for wherever you go, i will go

seren ☆ they/ae ☆ 23 ✨️ jewish conversion student, narcoleptic nonbinary lesbian, environmental bio grad, etc 💛 עולם חסד יבנה

[muddonium]

Moved by the voices of everyone who dared to go on this journey together ,

They found light in one another.

For they were never meant to come back ,

And so they kept moving forward ,

Leaving behind one single message :

"We love you ."

[whitager]

something abt the way this fandom actively erases robby's minority status as a jew to turn him into the privileged white boss bullying his marginalized subordinates rather than a mentally ill marginalized man in a complex environment where he's in a position of authority and responsible for many other mentally ill marginalized people, who has some major blind spots and biases regarding the demographic dynamics around him and his particular status within those dynamics. as literally every human being on earth does.

[honeyxbender]

It's also from people who don't work in medicine. He isn't a privileged boss he is an attending doctor who specializes in emergency medicine. He does the same work that you do, he works the same hours you do, he isn't working some desk job talking about synergy and clocking out on time every day. Yes you can be really frustrated with the lead doctor and yes they can be dicks sometimes but it really isn't the same as your corporate boss in a lot of jobs. People who don't work in medicine don't get it. Even if he wasn't Jewish/a racial minority he still wouldn't be the privileged boss.

[daughterofstories]

Also, as we saw over and over last season, he's the guy standing between you and your actual privileged bosses.

He's the guy getting yelled at whenever you fail to do the impossible. He's the guy fighting, not just for himself to be protected and supported, but for all of you to be protected and supported.

When he starts pushing you to do more than is reasonable, it's because the people above him are saying that, unless everyone in the ED does more than is reasonable, you might all lose your jobs, and he can't hold them off any longer.

And now he's trying to do all that while the higher ups are actively pushing him out, because they're sick of him blocking all the changes that would be good for metrics and awful for you.

[gaelic-symphony]

Very important tags from @kitcatling

[northerlyy]

Cuckoo Wasp (Family Chrysididae), taken May 5, 2025, in Georgia, US

I fear my photography career has peaked with this one. I don't think I've ever seen anything so cute in my life. This little lady was simply just sleeping on the stem of a leaf, completely unaware of the fact that I was frantically taking as many pictures of her as possible. In the end, she put out a single antenna to sense me better but never ended up moving, so I'd say my attempt to not disturb her was successful! I had no idea cuckoos slept like this—it's adorable!!! One billion more, please!!

[gay-jewish-bucky]

Grab the hand of the person you reblogged this from to join in a Horah! The more that join, the further our dance will reach around the earth, eventually spanning far enough to embrace the whole of creation, hand in hand in simcha and song.

[hiddurmitzvah]

Amulet to protect a woman and her newborn son, with invocations of Adam and Eve, Lilith, and several angels; Podolia or Ukraine, late nineteenth or early twentieth century.

The Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia

[only-cat-memes]

[teasetsotw]

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Type: Tea set Designer/Brand: Teasetbox.com (TSB) [X] Region: Yiwu, Zhejiang China Time period: 2020s

[important-cat-pics]

[trans-masked]

Hey just a reminder, Black cisgender women do not have a higher level of testosterone than white cisgender women and racist pseudoscience is bad even if you’re citing it to defend trans people 👍

[catchymemes]

[hiddurmitzvah]

Chevra Kadisha book feom Bonyhád, Hungary (1825)

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

The crazy thing about Noah Wyle and the hate is that he reposted more than one instagram stories about ceasfire for palestine, open letters that ask the government to do something..

He could be the most all in, balls to the wall pro palestine, global intifada "activist" on the planet but he would still be viewed with suspicion and hostility by the "antizionists" because he's Jewish and cares about his Jewish identity and family. They can pretend all they like it's not antisemitism but they show their arses every single time.

[otakuvampyre]

I... I don't even have words for the nonsense I've just witnessed, really. Recently, Israel was added a UN sexual violence in war zones blacklist. And just, look at this. Listen to this video.

.... WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T NEED TO DO ANY VERIFICATION???? EXCUSE ME???

[byjove]

whenever I see archeological remains of a human who suffered from a terrible disease that couldn’t be treated in their lifetime but could be fixed now, this wave of sorrow and mourning washes over me. a woman in the 14th century who spent her 35 years of life bent at the waist because of congenital scoliosis. a man from the 18th century who died because of a non cancerous mass on his jaw that made eating progressively more difficult. remains of a woman from the Neolithic who died in childbirth having evidence of peri-mortem trepanation on her skull.

and yet she survived to 35. and yet the physicians in his time tried to strengthen his jaw. and yet someone 4,000 years ago tried to save someone they loved from dying of preeclampsia/increased cranial pressure. we tried. we tried and we tried and we tried. we failed and we learned but we tried. that’s what makes humans so beautiful.

[lyricwritesprose]

My mom sometimes talks about a child in her neighborhood who was born with hydrocephaly and died of it. His parents strove to keep him alive for years, but he ultimately passed after a long decline. No treatment available. No hope at all, and the parents knew it from his birth.

Several decades later my sister had an MRI, as a long shot, to try to figure out why she was sick and deteriorating with a number of symptoms that were close to being written off as anxiety. She was sent straight to the hospital for adult onset hydrocephaly. Two days later she had brain surgery to put a shunt down her neck into her stomach and drain the fluid out. (No, you cannot usually get brain surgery that fast. Yes, it was that urgent.) Recovery was long and squiggly but it happened.

I think of that boy every once in a while. The one who died. I have no doubt that treatments developed for people like him, and tested on people like him, saved my sister's life.

He never knew he made the world better. His condition was severe, he never knew much of anything, I don't think. I think if I ever track down a God or something like one, that'll be somewhere on my List of Wishes. To make sure people like him know that they helped.

[mutedtempest]

I think about this a lot.

I've been type 1 diabetic since I was about one and a half, and was incredibly sick. If my mother hadn't also been type 1 and recognized the signs I likely would have died.

I was born in 1982. Insulin was first given to a patient in 1922, and he survived. Before that, type 1 meant death, often very slow and agonizing. Before insulin, doctors advised a super strict "keto" diet to prolong life, and it could work for awhile - up to a year, I believe. But it was a miserable existence as the body was literally eating itself as the blood turned acidic until the patient eventually died.

60 years. Only 60 years before my birth did that procedure work for the first time. That's absolutely nothing given the span of human history and I think a lot about the people who died from it throughout time.

But yes, people tried. Healers and doctors of all sorts tried all manner of things to allow these (mostly!) kids to live. The fact that it was accomplished at all is nothing short of a miracle. The fact that I've been alive 42 years is fucking insane considering my body doesn't produce a hormone necessary for survival. If you think that doesn't blow me away on a regular basis you have another think coming. It's nothing short of a miracle.

Every medical advancement is. The amount of work that goes into it and the vast amount of luck necessary to get it right even when all the research and information is sound is just astonishing.

Thank you, humanity. Thank you ingenuity and determination to save lives and make them better. Thank you to every medical practitioner and medical researcher in existence now and through all of time. Thank you to all the people who died so I could live.

[hyperactivehedgehog]

Diabetes is one of these illnesses that really throws medical history into perspective. It's so common, everyone knows someone who has it, people live pretty normal lives with it. And yet, a hundred years ago, it was an instant death sentence. And then we were able to treat people with insulin and yet - it was extremely disabling. The insulin was extracted from animal pancreas had severe side effects, even with how similar the hormones are, there is always an averse reaction to proteins from foreign species, especially during long-term treatment. Injections had to be given every few hours, at-home-tests were only available from the 70s onwards. Insulin pumps entered the market in the 80s. Genetically produced insulin - humanized insulin - was first available in the US in 1982, in many countries only around the year 2000.

In 1930, having diabetes type I would basically mean being hospital bound, being woken every few hours for regular injections.

In 1965, you'd be able to live at home and get by with a very strict diet and a few timed injections. You'd struggle with chronical side effects. Having children wasn't done - passing on your genes would be immoral, and it might not even be legal for you to marry.

In the year 2000, you'd have a device clipped to your belt that would measure your blood sugar and distribute insulin, you only need to change the needle a few times a day. You might even be allowed to join in P.E. class

In 2025, you stick on two patches that do the same thing. They're synchronized through your phone.

That wasn't fate. It's not natural development that made diabetes a common chronic illness. It was hundreds of people who cared. It was the people who created the keto diet. It was the people who came up with tests. The ones who went through different species, trying to figure out the closest analogon to human insulin. It was the people who fought in court to get genetically produced insulin approved for medical use. It was people who looked at a rare, incurable disease and said "but what if it wasn't?"

[prismatic-bell]

Back in the 1960s, my dad was one of the first 100 successful open-heart surgeries in the world. He needed it to fix a hole in his heart, a condition that up until then was basically "take him home and make him comfortable."

He's lived long enough that three of his grandkids have been born with the same condition, and he's been there to assist with the recovery after the laparoscopic version of the same surgery he had.

He has a scar from collarbone to waist that's as thick as my finger--thicker, in some places. My nieces and nephews have scars so tiny you could mistake them for being from a particularly bad cat scratch. And their recovery was measured in weeks, instead of months.

Medicine has improved so much, so fast, that he's lived to see the research done on him save his grandchildren.

[vaspider]

Every time I inject my insulin, I think about the doctors that developed it, and every dog that died in that process.

There were a lot of them. Yes, it gets to me every time. I don't die in agony because of determined scientists and some unspeakably good dogs.

[barksbog]

look at her go

[barksbog]

this is my leopard gecko wheel propaganda post now

promote physical health (walky!)

promote mental health (fun!)

extremely cute to watch them toddle about in there

they love to sleep squished under them

apparently promotes healthy bowel movement (prepare for poopy wheel)

genuinely i know it looks silly and weird but it changed my leos life they use 2-4h a day just calmly walking

it reduced them scrabbling at the glass doors

my friend who has a disabled leo got him one and he is now moving so much more, which is good for his legs (muscles being built)

it's really cute

wheels should be at least 20cm diameter and solid, the wooden ones are great for grip and safety

leos don't go faster than this. successful wheel usage looks like Popcorn is demonstrating

[prismatic-bell]

@reallyneedsalife!

[hilacopter]

i think hamas and hezbollah and the irgc and basically every terrorist organization hellbent on killing the jews makes a little more sense or is at least more morbidly interesting to look at when you view it under the lens of them being people who just don't know how much power they've lost. because the arab conquests happened so long ago that landback people refuse to acknowledge that colonization happened in the first place, and in that time across the entire world really there were basically zero consequences for oppressing jews. nul. efes. because sure there was that occasional pesky uprising but anyone but jews caring about antisemitism is a very very recent historical development. and at the end of the day these groups are religious extremists, and religious extremists more often than not are people so conservative they're basically stuck in the middle ages. so like yeah they're aware that the jews have a state and an army now and all that but just by the osmosis of the kind of culture they live in and absorb jews are still viewed as something very destructible. a century or two ago you could commit a massacre, you could commit many massacres against jews and walk away relatively unscathed. but now jews have actual agency in the world and we have the power to retaliate, retaliate hard even, and that simply doesn't register to the islamist mind. it doesn't compute.

[imyourbadjew]

Jews are harder to kill now and that has made them great many people very upset

[yellowstripedtowel]

It always stuns me how truly OLD jewhatred is. That might be my americanness showing but damn.

[imyourbadjew]

I think the truly insane part to realise is that in Europe and MENA it was socially accepted and event expected to be antisemitic to some degree for at least a millennium. To be friendly to Jews was the radical position.

[forevermorallylucky]

Having grown up in a Christian country and knowing some things abt Christianity I can't help but feel like there is soooo much abt leftist antisemitism that echoes Christian antisemitism specifically (it doesn;t matter if they are atheist christian culture obviously has impacted them).

The idea that there is some sort of ''original sin'' that all Jews are guilty of, specifically some horrendeous murder. For christians that is 'deicide'' for leftists that is Israel and its creation

Their delusion that they are actually ok with Jews as long as Jews perform repentance and convert to their beliefs

The absolute moral superiority compex feels very religious fanatic core. Both Christianity and leftism often have a genuine want to help the vulnerable of the world and perform goodness, but both christians and leftists get weird moral complexes the moment they start viewing their identity predominanty under the lens of being a ''good, virtuous person''. Said moral superiority complex prevents holding themselves accountable for antisemitism etc.

The bigoted idea that Jews are evil bcs they have an ethnoreligion and supposedly ''want to keep God for themselves'' while Christianity is pure bcs it is universal echoes the leftist statement that Jews are evil for wanting their own state instead of wanting to purely live as global citizens of the world or some shit

Using vague anti-capitalist language to present themselves as above money and Jews as greedy monsters (the antisemetic idea that america is capitalist and corrupt bcs of AIPAC specifically) is very reminisent of christians banning interest rates and pretending this makes them superior than Jews

The insistence of leftists that Jesus was Palestinian and the fact that I have heard many of them straight up say ''If Jesus was born today he would be killed by the IDF''- this is straight up them preaching deicide

Spain burning a figure of Netanyahu instead of Judas during their ''burn Judas'' Easter tradition- historically also a ''beat up local Jewish person'' tradition

Their idea that ''Jews missed the point of the Holocaust'' (insane thing to say btw) reflects the idea that ''Jews missed the point of the crucifixion bcs they didn't follow Jesus after''