‘Gigil’ has long been a favourite untranslatable: finding something or someone so impossibly cute you just want to squeeze them (not always great for the squeezee).

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🧵1/6 Thread: 'Corridor care' crisis.

@rcn.org.uk report (see 🧵6/6): 5,000+ nurses share harrowing experiences of so called #CorridorCare

Anonymous RCN nurse: “It leaves a hole in your soul”

Pic: @goodmorningbritain.bsky.social on ⚠️ X: x.com/RCollEM/status/1879789530779193677

We're pleased to share an invite to the next meeting of @ematthedeepend.bsky.social - focussing on refugee and migrant health in the ED. We have a great range of speakers lined up, with a diversity of experience across emergency care.

Invites out soon to our mailing list, or DM for a link

Thanks for the mention, James! For those wanting more info on the 2026 Adolescent Mental Health QIP – Open call for feedback, please see the screenshot.

Also, here is the link for the survey: tinyurl.com/AMHQIPSurvey

And for more Quality info, visit: rcem.ac.uk/quality-improvement-2/

#RCEMFestiveFavourites Nirmal James, Quality Improvement Programme (QIP) Topic Lead for Mental Health (Self-Harm), shares the progress of the QIP now it's in Year Three: youtube.com/shorts/a...

To find out more about our QIPs: tinyurl.com/rcemFest...

“How are you doing?”

“Are you sure?”

Someone somewhere may need to hear this today.

*ask twice

#MerryChristmas  #HappyHanukkah #HappyHolidays 

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every year around christmas time the ballet dancers who play the rats in the nutcracker come out with a series of unexplained banger tiktok videos and anyway this is my favorite part of the holiday season

Two words for certain types of people, should you need them:

microlipet: one who gets all worked up over nothing.

struthonian: the person who buries their head in the sand and says ‘Problem? What problem?’.

New podcast. I chat with psychotherapist and death doula Laura Coleman about death, near death experiences, mindfulness and holotropic breathing . Dog Bless ❤️ open.spotify.com/episode/2efN...

Etymology of the day: before a tapering piece of hanging ice was called an ‘icicle’ it was an ‘ickle’. In the Middle Ages people decided to add ‘ice’ for extra oomph and (tautologically) called it an ‘ice ickle’, until the two words eventually blended together.