“…use things to have good days.”
the loading screen trying to convince me to use even one of my 3000 consumables
Avoid sci-hub too👀
If you want to read an academic article that's behind a paywall just email the author and ask politely if they will send you the article. Most academics will be thrilled that you want to read their work and will gladly send it to you.
PSA
If you like the work of an academic author, and they're still alive, buying their book can be a nice way to bump their income a little bit.
Libgen rocks, and no student really makes enough money to buy all the books for grad school or even sometimes undergrad, but buying some books can still be a good option.
“I’m not going to do the thing because I don’t view it as important.” ← Conscious decision made of your own free will.
“I want to do the thing because I view it as important, but trying to get myself to do the thing creates the same reaction as trying to put my hand on a hot stove would.” ← Executive dysfunction, a physical health problem that doesn’t answer to your own free will.
“Trying to get myself to do the thing creates the same reaction as trying to put my hand on a hot stove would. This must mean I don’t actually want to do the thing and I’m just tricking myself into thinking I do.” ← No, that’s still executive dysfunction, but you’re having brainworms about it.
one of the cooler parts of growing up is realizing that you were being incessantly lied to throughout highschool and that fat gay people are not only capable of being desired, but are actively and often voraciously lusted after
now that i’m older and understand how absolutely fucked the housing market is, all those horror movies that take place in nice houses where the family refuses to leave make sense. if i had a 4,000sqft vintage home you’d need to kill me before i ever moved out as well. fuck the ghost. charge it rent.
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We need more of this
I'm not a PoC but this is just incredible, *exceptional*, culturally sensitive patient care, period. Absolutely should be shared with every healthcare professional I know.
We should always keep in mind that we are treating an entire person, not simply their condition, and the effects seemingly minor kindnesses can have on them long after they leave our care.
If you want to support black doctors who are just starting out, Farrah-Amoy Fullerton, a fourth-year med student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham just set up a way for people to help black fourth year med students transition to their residencie. This often means moving to a new city where they won't get a paycheck for weeks. Black students are also less likely to have access to generational wealth to keep them afloat during school. So if you have a few bucks and want to buy a graduation gift for a future black doctor, check out this article or search #medgradwishlist on twitter.
We need more black doctors to because doctors are often untrained on how to diagnose conditions in black peoples vs white people and are taught black have a higher pain tolerance and just a whole bunch of other ridiculous things........ black people need black doctors
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You know. Some people could really stand to get more comfortable with the idea of “you shouldn’t say that because it’s mean”. Especially with really common body shaming and straight up bullying lines.
“You shouldn’t make ugly bald jokes because what if a transman on T sees it!”
“You shouldn’t make virgin jokes because what if someone who’s asexual sees it!”
How about you just don’t make them because they’re mean. How about people can be balding or a virgin for a number of reasons and also don’t deserve to be routinely made fun of. How about saying that the reason you shouldn’t make x joke because it spares x specific identity’s feelings also let’s them know that you actually have no problem saying or thinking bald people are ugly or virgins are stupid or etc but you’re just not saying it in front of them. How about you understand this kind of body shaming and bullying especially in a very public setting online are always going to have way more unintended damage to people who did nothing wrong than damage to the person you’re upset with.
Sometimes the best reason to not make a bad joke like that is because it’s fucking mean.
oh okay. heart steps right out of my chest and falls down the stairs
compulsory abledness also (partially) explains why disability aids are forced onto some people and denied from others
prosthetic limbs are forced onto amputees whether they want them or not because the goal is to make disabled people look as abled as possible. whereas, all sorts of people who would benefit from mobility aids are often denied them until it’s a “last resort” because! you guessed it! the goal is to make us look as abled as possible
neither person in this situation is privileged. it’s just that the same harmful phenomenon impacts different groups in different ways
I couldn't find where these bad boys are located, b/c Google search thinks I'm looking for photos of ankles. Anyway, in French, they're called "les escaliers de l'horreur" or the stairs of horror.
the idea that your friends won't like you if you're too weird is wrong for example one time I told a friend whenever I was losing my mind I laid down on the floor under my desk and stared at it until I was better and next time she visited me she taped a bag of salami snacks to the underside of my desk with a message saying "going insane all by yourself, handsome?" which I only saw months later when I had a breakdown. that's friendship.
places i should be allowed to poke around in because i am curious by nature
- container ships in the middle of the ocean
- the large hadron collider
- any salt mine
- museum storage rooms
- svalbard seed vault
I can say from experience, museum storage vaults are fun. See this hallway? ALL of those cabinets are moths and butterfly collections.
However, might I also interest you in archives and special collections?
(All of these are from places I have worked)
We’ve got miles of documents, cursed objects, media, friends????
The number one funniest example of people inventing bullshit reasons ships they don't like are "problematic" that I've ever seen was people calling Brienne of Tarth and Jaime Lannister "like siblings".
Fam.
Have you forgotten the number one most notable trait about Jaime Lannister.
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Rabbis who've studied Judaism all their life: "But again, I am just a human. I can't possibly know everything and this is all my understanding. There is no limit to how much you can learn about Judaism, so there's always more I can learn and more perspectives I can discover."
Goyim on the internet: "Here's what all Jews believe, based on my very thorough research of 'watched Fiddler on the Roof once', and here's why I know more about Judaism than you silly Jews."
my favorite is when you ask something like "can I do X", and the rabbi tells you "I'm sure there are some who would say you can".
this happens when the rabbi doesn't want you to do X, but doesn't know of any particular halacha offhand that forbids it. And he knows that if he says "no", then you're required to follow that ruling. And according to some opinions, the laws of nazirus imply that abstaining from that which is pleasurable and permissible is considered sinful. therefore, if the rabbi tells you not to do X but it turns out you could've, he has just instructed you to sin.
it's just a little quirk of different halachos interacting that I find really neat.
^^This was exactly my Rabbi's reaction when I asked about kashrut restrictions for the new job 😆
We're a Reform syngogue, and the number of member-families who actually keep kosher at home can probably be counted on one hand. I am not one of those, and during the meeting in which we hashed out hiring basics (hours, tax stuff, etc.), I asked about our kashrut policies on Temple property so that I would know what to pack for lunch every day.
Officially, we do not mix meat and dairy on the same serving dish on Temple property.
But Rabbi, knowing that I don't keep kosher and being the coolest and chillest person in the world, jokingly mentioned that she didn't know anything in the laws that said I couldn't have a roll of deli meat in one hand and a slice of cheese in the other and alternate bites.
One day I may test this, but for now I'm going to play it safe and keep my work lunches all dairy or all meat 😆
That was fast
Maybe, maybe, how quick they have taken it down has to do with them realizing that the office of the fucking legal team of the city of San Francisco is ACROSS THE STREET from Twitter HQ
Even more delicious!