Been suuper busy with life things these last few months – was great to get some time to work on a big multi-character picture again! Was a whole lot of fun deciding what dogs to include. How many do you recognise? 😀
I was looking forward to the day the ‘All fandom must be perfect and pure’ crowd got old enough to date but it seems that they have moved on to ‘our relationships are perfect and pure, not like those nasty straights’, and as part of at least two damn generations who worked to make our own dating rules and redefine the ‘commitment script’ on individual terms rather than broad gender-based strokes, it’s insulting and exhausting and for fuck’s sake, children, learn about the world from the world and not the tropey, cookie cutter, over-dramatized shit you see on tv.
they usually live to be 150+ years old. cutting one down in Arizona, where they’re native, is a felony with a maximum 9 months in prison.
in my brief wikipedia exploration to find out how old they could be for this ask i found out that there was a dude in 1982 who was vandalizing one (which is also highly illegal) by shooting at it and then poking at it, and not only did the 500 pound arm of the cactus he was shooting at fall on top of him, but the actual trunk of the cactus then also proceeded to fall on him. he died. smited by the cactus gods for his transgressions
There was one we had in our backyard that fell on our fence and buckled the steel bar. When the guy came by to take it away he sliced into roughly foot long segments and we kept one. It was really cool in the inside, also the chlorophyll is on the inside. My mom turned the outer layer into a lampshade
Sorry it’s dusty lmao no idea how to clean it
i…………..idk how to react to this but this is definitely an item i wasn’t expecting
here’s another fun fact about saguaro cactuses (or cacti – both are fine!): when they die, the flesh on them erodes away and leaves these really cool wood-like structures
Alarms go off so frequently in emergency rooms, doctors barely notice–until a colleague is wheeled in on a gurney, clinging to life. All of a sudden, that alarm becomes a deafening wakeup call.
For Dr. Kip Wenger, that colleague, a 33-year-old physician, was also his friend.
Wenger is regional medical director for TeamHealth, one of the country’s largest emergency room staffing companies, based in Knoxville, Tenn.
“It’s devastating,” he says. “This is a young, healthy person who has everything in the world ahead of them.” His friend had confided in a few co-workers about recent relationship struggles, but none of that had affected her work.
The medical profession relies on the premise that doctors and medical staff, like highly trained endurance athletes, are conditioned to clock long hours, ignoring fatigue and the emotional toll of their work.
But, for many in the profession, that day-in-day-out stress can lead to crippling depression. It’s one reason doctors are far more likely than the general population to die by suicide.
A particular danger for doctors trying to fend off suicidal urges is that they know exactly how to end their own lives and they often have easy access to the means.
Wible contends that when physicians find themselves needing counseling,
the rules of the profession often deter them. She says that doctors
can’t seek psychiatric treatment without jeopardizing their medical
licenses.
I wake up, my debt is all paid off, my bank account is full, my relationships with my family are healthy, and I’m able to travel anywhere in the world.
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