The Unknown Source

Jo/queer/old

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Aw don’t worry anonymous, I’m not ignoring you. I just don’t need to respond to your need for validation any more than I already have.

Have a beautiful day.

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Triggering the TERFs on Tumblr. I’m clearly doing something right.

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No wonder you actually think JKR is a terf when you go around using sexist language. I challenge you to find a direct quote from her that is actually transphobic, and not just a headline of an article you skimmed

Triggered much? If you’re a TERF just own it.

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feminism.ng is a good starting place for you to get rid of your white supremacist eurocentric point of view. it's a 101 starter for african feminism. you sorely need it. i can tell from the way you type you think black women are manly.

Wow! You really get me, don’t you?

First off, WHAT? You don’t know me. Secondly, how does the way one types lead you to make assumptions about their thoughts?

I’m thinking you must be triggered by my most recent post, where I show solidarity for my trans brothers and sisters. See because here’s what you DON’T know about me. I believe that all people regardless of their race, religion, sexuality, gender identity, culture, and yes even politics deserve to be treated equally as human beings.

It’s when they pull shit, that minimizes the life experience of others, when they weaponize hate, and bigotry, that I get fucking pissed.

Get a life.

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Do you ever just stop what you’re doing and break down crying because some bitch TERF ruined your favorite book series?

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I just moved up to Spokane Washington five months ago. From the deserts of Southern California… this is fucking heaven. I don’t care for driving in it in the dark though.

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Third fall. I was so busy making sure my resident didn’t fall with me that I landed on my bad hip and done fucked up.

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I’m having to remind myself every night that I chose to accept this job… but I’m getting real get up of slipping and falling in puddles of piddle…

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I work as a caregiver in a mental care capacity. All my residents have Alzheimer’s or dementia.

I work the overnight hours 10pm - 6am.

But here’s the thing. I take care not to fall asleep on my shift, because it wouldn’t be fair to my shift-mate. Every single person who works with me overnight, just goes off and naps. And I got yelled at for sitting in the comfy chairs on the library, because “If Day and Swing Shift can’t relax, nor should Noc.

So here I am, in so much pain that the mere thought of standing up makes my whole body spasm, and I’m changing residents out of wet briefs, bending to put new briefs and dry pants on them. Setting up the dining room (strictly speaking it’s not in my contract to clean and serve- I’m not being paid extra for it) I’m escorting people to bed, flipping bed-bound residents so they don’t get bed sores; all while my shift mate sleeps away in the recliner, with a blanket.

You’re tired? Congratulations so am I. I’m still doing my job. She’s going to disappear to do the med run right as it’s time for last rounds.

I am annoyed.

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Pain Management up here refused to prescribe on the the first appointment, so I went through withdrawal… I tore my labrum when I fell at work. I’ve been working in unimaginable pain for over a month. Today I finally got my pain meds back. And boy howdy do they make a difference.

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Good news! My boss is a literal piece of shit and completely useless. I just got off a 12 hour shift, and just want to sleep, but I can’t take my sleeping meds because I have two meetings. One memory care meeting which I texted him to ask when it was and what I received is this:

So I don’t get to sleep today. And fuck Jim

Should I start looking for another job?

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There is nothing like coming home after a long painful 12 hour shift, stripping off my scrubs and crawling in bed.

It had already been a bad day. After 2.5 months I finally got in to see pain management on the very day I ran out of pain meds. First thing the office manager said was “We don’t prescribe meds on the first appointment, and you’re not guaranteed meds at all.” So I get to go through withdrawal and work in abject pain for a month. Yay…

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Tested positive for Covid 11 days ago. Was supposed to be back at work on Saturday but I was still feeling sick. Sunday and Monday are my days off, I figured I could use that time to work on my stamina, so I was up and about.

On Monday the guy I’m renting a room from tested positive, but since he’s feeling fine, he’s wandering around the house massless, working in the yard, inviting friends over… I mean fine, it’s his house, I can’t expect him lock himself in his bedroom like I did… but still.

I promised myself no matter what I was going into work today, even though I still am not 100%. I got my ass out of bed, was too exhausted to shower, did a quick “whore’s bath” and dry shampooed my hair.

Went to work, told the nurse as soon as she let me in that I needed to be tested before I did anything.

Guess who is still positive after 11 days of this shit? Not only that but when I asked someone who isn’t my direct supervisor if I qualified for Covid pay, I was told “the company no longer does that, you can try this program, or apply for PTO, I’ve only been there a month, I have no PTO, and the program only covers people who have been working there for a year.

Let me be clear, I caught Covid from our residents. They got sick, I got sick from caring for them. There should still be hazard pay for that shit.

Shutting up now

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writing can’t be that hard. all it is is just putting words in front of each other, right?

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update: the wrong words are in front of each other. This is the worst thing ever to happen.

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Fucking Covid. I’m so sick of this shit. I can’t eat anything because everything creates more phlegm which attacks my uvula and makes me gag, which brings up what I just ate.

I don’t have my nurse cat which is making me ridiculously home-sick. Which makes me cry, which creates more phlegm…

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Three cases of Covid at work. Started getting a sore throat around 6 last night. Woke up with barely any voice, and throat feels like a brush fire.

Im sure it’s psychosomatic, but that doesn’t mean I feel like working 8 hours, and fighting to keep things in line.

DayQuil and Chloroseptic to the rescue.

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UPDATE

It was not psychosomatic, went to work, took a test got told “Okay, get out.”

My health insurance does not kick in until Aug 1

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Three cases of Covid at work. Started getting a sore throat around 6 last night. Woke up with barely any voice, and throat feels like a brush fire.

Im sure it’s psychosomatic, but that doesn’t mean I feel like working 8 hours, and fighting to keep things in line.

DayQuil and Chloroseptic to the rescue.