awesome story. black doctors and nurses are the best.

We need more of this

I'm not a PoC but this is just incredible, *exceptional*, culturally sensitive patient care, period. Absolutely should be shared with every healthcare professional I know.

We should always keep in mind that we are treating an entire person, not simply their condition, and the effects seemingly minor kindnesses can have on them long after they leave our care.

If you want to support black doctors who are just starting out, Farrah-Amoy Fullerton, a fourth-year med student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham just set up a way for people to help black fourth year med students transition to their residencie. This often means moving to a new city where they won't get a paycheck for weeks. Black students are also less likely to have access to generational wealth to keep them afloat during school. So if you have a few bucks and want to buy a graduation gift for a future black doctor, check out this article or search #medgradwishlist on twitter.

We need more black doctors to because doctors are often untrained on how to diagnose conditions in black peoples vs white people and are taught black have a higher pain tolerance and just a whole bunch of other ridiculous things........ black people need black doctors

Y'all. Brian found the original Star wars a new hope on some random Roku app today. Like the ORIGINAL ORIGINAL, greedo doesn't shoot AT ALL

He doesn't remember the name of it, so when I get home I'll find it and let you guys know more

Okay so the app he found is Cinema Box, and it has the complete, uncut Star Wars (1977). The movie's listing is for "Star Wars: Episode VI - A New Hope" but the crawl has NO MENTION of episodes or hopes of any kind! It is the oRiGiNaL. It's also clunky as hell looking, but I still don't think it's a vhs copy... I feel like it should have more graininess than it does if it was vhs. Laserdisc, maybe?

I forgot that lucasfilm limited was even a thing.

one of my favorite lotr facts is that gondorians speak sindarin as a first language and yet when faramir was talking to frodo and sam about cirith ungol he was like “we don’t know what’s in there.” like faramir. cirith ungol is sindarin for “pass of the spider.” do the math

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Don’t forget that Frodo also speaks Sindarin, which makes this even worse.

Faramir: Hey, don’t go up the Spider Stairs.

Frodo: Why? What’s up the Spider Stairs?

Faramir: We don’t know, Frodo. We just don’t know.

to be fair, you’d assume the name means “there’s a lot of spiders here,” not, “there is one spider the size of a draft horse here.” so you go up expecting to have to shoo a lot of skeeter eaters out of your tent, and instead you have to figure out how to rope and shoe godzillarantula.

Hmmm…

They do live in a world where godzillarantulas feature prominently in mythology and history (Ungoliant plunged the world into darkness, scared the crap out of Sauron’s old boss, etc) and existed within the last century in Mirkwood. Assuming they ever talk to anyone who’s been to Mirkwood. They… probably know they were giant spiders in Mirkwood pretty recently? It’s hard to figure out how much anyone in Middle-earth has been talking to anyone else when we didn’t actually see it.

On the other hand – what if it’s the giant evil spiders’ prominence in history/mythology that’s causing trouble? What if lots of evil/nasty things/places get called “spider” just to indicate how nasty and evil they are, rather than any association with literal spiders, and it’s just… overloaded? Maybe the bad part of town in Minas Tirith is the Spider District. Maybe every tavern trying to be edgy calls itself the Spiderweb.

Actually spider/Ungoliant references could be really appealing to Gondorians trying to be edgy. They’re dark and evil! Plunged the world into darkness! But they AREN’T involved in the war they’re actually fighting, they aren’t directly associated with Sauron at all, so getting too interested in them would be creepy without being potentially treasonous. Because no one’s ACTUALLY going to worship those dangerous but not epic spiders up in Mirkwood, and no one’s heard anything from any proper spawn of Ungoliant in ages and ages.

In fact, spider/Ungoliant references might be appealing to ORCS trying to express that something is nasty and creepy! Nobody likes Ungoliant.

Maybe Faramir’s been to fourteen different Spider Caves across Ithilien, and half of them he didn’t even see regular spiders in, they’re just dark and damp and may have had orcs at some point, or something, and at some point in history someone got spooked. So you know, it’s POSSIBLE Spider Pass has something to do with spiders? But really it just means people don’t like it.

(The problem with this theory is we never actually SAW anyone overusing spider references. But it’s plausible they would!)

“The average spider on Middle Earth is the size of a dinner plate” is a statistical error. The average spider on Middle Earth is smaller than a coin. Cirith Ungol (lit: Spiders Gorge), which contains a spider larger than a horse, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

OH MY GOD

@dendritic-trees

Come for the Tolkien linguistics, stay for the Spiders Georg reference

this map, by jonathan hull, shows all the places in the USA named after the devil or hell. assuming big giant awful spiders were a common thing in middle earth, it’s likely that there were a shit ton of Spider Stairways. 

you don’t wander into Devil’s Lick assuming that satan himself is gonna give you a rimjob. you presumably also don’t head up Spider Stairs assuming an arachnid the size of a cottage is gonna try and eat your friend. 

@blackkatmagic

Also, it was named like, a gazillion years ago, so it’s not unreasonable to not be sure what lives there NOW. The sign on Winnie the Pooh’s house still says “Sanders,” even though Sanders has been gone so long no one remembers who they were.

THE WHEEL OF TIME REWATCH 14/∞ — 1x01 ❝ leavetaking ❞

RICK ASTLEY OFFICIAL COVER OF PINK PONY CLUB BY CHAPPEL ROAN???

rb for sample size

The map if you're curious

“Humans are inherently selfish--" Then why do so many cultures value hospitality, to the point of dictating it in their religions? Why is it so common for hosts to offer their visitors their best food, and as much of it as they can? At some point, multiple cultures decided that they knew what it felt like to be alone and vulnerable, and promised each other to never let those who stay with them feel that way. That doesn't sound very "inherently selfish" to me.

"humans are the plague"

No. Humans are animals as much as the fish and the bear. We are pack animals who have survived by strong bonds and community.

Do not buy the lie that humans are inherently evil. Societies can trick you into believing this, but it's not the truth of humanity.

Humans crave being together, sharing together, and thriving together.

Capitalism just wants you to believe we're destined for selfishness.

This has been sitting in my head for a while and I thought it was kinda silly. Please laugh.

Yup returning to necromancy, I’m so back. And you’re so back, and you’re so back, and you’re so back, and you’re

I don't know why this keeps happening but I keep meeting toxic heterosexual couples who experiment with polyamory and are heavily into funko pops, board games, Disney princesses and Burlesque stripping and the man is always a withdrawn bearded dude and the woman is always a passive aggressive control freak with an Etsy shop that sells lawn gnomes styled after Dr Who characters and they don't really even seem to like each other but they're always exactly the same. this has happened four times

@niceferatu

something i've noticed that has become really annoying in the past 10 years or so is this fad of what i've been calling, for lack of a better word, "structural whataboutism." it's that thing where, when faced with a concrete, resolvable problem in your community, your answer is to blame it on a vast, unsolvable issue of structural inequality and then throw up your hands. "there's trash all over the ground in this corner of the park" becomes "well, that's where MEN OF COLOR congregate after their 12-HOUR GRAVEYARD SHIFTS and i'm not going to support a CARCERAL SOLUTION to a CAPITALISTIC PROBLEM. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE POVERTY AND THE SUBJUGATION OF THE WORKING CLASS" and it's like okay but sis. someone still has to go pick up the trash. we don't need a carceral solution, we need more trash cans. you're not going to eliminate poverty and the subjugation of the working class and even if ya did, there would still be trash on the ground. how any of this passes for radicalism within their peer groups i simply don't understand. it's radical laziness more than anything else

I was on a canoe trip once with a river biologist who worked for the county. After we found and removed a car tire, she started talking about the annual river cleanup her department organized. From a water quality or ecological standpoint, removing shopping carts, car tires, and other macro trash from the river really wasn't that important, she said. The real threat to the river was industrial and agricultural runoff.

"But!" she said:

People who see a clean, trash-free river are more likely support laws to curb more harmful "systemic" forms of pollution. People who participate in river cleanups take pride in their work--their river!--and become evangelists for protecting it.

Immediate action leads to systemic awareness, which leads to systemic change.

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We know that Facebook is brainscorching your parents and tiktok is brainscorching your cousins, but some of you refuse to admit that you got your brain scorched here. However unlike those sites there isn't an algorithm here you just make bad choices.

That's all we ever wanted. To arrive at Hell as a result of our own dubious navigation skills instead of as the result of Satan owning all the road sign companies.

For those wondering: yes, she is saying that Democrats who abandon trans rights are using fascist logic.

does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

the reblog map is all of us holding hands btw

We are each other's night sky. No one is alone here.

night sky continues to get brighter. theres always people here for you

headcanon that a ferengi tradition is putting your new baby up for sale at a ridiculous price to show how valuable they are to you (everyone has to be polite and not actually buy them or hands will be thrown, people will be sued, etc etc)

The second Rom is born Quark slapped a “Free to a Good Home” sticker on his forehead and Moogie yelled at him for an hour

The reason why you're not 'supposed' to buy the babies is likely because of corporate (familial?) espionage and contract law. A baby is too young to honor an exclusivity clause or an NDA even if a baby could sign one or have a guardian sign one. So technically they are a security risk.

The protocol is probably, you offer the baby for sale for an exorbitant price.

If someone actually bids on the baby, you're 'supposed' to raise the price until they quit.

But if the other party does not quit, maybe because they believe they are rich enough to deter the consequences, you actually are expected to sell the baby and sign over their employment to the other party.

(The baby is considered both property AND employed by the patriarch of the family that birthed it. This is to avoid the stigma of unemployment.)

The baby can't be terminated by its original family during its sale, as that would immediately devalue the transaction. The same way that you can't rip up documents that validate a racehorse or an expensive painting's authenticity when you sell it. You sold it for a price based on an officiated document or in this case, a record of potential value to the employer. Any involuntary termination or gap in employment mars its value. The baby's employment therefore must be transferred as if they were part of a merger.

The baby by themselves can't ratify this change to its contract either, but external parties require any change in total number of employees to be validated and reported. The new baby 'owners' could be sued for under-valuing their operation to report greater profits. So, some form of legal proxy representing the baby must accompany it to vouch for the situation-- usually the mother. And as a proxy shares the baby's status (you want to buy them as one commodity, or else your problems double!) they are also subject to the same ambiguous legal situation. And unlike a baby, they understand how to steal things.

So not only do the baby's parents make out like bandits but if they understood the situation, they now have an agent inside another business entity that cannot be held accountable or litigated against without revealing the buyer is at-fault (the seller is never at fault) for the incomplete status of their acquisition. You could just imprison the security threat, but the original family can then clean you out for abuse of what is still technically their employees.

It comes down to how long the patriarch of the baby's family can legally obstruct proceedings to maintain the maximum advantage, and how long the foolish buyer can tolerate being robbed before they have to fire the baby.

But because the transfer of employment was never correctly executed, the baby is not actually theirs to terminate, like a normal employee. The only option to get rid of the baby without even more chaos is... to sell it back for even more money. Or sell their business, which would immediately resolve the conflict.

This leaves the baby with a good start to their resume.

Did a Ferengi corporate lawyer write this post?