Olanthanide @Olanthanide@mastodon.social

Adventures in trying to sort out health insurance in the USA.

"The U.S. was tied for third with Syria for the risks women face in terms of sexual violence, harassment, sexual coercion and women's lack of access to justice in cases of rape, pollsters said." http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/394152-us-makes-the-list-of-top-10-most-dangerous-countries-for-women?amp&__twitter_impression=true

"...but like many superheroes, the Blanket Octopus gets a really rough deal in the romance arena. when a male locates a female, he swims up, rips one of his arms off, hands it to her, wanders off, and dies. TA-DA. that’s it for the Blanket Octopus romance arc.

it’s both the world’s worst and least romantic handshake."
https://bunjywunjy.tumblr.com/post/175151726951/the-caped-avenger

Remember my earlier toot about "wtf, nature"?

"it's because you women just aren't doing-"
https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz/status/1011323206421090309?s=19
https://twitter.com/linsnoir/status/1011501730666811392?s=19

The measurement of your skill as a writer is directly proportional to how resentful you feel when you want to read what happens next in your story yet don't want to write it.

Ugh I don't like it but at least it's done. #witchober sort of #mastoart

""The response to violence is never violence, it's always to de-escalate it. Only six shots were fired by Japanese police nationwide [in 2015]," says journalist Anthony Berteaux. "What most Japanese police will do is get huge futons and essentially roll up a person who is being violent or drunk into a little burrito and carry them back to the station to calm them down." "
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38365729

I mean, what's with jellyfish.

Every time I try to come up with alien /fantasy animals I'll inevitably remember the existence of something like, say, the kiwi, and be boggled by nature / evolution all over again.

https://twitter.com/TalbertSwan/status/1010272095933255681?s=19
On that note, although I know what "leave room for Jesus" is supposed to mean, I can't help but consider how Jesus, a radical poc hippie, would feel about being volunteered for so much polyamory. [Insert joke about the love of God etc etc]

Considering that nature is always depicted as female and how that matches men's tendency to either idealize or commodify women.

To everyone who wanted to ask their brain "why are you like this???" I actually went and got a degree in a relevant field of biology. It doesn't help.

You know that 'oh shit' feeling when your leaving for an interview / wedding / important event and the car won't start? Having anxiety is being randomly being bombarded with that feeling throughout your week.

It's darkly fascinating how in my field people keep assuming lab managers are always women.

I mean I know it's probably because they have a surplus of white paint from everything else because white paint = cheap, but scrubbing out the kitchen is still so painful I have #regrets.

Why do apartment management keep insisting on white paint in the kitchen? EVERYTHING stains.

Whoo we outscored the engineering department. *Cries*

Article from SCIENCE titled "report details persistent hostility to women in science", by Meredith Wadman.

Dean of med just sent out an all staff email telling us that it's a stressful time, than you for your hard work, and remember self care.

You know what'll help with self care? If you undo the health benefit cuts that's been happening the past two years.

Rushed down the hall because shrieking, fearing the worst kind of lab accident. Turns out student found out she got accepted to something.

I have too much adrenaline RN oh god.