She’s so big! All the good thoughts to you and her.

Two stuffed aminals: I had a huge Bubbles (Powerpuff Girls) won from the New York State Fair, and a small parrot which I also loved. What is perhaps most sad is that I got both of those in my late teens but I loved them none the less.

The Lord helps those who help themselves (to other people’s money)

This sad story I had some tangential involvement in last evening. The story is kinda wrong, it was the ambulance that went earlier in the month and got the fire department involved because of the unsafe conditions the woman was living in. That was how my shift started, and turned out to be one of the deadliest Friday…

I guess they haven’t gone to spinal motion restriction in Canada yet. Backboards are medieval torture devices, cause more injuries than they prevent and have virtually no benefit over other methods of immobilizing and moving people. GET RID OF THEM CANADA. YOU ARE BETTER THAN THIS.

One way some people look at these problems is based on the “dog eat dog” cliche, which is reinforced by artificial scarcity. Many people see life as a zero sum game where one person gets ahead, someone else has to lose. Being selfish is necessary for survival.

This is typical authoritarian bullshit that respect is not earned but demanded. Conservative assholes all think this way, that just because they have authority by way of position or class, respect should be given unquestioningly and any one failing to do so is morally suspect. It’s gross.

There are quite a few unsung female heroes (heroines?) of early Computer Science progress. Kudos to Yale for this.

I’m sure I’ll be forever gray here but I just want to share - I don’t think I’ve ever cried as much in one day as I have today reading all about the various marches and the awesome turnout. Its like little bits of my soul being healed to see how many good people are still out there. I have hope again after today.

I work in EMS in an urban environment and we see a lot of this stuff. Locally we call it Spike. No one really knows what it is, but it can cause some pretty not weed-like behavior. Extreme confusion, combativeness, a number of our providers have been assaulted by people who have smoked this stuff. It got to the point…