Cats are liquid ♡
my brother started calling our cat "doobie brother" which he then lengthened to "dubious brother" and has since morphed into "brother dubious" like he's some sort of fucked up little monk
brother dubious
reblog for a larger sample size pls etc etc i'll pass u a strawberry 🫶🏽
I was told once that left-handedness was about 10% of the population, and I just couldn't believe that to be true, but this survey is so far hovering right around that. I am just amazed!
Primarily right-handed but I'm technically ambidextrous (use my left hand for a lot of things right-handers normally would). When I first learned to write I wrote left-handed but eventually began writing with my right by the time I was 7.
When I find myself giving 2-day turnaround time estimates to new clients, the ghost of Scotty comes to me,
speaking words of wisdom,
tell them three
And in my overconfidence, he is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom
tell them three
Tom sighting in London this week. Felt strongly compelled to share because 1) the ever-present flip phone, and 2) BOOK.
fresh, clean no-terf version for reblogs!
Your mom and aunts aren’t on tumblr. Please warn them about this as well.
[Image description: Two smartphone screenshots of a Facebook post by a person named Sheila Toll posted 2 Sep. It is black text on a white background and the post is public. The post reads:
I am a Family Doctor and I want to keep a promise made to a patient.
Julie was a healthy, post-menopausal woman in my care who came in for a periodic health examination. One of my routine questions, in what is called the “Review of Systems”, was to ask if she had experienced any vaginal bleeding.
She said “No” but then laughed and added, “Other than when my period came back for a few months last year”.
All health care professional are taught early on that ‘vaginal bleeding in a post-menopausal woman is Cancer of the Uterus until proven otherwise’. This comment by Julie was, therefore, a red flag (no pun intended) prompting further questions, an examination and an ultrasound of her pelvis.
Julie was surprised to see me so concerned, especially since the symptoms had not recurred over many months.
Sure enough, a pelvic ultrasound and tissue sampling confirmed Cancer of the Uterus.
Julie underwent a hysterectomy and radiation therapy. She is now healthy, cancer-free and is expected to stay that way.
After all this was done, Julie sat ME down for a talk. She told me she’d had no idea a ‘short return’ of her period after menopause was a danger signal. Furthermore, she addressed the topic with friends over coffee and discovered that, out of 20 women, NONE of them knew this symptom was abnormal! She admonished me to “Tell women this! Don’t assume we know it!”
From that day on, I have kept Julie’s advice in mind when talking with post-menopausal patients. But recently my wife suggested that I should take this to a wider audience.
So, Julie, this is for you:
If you are a post-menopausal woman and your period ‘comes back’ or you have even one episode of vaginal bleeding, TELL A HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL and insist on having it investigated!
Wishing you all good health and long lives. End image description.]
The "New 20th century limited" steamliner. New York-Chicago, 16 hours. By Edward Joscelyn.
Luxury travel on the New York to Chicago Line in the 1930's...
HEY CALIFORNIA PEOPLE!
HURRICANE ADVICE FROM A FLORIDIAN!
Make sure you've got shelf-stable food and water for everyone in the house, including pets. The rule of thumb is a gallon per person per day. Freeze water bottles if you want cold water.
Make sure you have enough meds!
Make sure you have batteries, candles, flashlights, and a manual can opener.
Make sure your electronics, including backup batteries, are charged. Unplug things you don't want fried in case of a power surge.
Don't tape your windows, it doesn't help and you'll just be stuck scrubbing goo off of them later.
Put a mug of frozen water in it in your freezer with a quarter on top of it. If your freezer defrosts, the ice will melt and the quarter will sink and tell you you need to throw things out.
Get everything that's not nailed to a foundation out of your yard. That dead branch hanging on by a thread? Time to get it down (it was probably time to do that three days ago, but now’s better than never).
Park away from powerlines and trees if you can. Rain makes the ground soft and then trees fall over.
Have an evacuation plan to a shelter. Evacuate if they’re telling you to.
If you start to flood, don't go in your attic. You'll get trapped if the water rises too high and you can't hack through your roof. This happened to a lot of people in Texas and Louisiana. Get ON the roof.
Be safe, be well <3
Lately, I've been thinking about the tenses that are commonly used in writing. I often see the past tense used in published stories but I rarely seem to encounter the present tense except in fanfic. In the right hands, both can be used to create incredible stories.
Which tense do you prefer?
past
present
present, but only in certain cases (explain)
past, but only in certain cases (explain)
meh, depends on the length
one of these makes my brain scream (explain)
I just like answering polls
give me a sec, I'm going to write an entire paragraph minimum about my thoughts
you shall never have my secrets, you vile wench (tell me you secrets)
it depends on whether I'm reading or writing (explain)