#i gave a critical review on this

[errantgoat]

okay, I need to get this out of my head and maybe ask for an opinion if you'd also feel slighted or feel I was being dismissive and/or incompetent at work? (probably will delete this later)

I had a cat today in need of catheterisation (clogged urethra) and I did what I could for over an hour but I wasn't able to place the catheter inside. (I get "clogged cats" once every few months at most because I have a very small practice and so far I never encountered this much trouble.) I work alone so the owner was there holding the patient for all my attempts. I thought this cat might actually need surgery and since I don't do surgery I sent the owner away with directions for where to go.

I get a notification two hours later that the owner review bombed me on google and also invited two friends to do it as well (three one-star reviews at the same time so it's obvious)

she didn't pay much, only for the materials used and sedation

she thought I was being incompetent but I only wanted to spare this cat renal failure, maybe she thought I didn't care? as in I did nothing for you, now pay and off you go? I mean it might've looked that way, like I just gave up. Should I've tried for longer? Be honest. I literally don't know how certain things can be viewed by others sometimes.

from the context i figured the other vet did place the catheter so I'm at least happy the cat should be ok

#i would seriously prefer if she called me personally and screamed at me and demanded her money back #(which I would gladly give if she was so dissatisfied) #there is no communication with owners at all anymore when they have criticism towards you they just smear you in front of others I guess #it's funny i tell myself I don't really care about google reviews #but I care enough to make this post I guess #sorry guys I'm kind of down because of this #i think I've made a mistake today maybe I gave up too quickly

[touchoffleece]

My thoughts on 'Totally Killer' (2023)

For pretext on my very short and to the point review/thoughts on the movie: I did not want to watch it. I was coerced to watch it via a pizza party and a smidge of guilt tripping over only taking pizza without participating in the movie watch. So...given that context all I got to say is: IT'S SO FUCKING GOOD. The movie subvertes tropes left and right while still giving viewers and movie slasher buffs satisfying nods at the tropes beloved in the genre. It does satire/meta humor so well, the best since dare I say it...The first two 'Scary Movie' films. Go watch it if you can, (preferable via a way that supports/pays the people who worked on it.)

#totally killer #slasher film #Satire #I really can't stress how unexcited and apathetic I was when I was invited to see this. I am so glad I gave it a chance #my stuff #shower thoughts #it's probably a instant cult classic if it doesn't get it's deserved dues by film critics/reviewers tbh #jamie/colette hughes #a new bad ass woman icon in slasher films 🥰 #new blorbo(s) just dropped #so many bad ass women in the film I can choose to make fan art of 😍

[bethrnoora]

lot of people without brains leaving reviews on the my heart is a chainsaw storygraph page

#people are allowed not to like it but some ppl are criticizing it for like. engaging with themes #and also that they were able to guess who the killer was. girl.... #sorry i've been leaving long ass reviews on the books ive read recently because i need to exorcise my thoughts #mostly good. except for warcross. which i gave 3.5 anyway but the narrative started getting rushed into falling apart like halfway thru

[mahikamihan]

oh my god??

YEAH OH MY GOD INDEED

#yumi answers #im still pissed #i hope the professor responds soon he's probably busy grading all our papers :/ #idk if it's enough evidence because from what i can tell it's just one portion #BUT IT'S STILL A PORTION THAT TOOK HOURS FOR ME TO MAKE #yeah DON'T DO PLAGIARISM KIDS #I am not above becoming a snitch #we did peer reviews for this as well #and he barely gave me any substantive criticism so this is such an imbalance of power at work

[july-19th-club]

infuriated outraged upset boss in the building on a saturday . at the DESK on a saturday. observed and overseen . in the panopticon and i dont even have a little coffee drink

#it's not a big deal it's JUST. that this was the one time i was actually looking forward to having the desk alone all day #brought some crocheting in case it was slow #was going to alternate between Something Fun and Something Work (have to do my donations list again) #and now i can't even do sommething fun in between. because i only bring crochet on days when i have the desk alone #and it's like. we had performance reviews in august. and mine was very harsh and critical UNTIL i told him like #what a year it's been for me mental health wise and hten he was like ok well disregard all that stuff i said on the first review #but i can't. because it was so very 'lazy unmotivated not present slacking off not interested in your job' and it was a) humiliating #b) terrifying #because it's true! i dont like my job a lot of the time it's tedious! and i get frusturated easily! and some of that has to do w #my mental health. but some of it is just true #and it's humiliating to have your flaws pointed out to you by someone who has the power to fire you #like im aware of what you DID think about me before i gave you some sob story about how hard my life is #so essentially that is what you actually think. that's the important part . is what you were GOING to say #we were friends for like three years and i guess i was naive to assume that things could stay the same like #after he got the director's job #like you just can't go for drinks with a person who has the power to scold you like a child #and maybe i'm the one being pissy and immature. i know i am. i should be grateful to have a job at all #but i just do not take criticism well and so ive just realized that i can't spend any time around him longer than five minutes #without feeling infuriated and impotent and fucking WATCHED #like i'm being dramatic whatever. i'm just being dramatic. but i used to be able to relax and complain about work w this guy #and now i can't. and it's both sad and makes me anxious

[millin21]

You ever have a moment minding your own buisness. And then suddenly you get a memory from a scene in a movie you watched when you were a kid? And then it turns into waves upon waves of flashbacks from that movie?

Cuz i was just reminded that Thief and the Cobbler exists.

..... This is also an ecperiene I had when I was in high school during math class, and the same thing happened but with Gargoyles. Then i went home and tried to get as much content on youtube as possible. Then tried to tape the shows during midnight....

Now i have all of season 1 and 2 on DVD.

.... Might try looking into the thief and the cobbler movie. But also look into its original release where the dialogue is majority different and the thief isnt saying anything.

#the thief and the cobbler #memories down memory lane #gargoyles #just.... so many scenes that i loved as a kid i now cringe and ponder what drug teips the creators went through #but seriously. i remmeber the nostalgia critic did a review od this and... yeah he made good points #but he also gave it props for having some of the most awestruck backgrounds. like. everyone remembers the cobbler chasing the thief scene #...right? #anyway. thar same review he mentioned that there was an original release with different dialogue so i need to look into that #the more i looked into it the more i see it as aladdin but on a weird drug trip #as far as i know its not. it might just have similarities to it

[possession1981]

every time i read a critical review or a critical tumblr post about the rings of power i grow 5% stronger

#and i haven’t even watched it yet. i still will though because miss cinema critic in my class reviewed the first 2 eps for svd #and gave it 4/6….. #p

[this-onegoes]

IT WAS SO GOOD??????? any reviewer who gave it below a C is absolutely a dick who wanted to be dramatic lol

#I should’ve trusted the EW critic #I always tend to agree with their takes #and they gave it a B I believe #a fair review and also praised the stuff that was good #IT WAS GOOD

[gay-kurapika]

I looked up reviews for a book I'm reading because I was curious about how it was received (it came out like 20 years ago and has some anticapitalist themes) and most people loved it but the bad reviews are almost like...funny. A one star review said they only read the first chapter and it was long winded pointless drivel....the first chapter is like maybe 25 pages long and this book is like...long. I'm listening to the audio book and the first chapter wasn't even five percent of the book. Like...you literally can't rate a book you didn't read. If you read one chapter, you didn't read the book lol. Like. What were you expecting in 25 pages? And if 25 pages was too "long winded" for you I think you just don't like reading. Another bad review said it had too many "unnecessary sex scenes" and I'd disagree that any of them were unnecessary, they all made sense in the plot, but also literally none of them are described graphically. Like the author basically just states they happened and maybe one or two relevant things about the characters involved, then what happens after as a result. I feel like that review was written by some weird Tumblr prude honestly, sorry you looked up from Harry potter long enough to read an adult novel and the adults did more than hold hands and blush lol. And the funniest one to me was one that said "the central section was unreadible" spelled exactly like that. Yeah I bet it was unreadable for you bro, you have to know higher than sixth grade vocabulary to get through this novel for adults lol.

#im not saying its the best book ever but like none of these people even had relevant criticism #i would have been interested in a critique of some of the unintentional misogyny on the part of the author #and maybe also on the authors view of human nature which seems mostly negative and i dont think thats really accurate #but literally the people who gave negative reviews just cant fucking read lol

[thelostboys87]

the combo of mental illness + day off + physical illness meaning i read over half of paul takes the form of a mortal girl today and finished it.....

#like i had nothing else to do anyway! #also my next read is blackouts by justin torres and i am SOOOOO hyped so whilst i enjoyed this too i have like #been waiting to delve into this one and give it my full attention #i could do a critical review of paul takes the form of a mortal girl but i also just liked taking it for what it was. bizarre and fun. #i follow andrea lawlor on insta and they seem very cool so like i trust them #this gave me SOOO much lover boy inspo though i have so many pages tagged to look back and reread.....esp the san francisco part #lots of form stuff i want to take inspo from too which is something i want to do more this year to me its like writing poems after poets

[serenfire]

NOOOO LINKLATER TOOK A NETFLIX DEAL?????

#literally half of the Professional Film Critics i follow on letterboxd gave hit man rave reviews and they're gnashing teeth on twitter #can't wait to watch this on my iphone 7 the way richard intended :/

[markscherz]

I'm sorry... snake paper? Are things heating up in the snake researcher fandom?

16 February 2024: A team of researchers (including a generally well-respected anaconda expert) found minimal and partly contradictory genetic differences in green anacondas over an enormous area, summarily dismissed all previous work on the taxonomy of green anacondas, and gave the mitochondrial lineage concerned a new name, along the way making some huge fumbles that show plainly that they have no idea how taxonomy works or what certain technical terms mean. They published the work in a journal from a suspect publishing house that is known to rush, skip, or ignore peer review as and when it suits them. And apparently there was some suspicious funding involved, though I don’t know much about that. They made a media storm with ‘a new anaconda!’ but within minutes there were people raising huge red flags about the paper, for the reasons enumerated above and others.

The response from ‘the community’ has been swift and harsh, but mostly fair, in my view. The discussion on ResearchGate reflects this pretty well. There are some bad takes about keeping ‘wokism’ out of science; I would argue that it remains critical to incorporate native peoples, knowledge, and languages into taxonomic work—just not the way this was done, in flagrant and intentional conflict with the established methods and protocols. There are also responses in the discussion by the lead author that show that he is evidently impervious to all of this criticism, and stands by the belief that the work and taxonomic reasoning is sound.

19 March 2024: two papers were published simultaneously in Bionomia, that both enumerate and rebut the problems of the original paper. And I know there are more on the way, though I don’t know if they are all going to be completed now that two responses have already been published.

The one thing I would weigh in on from my perspective is that it is the *taxonomy*, and not necessarily the evidence presented in the paper, that is the biggest problem. Species are described based on mitochondrial data alone all the time. Some of the results are quite interesting. But the taxonomy of the paper is a mess, full of contradictions, cherry-picking, and terminological errors. In the hands of competent taxonomists, the work might have been much more difficult to dispute. But also, no competent taxonomist would have assigned a new name to this lineage; there are too many existing names that would have priority, if it is worth recognising.

Undoing public perception of there being a new anaconda species will take years, if it can ever really be achieved. Always easier for media stories to go around than corrections.

TL;DR big snake paper made big mistakes, and within a month was dismissed. It has probably done lasting damage to perception of anaconda diversity.

#anaconda #snake #snake paper #Rivas et al. 2024 #taxonomy #answers by Mark #jadeitepandaproductions

[akiangel666]

To me reviews are particularly based on personal preference. Like I will read/watch some thing & know it's objectively near perfect and I personally don't find anything that I hate but I'll give it like an 8 or a 9/10 bc like 10/10 is like something that's supposed to be my favorite & it can have flaws but I actively over look them.

However, I don't rate anything I finish less then like 6/10 bc my logic is "well I didn't drop it" and like maybe it if does something offensive I'll do 5/10 or 4/10. But also the first book I read this year I hate read/listened to the audio book and gave it a one star bc it was the most long winded frustrating thing ever HOWEVER it had a really good trans narrative in the middle of all the bullshit (ergo, why I didn't drop it lol)

Anyways that's to say, my review average skews upwards bc I drop most of the things I don't like which I would assume is more common practice but apparently not so

#second book I read this year I gave a 2/5 and i felt weird ab it bc it was like a gay ya but then i realized that #if I had read that book when I was in high school I would have only given a 3/5 so it was fair to give it a lower score #also when aaddtsou exist i find it very hard to give modern gay ya the benefit of the doubt #ANYWAYS this is all in response to a tweet i saw where someone says they get mad when they read a review with no criticisms and its a 7/10 #like! thats a good score!

[pinkrabbitsbythenational]

i really love daniel radcliffe’s post harry potter career and he seems like such a down to earth funky little guy. also he looks a lot like my brother so i find him endearing bc of that

#thoughts #you guys seen horns? i know critics gave it mixed reviews but i fucking loved it

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[vavandeveresfan]

J.K. Rowling has been proven right!

"The Cass Review is a damning indictment of what the NHS has been doing to children.

"Dr Hilary Cass has submitted her final report and recommendations to NHS England in her role as Chair of the Independent Review of gender identity services for children and young people.

"Hilary Cass’s report demolishes the entire basis for the current model of treating gender-distressed children. Its publication is a shameful day for NHS England, which for too long gave vulnerable children harmful treatments for which there was no evidence base. It’s now clear to all that this was quack medicine from the start. 

"Dr Cass delivers stinging criticisms of NHS gender clinics, both adult and child, and her description of the Gender Identity Development Service is absolutely damning. It is disgraceful that GIDS, alongside the adult clinics, did not cooperate with her attempt to survey its practice, or to carry out a high-quality, long-term follow-up study on the treatment of children as part of the review, which would have been a global first."

You can read the entire review here. (pdf)

"Glinner" is Graham Linehan, a writer, screenwriter, and comedian who's been fighting against transitioning minors for years, losing friends, his job, and his agent along the way. But he's kept on fighting.

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The tide has turned in the UK and in Europe. When will American media finally begin reporting on the closing of "gender clinics" and the bans on puberty blockers for children? I figure nothing will happen here in the U.S. until the lawsuits start flooding in. It's already begun. And with proof like the Cass Review and the WPATH files, it's going to be very, very difficult for clinics, doctors, and therapists to continue lying about how transitioning does no permanent and irreversible physical and psychological harm.

#Cass Review #transing kids #JK Rowling #I stand with JK Rowling #Graham Linehan #trans lies #WPATH #WPATH files #gender critical #gender clinics #health #medicine #the tide has turned #David Tennant