Medic Kim

One was a crop duster/treasure hunter/mayor. He wrote to Fidel Castro for pothole money and taught me to use an AR-15.

The other was a Sailor/shipyard worker/supervisor who taught me to cuss with style.

I’m not fit for public office, y’all 😂

My hobby is woodwork and I’ve upcycled or refurbished 6 dressers. It’s surprisingly easy and affordable if you’re looking for a way to furnish on a budget 💜 Great project for beginners!

But also THANK YOU 🥹🥹🥹

Weren’t we both 22 when we joined lol?

I’d been awake for more than 40 hours and couldn’t find half my shit 💀 Pretty sure I’m wearing someone else’s suit jacket 😭

This is eye opening info for me. Thank you for the invaluable context 💜

Obviously this is low on the priority list considering *everything* going on but it’s one more reason EMS is in the state it is. If you don’t have someone guiding you, you can easily spend $3000 trying to get your cert before ever getting a job that pays $15/hr in some states.

Instead we have a morass of 50 individual state reqts and one national website. State agency directions for reciprocity and reinstatement vary heavily and can be baffling to both personnel and applicants.

We need an overhaul of the EMS system specifically with regards to licensing and training. There is no reason it should be this goddamn frustrating to get a cert reinstated or transferred in a new state.

We should all be under a general NREMT with states augmenting training requirements as needed.

Agree, in hindsight it was a huge mistake not to revoke MD & DO degrees themselves when the anti-vaxx/grifter campaign began in the early 2000s.

The AMA claimed that revoking practicing licenses & board certs was enough.

It wasn’t and we need to be positively draconian about it now.

I think there’s a strong argument to be made for quarantining him. The fumes coming out of his sweat would get bystanders drunk.

Hey UK Friends- I’m watching a lot of Labour meltdown videos after Greens won an election…

Help please. A crumb of context for those of us not on the metric system 😭

Letting police under the umbrella of “first responders” was like giving the safe combination to bank robbers.

So here’s the thing- you can only trade on the cache of “heroic first responders” for so long and that time ended roughly 30 years ago. Between private equity and the near total reliance on volunteers and pay-per-call, Fire/EMS is about to collapse without significant funding overhauls.

Like, multiple things can be right: 1) He cannot control it and *on the face of it* doesn't mean he's racist. 2) He *absolutely* caused harm to the four Black people he yelled the N-word at. 3) He's not inherently racist just because he said it because it's physically impossible to *never* hear slurs, especially in spaces where people learn how harmful slurs are. 4) BAFTA/BBC fucked up by editing out all of his other outbursts *except* that one. 5) The first time he yelled the N- word that night, he should've been moved to an area away from microphones, to a green room, or to an area where he was still included but kept from potentially causing harm to more people. 6) He should apologize for the words he used, not his disability.

My mentor is a Black queer disabled woman which means I don’t have to walk through minefields blindfolded.

I’m okay I’m not crying I’m fine 🥹🥹🥹💜💜💜

I will absolutely check in with the communities on how they feel now. If they’ve got a system that works we aren’t gonna throw a wrench in it!

Yesss. Call it “Hey Hon” bc…Baltimore 💜💜💜

Thank you! Screenshotted for reference this week.

On it!

-Medics & trainings for helpers
-Comms teams
-Supply depots

As I get info on these groups as they organize I will share what I can here.

Minneapolis gave us the blueprint. Let’s build it.

ICE is planning a Minneapolis-surge in Baltimore. Let’s take the advice from Minneapolis and get ready.

Things we’re gonna need:
-Community/neighborhood watch groups
-Whistles
-Groups ready to run MA funds for legal assistance and rent assistance
-Drivers for workers
-Bus stop buddies

Nah, fuck the US Men’s hockey team. Spitting on your sisters and YOUR OWN MOTHER for a meet n greet with a fraudster is some heinous shit.

I hope they get medication resistant jock itch and ringworm.

If we want to actually do something about the cartels, we can start by ending the War on Drugs. We already ran this experiment with the mob during Prohibition. Turns out banning things just made organized crime richer. A regulated drug market is safer for everyone.

The open displays of enthusiastic, unabashed girlhood at these Olympics is filling my soul.

IS THERE ANOTHER WAY?!?!

30. I was 30. Jesus I feel ancient 😵‍💫

I love y’all but y’all unintentionally make me feel minutes away from Social Security some days 😂

That’s a good one. Maybe a page/sheet comparing high-mutation RNA viruses to comparatively lower mutation DNA viruses.

Actually I like that for the anti-vaxx crowd. They’re different from anti-establishment patients in a worse and dumber way.