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There was a TikTok of an (American) woman who was documenting her husband’s ICU room and expressing displeasure with the state it was in, it was generally unclean with broken equipment, rust stains, clipped flooring, things that can make a medical environment unsafe. I opened the comments expecting people to be like “Wow, that’s scary. And a huge infection risk. ICU stays often cost patients upwards of $100k and not enough of that money is going to maintenance and cleaning.” But instead it was nurses being utterly vile to this woman. Not saying “You’re right, it’s terrible that we’re forced to do our jobs in unsafe, unclean and outdated environments.” they were telling her she was a prime example of why patients’ families were the worst part of their job.

The hospital that charged my insurance $87k for a single endoscopy & colonoscopy performed on me was recently fined for having dirty equipment. If not on sanitation, if not on giving nurses and providers better wages, if not on updating the facility, where the hell did that money go? If nurses could band together to attack and criticize hospital administration and the American medical system in the way they band together to attack and criticize patients and advocates online, all of our lives could improve.

But of course it is easier to raise the sword against the vulnerable person dependent on your care, on the people often experiencing the worst day of their life when they are too frightened and in pain to treat you with courtesy. It’s easier to lash out at the patient inquiring about their medication after waiting two hours than to lash out at the people responsible for making you responsible for 30 patients at once.

I don’t think anyone blames nurses for hospital rooms being nasty. It’s not their job. It’s the job of custodial staff and maintenance. It’s the job of administration to fund those departments. It’s a problem at the top. If we could all look upwards instead of down when it comes to who we criticize and blame, we could make progress.

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"Disgruntled, annoyed, and ready to leave, this Kobold is a wandering traps maker that is just looking to make a living and avoid trouble, often trading with adventurers on the road. They seem wary of others' intentions, but perhaps the right adventuring party could bring out the warmth in their scaly heart? Because despite their caution, trouble seems to find them on the road..." 

This LC design (among others!) is available for you and anyone to play in your own campaigns for only 5 bucks! You can find them up on my ko-fi if you're interested! 💕💖

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Switching up Fanart Fridays for patrons with a "And Let's Make Them Fat" segment! 🥳💖💕✨ The first voted winner was Dionysus! Full piece and process GIF are up for patrons to see! 💖

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Finished Monochromatic Commission of Molt (she/her) for @evverrett! 🥳💖💕✨

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Ok hear me out Donnie prosthetic arm—but it’s made out of his own blood with the help of krang technology do you see it

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It's coming along. Wish me luck I'm about to use holographic filament for the first time.

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I don't know if it's in your ballpark but I don't really know who else to ask. So I'm a cis guy and never really questioned my gender identity. But recently I started thinking that I'll be much happier if I was a girl. However, I enjoy being a guy. And I'm not sure if it's dysmorphia or something else and, as I said, I have no one to ask. Sorry if it's a wrong place to ask or if I said anything harmful, I'm just lost. Thank you very much for your work!

(if the ask is somehow not anonymous please don't answer)

My ballpark is pretty wide, so I think I can answer this.

Well, here's the thing: you can be a girl and a guy. If you enjoy being a guy, you don't have to stop being one. You can just also be a girl! That's perfectly okay. That's sometimes called being bigender.

Especially if you think you'd be happier as a girl, go ahead! Do that! And if you think you'd also like to be a guy, do that too! There are no gender rules, only bullshit gender roles and you don't have to obey those.

No apologies needed, this was a good question! I hope this helps, let me know if you have any questions. <3

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this wins

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☆ So happy to finally share my piece for the @turtlestogetherzine ☆

It's been an honor to participate along with so many talented people!

♡ Thank you all so much for having me ♡

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YOU SPEAK MY SAME LANGUAGE💙💜

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people need to have higher standards for what being “pro-trans” means

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ok last thing. but what people fundamentally need to get through their heads is the significance of gaza fundraisers not being the same as like mutual aid when you're helping someone get groceries, because it is a genocide. there is insane deliberate scarcity and prices are unmanageable, because there is nowhere nearly enough for everyone, so only people who can pay can eat. and what positioning individual fundraisers as the only course of action does is quite simply give a tiny percentage of random people whose fundraisers take off the ability to pay those prices while thousands of others can't. and every one of those thousands of people without a fundraiser is suffering through the same inconceivably horrific reality. it is giving a few completely desperate people out of hundreds of thousands a slightly more favorable position in a horrific war economy of imposed scarcity. and what grassroots community kitchens do is try to mitigate in some small way that inconceivable hierarchy of who can pay and who can't, by stretching ingredients as far as they can last to cook meals at large scale and give them out at no cost. and obviously people are still going to send money to their friends and families because this is hell what else are we supposed to do but please just think about that before promoting endless individual fundraisers as somehow the most ethical way to help

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Scratched liberals all over Twitter rn:

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fish song

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AP is saying she lost by 5 million votes. which means even if all 2 million third party voters had voted for kamala harris (which would never have happened because of the libertarian party & RFK to be clear), she still would have lost.

instead of blaming leftists and palestinians for voting third party, you should be blaming the democrats for running a trash campaign. a campaign based in genocide, ethnic cleansing, cracking down on the border, children in cages, endless war with russia, endless war in korea, endless war in SWANA, the promise of war with china, refusing to actually defend (let alone protect) trans and queer people, and the list goes on. the democratic party is actively contributing to the rise of fascism in the united states, and they have been for 50 years.