Dear fedi I'm livid. An acquaintance of mine almost finished college and after doing an *unpaid* six months internship was offered a follow-up contract for less than 500€ a month. If you wonder why European young people are mad that's pretty much why.

I'll be doing anything in my power to make sure he'll never work there so if you have an opening or internship for a young person starting his career let me know.

He'll finish the equivalent of a bachelor in computer science in May next year, has done some six months of hands-on work in security and is one hell of a worker. I can personally vouch for him. He's based in Italy and can do both in-person and remote work, and might be able to relocate to the NL and possibly the UK if need be.

Boosts appreciated.

One last tale — years ago an EMS crew brought a dude to my ED. My boss met them. The crew said “yeah, he’s super anxious…” and blew him off.

My boss saw a guy propping himself up rigidly on his elbows, eyes wide as dinner plates. She ordered testing. He had an aortic dissection and was trying to die.

It is NEVER anxiety in emergency medicine even if it is.
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But the main reason I started this diatribe is that a family friend went to an ER for high heart rate, had an ECG done and nothing else, and was told she had anxiety. She doesn’t. She’s also a PhD Psychologist. She would know. What she did have, is over-replacement of her thyroid hormone, which is common. Her dose just needed an adjustment. The PA that saw her perpetuated a (literally) textbook case of systemic bias in medicine that kills women.
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Sprich nicht mit mir, bevor ich meine Geschlecht Flüssigkeit getrunken habe

My first thought was that doing alarms both in normal and daylight savings time was nonsense, but then I realised that while most of my alarms were relevant to my timezone, some were for coordinating with folks elsewhere, including places with a different time switch date.

But still, there should be an easy way to set an alarm to the desired time only.

The clock/alarm app on my phone switched the clock time to normal time, but seems to trigger alarms both at the set time and one hour earlier, so it woke me at 3:45 this morning.
I only noticed after taking my shower.

I wish there were a setting or indicator on the alarms to show which needed reviewing to make sure their time fits their purpose.

Good morning!

It is Monday.

#TIL that Daft Punk was French.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhQkku7jLfo

Shelling dry beans just now. I opened one pod to find five shiny black beans and...one striped sunflower seed? I guess some chickadee is going to be disappointed that its cache was taken away. #gardening #birds #SeedToTable

Good night, friends.

Take care :blobCatHeart:

Suggested fedi game:

- turn off image auto-loading
- draw what you expect the image to be based on the alt text
- load the image and see how close you got!
- post drawing and link to the original

@soapie This is what RTFM used to refer to.

This is what's in the manual of my 1989 alarm clock in case you didn't know what we lost in repairability in just 10 - 20 years

All calendars of the first batch now have been sent. If you still want to have year long foxes or leggies on your wall, I can make another batch of them! The pre-order for this will run until Nov 2nd at which they will then be printed and sent once I have them.

https://ko-fi.com/keeya/shop/calendar

The prices are 25€ for A4 and 35€ for A3. The A3 ones are really great! And I am not only saying this because I still have all of the A3 envelopes left I bought and they cost me 3€ a piece :neofoxgooglywoozy: But don't let that push you into buying an A3 one!

Uh anyway, if you are looking for something with my photographs for yourself or as a gift, these fluffs are all cute! The calendars are printed and made in Nuremberg by Drucksofa. And they are doing it the 4th year for me! Can recommend them if you need prints and custom stuff. :neofoxfloofhappy:

#Calendar #Calendar2027 #Fox #Leggy #ManedWolf

One last post that's not depressing before I force myself to go into writing mode until I finish this thing:

My 10yo just finished her halloween costume: she's an owl pellet. She came up with the idea herself! Proud parenting moment. (We got a thrift store long fuzzy brown jacket that she glued plastic bones all over)

The teen is going to a “corvid party” today and they’re going to do a trinket swap and I’m intensely jealous because OMG how fun does that sound?!? It sounds like maybe the older teen version of a Halloween party? I have no idea. Kids are alright.

Since we don't know where Cotton Eye Joe came from, nor where he went, this means we know neither his speed nor his position, which means Cotton Eye Joe may very well be the missing link between Einsteinian and Quantum Physics.

​:neocat_comfy_happy:​

I trimmed some of Milli’s floof yesterday.

Wishing I didn’t have a special reason to be happy about it today.

Category One. No Water. No blood. Silver Linings.

#Cats #BackToZeroDays

Don't happen to have any expert electron microscopists with virology experience reading this who could stand to answer a couple of questions?