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She laughed at the man stood beside her, Said, 'Darling. So sweet and so dumb'. There’s no killing weapon save music, That can dance with the shadows that come.

#the cat empire #blackoutblues #music #lyrics #birdinparadise

Coming back on here for the first time in probably like a year to mention that I got a tattoo of the Iron Giant in October and the seven year old in me is very happy indeed

palant1r

"this work is problematic because of how it handles [subject]": reasonable premise for media criticism

"this work is problematic because it depicts [subject]": do not pass go do not collect $200 this is, as a general rule, a functionally reactionary and conservative argument

cantotallyeven

I think even more importantly:

"this work is problematic and you should be critical of the viewpoints it presents while engaging with it": reasonable premise for media criticism

"this work is problematic therefore everyone who engages with it is evil": do not pass go do not collect $200 this is, as a general rule, a functionally reactionary and conservative argument

#just remembering the shit that Ripper Street got #because of the violence to women #when it was set #amoung the prostitutes and brothels of victorian england #which was famously not a nice place for ladies to be

mysharona1987

#THIS #100% THIS

ceevee5

#solidarity #up the workers #nhs #nurses #strike #uk politics #nhsstaff #proud to work for the nhs #saveournhs #save our nhs

The press is telling everyone that patients are at risk from the NHS strikes and trying to turn the public against the very people they were clapping for.

Where was everyone's outrage before? It's been like this for years. The hospital's are at breaking point and so are the staff.

Solidarity to everyone going on strike. Fight for what you deserve.

As an aside, any politician that tries to suggest that strikes are playing into Putin's hands can fuck right the fuck off. Disgraceful tactics.

#nhs #health #healthcare #british politics #british healthcare #national health service #strike #strikes #up the workers #solidarity #at this point my Tumblr is just me coming on periodically to rant

I'll support any and all NHS strikes going to be honest.

The public will turn on us because they always fucking do. But enough is enough.

Any way you look at it, I might as well get paid properly now, because the NHS isn't going to be around to pay my pension.

#nhs #national health service #british healthcare #proud to work for the nhs #nhs staff #strikes

Matt Hancock has probably got more safety equipment in that jungle than the NHS ever had through Covid.

The irony being that despite all the creepy crawlies and living in the jungle, he’ll still be less scared than I was delivering meds to the covid wards in 2020.

#nhs staff here #fuck him #and i mean that with the utmost sincerity #matt hancock #he's itvs meal ticket #i was the governments canon fodder #i'm a celebrity 2022

Popping on for the first time in ages to say that just because Boris the twat has decided that COVID is over, that doesn't mean that it's over.

And a consequence is that the NHS is struggling. So don't shout at us when your surgeries get cancelled, because we don't have beds or staff.

Every covid case in hospital shuts a bay, and staff isolating reduces capacity.

It's not our fault that the government out popularity over health policy

In May 2020, I went to work scared. Pharmacy isn't supposed to be dangerous. I'm not front line. But I took a breath outside the covid wards before I went in. And I lived in fear of catching the virus, of giving to my colleagues, family, friends.

Our break room had most of the chairs taken out. Three of us were allowed in to eat at a time. We couldn't eat together, we couldn't have that hours break where we could talk about what was going on and look out for each other.

And the people in charge had a fucking party

Friendly reminder when you can’t get your booster, that the NHS, GP’s and pharmacies found out about the booster drive at the exact same time that the general public did, i.e, when Boris sprayed the policy out of his arse.

The NHS is on it’s knees, expecting a fucking awful January, and exhausted.

It isn’t not our fault. This mess is really and truly not our fault, but we’re going to have to clean it up.

I’m so fucking angry.

#nhs #national health service #british healthcare #save our nhs #nhs staff

I hope you’re all ready to fight for the NHS when this is all over.

Because the Government fucked up royally, and every single little mistake that the NHS made, is going to be used to pin the blame on it. And the press will lap it up.

Mistakes, might I add, that were likely made because the NHS went into the Covid crisis understaffed, and severly underfunded.

I’m not excusing the NHS of any responsibility at all, but I can guarantee that most of the things that went wrong can be traced back to undlying and avoidable issues.

The government is taking credit for the vaccination programme, which has been fantastic. But its still ‘NHS Track and Trace’.

Which one of those, was the NHS actually involved with?

#covid #nhs #nhsstaff

stars-bean

Clue (1985) dir. Jonathan Lynn

#one of my favourite films #clue1985

call-me-emrys

My coworker: im not gonna get the vaccine. How’d they make it so quickly?? Not a good sign

Me: it’s because we’ve known about coronaviruses for a while

My coworker: you literally said earlier that we couldnt have caught corona when we were kids because it didnt exist yet

Me: i said we couldnt have caught it when we were kids because it hadnt made the jump to humans yet, for one, and for two, there’s more than one coronavirus.

My coworker: what

Me: there’s more than one coronavirus. SARS and MERS have been studied for years, and vaccines for them have been studied for years. The COVID vaccine wasnt built from the ground up, we just already had a lot of the starting work done already.

Me: Like. Is anybody surprised when Toyota comes out with new cars every year? No. They don’t cry witchcraft and say shit like “oh they made that car too fast, it must not be safe,” because they didnt reinvent the car, they just added some new bells and whistles. Same with the vaccine. They didn’t reinvent the wheel here, they just looked at an existing wheel and altered it to make it work better.

My coworker: oh. *turns to other coworker* i cant believe you were afraid of the vaccine!! You just gotta do your research, man

Me: YOU DIDNT DO YOUR RESEARCH EITHER

call-me-emrys

To follow up on this since this post has been getting reblogged a lot recently, 2 other things helped get the vaccine approved in record time:

1) Demand. SO much demand for a working vaccine, which translated to SO much funding. Like fistfulls of money just being chucked at it. This wasnt the case for the earlier coronavirus-type vaccines, which is why a vaccine for those were never completed. Neither SARS nor MERS ever became pandemics, so there wasnt much funding. But for COVID, the entire world was demanding a vaccine. That much demand = a shitload of money. Money talks, man,

2) usually vaccines take so long because all the steps happen sequentially. Like Part A has to be completed, then Part B, Part C, etc. But one of the (subjectively) cool things about this vaccine is that so many governments went “yeah that’s too slow” this time, and started doing steps concurrently. It sped up production A LOT because the folks in charge of Part C didnt have to wait for Part A and Part B to finish, they could just jump on their tasks right away.

All this info is easy to find just by googling “why was the covid vaccine finished to quickly,” btw, in case y’all want to gather some more knowledge to dunk on all y’all’s antivaxx coworkers, or to bring anybody who is just genuinely under-informed up to speed.

Vivo nel mio appartamento per 2 mesi ed e casa mio adesso. Parlo l‘Italiano meglio di sette mese fa.

#still learning italian #on day 206 of duolingo #sorry to any native speakesr for my butchering of your language