stopping by woods

it’s a christmas lunch, mind you.

[glowinglnthedark]

The first 24 hours has just passed without my 18 year old cat I had since he was born. “Agony” doesn’t cut it. The house and yard seem barren and too quiet. And he spent his whole life worshipping me, sensing when I was unhappy, crying or sick. For most of his life, it was just us two. There is no one to come immediately to me and purr on me to make me feel better now. I know they say making this call is burying a sword in your own chest to take their pain onto yourself, and that’s true, but god this pain it is no joke.

He loved sitting and sleeping on top of me, getting attention, cheese, tuna, sparkly pom pom balls, being under the christmas tree, hiding in crazy places, eating, wheat grass, looking out the window, sitting on the patio and exploring the bushes. He was afraid of vacuums, car trips and trash bags being opened. He hated being alone.

He was so innocent and pure of heart. It’s not fair that he had to go. I miss my Bigo.

[depsidase]

[unusual-suspects]

x

[b0nkcreat]

eyes emoji was the perfect invention for nosy people. like 👀 whats going on over here 👀👀 i just wanna know #LetMeKnow 👀👀👀

[dailysiuanraine]

On her knees for the Amyrlin On her knees for her Siuan

[spockwithacat]

The thing about all of Graham Planter scandals is not only do they make him look like a bad person they also make him look like an idiot with bad decision making skills. And I’m just surprised how many people want to vote for an idiot.

[parentheticalaside]

They see themselves in him: A fellow idiot with racist and misogynistic tendencies. And they fall in love with the idea that “someone like me” will finally have some real power… to do the sorts of things that idiots with racist and misogynistic tendencies do.

[tall]

[simkaye]

Pride prints are back in stock but leaving soon! 🐹🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[ak-nm]

[thomas--bombadil]

A Mourning dove gets cozy, and settles in, to experience the sunset.

[lakeofsilverpike]

Did a little season one of the Pitt rewatch and I’m reminded that Mohan is a character who is repeatedly shown to be exceptional at the doctor patient interaction, to have some strengths and some weaknesses when it comes to her clinical judgment and medical decision making (very normal and expected for a resident as they’re all very much still learning), and is repeatedly shown to be weak in her ability to take feedback as well as in her teaching skills.

One of the main things a resident is expected to do is teach interns and students. And Mohan is interestingly pretty bad at this. I just watched the episode where Santos says one awkward thing to a patient. She’s a new intern and she didn’t handle a patient’s overwhelming emotions perfectly. She wasn’t particularly bad, just not ideal. This isn’t surprising. This is a learned skill for many people.

Mohan takes Santos out of the room and dresses her down her in the middle of the hall. She doesn’t invite a conversation where Santos can reflect and learn. Samira speaks over Santos, shames her, and lectures her. She does the same with Whitaker and the sickle cell patient when she shames him in the middle of the hall rather than encourage him to learn from a common mistake. Both times she’s right in pointing out what her trainee did wrong, but she’s so aggressive and condescending that she’s going to alienate her trainees rather than let them reflect and grow from her feedback. Then she lets Santos take the fall for her mistake with the hyponatremia patient, which is quite a choice for a resident to make.

There’s so much of this character being flattened in fandom that it’s easy to forget that she’s a character with strengths and weaknesses as a resident. And interestingly her weakest point is how condescending and judgmental she is when teaching, which of course is how she will be treated by Robby in season two.

[expressions-of-nature]

by Elena Mogilevich

[uptownthots]

white people will literally be like if u arent nice to me Im going to become a nazi. and think they’re making a great argument

[uptownthots]

this stupid shit has been around for so long and it’s crazy to me there are still people with enough rocks in their brain to believe it. “Oughhhhh if you aren’t nice to you oppressors they’ll become bigots instead of allies” if someone’s support for marginalized groups hinges entirely on whether or not that group is niceys, they’re by definition not effective or useful allies and, by admission of this argument, an active danger to the communities theyre supposed to be allied with because they can Enter Bigot Mode the second they become displease

[parentheticalaside]

Also, the demand already demonstrates bigotry: "We believe you require our support to attain legitimacy and we require you to approach us in X way in order for us to acquiesce." It's basically confirming their opinion of their superiority to that group.

[wibblyrlin]

Women of The Wheel of Time (2021-2025)

[hopefulmisanthrope]

It’s absolute bullshit how you’re expected to go back to work after a vacation.

[catasters]

[ibetteracethatinterview]

POLITICO Pro: USDA confirms first case of screwworm in the United States

The pest has been eradicated from the country for decades.

USDA confirmed detection of the New World screwworm in a calf in Texas, marking the first detection of the pest in years and a serious threat to the United States cattle industry and other livestock and animals.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said that the department has deployed a response team to the area and started the process of implementing quarantines, limits on livestock movement and increased surveillance of animals. Screwworm larvae were detected “in the umbilical cord” of a three-week-old calf, Rollins said.

This has been eradicated in the US for 60 years but thanks to the DOGE cuts last year it has made this inevitable