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posted on Kate Bornstein's substack

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A traffic camera in Montreal

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The healthcare strike in Portland, Oregon is in its third week with no clear end in sight. Front-line caregivers with the Providence Healthcare System negotiating union contracts at multiple hospitals that would improve employee working conditions and protect legally-mandated nurse:patient ratios so nurses don't get assigned an unmanageable and unsafe number of patients per shift. There's been some progress with negotiations, and the governor of the state is putting pressure on both sides to end the strike soon, but Providence continues to hold out on key issues.

As a float pool nurse, every shift I go to whatever floor is understaffed. In nearly every unit I've been to, there have been patients who still be in the ICU, getting one to one care. But because we don't have enough critical care staff, we transfer This is not safe for patients or staff. And it's not just medical safety. It takes time to talk out a problem instead of calling security, or to help someone with severe mobility issues go to the bathroom, or to sit with someone crying. The kind of care that makes you feel like a person, not just a patient, takes time. The more patients I have per shift, the less time I have for each of them.

A strike is our strongest negotiating tactic. And as long as we're on strike, we're not getting paid. The longer you don't get paid, the harder it is to not cross the picket line. We're already out two paychecks so far. A lot of people cannot afford to lose that much income. As the primary income earner for our household: GOD I would love to make money again. That is what Providence is banking on. They're losing a TON of money during this strike, but they've got deeper pockets than their workers. They are betting that they can survive the strike longer than the union can.

You can support the strike by donating to the Oregon Nurses Association's hardship fund which provides money to caregivers so they don't have to scab. (I'll put a link in a reblog I'll make right after posting this.) There's also a public petition you can sign that I'll also link. And if you're in the Portland area, we've got picket lines at like nine different places at any given point. Even just awareness is helpful. Providence wants people to be angry at the striking healthcare workers, not them.

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camembert charm always on hand in case of emergency

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Keke Palmer as Emerald Haywood — NOPE (2022) dir. Jordan Peele

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A trope that gets to me: 'guard dog' character and their partner who are both fully aware of it and honestly don't care/kind of like it. Someone says "call your guard dog off" and their partner does call them off. That person, their 'guard dog', is someone who is unreservedly, irrefutably loyal to them. Someone undoubtedly dangerous who is willing to kill, to maim, to obey, simply because of their love for one another. There's no manipulation involved— it is loyalty, brutal, dogged loyalty. And it goes both ways.

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(repeated like a mantra while rubbing my temples) i will stay silly and not allow the world to make me bitter and cruel. i will stay silly and not allow the world to make me bitter and cruel. i wi

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ever since I was a young lad I knew I wanted to be a middle-aged man with an undone tie around his neck who’s having a crisis so he goes to the bathroom to splash water on his face only to look up at himself in the mirror and wonder at the stranger looking back

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i think encouraging kids to name bugs they find is one of the greatest anti-squashing & anti-being-so-scared-of-the-spider-in-the-bathroom-you-pee-yourself-on-the-way-to-music measures u can take. anyway yesterday i came back from makin copies to find that the kids had trapped a spider in a Bug Observation Containment Unit & named it Fruity & after a little while i was like Ok fruity looks like hes dying im gonna take him outside. & as i step out another aide, passing in the hallway, witnesses me exiting the room to calls of "BYE FRUITY!!!!" & looks at me in exasperation like she was positive i had done something So gay that all the kids were calling me a fruit .

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PSA DO NOT initiate any new passport applications changing your gender.

when they say that the application will be "suspended" it may involve seizing your submitted documents (birth certificate and other proofs of identity) and holding them in limbo indefinitely - we do not know what they're going to do.

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Two Gay Animals Go to Brunch PART TWO (END) <3