#you dont think about this shit if youre desperately trying to get a corgi i guess?

[animentality]

I know it's a fact of life and all, but it does give me the heebie jeebies, knowing there's someone out there whose job is to masturbate male pigs so they can ship off semen to artificially inseminate sows.

Like I get it... it's just...like...business, circle of life, this is how the meat industry is efficient in how it breeds livestock, but...

I'm trying to imagine someone whose job it is to masturbate a caged pig, and it's like...

Hm.

I hope they pay them...something good.

Also I wonder if like...female pigs ever feel super weird about being artificially inseminated.

Like they know it's not natural.

I assume.

And then I think, well, what about the male pigs?

They probably know it's not natural either, being jerked off in a cage by some human.

What is going through their heads during all this...

[indeedaesies]

4/4/23

Cultures in any working industries is stupid & ridiculous.

Everyone rushes & competes who can carry the boss’s balls the highest. Boss takes advantage of his position and literally behaves like the biggest asshole on this planet.

I just got FUCKED by the worst boss I’ve ever worked for and his work bitch, aka The Manager. They’re quite well known in the company as Clown 1 & Clown 2. All for an MC that I had received from a certified doctor as I was diagnosed with Influenza B, a contagious disease and somehow almost everyone in my timeline is getting it in Singapore now. New covid? I was still not well yet I wore my mask and dragged myself to work as I did not want my colleague to be on shift alone, KNOWING how that felt like. Only to be fucked as early as 0830 on a Sunday morning.

Could not wait till work ended? Oh that’s right - coming from “the boss” who works everyday where he comes in at 0800 and fuck any nurse who arrives later than him, has time for exercises in between consults, goes for a two hour break unbothered, goes of as early as 3 or sometimes earlier, complains and bitches when he has to do a procedure for the patients, find faults with nurses, beats the patients up, does surgery without sterilised gloves contaminating everything, sides with his entitled clients who lies to his nurses but comes up with bullshit stories for him and when nurses try to clarify and explain themselves, he takes it as talking back and will make your life hell.

Oh, & lets not forget the work bitch - comes in the latest among all the nurses, dont even bother helping anyone with any treatments in the morning, sits at the front every single shift and claim “as the manager I need eyes everywhere so being at the reception is where I need to be to know everything”, has no idea everyone at work hates her, make so much promises but delivers nothing, turn the nurses and doctors against one another, telling me “as the new manager you should not join in the bitching” but bitches the most, act like someone you can trust behind the boss’s back but immediately give a whole new charade in front of him, acts nothing like a leader, purely lazy, throws the phone to other nurses who are having their breaks when clearly she is supposed to be the one mending the phone as per a receptionist does, will literally talk shit non stop, extremely bias, bitched about a nurse and claiming she wants to terminate her just because this nurse’s mom is a kidney dialysis patient and needs to be sent for treatments, hits patients too, really not around as she is busy chain smoking her lungs out, also leaving work as soon as the boss goes home.

I swear to god, this company’s a J O K E. These two clowns tell clients their pets are safe with us. THEY ARENT, especially not with these two mother fuckers who really, I do not understand why the fuck are they in this industry. Patients are being left ALONE overnight but these two clowns will tell clients “there will always be a nurse to take care of your pet overnight”. NO, there IS NOT! Coming to 5 months, I have seen 4 patients DIE overnight as there was NO NURSE OR VET to take care of them. My heart breaks every single fucking day. I vowed never to work for a company that does this shit and fuck me I was just desperate and an idiot to think I could change this place for the better. These two mother fuckers are inhumane. I saw once the boss CHOKE a motherfucking corgi with the leash because he was fierce. I had it handled, I was already restraining the corgi and this piece of shit grabbed his leash and held him in the air. I had to yell to tell him to stop. That corgi was so afraid. I have seen this monster castrate a cat when the cat was not even down yet all because he was in a “hurry”. I cried and I prayed for the cat because I was useless, I was a nobody and that was all I could do, help the cat recover from such a traumatic experience.

I try my best every single day, to do what I do best and that is to save animal lives. Help them. Be their voice. Make them comfortable. Everything that happens in this clinic goes against everything I believed in.

On that unfateful morning, while getting yelled at by the two clowns, all that went through my head was what would happen if I were to snap? My boss told me “i paid you your full salary to do your job” and tell me clearly what the fuck have i been doing all these months then? Come in to work and open my fucking legs and sit on my ass all day? He told me “I cannot work with you anymore, you took more medical leave than I did through my career. Go find a company that will tolerate this and do not tell me I am unfair” That’s rich coming from someone who is so full of it? Like I wouldnt come to work every single day if I get to not work, pass my surgeries and procedures to my nurses and other vets, go for undisturbed breaks and leave before 4 everyday? And Ive been slogging for them and this was my very first long medical leave BECAUSE OF A VIRUS MIND YOU.

Then coming from the work bitch “You can kiss your manager post goodbye, there is no way I can handover this position to you, this is unacceptable” - well funny how this is coming from someone who is not even FIT to lead a team. Also, I have already mentally checked out the managerial post as I have bigger plans coming my way and that is to get the fuck out of this company ASAP.

All for a medical leave. They know it is illegal to terminate me as MOM will not allow it, so here they are making it unbearable for me.

Dont get me wrong, the other doctors and nurses are amazing. I am really close to them as I bothered to get to know them. I took the time to hear them. I try my best to be there for them or help them. I understood what they go through. No matter what happens outside work, I still come to work every time with a smile on my face and make it worthwhile for everyone. But these two pieces of shit - in it for other reasons. And I do not know, for the first time in my life, what to do next.

All I know is, they can try their very best to get me to quit on my own accord but too bad, I am a survivor. I have been through shits after shits to be who I am today. They want me gone, they’ll have to give me a payout. Funny how this bitch is telling me all these bullshits to put on a good show for him when she’s the one that confirmed me as a permanent staff on my second month and even increased my salary. All because of a medical leave that I was entitled too. Amazing right?

[creekfiend]

Ive been thinking a lot about breed specific behavior traits and how they aren't always, or even usually, revealed by phenotype in mixed breeds. I usually see this brought up in the context of how useless breed specific legislation is, bc a dog can "look" like a pit mix or bully breed and not be. But the flip -- and imo even more dangerous -- side of that is that a dog can EASILY not look anything like a pitbull and actually be a pit mix, and have some really really dangerous behavior and temperament traits to go along with that that no one would guess from just looking.

Julia is a pit mix with several other bully breeds thrown in there and she looks absolutely nothing like a pitbull. She has a thick double coat and short legs and pointy ears and snout and most vets put her in their system as "corgi mix" before we had her tested. But she ACTS like a bully mix! A dog that looks like Julia could easily end up in a shelter system in an area with BSL and potential adopters would think that because of the laws and her appearance there was no way the dog they were adopting would have those behavior traits, but they would be wrong. Dangerously wrong, in this case!

I feel like there are 9000x more anecdotes floating around online that are like "my pit mix wouldnt hurt a fly" than anecdotes that are like "yeah my dog has tried to kill other dogs" for several reasons, one being that most people have not necessarily realistic views of their pets' temperaments and like to assume that because they love their pet, it would never do something that really frightens them. Another is that people who have pit mixes who ARE aggressive feel ashamed, like it reflects poorly on their character that they were not somehow able to magically change behavior traits that have been bred into a type of dog for like a hundred years. Like if your dog tries to murder other dogs you must not love it enough! or something.

Its true that sometimes training and socialization are neglected in these situations and this contributes to the problem but the fact is sometimes you have a dog and it just ... has behaviors that were bred into it. And those behaviors are not compatible with a life that does not involve murdering other dogs on purpose. I SAY THIS BECAUSE I HAVE SUCH A DOG, NOT BC I AM TRYING TO BE MELODRAMATIC ABOUT SECRET EVIL PITBULLS. i love my dog very much but she absolutely not only has VERY high dog aggression,  but she has that bully/terrier trait of getting "locked in" to attack/kill mode where getting her out of that mode again is insanely difficult, that tenacity and "gameness" that not all DA dogs have that makes DA a trillion times worse.

I call this "dark adhd" (ITS A JOKE BECAUSE I RECOGNIZE THAT KIND OF HYPERFOCUS IN MYSELF, just... not in the context of attempted murder) and I think it is even more relevant to the potential dangerousness of bully breed mixes than DA is bc i have known many dogs with DA but WITHOUT the dark adhd who mostly growl or snap at other dogs, or sometimes initiate fights but are able to cycle fairly quickly BACK OUT OF FIGHT MODE. Dogs who have been bred to have that "gameness" on top of the DA? holy shit. Guys when Julia goes after another of our dogs I can be physically removing them from the area and she will leap into the air to try to drag them back down to kill. I just pick Ella the dachshund mix up out of her range when they get into fights and Julia without fail does desperate dolphin leaps into the air to try to latch on and drag her back down. She just latches on and goes for Kill. A switch gets flipped in her brain and she VISIBLY is just like... in murder mode.

Training and socialization have resulted in a dog that doesnt go into this mode often. Julia lives in a household with a LOT of other dogs and 99% of the time she tolerates them quite well. She only stumbles when she is in really high stress situations (like right after a really long move, say...) and it isnt something that has ever resulted in tragedy because we are careful to manage it (and frankly also because we have been lucky. I feel like being lucky, or unlucky, is an underdiscussed element of this whole thing lol)

But when she DOES go into that mode.. holy shit

Anyway this is long and kind of rambley but. Bully breeds have Dark ADHD and pit mixes dont always look like pit mixes. Is my takeaway

[earldevon]

◤ ––––– (  fawad khan, cismale, he/him  ) — a member of the  [  VILLIERS  ]  family seeks entry to the society !  [  SARMAD  ]  is a  [ 37 ]  year old   [  NEWSPAPER EDITOR &&. MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS  ]  who hails from  [  LONDON  ]  ,  who call them  [  THE DILIGENT  ]  .  although their peers know them for being  [  CHARMING  ]  and  [  AMBITIOUS  ]  ,  their reputation for being  [  IMPATIENT  ]  and  [  SARCASTIC  ]  might hinder their relations with current society members. while the  [  VILLIERS  ]  family is known for  [  BEING BRITISH NOBILITY  ]  ,  the society’s hopeful  [  MARCUS AURELIUS  ]  is better remembered by  [  EYE CONTACT AND A LIP BITE ;  BLOOD TYPE: GOLD ; A SIGNET RING GLINTING IN THE EARLY MORNING LIGHT ; SNOWFLAKES DISSOLVING INTO DARK HAIR ]  .  initial reports say their goal of  [  EXPANDING THEIR SOCIAL NETWORK  ]  would be their first priority after being inducted, although who’s to say that won’t change ? ◢ 

––– RECAP. 

tldr earl of devon is also a newspaper editor, enjoys sitting on balconies and reading his own newspaper, isn’t the best but also he is definitely not trying at all. goes out a lot. has many dogs. has many opinions. thinks hes hot shit. once got lost in his own house. 10000% uses his looks to get what he wants. basically a femme fatale i guess idk 

tw sex mention ; tw partying mention ; tw language

the eldest of four, sarmad was always a little shit. it’s okay, because he wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth –– he was born with several gold plated cutlery sets. literally grew up in a castle. still stays there most nights. but as the heir to the earldom of devon, he grew up with tourists walking around his house and lavish dinners every other night, and he grew up absolutely, completely spoiled. did their mother abandon them when sarmad’s youngest sister was only a year old? yes. does he have mummy issues? yes. did they manifest in bad choices and severe commitment issues? you bet. ( but he also had a great step-mother. 10/10 love her. )

so after all the things he was supposed to do –– attend harrow ( yawn ), attend oxford ( double yawn ), make all the social connections he could ( not that bad, actually ) –– he finally graduated and did what he wasn’t supposed to do. sarmad became a journalist, much to his father’s great annoyance. he started off at the bbc, before becoming a full time contributor at the telegraph. he also wrote for vanity fair, the independent on sunday, and the guardian. then he became the full time editor of the telegraph and gave it the modern revamp it so desperately needed. he also has an assistant he would legitimately be dead without. 

now, sarmad is an arsehole. he never pretended otherwise. he goes out, he parties a lot, he’s been a staple in the daily mail since he was all of about nineteen. he doesn’t date, he doesn’t call people back, he doesn’t lead anyone on. he likes a good time. and maybe, maybe he’s completely unapologetic. is he sleeping with a rival newspaper boss? yes. is it hate sex? yes. is he sleeping with one of the other members of the house of lords? yes. he’s not a saint. but then again, anyone getting involved with him knows exactly what they’re in for. so, really? what’s the harm? 

he followed his dad and eventually joined the house of lords after he passed away. and he takes that pretty damn easy. sure, he still has his day job as editor, but he also enjoys using his charm in parliament, and he likes seeing how far he can get his way. tbh he’s doing mostly for the influence and the clout.  

joining the society had never interested him. he’d known about it, obviously ; his family were legacy members and there had been enough dinners at their estate for him to be fully aware of its existence, but. sarmad had just never cared. it was a little too much cloak and dagger, skull and bones nonsense for him. 

however, since joining the house of lords –– since entering politics at all –– he’s realised he needs to branch out more and more. he can’t just rely on his own media connections or the elite he brushes shoulders with just because of his name and title. sarmad needs more to survive politics, and for that? the society’s good for something after all. it’s why he’s an initiate at his age ( his dad would yell )

MOST IMPORTANTLY : he has eight dogs –– three corgis named cider, peppermint, and cardamom ; two cocker-spaniels named spencer and emmanuel ; two foxhounds named winston and manto ; one labrador named simla. also owns horses and birds. 

he also has a younger brother and two younger sisters. they’re annoying but he loves them, and he can also now joke about how they’re under his roof when they stay at the estate. ( hes not joking ) sarmad is also a mouthy lil shit 

also if you are not making your tea on the stove by boiling tea leaves in milk and water, and then serving it piping hot, you can get tf out of his house !!! dont ask him about his chai discourse bec he only stans doodh patti