Neither of the cardiologists that Graham saw spoke to her about her pregnancy and the risks of continuing it without getting the heart care that she needed

“Limits of my scope of practice” bullshit in specialized medicine when nobody wants to be held accountable.

Barbados Slim? I love that guy!

Met my spouse on the apps buuuuuut that was like almost a decade ago at this point. It wasn’t good then. Matches (the few) had maybe a one-in-four potential for not being a scam/no-response/insta-dud. The ones that did sort of start were — likely due to the region — centered around hiking, jeeps, and bonfires at the beach. I changed my bio to say something like “I love books and hate hiking” which helped. Friends who are on the apps today though? Complete cesspit from what I understand. Always a new app, never a new culture.

Either you have an ideology, or an ideology has you.

Hell, throw Trainspotting in there.

Alternately: obfuscate it with boredom. Ever try to read through the tax code? You could put whatever you want in there and publicly read it, and nobody’s awake for it. Secrecy and conspiracy are infinitely more interesting than boredom.

VIP is hit or miss for me, but when it hits, it’s some of the best improv stuff I’ve ever seen.

Dropout TV! I like Make Some Noise, it’s got the old Whose Line feel.

Freddy Got Fingered. It’s a hysterical mess.

Direct action can be surprisingly effective.

I would only interrupt to ask clarifying questions to see how far their knowledge goes. There’s many ways to come to know about a thing. Then I might learn something new!

Godspeed You! Black Emperor — F#A#∞

The walking taco. Who doesn’t want 1. A taco, and 2. The ease of eating it out of a bag?

Just a teensy iOS/macos extension, but Vinegar is awesome for watching YouTube.

I would have said the Affinity suite of stuff, but they recently sold out to Canva, and fuuuuuuuck them.

The right answer.

It was ok, but this was back in 2008 and smartphones weren’t really a thing yet, so them holding your phone wasn’t a huge deal regarding internet access etc. (I had a Motorola slvr at the time). A typical routine for me: a crew came in at like 4am to draw labs, woke up 7am-ish, shower fucking sucked (motion-activated, ran for a limited time, about the amount of time it needed to heat up). Food was average hospital, no caffeine. I found out if I called ahead to request a meal I could get caffeinated coffee/tea. Group therapy like twice a day, individual therapy once a day, medication meeting once a day, lots of downtime and board games/card games. I could listen to music because I had a classic iPod separate from my phone.

Most people shared rooms. I somehow got my own, likely because I was the youngest by at least 10 years. Smoke breaks were still a thing, so after a few days of being cooperative you got those plus your belt back. For me it was an excuse to go outside and socialize for a few minutes.

Ultimately a good experience because I got the treatment and meds I needed quickly. Your mileage may vary of course.

Used to call them all the time as part of a job working university campus security. We knew them, they knew us, no big deal. We were briefed each year on how to talk to them, what order to give descriptions of people’s attire for example (top-down, inside-out), the specific phonetic alphabet they used, a map of campus with cardinal directions, all that stuff. Not a huge deal.

TV SCORPION

Sometimes a kind soul has sprinkled Criterion releases on the shelf too!