This is an emergency - not for me but for one of my children's friends - does anyone know anything about getting emergency medical funding in Arkansas? (I'm Canadian and know nothing.)

I'm looking for fun multiplayer games that should be light-hearted, modestly empty-headed (they don't have to be dumb but no strategy games) and not scary. Peak has already been played and was beloved. Suggestions?

My oldest daughter told my youngest daughter that she COULD wear a costume to her Halloween wedding, and I don't know what she expected, but youngest daughter is carefully crafting her THE FLY FROM THE 1958 MOVIE THE FLY COSTUME.

Is YOUR child texting about P.G. Wodehouse? Get to know the signs: BRB = Bertie’s Rum Bother LMAO = Lest Maiden Aunts Occur JFC = Jeeves Favours Caution BTW = Bold Tie Warnings WTAF = Well Then, Augustus Fink-Nottle STFU = Sir, That Fedora’s...Unfortunate

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If you are Kayla and have a straying boyfriend named Matt, NEVER FEAR because your absolutely furious best friend just called my 55 year old husband not-Matt on your behalf ("I just have some questions, MATT!") and promises to KEEP CALLING NUMBERS till she tracks Real Matt down.

My parents - who are in their 70s - have sprawling comfortable outside seats underneath the branches of some mysterious sheltering berrying tree and endless amounts of boxed white wine - and their casual friendly hospitality makes me feel that my natural state is "modestly drunk at my parents".

My youngest child bought a 1970s bartending book at a library sale and made the interesting discovery that drinking habits and tastes have changed radically and that people also used to put a lot of egg whites in their cocktails.

It's that time again. For the next 24 hours, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine -related questions below in response to this post, and I will of my best to answer them. Responses are for information only and are NOT medical advice. #AskAnIDDoc July 2025 edition.

1/2 I have been asked to help find resources - both online and specific to Kingston, Ontario - for a young child who has tentative ADHD, ODD and autism and comes from a family with very limited financial resources. They had a terrible year in school.

Cat People (1942, Dir: Jacques Tourneur) #filmsky

I need very specific book recommendations! My MIL is starting a short course of chemo to try and extend her life (she has stage 4 pancreatic cancer), so I'm loading up my old Kindle for her (despite my feelings about Amazon - it's what I have.). She loves country music, romance, small towns. (1/2)

"Found something for you. You will love it." - text from my youngest, who was out getting plywood with her dad and THIS IS WHAT SHE FOUND:

How much rhubarb did I end up chopping and freezing last night? TWENTY POUNDS.

Happy pride! I hope to do some research for organizations to donate to, but if any LGBT folks want to share commission info, paypal/Kofi/support links or any other ideas for helpful organizations, please post below!

My uncle, who I am not ENTIRELY talking to, sent me two GARBAGE BAGS FULL OF FRESH RHUBARB from my grandma's garden, so I guess I will be spending the next couple of days cutting up rhubarb and wistfully thinking about what ties us together - but mostly just cutting up rhubarb.

For the Covid-Conscious, Our Fundamental Weakness Isn’t Empathy. It’s Enabling. guinesspig.ghost.io/for-the-covi...

Time to get out your air cleaners and respirators. Don’t have any? Start with canadastrong.ca #Wildfires

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It's that time again. For the next 24 hours, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine -related questions below in response to this post, and I will of my best to answer them. Responses are for information only and are NOT medical advice. #AskAnIDDoc May 2025 edition.

My mother-in-law found out yesterday that she has stage 4 pancreatic cancer. It is a horror. I am writing about this because we are trying to figure out what she might need right now, what we can possibly do to help and are hoping for some substantive ideas. Thank you.

For World Goth Day, three crows get very loudly upset that a black cat was roaming around in my yard in the rain.

Rolled over this morning and found out I have company:

Get out of the way, skeedaddle, please finish crossing the road.

A fun character quiz! Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four that you know. openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

I was gone for two nights this weekend and Holly - who still looks like an evil goat-cat, but a very loving one - will never, ever leave my side again.

Made a facebook post about my horror that the library is hosting a $50 a person "Medium" and called her "scammy" and now I have people in my comments very mad at me, A+.

Our local library keeps having fundraising events where people can pay to attend a session with a "psychic" who claims to speak to the dead and I find this distasteful and icky and.... against a library's mission?

I went to a terrific thrift store this morning and it had an AMAZING FREE RECORD SELECTION - behold!

My husband over-the-top decorates the living room for each of the kids' birthdays and my youngest one told me that she is anxious about her birthday tomorrow, so I told her ahead of time. (It's "Badly Thought Out Town Dance in 1981 Canadian Slasher Film My Bloody Valentine"*) *her favourite!

the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless

All of us, including Holly The Cat, loved this movie.

PM Harper showed us the Conservative science playbook: muzzle scientists, defund science and destroy science libraries. My freshwater biologist father mourned the destruction of these libraries. We don’t need to look at 🇺🇸 - we just have to remember 🇨🇦 history. #Carney www.cbc.ca/amp/1.2486171

I know nobody was paying attention in high school when the teacher ran through the endless "The Panic of 18xx" so remember in Anne of Green Gables when Matthew dies of a heart attack because the bank fails and they lose all their savings, so Anne has to give up college to take care of Marilla?

There are lots of reasons for studying history, but one of them is understanding that you don't want to live in a world without basic banking regulations.

Did not foresee the future in which the world’s most popular children’s book author is revealed to be the pervy older relative obsessed with the sex lives & genitalia of younger people, who nobody wants to sit next to at family dinners. She just keeps howling.

Inside of you are two wolves Neither of them are direwolves, because direwolves are extinct, regardless of what clickbait nonsense you read on social media this week.

Everything is bad so I'm gonna start a thread to share little things that make me smile youtu.be/wwOipTXvNNo?...

It is clear to me that many in the American government underestimate the true depths of the passive aggressiveness of the Canadian spirit.

America is blissfully unaware that their tourism industry will be decimated for a decade, likely a generation. They still think this is a temporary tariff dispute, and are used to recovering quickly … but Canadians and Mexicans are their top customers by far. They ain’t coming back anytime soon.

If Canada survives another 100 years, Manitoba's moment with Wab Kinew will feature as prominently in the history books as a bunch of other things happening right now.

The National Security Ballad 🇨🇦

Was going for a walk and saw, from across the street, a torn-open garbage bag with some obviously dead animal lolling out of it. Horrified, I called my husband to meet me all the way across town and identify the poor thing - which he did! And he went and looked and it was A BAG FULL OF HAIR.

Today's task is making a homemade square-shaped cereal for my youngest brother, because his beloved Shreddies are now American-owned.

“When you piss off a country and threaten to annex them, they are not going to want to travel here.” #cdaUS #cdapoli

I am expanding my transgender news website, with a new focus on giving a platform to trans activists, covering their actions and protests, making sure that our people's resistance is seen and heard and can reach others. www.assignedmedia.org/newsletter

Here are 5 of my favorite movie genres: 1. Detective comedy set pre 1940s 2. Regency romance with shy smoldering guy 3. Heist or con where rich people get comeuppance 4. Fourth wall breaking action 5. Gorgeous anime celebrating the simple life

Here are 5 of my favourite movie genres: 5. Big monsters stomp on stuff 4. A heist! It is thrilling! 3. There's the ghost of a sea captain and he is super hot. 2. Dracula feels like biting some folks. 1. My new husband lives in a haunted house and might be sleeping with his murder-sister.

A lot of the “achievements” of western civilization actually kind of suck but one thing that definitely does not suck is how half our children don’t die anymore