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kedreeva

Tonight I was putting the birds to bed and Bug and Princess were on the roost already but Dragon was on the floor pitter pattering around behind him. Sark told me that I was about to get vaulted over (Dragon flying over me to get to the roost) but I knew that if she wanted to do that she'd be up on the bird couch, not down on the floor. So I told him no she wants up onto my shoulder. And then I turned around, and put my hand out at hip level, and Dragon launched herself up right into my hand like we'd rehearsed it. She was, of course, looking for bugs to eat, but it was still the slickest move I've ever made I think.

smallpwbbles

Bratty AI fucks around and finds out when you ragebait a Dad enough, more on the news at 11.

Fanart for a REALLY good Caine centric fic called Small Gods. This convo in chapter 7 is SO good, like I could genuinely see this happening in the show! its by @crimes-wears-goggles so go show some love to her and her fic!

I gonna do the second half of this convo too just cause I'd hate to leave it here :)

deadghosy

tubeon-deactivated20260110

#dc comics #robin #tim drake #dick grayson #nightwing #someone made a fanart of my favorite character saying something I always say #pinch me I’m dreaming

beardedmrbean

Good addition to the list of words here

peltk9

Video description:

Two older gentleman, Marc and Craig Wasserman of Pot Brothers at Law. They are outside, facing the camera. At the top is an overlay with the words, "THE ONLY 29 WORDS YOU SAY WHEN YOU ARE PULLED OVER!" The video cuts in mid-sentence.

Man 1: "--announcement. The script. The only 25 words we've been preaching for 10 years has changed. We've added four more words. It is now 29 words, and it goes like this.

"What do you say, big brother, when the cops come up to you and pull you over?"

Man 2: "Why'd you pull me over?"

Man 1: "And when they ask any questions at all, what do you say?"

Man 2: "I'm not discussing my day."

Man 1: "And they keep asking questions, what do you say?"

Man 2: "Am I being detained, or am I free to go?"

Man 1: "And if detained, what do you have to say?"

Man 2: "I invoke the fifth, I want my lawyer."

Man 1: "And then if they keep questioning you, what do you do?"

Man 2: "Shut the fuck up."

Man 1: "You use those 29 words politely. Now, why did we add those four words?"

Man 2: "Because if you invoke the fifth without saying you want a lawyer and they keep asking you questions and you break, you've waived your right. Once you ask for a lawyer, they have to stop questioning you, and if they don't and get you to break then, we could potentially get all that thrown out of court."

/end video transcription

cuddlycryptid

THIS IS SO IMPORTANT!! cops will do anything to try to get you to say something wrong- because as soon as you do, they can throw you in jail. they dont care if youre innocent- they just want another body in the prison system

innocent people are more likely to try to cooperate with the police- and thus are more likely to say something to the cops that the cops can twist to implicate the innocent person

NEVER TALK TO THE COPS. if your lawyer isn’t in the room, don’t say a WORD

#things to know #united states #acab

ralfmaximus

SOMERSET - A local family is catching heat after throwing a birthday bash for their daughter last weekend featuring a piñata shaped like a police officer. The party, held at a public park, was going smoothly until the kids lined up to take swings at “Officer Snickers,” a papier-mâché patrolman stuffed with candy and what appeared to be citations for bad attitudes. “We just thought it was funny,” said the girl’s father, Randy Gillis, a lifelong Democrat. “She wanted a piñata and said ‘make it someone with authority.’ I blame Paw Patrol.”

I see nothing wrong with this.

nattobees

YOU CAN'T JUST CUT OFF THE LAST LINE.

"...The family insists it was all in fun, and that next year's party will feature a less controversial theme- like an ICE officer."

godlessondheimite

fluffmugger

#so did they miss the part where gatsby ends up floating dead in a pool and all the miserable deaths in wuthering heights#or did they miss that because there weren’t any chapters titled In Which The Sinners Are Punished For Their Errors#like. even if you require explicit moral instruction from literature it’s pretty hard to miss the comeuppance in those.

pennie-dreadful

“What I assume my teachers were trying to teach me”

doctorbluesmanreturns

Huck Finn is about a white Southern boy who was raised to believe that freeing slaves is a sin that would send you directly to hell who forges a familial bond with a runaway slave and chooses to free him and thereby in his mind lose his salvation because he refuses to believe that his best friend and surrogate father is less of a man just because he’s black. Yes it features what we now consider racial slurs but this is a book written only 20 years after people were literally fighting to be allowed to keep other human beings as property, we cannot expect people from the 1880s to exactly conform with the social mores of 2020, and more to the point if we ourselves had been raised during that time period there’s very little doubt that we would also hold most if not all of the prevalent views of the time because actual history isn’t like period novels written now where the heroes are perfect 21st century social justice crusaders and the villains are all as racist and sexist as humanly possible. Change happens slowly and ignoring the radical statement that we’re all human beings that Twain wrote at a time when segregation and racial tensions were still hugely prevalent just because he wrote using the language of his time period is short-sighted and foolhardy to the highest degree.

mikkeneko

I’m really kind of alarmed at the rise in the past few years of the “and we do condemn! wholeheartedly!” discourse around historical figures. it seems like people have somehow boomeranged between “morals were different in the past, therefore nobody in the past can ever be held accountable for ANY wrongs” to “morals are universal and timeless, and anything done wrong by today’s standards in the past is ABSOLUTELY unforgiveable” so completely, because social media 2.0 is profoundly allergic to nuance

please try this on for size:

there have always been, in past times as today, a range of people in every society, some of whom were even then fighting for a more just and compassionate accord with their fellow man and some of whom let their greeds and hatreds rule them to the worst allowable excesses. the goal of classics and history education is to teach you enough context to discern between the two, not only in the past but in the present

three--rings

My mind just boggles at the “There’s Racism In That Book” argument. Yes, there is racism in that book, because that book is ABOUT RACISM. The message is that it is BAD.

My high school English teacher, who was a viciously brilliant woman, used to say that when people banned Huck Finn they said it was about the language, but it was really the message they were trying to ban, the subversive deconstruction of (religious) authority and white supremacy.

lyricwritesprose

Huckleberry Finn can actually be seen as a powerful case study in trying to do social justice when you have absolutely no tools for it, right down to vocabulary. And in that respect, it’s a heroic tale, because Huck—with absolutely no good examples besides Jim, who he has been taught to see as subhuman, with no guidance, with everyone telling him that doing the right thing will literally damn him, with a vocabulary that’s full of hate speech—he turns around and says, “I’m not going to do it. I’m not going to participate in this system. If that means I go to Hell, so be it. Going to Hell now.”

(I used to read a blogger who insisted that “All right, I’ll go to Hell,” from Huckleberry Finn is the most pure and perfect prayer in the canon of American literature. Meaning, as I understand it, that the decision to do the right thing in the face of eternal damnation is the most holy decision one can make, and if God Himself is not proud of the poor mixed-up kid, then God Himself is not worth much more than a “Get thee behind me,” and the rest of us should be lining up to go to Hell too. Worth noting that this person identified as an evangelical Christian, not because he was in line with what current American evangelicals believe, but because “they can change their name, I’m not changing mine.” Interesting guy. Sorry for the long parenthetical.)

Anyway, the point of Huck Finn, as far as I can tell, is that you can still choose to do good in utter darkness, with no guidance and no help and none of the right words.

And when you put it like that, it’s no wonder that a lot of people on Tumblr—people who prioritize words over every other form of social justice—find it threatening and hard to comprehend.

#literature #important

girlmuppet

Do any of u have decent recipes that are like 5 ingredients (not including spices) and take 45 mins or less to prepare i gotta stop eating sandwiches for dinner

batmanisagatewaydrug

yeah hang on

batmanisagatewaydrug

ignore the title of this google doc because it's a long story but it's a really solid recipe for southwest chicken alfredo

this is a vegetarian potato curry recipe that's about 75% spices; once you get the potatoes in there you can really do whatever you want with it

this is literally just pasta, broccoli, and cheese babey and you can live off that shit for DAYS it makes such a big portion

bro this spinach/pesto/3 cheese flatbread is so fucking tasty bro

also you can make the flatbread yourself it's super quick!!

oh hey I'm eating this white chickpea chili right now, much like the curry it's mostly spices and you can do p much do whatever you want with it

don't let the name fool you these potatoes are delicious any time. not just breakfast.

this is slightly more than five ingredient when you add them together but if you have time and really wanna fuckin treat yourself I recommend these chicken strips + this cornbread + either these potatoes or these buttered veggies on the side.

dragonforsale

These are my two favorite comfort foods. They're very easy to make and dont take long to cook.

Garlic butter rice

Orzo mac and cheese (comes out a little bit soupy)

shadowblinder

this recipe for gogumabap (sweet potato and rice) saved my life when i couldn't eat hardly anything for a long time. the recipe itself calls for a heavy bottomed pot but you can absolutely use a rice cooker and put the rice and diced sweet potato in together and just let the machine do its thing

not-available-for-comment

Time for me to beat my little clown drum again for Indian-ish by Priya Krishna, aka The Easiest Recipes I Have Ever Fucking Made. Dal that takes 15 minutes. Easy aloo gobhi. Easy saag feta. Buy. Cook. Eat.

#food #recipes #cooking

mandy-malady

crossposting here bc this tactic needs to spread like wildfire

massachusetts-official

Official Post of Massachusetts

biokitty

I had a patient come in the other day because she wanted her IUD replaced. It was at the end of it's life and she loved having her IUD, this was her second one. My MA let me know that the patient was very anxious about getting the IUD replaced, she'd had painful experiences in the past with her other replacements and was dreading this visit for that reason.

I spoke with the patient and she was literally shaking with anxiety. I asked her to describe her prior experiences as well as what she liked about her IUD and what she didn't like. She said that she wished she didn't have to get it replaced so often, so I recommended we place a Mirena instead of just inserting a new Kyleena IUD. She was nervous about this because she didn't want an IUD that was big. I explained that the Mirena and Kyleena are essentially the same size but the Mirena lasts 3 years longer and would likely bridge her to menopause given her age whereas with the Kyleena she'd probably need another replacement to get there. She was okay with trying the Mirena.

I then talked to her about pain control during the procedure as this was what she was most worried about. I asked about her prior experiences and then laid out what I wanted to do to try and improve her experience during this procedure. I told her I planned to give her prescription strength ibuprofen, a heating pad, and a very dense anesthetic block in her cervix to hopefully make it a better experience. If she had had someone to drive her home I would've also given her an ativan because we have studies that show patients who report higher rates of anxiety surrounding a procedure also report higher rates of pain associated with it.

She was down for this plan. I gave her a very dense block, she only felt three small injections and then nothing else. She was shocked when I told her that her old IUD was out and the new one was in. She didn't believe me when I told her it was over.

I don't tell this story because I wanna brag about how amazing of a doctor I am because I'm not. I tell this story because this is the way IUD insertions SHOULD go and I want people to know that IUD insertions do not need to be traumatic. And I want other providers who may insert IUDs to know that a paracervical block should be your standard when it comes to IUD insertions.

When people find out I'm an OBGYN, complete strangers, acquaintances, etc. , the two things they like to tell me immediately are their horrible birth trauma story and their terrible IUD insertion story and I'm trying to at least make the latter one a little less common.

If you place IUDs and aren't doing a cervical block, you need to start. This should be the standard but over 90% of OBGYNs in the US aren't doing them and it's unacceptable. We are traumatizing people and it's entirely avoidable. We are scaring people away from one of the most effective and long lasting forms of birth control in a time when people are losing their ability to end unwanted pregnancies all for no justifiable reason.

"It takes too long:" No it doesn't, that visit took me 20 minutes with a highly anxious patient from start to finish.

"It's not worth it for such a short/small procedure." It's worth it for the patient.

"It's too expensive." You can do a paracervical block with just normal saline. You don't even need lidocaine if you use a generous amount of volume. And if you place Nexplanons I know you stock lidocaine in your office, stop being fucking cheap at the expense of women's pain.

"Patient's don't need it, they'll get over it." I'm telling you they do need it and they aren't getting over it as evidenced by literally everyone wanting to tell me about their terrible IUD insertion experience as soon as they find out I'm an OBGYN.

We should do better. The cervix has nerve endings, stop acting like it doesn't.

Make cervical blocks your standard of care, there's no excuse not to.

hawthorn-and-ivy

My buddy does EMLA before the cervical block, that seems to help reduce pain even further.

emi--rose

I do 20% benzocaine and my patients almost never feel any of the 5 shots ( I do tenac site and then 2, 4, 8, 10.) Buffering the lidocaine and warming it to body temperature makes it work super fast and not hurt at all during infiltration.

Also a block makes insertion easier. No reason not to.

cazort

It's wild to me how some providers accept levels of pain for things involving the cervix that would never be remotely tolerated with other things, like, say, dental work.

I have had people freak out and act like it was crazy that I once let a dentist give me a (very shallow) filling without novacaine. Yet it was less painful than itching a bad mosquito bite. The norm in dentistry is to give local anaesthetic before anything that might cause much pain, and use a numbing agent before the injection.

Rarely a dentist might offer to do something without anaesthetic like that one filling, but only if they really know what they're doing and think it's highly unlikely to be painful. And even then if you yell out, they'll stop and numb you if you want. 100% of the time.

I want this to be the norm for basic gynecological care too.

#obgyn #healthcare #iud insertion