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Yay for the tag, @yourfriendlyneighbourhoodsimp

This, on repeat: Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself

Written by Burt Bachrach, recorded by a billion artists in the last 50 years or so; Live version linked above by Elvis Costello, recorded in 1977. Re-released on a super-deluxe four-disc album from last year-ish.

I'll tag these folks: @darklyhandsome @i-am-pinkie @persephonesjourney @c-sand @stellamarielu @crowlixcx and whoever else wants to hop on.

What is one band/Musician you listened to recently (can be any time from today or last week) ?

Lemon Demon

Tags:

@oli-silly @aquakat-draws @vic-11037 @unbranded-chaos @isyoungaword4dumb @edgingattheedgeofauniverse @kmac3000 @theultimaterewatcher @raventhewolf9 @tanzabee

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Endings and Beginnings

Chapter 32 is up to kick off the weekend. Everything is safe for work, and there's a new cover to mark what is essentially the second part of this story.

Thanks to everyone still along for the ride!

Photo credits: Eleanor Tomlinson by Josh Shinner in Harper's Bazaar; Aidan Turner by Jesse Craig for Article magazine (?); background rose photo and graphic design by me-Stelly38.

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YES! Yes, yes, yes, a hundred times yes. I have to add that I think EFT is both created and exacerbated by automation—the use of computers and internet in these functions. (I’m referring mostly to the first example in her essay, paying an insurance company, and similar things—making appointments, contacting doctors, etc.). Remember how computerization was supposed to make everything easier, seamless, better? Remember? I certainly do, because I’m old enough to have participated in society as an adult before mass computerization and automation. Meaning, I used things like cash and I wrote checks and I put bills in the mail. With a stamp. My point is, when tasks like the ones described in the essay are foisted off onto automated systems, everyone assumes that the thing has been taken care of, or addressed, either by another person, or by “the system,” when it most likely has NOT. So then the responsibility falls to the patient or customer, and, in the case of patients, who are sometimes physically or mentally ill, it is utterly exhausting and soul crushing to have to prove your case again and again; to have to repeat tasks in the hope that this time it will be right!

Another example I can think of is this: even when you go to the doctor that you’ve been seeing for years for something non-routine, you have to fill out a bunch of paperwork while in the waiting room, one page of which is your entire medical history (which they already have because you’ve been a patient for YEARS), as well as the reason for your current visit. Then you go in the exam room and a nurse asks why you’re in today. Didn’t they read the medical autobiography you just wrote? No? Oh, right, because it’s ALREADY IN YOUR INTERNET PORTAL, which the nurse also didn’t bother to read. So you tell them the reason. Ok, great. Doc will be in shortly. Doctor comes in. “What brings you in today?” they ask. And you do the dance all over again for the third fucking time in thirty minutes. But nobody fucking looks at your chart in the portal or on paper. Back when paper charts were the only medical records, people USED them, because there weren’t multiple options.

Long kvetch shortened: internet/computerized automation has NOT made our lives easier. If anything, it’s just another, more expensive level of complexity to navigate. And it has led to, and creates, Executive Function Theft. It’s self perpetuating.

End rant.

I think this is just a trend everywhere but I've been very frustrated this week by how much admin work is being outsourced to me as the patient/customer.

My orthodontist tells me I can make an appointment with the surgeon. I call the surgeon. They tell me I need a new referral. I call the orthodontist. They do a referral. I call the surgeon. Referral didn't come through. They tell me about their special unique system we have to use. I call the ortho again and walk them through the referral. I call the surgeon. They say the referral was missing some details so they have to do it again. I call the ortho.

The insurance company calls me about repair shops. I give them the name of the repair shop which I already gave them yesterday. They say they're not in their system but I can use them, but I have to call the repair shop to ask them to contact the insurance company. I call the repair shop and they say the insurance company is supposed to email them.

I feel like at a certain point these constant fetch quests become unreasonable?? Is it too much to expect these groups to communicate with each other instead of making me run back and forth between them???

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So sweet. Trilly, drooly cat purrs.

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I love the no shirt and the hip brooch. Such a fine man.

GOD WHAT A MAN

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Not the most exciting gifset, but there's sexy walking! and sexy swallowing! (not that kind), sexy chest hair!, and an appearance from the sexy, Slutty Gold Chain™!

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Dammit.

Gene Hackman as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in William Friedkin‘s THE FRENCH CONNECTION, which premiered in New York City and Los Angeles on October 7, 1971.

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Ah, shit. In my original post of these, I added this image without it being finished. So this version, above, is all fixed up now. I changed it on the other one, too.

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5 minutes of pure comedy gold

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This one, @anglophiletraveler ?

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I did a quick-and-dirty clean up on my favorites from the outtakes. A lot of great shots by Philip Sinden; too bad they're all low res.

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His black eye, loloolol.

Poldark ❤️s2

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Do you ever look back at your likes and think 'How did I not reblog this when I liked it?!'

Yeah, that's what's going on here.

BEAU MIRCHOFF Party Boat (2017)

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Simp, you crack me up.

She did that.

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What a sassy little bitch. I love him.

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A few thoughts... I grew up in a family of four (two parents, two kids), and turned out to be the only non-smoker. My parents smoked before I came into this world; my older sister started smoking as a teenager; and I was a second-hand smoker until I went to college. I didn't like smoking then and still don't like it to this day, but, BUT, I have always thought it looks super sexy.

And it looks like Declan smokes Marlboros. They were the preferred brand in my house, and among friends who smoked.

Why is smoking so sexy? Or does he just make it sexy?

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I love hate how he sits back, all surprised she's that angry. As if she'd have just laughed off his stupid, stupid infidelity. Bitch, please. And by bitch, I mean Ross.

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