What Can I Help You With?

Things are wild right now but there might be some informational help you need and I want to give it to you. I know this is a writing blog primarily, but I am also a Registered Nurse in the US. I have worked in both hospitals and doctor's offices. I have a Master of Public health and am familiar with harm reduction practices across several avenues (sex, drugs, etc...). I used to work in an MAT clinic.

If there is anything you feel you need informationally, please send me an anonymous ask or a message.

I would like to make a plea to pot-smokers, on behalf of those of us who are not: I don't care if you're choosing to smoke. You're an adult, you can make your own decisions. But please mind where you smoke, and how much of it will cling to you afterward. I ask this because for over a week I've been waking up with a sore, inflamed nose, and every sneeze has produced blood. It got a bit better over the weekend, and then I tanked again. ....and today, when it was so bad I had to call off work, it hit me: several of my coworkers toke up on break and they do it right outside the loading door. I can smell it sometimes for hours afterward, slowly fading away but taking its sweet time doing so. And last night, when it got so bad I actually had a nosebleed at work? I'd noticed the smell was particularly strong, and lingered longer than usual. I actually had the thought "huh, somebody got the good kush" when I first noticed it. And when I said it got a bit better over the weekend? I work Mondays through Thursdays. It eased up when I wasn't around the smoke. It wasn't bothering me during monsoon season, but now that the humidity's down, I'm pretty sure what I'm seeing is tissue irritation from something I'm not even smoking. I'm doing a nasal rinse tonight and I'll be wearing a KN95 to work tomorrow to see if that helps, but if not, I'm going to have to figure out how to explain to them "I don't care that you smoke, I care that where you smoke is having an adverse effect on me, please move." Please mind your smoke.

yesterday i had to get my blood drawn and was freaking the FUCK out bc i am TERRIFIED of needles. and there was this amazing nurse there that came in and held my hand and comforted me during the procedure, and was trying to say how brave i was but the way she worded it was REALLY funny.

she just kept on repeating "If you can change your name to Todd, you can do anything" and like. i KNOW she meant that in a #transally way, but i couldn't help but think "damn, is my name really that bad that you think im brave for choosing it?"

no, spotify, i don't want to use ai to "turn my ideas into playlists". i already fucking do that with my brain and hands and i do it for fun. what, should i get ai to pet my cat for me? to play my silly games for me? to spend time with my beautiful wife for me? how about i rend you asunder

they should make clothes that are designed by people who are familiar with human anatomy & physiology

And stop shrink-flating my hems. If I want a crop top I will buy/make a crop top. Gimmie back whole shirts.

This section from Heather Cox Richardson this morning struck one hell of a cord with me today.

I've always believed that deep down- most Americans want the same things. They want safe food, roads without potholes, and they want to be left to live lives as they please as long as no one is hurt.

But the propaganda, the conspiracy theories, the cults of personality- they can be so loud sometimes that it drowns out sense. And they used that to their advantage to paint a scary picture of the country that doesn't exist because fear works.

And here we are.

I think it would be interesting to do a large scale blind election study. Not just supposing it based on the various outcomes and post-voting interviews, but a very intentional STUDY. Just list out only the policies, no mention of parties OR candidates, JUST policies, and see what happens.

"women didn't invent anything"

Thank you Evelyn Berezin!

"adventurers are actually more scared of you than you are of them"

"he's literally just doing what an adventurer is supposed to do"

"do you think they think of us as Giant Adventurers?"

"do you know how many other creatures would be infesting our cave if there were no adventurers?"

"how would you like it if you were bumbling along on your little adventurer day, and some giant dragon thing squished you for the crime of being yourself?"

"y'know, so many dragons are grossed out by them, but i think they're fascinating! Did you know some adventurers form symbiotic relationships with small monsters? Some of them even do a simplified form of spellcraft! Like, with actual magic and everything!"

iceland

tylerwayneglass

Which one should I buy? I love 1 and 2 most but ahhh look at these ! They’re so gorgeous!

someone gets it

yeees your comments and my tags should get married @hardylettuce @heroicspiritcollins

and this is how a perfume bottle became a short story. got a personality and everything. gotta love it 🙌 @shoujo-wizard

路駐してもバレないバイクちょっと良いな https://x.com/yuruhuwa_kdenpa/status/1840518223370088684

good morning

Just got a comment on a fic I wrote in 2002. 🙏🙏🙏

Not 2012. Not 2022. 2002.

Your fic's time will come. If you love your fic, don't worry if it isn't a hit right when you post it. It'll get to the people who will love it..

If you live in the USA and you're pleading for donations to pay your rent, bills, or get food then dial 211! Please dial 211 before the last minute!

It's a toll free service with people who will help you find programs in your community to pay those bills, find food, and find housing! They will give you numbers to call so you can get help.

It is not 100% foolproof. Their job is to direct you to a program they believe will help your current issue, but it's still a step up from praying random strangers online will give you enough cash before a deadline! The added benefit of these community programs, which get funded by the local government most of the time, is if there are more people using them then they can get more money to help more people.

You're not taking resources from other people if you use your community services. Your taxes pay for them. Use them.

Dial 211 first to see if they can help, and if for some reason they can't, then make your donation posts!

https://www.211.org/

I got something cool from another Etsy shop recently! Which is, the world's tiniest* weaving heddle:

*probably a slight exaggeration

I've wanted to explore weaving lately, but don't have the money or space that you'd need for a tabletop loom. So I knew I wanted a backstrap loom setup, where you stretch your weaving between a distant anchor point (in this case, it's pinned to my lap desk) and like, well... a strap that goes around your back, basically.

(Normally the perfect solution for this is tablet weaving, which is even easier to get the tools for. Unfortunately, it requires MORE BRAIN. So I'm taking the easy route here.)

So my heddle and shuttle are from TheDancingGoats, an Etsy shop that specializes in reproduction ancient tools.

And what do you know... the shop sponsored Long Thread Media on Youtube, who did a whole tutorial on how to use them:

Most emphatically repeated advice from another backstrap tutorial: make sure to anchor the strap around your hips not the small of your back! Otherwise the steady force of keeping your weaving tight will really upset your spine in a surprisingly short amount of time, and you probably won't notice until it's too late.

You can see someone else also using the devices' second seat, and I think that's so cool. Mobility devices help everyone, here other employees also get a chance to sit while they're working. I just love mobility aids, man. It's like the cut curb effect

This setup is obviously so much more convenient than every alternative, gives him so much natural freedom back and is such an effective thing to rest on in general that I'm mad it hasnt always been a standard kind of everyday furniture. We're wasting so much ceiling space.