It's so hard to make the medically correct decision... really anytime, but especially when it matters emotionally.

I'm in the hospital, again -- 4th time in 4 months, surgery in a few days. I have 4 kids, 3 cats and my husband at home.

Solidarity. 🤟

Add in commute and you can whittle off another hour in New England...

Yeah I was *kidding* when I said I was going for full coverage on the medical Bingo board.

I'm just an excellent reminder, is all.

Hey guess what I'm doing? Having a [literal] pulmonary embolism right this second. Can I be done now, am I medically interesting enough yet??

Fuck.

License plate: OOPS

Or BRAINS

@jortsthecat.bsky.social is here, never fear.

And I have extra invite codes if you want to pull someone in, just let me know (perhaps by email? iwbpodcast@gmail.com )

We'll record a fun episode, whenever we can.

See, @catsofyore.bsky.social? You're doing good and creating connections even when you don't mean to.

Rockstar.

We refer to the kitchen stool as "the magical thing that makes you taller."

And the cat in the first photo of this thread, Justin, was "a puppy in a cat suit" because I couldn't find "kitten."

And woe to those who try to finish my sentences for me. I don't know why, but it makes me stabby.

It's a blast.

Sometimes I'm "wicked smahhhht," as they say in Boston. Other times my brain just nopes out. Which, are you going to laugh or scream? Sometimes screaming takes too much effort.

iwbpodcast.com/murderbird/

I'm going for full coverage on the medical Bingo card, so I have TBI as the results of a coma and epilepsy.

So fun! So sexy!

Please pass on my gratitude in whatever form possible. It's been a hell of a year but I've survived it so far.

(Normally I would leap at you with, "Want to come on my podcast?" but I'm too sick to record or reliably schedule right now. Maybe someday...?)

All of this, exactly, yes.

I broke my back and am on disability now. I miss it every day, it was always fascinating. I sometimes felt like I was the only person in the prison that remembered these were still human beings, not just the bad thing they did.

I'm a forensic psychologist. The most fun I ever had at work was reading dad jokes with an admitted serial killer.

It takes all of those things, plus a dark sense of humor.

Online activism is important but requires energy and a thick skin.

Online trolling is obnoxious and requires a keyboard and misplaced anger.

The trick is knowing when the former is actually the latter. I have an advantage because I've worked with actual serial killers so I know when to disengage.

A Twidiot twisted her words around in a very troll-like way.

Some people just can't tolerate goodness and positivity in the world and feel a need to pull others down with them.

I happened to be online at the time and wanted to remind Molly that she brings so much more good than bad to the world.

This, yes. All of this.