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@criminaljustish
who. who calls it that
the british do probably it's like when i looked up french toast, found out an alternative name for it is "eggy toast," thought it was british, looked it up, it was fucking british because of course it is
i mean i know americans were briefly threatening to rename french fries "freedom fries" but the british are doing WHAT now
wait until you hear what they call whipped cream
we don't talk about squirty cream
I know that Mx. is the most commonly recognized gender-neutral honorific, but I think we need more options. With that in mind, might I offer Bd. (pronounced "Bastard")
#Bt. (bitch)
i generally subscribe to evidence-based beliefs and i avoid magical thinking, but. the big exception is that every few months I attempt to set something on fire with my mind. just to check that nothing has changed
i get bullied for the weirdest failings on this webbed site
there's just... there is no reason to make yet another cop show in this day and age. copaganda is not only bullshit, it is a failure of imagination.
you want to watch brooding characters with dark pasts investigate crimes in an official capacity? just use private detectives (cops have a miserable solve rate anyway). want eccentric geniuses & their sidekicks solving mysteries? i present you with armchair detectives & neighborhood busybodies. oh, you're craving a workplace comedy-drama starring overworked protagonists doing their heartfelt best to resolve community conflicts? social worker office sitcom! bitch this is ACHIEVABLE
raccoons should be encouraged. in what way precisely, i could not say. In their Pursuits, i would suppose
I once had a raccoon walk up to me, undo the Velcro pocket on the calf of my cargo pants and steal a jolly rancher before I noticed him. When I noticed him a moment later he skittered about 10 feet back and ate it while making eye contact. 30 minutes later he tried to repeat this but I had both (1) moved the jolly ranchers to higher up pocket (2) was on guard for candy thieves (3) was armed with a broom to ward off racoons
Other knowledge: this raccoon was well known in the area and named Petty Officer Bandit. He was demoted later in the year for repeated theft to Fireman Bandit. There was another raccoon on the military base known as Petty Officer Chungus, typically spotted on the other side about a mile away.
story time: one of my daily medications is called verapamil. like a lot of medications, it can be prescribed for multiple purposes and at multiple doses. i've been taking it for several years as 100 mg capsules (1/day) for migraine prevention. it's always been on the expensive side, but in 2022 i switched to a different insurance provider and the cost skyrocketed to being over $100/month. i brought it up with my doctor during my annual physical last month and she was like "that's fucking ridiculous" and grabs her laptop and clicks around a bit. turns out that my insurance company just... doesn't cover that dosage of verapamil for migraine prevention. they will cover 120 mg tablets 1/day for that use, though, so when i run out of my current supply of the 100 mg capsules my doctor will send a new prescription for the tablets because she doesn't think the extra 20 mg per day will hurt me and it's worth going from "not covered and thus super expensive" to (we think) "totally covered, lowest copay."
the thing is, the insurance company didn't give the pharmacy any information about why the cost for the original dosage was so high (more than one member of the staff appeared confused by it, in fact, as verapamil is not a new or uncommon medication) and neither did they even bother to attempt to contact my doctor about it. the only reason i am going to be able to switch to a more affordable option is because my pharmacy is staffed by people who care enough to say "hey there's something not right about this pricing, you should talk to your doctor about it" and my doctor is a goddamn superhero who i can come to with a list of issues/questions and know that she will go through each and every one with me and give each one the full attention it deserves. (there's a reason why i still go to her even though when i started grad school i moved three hours away from where she's located, lol.)
meanwhile, i take several medications to help manage a number of chronic issues (migraines, chronic non-migraine headaches, depression, anxiety), so part of the calculus here is thinking about how changing the dosage of the verapamil might affect the other meds in addition to how it might affect me. luckily in this case it's a small enough change (for this medication) that it didn't worry my doctor to make that call. now, knowing my doctor, i know that if she had felt she couldn't change the dosage or change the medication, she would have gone to bat for me with the insurance company, but there's no guarantee she would have been successful in getting them to make an exception. they wouldn't have taken into account anything else about me, just their rules about when and how they are willing to accept a doctor prescribing a medication for a slightly off-label but generally accepted reason (verapamil is officially a blood pressure medication but even just a cursory regular google search indicates to me that there is a decent amount of research showing it can be an effective preventative treatment for migraine/cluster headaches).
because here's the thing: american insurance companies don't care about the quality of care that their customers receive. they only care about the profits of the insurance company. so they make decisions about what medications can be prescribed for what conditions and be covered based on statistical analyses of the profitability or lack thereof of doing so, plus what they can get away with. that's why when drug manufacturers decide to raise the cost of their drugs, health insurance companies will just shrug and pass the cost on to consumers.
another example: my dad was in the military for 30 years and only just turned 65 this past year, therefore aging out of the military retiree healthcare system and onto medicare (mostly, idk, his prescriptions are still free through the military system). so now for the first time in decades my parents are seeing benefit statements whenever they receive care that explicitly lay out (1) what the provider charged for a given service, (2) what medicare actually paid, and (3) the cost that no one pays because they don't have to and medicare won't. my dad had to get outpatient eye surgery for cataracts in both his eyes, which involved a set of multiple appointments over the course of months during which first one eye and then the other was treated, plus after that he had to get a totally new glasses prescription. every time he gets a statement of benefits that covers some aspect of that process, the difference between what the provider charges and what medicare covers (aka what medicare deems the fair cost) is thousands of dollars. which he doesn't have to pay for whatever reason (i think but would definitely not swear to it that the provider just has to write it off because medicare but someone who knows how insurance works can correct me in the inevitable case that i'm wrong). but the average person on average insurance? would be responsible for covering the difference, which again is between what the government has deemed a fair cost and what the provider is charging above that fair cost. which is, uh, profoundly unfair.
medicare is not even close to a perfect system. if the US does move to a nationalized health service, medicare for all is, like, the first step. but it would give us something to build on, something that isn't first and foremost a capitalist profit venture that incidentally involves people's healthcare.
Little things for artists just now coming to (or returning to) tumblr:
Remember that âlikingâ a post doesnât add it to anybody elseâs dash or spread it around; only reblogs do that!
Even if you have no followers, your art will be seen if you tag it appropriately. #art #original #oc are common basic ones but you should also tag any relevant themes and content like #animals #horror #fantasy #mermaids and so on. People following or checking those tags will see them!
Unlike tiktok, instagram and twitter it is considered normal (and should be) to interact with posts no matter how old they are. Thereâs no expiration on reblogging or commenting, including re-reblogging your own posts or adding new thoughts to them.
They only added this in recent years, but you can click on your own post in your dash to see all the comments and tags.
Tumblr is the only social media I know of where a lot of people routinely use the tag field to add personal thoughts and opinions, so donât miss out on that as another source of feedback and commentary on your work!
Welcome to Tumblr, Twitter users!
Donât worry, we donât have Elon Musk hereâŠÂ
But hipsters beware, youâre in for a scare!
*GOOSEBUMPS THEME INTENSIFIES*
This isnât Twitter. This isnât your average every day site. This is Tumblr. Weâre crazy. Weâre weird. We donât fit in. Weâre the fangirls, the fujoshis, the Superwholockers, and the Steven Universe Critical bloggers. We forgot what ânormalâ was. So if youâre expecting a normal websiteâŠ
This is the tumblr equivalent of those silhouettes of dogs people put out to scare away wildlife
YOU SON OF A BITCH YOU DID IT
Alright, I'm back. Twitter is going to be Lord of the Flies shortly, Mastodon can't manage to send me a verification email, and this was the one place I could have all my separate interests in one deranged feed. TikTok too, obviously, but not everything is suited to the video format. I missed you weirdos.
imagine hiring an assassin and they talk to you in a customer service voice
âHello, how can I help you today? Wonderful, can I get a first and last name? And how would I spell that? Awesome. And would you happen to have an address for this individual? And place of work? Fantastic.
Now, Iâm going to give you a number, and Iâm going to ask that you send in a photo of your target alongside any additional information you may have- family members, security, combat training, medical conditions, just anything you can think of that might be helpful.
Wonderful, you are all good. All we need now is a piece of government-issued ID, for insurance purposes, and a location for payment pickup. We accept cash, gold, processed uranium, and etransfer.
Iâm sorry, we donât take american express.
Good, okay, so it looks like we are all set- when the job is complete, you will be notified VIA discreet codeword that a stranger will whisper to you on a crowded street.
We do not issue receipts, but if youâd like, I can arrange for a specific breed of tropical flower to be sent to your home address. Our associates will be able to validate it should the need arises.
And is that everything you were looking for today? Great! Thank you for coming to us. Have a nice day!â
Alternatively,
âIâm sorry sir, but Iâm afraid the Pope is a high-status target that is beyond our area of service.
Yes, I- no, Iâm sorry, Iâm not able to do that for you.
Okay. Okay. Yes, I understand.
Sir, if youâre going to use that sort of language, you should know that our HR department does operate in a hands-on capacity.
Wonderful. You take care.â
They create a perfectly normal call cemter staffed by decidedly amoral college students and paying them at least 4x minimum wage.
hiring manager: youâre not concerned about the ah, services we offer?Â
a college student who has eaten ramen twice a day for the past year: for $25/hour iâll pull the trigger myself
Look, the difference between Assassins and Customer Service is that Assassins are paid a lot of money to kill people and Customer Service isnât being paid nearly enough not to.
I donât know music, so I donât understand what Iâm looking at (though I do like it), but I just showed this to my husband, and his jaw hit the floor.
How she do that
She just shat all over every guitar player in the top 40 with a bent guitar thatâs not even tuned correctly (and missing its top e string)
Oh my goodness. Wow. Ive never seen something so amazing. Who is this woman?
Make her a superstar.
This gave me shivers.
Let this serve as an example that very rarely is there a âcorrectâ way to make music. Traditional fingerings not working for you? Fuck em. Make your own. As long as youâre having fun and producing good sounds, youâre doing it ârightâ. (YMMV with violins, bagpipes and most wind instruments)
Man, I had to scroll through like eight billion reblogs to find a source.
This dude is Ronnie Moipolai. He was a Botswanan folk musician, and this style of guitar is apparently common there.
https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/04/26/605694303/where-did-the-unique-style-of-botswanas-guitarists-come-from-nobody-seems-to-kno
https://www.piranha.de/piranha/news/piranha_news/an_authentic_african
He unfortunately passed away in 2018 from an AIDS-related illness, at age 39.
Here is a video of him playing as well as singing:
https://youtu.be/TTvyHKBuUpQ
@olderthannetficâs second article up there contains most of the information we have on him.
âwhat the fuck is wrong with me?â i ask, fully aware of the mood, personality, and anxiety disorders i have
Biden has indicated he plans to cancel the pipeline's permit after Wednesday's inauguration
âPrime Minister Justin Trudeau said today he will continue to press Canadaâs case for the Keystone XL pipeline project with the incoming Biden administration in the U.S., which is poised to rescind the presidential permit allowing cross-border construction tomorrow.â
Fuck off Trudeau, weâre in a Climate Crisis.Â
Nobody should be building any new oil infrastructure in 2021, when the science says we have less than a decade to rapidly decrease emissions or we could face a global catastrophe in the decades to come.
Additionally this pipeline runs directly through Indigenous Nations land in both Canada and the USA, without any consent. Reconciliation, when?
Tagging: @politicsofcanada
CANADIANS DONâT WANT THIS PIPELINE
FUCK YOUR PIPELINE AND KEEP IT THE FUCK OFF INDIGENOUS LANDS YOU SLIMY FUCKS
i canât believe weâre all young professionals and academics and weâre still logging on to tumblr.com every single day to clown on ourselves. who let this happen
Look man this is the only place left im allowed to say clown shit without it impacting my career, just lemme have this
