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truly one of the most demoralising things about being in the job market atm is "only successful applicants will be notified" is practically a universal standard. so you spend hours, sometimes days filling out applications, writing CVs and cover letters only to be ghosted as the only form of communication. Not even a "thank you but this time you've been unsuccessful" email. You're in a constant state of "did I not get it or have they not contacted me?" and you just have to eventually conclude you were unsuccessful without so much as courtesy, "sorry, but thank you for your application." A literal thankless cycle for months and months and months. You'd think with all the ways to automate these processes they would at least have the time, means and decency to acknowledge your submission and let you off the hook, but no. You're just in limbo in every possible way in the name of "efficiency". Solidarity with everyone going through this because it is truly dehumanising and demoralising to work so hard on putting yourself forward constantly without acknowledgement or useful communication of any sort for long periods of time, and most ppl simply will not have any compassion for what that's like.

dittography-direwolf

Totally normal for a legitimate for-profit company to refuse to reclaim or stop running their products even after they're no longer being paid to do so. I'm sure it's very normal to just keep running your service for free when your contract's been terminated. Spending money to continue running cameras that supposedly no one is looking at is definitely not an indicator they are just run by the federal government to spy on everyone and only a wacko conspiracy theorist would think so.

onenicebugperday

Giant Chinese dobsonfly, Acanthacorydalis fruhstorferi, Corydalidae

Like other dobsonflies, this species displays sexual dimorphism with males having considerably larger mandibles.

Photo 1 by dai_dare, 2-5 by orochikami, 6-7 by ideer, 8 by three-trees, 9 b zhongyankui, and 10 by guo_yan-qing

grimygrimygrimy

would you be open to explaining a little more on the difference between decriminalizing vs legalizing sex? i know there’s a distinction and i read your tags on another ask but I’d love to know more/why decriminalizing is better. no worries if not i know ur not a teacher lol

the long and short of it is that legalization means gov/police involvement whereas decrim means we are free to work without fear of penalty. to be blunt cops rape and murder us a lot so any path that reduces our exposure to them is a safer one for us. on top of that you can look at legal brothels in places like nevada and see pretty clearly that involvement of the law has not protected those workers from exploitation just locked them into narrower avenues. dont even get me started on the nordic model. in a city where its decriminalized my professional peers and I have a lot more options in terms of how we meet clients, how we keep ourselves safe and how we charge.

I worked in this city before it was decriminalized. the spa I worked at was raided by cops ( who had already been paid off) at least 3 times while I was there. the weight off my shoulders being able to work without the fear of state sanctioned assault and ending up an 'NHI' hanging over me is priceless.

here's a resource that isnt just one guy speaking from experience though

if you support sex workers advocate for decriminalization not legalization ty<3

grimygrimygrimy

hi you should reblog this btw especially if you consider yourself someone who supports sex workers

genderednipples

Oh, would you look, it's a research paper by the esteemed Adeline Berry on the effects of sex work legalisation in Ireland

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13178-021-00626-2.pdf

sarahseeandersen

whyenn-reader

you are not immune to inventing an arbitrary set of rules that only you have to adhere to

frankendykes-monster

This is what I was alluding to when I discussed that the volume of name changes you have to make as a trans person highlights the ridiculous amount of documentation attached to you.

the-gayest-sky-kid

god i love my friends. shout out to people who love their friends. this is a post for friend lovers

nonlynear

time is a flat iron and brother i’m getting smooth as fuck

cephalopodie

time is a curling iron and brother i'm all twisted up

teaboot

Time is a flat iron, smooth as fuck Time is a curler, twisted up Time is an updo, pinned and tucked Time is a weave-in, stitched and stuck Time is organic, shaped by luck Time is a construct Monster truck

direhydroid

power-chords

I almost forgot to mention: this woman came into the penguin enclosure with a KESTREL??? I said “oh my god is that an American Kestrel?” and she said “Yes! She was outside doing raptor education for the kids, but she doesn’t like to get rained on.”

ayellowbirds

#she was watching the penguins with what I will anthropomorphically project as skepticism

elkian

kestrel: i hate rained on!!

human: here is birds in water

kestrel: ......no.....

onthegreatsea

the removal of physical media is not the inevitable progression of improving tech, its like the removal of the 3.5mm jack: purely a result of profit physical games still account for about 1/5th of all sales of video games

but by only selling digital games sony can be the ultimate arbiter of their price. they can stop you lending games and force another sale instead. they can stop the sale of second hand games and keep prices artificially high. they can set any price they want and that will be your only option.