Navin Bhopal

[Navin Bhopal @NBhopal]

@airbnb Booked Airbnb a month in advance. Wife thought 7 days to cancel for a refund, but host has strict no refunds after 24h of booking. This is our mistake, but our stay is more than a month away, so there’s time for another to book. We requested for an exception, but host refused. airbnb says their hands are tied. Airbnb trying to resolve the issue with the host after we failed. So basically host will make $4200 from us & any additional $$ from someone else. Seems pretty shady to me.

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

Stop. Voting. For. These. Mother. Fucking. Liars.

[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

China 24 channel shared a video of a Chinese factory dedicated to MAGA merch (since 2016)

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

Hey Trump voters.

Hate to break it to you - but here’s what actually happened on Tuesday.

Watch. Bernie explained it 20 years ago.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Mike Pence has announced that he cannot in good conscience vote for Donald Trump. Retweet to make sure every American sees this clip

[Michael Narvey 🇨🇦 @NICU_Musings]

We are part of an amazing field. Much like the incredible growth we see in our patients it’s hard to believe what we’ve been able to accomplish and just 50 years!

Next time you’re having a down day think about how far we’ve come!
#neoTwitter

[Dr. K. S. Gautham @Dr_KSGautham]

Based on a recent online discussion with some colleagues about balancing risks vs benefits of antibiotic therapy. #neotwitter

[Dividendology @dividendology]

This one always hits.

[Top Biomedical Science @imedverse]

A DOCTOR ISN’T BORN, A DOCTOR IS MADE.

@Doctors__squad #Meded #medx

[Cory Muscara @corymuscara]

Everything is easier when you feel good.

One way to feel good is to meditate.

And to meditate, you just need to let go of trying to feel good.

Simple.

[Navin Bhopal @NBhopal]

@facebook I tried reported her account and this was the response I received

[Navin Bhopal @NBhopal]

@facebook hi. My Aunt’s Facebook account was hacked, and the email address and password were changed by the hacker. She can’t regain access to the account and options for her to speak to someone at Facebook are limited. Please advise.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

"For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900…

Then on your 14th birthday, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday. 22 million people perish in that war, including many of your friends who volunteered to defend freedom in Europe.

Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until your 20th birthday. 50 million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.

On your 29th birthday, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, the World GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 38. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. If you were lucky, you had a job that paid $300 a year, a dollar a day.

When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren't even over the hill yet, but don't try to catch your breath. If you lived in London, England, or most of continental Europe, bombing of your neighborhood, or invasion of your country by foreign soldiers along with their tank and artillery was a daily event. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war.

At 50, the Korean War starts. 5 million perish. At 55, the Vietnam War begins and doesn't end for 20 years. Millions of people perish in that conflict.

On your 62nd birthday, there is the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could have ended. Sensible leaders prevented that from happening.

In 2020, we have the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands have died; it feels pretty dangerous; and it is.

Now think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you think they survived all of the above? When you were a kid in 1965, you didn't think your 65-year-old grandparents understood how hard school was, and how mean that kid in your class was. Yet they survived through everything listed above.

Perspective is an amazing art. Refined as time goes on, and very enlightening. So, let's try and keep things in perspective. Let's be smart, we are all in this together. Let's help each other out, and we will get through all of this.”

-Author Unknown

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

People say they’re being nice.

When they hide the truth because they don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings. Or let them down.

This isn’t being nice: it’s self protection.

That’s not a bad thing, just call it as it is: a fear of someone being upset.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Adults can’t hold other adults accountable.

We can’t make people see what they don’t want to see. Or change what they don’t want to change.

Accountability is an inside job.

We can: hold ourselves accountable for who we invest our precious energy into.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Crying is healing.

And look how many people are shameful and apologize for it.

Crying is how the body get back into a parasympathetic state.

We really need to stop saying: “don’t cry.”

[CNN @CNN]

Two young boys from Michigan are being praised after noticing a 7-year-old drowning at the bottom of a pool and jumping into action https://t.co/ojQxylA2TS