#but also hospital bills require $$$ and these people don't have $$$

[rox-reads]

taylor... i hope you pay for their med bills later :(

[she-is-ovarit]

What women (female human beings) experience under the new administration's executive orders and subsequent introduced bills by republicans:

Potentially being charged with a felony and in some states the death penalty for taking the abortion pill or contraception pills.

Being politically forced to incubate and going through unwanted pregnancies, which will result in ~20+ years of being a caregiver to a child emotionally, financially, physically.

Rapists can now choose the mother of their offspring.

Women will be unable to medically treat sometimes life-threatening and extremely debilitating hormone cycle related conditions through contraception.

Women's healthcare is now required to also meet the needs of men (house resolution 7). In other words, honey, does your husband want you to have that hysterectomy?

What Tribes are experiencing:

A complete freeze to federal funding—the vast majority of tribal nations as sovereign yet dependent nations almost solely rely on this funding for very basic human programs (education, housing, food, elder care, youth care, protection).

What gay people are experiencing:

Rollback of gay rights and same sex marriage which allows us extremely important legal protections including allowing us into hospitals to care for our dying loved ones, property rights, etc.

What trans people experience under the new administrations executive order in comparison:

"I'll have to hide my pronouns in my social media bio :("

"I'm not able to alter my birth certificate"

Males can't be transferred to women's prisons.

Trump recognized there were two sexes.

Literal children and teenagers under 19 years old can't be pumped full of hormones or given surgeries to drastically alter/modify their sex. Adults over 19 still can.

Boys in high schools can't follow girls into locker rooms and bathrooms through just arguing they don't identify as boys.

Schools can't be federally funded (incentivized) by students believing they aren't really of their sex or by them just using different pronouns.

[bloodyodyssey]

(Repost) Comms still up with 8 slots, 3 for busts, 3 for half body, and 2 for full body! Each listing also allows for up to one extra character to be added on at half price!

***If you don't want to commission me that's also fine i'd apreciate just a regular kofi dono or just sharing this around bc my finances are low, I've been averaging on $20 a month and struggling to pay hospital bills from earlier this year. i will also be considering opening a google doc or some other order form to allow payments via cashapp if there's any interest. Anyways heres a general breakdown of the pricing system and my will's/wont's under the cut:

So how do I (you, the buyer) choose what I want?

SO when you open up the request form it should look something like this!

We're using the bust order as our example here. At its base price, $15, it is set for the black and white option. If this is what you would like, then you don't have to worry about the add ons at all and you go straight to submitting your request! Now, if you're choosing add ons, it'll look something like these:

The first would be an example of an order of a flat color bust + an extra character bust with flat coloring as well. The color option adds the extra $10 (to match the listed price on the poster for $25), and the extra character with flat coloring adds half of that $25 to the order (well a little less bc i knocked off the .50 cents) which is why it comes out to $37.

The second would be an example of a black and white bust order with an added black and white bust character. This just adds an extra $7 to the price totaling $22.

What will you (the artist, me Brutus) draw?

If you want me to draw your oc or fanart of your favorite character I GOT U!!!

I'm also comfortable drawing blood and gore though I'll have to keep it on the lighter side (I enjoy blood if it isnt obvious by my url though so depending on what you want we might be able to go a little further with that).

I can do characters with armor as well, however I will require a reference of some sort from you, the client, as I'm frankly not going to attempt armor off the dome. I won't design armor myself either.

Pinups (not full nsfw due to how much of a struggle it is to navigate different site policies) and other suggestive works are also a-ok! a tity does not bother me if that wasn't made clear by my commission card 👍🏽

What will you (the artist, me Brutus) NOT draw?

Im not comfortable trying to draw real people as of right now sorry! I'm just not really a caricature or realistic portrait artist but this may change in the future.

I also won't do furry/anthro just because that isn't my forte as I haven't practiced drawing animalistic characters. There r plenty of talented furry artists for you to choose from and I could talk to someone to guide you to a few .

(I CAN do more humanoid fantasy characters however. like mermaids, satyrs, etc)

More extreme gore and body horror is also off the table. (so like spilling guts stuff like that)

I may love mecha but as it is like armor and a bit more extreme, I'm not drawing it sorry. And also as stated above I'm not drawing armor regardless without a good reference.

Certain fandoms are a no-go for me due to my own comfort. A quick list would be: mogeko games, omori, south park, hetalia, attack on titan, mcyt, hazbin hotel/helluva boss. if you're not sure just ask!

I reserve the right to decline any comission request for any reason. Getting paid is nice but my comfort is nicer yknow.

And that should cover everything! If you still need to ask me anything, my messages are open. Thank you so much for reading and a little extra thank you if you decide to commission me ❤️

[trans-axolotl]

i think i recall some info you've posted about suicide hotlines, sorry if i've mixed you up with someone else. with the lgbt youth silo being disbanded under 988 next month, do you think it'll have an impact on people? part of me wants to believe if 988 sucks then who cares. but if lgbt youth have been helped by this subservice then it's another kick in the teeth.

Yeah probably was me you were thinking of, I've posted quite a bit about the problems with 988 in terms of all the ways they collaborate with cops, do "nonconsensual active rescue" and involuntarily hospitalize people.

And honestly this is one of the reasons I said from the beginning that I didn't think hotlines such as the Trevor Project and other independent hotlines should have became part of the 988 network. Mostly because I think that 988 is a deeply unethical hotline and I don't think that other hotlines should have agreed to uphold the mandatory nonconsensual rescue policies that are required to become part of the 988 network, but also because then their operation becomes even more closely tied to federal funding and federal policy changes, and it opened the door to something like this happening.

I certainly don't think it's good that the fed government specifically cut this service and are signaling that they don't care about supporting suicide prevention for LGBTQ and specifically trans youth, but I also don't think the solution to that is pouring more money into unethical hotlines or lobbying into getting this service back into 988. I think the solution is supporting independent hotlines like the trans lifeline or thrive lifeline that don't collaborate with cops, trying to direct more funding to them so that they can support an increased influx of calls, and sharing those hotline numbers so that more LGBTQ youth are aware there are other LGBTQ hotline services out there. I also think there should be more of an organized effort to get other hotlines to quit working with the cops, quit working with 988, and implement the crisis callers bill of rights.

[ckret2]

I'm staring at the newest chapter in horror but also, there are SO many witnesses and there will probably be a ton of documentation about the second dimensional incident, which makes it that much more baffling Bill got an insanity plea. I know it's for Story Reasons and I probably shouldn't think about it too hard but goddamn.

They legitimately looked at all of this and said "yeah no he's found not guilty by reason of insanity, Theraprism NOW." (I thought at first it was "guilty but insane," however we get no indication that he's going to be sent to a normal multiversal prison after he completes his karmic rehabilitation. They all but say that reincarnation is the goal after this is over, which seems to be equivalent to release and reintegration into society.)

That being said it could simply be that interdimensional court has different requirements to be declared insane enough not to get permadeath. Or I'm misremembering how the Theraprism works...It's a forensic hospital, right? Not prison. He's being treated not punished.(Kinda debatable. That place sucks.)

The Axolotl gotta be the single best lawyer of the entire multiverse how the hell did they pull this off. I would love to just be in the court when this went down actually I can already feel how absolutely insane it was. No way either side didn't fight tooth and nail.

the fact that Bill is willing to look every single person he meets dead in the eye and say "no my dimension wasn't destroyed, it's fine, all my people are alive and they love me" is ngl gonna be a big part of the ax's defense strategy.

They have a lot of documentation of what Bill's like after the massacre—but there's absolutely no record, anywhere, of what happened during the massacre. You know what they do have documentation of though? Bill insisting that he dumped Euclydia into Dimension Zero so that he could do renovations and that he's built a paradise universe in its place when all he's built is a void with a few strobe lights. Bill claiming that all these people he kidnapped himself are actually from his dimension. Bill pulling off "rescues" with seemingly no self-awareness that he slaughtered more than he saved. Bill being told MULTIPLE TIMES "if you keep trying to fix Dimension Zero then the multiverse will collapse" and Bill going "okay. i hear you. So how about i fix Dimension Zero, and then, everything is fine."

What do you do if you get Bill into a courtroom and ask him "do you plea guilty to the massacre of Euclydia?" and he goes "I don't know what you're talking about. There was no massacre. I liberated everyone, they're fine. They're literally still alive today. Nobody died." Like. You're trying to decide his culpability in a crime he doesn't acknowledge happened.

You've gotta ask 2 questions: does Bill literally not know what happened to his dimension—even if the knowledge comes and goes, is it still sometimes genuinely missing—or is this just an act to try to wiggle out of trouble? And, if he does literally not know what happened to it, is that a trauma reaction to the massacre, or did he commit the crime not comprehending what the result would be?

Bill's a known liar, this could all be an act. But, like, god, wow, it's a really, really good act.

The Ax can argue that Bill literally doesn't grasp the difference between right and wrong. He can tell them that Bill is completely unable to differentiate fact and fiction. He can tell them that Bill has delusions that he didn't destroy Euclydia, that the neighboring dimensions are Euclydia, that all his people are alive and healthy, and argue that he probably had delusions that whatever he did to his dimension wouldn't destroy it in the first place. He can argue a whole lot of things about Bill.

Are any of these things true about Bill? Debatable. Probably not. Somewhere between 30%-60% true. Could the Ax convince a court that they're true? Probably. Everyone already agrees Bill's insane. The only question is if he was the right kind of insane at the right time.

[forbidden-sin-bin]

By Your Side - Chapter 3

Summary: Only appearing as a mere background extra a few times, your hopes of landing a large enough role to be truly seen dwindles by the minute. In the midst of the long wait, you bury yourself in being the hardest working part-time barista the café has to offer.

Oh, and say hello to your new manager, who’s also working hard to make ends meet.

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August 27, 1997

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Brushing your apron smooth, you made your way to the cash register with a your usual practiced smile. "Welcome to the Tango Palace. What can I get you today?"

The welcoming expression on your face was far from the reality of your situation right now. And boy, it was bad.

Ever since the trip from New York feeling like a success, the days of receiving nothing but silence on your end slowly melted into creeping disappointment. Waiting by the phone for hours on end, all for nothing, the day wasted.

And it wasn't just the callback that you were waiting for: you had dozens of tryouts in the race against many others - improvs, scripts, interviews, singing, even a literal hand evaluation - in order to take that one and only spot of being chosen.

Though your parents were always happy whenever you landed a spot as an extra in the background of a single scene, be it movie or tv show, it did nothing to quell the shot-through nerves of wondering if the agency would ever give you an update on that callback you did.

At this point, nearing the new school year for Quinn's first year of kindergarten was the only silver lining in all of this. No doubt, you were proud, but it was bittersweet seeing them grow so fast. It seemed as if it were only yesterday that you had brought him home from the hospital, and in a blink he's walking, talking and ready to learn how to read.

In fact, you were so lost in reminiscing you nearly missed your customer's order.

Realizing you may or may not have zoned out for a second too long, you mentally slapped yourself as you quickly typed out the order. "S-sorry! Was it a regular coffee, one cream, no sugar?"

"And a quiche." Your customer sighed. "Jesus Christ..."

You nodded as you forced down your panic and irritation at the backhanded comment, giving them the total as you set the register to print out the receipt. "Alright, it'll only take a second." Whipping around, you set to work on pouring out a steaming hot cup of coffee, freshly brewed, and placing a pre-prepared veggie quiche out of the fridge and into the oven, dialing the settings to heat it just right.

Holding back your own sigh, you leaned back on the countertop as you waited. Truth be told, you weren't sure if the thought of getting fired was more stressful, or the thought of becoming a good-for-nothing that's entirely possible in the near future was worse. Either way, you couldn't lose this job.

The owners were kind enough, and business wasn't overly crowded with people, but you wanted to show them that hiring you was the best decision they could've made. Thinking about anything that isn't the job is the complete opposite of what you're trying to prove.

'Don't think of anything but what's in front of you, right now.'

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Later that evening...

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You tossed each letter onto the table in two separate piles; One for bills, the other for junk mail. After an uneventful day of serving customers, you returned home as always, filtering out the mail for your parents before they came home.

It wouldn't be long before the school year started, and you'd have to cut your hours in order to pick Quinn up from school, elsewise he'd be stuck in the after-care program till six, which wasn't fair for him at all.

It wasn't as if your family was poor or in debt, rather down on its luck. Your parents working at desk jobs required them to be there from at least nine to five, there was little to no time to take a break, especially now that they're not just working to keep the house afloat; If all else failed, you'd have to pick a course and go through community college just to get some degree that'll help you find a job that pays.

A part of you feared that you'd be kicked out eventually, which terrified your thoughts of not being able to take care of Quinn. And not being able to take care of Quinn means you're probably getting kicked out of the house like every other parent does to their kid that doesn't deliver.

Alright, that last part is debatable. But it’s possible, and you weren’t taking any chances.

And by not taking any chances, you sure as hell weren’t about to let the phone ring twice as you practically leaped over the kitchen table to pick it up.

"Hi! Hello?! Sorry- hello?"

"H-hello? Hi, is this-?" A stressed voice stutters out your first and last name.

Your face, initially bright with hope fell comically quick as you realized it wasn't an agency calling you for a role. Instead, a somewhat nervous voice of a young man answered. From how he sounded you could tell he was sweating bullets coming out of the other side of the phone.

"Yes, hi. That would be correct." You replied, not bothering to hide your deadpan shift in mood. This however didn't seem to phase the stranger.

"Oh, great! I saw your resume sent in to my agency, and I see you're looking for an agent to represent you in the coming years? Hopefully trying to find work?"

A few seconds of silence passed as you processed his response. 'Oh shoot, they actually remembered?' You thought with wide eyes.

"He-hello?"

"Yep, still on the line. May I ask who's calling?"

"Sean Warden. Sorry I should've introduced myself at the start but-"

You cut him off. "All good. And to answer your question: Yes. I'm in need of assistance in receiving job offers. Is that sufficient?"

"Awesome. So, the reason I'm calling you right now is because I have a proposition to offer you."

Again, silence, as if he was awaiting a reaction out of you. You however, had already begun to lose patience. "...Please continue." You held back a sigh, beginning to wonder if this is some sort of prank call or scam caller.

Still, this 'Sean' guy seemed either desperate or eager as he revealed his intention.

"I would like to represent you as your agent."

...

A few hours later...

...

"I'm going to be honest with you: This is not how I expected a potential signing of a client to look like."

Sitting inside a Tim Horton's café, coffee cups in hand, you found yourself sitting at a two-person table with a young, skittish and scrawny looking man in his mid to late twenties. Admittedly, this isn't the kind of guy you'd expect to meet.

Sharing an awkward silence, both of you holding small black coffees, neither of you had the gall to break the painful, painful silence. At least, until you've finished reading the whole entire contract that he gave you.

Given you're in the middle of the second page out of... eight, this was going to be a long evening.

Flicking your gaze at him for a brief glance away from your reading, you saw no impatience, only anxiousness, in his face. "Sorry if I'm taking up your time." You offered, figuring it'd be the least you could do for someone who hasn't been pushing your buttons.

Sean waves you off. "No need, I'm just happy you've agreed to even see me. I'll take anything, really."

You raised a brow. 'Anything, he says.' Your thoughts wandered away to making it seem as if you weren't the first option of employment, probably the last.

"O-oh, no no nonono, I didn't mean it like that!" He corrects himself, probably noticing or fearing that he might've made you reconsider signing that contract. "I mean- like-" He sighs, covering his face with a hand, filled with stress. "Don't get me wrong, I absolutely wanted to pick you as a client. I've seen your resume and everything; I can see the potential you have, I mean it."

Nodding, you resumed scanning the papers. "Continue. I'm listening, don't worry." Seeing that he hadn't missed his shot, he relaxed a little.

"I'm not trying to sell a sob story, it's just the truth. As you may know, the work I do is to find others work; Aspiring actors, music artists, the like? I'm no beginner to this, I've had many clients in the past and I haven't failed finding them jobs. But when there's older, more experienced agents... Well, you'd want to be represented by them more than me."

You hummed in acknowledgement, not taking your eyes off the contract as you flipped to page 3.

"My last three clients have all decided to move on to find a more renowned agency, meaning that as of now, I've no one to find work for, which also means my wages are little to none at the moment." Sean finished, clasping his hands together and resting them on the table, looking down as he finished. "What I'm offering you right now isn't the end all, be all. I promise you, regardless of what's going on in my personal and home life, I'll give it my all to find you what you need." It almost sounds like a plead, coming from him. "If you end up parting ways with me in the future, that's more than okay! It's just... please. Give me this chance to help you out."

Finally, you raised your head to look at him. Keeping your face neutral, you finally spoke after a few moments:

"Could you do something for me, if I do sign?"

He nodded eagerly. "Yeah, of course! What is it?"

Taking sip of your coffee first, you then reached into your bag and handed him your notebook. Well, one of many... but you knew this one had something you were looking for, and you couldn't reach it by yourself.

Flipping through to the page you wanted him to see, you slid the notebook over too him. "There's someone I know that's been looking to release an EP this year... probably this year, I don't know exactly. Problem is, you can't find their stuff here, only in Detroit. Think you could help me out?"

"Can I?" He almost laughed in relief. "Say no more." Scanning the written contact info that wasn't written in your hand, you watched as he holds the notebook closer to his face as something flickers across his expression. "Hold on a second..." First starting from genuine interest slowly melted to confusion, then familiarity.

You raised a brow. "Is everything alright?"

Suddenly, Sean's gray eyes widened in recognition, and indignation.

"OH, NOT THAT BALD-HEADED BASTARD?!"

...

....

.....

A few weeks later...

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"OH, NOT THAT SMUG FUCKIN TWINK."

Marshall's head snapped up from writing another let of lyrics as he looked at his recently-signed agent, Paul. "The fuck you goin on about man?"

Holding the letter in his hands, Paul looked like he was glaring daggers into the paper. "Not you! It's this guy that I knew from law school, fucking annoying is what he was." Tossing the paper to his table, he sighed as he walked out of the room. "Take a look if you want, apparently his client claims to know you or something. They're waiting for your EP."

'How the hell'd they know already, this fuckin early?' Marshall picked up the paper, lazily scanning through the content that somehow got Paul pissed enough to take a hike. The signed name of the writer, Sean Warden, didn't ring any bells except the one labelled: 'white guy's name', if it wasn't obvious enough.

No one here would name their kid Sean, for fucks sake.

The name of his client however... slowly, but eventually remembering that day they met, even if it was only for a few minutes, was not forgotten on either of them, it seems.

Marshall huffed out a laugh.

"Hoooooooly fuckin shit. That bitch actually did it."

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(End of Chapter 3)

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A/N: HAPPY 1 YEAR AND... *checks calendar* NEARLY THREE MONTHS Y'ALL

Yep.

I think you already know I'm about to apologize again, so uhh... I'm extremely, very sorry? If any of you are still waiting I'm incredibly sorry for the long ass wait. I said previously it was all uphill from here, which was a LIE IT SEEMS

But just to make it up to you all... Chapter 4 is coming THIS WEEK. So there's something to look forward too I hope! Chapter 5 is coming a few weeks after as well. But I hope this suffices for now, thank you for your patience <3

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[weaselle]

Let's dream. These are the things i think should be provided to the public for free

Food Centers:

it's not fancy and there's not a high variety, heck it's basically just rice, beans, some fruit juice, and the vegetable of the month, but you can go to any food center and get, for free, the baseline nutrition you need for staying alive and healthy. This food is available, for free, in any amount, in both raw and cooked forms, as Food Centers are both storage and cooking facilities. Some diet alternatives are made available for those with, for example, allergies or food related mental issues, tho this may require registering with whatever Food Center you plan on visiting ahead of time. And of course baby formula, baby food, and clean water.

Public Hospitals:

And yes this includes ALL medical treatments physical or mental. Any person, at any time, for any reason, can walk into a Public Hospital and receive the best medical care available. No paperwork (i mean they do keep your medical records on file etc but there is no paperwork for the patient to fill out). No hoops, no proving anything, no barriers to entry, nothing -- you enter a hospital, you receive medical care, period. Medical transport and mobile medical staff available as needed. Unlike with food, there is no "free tier" because anything less than the best medical treatment available is a crime against humanity. Possibly publicly available bathing facilities attached.

Public Housing:

Government built apartment complexes, first come first served, if it's empty you can move in. All you have to do is register, so that you don't go on a trip and have people move in because the place seemed empty. Probably some regulations like you can't register for more than one permanent residence, maximum of bedrooms equal to the number of people registered plus one, but you can have a temporary second apartment on a weekly basis, subject to availability - so like, you can go on a trip for a week, and then extend the trip by a week, and then maybe you want to extend a third week and you get told sorry there are now people waiting for a permanent residence in this area, temp residence at this location is no longer available until new housing units are completed. Something like that.

Information.

This is basically free school (through college) but i call it Information because I believe internet access and libraries, and press/public broadcasting also belong on this list

Clothing:

It isn't high fashion, it might be little more than socks, shoes, blankets, and government issued jumpsuits in hot and cold weather variants, but nobody is going to be left without clothing if they need it. Probably a small distribution center attached to each Food Center. People often forget about this one, but it's important.

Public Transportation:

what it says on the tin. Comprehensive, networked, including something like a (free) taxi program attached to train depots servicing rural areas that lack infrastructure or population density for even busses (so like, there might not be a train station in Lewistown Montana, but you can still get transported to Billings and catch a train)

BUT HOW WILL WE PROVIDE / PAY FOR THESE THINGS?

glad you asked

first of all there will still be taxes, because there will still be jobs, because almost nobody is going to want to wear the government issued jumpsuits and eat nothing but rice and beans. These things will keep you alive and healthy, but almost everyone is going to want their favorite foods and to be dressed fashionably, etc etc etc. You'll have hobbies you want to pay for, you'll have special dates you want to go on, people will want to live in their dream home... humanity is going to WANT THINGS, and so there will still be work and pay and money and taxes. There will even still be rich people and poor people if economic ladders are your kink, it's just now nobody will ever die of being poor. And if this is what we're getting, i do not care if the taxes are at like 65%, as long as the wealthy and the corporations are paying it too, but let's try to get it done for 50% for easy math. And we don't have to do all that complicated shit about this person should only pay less than that because they are poor or whatever, because a person could have zero money and still be basically ok. Just. 50% across the board.

BUT ALSO. We have resources. Do you know who owns all the offshore oil? Do you know who owns all the national forests that get logged for wood? We do. It's pubic property that our government leases to private companies to sell us back our own stuff. So maybe we should handle our resources differently.

AND. Labor. I've written about this before, but, i say instead of the unending argument about military spending, we increase the military budget, but we use them as a public work force here at home. Only about 10% of the US military is combat personnel. The other 90ish percent have jobs like Forklift Operator, Computer Engineer, Doctor, Mechanic, etc. So let them have some more funding, and let's get them building our government housing and staffing our Food Centers etc.

And sure, it probably wouldn't work perfectly, it would need constant management and innovation to continue to function. But it's not like our current system is working very well, right? Current system sucks so much that in Chicago alone every year senior citizens die because they have to choose between freezing or paying for their medicine. So we don't really have anything to lose. I mean most of us don't anyway. Might take some pitchforks and torches to convince the corporate oligarchy, the political puppets and their billionaire puppeteers.

oh, and

[macgyvermedical]

what kinds of medical type careers exist for people who can't handle much physical strain? i'm fascinated by the ways the human body breaks but also frequently personally subjected to it

So.

Depends on how much school you are willing to do/can tolerate.

If you're looking for something that takes mostly on the job training or minimal training, look into becoming a hospital sitter (sometimes called a "patient companion"), a referral coordinator, front desk staff at a doctor's office or emergency department, or a hospital unit secretary. Hospital sitters are individuals who sit with patients who are at risk of harming themselves or need frequent re-direction. In-person hospital sitters need to stand and help patients occasionally (but it's a lot less physicality than a nurse's aide/CNA since it's only for one patient). If you can't do that, being a video sitter means you don't need to get up at all- it's all done from an office setting on a computer. Referral coordinators call specialists offices and coordinate appointments for patients, usually working through a primary care practice. Front desk staff checks patients in for appointments/ED visits, takes insurance cards, and sets things up for billing and coding. Hospital unit secretaries coordinate paperwork on a hospital floor, prepare physical charts, and check people in and out in the computer system, among other things.

If you're looking for something that requires some school or training before the job, think of scribing, billing/coding, or being an EKG monitor. Scribes take notes as doctors do their patient interviews and exams, and prepares those notes to file in a medical record. Billing and coding reviews medical charting and submits requests for payment to insurance companies. EKG monitors watch patients continuous EKG strips for irregularities and alerts the nursing staff if something is going wrong.

Hospital administration generally requires a bachelor's or master's degree.

A note on nursing: while there are plenty of jobs for nurses that are not physically demanding, including telephone triage, chart auditor, quality assurance, and insurance reviewer, nursing school is the unfortunate sticking point. Having been through nursing school I can say it is extremely physical and clinicals (which are a lot of the training) are heavily dependent on being able to do hands-on patient care, which can be very hard on the back, knees, and feet.

That being said, having worked with medical students, if you can fight the system well (the challenge is more the ableism than the actual demands of the job) it is much easier to get a physical accommodation in medical school. So if you want to be a doctor or a physician assistant, that is definitely a route you could look into.

[9ine9ine9ine6ix]

MCR makes more money in a week than you do a month.

MCR have homes and cars that aren't at risk of being repossessed and life's savings that won't deplete from a hospital bill.

MCR are owners and managers of other brands with other streams of income.

Those you do not have. Those I do not have.

YOU ARE NOT A POSER NOR A FAKE FAN FOR SITTING OUT A DECADES OLD ALBUM. THERE IS NO REQUIREMENT FOR YOU TO BUY ANYTHING. it's also not evil to be critical of your favourite bands I mean rich people.

The environmental storytelling of americans buying the switch2 at launch being a line of maybe thirty people and all of them being youtubers who need the console for their JOB overlaps here. That $90 hoodie could push someone over their donation limit to open up a way for them to exist Palestine as it's being bombed to complete erasure.

at least donate more than MCR has *if you can afford it* cause all I can find is that time frank iero sent like ten bucks to Phan to have his name read out on a livestream that just so happened to donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund

and no one gives a shit about how you on the other side of the world thinks a country should be liberated or rebuilt. That's not up to us. That's up to Palestinians. Ditto for Ukraine. And Yemen. All these places MCR's pillow of wealth have made it "irrelevant" for them to educate themselves on. If any groups could mobilize a community to help, it'd be MCR or BTS, I don't see either happening cause of their stockholders

again, MCR is one of my favourite bands ever. I also love BTS somehow. But it's fucking insulting to be low income and watch this shit collapse around us from bands that used to understand choosing between eating and transportation.

[apricotbuncakes]

PLEASE REBLOG: I have until March 20th to reach my goal!!

Gofundme

My top surgery date is scheduled for March 20th, 2025! I have until then to get the rest of the funds in.

As of the making of this post:

I need $41 a day until March 20th to meet my goal! If five people donated each day that's only ~$8.20 per person each day.

Thanks to the donors of my GFM and my joyfriend, I have enough money to pay for anesthesia, hospital fees, and the surgery itself. What I still don't have covered is aftercare supplies, monthly expenses, money for follow up appointments, an emergency fund (like, if something goes horribly wrong during my recovery), etc.

I have to take off 2 months of work to recover. I'm a lifeguard; a job that requires a full range of motion and picking up heavy objects/people, so I need more time than other people might go recover before returning to work). So that's two months of bills and other expenses that I need to have covered for when I'm unable to work to get paid.

I also have absolutely no aftercare supplies yet. I've been waiting to get my surgery date scheduled to do order/shop for some, so the supplies wouldn't be just sitting and taking up space.

I'm not completely sure how much my follow up appointments after surgery will be. But since I'm not going through insurance, I know they (likely) won't be free like the consultation was. Assuming I don't have an emergency visit, I'd wager a couple hundred (if I'm lucky) for one appointment.

[prodigalwitch]

Suppressing Women's Votes - Information on the SAVE act

Republicans are currently pushing bill H.R.22 aka the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. This bill will add significant barriers to voting for women, especially married women, poor women, rural women, disabled women, and WOC.

The bill will require US citizens to present additional documentation in person to prove citizenship in order to vote. The gotcha here is that you cannot register to vote if the documentation doesn't match- so, for example, if your birth certificate has your maiden name but your driver's license shows a married name, you'll not be able to register to vote without jumping through additional hoops (as to be determined by each state). This will add complexity to the entire voting system and indeed make it harder to vote/register to vote for a wide group of people. Women, especially married women, will be impacted on a broad scale.

From Newsweek:

Much of the documentation listed under the SAVE Act is based on having a birth certificate that matches the person registering to vote. However, as many as 69 million married women in the United States have changed their legal name since getting married, meaning their name does not match their birth certificate, according to the Center for American Progress... If a voter does not have a passport, which nearly 146 million people in the U.S. don't, it could be much more difficult for those who have changed their name to register to vote under the SAVE Act... The SAVE Act lists several types of documentation that would be accepted, including a form of identification issued consistent with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005, a valid United States passport, valid military ID, forms of Tribal identification and proof of naturalization. Many of these forms of ID, other than a passport, either include a birth certificate or must be presented alongside a birth certificate.

According to Jonathan Diaz, director of voting advocacy and partnerships at Campaign Legal Center:

"If you have a government-issued photo ID that does not indicate U.S. citizenship, which is what most IDs are…you can only register if you have some other document, like a certified birth certificate or a hospital record or something else that shows that you were born in the United States, or a naturalization certificate.Most [married women who have changed their name] do not have a birth certificate or other kind of citizenship document with their current legal name on it. [Even if states] create [a] filing process to satisfy the bill, you would have to go to your elections office with your original birth certificate and your current ID, and maybe your marriage license and then some other form…from when you changed your name…and then all of a sudden you've got, like, four or five difficult to obtain and expensive to reproduce government documents that you have to provide in person just to register to vote."

If you're thinking, "well, I have a REAL ID/Passport/easily-accessible, matching birth certificate" Good for you! Millions of Americans do not. These documents can be difficult to locate, if they even exist, and are expensive to reproduce.

Glamour:

In fact, the bill would impact millions of eligible voters, including the estimated 21.3 million Americans who do not have ready access to a birth certificate or passport, as well as anyone who relies on voting by mail. Early research indicates that it would disproportionately impact voters of color and young voters.

But it would also have a direct impact on anyone whose legal name does not match the name on their birth certificate or passport, such as the 79% of heterosexual married women, per Pew Research, who take their spouse’s last name. “If a married woman hasn’t paid $130 to update her passport—assuming she has one, which only about half of Americans do—she may not be able to vote in the next election if the SAVE Act becomes law,” says Wendy Weiser, vice president for democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law.

And it's not just married women. Millions of Americans do not have these documents. From Campaign Legal Center, in an analysis:

"More than 21 million Americans are unable to access the additional documents that would be required to register to vote under the SAVE Act. People of color, married people who have changed their names, as well as young and elderly people are more likely to have difficulty in accessing these documents…. We already have strict laws in place to protect the security of our elections. The right to vote is a basic American freedom, and our elected officials should be working to protect that right, not restrict it."

Another component of this is presenting the documents in person. I haven't seen many articles talking about this (even when I tried to specifically search for articles on this topic) but this will present significant barriers for disabled women, poor women, isolated/abused women, elderly women, and rural women. Physically going to a location with these documents is not always possible for immunocompromised, elderly, and/or disabled people. + Getting there presents an issue for people without a car or access to reliable public transportation.

This post is not meant to spread fear- the bill has not currently passed into law. There is still time to call your representatives and tell them to vote no on HR22. A great resource for this is 5calls.org. Physical letters, postcards, emails, etc. are another option. Be noisy! Be sure to mention that you are a voting-age constituent in their district.

[horrorhouse]

What is health care supposed to do if not make life-saving treatment financially possible? UHC took people's money for health care they are legally required to have, then didn't do that one thing, and many many people died. Brian Thompson made those choices and could've reverted them at any time, but he used they money he made from those deaths to live in places those families never could and tour the world. Why do you support him? He was killing people; those who could've done something didn't. If you think there was a better option, why didn't you do it? Why didn't you save those tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands even, from dying of curable diseases? Why would you rather they keep dying?

Whoever killed Brian Thompson saved my life. They killed a man I could never reach and for it I get to live. I'm far from the only one. To me, they are a hero.

It's interesting that you think defending a murder victim means that I support what they do in their job. No, I don't support the use of AI to approve or deny medical care, which is what was happening. I also don't approve the high cost of medical supplies. Have you ever looked at an itemized hospital bill? I did once and they charged $100 per aspirin tablet. I could buy an entire bottle for $2 over-the-counter at a store. You can hate what Thompson did all you want. He's still a human being, a father, a husband, someone's son.

I also don't support a murdering scumbag like Luigi Mangione, nor do I have to. If you had any humanity in you, you'd see he's a coward. BTW, if he had a problem with the company, why did he go after someone who was head of one branch of the company and not the ACTUAL CEO? Mangione didn't have a plan with UnitedHealth, nor did anyone in his family. His actions were purely self-serving. He's not a hero. He's not Robin Hood. Don't be naive.

[shepandem]

hey hope this isn't uncomfy to ask but I was just wondering if you could share more about the host family thing? basically like how did you get that set up and who would benefit from this etc

Yeah! So most/all US state Medicaid programs have an additional system in place for those who qualify, called Long-Term Care Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS).

Qualification requirements are generally the same as most other government programs; you have to have a low enough monthly income; be above age 65 OR blind, OR disabled; and have a "functional need" for program services. In this context, "functional need" is defined as needing supports with at least some activities of daily living (bathing, dressing, feeding, transferring, etc.)

There are different waivers that offer different types of supports. Before I got on the DD waiver, I was on the supported living services (SLS) waiver. SLS offers things like support with being in the community, a caregiver to visit your home a few times a week to help with ADLs, access to day programs, etc. It doesn't offer supported residential programs though; those are only accessible through the DD waiver.

Types of residential programs can look like group homes, where several disabled adults live in a large home together and have either live-in or drop-in caregivers that support everyone in the home.

It can also look like nursing homes or similar state-run hospital facilities.

The type of residential support I'm receiving is called host home. Community members can apply to be host home providers, and are employed by a residential services agency to be full-time caregivers to disabled waiver-holders who will move into the providers' home.

The majority of HH providers are family members of a disabled adult who are paid by the program to provide care. This means they can continue supporting their disabled family member who may need 24/7 support, meaning the caregivers cannot hold another job.

There are strict rules that a HH provider must follow, to ensure that the person in care is not being abused, neglected, or exploited. Even family carers must follow these rules. They are things like not being allowed to manage the resident's money (this can be done by a third party called a representative payee, if the resident needs financial support); they are not allowed to use medicines in a manner that is not prescribed, which prevents the risk of unethical chemical restraint; the resident must have their own room or space within the home, and a lot more rules besides.

In terms of the kinds of people who would benefit, essentially it's a good choice if you can't or don't want to live with family, and need more support than a drop-in caregiver can provide.

I'll get help with transport to my therapy, skills, and social group appointments; reminders to take my meds and help refilling them on time; a rep payee to manage my money so my bills get paid and I don't accidentally over-spend; support at my medical appointments; help keeping track of my weekly appointments so I don't forget or miss them; in-home help with cooking, cleaning and laundry; reminders for bathing; safety care when I have meltdowns; and overnight support for anything that might come up.

That was a lot of information at once; feel free to ask any other questions!

[chalkstardust]

Day 13: Aftermath / Flowers for @lastdaysofwar

Mako can hardly believe that it's over.

The first few days felt almost too good to be true, and she'd remained on edge, cautiously optimistic but ready if the kaiju returned. Then a week passed, and then two, and now she's starting to accept that they may really be gone for good.

Tributes have begun to spring up around Hong Kong, especially by the water, where people leave things like flowers, candles, and handwritten thank you notes to the fallen rangers. There's one at the Shatterdome too, which some are calling the Hall of Heroes. Lining the wall are photographs of all the pilots lost in those final battles, and similar tributes beneath each one. It reminds Mako of the shrine her parents used to have at home.

Beneath her father's portrait, she leaves a small red shoe.

She has yet to hear from Jake, though surely he must have seen the news by now. It's not unlike him to take his time contacting her, but his relationship with their father was always complicated, and Mako wants to make sure he's all right. She's left messages, urging him to call her, and will keep trying, every day if she has to, until she reaches her brother.

Raleigh has been by her side almost constantly, providing support, distractions, whatever she needs. Even when they're apart it's as if he's still there with her, so Mako is never truly alone. What a strange and wonderful sensation.

The next time she finds herself in the city, it's to accompany him to a doctor's appointment—they've both had to be examined, after their exposure to the radiation of the Anteverse, beyond what tests the PPDC could perform in their infirmary. Mako has received a clean bill of health, but Raleigh required a few more tests. She tries very hard not to think about what that might mean, and instead hopes for the best. 

Neither of them enjoys being at the hospital, so he'd insisted that she wait for him outside. Walking to the park a few blocks away, Mako spies one of those tributes, and stops at a nearby florist. She exits the shop with a small bouquet of sunflowers; her father always liked these. Clutching them to her chest, she approaches the tribute, moved by how many people have come to pay their respects. 

Carefully, Mako lays the flowers with the others, next to a small plush bulldog that looks identical to Max. She wonders if it's from Marshal Hansen, or someone else. Bowing her head, she takes a silent moment to acknowledge the dead, and their sacrifices. The world would not still be here without them, and she vows to live each day to the fullest in thanks.

Straightening up, she notices a young boy staring at her from across the street. He whispers something to his mother, tugging her hand, and she looks over to Mako, eyes widening. Mako is not yet accustomed to being recognized, and smiles shyly at them. The woman smiles back warmly, nodding with gratitude. Mako's smile grows as she returns the nod, before mother and child continue on their way.

"All good?"

Mako turns to see Raleigh walking toward her. She'd felt him approaching even before he spoke. "Yes. And you?"

"Real good," he says, grinning. "My results came back negative, I'm all clear."

She lets out a breath she hadn't even realized she'd been holding. "That's wonderful news!"

"Yeah," he agrees. "I think this calls for a celebration, don't you?"

"Of course. What did you have in mind?" 

She expects him to suggest something like street food or champagne, but instead he says, "How about a vacation? I think we've earned one."

A vacation. Mako can't remember the last time she took one.

"I've been wanting to go back to Anchorage and visit my sister," Raleigh continues. "I'd love for you to meet her."

Mako had glimpsed Jazmine Becket in his memories, and knows that he misses her terribly. She would also likely benefit from a change of scenery. "I would like that very much."

"Great!" Raleigh finally stops to look at the tribute, and his mood sombers somewhat. "These things are everywhere, huh?"

"I think they're beautiful."

Raleigh is silent, and Mako doesn't need the Drift to feel the mix of emotions warring within him. Reaching over, she takes one of his hands, squeezing it tightly, as they contemplate the tribute, and the city that surrounds it.

Even amid the destruction, the sun is shining, people mill about the streets, life continues. The human race endures.

This is what they fought for.

"Come," she says, "let's go home."

[andhumanslovedstories]

Hello! I love your blog very much. I too am a second degree nurse. I just graduated from an ABSN program and I'm struggling to get my foot in the door anywhere despite good grades + honor society membership + in state license already secured. I live in NYC and the nursing shortage here is CRAZY but for some reason no one wants to talk to me. Would you recommend home health nursing for someone in my situation? I did my preceptorship in the ED and that's 100% where I belong, but the bills are really piling up and I have no prospects. How long did you do home health before you went bedside? Thank you for any advice you have!

(Disclaimer though for all this, I'm across the country from you and have no idea the landscape of nursing jobs in NYC.)

I worked in home health for 18 months. If my goal was to get to the hospital as quick as possible, I didn't need to be there that long. I wasn't in any particular rush to move on. Plenty of people worked less than that and got hired at a hospital, I think something like a year was the average. I know the different between sending out my new grad resume and sending out my home health nurse resume was night and day. As in: literally anyone wanted to interview me.

I'd encourage you to at least apply and see if you can interview. You get to interview the company right back, and that'll let you know the kinds of work they expect from you. There are two main types of home health: the kind where you visit a lot of patients in a day and the kind where you're with one patient for the entire shift. The first kind is doing stuff like dressing changes, medication management, or periodic assessment. The second kind is more like general caregiving with nursing related requirements. I mostly did the second one, and worked night shift. So I fed a patient dinner, I gave them a bath, I got them dressed for bed, then tucked them in and stuck around until morning for their needs in the night. But within that was trach management, seizures, G tubes, medications, central lines, ongoing assessment, all that stuff that got this person nursing hours. I'm not gonna lie--it was often very very boring. I read a lot of books.

(btw west coast disclaimer again, but if you're willing to work nights, you'll get hired more easily. Everyone everywhere in the world doesn't have enough night shift coverage. also, oops! this got long and became an essay on home health!)

For downsides, in home health you can get limited training and orientation before you're alone, responsible for a patient. And then it's all on you. I had some gut-dropping moments early on where I encountered something I didn't know how to handle and didn't know how urgent it was. There's supposed someone you can call at all times, but multiple times when I did call, no one picked up. It can be super stressful and frankly dangerous as an inexperienced nurse. Luckily, many times you have the patient's family as a resource. It's likely they've been doing this years longer than you have. Though it's worst thing in the world when you wake someone up at 3 am because you're unsure and concerned, and then have that person explain in a really supportive tone of voice that these frequent, very brief seizures were probably just hiccups. Hypothetically speaking.

You can get too entwined with the patient and family's lives. It's hard to call out sick because you know no one can cover you. It's easy to cross emotional boundaries. Imagine spending 40 hours a week with someone and their family. They'll occupy a spot in your brain.

And I don't think it's a great place for a new nurse to stay for years and years, just for like professional development reasons. You won't get exposure to a variety of patients (unless you work that other type of home health in which case enjoy seeing eight different patients a day, hope traffic doesn't suck), so it's easy to forget stuff you just learned. I never had to think about transfusion reactions until I started at the hospital and shit now it's relevant all the time. I had to completely relearn how to hang an IV piggyback. Plus, since you work alone, you don't get the chance to see how other nurses work. It's hard to figure out a profession when you practice in complete isolation. It's easy to learn bad habits and have no one ever correct you.

But there's a lot I like about home health. You really do have a perspective on patients and patient care that is unique to home health and long-term care. In the hospital, you don't always get that long-term perspective. If you work with someone for a while, you can track how they progress or decline. Why do some clients stay at home for years and others keep going back to the hospital? What's different about their conditions and cares? You see all the work it can take to keep them steady. That's perspective that easy to lose. It helps you put the patient on a timeline that extends beyond the hospital. If you click with a patient and/or family and work with them for a while, it can be very satisfying working with them because you see so clearly the impact you're having.

Also! I read so many fucking books! I listened to so many podcasts (played so so softly). I knitted and learned sudoku and practiced yoga, looked up vacation spots, put in my grocery orders, and organized my playlists. I also could research and research and research. I had time to look up everything about every condition my patient had, and once I felt more comfortable with those, I moved on to looking up whatever other disease process and patient experience seemed interesting. I'd make myself a little curriculum and, after my patient was tucked in, and be like "tonight's class is vlogs about having a trach."

There were plenty of shifts where I bustled all fuckin night, and sometimes those shifts seemed to be in one endless hellish row, but often I had a lot of time to myself that I could spend however I wanted, as long as I was still in the room with the patient, able to meaningfully hear and see them, and keeping up with the night routine. I fucked around a lot and got paid for it because the job is to be available when needed, and you're not always needed. (I'm not saying slack off! I'm just saying even colicky babies sleep peacefully now and then.)

Anyway jesus christ that got away from me, but like please know that I was in your exact place, and I know how much it sucks and how crazy it makes you feel because I THOUGHT WE WERE SHORT ON NURSES DON'T ANY OF YOU FUCKERS NEED A NURSE, and know that all the other job hunts after this should and will be easier than this.

[daheitu]

Stay a moment to read please

Okay now that I have your attention if you can spare a minute of your time i'll repost what I shared in twitter. I haven't been able to get a job, because everywhere requires experience, time and good social skills. I have social anxiety, quite severe, probably depression due to anxiety. I need to provide for my 5 cats, my mom who isn't at an age for working. I'm a college student, i'll get back to classes this 5th of February so I don't have the time for full-time works. We don't have a family, the ones who were left alive don't care about us. We're alone in this. At first I considered saving for a new tablet because mine will stop working any time soon but I have so many things to pay for it's impossible. Please, even just 2$ is helpful.

Everything counts. I know there's people with worse issues like struggles with the war. But I really need help, at this moment we don't even have a penny for food. We're living on scraps and free hospital meals. I draw to exhaustion because it's all I can do.

I can even share the receipts of the food, cats stuff or bills I pay. I swear i'm in need. Thank you if you read this far and consider reposting if you can't help. If you can donate more than $5 I will even make you a drawing of choice. Also if you're not interested in art maybe I can help translating (english/spanish, I know a bit of other languages too). Or I can even help with english/spanish homework, idk. I don't have more ideas, i've searched in fiver and all. ko-fi.com/daheitu