Month: 22 Iyyar 5783 (May 2023)

Happy Mother’s Day to the only rich country in the world that offers no paid leave, no parental leave, little-to-no child care while forcing birth and leaving tens of millions with no health insurance all because one of of major parties exists to put women in their place.

—@lolgop

I know I’m always on about this when cops or other folks kill some agitated person, but for real y’all — we in the ER see people who are angry, threatening, violent, and scary EVERY shift, and we kill zero of them. We don’t shoot them. We don’t choke them to death. Most of the time we talk them down and that’s it. Sometimes we restrain them, but we do it safely.

I have very scary people blow up at me. Often I literally pull up a chair and we talk it out. Please, we can be better.

—@mcnado

you know how you can hear the ocean when you put a shell to your ear? Well, I learned that if you make a list of chores to complete and put it next to a full bottle of tequila, you can make the tequila chuckle.

—@michellepostoncombs

ah yes, well it is that i remember the Good Samaritan story. after the Levite and the Pharisee left the injured man on the road, the Samaritan came and put him in a chokehold for nine minutes and killed him.

Jesus the Nazarene tells this story in the book of Money, as a parable to illustrate the virtues of strength and supremacy.

—@dgold