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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Liam Neeson's wife died from a fall on a beginner ski slope. Most people don't realize the most dangerous thing you can feel after hitting your head is fine.

Natasha Richardson stood up laughing at Mont Tremblant in 2009 and sent the ambulance away. The paramedics turned around without ever seeing her. Four hours passed before a hospital admitted her, and by then the bleed was unsurvivable.

Doctors call it the lucid interval. Her fall fractured the skull near the middle meningeal artery, which began bleeding into the space between the skull and the brain's outer covering. The brain has no pain receptors. While the pooling blood stays under the volume your skull can compensate for, you feel nothing. You joke with the ski patrol. You decline the ride.

Then compensation runs out. The clot forces the brain downward toward the brain stem, the part that runs your breathing. Symptoms only appear once the pressure is already critical. For Richardson that was a headache back at her hotel, roughly two hours after the fall.

The cruelest detail: an epidural hematoma is one of the most fixable emergencies in neurosurgery. A surgeon drills into the skull, drains the clot, seals the artery. Caught inside the window, patients frequently walk out of the hospital days later. ER doctors have a name for the cases that aren't caught. Talk and die syndrome. Between 20 and 50% of epidural hematoma patients get a lucid interval first.

And the bleed is arterial, meaning it pumps at full blood pressure into a closed box, while the nearest neurosurgeon was 80 miles away in Montreal.

If you ever hit your head hard enough to see stars, feeling okay for the first few hours proves nothing. That's the exact stretch when the deadliest bleed in the book feels like a bump.

[Sophia Benoit @1followernodad]

one thing that is cool is that conservation efforts for endangered species are REMARKABLY successful :)

[shira @shiraeis]

the part they left out: these dogs were stolen for the dog meat trade in Jilin, China. Jilin province has 50+ slaughterhouses.

they escaped from a moving truck, formed a defensive formation around an injured german shepherd, and a corgi navigated them 17km home over 2 days.

they were all neighborhood dogs who played together every day. they all made it back.

China still has no national ban on dog meat, but Shenzhen banned it in 2020.

[blue @bluewmist]

don't know who needs to hear this, but start living. the days are flying by, and all you do is work, pay bills, and stress. enjoy what you can - walks, sunsets, music, laughter and nature. joy doesn't have to be expensive. you deserve it.

[blue @bluewmist]

10 signs you're doing well in life:

1. you have a roof over your head.
2. you ate today.
3. you have a good heart.
4. you care for others.
5. you have clean water.
6. someone loves you.
7. you try to do better.
8. you have clean clothes.
9. you have dreams.
10. you’re breathing.

[roobz 🌙 🌸 @tishray]

Every country has an energy. And that energy rewires you whether you notice it or not. People move to Japan and become minimal. People move to Mexico and their entire relationship with time softens. People move to New York and suddenly they can't sit still. Your personality is far more malleable than you think. We treat it like something fixed, but new surroundings give you new defaults. New pace. New habits. New values absorbed through proximity instead of effort. You're not just the average of the 5 people closest to you. You're the average of the 5 places, the 5 routines, and the 5 inputs you're exposed to most. Your commute shapes you. The weather shapes you. Every space you occupy is voting on who you become. That's why I believe choosing where you live is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make. More important than your job title. Maybe more important than your five-year plan. Because the place shapes the plan. The place shapes your energy, your habits, your relationships, your default state. Get the place right and half of the other decisions start making themselves. Get it wrong and you'll fight yourself every day.

[blue @bluewmist]

if you don't actively shape the life you desire each day, you'll eventually wake up to find that years have slipped by unnoticed

[blue @bluewmist]

don't know who needs to hear this, but start living. The days are flying by, and all you do is work, pay bills, and stress. Enjoy what you can- walks, sunsets, music, laughter and nature. Joy doesn't have to be expensive.
You deserve it.

[𝒶rα˚˖𓍢ִ໋ @yslmammi]

I’m not even joking, this is exactly it. Just show up and do your best everyday. Your best can look different everyday but just show up!

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

Someone just said

[Growth Labs @growthhub_]

Be addicted to real dopamine..

[Tim Hannan @TimHannan]

If you think a single mother whose car is filled with stuffed animals is trying to murder ice agents you are a brainwashed fucking idiot.

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

You know it’s fucked when your government labels a scared, confused soccer mom a domestic terrorist.

[Irlandarra @aldamu_jo]

ICE Agents Get EXACTLY What They Deserve from Fed-Up Police Officer

ICE mistakes a police officer for an undocumented immigrant and despite that continues to harass the officer.

[Jenin Younes @JeninYounesEsq]

I'm a former defense attorney and currently a civil liberties attorney with no political dog in this fight. I watched the video at least 10 times from different angles and at different speeds and waited to offer an opinion, which I still reserve the right to change if additional information changes the calculus.

It is very clear that the officers instigated the confrontation. The woman initially tried to wave them past her.

ICE officers have no authority to search a US citizen or arrest her (unless there's probable cause to believe she's harboring undocumented individuals, not a contention here). A woman surrounded by masked, armed men who have no law enforcement authority over her has every right to try to escape. Video shows her steering wheel is turned to the right, clearly an attempt to leave WITHOUT hitting anyone and steer clear of the officer standing towards the front of her car. That officer had time to step to the side, which is where he was when he shot her.

Even a real police officer would not have the right to shoot at her for trying to flee. This is well-established in the case law; deadly force may not be used simply to prevent someone from getting away. Given that the ICE officers had no law enforcement authority to begin with, AND the video footage shows she was trying to escape a perceived threat, not to kill anyone, the crime is all the more inexcusable.

I'm praying for the victim's family, especially her children. I'm also praying for all the conservatives who are so unprincipled and lost they're excusing this terrible crime, and gloating over a death that will leave three young children motherless, because of the victim's politics.

[Adam Deats 🌕 @AdamDeats]

Every one of these soulless, miserable fucks are sociopaths. Fuck ICE, and fuck every bootlicking lunatic that supports this hellscape.

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

This Trump thug just shot a woman in the head and killed her, and made a 6 year-old into an orphan, and not a care in the world. Oh, and she was a U.S. citizen! Psychopath. Enjoy prison.

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

Doctor: "Can I go check her pulse?"

ICE: "No! Back off! Now!"

Doctor: "I'm a physician."

ICE: "I don't care."

[5hahem @shaTIRED]

she was a mom bro. ICE is evil. this entire administration is evil. we need to stand against this.

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

CONSISTENCY = SUCCESS.