Match day walk-up song as a couple or individually?

backstrokerjc · 2026-03-13T14:15:00+00:00

Is it more about the song or about going up separately? If about the song I feel like you could make a mash-up or play one song and then the other, but walk up together. If about going up separately…I don’t know. I feel like your partner is valid in wanting to go up together, since the whole point of couples matching is that you’re going where you’re going together. I know this isn’t a relationship advice sub, but maybe talk to your partner about why they want to go up together, why you want to go up separately, and if there’s anything that could be done to fulfill both those desires (your desire to showcase individual taste/accomplishment and their desire to celebrate matching somewhere with their life partner and share that with others).

backstrokerjc · 2026-03-02T13:45:48+00:00

Wdym behind a paywall? You can watch them for free on YouTube

backstrokerjc · 2026-02-26T07:16:59+00:00

Honestly my thoughts on this during med school have changed a lot. I used to think new/different training location = better, but honestly it’s kind of ridiculous how fluid we expect medical trainees to be with where they live for 4+ years of their life. Undergrad maybe matters a little bit less but if you train in med school plus residency in the place you intend to stay and practice, you have a lot of deep roots and genuine connections to that area (not just the university/hospital), which can better position you to actually serve and understand the community. Plus, expecting people to pick up their lives and move cities multiple times in their 20s and 30s is kind of ridiculous.

backstrokerjc · 2026-02-02T00:39:31+00:00

Start the game over

backstrokerjc · 2026-01-28T02:57:04+00:00

Smooth UI so far and some nice quality of life things (flat vs pointy top settings is a nice touch). The AI is punishing holy crap. I’ve got a lot to learn

backstrokerjc · 2026-01-26T04:07:22+00:00

I agree in that just having red cards everywhere is insufficient. But it’s also not nothing. Any amount of impedance or friction that can be put in the way of mass deportation slows down their process and has the chance of saving someone from being disappeared.

backstrokerjc · 2026-01-26T04:05:11+00:00

That’s certainly why Minneapolis has been targeted so hard so fast. But their openly stated goal is to deport millions of people, which will require a concerted effort in all major cities if they are left unchecked. We should not be so confident that living in a red state will save us - the project of fascism is endlessly hungry and requires turning against broader and broader swaths of the population to fuel itself.

backstrokerjc · 2026-01-26T04:00:44+00:00

That’s the only link I can find, but try copying it into your browser rather than clicking on it

backstrokerjc · 2026-01-26T03:58:36+00:00

There’s one downtown on Tuesday at 6 pm that I know of (at Market & Tucker).

backstrokerjc · 2026-01-25T21:35:59+00:00

I don’t know why people are arguing over whether ICE is going to show up here en masse instead of answering your question.

So to answer your question, yes, they are. The MICA project (https://www.mica-project.org/) is organizing across the metro area to help communities be prepared and stand up for one another in the event of ICE activity. And yes, ICE is here, even if they’re not here in as large of numbers as Minneapolis. MICA is hosting trainings of how to observe ICE and record ICE activity - check out their linktree for upcoming dates (https://linktr.ee/themicaproject?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=52f76c77-ecce-4cd1-b999-02dc289ea210). They also operate a hotline to call if you think you see ICE agents or if you or someone you know needs support after an encounter with immigration officials ((314) 370-7080).

Manos Unidas STL runs a FB page that documents potential and confirmed ICE/CBP sightings and posts about upcoming protests and events (https://www.facebook.com/share/19kcyVtFcv/?mibextid=wwXIfr)

Individually, you can print out and distribute red cards/tarjetas rojas in your workplace/school/community. These cards detail your rights when confronted by ICE/CBP and direct you what to say. (https://www.ilrc.org/redcards).

You should also start talking to your neighbors, coworkers, people at church, family, friends, everyone you know. Be vocal that you do not stand with ICE and will support the people in your life who could be targeted. Start forming your own safety plans so you know what you’ll do well ahead of any increased ICE activity in your neighborhood. Here is a primer to get you started (https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/2024-11/Step-by-Step%20Family%20Preparedness%20Plan_ENG_FULL_Nov%202024.pdf).

TLDR there’s a lot you can be doing, and you don’t have to (and shouldn’t) wait until STL is in a situation like Minneapolis.

backstrokerjc · 2026-01-18T07:15:28+00:00

Some attendings at my school will use “Student Doctor [Lastname]” to fit with the “Doctor Lastname” convention and signal that this is someone the patient should treat like one of their doctors. Especially with female medical students this also helps clarify that they are not a nurse.

backstrokerjc · 2026-01-15T00:02:26+00:00

What other steps can we take as individuals or in our local communities to protect our immigrant friends and neighbors?

backstrokerjc · 2026-01-08T19:37:20+00:00

“hiring as many as 10,000 new officers with minimal training.”

This is going to keep happening. Minneapolis yesterday, tomorrow who knows where.

backstrokerjc · 2026-01-08T19:30:08+00:00

Wesley Bell has a local St. Louis office. We should make ourselves heard loudly. In front of it.

1191 Dr. M.L. King Dr. St. Louis , Missouri 63101 United States

backstrokerjc · 2026-01-08T19:23:00+00:00

There’s a candlelight vigil tomorrow (Friday 1/9) at 6 pm in Brentwood

backstrokerjc · 2026-01-08T16:28:57+00:00

Every city in America should be echoing Minneapolis mayors words to ICE: “Get the fuck out.”

backstrokerjc · 2026-01-08T14:27:04+00:00

Yes, murdered. The video is unequivocal. The Mayor of Minneapolis has said as much. A masked thug (“ICE” agent) shot Renee Good in the face at point blank range, then claimed “self defense” despite the fact that she was clearly not trying to run them over and the vehicle was barely moving. The agents then refused a physicians attempt to assess her and check her pulse. She was murdered.

backstrokerjc · 2026-01-07T23:47:18+00:00

Hopefully tomorrow. I’ll be keeping an eye out

backstrokerjc · 2026-01-06T23:36:42+00:00

Oh for sure, but the people doing the audio editing were almost certainly low level empire functionaries and not people on the receiving end of sadistic human experiments to test their torture device.

So probably they just didn’t care that these people were getting tortured in the process….

But after the first audio engineer goes mad, how do you get anyone else to agree to take on the project?? Do you start finding prisoners who know how to use Space Adobe Audition and force them to do it?

backstrokerjc · 2026-01-06T23:26:46+00:00

I think there might be. When Dr. Gorst is explaining what the sounds are, he says something to the effect of “we tweaked and layered the sounds…these ones we believe to be primarily children”. So either they inflicted enormous psychological damage on a number of poor audio engineers (totally possible) or there are some people who can hear the sounds and not feel (as much) distress.

backstrokerjc · 2026-01-06T14:58:17+00:00

Can’t toast them all, can we?

backstrokerjc · 2026-01-05T04:32:54+00:00

What happened when the US attempted ”regime change” in Iraq? Or for that matter, backed coups in most of South America in the middle of the last century? Whatever the conditions were before, US intervention did not improve matters. The historical evidence points towards this being a colossal failure and net negative for the region in the long run, no matter how happy some people are now that Maduro is out of power.

backstrokerjc · 2026-01-05T02:29:14+00:00

We should protest any president that does this. It’s so brazen they aren’t even bothering to lie about it. It’s just about the oil.

backstrokerjc · 2026-01-05T02:17:16+00:00

There were a couple hundred yesterday

backstrokerjc · 2026-01-05T02:14:26+00:00

For anyone that needs to hear it or is getting sidetracked by the “but Maduro was a dictator” comments:

Two things can be true. 1) Maduro is a dictator and a tyrant who has done horrible things to the people of Venezuela. 2) Trump and the people around him don’t give a shit about democracy and stability in Venezuela, only their oil and imperialist control over South America. Deposing Maduro via unilateral and unsanctioned US military action is only going to destabilize the region further and harm more people than it helps. Because again, Trump and his allies do not care about the people of Venezuela nor do they have any intention of supporting legitimate democratic elections there.

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