my mum has severe knee problems and needs a replacement. Today she was told she’s too fat to be operated on and the knee specialist suggested she gets a gastric band - which also involves surgery. So my mum was like first of all you didn’t read my file because it explains that I’m not fat because I eat too much second of all you said it’s impossible for me to get surgery and then suggested I get a surgery about it? He then asked her her weight and height, didn’t believe her answer, and made her prove it to him because she “looks fatter than that”. So she was like so you also just entirely based this on looks instead of actual numbers?
My mom went through something similar. She needed a knee replacement and her doctor wouldn’t okay it until she lost weight, which was difficult given the whole knee problem preventing her from walking thing. He told her she was too dangerous to operate on and that there were just too many risks.
My mom tried to lose weight in vain for months before she finally gave into my begging her to get a second opinion. The first doctor she saw next scheduled her for surgery the same day she met him. When my mom asked about the risk of operating on her he told her that there was some minor risks for complication and that all she would need to do to alleviate the risk was spend an extra night in the hospital so that they could keep a look out for any complications.
There were zero. There were also zero complications when she had her other knee done, her hip replaced and her gallbladder removed.
Almost like the first doctor was entirely full of shit and just trying to coerce his patient to lose weight by scaring her for fucking nothing, even when she was living day to day in excruciating pain and desperately needed a surgery.
If I was evil and went to visit someone’s home for the first time and I know they have a cat, I would rub my wrists with catnip before leaving the house, so when I get there the cat smells the catnip and is all over me purring and rubbing on my hands and the owner is like “omg my kitty loves you! That’s never happened with a stranger before!” and immediately trust me because they have no idea that I jammed their cat’s evil detector on purpose.
The problem with trying to tell people “the more you hurry me, the longer this is going to take” is that an outside observer has no way to tell the difference between “I take any request to do something as a personal challenge to do the opposite out of spite, because I consider any expectation to accommodate your needs as a personal insult and beneath me uwu” and “the more pressure you put on me, the more stressed I am going to be, and the more anxious I am the more mistakes I will make, and I will have to go even slower in order to avoid them or keep trying to get it right over and over again so the only thing that makes the difference between us getting there in time or us both being late because I’m sitting on the floor crying is 100% your choice to either keep doing that or stop doing that.”
i had a dream that there was like a revival of the man vs bear debate but instead it was “would you rather be alone in a woman’s bathroom with a random trans woman or jk rowling?” and everyone picked the trans woman and jkr crashed out on twitter because of it
would you rather be alone in a woman’s bathroom with…
I don’t think narinder is a stoic and serious character. He’s just a depressed, emotionally repressed cunt . If he’s in his element he would not shut the fuck up . He just needs a podcast like other males on the internet
Documenting the Damage: 100 Harmful Policies from the First 100 Days of Trump’s Second Term
The second Trump administration has had the busiest first 100 days of any US presidency in nearly a century. Since January, I’ve been keeping a spreadsheet documenting 900+ policy changes and political developments. I then bundled many of the most important changes into 100 topics areas and wrote a summary of each of them, providing a semi-comprehensive account of the tremendous changes to US politics which have occurred.
Folks, this is an incredible piece of journalism reflecting a tremendous amount of research, effort, and thought.
It’s completely free, brilliantly made, and I am incredulous that it had been so narrowly shared on Tumblr.
I am in awe of what Brett has done here. Please click through and read at least some of this because I think people are really missing out on what an incredible tool this is.
It’s a quick reference, it’s an archive (it’s SO rich in sources and references), it’s an explainer, and it is a point-by-point means of de-normalizing the trump administration to anyone in your life who thinks things aren’t that bad.
i’m listening to gathering moss, by robin wall kimmerer, and she is talking about a very odd job she was consigned to do, where an eccentric millionaire recuited her to consult on a “habitat restoration”. when she arrives, the job they actually want her to do is to tell them how to plant mosses on the rocks in his garden. he wants it to look like a specific, beautiful wild cliff in the woods nearby, with centuries-old beds of moss growing thick and strong. she tells him it is impossible. such a thing would take decades to accomplish.
later, she is called back to look at the progress of the moss garden and is amazed by the thick, well-established mosses. how did they do it? she asks.
then they take her out to the woods and show her that they have been blasting huge chunks of rock out of the cliff, packaging them in burlap, and moving them to the owner’s garden.
This quote really got me: “The owner is a man who loves mosses, and the exercise of power. I have no doubts of his sincerity in wishing to protect them from harm, once they conformed to his landscape design. But I think you cannot own a thing and love it at the same time. Owning diminishes the sovreignty of a thing, enriching the possessor and diminishing the possessed. If he truly loved mosses more than control, he would have left them alone, and walked each day to see them.”
i think its funny how the english word “game” has become a loanword in dutch that specifically refers to video games while the actual dutch word for game (spel) now refers only to games of the non-video variety
notice how it’s “with mama” and not “with papa”. even in a fake cutesy tumblr scenario, she took the fucking kids. <- what I imagine i’d be posting as a divorced dad on tumblr
notice how it’s “with mama” and not “with papa”. even in a fake cutesy tumblr scenario, she took the fucking kids. <- what I imagine i’d be posting as a divorced dad on tumblr
today I used the phrase “breasting boobily” in casual real life conversation and everyone was shocked asking how I came up with that and I had to explain it. ive been at the devil’s sacrament so long that I forgot he wasn’t god
“I’ve been at the devil’s sacrament so long I forgot he wasn’t god” is getting added to the tumblr line book
Someone asking me for my hobbies is so humiliating…. I like to play and have fun. I like to smile and draw. I like putting words in an order. Sometimes I laugh and grin.
“…Animals often share food, but these birds understand that metal rings can be exchanged for treats, and they share the rings with no promise of reward…This sophisticated behavior, which requires an understanding of both currency and the needs of others, has only been described in primates before…”
This is one of those true, declassified government things that always sounds made up but one of the things Henry Kissinger did with his career was use the CIA to help turn small, prosperous socialist nations into fascist dictatorships just to keep those nations powerless and possibly to keep socialist systems *looking* doomed and futile to the American public, like maybe just to scare Americans out of demanding better infrastructure or universal income. Yes it sounds like an insane conspiracy theory a maniac would invent. It also happened multiple times and several generations of people around the world are still living in misery because of it.
That copy of Undertale was thrown out the moment Matpat turned his back on the Pope. I guarantee you, the only person who hates Matpat more than the Pope is Toby Fox for having Mat be embarrassing enough to hand the fucking supreme pontiff of the catholic religion a copy of Undertale to play.
Even funnier to imagine that the Pope had a steam page that just looked like this:
I can feel The dryness of those markers in my bones
Fun fact those dry markers were supposed to have water put into them to make them work. You take off the bottom thing and pour water in and bam, instant marker success. Only learned about this four years after I’d lost my set 🙃
WHAT
WHAT
WHAT
Hey. Reblog to save some poor kid lots of grief.
Fucking what?!
Every ‘90s child on Tumblr raises their head in outrage.
I just stood up so fast and snatched mine out of my closet brb going to the sink
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
OH MY GOD
WHAT
What?!
Imagine if the kits ever came with instructions, considering the plastic cased ones always had pictures and shit on them anyways… Could have included instructions for the water arts smh
This paper intended to test whether would mice would run on a wheel if they found one, to try and determine if this was a natural behavior or a stress response in captivity. They put a wheel in a protected little box with a camera that took pictures any time the wheel turned, and tallied up how often it was used by what.
Mice were, happily, the most common users of the wheel, and their patterns of use indicated they were doing so voluntarily once they figured it out.
But the second most common users.
Those were slugs.
That bastard slug underneath the wheel keeps stealing my homeboys dinner
