Doesn't look like much going on over here... figured I'd make a post to see if I hear an echo, or perhaps something else?

Source: seattletimes.com.

Romel Castillo, a family physician originally from Cuba, learned much more than words when he joined a fledgling program to brush up on his medical English.

He learned the unspoken language of practising medicine in Canada, where concepts such as patient privacy, cultural competency and shared decision-making can be different than in an immigrant doctor’s homeland.

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I used to play this game on the family pc downstairs in the dining room after school when I was a kid, I thought it was so cool and it helped me with my spellng, learning new words etc, sometimes I'd need help from my sibling or parent

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/39903662

[Best of 2025] An Abstract Illusion - Frost Flower

Another album that made general “best of” lists. If you don’t mind harsh vocals and like synths/Synthwave, this album is utterly fantastic. I chose this track because I can’t get the clean refrain out of my head, even though I have no idea what they’re saying. Pretty at first, it opens up at 3 minutes in but keeps a nice balance of the pretty and the harsh. (Most of the album is harsher than this)

Bandy X Lee: Gaslighitng, Crazy

Gaslighting

Often, people with NPD resort to an insidious strategy called gaslighting — a term drawn from the 1938 play about a man who persuaded his wife she was crazy by, among other means, dimming the gaslights and claiming he’d never touched them. As people with NPD become increasingly psychotic, they’re determined to convince others that they’re the “crazy” ones who can’t see reality for what it is. Gaslighting reassures pathological narcissists that their own grip on reality remains firm because they can’t bear to acknowledge their sanity is slipping away. We might ask if we’re seeing this now, as Trump and his closest advisers appear on TV claiming he didn’t make statements that journalists often simply play back — or if it’s a tweet, flash an image — to prove that he did indeed say what he said.

Lately, these incidents have become commonplace. Many in the press and public at large now refer to them as alternative facts, alluding to Trump spokesperson Kellyanne Conway’s now infamous “explanation” for why Sean Spicer had berated the press for misreporting Trump’s inauguration size: “this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe,” Spicer peevishly told a stunned press corps. This turned out to be patently false, though Conway defended the statement, saying Spicer had simply been providing “alternative facts.”

Those who embrace Trump’s reality, where the mainstream media lies and remains “the enemy,” signify their support with red hats bearing the inscription MAGA (Make America Great Again). Those who believe what the news reports about Trump have donned the symbol of resistance — pink pussy hats, a reference to his now infamous hot mic comments about women, “I just grab ’em by the pussy…”

That the country is currently split — and our shared reality with it — seems without question at this point.

― Bandy X Lee, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. October 3, 2017. Page 58.

Unfortunately the peertube instance I upload to is down, so you'll have to slum it with the YouTube link today.

I'll upload this to peertube.wtf once I can log in again.

Attempt for u/ummthatguy

I need more practice

https://x.com/maoxianjiu/status/2009919824701657592

Character: Hijiri Byakuren