Bluebells in Winter

being a TA is so unserious why was my snow day email "class cancelled no zoom if you want a 20 point bonus assignment go build a snowman and send me a pic"

man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great

med people are so annoying "This family's 8 year old child who was about to go through a major surgery and kept crying that she was hungry so they pitied her and gave her food, she then had a heart attack in the surgery. They're so stupid 😒" girl they didn't know that could happen or why it happens. it takes so little time to explain to them that will happen instead of telling them "no food" with no explanation 10 times

"Before surgery, your body’s reflexes that protect your airway are relaxed by anesthesia. If there’s food or liquid in your stomach, it will near certainly come back up and go into your lungs, which can cause choking, a severe lung / heart infection or even a heart attack. That’s called aspiration, and it is life-threatening. It's hard, but it's only a single day to prevent near certain death. Not eating or drinking beforehand massively lowers the risk and helps prevent these life threatening situations under anesthesia." <- TIP: patients have brains which allows them to receive information just like you

Reblogging to save a life and teach medical professionals basic communication skills

one of our clients is an animal rehab that works with a specific type of animal and I had to go assign licenses to a bunch of users today and you will never guess what most of them had as their employee profile pictures.

"All of the employees at the condor rehab have once again set their passwords as 'condor' plus their birthdate, I think it's time for another security training."

Providing support for wild animal vets fucking rules, btw.

were their passwords automatically set to that at first, and nobody changed their password? or did they all indeoendently decide "ah, my favourite animal plus my birthdate, a perfect secret that only i know!"

No, they have a password manager so we recommend using it to generate a random password, which is what they all start with. But we also allow them to reset those passwords because they have to use them for device logins and apparently all bird scientists, vets, and volunteers know is observation schedule, write journal article, and condor.

remember to bury the dead with a phone, everyone. these days the ferry terminal at the river styx wants you to download a fucking app

like I think it is good and important to be able to criticise porn and erotica for the relationship to the political environment/context of creation etc, but I think that’s not too different from criticising any other art on these grounds. how is the erotica speaking to conventions of the genre? what is the author trying to tell you in what they hold up as attractive? what might the author be saying that they’re not necessarily aware that they’re saying? how does the narrative relate to other dominant cultural narratives? these are all valuable questions to ask and can be answered in nuanced ways that do not involve kink-shaming & do not involve calling people degenerate perverts. yknow.

something I read the other day had a storyline that involved a woman being kidnapped by foreign “disgusting perverts” (<- not supposed to be sexy) so that she could then be rescued by an army general (<- sexy) who had to fuck her as part of the rescue. now it’s no bother to me if someone else gets their rocks off to that, power to them. that said, we can criticise the framing of Woman Ending Up In Sex Trafficking Requires An Army Man To Fuck Her To Safety in the same way we would criticise similar framing in non-erotic contexts. how is this serving the image of the benevolent military? how is it feeding into the white woman’s fear of the other? what is being held up as ‘perverted’ in its juxtaposition to ‘sexy’? etc etc. this was bad erotica but it was also pro-military propaganda and that does mean something

Moose at the next table: No they don't. I've been waiting here for an hour.