sovay: (Sydney Carton)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2025-06-05 11:13 pm

On Fortuna's wheel, I'm running

As my day centrally involved a very long-awaited referral finally coming through and foundering immediately on the shoals of the American healthcare system, it wasn't a very good one. The CDC called for my opinions on vaccination which it turned out I was not permitted to state for the record without a minor child in the house. Because the call was recorded for quality assurance, I said just in case that I had children in my life if not my legal residence and I supported their vaccination so as to protect them from otherwise life-threatening communicable diseases and did not express my opinion of the incumbent secretary of health and human services and his purity of essence. I got hung up on before I could tell my family stories from before the polio vaccine and the MMR.

Of course the man in the White House used the Boulder attack to justify his latest travel ban. Burned Jews are good for his business. I appreciate this op-ed from Eric K. Ward. I hope it reaches anyone it's meant to. I thought I was jaundiced about people and now I think I'm just in liver failure.

It would never have occurred to me that a video for Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer" (1977) should have anything to do with psychological realism, but Saoirse Ronan seems to have had a great time with it.
sholio: sun on winter trees (Default)

[personal profile] sholio 2025-06-06 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
That is an excellent op-ed; thank you for linking to it.

I'm very sorry today did not go as planned!
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2025-06-06 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
I am sorry the American healthcare system got in the way of your care. I wish the CDC would call me, though I don't have any minor children on hand, either.

That "Psycho Killer" video is oddly riveting! On a related note, I am happy there is so much early Talking Heads footage available these days. This live performance of "Don't Worry About the Government" is one of my favorites.
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[personal profile] selkie 2025-06-06 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
Well, sure, he isn’t resident there just NOW.
sabotabby: (doom doom doom)

[personal profile] sabotabby 2025-06-06 10:53 am (UTC)(link)
I thought I was jaundiced about people and now I think I'm just in liver failure.

Absolute truth.
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[personal profile] asakiyume 2025-06-06 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
I thought I was jaundiced about people and now I think I'm just in liver failure. --this is a hilarious line that I wish life didn't give you (or any of us) the occasion to utter (or type).
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PS

[personal profile] asakiyume 2025-06-06 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
And WOW! The "Psycho Killer" video! I love it. It's perfect in every detail. You can see the invisible line of her moods rising and falling; I loved watching the cycling of her outfits. I adored her gestures. (Some of them are things I actually do/have done, so ... yeah! psychological realism ftw)
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit 2025-06-06 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
As my day centrally involved a very long-awaited referral finally coming through and foundering immediately on the shoals of the American healthcare system, it wasn't a very good one.

Oh, I am so sorry. How frustrating! *hugs* As if that's needed with all the everything else.

I shall proceed to do the only thing I can from this side of the internet and offer up some tumblr, which I hope you will be able to see:
Momento Mori art: https://www.tumblr.com/thegingergal/785170488876040192
Page of Tides tarot art: https://www.tumblr.com/rainbowfic/785383499267964928
Someone making some S&S OCs: https://www.tumblr.com/novikjpg/784993369868861440/making-3d-is-definitely-killing-me-but-look-i
tumblr asked the impossible question re. G'kar & Londo, of Would Gay Sex Fix Them: https://www.tumblr.com/basiltheratatouille/785604966899433472?source=share (the notes are a blast, although I doubt you can see them easily, sorry)
Also, I finally finished The Voysey Inheritance up on YT the other day & wondered if tumblr liked Jeremy Irons enough to supply me with gifs & then I could review it in the tags, but I just got bonus NT Jeremy Northam shots, which I am of course not complaining about:
https://www.tumblr.com/notjustamaninahat/132622230158/national-theatre-on-twitter?source=share
https://www.tumblr.com/notjustamaninahat/132623261313/jeremy-northam-won-the-olivier-award-for-most?source=share
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[personal profile] umadoshi 2025-06-06 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm so sorry about the shape of the day. *hugs quietly*
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[personal profile] pameladean 2025-06-06 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
So many hugs.

I am just boggled that the CDC is calling people up, but sadly less so that they don't want to listen to most of what people may have to say.

P.