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UC or ER?

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vetmedirl

This is actually so helpful because as an American living in late stage capitalism where most people have zero health coverage except for the emergency room, the tire purpose of the ER has lost all meaning on most people.

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alexseanchai

[images: four billboards in central Florida, all with similar simple stylized two-panel captioned graphics, in which BayCare illustrates the difference between needing to go to urgent care and needing to go to emergency care:]

billboard 1, left: a bee. caption: "I stepped on a bee. Urgent care." right: a beehive. caption: "I stepped on a beehive. Emergency care."

billboard 2, left: a bottle labeled with the equal-armed medical cross. caption: "I need antibiotics. Urgent care." right: a bottle labeled with a skull. caption: "I need antivenom. Emergency care."

billboard 3, left: a generic skirt-wearing human whose knees are pressed together and whose hands are over the crotch. caption: "UTI. Urgent care." right: a horse kicking a generic pants-wearing human in the head. caption: "MRI. Emergency care."

billboard 4, left: a staircase two steps tall. caption: "Thump. Urgent care." right: a staircase several steps tall. caption: "Thump, thump, thump... Emergency care."

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rhube

Misery reprieve today brought to you by Chi Nguyen, her inseparable bowls, and the people on Twitter trying to help her separate them:

Featuring an array of helpful suggestions, such as this, from Vladimir Pukin:

The house spouse's favourite, duct tape:

And probably the most helpful:

And did you know that if you just paste a Twitter link in, on mobile, Tumblr now just displays the friggin' tweet? Awesome!

You guys, it's been solved!!! The bowl is unstuck!

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docholligay

Doc, what are the top five items food banks LOVE to receive? I'm doing a collection soon and want to ask for specifics.

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MONEY. WE WANT MONEY. MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY. WE CAN DO SO MUCH WITH IT. WE HAVE ACCESS TO DEALS YOU COULD NEVER. MONEY

That aside.

 I’m only going to talk about food items but if your food bank takes personal items, a lot of times diapers, feminine hygiene products, etc, are very very welcome. 

1) Canned chicken and beef 

looooooove this stuff. It’s expensive, it lasts forever, it tastes good and it can be used a variety of ways. This stuff is fucking catnip to food banks, it’s so hard for us to provide proteins. 

2) Fancy nut butters

Peanut butter is a standby for food banks as a shelf-stable inexpensive protein, but if we have a family with a kid with a peanut allergy that’s not going to work. Non-peanut butters are expensive and it’s something we hardly ever see donated. (we also like peanut butter, but that’s easier for us to buy ourselves than non-peanut butters)

3) Canned or packaged tuna

You may notice a trend here in shelf-stable proteins. And yeah. That’s basically it, so I’m not going to keep harping on it. But this stuff is a godsend. 

4) Easy breakfast things for kids (Granola bars, instant oatmeal, and the like) 

Whatever Donald Trump tells you, most people who get food from food banks are actually working their asses off and so they have to leave Obama to raise their baby or whatever, and they don’t have a lot of time in the morning. Things like this that kids can make for themselves are expensive. (Another trend you may be noticing–donate shit that costs a lot of money. That helps us more than all the shitty green bean cans in the world) But they are so helpful for busy working families where the parents may not have a set schedule and sometimes little Amanda is making her own breakfast before she runs off to school. Don’t let kids go to school hungry. 

5) Shelf-stable juice

This is one people never think of! But if you show up with a bunch of (preferably reduced sugar stuff) bottles of juice at my door, oh man, you are gonna get so many check mark and okay hand emoticons. This stuff is great for kids, and it doesn’t require refrigeration until it’s opened, so it works great for food drives. 

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kesonafyren

But seriously, give money

And it’s way better food, too, anything you get prepackaged has A TON of sugar and/or salt in it…collecting cans may be more exciting than writing a check, but if the point is to help people, the check is going to get a lot more done

Yoooooo heads up for those of you with kids, I know this time of year schools start holding canned food drives so keep this in mind if you’re able to give.

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kyraneko

collecting cans may be more exciting than writing a check, but if the point is to help people, the check is going to get a lot more done .

hint: the point should be to help people.

Also, please consider setting this as a scheduled post for June/July. A lot of food insecure families with children rely on school lunch to make ends meet, and that’s obviously not an option during summer vacation. Lots of people give during November and December, but summer is a lean time for food banks. Which is a shame, cuz fresh produce is at a boom during that time of year, so not only would summer donations boost how many people the food banks can help, it would boost the quality of the help they provide.

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US SUICIDE PREVENTION HOTLINE IS CHANGING ITS NUMBER

Taking effect July 2022, the US Suicide Prevention Hotline will change from 800-273-8255 to the three digit code of 988. Especially with families and communities reeling from back to back tragedies, it is super important to share this information!

Repeat: Starting July 2022, the US Suicide Prevention Hotline will be 988

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🍃Orange + Green🍊 Prosperity🌻 AfroWitch themed moodboard 

☀️ good herbs n other tingz to use in ur rootwork for prosperity and stuff ☀️:

mint, oranges, bay leaves, sunflowers, nutmeg, cinnamon, coffee, buckeyes, clovers, thyme, basil, dill, lodestones, oats, allspice…..

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spitblaze

Why don’t you have a filler episode with no real stakes that’s focused more on exploring character relationships than moving any sort of plot along and maybe you’ll feel better

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eyesofmedusa

Honestly some of the best episodes are so called filler. This of course excludes flashback eps but when you focus on characters and their relationships you help invest your audience in whatever later plot is coming.

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elwenyere

A quick list of local abortion funds in some of the thirteen U.S. states with trigger laws in place (Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming):

Or give directly to 80 different abortion funds here.

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