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justalurkr

twosuns-overtatooine

afeelgoodblog

Housekeepers and Janitors Need Praise As Unsung but Very Much Important

greatgodempresspan

Remember when the NRA told doctors to “stay in their lane” RE gun violence and #thisismylane trended as a result?

One of the tweets I saw was a surgeon who’d taken a picture of her OR, having just finished surgery on a young man who’d been shot. Blood. Everywhere.

This bloke retweeted her, mentioning that he worked as a cleaner in a hospital and had had to clean up stuff like this and worse.

Surgeon replied to him (and went up *greatly* in my estimation) and, despite living in different countries, thanked him for his hard work.

I can’t find the tweets sadly, but hers went something like;

“Without a clean and sterile operating room to work in, my team, our skills and the best medicines in the world are next to useless. You are doing invaluable work, without which my work would be impossible.”

yokelfelonking

I work as a nurse, and a huge amount of the care credited to us is actually certified nursing assistants, or CNAs (or “techs”). These are the folks who do a huge amount of the grunt work of cleaning up poop, changing dirty linens, feeding people, getting folks up to the chair and back to the bed, back and forth to and from the bathroom, etc, and they get paid, like, half of what we do.

I never see “CNA Appreciation Week” or “we love our CNAs” or people talking about how amazing our techs are.

God bless our CNAs. And housekeeping. And janitors, and supply staff, and sanitation workers, and all those folks doing the grunt work of making sure we’re not living in filth.

twosuns-overtatooine

I mean... I don't think it requires a comment

twosuns-overtatooine

I'd wager Matthew Stover is secretly behind some of the best Obikin fics on AO3...

februarytrash

being sad and horny is a privilege

thats-ee

Lee Week Day 1

kozh-lucium

Obi-wan “nobody is allowed to bully my Master except me” Kenobi

nyan-bynary

I love going through tags seeing a post like "NOT A SHIP IF YOU TAG THIS AS SHIP I WILL KILL YOU" and the art is like this

starlitsecrets

Remember when joining fandom as a younger person meant lurking for a bit and figuring out the vibe and etiquette instead of coming in on day one and calling people weirdos for liking weirdo shit in the weirdo factory.

sinclairsting

Write if you can.

If you can't write: Edit.

If you can't edit: Outline.

If you can't outline: Brainstorm.

If you can't brainstorm: Rest.

Writing is many tasks. Do whichever ones you can handle and you'll still be making progress.

ekjohnston

Resting is so weird. I wrote three novels last year, and I have yet to draft anything this year (ahahahahaha, oh god), but I have been EDITING those books, and now they're all the way through copy edits, and I can finally think about new stuff again, but it's going to take me a month to switch over. And it's hard, because I feel (and look) like I'm not doing anything, but I definitely am. I know what burnout feels like, now. I think I can avoid it. I avoided it last year, somehow, but I know better than to push (except, you know: mortgage).

So yes. Do those things. And don't feel badly about any of them. You need each one.

graffitinight

When you try to talk about enshittification, it sounds like conspiracy theories. (I'm not crazy)

Amazon made their service worse, to force people to pay for Prime.

Nowadays, if you order from Amazon, there is a week long delay before your package is shipped. (on purpose)

I remember when orders would ship out the same day. (I remember - it was real)

YouTube didn't used to have ads. Now, ads play in the middle of videos. (it's worse than TV ever was)

The best can opener I have owned is over 40 years old. Modern ones just don't hold up as well. (The ones I bought new broke ages ago)

The bread machine my mom got for her wedding lasted 30 years. It's been replaced twice in the last 5 years. (How can you fuck this up?)

The cardboard tubes in the middle of toilet paper rolls have gotten larger. (This too?) Companies increasing the price of the product while selling you less. (REALLY?)

It sounds crazy. (it's the truth) When you talk about it, YOU sound crazy. (it's true)

Even when people believe you (do they really), all they can say is "it sucks". (it's too big) Because the problem is so big, so pervasive, what can we even DO about it???

To get the necessary laws written and passed, we need politicians, to get the politicians elected we need information campaigns, to fund campaigns we need money, and all the money is being hoarded by the people profiting from enshittification. (it sounds so fake)

So I talk about enshittification (it sounds crazy), so people don't forget that things have been made worse on purpose (it's true), even though I sound crazy. (maybe I am)

naamahdarling

We also need more people willing to fucking vote.

ekjohnston

My supervillain origin story is that someone at Betty Crocker did The Science and figured out exactly how much smaller they could make the bag of cake mix before 1. they had to change the recipe, and 2. they had to change the box. The answer was two cupcakes. The mix now makes 22 cupcakes, instead of two dozen. The woman who caught them was a professional baker who uses cake mixes as a base, and it was throwing off her volumes enough that she was burning cakes.

TWO FUCKING CUPCAKES.

the toilet paper roll thing also bugs me a lot, lmty.

thefroglab

before you beat yourself up for not cleaning, ask yourself:

is there a proper place to put the things you're tidying up?

thefroglab

a lot of times i would find myself struggling to finish cleaning things when the real problem was that I didn't actually have a permanent place for things to go once I had actually picked them up.

once I was making sure I had shelves or bins or organization things first, it became a lot easier to actually finish tidying things up since I knew where things were supposed to belong