If you attend the GP three or more times for the same issue, and your symptoms are not improving, or not all of them, or are getting worse, the GP should rethink, reconsider, and review your case. They should assess the original diagnosis, consider alternatives, ask for second opinions,
I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?
Someone in Anchorage’s Fur Rondy Snow Sculpture competition did the giant, snowman eating, tentacle monster from Calvin & Hobbes and I just have to say: they straight up killed it.
They've got a new bit of kit and they're really proud of it?
An incredibly lifelike illustration of Paddington Bear, official psychopomp to the British royal family, gently escorting a man in top hat and tails (carrying a Puzza Express takeout) to Belmarsh
Ok I have far too much to do today to spend more than 2 minutes on this but here’s my political cartoon of the day, please enjoy
There’ll be more next year
A screenshot of a tweet that says: Your art will betray you. It will look better in your head than on paper. It will make you feel untalented some days. Love it anyway. Because one day, it will also surprise you, fulfill you, and remind you why you started.
Throwback to something worth repeating.
St Scholastica Day riot – a 1907 postcard – vividly coloured illustration of a large mob of people in supposedly authentic period dress, beating each other with sticks
It’s 10 February, which can only mean one thing. YES, OF COURSE! It’s the 671st anniversary of the townsfolk and students of Oxford marking Saint Scholastica’s day by... er, hammering shit out of each other until over 90 people were dead 🧵
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Such a good story
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Will this do? clarkesworldmagazine.com/ogden_12_21/ it’s not full-on aryastarking, but on the other hand everyone gets to keep all their limbs in the first place
This happens in Around the World in Eighty Days - but not saying it doesn’t appear in other stories too.
I was laid off from the Washington Post today, along with hundreds (!!!) of incredible colleagues. If you need a data journalist, chart designer, or wacky-idea-specialist, give me a shout!
Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:
A Conventional Boy by @cstross.bsky.social is currently a quid on Kindle. If you're even a little bit into TTRPGs, it is glorious. (I also need to scour the thrift shops to find a dollhouse-sized teapot for my dice bag.)
A yellow storage bench with feet and teeth
IKEA has The Luggage
I feel your pain - I had to check very carefully before I was sure.
Beside the point, I admit, but is that not Jennifer Lawrence? (Cannot comment on relative wealth / endowments etc)
Today's blog from the Oxford Sausage is about the Rumble Museum at Cheney School: theoxfordsausage.com/at-the-rumbl...
SUBversive! I’d like to think I am usually faster than that...
Very ashamed to say I got about three quarters of the way into typing the title into Kobo (they carry it too!) before I realised what you'd done
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I keep shaking my head (complimentary) about Franco Manca's January 'Map My Pizza Run' offer - feels like an ingenious combination of exercise, ingenuity and accountability (and data art, of course) www.francomanca.co.uk/stories-and-...
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By the way, the journalists and designers at the Star Tribune are doing an incredible job. Principled, courageous, and rigorous.
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