uxbridge english dictionary

enjambement innit. don't give out personal info on the internet, children, that's how they get you. fuck off if you're a nazi

[clubpenguindoneright]

[boitterfly]

how it feels to log on here every day

[femmenietzsche]

Uh Oh: The Third Person Omniscient Narrator Of Your Life Just Started Repeating The Opening Paragraphs Verbatim

[hinoneko]

*sigh* fine, fine, i'll be the new doctor who showrunner. bring me two twinks, britain's tallest woman, and 1000 pounds worth of alumininamian foil

[lovetechnique]

MAD MEN BTS from Janie Bryant's IG: Christina Hendricks as Joan Holloway Harris

[faustandfurious]

If there’s one thing I hate about the mentality among a large number of medical students and doctors, it’s the way they turn “who has it worse?” into a competition, where it’s a point of pride to brag about how much overtime you’re working, how little you’re sleeping/eating due to the workload, and how many horrible cases you’ve dealt with.

To be fair, bragging about overworking is in many cases a coping mechanism for medical professionals who are stuck in a system where they have very little say in how their workday is structured and how much shit they have to deal with. Doesn’t make the culture any less toxic though. “You have to be strong enough to survive inhuman working conditions in order to make it in medicine” is an attitude that is actively preventing much-needed change towards sustainable working hours and workloads.

I’ve made choices in my medical career that have led to a work situation where I get enough sleep and exercise, regular meals, a manageable workload, the necessary support from attendings, and a department head who actively prioritises the education aspects of my residency. I have time to sit down with coworkers for lunch on most workdays, instead of eating at the desk while typing up paperwork with one hand. I leave work on time for the most part, and I am compensated for the overtime if I have to stay behind to deal with a critically ill patient. I have met fellow doctors from other departments/hospitals who act as if I’m not a “real” doctor unless I regularly suffer at work, and the most charitable thing I can say about that is that I think they’ve worked in an abusive system for so long that they don’t recognise what a healthy job situation looks like when they see it.

Anyway, if you’re a medical student reading this, please remember that you’ll become a much better doctor for your patients if you’re happy and well rested.

[faustandfurious]

A few points related to things people have mentioned in the notes:

1. While I think the overall mess that is US healthcare exacerbates the problem, this isn’t specific to the US or other high-inequality countries. My country has great socialised (tax funded) healthcare. We frequently have patients amazed that they can get advanced cancer treatments without paying more than a maximum of the equivalent of $ 300 per calendar year. The mentality among doctors and medical students, however, largely remains the same (although YMMV depending on specialty and workplace).

2. We absolutely need a healthcare system that’s better at accommodating disability, chronic illness, and reduced work capacity due to pregnancy/breastfeeding. I have a chronic illness which causes pain flareups on an irregular basis. I’ve written sick leave notes for patients whose symptoms on that particular day were less than my own. Most of the time, however, I’m able to work at what is basically 150 % capacity. I love my job. I love going above and beyond. I frequently get overwhelmingly positive feedback on the work I do. My current workplace is the first one where the attitude has been “let us know when you’re having a flareup so we can accommodate that” instead of “maybe you’re not strong enough for this line of work if you have an autoimmune disease”.

3. I was in the running for a fairly high position in the Medical Association. I withdrew from the race at the last minute because I realised my health situation wasn’t compatible with that workload in addition to a full time job in medicine. One of the former board members came up to me and told me that while he understood my reasons for withdrawing, it was a pity because “you speak with so much more conviction and credibility than the majority of people here who have never experienced any hardship whatsoever”. Don’t let the majority attitude discourage you from going into medicine. We need more people who enter the profession with the aim of making it better. You won’t be as alone as you think.

[jack-of-blades]

My housemate's cat came into my room while my dictation was on...

[throathole]

Oh thanks but what the fuck does any of that mean

[anariel-the-elrond-apologist]

I’ve seen quite a few of these in my time, but this one takes the cake.

[throathole]

This is fucking killing me

Golp: a roundel purpure.

Repeat this to yourself until it begins to have meaning

[a-book-of-creatures]

Okay then since some of you need to be reminded of this:

Roundels are circles in heraldry. They are named according to their color, which also has its own lingo. Let’s meet them!

Bezant: roundel or (gold) 🟡

Plate: roundel argent (silver) ⚪️

Torteau: roundel gules (red) 🔴

Pomme: roundel vert (green) 🟢

Hurt: roundel azure (blue) 🔵

Golp: roundel purpure (purple) 🟣

Pellet: roundel sable (black) ⚫️

If your field is strewn with roundels, you can describe it appropriately as being bezanty, hurty, golpy, and so on.

[cognitohazardous]

[unyieldingsilence]

‎

[jewishtransdyke]

roundel = circle

purpure = purple

golp = roundel purpure = purple circle

A golp is a purple circle.

^ This thing right here has lots of purple circles on it and therefore it is golpy. It's not that hard to understand.

[jantesika]

hang on, it can't be vert golpy, because of the rule of tincture. you can see those are actually bezants charged golps. therefore this shield is, in full (I think,,,):

vert bezanty charged golps below a chief wavy argent charged an oak leaf sable fesswise.

I am not, however, a herald, and am bad at this.

[king-of-men]

The purple is surrounded by yellow but the yellow in turn has a distinct black edge, so I think it wants "golpy fimbriated or and sable". Rules of tincture be damned.

[king-of-men]

No wait I'm being silly, there's two distinct black edges there. Plainly it is "pellety charged golps within annulets or". Obviously.

[kaylmao]

work like a red onion

play like a white onion

fuck like a green onion

[probablyreal]

brushbug banging out the tunes

[ID: A looping gif of the brushbuddy from Witch Hat Atelier patting its paws repeatedly, edited to have a PNG of a toy xylophone (the same one from the "Neil banging out the tunes" photo) beside it so it looks like the brushbuddy is playing it. End ID]

[nonasuch]

Oof. I just put a batch of vintage clothing in to soak, which is a whole big production requiring putting a plastic tub in my bathtub (because they’re going to be soaking for at least a full day and I still need to shower in there tomorrow) and filling it up with yellowed dresses and Retro Clean.

This time I decided that historical laundresses probably knew what they were doing, and grabbed a metal pole to stir my DIY laundry cauldron and poke the floaty bit back under the surface. Historical laundresses were right, it works great.

As I stood there, I had a moment where I though, ‘oh wow, so many women in my family tree must have done this exact set of motions throughout history.’ Which should be a humbling and heartwarming feeling of connection, right?

Wrong. I swear I could feel twenty generations of shtetl women going “For this you went to college? You want to work with old shmattes all day, fine, but you could have saved the tuition to buy a house.”

And like. They’re right, but hey.

[muzzlesbian]

have any of you tried teaching the mouse how to make cookies

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[pwbi]

“Looking to protect yourself, or deal some damage?”

[apricops]

like, obviously Paradox games are 'teaching tools' only in a narrow and specific sense, a lot of things are simplified and streamlined for the purposes of making an entertaining video game, but I'll never forget about how many times I read about the Investiture Controversy and tried to understand it, and I always thought "it's about 'secular versus spiritual authority?' it's all about who gets to give a special ring to bishops? Why was this such a big deal?"

and then I played CKIII and went "ugh, it sucks that the Pope gets to appoint my court chaplain. Council positions are so important for managing my large vassals and keeping them happy, and besides, I have so many capable and learned vassals who would be perfect for the job and the Pope keeps sticking me with these Italian midwits who don't even... OH SHIT THAT'S WHY"

[pinkmoondoll9shihtzu]

My favorite emoji expression me and my friends came up with is "throwing rocks at it"

Basically if you ever see or hear something that displeases you, You go like this:

🫳🪨

🫳🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨

☺️🫳🪨🪨🪨

So on and so forth. But also if something is beautiful or true you throw lotus.

🫳🪷🪷🪷

[phineastratchet-deactivated2025]

I have one that;s called "picking grapes off the vine"

🍇🤏

🤌🟣

this method could also be used to pick other things, if you'd like...

🎂🤏🤌🕯️

🐒🤏🤌🦟

[slightlydraconic]

⛰️🤏🤌🪨

🫳🪨

[podcastwizard]

you don’t realize how important lunch is until you’re wandering around thinking about how unloveable and untalented and uniquely cursed you are and then it’s 4pm and you finally eat lunch and you go Oh. oh right.

[podcastwizard]

lot of people commenting on this post like "who eats lunch at 4pm that's a terrible time to eat lunch" yes. that is the point. 4pm lunch is inadvisable. 4pm lunch is not the ideal. 4pm lunch makes the mind demons real.

[jeeook]

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