all that, which is what the anti-abortion people want me to have done, I would have borne a child for them, … the authorities, the theorists, the fundamentalists; I would have born a child for them, their child. But I would not have born my own first child, or second child, or third child. My children. The life of that fetus would have prevented, would have aborted, three other fetuses … the three wanted children, the three I had with my husband—whom, if I had not aborted the unwanted one, I would never have met … I would have been an “unwed mother” of a three-year-old in California, without work, with half an education, living off her parents…. But it is the children I have to come back to, my children Elisabeth, Caroline, Theodore, my joy, my pride, my loves. If I had not broken the law and aborted that life nobody wanted, they would have been aborted by a cruel, bigoted, and senseless law. They would never have been born. This thought I cannot bear. What was it like, in the Dark Ages when abortion was a crime, for the girl whose dad couldn’t borrow cash, as my dad could? What was it like for the girl who couldn’t even tell her dad, because he would go crazy with shame and rage? Who couldn’t tell her mother? Who had to go alone to that filthy room and put herself body and soul into the hands of a professional criminal? – because that is what every doctor who did an abortion was, whether he was an extortionist or an idealist. You know what it was like for her. You know and I know; that is why we are here. We are not going back to the Dark Ages. We are not going to let anybody in this country have that kind of power over any girl or woman. There are great powers, outside the government and in it, trying to legislate the return of darkness. We are not great powers. But we are the light. Nobody can put us out. May all of you shine very bright and steady, today and always.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin (via nightkitchentarot)
creekfiend
tiny-donut
Ok. This is improving my mood
Oh fuck yeah.
It might also improve your mood to see Jim Henson’s doodle for this guy:
appalachiananarchist
I had hoped that we had moved past mocking victims of tragedies simply because they occur in rural areas, but the western KY tornado has shown me yet again that this is not the case. “But they don’t even believe in climate change–” yeah, I don’t think the babies and children that died believed in anything yet, and now won’t get the chance. Groups aren’t monoliths and life isn’t black and white. Also, people don’t deserve to be killed by a tornado for having poor scientific literacy. Offer to help or shut up.
appalachiananarchist
I have heard multiple people insinuating that the unvaccinated should be denied care at the hospital, that insurance should not cover their care, etc. Listen: it infuriates me too. I have worked in the COVID ICUs and dealt with the parade of death that follows each surge. I completely understand the frustration. What is more, I am the person everyone claims to be protecting. I am chronically ill with immune system problems, lung problems, and I am unable to be vaccinated for medical reasons. However, even though people like me are by far at greatest risk from the pandemic, I still recognize that there is a lot of politicization and misinformation surrounding vaccination that wishing actual death on people for having fears and doubts is beyond cruel. (And, also is going to anger them and make them much less likely to ever get vaccinated on principle).
From a purely scientific standpoint, there is no doubt that remaining unvaccinated without a medical contraindication is irresponsible and a bad medical decision. However, the same could be said of so many other things people choose to do every day, from smoking/alcohol use/drug use that affects not only themselves but those around them to being noncompliant with medications resulting in recurrent hospitalizations and unnecessarily high utilization of healthcare resources.
Those of us who work in healthcare are already well acquainted with the fact that most patients don’t do what they should even when it severely negatively impacts themselves and the people around them. Even so, it doesn’t matter. If we only cared about or treated “perfect” patients, we wouldn’t have any patients. You have to treat them anyway because they are still human beings, and my care shouldn’t first require a person’s absolute compliance. Yes, you should get vaccinated, but I’m not going to let you die just because you made a bad decision. I hate that this has to be a discussion at all!
appalachiananarchist
anarchotolkienist
Funniest thing I have seen in 2020
Ok but legit the funniest part of this is that the cat just knows what he’s about to do before his tongue is even out. He’s done this more than once. A lot more.
@relnicht C A T
neuromedical
a-young-doctors-journey
Another example of the bullshit I put up with at work: we got called for an admission today. The diagnosis? Diarrhea. Mild diarrhea for less than 1 day. You may ask, “Why would you admit a patient to the hospital for mild diarrhea?” Well, let me tell you–not only did they admit the patient for mild diarrhea, but I later discovered that the patient had just taken an enema at home. They took an enema for the first time, panicked when they started having diarrhea, and came to the ER. The ER doc tried to start the patient on Vanco and Zosyn, for heaven’s sake. I have no idea what he thought he was treating, but boy was he sure was…treating it?
Plus, I am not allowed to say no here. I have to accept the admission no matter how inappropriate or ridiculous.
This is a pretend hospital! We are all running around with stethoscopes straight out of Doc McStuffins toy kits and medical degrees we printed off a Google image search. I’m pretty sure this hospital is actually Physician Hell, the place where all the shitty doctors get sent as punishment for their doctor crimes. I must be in the deepest layer of doctor hell because I willingly agreed to come here. 6 more months…
Good lord they are still at it. ER just won’t give me a break tonight.
stevebattle
Plodding Moon Walker by Sperry Rand (1961). As part of its preparations for the Apollo missions, NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory made plans for the Surveyor programme which was to include a lunar rover. They announced a design competition which received submissions from at least ten leading space companies including Space-General Corp., Sperry Rand, and RCA. Sperry Rand demonstrated this small electrically powered walking machine that alternately advances a wide central foot, then two narrower ones either side of it. The same mechanism is found in walking draglines, and Robert G. LeTourneau’s 1964 ’Tree Stomper’.
arcticflakes
