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Doctor Appointment Mobile App Development for Your Clinic Guide

How to Build a Doctor Appointment Mobile App for Your Clinic?

Is your waiting room regularly jam-packed with patients? You have not managed your appointment scheduling process well if you see this happening.

Implementing medical appointment software is a surefire way to fix the problem. Regardless of whether it is a mobile app or a web platform, both your staff and patients will benefit from it. It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic makes them resent having to crowd together in a tiny room.

We’ll begin by examining a system for booking doctor appointments online and why patients expect it. How can you meet their expectations? We’ll show you how in this article.

On-Demand Services App for Doctor’s Appointments and Its Benefits

Scheduling appointments with a doctor via an app has two benefits. Firstly, they provide the convenience of scheduling visits with the doctors and hospitals of your choice. As a second benefit, these systems store each appointment and piece of data in one location. Staff at your hospital will appreciate it.

In the real world, it goes like this:

From the standpoint of a patient. Appointments can now be scheduled through an app instead of calling your office. Rather than waiting for an appointment to come open, they can schedule a visit with their doctor at any time. Neither you nor your patients need to waste time.

From the standpoint of a clinic. A clinic booking system software is based on an app or a web-based platform. Using an online doctor booking app development simplifies processes that your staff might struggle to manage manually (e.g., entering patient information, scheduling doctors’ time slots, handling paperwork, etc.). Apps can also help track patients’ visits and improve communication between doctors and patients. It is easier to confirm, cancel, or reschedule appointments this way.

The solution promises cost savings, but how does it accomplish that?

You can minimize unused appointment times when you use an app or a web platform to manage your hospital appointment system. You may lose money as a result of no-shows or cancellations.

Setting up reminders and notifications on your app will help you avoid no-shows. When patients miss their appointments, you can schedule them back-to-back as soon as possible to prevent losing money on unused time slots.

Clinics can also prevent overlapping appointments by developing an appointment booking system. In the healthcare industry, overlapping appointments are a major problem. Automated solutions can prevent double bookings in the first place and help prevent them from occurring in the first place.

Amid pandemic turmoil, this issue is too crucial to ignore. To comply with social-distancing standards, you need as few patients as possible in your waiting room.

Here Are the Basic Features of an Appointment App for Doctors

The features you want in a doctor appointment booking app should be determined before you begin Android mobile app development for your clinic.

Here are five essential features for your doctor appointment app you should consider including.

1. Physician Profiles

Patients and potential doctors can connect for the first time via an app. Physician profiles need to be clear and comprehensive. All necessary information should be included, such as photos, capabilities, experience, and everything else the patient will need to make a decision. It would also be useful to include the cost of consultations and treatment.

2. A Patient’s Profile

Patients’ information should always be accessible to doctors, whether they are seeing a patient for the first time or for a follow-up. Mobile applications come in handy for storing this information. Any details about a patient can be retrieved from it (name, age, medical history, treatment plans, insurance information, etc.) before an appointment.

3. Option for Searching

A large database might make searching through all the profiles difficult for patients. A search option will help them find what they’re looking for. Filtering profiles by desired treatments, doctor ratings, and location are all available.

4. Reservation Form

A doctor appointment website or app should be able to help you schedule a visit as easy as booking an online appointment. A patient should have easy access to appointment time slots and dates once they select a physician. Making booking an appointment as simple as possible is ideal.

5. Alerts

Here’s a quick guideline. To reduce unused appointment times, you should implement reminders and notifications when developing a hospital appointment booking app. To minimize missed appointments, you can send them to patients before scheduled appointments.

Read Also: Online Video Conferencing App Development Cost

[rboooks]

DC x DP Fic idea: The Royal Consort

Wesley Weston runs a blog after getting over his desire to expose Danny's secret- primarily due to no one believing him- and no one pays attention to it since almost all of Casper high school has one too.

The difference between the hundreds of other blogs is that one of his pictures of Phantom is clear. A perfectly uncorrected image of the famous ghost, whereas nearly all other pictures are blurry due to ghosts disrupting cameras. Even Wes isn't sure how he managed to capture him so well.

Another difference between his blog and others is that one of his followers happens to be John Constantine, who followed the kid a long time ago due to the fanfiction of the Bats and found them hilarious.

John opens his phone app, expecting a new chapter to the Bruce Wayne/Superman fic, and spits out his tea upon seeing the High King of the Dead casually in the human world. Horrified that the King has not been appropriately welcomed- which could lead to a war that the humans would never win- he calls an emergency Justice League and Justice League Dark meeting.

It didn't help that they had allowed a county to pass the anti-ecto laws, which ruined any attempt to appease the Ghost King once the news broke to the public. The League still worried about a declaration of war even after they demolished the laws and the United Nations had the States apologize on humans' behalf.

They quickly discover High King Phantom has been visiting Earth for almost three years. Before his coronation, Phantom had not been outside the Infinite Realms very often though he has appeared throughout history. Cave drawings date back thousands of years before the first ancient Egyptians, but he's visits are few and short.

Life would naturally send him back to the Realms because he had too much power and ectoplasm. After taking the throne, his powers only grew, which meant someone had to summon him as the only way for him to stay on Earth longer than an hour.

Now as King, he appeared only within the small town of Amity Park daily. Why?

John sighs. "He has an anchor. Someone is tying him to this plane. Like the helmet for Nabu, which allows Doctor Fate to exist here without being launched back to the Infinite Releams, Phantom has bonded himself. And I know who that is"

He pulls up a class photo on Weston's blog and points to a boy wearing a particular necklace.

"Danny Fenton is wearing the official Royal Consort of the Infinite Realms symbol and has been since he was fourteen. Phantom's husband may be our only hope to salvage the terrible mess the USA's bloody GIW placed the rest of us in."

Danny loved the necklace he found in Pariah Dark's old haunt. He inherited Pariah's haunt and everything inside once he was crowned and hasn't taken it off since. He didn't think it would be an issue. It's not like it would out his secret to his parents or anyone else since it was in Ghost Speech. Even he didn't know what it said.

Then one morning he comes down for breakfast only to have the most important members of the Justice League sitting in his living room waiting to greet him.

Desperate to keep his halfa status a secret, Danny must convince the entire world watching him, that he's just a human who scandalously eloped at age fourteen with one of the strongest beings in the mulitverse.

Jack's horrified "We were shooting my son-in-law this whole time" became a meme that has trended for months.

( Part 2 )

[mariacallous]

Neo-Nazis and white supremacists are sharing Hitler-related propaganda and trying to recruit new members on TikTok, according to a new report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) shared exclusively with WIRED. The TikTok algorithm is also promoting this content to new users, researchers found, as extremist communities are leveraging the huge popularity of TikTok among younger audiences to spread their message.

The report from ISD details how hundreds of extremist TikTok accounts are openly posting videos promoting Holocaust denial and the glorification of Hitler and Nazi-era Germany, and suggesting that Nazi ideology is a solution to modern-day issues such as the alleged migrant invasion of Western countries. The accounts also show support for white supremacist mass shooters and livestream-related footage or recreations of these massacres. Many of the accounts use Nazi symbols in their profile pictures or include white supremacist codes in their usernames.

Nathan Doctor, an ISD researcher who authored the report, says he began his investigation earlier this year when he came across one neo-Nazi account on TikTok while conducting research for another project.

He was quickly able to unmask a much broader network of accounts that appeared to be actively helping each other through liking, sharing, and commenting on each other’s accounts in order to increase their viewership and reach.

The groups promoting neo-Nazi narratives are typically siloed in more fringe platforms, like Telegram, the encrypted messaging app. But Telegram has become a place to discuss recruitment techniques for TikTok specifically: White supremacist groups there share videos, images, and audio tracks that members can use, explicitly telling other members to cross-post the content on TikTok.

“We posted stuff on our brand new tiktok account with 0 followers but had more views than you could ever have on bitchute or twitter,” one account in a Neo-Nazi group posted on Telegram about their outreach on TikTok. “It just reaches much more people.”

Others have followed suit. One prominent neo-Nazi has often asked his thousands of Telegram followers to “juice,” or algorithmically boost, his TikTok videos to increase their viral potential.

An extremist Telegram channel with 12,000 followers urged members to promote the neo-Nazi documentary Europa: The Last Battle by blanketing TikTok with reaction videos in an effort to make the film go viral. Researchers from ISD found dozens of videos on TikTok featuring clips from the film, some with over 100,000 views. “One account posting such snippets has received nearly 900k views on their videos, which include claims that the Rothschild family control the media and handpick presidents, as well as other false or antisemitic claims,” the researchers wrote.

This is far from the first time the role that TikTok’s algorithm plays in promoting extremist content has been exposed. Earlier this month, the Global Network on Extremism and Technology reported that TikTok’s algorithm was promoting the “adoration of minor fascist ideologues.” The same researchers found last year that it was boosting Eurocentric supremacist narratives in Southeast Asia. Earlier this month, WIRED reported how TikTok’s search suggestions were pushing young voters in Germany towards the far-right Alternative for Germany party ahead of last month’s EU elections.

“Hateful behavior, organizations and their ideologies have no place on TikTok, and we remove more than 98 percent of this content before it is reported to us,” Jamie Favazza, a TikTok spokesperson tells WIRED. “We work with experts to keep ahead of evolving trends and continually strengthen our safeguards against hateful ideologies and groups.”

Part of the reason platforms like TikTok have in the past been unable to effectively clamp down on extremist content is due to the use of code language, emojis, acronyms, and numbers by these groups. For example, many of the neo-Nazi accounts used a juice box emoji to refer to Jewish people.

“At present, self-identified Nazis are discussing TikTok as an amenable platform to spread their ideology, especially when employing a series of countermeasures to evade moderation and amplify content as a network,” the researchers write in the report.

But Doctor points out that even when viewing non-English-language content, spotting these patterns should be possible. “Despite seeing content in other languages, you can still pretty quickly recognize what it means,” says Doctor. “The coded nature of it isn't an excuse, because if it's pretty easily recognizable to someone in another language, it should be recognizable to TikTok as well.”

TikTok says it has more than “40,000 trust and safety professionals” working on moderation around the globe, and the company says its Trust and Safety Team has specialists in violent extremism who constantly monitor developments in these communities, including the use of new coded language.

While many of the identified accounts are based in the US, Doctor found that the network was also international.

“It's definitely global, it's not even just the English language,” Doctor tells WIRED. “We found stuff in French, Hungarian, German. Some of these are in countries where Naziism is illegal. Russian is a big one. But we even found things that were a bit surprising, like groups of Mexican Nazis, or across Latin America. So, yeah, definitely a global phenomenon.”

Doctor did not find any evidence that the international groups were actively coordinating with each other, but they were certainly aware of each others’ presence on TikTok: “These accounts are definitely engaging with each others' content. You can see, based on comment sections, European English-speaking pro-Nazi accounts reacting with praise toward Russian-language pro-Nazi content.”

The researchers also found that beyond individual accounts and groups promoting extremist content, some real-world fascist or far-right organizations were openly recruiting on the platform.

Accounts from these groups posted links in their TikTok videos to a website featuring antisemitic flyers and instructions on how to print and distribute them. They also boosted Telegram channels featuring more violent and explicitly extremist discourse.

In one example cited by ISD, an account whose username contains an antisemitic slur and whose bio calls for an armed revolution and the complete annihilation of Jewish people, has shared incomplete instructions to build improvised explosive devices, 3D-printed guns, and “napalm on a budget.”

To receive the complete instructions, the account holder urged followers to join a “secure groupchat” on encrypted messaging platforms Element and Tox. Doctor says that comments under the account holder’s videos indicate that a number of his followers had joined these chat groups.

ISD reported this account, along with 49 other accounts, in June for breaching TikTok’s policies on hate speech, encouragement of violence against protected groups, promoting hateful ideologies, celebrating violent extremists, and Holocaust denial. In all cases, TikTok found no violations, and all accounts were initially allowed to remain active.

A month later, 23 of the accounts had been banned by TikTok, indicating that the platform is at least removing some violative content and channels over time. Prior to being taken down, the 23 banned accounts had racked up at least 2 million views.

The researchers also created new TikTok accounts to understand how Nazi content is promoted to new users by TikTok’s powerful algorithm.

Using an account created at the end of May, researchers watched 10 videos from the network of pro-Nazi users, occasionally clicking on comment sections but stopping short of any form of real engagement such as liking, commenting, or bookmarking. The researchers also viewed 10 pro-Nazi accounts. When the researchers then flipped to the For You feed within the app, it took just three videos for the algorithm to suggest a video featuring a World War II-era Nazi soldier overlayed with a chart of US murder rates, with perpetrators broken down by race. Later, a video appeared of an AI-translated speech from Hitler overlaid with a recruitment poster for a white nationalist group.

Another account created by ISD researchers saw even more extremist content promoted in its main feed, with 70 percent of videos coming from self-identified Nazis or featuring Nazi propaganda. After the account followed a number of pro-Nazi accounts in order to access content on channels set to private, the TikTok algorithm also promoted other Nazi accounts to follow. All 10 of the first accounts recommended by TikTok to this account used Nazi symbology or keywords in their usernames or profile photos, or featured Nazi propaganda in their videos.

“In no way is this particularly surprising,” says Abbie Richards, a disinformation researcher specializing in TikTok. "These are things that we found time and time again. I have certainly found them in my research."

Richards wrote about white supremacist and militant accelerationist content on the platform in 2022, including the case of neo-Nazi Paul Miller, who, while serving a 41-month sentence for firearm charges, featured in a TikTok video that racked up more than 5 million views and 700,000 likes during the three months it was on the platform before being removed.

Marcus Bösch, a researcher based in Hamburg University who monitors TikTok, tells WIRED that the report’s findings “do not come as a big surprise,” and he’s not hopeful there is anything TikTok can do to fix the problem.

“I’m not sure exactly where the problem is,” Bösch says. “TikTok says it has around 40,000 content moderators, and it should be easy to understand such obvious policy violations. Yet due to the sheer volume [of content], and the ability by bad actors to quickly adapt, I am convinced that the entire disinformation problem cannot be finally solved, neither with AI nor with more moderators.”

TikTok says it has completed a mentorship program with Tech Against Terrorism, a group that seeks to disrupt terrorists’ online activity and helps TikTok identify online threats.

“Despite proactive steps taken, TikTok remains a target for exploitation by extremist groups as its popularity grows,” Adam Hadley, executive director of Tech Against Terrorism, tells WIRED. “The ISD study shows that a small number of violent extremists can wreak havoc on large platforms due to adversarial asymmetry. This report therefore underscores the need for cross-platform threat intelligence supported by improved AI-powered content moderation. The report also reminds us that Telegram should also be held accountable for its role in the online extremist ecosystem.”

As Hadley outlines, the report’s findings show that there are significant loopholes in the company’s current policies.

“I've always described TikTok, when it comes to far-right usage, as a messaging platform,” Richards said. “More than anything, it's just about repetition. It's about being exposed to the same hateful narrative over and over and over again, because at a certain point you start to believe things after you just see them enough, and they start to really influence your worldview.”

[arb0k]

misspoke about how long i've been taking it, yesterday was actually day 5. spent maybe six hours fatigued to the point of struggling to hold conversations / audibly slurring words. shortly after writing that i kind of just gave up and stared at the ceiling for four hours, unable to actually pass out. this does not feel meaningfully different from wasting my day sleeping

technically still within the adderall withdrawal window but i was taking 10mg it really shouldn't be bouncing back that hard??? maybe modafinil is just evil actually. alas doctors don't tend to listen to ''i tried it and didn't like it'' until you've been on it for at least a month so i get to just suffer for his amusement ig

doctor wanted to try switching my narcolepsy* medication (because his personal policy is to require in-person appointments every three months for adderall due to ~abuse potential~) and wow doing the adderall withdrawal while taking a different stimulant is bizarre. stopping abruptly basically left me unconscious for a few days before but now i'm like. awake but my brain is broken. distinct sensation of insomnia (exhausted body wants to sleep but brain physically won't let it) all day for three days

[medstudentblues]

good morning! i usually prefer handwritten notes but it is not just feasible when i journal before or after duty when i have a million things to say because every duty as a JI doctor is a battle won in the PH, so i downloaded day one and the stoic app to try which suits me better.

so far i’m leaning on the stoic app! there are a loooot of prompts and i’m just obsessed with the trends where they track and make graphs of my mood/sleep/etc. you know how type As are with graphs!! craaazy. the stoic prompts / processing of emotions are one less thing to worry about it.

i just downloaded both and i’ll try them for a week of trial, to see which suits me best.

[mio-actuallywrites]

The World You Once Loved 2

Apparently being in your world is still surprising for you.  PREVIOUS NEXT

2/?

//Reader lives in Japan.  not proofread

Fyi through out all these parts NO book 7 spoilers.  also I assure you next part I will try to make it longer!!

Apparently 8 months in Twisted Wonderland means 16 on Earth. And those 16 you have spent in a coma. Apparently your Roommate Oboko said you had got ran over by a car and have been in a coma ever since. 

She had also told you the night before you woke up, items had appeared in your room, apparently in your suitcase. (Haha I wonder why)

After the doctor came in, checked on your vitals and health you were told you needed to stay a day or more in the hospital. So after getting to eat earth food again, thinking about what you missed in that last year, thinking about all those memories and how they are doing right now you were ready to go back. 

After getting Oboko to drive you to your place, you finally entered the house you thought you would never return too. 

After entering the front door, your eyes immediately trailed to all around the house, all the furniture was the same, but it was werid to see new and not old furniture, I guess living in Ramshackle caused you to get used to the sometimes uncomfortable and dusty furniture. 

“All are you going to enter?” Obokos voice rang in your mind as she suddenly lightly pushed you in, bringing you out of your shock. 

“Sorry Oboko-Chan I’m just still in… shock you know??” You replied hoping she would just shrug it off. 

“It’s fine, however I have your phone with me if you wanted it, I was gonna give it to you in the car. But I wanted you to get adjusted.” She replies as she hands you the phone. “I’ll be in my room if you need me!” She yelled as she left. 

You stood there for a second as you grabbed your phone and went to sit on the couch. 

You put in the password you would never forget, no matter how many worlds you been in you will always remember. *insert password* seeing as you logged in, you had million of notifications, filled with texts, updates and snaps that were left unseen for the months you were gone. 

You opened up Magi- no Instagram and viewed every news peice you missed. The new Taylor Swift album, the new update to Genshin, the upcoming movies, new trends etc. It seems like it will take AWHILE to catch up on all of those events. 

After looking through the app you decided to go into your room, and see the place you thought you would never see again. 

However right when you entered the first thing you noticed was the luggage you clearly packed a few days ago. You went over to the luggage and opened it, once you opened it the first thing you saw was the picture of you and the first years + Grim. You guys were all at Ramshackle probably at a sleepover. 

Under the photo you found your diary you kept that you bought at Sam’s shop. It was filled to the brim with the 8 months you spent there, going from your first unbirthday party to (Something that happend in chapter 7)

After picking up the diary and putting it on your desk, you grabbed your school uniform, and hung it up. Once you hanged up your school uniform in your closet you then grabbed the photo and hung it up next to your desk. 

Thinking about what to do with your life now that you finally returned after it being your goal for so long. But wasn’t completing a goal make you happy?

Today marks the 1st anniversary since you left. If you were right it had been six months since you left in Twisted Wonderland. Your friends were now 2nd years and some were about ready to graduate. And again, If you were right, they were in the middle of finals, since you left during that period. 

Yes although you did have the period of tears, and overwhelming sadness of leaving all of those memories behind, right now you were living your BEST life right now. 

While you were in your 3rd year of Highschool. Like Night Raven, you stayed at the High School with your Childhood friends, Oboko and Saki. Yes you did have your fun with them, but what about those past memories that you dearly loved and held at your heart?

“Reader? Are you there? We still have work to attend to and close shop, not zone out.” Your co-worker snapped at you. 

“Sorry Keiko, I tend to a lot.” You responded, although it was a little bit of a lie, you would still cling onto those memories from time to time. 

“Anyways, I’ll finish the dishes you start locking up.” She responded, completely ignoring your response. 

You nodded in response and left the Cafe’s kitchen to go lock up all the windows, doors, blah blah whatever this job paid good that’s all you cared about. 

After quickly finishing it up, you walked to the back door walking past Keiko who was still washing dishes, you were always fortunate when you didn’t have to. (Who even likes washing dishes???)

“Bye Keiko! See you tomorrow!” 

She had mumbled a response as you left the door and entered your car. 

While jamming out to the new album of your favorite artist, the drive home was relatively short. Basically 5 minutes.

You pulled into the driveway and couldn’t wait to get into your home. All that felt nice was a nice warm shower and watching your favorite episodes of your favorite show/anime. With a cup of hot chocolate on the side. 

As soon as you entered the dorm avoice hit you. 

“Hey, reader, just like 5 minutes ago there were some people saying they knew you and kept assisting them. I don’t know if you know them but the acted like they knew you for a while or so. They are in the kitchen currently because they acted like they haven’t eaten in awhile. Uh please be safe?”

/ENDING WAS RUSHED, once I have time I’ll go back and edit. 

[just-jordie-things]

I will need a headcanon of Choso reacting to you showing him Caramelldansen, Dancing Toothless, Chipi Chipi Chapa Chapa and more like that

My doctor said if I dont get that hc my heart might give out soon 😞

~ Nanami Flowershop Anon

i- am i not trend savvy? i only know dancing toothless D: am I NOT COOL????? HELP ME STEF IDK HOW TO WRITE THESE ONES

but uuuuuuuuhhhh here's some tiktok related ones? don't be madddd

he probably watches you while you watch tiktoks and for the most part has no idea what you're looking at. videos of people talking? annoying music? what is so intriguing about this that you'll cuddle with him for hours while scrolling thru it?

and when you start repeating certain quotes that he just doesn't follow at all, why did you say that? what does that mean? and when he asks, you tell him it's from tiktok, and it doesn't really help him to understand. because what's the context of you saying it now while you're cooking dinner?? you tend to giggle at him when you barely answer his questions. it furthers his confusion, but it's sort of cute, so he keeps excusing it

after awhile you install the app on his phone for him to scroll on when he's bored. he insists that he's ok watching with you- he is getting cuddle time out of it after all- but soon enough when he finds himself bored, he opens it up.

i think the side of tiktok choso finds himself on would be animal and asmr related. ((i think he'd definitely like wisp the kitten!! he's a cat guy he just doesn't know it. and there's something about that messy little furball that tugs at his hearstrings)) he has no idea what asmr really is or how he ended up there but it's just so addicted. soon enough he's watching videos of people playing with slimes or dragging makeup brushes over microphones. he doesn't even wear headphones, and if you asked him, he would not know how to explain what he likes about it

it would take TIMEEE for him to catch on to meme culture. there's just so much to it and it's not exactly an easy thing to explain without just making him experience it for himself, but with your help he's eased into it and eventually is able to keep up with some of your references

((he's really excited to get better at it and surprise yuji with what he learns))

i hope these were ok!!

[ashen-vulture]

A Vulture In Therapy #2.5

A Nice Little Interlude (The Roost)

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The looming city was intense and claustrophobic to my quiet, rural, country-kid senses. I don't have an appointment yet, but I want to familiarize myself with the route.

My hands were shaking as I found a place to park and stepped out. Everything looks the same. I pull out my phone to see if my map app could illuminate the way, but it seemed about as lost as I was. Luckily I printed out the address and directions.

Surely I wouldn't get lost.

...

I got lost.

Whenever I get lost like this I inevitably devolve into a hyperventilating, crying mess, but this time I was only feeling a tightness in my chest and a fog filling my eyes. I just needed a place to sit down and recover. Somewhere quiet.

I noticed a narrow walkway out of the corner of my misty eyes and seemed to call to me. On the second floor of an older looking building hung a sign that said "The Roost (Witches, Familiars, and Spirit Bonds Welcome)."

As I ascended the long ramp I could smell fresh bread and coffee. The tightness in my chest relaxed as I went inside. There was a lot of vertical space inside, with small walkways along the walls with the occasional fox, cat, and snake. There was a tree growing up in the middle of a luminous green circle, bearing fresh fruit, and with crows and owls existing amicably within range of one another.

"I knew this place was magic, but..." I began to whisper to myself, taking in the beauty of the small cafe.

The air here felt relaxing and familiar and easy even though it was a little cramped. I walked up to the counter to order, stuttering through the menu. The elderly woman behind the counter smiled warmly, her wrinkles stretching her heavily freckled face in a kind and lively way.

"You must be one of the new witch apprentices."

"Huh?"

She pointed to the array of skull, dream, and vulture pins on my purse as I was paying.

"Oh! No, I'm..." I remembered the stories I've heard from other therians. Was it worth the risk? I just want a calm place to sit and get my bearings.

...

... Then again, asking a local for directions might help, too.

"Actually I'm a Therian... I'm here looking for Doctor Erian's clinic, but I got really lost... Do you think maybe you..."

She waved her hand, "oh dear don't be too worried, you're just a block over! One of those new 'therian' things, eh?" Her words were blunt, but she was saying them with kindness, "I've been hearing stories about it, seems like a strange new trend, but I can't fault folks for it! Why if it has been around when I was a young'n' I'd have probably turned myself into a macaw!"

She turned to scratch the head of her equally elderly Scarlett Macaw familiar, who mimicked the sound of a bright, cheerful bell in response.

I smiled at her. She finished giving me directions. I finished ordering and paying, then I found myself a comfy little window seat at The Roost and watched the street below.

Yeah. This is a good place.

[t00thpasteface]

Hiiiii₍⁠₍⁠◞⁠(⁠ ⁠•⁠௰⁠•⁠ ⁠)⁠◟⁠₎⁠₎

Could you explain the hipster Vs fandom war. I've been on here for like four years and I never knew that existed lol and btw I really really love your art and you are one my biggest inspos for how I imagine and draw my Clark.

i'm not sure i can explain it in a way that makes sense, and certainly not in a way that makes you say "i understand why this was such a big deal", but gl'bgolyb knows i can try.

first, let me take you on a sensory experience... picture in your mind the following things... skinny jeans... nerd glasses... a weirdly dapper fashion sense in a time where everything is baggy and neon... boom, you have 2010-2014 online tumblr hipster culture. and also 70s elvis costello, oddly enough.

although admittedly i don't know his stance on pumpkin spice lattes.

anyway. now that that's burned into your brain, consider a significant population of this exact type of person that has already been well-established on this microblogging platform around the turn of the decade. tumblr doesn't really have an app yet because smartphones haven't taken over everyone's life yet, and online fandom culture is still largely dominated by deviantart as the main "fandom hub". most people, myself included, are getting their main meme fixes from facebook (which your parents were not yet on) or the icanhazcheezburger image-aggregator network. THEN EVERYTHING CHANGED WHEN THE FANDOM NATION ATTACKED.

somehow, a huge crowd of people who considered their favorite books/movies/games to be core personality traits began to set up shop on this fair slate-blue isle. i number myself among this crowd, having been lured here by google-image-searching for miscellaneous fanart in 2011. the "old guard" largely belongs to, and continuously attracts new bloggers within, a burgeoning subculture that 100% defines itself by bucking popular trends and social expectations... whether or not this is actually accomplished by purchasing beverages from starbucks and putting old film filters on every photo, i cannot say.

you may be seeing an issue already arising: hey, if the hipsters hate everything that's popular and gatekeep all their interests, and the fandom bloggers are obsessed with extremely popular franchises and are hell-bent making them even more popular, isn't that going to cause a little friction?

well, yes. it caused a fuck ton of friction. a division arose early on between "the fandom side of tumblr" and "the hipster side of tumblr." some people, like myself, played both sides. others abstained from the rigid dichotomy and considered themselves to be on another "side," like the science side of tumblr, known for explaining relatively straightforward STEM concepts in large essays that began with something like "listen up fuckers."

ahhh, unfriendable. such a narrow little window in time where cheezburger sites and facebook had equal sway in the online zeitgeist.

interestingly, as someone who trawled a LOT of aesthetic tags, the most popular of which was simply #aesthetic (it was shockingly consistent in there), i never actually saw hipster bloggers complaining about fandom bloggers. it was always the other way around, with fandom bloggers bragging about how much they're freaking out the squares to get cool points with other fandom bloggers, all while never actually engaging with the hipster bloggers because their tags rarely overlapped.

hi, marge! we're freaking out the hipsters!

regardless of whether there was any material reality to it, or if it was simply a Minitrue level of entirely fictional warfare, this concept entrenched itself into the fandom bloggers, likely as a way to still feel "edgy" and unique while, again, obsessing over extremely popular and mainstream things like doctor who, pokemon, avatar the last airbender, the brand-new mcu, and other decidedly non-counterculture media. even with things it felt like no one irl had heard of, like hetalia and homestuck, those were online juggernauts nonetheless, the former of which had dominated deviantart for years and the latter of which prompted hotels and convention centers across the world to implement very strict rules about unsealed body paint. people treated fandoms like they were some sort of exclusive country club with membership fees and a dress code. and dunking on hipsters became an entire genre of Fake Internet Story, which were already pervasive on this website.

what's the point of being in a clique if there's no outgroup to flex on? #swag

this whole phenomenon ran concurrently, even symbiotically, with other tumblrisms like "tumblr university" and those horrendous "not like other girls" memes...

which means, of course, it was absolutely dead in the fucking water once DashCon happened in 2014. i don't need to tell you what happened at DashCon (there's a million essays and videos about it if you're one of today's lucky ten thousand who's never heard of it), but all across the fandom side of tumblr, it felt like finding out your parents lied about santa claus. turns out the fandoms you're in don't actually say anything about who you are as a person, a bunch of tumblrinas can't just will a fully functional micronation into existence just by wearing tacky merchandise in a public venue, and magic probably isn't real.

i wish i had some grand way to end this story, but really the moral is the same as it ever was: online drama is eternal, inescapable, and completely fucking worthless. if you only post to get mad at shit, especially if you're just making up a guy to get mad at, cut that out. touch grass. look at images of cats. i don't remember any of the enemies i made from this era, but i fondly remember all the friends, and i'm richer for making those positive connections. that's all for today's episode of Tumblr History with Toothpaste Face... remember to tip your waitress and stay minty.

[coochiequeens]

I've posted many times about how surrogacy exploits women but there's also the fertility industry exploiting people despretate for bio kids and how they don’t care about the future impact on the resulting kids.

Netflix's 'Man With 1000 Kids' puts a spotlight on the lack of international regulations for sperm donors

July 9, 2024, 6:00 PM EDT

By Elizabeth Chuck

A Netflix docuseries has put a spotlight on the unregulated world of sperm donation, particularly the lack of stopgap measures that might prevent donors who have been banned by one country from simply going elsewhere to donate more.

Released earlier this month, “The Man With 1000 Kids” explores the fallout from the case of serial sperm donor Jonathan Meijer, a Dutch man who fathered children around the globe via donations to sperm banks, as well as through private meetings he reportedly held directly with prospective mothers. The Dutch Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology prohibited him from donating sperm in the Netherlands in 2017, but he continued to donate to other countries afterward.

The result of Meijer’s actions is there are hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of half-siblings who may not realize they are related to one another. Their risk of accidental inbreeding is real: In 2021, The New York Times reported some of Meijer’s offspring had come across one another on the dating app Tinder.

"Once, I swiped on a sister and she swiped right on me at the same time,” said a half-brother, Jordy Willekens, who lives in the Netherlands. “I have a very trained eye by now.”

Experts and advocates for donor-conceived people say Meijer’s story is not an outlier. 

“There’s nothing keeping donors from donating anywhere. If a donor is banned in their home country, they just go somewhere else,” said Wendy Kramer, director of the Donor Sibling Registry, which she co-founded in 2000 with her son, Ryan, who was donor-conceived. The worldwide matching site has connected more than 26,000 half-siblings and donors so far, and Kramer said some people have found over 200 matches.

“There’s no regulation. There’s no oversight,” Kramer added.

There’s nothing keeping donors from donating anywhere. If a donor is banned in their home country, they just go somewhere else,” said Wendy Kramer, director of the Donor Sibling Registry, which she co-founded in 2000 with her son, Ryan, who was donor-conceived. The worldwide matching site has connected more than 26,000 half-siblings and donors so far, and Kramer said some people have found over 200 matches.

Without any sort of global tracking system, donors who have been banned in one country are easily able to keep donating in other countries, said Jody Madeira, a professor at Indiana University Maurer School of Law who is writing a book about fertility fraud by doctors and serial donors. 

“They shouldn’t donate. They promise not to. But ‘shouldn’t’ doesn’t mean ‘can’t,’” she said. “And there’s no lightning bolt that’s going to come down because there’s no international registry.”

Countries have rules for the number of offspring sperm donors can produce, though many are recommendations rather than laws. In the Netherlands, nonbinding guidelines limit clinic donors to 25 children. In the U.S., guidelines from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine suggest a cap of 25 children per donor in a population of 800,000. Norway limits donors to eight children, Spain limits them to six children, and Sweden limits them to 12 children across six families.

In an email, Meijer criticized such regulations, writing that in his experience as a donor for 17 years, “one of the trends I see is that countries with the highest government regulations for donors, creates a serious shortage of qualified donors.”

Meijer called himself “one of the best donors you can wish for” in videos on his YouTube channel and says the Netflix documentary, which he declined to participate in, is full of lies.

He also argued that he did nothing wrong by donating internationally.

“You have to realize that I follow the guidelines of the international sperm banks,” Meijer said in a YouTube video posted Thursday. “They don’t inform their recipients, the people that order the sperm from their stock — they will never inform the parents about the amount of offspring that they have created with the same one donor.”

“So you might say, ‘You had to inform the parents correctly about a number.’ But I was following international guidelines,” he added.

Two large international sperm banks that Meijer mentioned in his video, California Cryobank and Denmark-based Cryos International, did not respond to questions about their screening processes for accepting sperm donations. 

Cryos International says on its website that its donors cannot donate to any other sperm bank. In 2021, then-CEO Peter Reeslev told the New York Times that all Cryos donors are made aware of the exclusivity clause.

“Donors sign and commit in contractual terms to not donate in any other tissue establishments than Cryos before and undertake not to donate sperm to other sperm banks/tissue centers in the future as well,” he said.

On its website, California Cryobank says potential donors are rigorously screened, with less than 1% of applicants qualifying to become donors. It lists a number of accreditations and licenses it says it has, including from the American Association of Tissue Banks, which performs on-site inspections, and the Food and Drug Administration, which has rules about quarantining sperm donations and testing them.

But those rules do not address the number of offspring a donor can have or what happens when one country tells a donor to stop donating.

While no efforts are underway to create a worldwide registry of sperm donors, Colorado will implement a law next year that states that it forbids anonymous sperm or egg donations, meaning when donor-conceived people turn 18, banks and clinics will provide contact information for their donors to them.

The law also caps the number of families that can use a single donor and requires sperm and egg agencies to make a “good faith effort” keep permanent, up-to-date medical records on donors.

It is the first law of its kind in the U.S. Australia and a number of European countries already prohibit anonymous sperm and egg donations, giving donor-conceived people access to more information about their identities and family histories. 

But some advocates say that even with the new Colorado law, there is still no oversight mandating accurate record-keeping on the number of children born from any single donor, especially since other states won’t be keeping count.

“There’s no entity keeping track of the number of kids for one donor, and nothing changes with that. Sperm banks and egg clinics will continue to have no accurate accounting of the children born to any one donor,” Kramer said. “The conversation doesn’t make sense until you have accurate record-keeping.”

It also doesn't help with the problem of sperm donations from a single donor in multiple countries. Kramer said that the discovery of half-siblings always comes with a slew of emotions for donor-conceived people but that it can be especially fraught when the newfound relative is in a different country.

"Oftentimes these people are so excited to have found each other, and they want to meet, but distance is prohibitive because of cost and time,” she said.

Language barriers can also make it harder to communicate important information.

“It’s really important to know your family health history, and also medical updates,” Kramer said. “Are you healthy? Do you have any genetic concerns? Because this can help with screenings and preventative medicine.”

Erin Jackson, founder of We Are Donor Conceived, a support group and online resource community that has about 3,600 members on Facebook, lives in California and was donor-conceived in Canada. She has found nine or so half-siblings and suspects she could have 100 or more she does not know about yet.

“I was born in the suburbs of Toronto, and I moved to San Diego,” she said. “I know that if I’m going to find more siblings, they’ll probably be in Canada. And there’s a sadness that comes from knowing I’m, like, a $600 flight away from any of them. It’s really not easy to just pop over and integrate myself into their lives, even if we both want that.”

As for Meijer’s voluminous number of sperm donations, Jackson said she was “disturbed but not surprised.”

“There just aren’t legal protections that would stop someone from doing this,” she said.

“There’s a lot of psychological damage that comes out of this type of situation,” she added. “I can’t imagine being one of this guy’s children.”

[secret-diary-of-an-fa]

Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday (Worth the Wait).

In a season that has been decidedly hit and miss (with more of the latter than the former), The Legend of Ruby Sunday stands as a both startlingly detailed and wonderfully well-made. It might even be better than Boom! (the standout for this season so far) but I’m undecided on that one. It’s really astonishing how much of this episode just works, straight off the bat, especially given how many elements are in play at once. And there are are lot of elements. The Legend of Ruby Sunday is a dense, meaty slice of science fiction that feels worthy of the show’s spectacular, confident 2005 return. We have a woman who seems to have been multiplied and scattered across time and space but who, on present day Earth, is a tech billionaire preparing to release a new app that will change life on the planet in some mysterious and unspecified way. We have a time window that lets us see into Ruby Sunday’s equally mysterious past, developed in secret by UNIT (who have been spying on the tech billionaire). We have a dark cloud hanging over the TARDIS itself and ominous portents that He Who Waits is ‘returning’. It’s heavily implied that He Who Waits is something like the Celestial Toymaker but worse; far, far worse. And finally, at the end, we get a big, scary reveal that unveils the tech billionaire as a mere pawn in someone else’s game and the real identity of He Who Waits (and what he has to do with the dark presence lurking around the TARDIS). By golly that’s a lot of things and they all gel together nicely, creating a plot that feels kinetic and energised without feeling rushed.

Unfortunately, in order to review it properly, I’m going to have to spoil the big reveal at the end, so if you haven’t seen The Legend of Ruby Sunday yet, consider this a hearty, two-thumbed recommendation, go watch it, and then come back here for the analysis. SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT.

Done? Okay? Brilliant. So it turns out that He Who Waits is- and there’s no easy way to say it so I’m just going to come right and drop a bombshell on y’all- the no-kidding god of death (Sutekh to his friends). The tech billionaire (Susan, but it doesn’t matter) is one of his vessels, come to bring the gift of death to the noisy, babbling universe while the dark cloud around the TARDIS is Sutekh’s own body, scattered but waiting to manifest. And manifest he does, immediately causing his vessels and harbingers to turn into zombie-things whose merest touch can turn people to dust. Cue the ‘TO BE CONTINUED’ bit and roll the credits, because that, ladies and gents, is how you do a fucking cliff-hanger.

Doctor Who really does seem to be at its best when it’s doing full-on cosmic horror lately (the ridiculousness of The Giggle notwithstanding, it still leant heavily into that vibe; even moreso Wild Blue Yonder). Don’t get me wrong: I wasn’t necessarily a fan of the wishy-washy supernatural elements introduced this season (the stupid bloody fairy circle for 73 Yards can grab its cunty little goblin friends from The Church on Ruby Road and fuck right off), but I’ll forgive them since this is apparently what they were building to. The Doctor- the pinnacle of intelligent, problem-solving rationality- matching wits with a god death embodying the blackest, deepest depths of terror and superstition? Yessity-fucking-please! And the route we took to get here: the reunions and cheer of UNIT overcast and overshadowed with a palpable sense of looming dread as a storm rolls into London, presaging the terror to come. It’s great! It’s even gotten me psyched for the next episode; the final instalment of this season and this story. Well, it’s mostly got me psyched.

See, as much as I enjoyed The Legend of Ruby Sunday, I do worry that one great episode does not equal a trend and that the titanic confrontation promised at the end of this one might not actually be paid off in the sequel. We could end up with the Doctor getting sidelined by other, more active characters, or Sutekh getting nerfed for reasons of plot-convenience. Hopefully the two-parter got written in one mammoth session on one of Russel T. Davies’ more switched-on days and the quality will remain consistent across the halves, because it would be great if this season could end on a bang instead of a whimper.

Sorry. I don’t mean to sound negative while I’m in the middle of praising something. The problem is that this season has been such a mixed bag, it’s hard not to have my opinion of even great episodes coloured by the quality of the episodes that surround them.

Anyway! Back to the positivity! What works here is as much about what the episode doesn’t do as what it does do. We’re not interrupted, for example, by any unnecessary musical numbers (look, I was fine with the Celestial Toymaker having a song-and-dance routine, because he’s that kind of over the top villain, but the number of episodes that ground to a halt for musicals this season was starting to get ridiculous). We’re also mercifully free of rushed romantic subplots (again, Doctor Who plus romance is fine, it just needs awhile to percolate, and if you’re not going to do it properly, you shouldn’t do it at all, BBC). And, most importantly of all, there’s no overt, straight-to-camera speeches about [INSERT RIPPED-FROM-THE-HEADLINES ISSUE HERE]. I’ve broadly agreed with the show’s politics this season (we’re not lost in Tory Chibnal territory here), but I don’t want to hear any point repeated ad nauseum, even a good point. All the focus here is on delivering a proper, well-constructed story and it’s really refreshing.

I have gripes, of course. I appreciate the low-key diss someone slipped past the editorial team by making the god of death look a bit like a mouse. Disney, whose money Doctor Who now depends on is, of course, the ‘House of Mouse’ and it’s fair to say it’s influence is one of the factors slowly killing interest in the show, so yeah: right on whoever came up with that monster design. Unfortunately, it does have the unexpected side-effect of making Sutekh look adorable, which probably isn’t the vibe they were going for. Also, I’ve seen Lenny Rush on Taskmaster and now I’ve seen him in this and he definitely makes a better comedian than an actor. I mean, fair play to the wee fella, I’ve just googled him and he’s only fifteen so it’s totally to be expected that he’s not quite there yet. It just seems weird he’s in a more serious-skewing episode.

Overall, however, The Legend of Ruby Sunday is a refreshing change of pace in a season that’s struggled to find its feet. Hopefully, it’s a blueprint for both the season finale and Ncuti Gatwa’s upcoming second season as the Doctor. This kind of thing is good. This kind of thing can bring fans together. This kind of thing is what the show needs now.

Please, please, Russel T. Davies. MORE OF THIS SORT OF THING.

EDIT: Yes, I'm aware that Sutekh is supposed to look like a jackal, but 'supposed to' is the operative phrase in this context. From the camera angle privileged towards the end of the episode, with the big ears and adorable little whiskers, the motherfucker looks like a mouse, and that will never not be funny to me.

[prettyvintageafternoon]

So, a study done by Physicians for Human Rights, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Lift Louisiana and Reproductive Health Impact has found that doctors in the abortion-prohibitive state of Louisiana are now resorting to conducting c-sections for patients instead of giving them D&Cs - a type of abortion procedure that is more often conducted in the event of an emergency, such as miscarriage management. (Source)

...This is where we are at.

For context, these are obviously pro-choice organizations so I cannot be certain that this is a national trend yet. In the interest of fairness, I have to wait for other studies to be done to see if this is something that is happening across the country.

Obviously, I'm extremely concerned because Louisiana has a substantial black population, so black women will obviously be affected by this.

However, I want to make a few predictions.

Prediction #1:

Birthrates are going to plummet exponentially, especially in abortion-prohibitive states. Far fewer people will want to have children if they find that getting cut open will be more likely experience if their pregnancy isn't successful.

However, pro-lifers will blame feminism, "the left," pro-choicers...effectively everyone but themselves for this. They'll say abortion rights advocates are fearmongering about the effects of the bans.

Prediction #2:

Pro-lifers are going to try to normalize unnecessary c-sections as a way to justify the effects of this situation. I promise we will see the regular anti-abortion suspects on and off Tumblr, be it anti-abortion accounts on this app or anti-abortion groups and activists justify this. Full stop.

Prediction #3:

Pro-lifers are also going to valorize women who die during childbirth as a way to make the increase in maternal death resulting from abortion-prohibitive policies more palatable to the general public. They did this with Gianna Molla years ago, so I fully expect to see a similar rhetoric in the next few years, or even months.

Prediction #4:

I expect to see sterilization among women, including women from minority populations, increase at least a little bit. Less women will want to risk pregnancy at all because of abortion-prohibitive policy AND other factors such as parental costs, and distribution of labor related to childbearing, so they're going to seek out the one option that prevents them from getting pregnant entirely.

And then conservatives will come for that too.

[sparkiekong]

Ugh!! Elita back on the smokes again!! Major yuck!! Major turn off. Somebody needs to tell her that. Also she needs to try harder to stop. Chosen one myass!! I bet Lyra and Cat are to blame somehow!

Hi there nonny. Sorry this is gonna be long winded...again.

TLDR: Yeah, it seems she's slipped off the wagon. Addiction is not an easy wagon ride! I'm afraid for some people it's much harder than others. The gang will have relapses and struggles just like anyone else who has addictive tendances. It's not going to stop entirely anytime soon, I'm afraid.

We depict a lot of these types things. Much of mine and @helenofsimblr's writing is taken from real world examples. history, mythology and we do copious amounts of research and add about 300% creativity. Smoking (even the underage smoking) is probably the LEAST worrisome topic in this story and much worse is to come. I hope you're ready nonny... the roller coaster has just started and it's not a smooth ride... It's also completely ok to unfollow for that reason alone if smoking is your line. I promise you that we are definitely going to go beyond that, so stay safe friend! It's quite ok to stop reading. I promise we won't be offended. This story is not everyone's cup of tea and that's ok.

If you're still interested in reading and it's just that I missed adding a trigger or you'd like an additional trigger, please let me know and I will add it. Especially if it's one that you like to use... At the end of the day we're all responsible for our own mental safety on the internet... I can only provide the trigger words to block. You have to do your part. Thanks for the ask friend. I hope you have a lovely and wonderful day.

Rest is under cut with a bit more examples of differences of KSU and IRL world and informational links on medical information on addiction:

There is a key thing to remember about this story and that is that the universe (lovingly called the KSU) is a kind of alternate universe to our own, some scientific developments happened at very different times to our own and smoking science has not yet caught up to ours. In some ways, it's got sort of a sixties feel and in others, it seems like future-vision. It can be a bit confusing, so I'll provide some examples!

A big example is that the KSU recently just discovered ultrasound tech that can be used to check on fetus health and that smoking is generally bad for one's health, but the KSU has been in space for quite a long time, is well established in space and have computers and cell phones... While the real world (the one you and I live in), ultrasound has been around for a long time and is quite advanced, the anti-smoking campaign has been going on for many years with decent success. However, we in IRL we have not until recently (maybe the last 10-15 years) been able to reliably get into space and back safely in various different countries. Admittingly, I don't track all space travel, just the ones that hit the trending list of my news app.

The rest of this is for people who are struggling to understand addiction and/or are suffering or watching someone suffer with it and are looking for understanding. Please! Talk with your family doctors or google your country of origin + addiction help and you can find the help that you or a friend or family member may need.

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Here are a few links that explain a bit about addiction and why it's not always just as easy as "just don't do that" or "Stop".

[threephantomrey]

what i think the 13 Ghosts would be doing and where they would be in modern day:

• Nekara: AT THE CLUB!!!! people first meet her on the dance floor and she love bombs them. she then tells them she wants some alone time with them so she takes them to a private spot where she steals all their valuables and then kills them. that or she uses dating apps to find victims, and says on her profile that she wants casual dating and when the person she’s being casual with wants to take things to the next level, she leaves and kills them. puts down other women in order to get a man’s attention

• Zomba: traps people in their phones or laptops and traps them in specific websites/apps. like now for an eternity she tortures them by trapping them in twitter and making them read the most stupid discourse about things that don’t matter, or whenever they post something EVERYONE misinterprets whatever they’re saying and no one is able to understand what they’re actually saying except for the person who posted the tweets.

• Rankor: possesses phones and laptops to hack peoples accounts. i’m talking social media accounts, work emails, school emails, bank accounts. he hacks someone’s spotify and they’re forced to listen to “High Hopes” by Panic At The Disco for eternity.

• Demondo: on deviantart and AO3 torturing artists by forcing them to post AI art.

• Maldor: makes cursed melatonin and other sleep supplements and sells them to mortals at their local pharmacy, also sells cursed mattresses at Raymour & Flanigan

• Queen Morbidia: she disguises herself as a doctor and says she does blood transfusions but really she just steals other people’s blood and feeds on it

• Time Slime: is behind the current nostalgia trend and the cinematic universe trend. creates tiktok to shorten the attention spans of gen z as much as possible. messes with time so much that people from the past are now born in the future and is also constantly making people rewrite and forget history

• Captain Ferguson: disguises himself as a lifeguard at beaches but instead of actually being one, he makes sure everything aligns so that the people at the beaches drown mysteriously

• Professor Phantazmo: becomes a tiktok influencer and a youtuber to give gen z and gen alpha brainrot

• Marcella: gets young people to summon her and make her all powerful by posting videos about spells and witches and telling them to recite the spells in the comments

• Zimbulu: trains wild animals at zoos to attack and kill the people that are visiting there and the people that work there

• Reflector Specter: uses any sort of mirror or camera to make someone believe they’re ugly and make them go mad as they try to constantly alter their appearance to feel better about themselves

• Asmodeus: is an EXTREMELY famous celebrity that has the most parasocial fanbase both online and offline that there’s ever been in all of history. he is in all corners of the internet, in every book, every game, every movie, every advertisement, every show, every video, every song, on every billboard. is #1 ALLL of the time. constantly breaking records. no one can get away from him. someone gives him the slightest amount of criticism and his entire fanbase shows up at their house in .00002 seconds with torches and pitchforks. someone disagrees with something he said or did? he orders his fanbase to shun and attack them and ruin their and their family and friend’s lives. he literally is a cult leader.

[denimbex1986]

'All Of Us Strangers and Ripley star Andrew Scott has signed up to voice erotic new audio series The Queen’s Guard, and fans of horny ASMR are simply shaking.

The Queen’s Guard is created by Quinn, an app for audio erotica, with categories including “butt stuff”, “non-binary voice”, and “daddy”.

Essentially, this looks set to be Scott’s raunchiest role to-date, and for someone perpetually associated with Fleabag’s Hot Priest, that’s no easy feat.

Scott will voice the role of Robb the Protector in the horny historical fiction series (yes, there’s more than one episode), though the plot for this titillating tale is currently under wraps. Perhaps in this story, the listener decides when the climax is.

In a short clip posted by Quinn, Andrew Scott walks through a whitewashed room dressed in a silk blue top and matching trousers as he begins to read a section of The Queen’s Guard.

“Look at you,” he says, with a voice so smoky it could cause Bronchitis.

“Look at how beautifully your body bears the marks of everything you’ve been through. I could worship every one of them.”

Scott, who also whispered plenty of sweet nothings to Paul Mescal in this year’s gay drama All of Us Strangers, promised that his fans would get everything they needed and more from The Queen’s Guard.

“I know a lot of you out there love a bit of fantasy and historical fiction,” he said with a slight chuckle, suggesting he knows exactly what kind of fantasies his fans enjoy the most.

“I think you’re gonna really fall in love with this story.”

The Queen’s Guard lands on Quinn on 16 May, and as expected, the reveal has led to a flurry of Scott fans scheduling some me-time in their calendar for that date.

“I screamed so loud I frightened my neighbors,” one fan wrote, as another quipped: “I fear I let out a whistle note only dogs can hear.”

“Carpal tunnel doctor appointments about to go through the roof,” joked a third, as a third predicted: “Amazon is going to be scratching their heads trying to figure out why Fleabag season 2 is suddenly trending again.”

The Queen’s Guard will be available on Quinn from Thursday 16 May.'

[montarhealthtech]

The Rise of Custom Healthcare Apps: Transforming Patient Care

The healthcare industry is undergoing a digital transformation. At the heart of this revolution are custom healthcare apps.

These apps are not just digitizing patient records and streamlining administrative processes. They are fundamentally changing how healthcare is delivered and experienced.

Custom healthcare apps are enhancing patient care, improving accessibility, and transforming patient experiences. They are making healthcare more personalized, efficient, and patient-centric.

This article explores how custom healthcare apps are revolutionizing the healthcare industry. It delves into the key features of these apps and their impact on both healthcare providers and patients.

Whether you're a healthcare professional, a patient, or simply interested in the intersection of healthcare and technology, this article will provide valuable insights.

Understanding Custom Healthcare Apps

Custom healthcare apps are mobile applications designed specifically for the healthcare sector. They are tailored to meet the unique needs of healthcare providers and patients.

These apps can range from patient management systems to telemedicine platforms. They can also include apps for appointment scheduling, medication reminders, and health tracking.

The key feature of custom healthcare apps is their ability to be customized. This means they can be designed to fit the specific requirements of a healthcare organization or a patient group.

What Are Custom Healthcare Apps?

Custom healthcare apps are more than just mobile versions of healthcare services. They are tools that leverage technology to improve healthcare delivery and outcomes.

These apps can be designed for various users, including doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, and patients. They can also be tailored for specific medical conditions or treatment plans.

In essence, custom healthcare apps are digital solutions that address the unique challenges and opportunities in the healthcare sector.

The Need for Personalized Healthcare Solutions

The healthcare industry is complex and diverse. It deals with a wide range of medical conditions, treatment protocols, and patient needs.

A one-size-fits-all approach is not effective in this context. This is where custom healthcare apps come in.

They offer personalized solutions that can adapt to the specific needs of each patient or healthcare provider. This level of personalization is crucial in improving healthcare outcomes and patient satisfaction.

How Custom Healthcare Apps Are Revolutionizing the Industry

The impact of custom healthcare apps on the industry is profound. They are transforming the way healthcare is delivered and experienced.

These apps are making healthcare more accessible, efficient, and patient-centric. They are also helping healthcare providers to improve their services and outcomes.

Custom healthcare apps are not just a trend. They are a key part of the digital transformation in healthcare.

Enhancing Patient Care Through Customization

Custom healthcare apps are enhancing patient care in many ways. They provide personalized care experiences that are tailored to each patient's needs and preferences.

These apps can integrate with wearable technology for continuous health tracking. They can also support telemedicine services, expanding access to care.

Custom healthcare apps can streamline appointment scheduling and reminders. They can also enable secure messaging between patients and healthcare providers.

Streamlining Healthcare Processes

Custom healthcare apps are also streamlining healthcare processes. They can reduce administrative burdens on healthcare staff.

These apps can assist in managing chronic diseases by tracking symptoms and vitals. They can also support the digitization of healthcare records for better data management.

Custom healthcare apps can improve diagnostic accuracy with AI integration. They can also enhance collaboration among different healthcare professionals.

Improving Accessibility and Patient Experiences

Custom healthcare apps are improving accessibility to healthcare services. They can offer language translation services to overcome communication barriers.

These apps can provide educational resources and health tips to patients. They can also include medication tracking and alerts to improve adherence.

Custom healthcare apps can provide analytics to help improve healthcare services. They can also be used to collect patient feedback for quality improvement.

Key Features of Successful Custom Healthcare Apps

Custom healthcare apps come with a range of features. These features are designed to improve patient care and streamline healthcare processes.

The key features of successful custom healthcare apps include real-time data access, secure communication, and integration with wearables.

These features not only enhance the functionality of the apps but also improve their usability and effectiveness.

Real-Time Data Access and Patient Monitoring

One of the key features of custom healthcare apps is real-time data access. This feature allows healthcare providers to access patient data in real time.

Real-time data access can improve patient monitoring and care. It can also help healthcare providers to make informed decisions.

This feature can also facilitate remote monitoring, reducing the need for in-person visits.

Secure Communication and Telemedicine

Secure communication is another important feature of custom healthcare apps. This feature enables secure messaging between patients and healthcare providers.

Secure communication can improve patient engagement with their own health management. It can also support telemedicine services.

Telemedicine services can expand access to care, especially for patients in remote areas.

Integration with Wearables and Health Tracking

Integration with wearables is a key feature of custom healthcare apps. This feature allows the apps to integrate with wearable technology for continuous health tracking.

Health tracking can assist in managing chronic diseases. It can also support preventive healthcare by promoting healthy lifestyle choices.

Integration with wearables can also enhance patient engagement and self-management.

The Impact on Healthcare Providers and Patients

Custom healthcare apps have a significant impact on both healthcare providers and patients. They are transforming the way healthcare is delivered and experienced.

For healthcare providers, these apps bring efficiency and collaboration. For patients, they offer empowerment and engagement.

For Healthcare Providers: Efficiency and Collaboration

Custom healthcare apps can greatly improve efficiency in healthcare delivery. They can streamline processes and reduce administrative burdens.

These apps can also enhance collaboration among different healthcare professionals. They can provide a platform for sharing patient data and coordinating care.

With these apps, healthcare providers can also access analytics to help improve healthcare services.

For Patients: Empowerment and Engagement

For patients, custom healthcare apps offer empowerment and engagement. These apps provide personalized care experiences and improve patient engagement with their own health management.

They also offer real-time access to personal health data. This can empower patients to take an active role in their health management.

Moreover, these apps can provide educational resources and health tips to patients. This can further enhance patient engagement and health literacy.

Overcoming Challenges in Custom Healthcare App Development

Developing custom healthcare apps is not without challenges. These challenges range from technical to regulatory.

However, with the right approach, these challenges can be overcome. This can pave the way for more innovative and effective healthcare solutions.

Addressing Security and Compliance Issues

One of the major challenges in custom healthcare app development is ensuring security and compliance. Healthcare data is sensitive and must be protected.

Custom healthcare apps must comply with healthcare regulations like HIPAA. They must also ensure the privacy and security of patient data.

Addressing these issues requires a thorough understanding of healthcare regulations. It also requires the implementation of robust security measures.

Ensuring User-Friendly Design and Accessibility

Another challenge is ensuring user-friendly design and accessibility. Custom healthcare apps must be easy to use for both healthcare providers and patients.

They must also be accessible to people with different abilities. This includes people with visual, hearing, or cognitive impairments.

Ensuring user-friendly design and accessibility requires a user-centered design approach. It also requires adherence to accessibility standards and guidelines.

The Future of Custom Healthcare Apps

The future of custom healthcare apps is promising. With advancements in technology, these apps are set to become even more powerful and effective.

They are expected to play a key role in the shift towards value-based care. They will also contribute to the digitization of healthcare records and processes.

Emerging Technologies and Trends

Emerging technologies like AI and VR are set to revolutionize custom healthcare apps. AI can improve diagnostic accuracy and provide decision support tools for clinicians.

VR can offer immersive experiences for patient education. It can also be used for therapy sessions, especially for mental health conditions.

Preparing for a More Connected Healthcare Ecosystem

As we move towards a more connected healthcare ecosystem, custom healthcare apps will play a crucial role. They will facilitate the integration of different healthcare systems and services.

They will also enable real-time data sharing and collaboration among healthcare professionals. This will lead to improved healthcare outcomes and patient experiences.

Conclusion

The rise of custom healthcare apps is transforming patient care. These apps are revolutionizing the healthcare industry by enhancing patient care, streamlining processes, and improving accessibility.

They are not just tools for managing health. They are powerful platforms that empower patients and healthcare providers alike.

The future of healthcare is digital, and custom healthcare apps are leading the way. They are set to become an integral part of the healthcare ecosystem.

Embracing these apps is not just about keeping up with technology. It's about improving healthcare outcomes and experiences for everyone.