happy 1 week (and 2 days) since endoscopic carpal tunnel release surgery, im still kind of shaky and rusty but i can draw again so obviously i had to draw my #1 girl ✨🌙 when i’ve forgotten how to draw, i can always count on her to help me remember
some people just have no true appreciation for terrible women. oh she killed and ate people? well maybe she was hungry. “I cant defend her anymore-” well then fucking stand aside so i can talk to my client
I love how all of the Batman villains are like “ah he’s not at the manor, it’s defenseless! and then alfred just racks an AK-47 and is like pull up bitch
Batman’s Villains: The butler will be easy prey!
He’s just an old man…he doesn’t have any of the Batman’s gadgets or training or fighting skills!
Alfred: Oh my you’re right
There’s something else of Master Bruce’s I don’t have as well
(Cocks a shotgun) A CODE AGAINST KILLING
Batman’s Villains: Wayne isn’t here to save you old man!
Alfred:
Alfred is the original “Call an ambulance — but not for me”
fantasizing every day about quitting my job and doing absolutely nothing
this is reductive what i actually fantasize about doing is making art. but just not doing it for money. that is not “nothing”. the capitalism got in my brain
So anyways with the rapid rise of fascism I feel it’s a good time to point out that it’s perfectly legal to follow unjust orders slowly, badly, or inefficiently
Breaking the law, even an unjust law, has consequences that not all can afford. But also a very large number of us are also very stupid, or very confused, or very lazy, and so it’s not unreasonable that someone at the bottom of the chain of command might make a typo, or misplace some paperwork, or leave a Friday afternoon email for Monday morning.
When something goes wrong, or an operation slows down, because a low-level worker somewhere sent a package to the wrong address or left someone on hold for an hour or didn’t fill out a particular form correctly- Do you immediately assume malicious intent? Or do you usually just brush it off as some underpaid idiot being bad at their job?
You also gotta not brag about it. Keep your political opinions on the down low. Be noncommittal or ignorant or undecided. Say things like “I’ve never heard of that”, “where did you hear that?” or “that’s interesting, I heard a conflicting story from here, how weird”. Never be outwardly confidant of what you know. When there is a silence, don’t fill it- leave the space and let the other fill it for you. That’s how you get information, that’s how you find sources, that’s how you reduce the value of anything others get out of you.
Virtue signalling by wearing pins and ribbons and loudly declaring your place is not safe in some environments. It will place scrutiny on you and everything you touch. Nobody believes the guy who says “fuck my boss and everything he stands for” scratches the boss’s car by accident, even if it is an accident.
If you want to slow the march of a tank, filling the path with mud is going do more than laying down in front of it.
Female surgeons have better overall patient outcomes than male surgeons.
Departments with a significant percentage of female surgeons have better overall patient outcomes for all surgeons.
This is demonstrated in study after study after study.
Why? Because surgery is such a male-dominated field that a female surgeon has to be orders of magnitudes better than her male peers to be considered for the same job positions/research grants, etc.
And when you get enough female surgeons in a department, they start being able to influence decision-making to improve patient safety and procedure efficacy for the entire department.
But hospitals don’t like hiring female surgeons because they might do something inconvenient like needing time off to give birth to the next generation.
DEI in medicine doesn’t just ensure a genuinely merits-based hiring process, as opposed to a convenience-based one.
