I am the night tree.

That’s pretty fucking funny actually.

Same but would be maybe better to not have it go all the way up

I used this advanced search tool (particularly the community impressions) to select a name appropriate to my language and culture with the vibe I’m going for. I selected 10 names I liked and had the five people closest to me vote on them. There was a clear winner.

Hear hear!

I actually really like this summary which goes through all the references in detail. It raises one great point in particular, even if you don’t want to get into the linguistics of gender in Greek (which also disagree with you unfortunately). The only two named angels in the Bible are Michael and Gabriel, both of which are male. The rest of it is a fascinating look at angelology in the Bible though (which has been a big hobby of mine since converting to gnosticism. Its wild knowing more about the Bible now that the catholic church thinks I’m a witch). I actually found this while looking up the Matthew verse though which this breakdown implies doesn’t mention gender but I would argue that it does. It says neither married nor given in marriage which is a distinctly gendered aspect in that cultural milieu. I do wonder if you’re maybe thinking of similar figures from other religions such as the Nordic Valkyries or Islamic Houri.

I put together a website a while back:

https://wtdiycat.vercel.app/

I’d make more of an effort to distribute it if I was happier with it. in particular I think it needs simpler language.

my father is an engineer, government contractor, and Zionist. I wonder sometimes if the Palestinians are paying for my nursing degree right now.

Oh for a lot of immigrants I do wind up resorting to folk music, and there’s a lot of overlap with hymns and other spiritual music.

Oh that’s actually a known phenomenon music is a different part of the brain from speech for some reason. Lemme get on the computer with a keyboard I’ve got a few more fun comments…

• Here’s a ballerina getting activated like a fucking sleeper agent to the score from Swan Lake. I’d also like to comment that the way she’s in the wheelchair and kinda slumped over to me suggests that the dementia has likely progressed enough that she’s having trouble walking (it even affects muscle memory, eventually she may even forget how to swallow) so the fact that music can activate her muscle memory anyway is pretty cool.

• If you ever have a relative with dementia that requires caregivers that are not family or friends (nurses, home health aides, etc) please put together two music playlists for me (or spiritual me 😉):

  • one set of chill music I can play if I need them to relax for bedtime and stressful events
  • one more upbeat set of songs physical or recreation therapy can play if they need to get them up and out of bed.

If I don’t know what songs they like I’ll usually try whatever was popular in their demographic when they were 15-25y/o but that’s never gonna beat knowing the exact song they danced to at their wedding.

Thnx for reading! <3

I mean a better analogy would be single / limited-use items considering it can’t really be used after it comes out of the recipient. There’s a different joke about capitalism in there somewhere but I’m getting sleepy so good night!

Fuck no they’re not doing it in my body they can have the uterus though. I specifically said I can appreciate that miracle of life shit when it’s not in MY body.

Oh it’s super high risk (that’s why it can only be done when the doctors are allowed to do what they have to to keep the mother safe) and they actually take it back out when they’re done!

But she and her husband had received a crushing diagnosis: Their baby’s brain was not developing properly, upending their wanted pregnancy. Medical experts warned moving forward would likely mean her son would know only pain and suffering. The Minnesota couple wasn’t going to take that chance.

Yeah so it turns out most people don’t get 6 months into ultrasounds and painting nurseries and making lists of names and planning showers and gender reveal parties then suddenly just decide “…nah!” It’s usually a woman you’re making carry around a dead baby that’s also probably a threat to her life by way of hemorrhage or sepsis

Weirdly enough I only had my tubes taken out instead of my whole uterus because I thought it would maybe be cool to offer it to some other woman (I can appreciate the “beauty of life” or whatever happening in somebody else’s body). But that kind of program (and those programs do exist, there have been live births from transplanted uteri!) can only exist if the doctors and their patients have full decision-making power over what happens during the process. No doctor in their right mind is going to start that kind of process if there’s a possibility that when something goes wrong (and things always go wrong) the government will just step in and tell them it’ll strip their license for saving moms life (especially since without mom, there’s almost definitely no baby anyway). So it was a nice thought, but I guess I’m keeping it unless my IUD punctures it or something (I just got cramps again tonight for the first time in months too, and preventing them is the main reason I kept the IUD!).

Yeah I knew someone born pre-2000s whose legal first name was literally “Jihad.” Similar to Isis (as in the Egyptian mother goddess), it’s a name that has since gained some negative connotations. But iirc the way this guy described it is that it means “fighting the good fight” so-to-speak and could refer to literal physical fighting but could also refer to like, researching the cure for cancer. It’s any great undertaking that is perceived to benefit the world in some way, and they wouldn’t even be the first to apply that line of thinking to violently zealous evangelism.

I don’t like the part where only their last generation gets axed while the peasants suffer through the whole thing.

Not military, but a lot of nurses have been sharing advice on what to do if ICE shows up

What is fun but an evolutionary drive?

I mean you’re not… literally wrong. There’s a lot about the use of the US military that is fucked. But there’s a lot else they currently do or even could be doing if some reforms happened that would be more helpful than the shitty things they do. But most importantly, your bringing it up here only serves to derail a different discussion that is important in its own right, and that this thread was created to discuss. The most important thing is that you’re not helping.

One of the cooks downstairs went on a rant the other day about how they’re willing to risk their lives to defend their country why can’t everybody just shut up and let them do it. Hyped up the whole damn cafeteria talking about their lgbt loved ones and how if you can’t even bring yourself to love someone how they are you at least need to mind your business. t’s nice hearing some ranting in that direction for once.