#Futility

Kingfisher & Wombat

It is a gray, depressing day, and I am struggling against the sense of futility that often lies in wait these days. “Look at you, fooling with a comic, as

Damian Barbatus

Dear friends, I hear you: “Damian, I’m into this whole #Pessimism thing, but you quoting some German secular and a Romanian aphorist ain’t doin it for me. I need something

I don't know who needs to hear this, vote-shaming (or vote bullying) - especially non-voters - is an exercise in futility! But not because the non-voter lacks some measure of

#Futility: Do you place feeding tubes in your practice for older adults with advanced dementia? @SIRRFS @SIRspecialists @BSIR_News @AmCollSurgeons Discussion below Guideline recommendation: Feeding tubes are not recommended for older

Why not the Cleveland Spiders? Because the Spiders played in the NL from 1887 to 1899 and are not a part of the Blues/Bronchos/Naps/Indians history. Different league, different team. They

(1/20) Tweetorial on this statement…”…red flag…The investigators….already taken an interim look…did not stop the study early….dampens optimism for an overall positive outcome”Is this a red flag? Maybe…maybe not…depends on how

🏳️‍🌈misha fletcher

I don't know who needs to hear this, but honestly, no one is getting anything done right now. You're not uniquely useless or broken. The bar is "Are you eating

Wanting to see an ammended ALS algorithm for arrest in-hospital in COVID times which incorporates PPE/safety and likelihood of success/futility guide has anybody got one please? Happy for you to

After I returned from Afghanistan, I realized that 21st-century American patriotism is crass, slippery& gross.Our soldiers don’t need gimmicky reverence. They need a nation that stops misusing their service.Some thoughts

Kayte Spector-Bagdady

In @bioethics_net w/ @halstedjr @NaomiNeoEthics @janicefirn @reshmajagsi @lbsmithm +colleagues, we argue that bioethics has focused its expertise too narrowly on ventilator allocation, to the detriment of other scarce COVID resources

alfred || art in pinned :)

passerine thoughts:gorgeous fic absolutely wonderful. a hefty read but so very worth it. idk why everyone is so destroyed and sad on the tl though. if anything i walked away

The Babylonian "Dialogue of Pessimism" holds a special place in my heart - it's actually the piece that inspired me to become an Assyriologist to begin with! Today I'm going

M

There are some tweets asking desperately for oxygen, as a doctor I look at the vitals of the patient & I know with a 100% certainty that even if they

enmity ironside

i am a communist who is a poet, not a communist poet. my poems aren't doing communism. much ink has been spilled on the futility of that idea and i

Never outsource your fight for a better future to people whose job is simply to make music. Forget branding, we all know say this Fela thing na wash. Truth is,

Prediction: as families across this nation realize how much NONE of this is going to work -- being in school, trying to learn remotely in broke districts with no training