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I don't know who needs to hear this, but if the phrase "self care" doesn't resonate with you, try calling it "system maintenance" and see if that clicks.
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#this both makes things more fun and also is a really good analogy#because there are four types of system maintenance and that makes the term much more exact than the nebulous ''self-care''#and therefore much more helpful to those of us who uhhh struggle with nebulosity#for anyone curious the four types are:#1. corrective (to fix current problems)#2. preventative (to avoid future problems)#3. adaptative (to re-adjust to any changes)#4. perfective (to work towards a better system)#I really like this idea I'm gonna make a checklist
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{ MASTERPOST } Everything You Need to Know about Self-CareÂ
[image description: photo of a sign with all caps text reading:
"Warning
If you don't schedule time for maintenance, your equipment will schedule it for you."]
The little drip in the tub spout.
Customer said it started last year. Just a little drip. Then the diverted lever to the shower got stuck in the on position. No big deal they said, we don't really take baths anyway. As long as the water was coming out, and the shower worked, everything was fine. Then it started getting cold. Then really cold. Single digit temperatures. We woke up one morning and it was unusually chilly in the house. The furnace had stopped working overnight. We called a service to come look at it. The tech had to order a part. So we drove to the store to get some space heaters. We put one in the bedroom and one in the living room. That night around 2 am, we got woken up by something that sounded like a gun shot. The pipes in the shower froze and burst. Ice cold water was going everwhere. All across the second floor, down into ceilings of the first floor, it was raining in our house. It took us 20 minutes at least to find our water main.
I could bore you with calcification indicators, weak points and degraded connections, regular maintenance checks, general utility awareness in your own home, but I trust these are reasonable assumptions you've made. I could pat myself on the back and say, well, thats good for business and the dumber people are, the more money I get.
But in reality, I don't wanna be standing in someones kitchen first thing in the morning in the blinding cold while water freezes across the surface of everything they own. Watching the trauma unfold on their faces. They have to move out. We have to gut alot of this. I have to point to things that they love, and say thats trashed, can't save it. I have to explain that they need to pack up their kids and move out for the next few weeks. I gotta tell these folks their insurance may not cover all of the costs so when your parked in a motel or your parents tonight, you may wanna look into another line of credit, home equity loan, or a personal loan. Claims can take time, better safe than sorry. I have to say to regular blue collar working class folks, to their face, 45 thousand dollars. Thats a crippling number for so many people. I try to pick them back up and keep their spirits high, you're gonna get a brand new bathroom, nice new floors, it'll be done how you guys want and you'll get to pick out something that suits your style more.
I can only imagine how it works for therapists and doctors. They probably see people all the time and think, how did you ignore all the signs? All while knowing responsibilities and income dictate what we can and can't do about it.
The drip was an indicator, the lever was an obvious warning, the small maintenance task which would have uncovered the corrosion, wasn't a big deal. The larger problem remained unseen as long as the small problem was ignored. A small job to replace some valves and lines. The regular furnace check would have uncovered the bad fuse that blew the transformer. Literally a 5 dollar peice so small it can barely even be considered a part. The correct conditions for catastrophic failure were met. The 20 minutes search for a shut off valve dumping hundreds of gallons of water into the structure. A year ago, it would have been $750-1000 to keep everything running just fine, but this was not the case for my next door neighbors. They learned some hard lessons in their first home. First one was to call me when something breaks or isn't working right. The second one was to not ignore these things and reference the first lesson.
So if you have indicators, reach out to your technician. Maybe you've just felt low. Check the ole pressure gauge. Maybe its time for a few checks. You're not a house, but your self care is much like continued maintenance. This can look like taking a nice walk in the woods to reduce stress, or talking to your doctor about medication or a new treatment, or reaching out when something isn't right and you don't know how to fix it. Especially when you don't know how to fix it. Identify a good technician. Take care of yourself, and change the furnace filter. Trust me, It's time.
Euros over here for the World Cup discovering we were right about this
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I took an edible twice as strong as I thought it was and I am what I believe the kids these days call wizard high
I feel ya. Had this happen to me but the old school way. My boy Dink grew this stank purple Jamaican weed in his basement and knew how to get that bud looking like it was rolled in sugar level thc and he had a bong that was a wizard sculpture with a 4ft chamber. Ripped like 4 of those in an hour and I don't remember the rest of that summer. I get flashes sometimes but I'm pretty sure I'd still pop a drug test for that weed and it's been 20 years.
I can tell you the difference between zeron, optilon, paralon, poxolon, and hydrolon which makes me a scientist in America right now.
-qualified expert and pool painting scientist.
Pictured, none of the above. đđ»
Okay but world cup tourists discovering that our geese are just absolute assholes has to be favorite thing about 2026.
Costco CEO Ron Vachris did the âCEO eats his own productâ challenge by destroying a hot dog (and confirms the Costco hot dog combo is staying at $1.50 forever). LEGEND.
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Most people know the warning from Costco founder Jim Sinegal to Costcoâs previous CEO about raising the price of $1.50 hot dog combo: âIâll f**king kill you.â
This exchange Sinegal has with the Seattle Times is better:
You could say he raw dogged it. đ€·ââïž
idk if this is an usamerican thing or not but it always blows my mind as a small european country resident that yall have many names and types of apples???? what do you mean its not just red yellow or green??? why is it so complicated??? who is granny smith????
'whats your favorite apple' 'red' 'no i mean like what type' '??????' actual conversatiom i've had with a mutual from usa
THIRTY TWO??????
Listen that doesnât even account for all the weird shit local farmers are getting up to.
May I present the best apple:
the world is so big and beautiful
It's something like 20+ years of different types of apples. You could eat a new kind everyday, for 2 decades.
Okay but world cup tourists discovering that our geese are just absolute assholes has to be favorite thing about 2026.
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If you want that one test nonbinary pin (the one with the car flying off the cliff) send a message in your order of a NB pin letting me know. I canât guarantee that youâll get it (I only have one and itâs first-come-first-serve), so make sure youâre also alright with getting the updated design!
Hope this helps
You can sing the correct answer if you like.
DANGER! HIGH VOLTAGE!
CAUTION! HIGH VOLTAGE!
How to hack any hospital computer
-Use the password taped to the monitor
How to hack any hospital computer (L337 version for advanced security systems)
-Use the password taped to the back of the monitor
As a computer guy: This is what happens when you have too much security. It reaches a tipping point and then suddenly you have none. Security at the cost of convenience comes at the cost of security. Â
This is true of so many things in healthcare. Example: our software is designed to automatically alert the doctor if a patientâs vital signs are critically out of range. If someone has a blood pressure of 200/130, the doc gets a pop-up box that they have to acknowledge before doing anything else. It makes sense, in our setting.
But then some mega-genius upstairs realized something: the system was only alerting for critical vital signs, but not for all vital signs that could possibly be bad. Like, yeah, 200/130 is potentially life-threatening, but 130/90 is above ideal and can have negative effects on health. Should the doctors be allowed to just ignore something that could negatively affect a patientâs health? Heavens no!
So now the system generates a pop-up for any vital signs that are even slightly abnormal. A pressure of 120/80 (once considered textbook normal, now considered slightly high) will create the pop-up. We have increased our vigilance!
Well, no, what weâve actually done is train doctors to click through a constant bombardment of pop-ups without looking. Weâve destroyed their vigilance and made it much easier for them to accidentally skim past life-threatening vital signs.
But you canât tell that to management, because youâd have to confess that you are a flawed human with limited attention resources. Theyâd tell you âwell, all the other doctors take every abnormal vital sign seriously, it sounds like youâre being negligent.â And if youâre smart, you back down before you start telling the big boss all about your habit of ignoring critical safety alerts.
The end result is exactly the same as if we had no alerts at all, except with more annoying clicking.
The other issue is that most computer security is designed by people who will never work the jobs if those using their security systems.
No nurse has the mental bandwidth to remember 15 different passwords to 15 different computers. They have to remember which patients need what, whoâs getting what medication when, whoâs allergic to penicillin, and a million other things. Of course the passwords are going to be written on a piece of paper by the computers, they need to move fast.
My college apartment building made their fire alarms super sensitive, with the idea being that it would stop people from smoking in the units. What it actually did was set the damn things off all the time while people were cooking. So most people in the building just put cling film over their smoke alarms to stop them from reacting to regular cooking and would just take it off for an inspection.
Ah yes, the magnetic locking fire doors. Great system to ensure certain parts of the building become fire proof and you can only exit from fire escape doors. You cannot enter through the fire escape doors. Only exit. Now factor in 3 different ffs systems that are basically 3 different operating systems that don't always cominicate effectively with one another. Now put it all together in the dementia ward. Its own system, seperat from the rest of the facility. Cram all the controls to these systems on the other side of the massive facility. Which you cannot get to from the inside, all the compartments are locked. You have to go through the fire escape door. As soon as that door opens, the alarms go off and it sends a message to the local fire station and ems. You know there isn't a fire, but they have to respond. It's now tinnitus and fire truck tuesday at the retirement villiage because 2 computers can't talk to each other. Easy fix, just prop the doors open with door stops so they never close. Not even if there is a fire. Don't even get me started on the backflow system for the sprinklers because I went to therapy and have made peace with my stint in facilities maintenance management. đđđ»
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