silken threads and silver strings

Trans joy is just 🥹🥹🥹🥹

I can say anything and get it reblogged. I know my audience. I can just go “lab coat with boob window” and it gets notes

Fucking hell why are we making people in hospitals who are responsible for the health and wellbeing of everyone work 12 hour shifts with no breaks I feel like I'm going insane does no one else see the problem here??

Every time I make a post about exploitation in jobs with poor wages and no breaks half of the comments are full of teachers and hospital workers going "haha same" and like.... WHAT?? HELLO???

so. i used to work 9-1-1. we were on 8s but with the caveat that we could be mandated for doubles (16s) up to 4 of our 5 days per week (also we weren’t on rotating schedules, we had to work a normal 5/2 instead of a modified Pittman - 2/2/3/3). the union got us the rule that you could only be mandated twice in a row, but my trainer said if you work 2nds you’re almost guaranteed to be be working at least two doubles a week, and he’d been mandated the dreaded double-double-regular-double-double before. i was on 3rds, and got mandated for what they called the Dirty Double bc it was 3rds into 1st meaning i worked 10p on one day to 2p the next afternoon.

we got either four 15 minute breaks or two 30s, but we couldn’t leave the premises and nobody ever did two 30s. bc once you’ve been taking 9-1-1 calls for 2+ hours, if you don’t walk outside or get some water or go piss for five seconds you start to get hazy. when i trained on 2nds, i took 100 calls in an 8 hr period, so any excuse to get up and not be working was welcome. i never ate at work bc shoving something down your gullet in 15 min made me feel sick and i used that time to take a piss and stand up.

my first double i legit left with full body muscle twitching and thought my vision was graying out periodically. i hadn’t eaten in over 20 hrs. my shift manager was like “buck up! you got two hours :D” and i almost stood up and left. thank christ i didn’t have any hot calls those last two hours but i was defo fantasizing about dying lmfao. plus my commute was 30+ min each way so i got ~4.5 hrs of sleep before having to come back in.

when i worked for a huge hospital system in the EDs, 12s were the norm, and most nurses were making $25/hr and techs $16. EMTs make $14 and medics $23. even people that weren’t burnt out assholes were completely fried by hr 8. believe it or not, it used to be worse! i don’t remember the girl’s name, but NY passed a law in the 00s because residents/interns were working 24s and it caused a mistake that killed a girl, so they banned 24s which i think every state has adopted some version of now.

i’ve been trying to tell people that schedule reform is almost more necessary than wages because the only reason more people haven’t died is luck or lack of advocacy for victims. like. the fact that it’s at all legal to work 12 hrs is bonkers. let alone 16s and 24s. let alone in the medical and responder fields. (and not that it excuses malicious bullshit obv. but let’s not kid ourselves that all mistakes are malicious. we have the data on what these shifts do to human decision making and response time.)

"I'm not dignifying that with a reply" is honestly a great way to be on social media. Let the trolls starve.

y'all wanna see a photo of my shrimp I'm pretty sure I just caught speaking directly to god

why tf do y’all keep tagging this “shrimp heaven now”

I believe everything should be offline, I believe that every time something that is not your internet browser (and I'm being generous here) should have a big red alert that says THIS PIECE OF SHIT PROGRAM NEEDS TO CONNECT TO THE INTERNET AND REQUESTS YOUR CONSENT TO DO THIS SPECIFIC THING, and you had to touch a big red button and it would disconnect as soon as you close it.

"oh you can't edit this document on your device :) you need to save it to the Google Panopticon first :)" "Adobe needs to update on the background sorry we'll just steal your RAM for a bit :) you don't need to notice don't open the task manager your so sexy ahaha" "Windows needs to be online to send everything you do... somewhere"

IN MY TIME Microsoft Word had to ask permission to even put an hyperlink, let alone fucking update in the background. Videogames had to BEG to connect to a LAN network, now Gabe Newell gives any dev the power to install whatever the fuck in my hard drive.

Computers used to know RESPECT, now they're all assholes who want access to your contact list.

My laptop installed Copilot without telling me. Apparently it was part of the latest windows update.

It's uninstalled now, but there's a word we used to use for programs that secretly installed themselves on your machine.

Malware.

I love you disabled people who can't or don't want to learn how to drive, you're so fucking valid and you deserve independence like everybody else.

there's a really funny 3d printing controversy going on btw.

if you don't know, there's a very popular 3d printing model out there called "benchy". this is used for benchmarking your 3d printer because it's a difficult print and will help test it out.

this is so widely used that people make their own little versions of it, remixing the 3d model to make benchy look cooler and stuff. however, a new company owns the benchy license. they are sending copyright takedowns to all those who wrongfully uploaded the benchy model.

of course, this is pissing off the 3d printing community greatly. everyone loved benchy and have used it for years. so someone on reddit decided to make a new model that is designed as a 3d printing stress test. one that works a lot like benchy, and people are freely able to edit it as they please. you know what they called it?

boaty.

GO MY GERM 🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠

I had the idea to do a cell model cosplay beamed into my forebrain like visions from an angry god a few weeks ago and started working on this immediately. and good lord this was the most fun ive had on a project in a long time. like seriously it was so fun getting creative with these materials and thinking about fun ways to do all the organelles. while working on this i probably went "hehehehohohe" at least once an hour.

I think i'm going to name this guy Prota Z. Bacilli. If you look closely I do have every basic organelle that you'd expect from a cell model. (and thats a flu shot lol.)

also please appreciate this costume iteration because. i had to get my mail in this and freaked out my mailman.

i love my cat but he is very fond of trickery

cats being capable of understanding accidents and even giving you a little head bonk to let you know you're still cool makes it infinitely funnier that they don't understand when you're trying to help them

cats when you step on their tail: i'll admit that was rather ouchie, but given the lifetime of goodwill and trust between us, one must conclude this booboo is but a fluke.

cats when you try to get their claws unstuck from the couch covering: this nefarious bitch has never had a single honorable intention in their dishonest and shameful life, this must be one of their sinister plots or perhaps even an attempt on my life,

it’s sooo funny when rude customers encounter employees who can deny them service for the first time.

i was working at a little cafe where I could deny service over bad behavior, harassment etc. & mask mandates had just ended a week before & already people were being weird about me still wearing mine—an N95, the kind shaped kinda like a duckbill.

so this man walked in, looked at me sooo scathingly, laughed at me, and said “damn. never known a woman to choose…practicality over looks.”

And I just said, “oh. you can go, you’re not getting a drink.” And he said, “what???”

I said, “sir, you just walked in at 6 am & called women impractical and me ugly in one sentence.”

And he was so astonished he didn’t even argue he just turned around and left 💀🙏🏻 it was like he suddenly became self aware

One summer I was running ferry rides across a lake so people could see the waterfalls without walking 6 miles when a guy snapped my bra strap as he was boarding the boat. So i immediately threw him off, he started yelling for my manager, my boss cheerfully informed him that, yeah, she’s the captain of the boat and she can kick off anyone she wants. He goes to storm off, looks expectantly at his girlfriend, and she just goes, “Well, I’M not walking six miles, Michael! I’ll meet you back at the car!” and sits right back down!!!!

The expression on his face when he was told that he couldn’t get on the boat, then immediately told that his girlfriend was ditching him? PRICELESS. he just blinked at her and then stormed off like a child. I gave her a free hat and was like maybe rethink this relationship…….

i once had this fucker come up to order a beer. while i pour it he shows me the wanky fucking chemical structure tattoo on his arm and he’s like “hey. you know what this is” i was like “nah sorry” (never cared abt chemistry in school, plus having to look at a some rando’s pretentious tattoo gives me the douche chills). he decides to respond with “heh. you must not read many books”

i immediately stop pouring his beer. i reply: “heh. you must not want this beer.” thirsty boy immediately starts groveling like a worm “please please no i do want the beer im sorry im sorry” believe me when i say it was one of the most pathetic things ive ever witnessed

gotta love people immediately backpedaling when they realise that there are Consequences To Being Mean

oh believe me I know how much I matter and how I'm God's special little gift to the world. Like a treat you get to enjoy every day

i’m pretty cool too, like a special world gift. definitely not from God tho <|:^)

I can eat an entire block of feta cheese in ten minutes

Hopsital

Do you kids like Jeep Cherokees? On average, you must, because virtually every car today is a worse, softer version of that classic AMC ride. And to be entirely honest with you, this constant low-temperature immersion in crappy unibody SUVs is making me yearn for the original article.

Now, I'm not one of those folks who is going to chase you down the block, waving Kenosha propaganda in your face about how Chrysler is actually the anti-Christ. I'll leave that to the Eagle folks. I am, however, going to be incredibly tiresome about whether anyone you know has a mostly-intact XJ sitting in the garage. A lot of my friends have owned Cherokees, and they've been great shitboxes for all kinds of hillbilly adventures over the years. Unfortunately, they are now almost all gone.

You see, in my part of the world (and pretty much all others, if I'm honest,) rust has devoured the innocent Cherokee. The tinworm crept inside all their guts and found the many, many places that the original automakers just didn't bother painting, or welding, or sealing. I've seen them split straight in half, which is neither conducive to long-distance driving, nor to storing old car parts in (the raccoons will steal them.)

What used to be cheap, fun, beater off-road transport has now become expensive, depressing, and involving several years of meticulously cutting and shaping metal to do major structural repairs. Once you've invested that much effort, there's no way you want to go bang it down some trails, or use it to flee across a cornfield every time the cops light up your illegal fireworks party. Then you have a very nice Jeep Cherokee that you refuse to abuse, which is not at all what owning these things is about.

There is some hope, though. If you look at the Wikipedia page for the Cherokee (hey, use a new tab, not this one) you'll notice that some Chinese automakers made a whole bunch of these things under license. They don't have rust in China, probably, and I'm sure their assembly line workers were slightly less drunk than the Chryco squad who banged these things together over here. All I need to do is get a big cargo ship, and then I can load it up with Shuanghuan SHJZH213s until the cows come home. You've got some frequent flyer miles, right?