@ravjeremy Yes, though I'm less of a fan of Luke's sequel. (Acts)

We're enjoying a mini-vacation to Charlottesville for my wife's Virginia Women's Chorus reunion. The kiddos discovered this awesome tree swing on the property where we are staying.
#charlottesville #uva #treeswing

Me at ER for cardiac issues

Dr: “Could you be pregnant?”

Me: “No I had a hysterectomy”

Dr: “You look too young for that? Are you sure?”

Me: “I’m confident”

Dr: “I think you might be confused. Maybe it was your appendix.”

Proceeds to order pregnancy test

I’ve had this interaction more times than I can count

Healthcare workers think I’m “too young” to have had a hysterectomy and automatically assume I’m confusing my womb with another organ.

They ask endless questions, only to end up doing a pregnancy test anyways

Perhaps there are patients who confuse their uterus for their appendix, but I would imagine that’s exceedingly rare

The battle I went through to get my hysterectomy was long and arduous. It involved many physicians lecturing me about how I would never be able to have children

Asking insensitive questions like:

“Don’t you want to be a Mom?”

“You might want biological children, many women do”

“What happens if you meet your dream man and he leaves you for being barren?”

You don’t have to endure this type of insulting and misogynistic third degree to get your appendix or gallbladder removed.

They inform you of the surgical risks, you consent, the end.

There’s simply no plausible way to confuse the removal of a WOMB with an appendix

Despite these obvious facts, I’ve had countless doctors assume I’m wrong. That I couldn’t possibly have lost my uterus and it must have been something less important.

I’ve even had “patient CLAIMS hysterectomy”’written in my chart.

Why someone would lie about something so easy to prove or disprove is beyond me.

The end result is always a delay in care while we argue and then wait for an unnecessary pregnancy test which always comes back negative.

Surely we can do better?

I understand that doctors must have a degree of skepticism, and that the price of missing a pregnancy can be incredibly high.

I’m not opposed to them running a pregnancy test if that’s what they feel they need to do.

I am opposed to the delays and gaslighting

It was traumatic to lose my uterus at a young age. The healthcare workers who inundated me with misogynistic questions & put a hypothetical man before me and my health? They didn’t make it any easier.

I feel that trauma all over again whenever I’m questioned about pregnancy

I wish we could endeavour to either TRUST our patient, or just run the pregnancy test without all the unnecessary and (often) rude comments.

I don’t object to the test, I object to the way I’m treated leading up to the test.

Patients know their body best. We know the difference between a womb and an appendix. We know when we’re being talked down to and mistreated.

It causes trauma. Makes us less likely to trust the provider and far less likely to seek care in the future

Please treat your patients with the dignity they deserve. Don’t judge them on how they look, the chronic illness or disability they have or their gender or sexual orientation. Listen to them. Work with them. Let them be a partner in their care.

We can do better together /end
After the hysterectomy I also had a post op complication that was ignored by the ER three times. I had a life threatening internal bleed, but was sent home without tests because they thought I was “exaggerating”.

We MUST listen to patients. I only survived because my accidental advocate stepped up

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/my-most-dangerous-er-experience-and

#misogyny #medicalmisogyny #womenshealth #obgyn #ableism #disability #endometriosis #hysterectomy #discrimination #mybodymychoice

@agenderfox

New from Solzy at the Movies: The World Will Tremble: Lior Geller, Jeremy Neumark Jones Discuss Film

#TheWorldWillTremble #Holocaust #Jewish #film #movies

https://solzyatthemovies.com/2025/03/24/the-world-will-tremble/

#USpol #coup

@raf I'm using a new app for Mastodon. I thought I sent you a DM, but then it looked like it was a public post. Can you confirm this is a DM?

The President of the United States is in the process of placing the entirety of the Federal government under his own control using methods that are in direct violation of the U.S. Constitution.

This is a coup.

Any coup takes time to consolidate, and we can still turn back the tide. Democrats must step up. Republicans must step up. Citizens must step up.

https://isthisacoup.com/

350 executive orders.
Wanna bet that he didn’t conceive even one of them?
The puppet with the big sharpie just signs them.
We know who’s pulling the strings on the puppet.

You cannot make this stuff up.

https://wifelyperson.blogspot.com/2025/02/pay-no-attention-to-man-behind-curtains.html

Posting this here as a reminder to vegans: don’t make Holocaust comparisons. As a vegan, I have encountered this more than a few times. The first time was in person and I was so shocked I didn’t know what to say. It is cruel and does not help animal welfare in the slightest.

“There’s nothing wrong with saying factory farming is atrocious. But when the vegan movement insensitively plays a rerun of Nazi propaganda to promote their diet, that’s appalling, too.”

#Vegan #Holocaust #Shoah #Veganism

https://www.heyalma.com/dear-vegans-stop-comparing-animal-slaughter-to-the-holocaust/

Louder, for the people in the back - If someone is discussing the factory murder of SIX MILLION JEWS during the Holocaust on International Holocaust Remembrance Day and your first instinct is to hijack the thread to post something to the tune of "bUt gaZA"... you're an antisemite and a horrible excuse for a human being.

Not a "you might be". You are. And you can go get bent.

@tjcasser I have nearly worn my finger out blocking accounts today. Fedi is full of them.

A few days ago, I started building a lamp 💡 for our dinner table. The ambient light looks much better in person than in the picture 😏.

From scratch to final result in 3 days.

cc: @diy @makershour

#diy #art #wood #woodworking #woodenart #selfmade #handmade #dinner #light #nature

These are events within the living memory of everyone I grew up around, were still promoted by law, culture, custom, and commerce throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, and after the laws changed well into the 1980s.

Socially progressive laws rooted in aspirational justice have now been summarily terminated.

With the Trump election and Citizens United, the US is now ruled by an Oligarch Regime.

Trump's federal #DEI ban echoes Pres. Wilson's racist segregation of the federal government in 1913
#Politics #Law #EqualRights #BlackMastodon #LGBTQ #Trans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4J3GpPOppk

Helping my daughter build her Red Maple table in 2018. Lots of custom tool making including a gigantic pencil sharpener!

I’m really appreciating being able to slowly move some of my older videos from YouTube to @MakerTube — my negative feelings for corporate social media are just accelerating.

#WoodWorking #MakingTools #MakersHour

https://makertube.net/w/1mM7nDZba3XSkBdN3Hibxq

Cantor Shirel Richman and Shinshinit Gaya Zohar, both Israeli, gave a breathtaking performance of "Come Back" at tonight's Shabbat service. This is in commemoration of the three hostages who returned home this week and the 89 remaining hostages.

I pulled together a link to the song and a translation of the lyrics in a post on my blog. You can watch the performance here
https://cheerfulcurmudgeon.com/2025/01/24/come-back-%d7%aa%d7%97%d7%96%d7%95%d7%a8/

#Shabbat #Judaism #Hostages #Hope #song #Israel #Israeli

@hauntedhideaway Our family began fostering kittens in early 2024. We went through a few rounds of pairs... cute things, yet we were okay with sending them back.

The latest set was a trio, and the smallest needed some extra time with us before going back. She made her way into our hearts (and laps) during that time, and she is now a member of the family.

Something tells me the world needs to see Lily’s latest haircut. DIY of course.

Just a brief reminder that these are the people who Fuckface Von Clownstick was describing as "hostages", and gave unconditional pardons to yesterday.

Robert Packer, wearing a Camp Auschwitz sweatshirt.
Hatchet Speed, who loves Hitler and discussed a plan to kill American Jews to an undercover FBI agent.

No wonder Musk felt comfortable throwing up those salutes. When this is who are considered American patriots by the new leader.