King of the Lizards

And from this I’ve always drawn two conclusions:

To always distrust Mr. Beast and his ilk who always want their acts of charity done on film, because the people who really want to do good and have no motives to do it besides the doing it never want recognition for it, and

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse," wrote Corey Quinn, a software-startup founder in San Francisco, on X.

Employers could wind up in court if they outright dismiss workers who request a faith-based exemption from using AI, said Ashley Herd, a former McKinsey counsel and head of North American HR who now advises managers and employers on workplace issues.

Humans - 18

Elves - 180

Orcs - 8

Halflings - 33

Fairies - 11

Dragonborn - 300

Demons - 60

the woke left: young and fashionable. visible tattoos. often enjoys matcha, lavender flavoring, oat milk, and cold foam. pretty decent customers.

sweet old man: drinks very sweet iced lattes, pays in cash, puts all of his change in the tip jar. sometimes orders hot coffee and i get scared that his shaky old man hands will spill it and he'll get burned but that has not yet happened and god willing never shall.

evil old man: only wants drip coffee and declares it ridiculous that any other form of coffee exists. some variants only want americanos and these variants are even scarier. watch out.

sweet old woman: might need her daughter's help to order but is very bubbly and open to trying new things. compliments baristas freely and frequently.

evil old woman: does not want coffee and only wants sweet tea or soda. will not tip even if she spends three hours in the shop repeatedly asking baristas to fetch things for her.

errand husband: either stiltedly recites an order to you or shows you the order in their texts/notes app. needs to step out of line and make a phone call if you ask any follow-up questions.

grindset girlie: always wearing scrubs, an apron, and/or a name tag. orders the exact same thing every day and knows the exact change she'll need to pay for it. her regular order is both extremely caffeinated and extremely sweet.

#mamabear: is actively wrangling two to four children while ordering. order changes repeatedly because the children cannot decide if they want a muffin or a cookie or apple juice or chocolate milk etc. for some reason these women are always wearing an article of clothing or carrying some personalized item that says "mama" on it.

schoolchildren: band of two to eight adolescents hanging out after school. extremely indecisive but generally quite polite and tip well.

amnesiac in love: grown adult who needs their partner to tell them what they like. gets asked a question about their own preferences and turns to their partner to answer for them. generally acts like a shy child looking to their guardian for behavioral cues if you try to interact with them and only wants to talk to mommy i mean their wife.

It wasn't close I beat the pants off that man, and others like him. I did it more than once. Some guys got humble and stayed. One guy got angry and stormed out.

And I think about that every fuck damn time I hear that bullshit, which seems to be all the fuck over the place these days. Oh, women are just fragile little soft delicate flower creatures who can't do ANYTHING and could NEVER compete with big strong manly muscular strong MEN.

I think about driving that dude into the mats and seeing the brutal reality of this big dude's misogany meet the realization that a woman was beating his ass literally that second, that none of his strength could stop the fact that I'd just hip thrown him facefirst into the mats and that had I actually connected with the axe kick to his neck I would have crushed a bunch of important shit and he could not stop me, and his whole psyche collapsing like a dying star in that moment.

This is so terribly sad.

The doctors saw an elderly black woman, and decided they couldn't be bothered to do their jobs.

She attended the emergency room with shortness of breath, and needed a cardiac examination.

Nothing fancy, or out there. Just the standard tests everyone is meant to gets for shortness of breath.

The sort that starts with an asking a few questions, and seeing if your skin is dusky.

Checking your blood pressure.

Then using a stethoscope to check how your heart sounds.

And finally moves on to a EKG, with the little stickers over your chest.

You're probably had all of these checks.

You've probably also been sent for a chest X-ray after just to be sure, right?

Nichelle didn't get any of this extreme basic care. She was stuck in a bed in a ward; but not seen by anyone.

They left her.

And then they discharged her to a non medical facility the next morning. Claiming this woman the didn't check was fine.

She died just seven hours later.

If we are lucky we will all get old. And with that comes helplessness, and and not being listened to. We could all be in Nichelle's position.

Fame was not enough to guarantee her a very low level of care.

You cannot guarantee your own privilege will keep you safe in hospital, as you age.

This could be any of us is what I'm trying to explain.

And there's probably nothing that would have made these gits listen to her...

But I wanted to give some general advice for others below:

Don't let anyone attend hospital alone. Lone patients get ignored and forgotten.

If you're are part of group with less privilege, like you're black; try to buddy up with someone with more privilege.

Women get ignored a lot. Especially older or disabled women get ignored. Taking a male friend with, who knows he's job is repeat the information you give, or requests you have; can be a literal life saver.

Chase up information. If you were told you'd go have Y test done at 8am, and it now 12pm; stop a nurse and ask what is happening.

That goes doubly for the Dr. You might only see them once per day. Don't let them forget to turn up to see you on ward rounds.

If you can Google you're hospital's uniforms so you're asking the right person. Ward sisters/ ward manages are usually a good bet.

Use the halo effect if you can manage it. Hospital staff give better care, and treatment; to people who appear less messily sick. 🙄If you can attend the hospitas dressed clean and tidy, I'd recommend doing so.

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away.

As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other.

The Loose Ends Project matches crafters with a project that is unfinished because of death or disability. They offer help with a spectrum of textile mediums in over 80 countries. One project I find particularly lovely: “My mom was making this octopus for me. She was 67 years old when she passed away from COPD. She was hospitalized for pulmonary rehab several times and would always take it to work on while she was there and loved to talk about it with people."