Tilly is Tired

The world's gone mad and maybe I have too. Politically homeless.

[Mötley Jëw @motleyjoo]

Libs COULD use this as an opportunity to look in a mirror but nope. It's Tom Morello's fault. Not the party, not the candidate.

[USMC Lady Vet 🇺🇸 @Arkypatriot]

Despite all the hoopla about keeping Daylight Saving Time year-round, there’s one thing nobody can change: we are NOT getting more daylight in the winter.

The shortest days will still have the exact same amount of sunlight. Moving the clock ahead an hour doesn’t create another hour of daylight. It just moves that hour from the morning to the evening.

So yes, it may stay light later in the afternoon, but the tradeoff is that the sun rises an hour later in the morning. In parts of Arkansas, that could mean winter sunrises after 8:00 AM.

Daylight Saving Time didn’t start because somebody wanted more time to enjoy summer evenings. Germany was the first country to adopt it nationwide in 1916 during World War I as a way to conserve coal and fuel for the war effort. Other countries followed, including the U.S. in 1918. It never created more daylight, it just changed what the clock said when we used it.

You can change the clock. You can’t change the tilt of the Earth.

[Tilly is Tired @TiredTilly]

@markallanbovair Correct solution IMO is make standard time permanent, and remember that if individual gov'ts/organizations want to, they can simply institute summer business hours (e.g., open 9-5 Sep-May / 8-4 Jun-Aug). Leave clocks alone & bring back the old concept of voluntary "summer hours".

[Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen]

Things are just great over here.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Every one of these was done to people like you by a careful doctor following the rules.

1915: healthy teeth pulled by the mouthful, then the tonsils, to cure arthritis and madness. It was the standard of care.

1925: X-rays aimed at babies' chests to shrink a gland that was a perfectly normal size. The cancers turned up decades later. It was the standard of care.

1935: mothers drugged through labour, strapped to the bed with their heads padded, and sent home with no memory of the birth. It was the standard of care.

1940: electric shocks through the brain with no anaesthetic and no muscle relaxant, strong enough to fracture the patient's spine. It was the standard of care.

1948: premature babies kept in high oxygen as routine. It blinded about 10,000 of them. It was the standard of care.

1955: women in Irish maternity hospitals had the pelvis sawn open in labour in place of a caesarean, and were not asked. It was the standard of care.

1970: the whole breast, the chest muscle and the armpit removed for a lump a smaller operation would have dealt with. It was the standard of care.

1985: newborns given open-heart surgery awake, paralysed so they could not move, with no pain relief, because babies were held not to feel pain. It was the standard of care.

None of it was fringe. A doctor who refused to do any of those could be sued for negligence, and the expert witness against him would have been quoting the textbook.

Standard of care describes what everybody is doing. It has never described whether it works, and the two get compared about once a generation, usually at an inquiry.

[Clifton Duncan @cliftonaduncan]

My first viral tweet, from 2020.

I knew it would hit as soon as I sent it.

What a shame it's still relevant.

[Tilly is Tired @TiredTilly]

@motleyjoo TDS is no doubt a part of it. But there's also a subset of people who just LOVE an opportunity to participate in authoritarianism, & especially enjoy being given a moral license to punish the non-conforming. They have nostalgia & longing for covid mandates & all the rest of it.

[Tilly is Tired @TiredTilly]

@StaceyBen2 @jaymonji1 @seanapriori Of course they're not representative of men in general. Bu the entitled attitude that women don't have the right to set boundaries or say no is very much an old-school patriarchal attitude, now clomping around in size 12 heels. And yes, enabled as always by a subset of women.

[Jennifer Bilek @bjportraits]

Because the medical industrial complex is bigger than the military industrial complex, and just like the war machine, it needs to be fed, whatever the cost.

[Prof James Davies 💭 @JDaviesPhD]

Neoliberal healthcare, instead of addressing the harmful conditions that make people depressed, uses antidepressants to modify individuals' internal states, enabling them to (wrongly) tolerate circumstances they might otherwise (rightly) resist.

[🦋 Red Velvet 🦋 @Red_Velvet_ESR]

I’ve always found it deeply ironic that feminism spent decades telling women:

You don’t have to be feminine.
You don’t have to wear dresses.
You don’t have to like makeup.
You don’t have to be nurturing.
You don’t have to behave a certain way.

And now we’re told “woman” is a gender identity defined largely by someone’s relationship to those very stereotypes.

We fought against this shit.

Why is society trying to rebuild it? We say no.

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

Senator Cotton is right. Permanent Daylight Savings has been tried and Americans didn’t like it. The better way is permanent Standard Time because it’s based on science. No dark mornings, it keeps our time in sync with the Sun, and no more changing the clocks. Arizona has been on Standard Time year round since 1968 without issue.

[Tom Cotton @SenTomCotton]

No one likes changing the clock, me included, but Congress has enacted permanent Daylight Savings Time multiple times before and repealed it each time once Americans experienced absurdly late sunrises in the winter. Arkansans don’t want their kids going to school in the pitch dark, and I’ll always put Arkansas first.

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

One of the worst lies the left tells themselves is that it is right wing to object to gender ideology. The most destructive ideology to come along in a long long time. It’s as near a non partisan issue as it gets to object to lies.

[Alison Rosen @AlisonRosen]

Gen X trauma made us used to being skipped over

[Tilly is Tired @TiredTilly]

@AlexSmith90014 @WWG1WGA_QQ Agree. I just hope that all this nonsense doesn't lead to a severe backlash that takes us back to discriminating against gay people simply for being gay. The TQ+ nonsense & involving kids needs to be divorced from LGB rights (which were already won) before it does any more damage

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

At minimum, the idea of government is that it is there to protect the lives and liberties of the people. What happens when a government coerces people to accept experimental injections that harm them gravely? The whole veneer of legitimacy is stripped away.

[Benji Backer @BenjiBacker]

Major sponsors of sports 20 years ago: Coca-Cola & Taco Bell

Major sponsors of sports today: pharmaceutical and betting companies

A representation of the shift of our economy to largely predatory industries.