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[thewolf3]

i just came back to tumblr after a 2 year hiatus and i Do Not Recall How Any Of This Works: Am I Old or Just Confused

[thewolf3]

update: it has been another year and I have returned again, even older and more confused

[thewolf3]

i just came back to tumblr after a 2 year hiatus and i Do Not Recall How Any Of This Works: Am I Old or Just Confused

[delphinidin4]

[irtenyev]

when w. h. auden said “evil is unspectacular and always human” and ursula k. leguin said “this is the great treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain”

[treethymes]

when toni morrison said “i just think goodness is more interesting. evil is constant. you can think of different ways to murder people, but you can do that at age five. but you have to be an adult to consciously, deliberately be good – and that’s complicated.”

[azbukivedii]

when simone weil said “imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”

[princessithaca]

when hannah arendt said “good can be radical; evil can never be radical, it can only be extreme, for it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension yet - and this is its horror - it can spread like a fungus over the surface of the earth and lay waste the entire world. evil comes from a failure to think. it defies thought, for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. that is the banality of evil.”

when t.s. elliot said “this is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper”

[997]

[guccixcucci]

My mom taught me to exaggerate my pain so that doctors would take me seriously and all I'm saying is that it hasn't failed me yet

[guccixcucci]

Listen. If you're a Black Woman you absolutely should exaggerate your pain.

We're dying because these doctors refuse to take us seriously. If you feel like something is off exaggerate it until they test for it. We've gotta advocate for ourselves

[sinfulnoodle]

Seriously yall. Doctors would rather you be in pain than have to actually diagnose you. Some doctor stans gon be mad but damn if it took 10 years for them to successfully diagnose my mom after she was telling them textbook recounts of what she was experiencing and if it took 8 years for my aunt experiencing terrible indescribable pain in her stomach that they could have EASILY xrayed her for to which they actually did after literal fuckin years of her crying they found that the last operator on her left shit in her stomach. Then yes doctors don't fucking care aboht patients anymore. Its a money business and you're a dollar sign to them. May be some legit ones out there but in my experience its been "you're fine, heres some shit that won't help." Because nothing fuckin changes.

[guccixcucci]

So many stories of people having to see 3,4 different doctors with the same symptoms just to get someone that'll run all the tests so they can get a diagnosis

[afronerdism]

I had all the classic symptoms of Multiple sclerosis 4 years ago. I mean textbook symptons. A disease which has no cure and which best hope is to get on treatment as soon as you see symptoms to delay or stop disease progression.

I went to my doctor after the er discharged me with “stress” and said “help my face is numb and I’m scared. He looked at me in my face and said “well what do you want me to do about it?” I had to beg to see a neurologist. The neurologist refused to let me speak and told me I was just stressed and refused to schedule me for an mri. Had she done that they would have found lesion on my brain.

4 years later I have now 2 lesions on my brain consistent with MS. I only found a doctor willing to take me seriously by happenstance after being hospitalized and refused a surgery that I would need anyway a few short months later. While on the hospital I was dismissed and refused pain medication unless I was literally screaming.

Fuck these doctors. Advocate for yourself hard.

[cwicseolfor]

“I want to copies of your documentation in my records of the symptoms I have reported and what actions were taken to respond to them.”

[prismatic-bell]

LISTEN ALL OF YOU BUT BLACK WOMEN ESPECIALLY

If a doctor refuses treatment or tests, say “I would like your refusal to treat documented in my chart.”

Then wait about 24 hours. (Partly for computer processing time, partly so if they think they’re being smart and saying yes but not actually doing it they’ll think they’re in the clear.)

Then call the doctor’s office AND SAY YOU WANT A COPY OF YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS.

If the refusal to treat isn’t in your records, you now have a malpractice suit.

Very, very few doctors are going to risk that possibility. They’ll bitch and moan when you ask for documentation, but they’ll run your tests.

As a comparison, by the way, here’s a doctor who had nothing to hide: my mom’s eye doctor when her eye started getting to the “It’s going to have to be physically removed” stage. He met us at the office at 9pm, long after close, with his date, to give my mom an injection to try to relieve the pressure in the eye. (Luckily said date also worked at the clinic and completely understood why he was doing this. He’s a great guy, he deserves a great lady.) I asked if he could note the exact time in her records, because the time needed between these injections was speeding up immensely. His reply:

“Actually that could give us an idea how fast this is progressing. Yes. What time is it? I’ll look up her earlier visit when I’m done.”

If your doctor isn’t that eager to make these notes, demand documentation and try to find a new doctor ASAP. It will save your life.

[sharpestasp-deactivated20241106]

All of this. But I learned a couple of useful tricks in dealing with muscular and skeletal issues that were chronic but not consistent. “This is interfering with my ability to work.”

“This is keeping me from sleeping enough to function safely.”

Those two statements got me batteries of tests to figure it out, and eventually into therapy to retrain the months’ long rotator cuff damage.

Because gods forbid we let our physical bodies prevent us from being a safe contributor to the capitalist nightmare.

[theglowpt2-deactivated20200101]

cottagecore is over lighthousecore is IN

[theglowpt2-deactivated20200101]

sea shanties

maddening isolation

cold and wet

haunted(?)

gas lamps

sturdy boots

homoeroticism

a giant squid is there

[bluehairedspidey]

nothing is more disappointing than getting into a piece of media and finding out its not even gay

[bluehairedspidey]

[best-of-memes]

[thtrwrr-deactivated20220422]

OKAY but like the woman is a super famous sculptor herself. Two major players in their own respective industries and they don’t know it! What are the chances? Life is amazing!

[sheldrakus]

Ok, so I flipped back through the notes to find the name of the artist who isn’t Jay Z - she’s Ellen Grossman and it turns out her work is massively cool! She makes drawings and sculptures that look like delicate lace or something, but are actually based on topographic maps and scientific data - ‘the sensuous aspects of water currents, land masses and the wind made visible’. I THINK SHE MAY BE A WIZARD. Anyway, check it out - ellengrossman.com

[soulofasub]

It’s amazing that this woman is famous in her own right, but just for a moment I wanna point out that when she didn’t know the man next to her from a hole in the ground, she was still so immediately all about his success.  “I’m proud of you.” What a great person.

[durnesque-esque]

Some of Ellen’s work.

[tiny-fallen-star-deactivated202]

sometimes i remember that hebrew was literally a dead language. dead!! for two thousand years!!!! until this one guy in the 1880′s was like hey fuck german and russian and spanish and french We Are Jews we should speak The Language Of The Jews!! and everyone was like dude tf hebrew is DEAD it’s OLD it’s missing too many words, we can’t use it. so he was like ok. i’ll make up new ones. checkmate, atheists and he fuckninh did he stood up by his little desk (?) and invented so many new words and wrote a whole dictionary and then he had a child and only spoke hebrew to him and that child was the first person who’s first language was hebrew in two thousand years and…………………………… i’m sorry i’m so emotional over my man, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. he singe-handedly revived a dead language. what a man

[podencos]

Has anyone else been in the strangest, most indecipherable headspace of their life lately

[yeahiwasintheshit]

Bitch, it’s called trauma! We’re all limping through a fuckin pandemic!

[scottishtwitter]

[stephsu]

“But then Killmonger bursts onto the scene—he’s the son of Wakandan royalty, yet viewed as a foreigner. He’s seen the result of Wakanda’s refusal to share their technology with the needy, and he’s absolutely furious. And the uncomfortable truth about Killmonger is, his anger is entirely justified.”

MICHAEL B. JORDAN as ERIK KILLMONGER in BLACK PANTHER (2018)

[la-laborista-republiko]

Miss Jowling Kowling Rowling (1) is transphobic, (2) is islamophobic, and (3) thinks that when you eat halal meat it leaves detectable traces of halal residue in your stomach

[bostoneris]

This depends STATE BY STATE (or town by town), so check out your own state's rules. As for everywhere, only poll workers are banned from this, and people holding up signs for candidates have to be a certain distance from the building.

[ace-aro-queerplatonic-positivity]

[Image Description:

A Screenshot of a public Facebook-Textpost by “Sandy and Richard Riccardi”.

This word of caution is from someone who has worked the polls a lot in the past: More and more I’m seeing women announcing they will be voting with shirts, buttons, masks or hats that say “Ruth Send Me”, or something similar. [Transcriptor Annotation: the late Supremecourt Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. /End of Annotation.] Remember: political messages aren’t allowed in the polling place (that could include [Black Lives Matter] shirts, unfortunately.) Also unfortunately, messages can be interpreted by whoever is in charge. It could mean, in some cases, that a voter wearing a shirt they believe is political can be denied the right to vote after waiting in line for hours. Approach this election strategically and vote smarter and cleaner than ever have before. Understand that the other side will do what it takes to advance their agenda. We need to vote in record numbers. But we need to vote smart. We can wear that wonderful “Ruth send me” shirt or mask when we get home, and raise a glass in her memory. Please copy, or paraphrase, and share with the groups you are members of, as appropriate. Help spread the word so that every vote counts! We all know what’s at stake. Do not throw away your shot. [Transcriptor Annotation: four emojis follow the text, the Peace-Symbol, a red heart, a rooster, paw prints. /End Annotation. /End of Image Transcription.]

[al-the-grammar-geek]

Thank you for the image description!

[knottahooker]

I remember a story of someone having trouble at the polls because they were wearing a Stark/Rogers (as in Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, the very fictional people) so BE CAREFUL. 

[mjalti]

interviewer: why do you want this job? Why should we hire you?

me at the interview: better use of our time today... why weren’t you able to retain the employee that vacated my new position

[bi-halobearer]

they really galaxy brained on this one

also yue and korra are probs related since they both came from northern water tribe royalty 👀🤯

[tisthequenchiest]

@visit-ba-sing-se for y(o)ue