Girlsoup 🐀

Librarian. Writer. Burned out Artist. Cat Lady. Book Nerd. AuDHD. Spoonie. 🏳️‍🌈. Lover of all Things Spoopy™️.

[Girlsoup 🐀 @sugarhighanddry]

First time living outside of Halifax during a provincial election, and today I learned there isn't an NDP candidate in Cumberland North. That's just incredibly disappointing. I always vote NDP. I don't want to vote for any of these other jokers. @NSNDP

[ᴘᴏᴛᴀᴛᴜᴍ @pot8um]

Openly advocating for eugenics in my comment section? You must be lost.

Protect yourself and others from
SARS-CoV-2. Wear a mask.

Or else you might become… *thunder*
ONE OF US.

[Mikaela @FridayInHalifax]

I won’t lie, I have no faith in the next decade. I am tired of the hate and scared by its escalation. I just want to be left alone to live my life with the woman I love and because some people just cant stand others being happy, they’re going to try to ruin it on a national level

[Girlsoup 🐀 @sugarhighanddry]

@KateLaing15 @tessfalor 😮

[Tess Falor, Ph.D. | Renegade Research @tessfalor]

Raise your hand if you've been disbelieved, gaslit, humiliated

✋ For 18 yrs

"Your labs are normal. There's nothing wrong with you." "You look healthy. There's nothing wrong with you." "Why do you keep coming in? There's nothing wrong with you." "It's impossible to have that many Sx."

[Prof. Pragya Agarwal @DrPragyaAgarwal]

When women express pain, they are often perceived to be overestimating their symptoms or over-reacting (and being hysterical). As I discuss in Hysterical, ultimately it is rooted in the long history of medical misogyny, of hysteria, where most illnesses in women are seen to be 'of the mind' or psychosomatic, due to their nervous nature.

[Girlsoup 🐀 @sugarhighanddry]

I just knocked something off a shelf and I tried to say "my bad!" and also "oh, balls" at the same time, so I ended up shouting "my balls!" in the middle of Walmart. So that's how my day is going.

[Girlsoup 🐀 @sugarhighanddry]

@nuekerk Eastern Canadian here - hasn't populated for me yet, unfortunately.

*Champs at bit*

[Girlsoup 🐀 @sugarhighanddry]

I've been impatiently waiting for #TheUnbinding to drop and today's the day! But for some reason it's not on Prime? Is this just a me thing? Any other Canadians having this issue?

[Girlsoup 🐀 @sugarhighanddry]

@nuekerk Been waiting impatiently for this for so long. Just went to buy it on Prime and its not there? Anyone else having the same issue? Located in Canada.

[Girlsoup 🐀 @sugarhighanddry]

I guarantee you will not want me driving without my glasses, honey. I do, in fact, need them.

[mallory (she/her)💬 @this_is_mallory]

I guess it was only a matter of time before the anti-glasses grift became a thing?

This community is so hellbent on having a contrarian opinion on every incredible scientific invention.

[Girlsoup 🐀 @sugarhighanddry]

Its a full time job dealing with them, insurance, and doctors. I'm too sick & roo tired. I've jumped every single one of their hoops yet its never good enough. The "rules" are ever changing. They *live* to deny people help. No wonder there's a surge in the unhoused population.

[Girlsoup 🐀 @sugarhighanddry]

NS IA is threatening to take my disability assistance away, again. I'm just going to let them. EVERYTHING is a battle with them & I'm tired of fighting. I live in constant fear of them which just makes me sicker. Homelessness is honestly preferable to dealing with those ghouls.

[𝙶𝚘 𝙰𝚜𝚔 𝙰𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚎 📚🐇 @aliceinempire]

Most people believe that COVID is over because they’re thinking about it like a singular event that has ended.

What we’re living through is a slow deterioration of society due to unmitigated reinfections of a virus that inflicts long term health damage.

[Girlsoup 🐀 @sugarhighanddry]

Finally started feeling secure & no longer anxious I'll lose my home. But now Income Assistance wants to "review my eligibility" as if I magically became not disabled in the last year. Why do they do this to us? We're just trying to survive!

[collagen machine broke @chronicallybeee]

i just think it’s fucked up that patients need to be strategic in the way that they present their symptoms and quality of life to doctors, so MAYBE they will be taken seriously and not dismissed.

[Girlsoup 🐀 @sugarhighanddry]

Im confused. Why can't hospitals fill prescriptions?

Just left the ER. They gave me a prescription. I should NOT be driving right now (was there for fainting!) but they expect me to go all the way into town to fill the Rx and then all the way back into the sticks to get home?

[CMHA Halifax-Dartmouth Branch @CMHAHalDart]

@adsumforwomen We have moved from a Housing Crisis to a Housing Emergency.

#housingishealthcare
#housingemergency
#homelessness

[Adsum for Women & Children @adsumforwomen]

Across Nova Scotia, more and more people are struggling. Please just build and support non market housing. That’s the best way to help people afford rent and remain housed.

[Girlsoup 🐀 @sugarhighanddry]

@adsumforwomen Oh but he "accidentally" retweeted it. He's not really that disgusting. 🙄