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I don't know why, but I feel like I should have seen this on Tumblr instead of Bluesky. Now you have.

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Did you by any chance read this as (or to) a child?

I regularly have dreams I refer to as "Big Luca Dreams", wherein my dog Luca is very big. They are my favorite dreams.

This is how big Luca is in the Big Luca Dreams

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I love every fucking part of this.

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I cannot take "fraud" talk about benefit programs seriously because I know what can get labeled as fraud. Taking a tupperware of leftovers home from a friend's birthday can be argued to be food stamp fraud. Exchanging SNAP for cash is fraud, that makes sense, except in many cases, people will let someone else use their leftover SNAP at the end of the month (it doesn't roll over) in exchange for cash they need for shampoo, toilet paper, Tylenol, or other essentials not covered by SNAP. Paying the nurse or attendant for the full shift even though you asked them to leave early because you wanted to go to bed is fraud, even though the alternative is either they get less pay for no fault of their own, or they have to hang around while you sleep. Meanwhile, paying someone for the full shift when the jobsite has to shut down early is policy in many workplaces. Giving your attendant or nurse cash to go pick up your medicine and letting them keep the change is fraud. In some states packing your kid lunch if you are on free lunch is fraud. Because of how strictly benefits programs are defined and regulated, for the recipients, basic human acts and impulses are defined as fraud.

If people want to talk about benefits fraud, they should be talking about third party administrators, nursing homes, and farms. That's where big ticket fraud that is malicious, deliberate, and with the aim of ripping off the government happens. It's the province of large scale service providers and contractors, not people who use benefits or the workers directly assisting them. So unless you're explicitly talking about that, shut the fuck up about "oh I'm sure there *is* fraud."

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Slightly disappointed. I was thinking that "backyard plastic surgery" would explain a lot of what I'm seeing in the news lately.

[Plastic surgery trainees practicing in your backyard? An analysis of career patterns for fellowship and residency graduates] (Sultan et al., 2022)

[Submitter’s note: This article discusses the relative distance between where plastic surgeons got their residency and their current practice location]

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This is the best one

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Ploop ploop ploop

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This is way beyond jumbo shrimp. Kaiju shrimp?

Forgot to mention that the food bank lady was like "we have shrimp" and I was like "I love shrimp"

She brings out a thing with two palm sized tiger shrimp. I have never seen shrimp this big. It's $14 ($10.15 USD) for two shrimp.

What Lovecraftian monstrosities have I brought into my space.

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This needs a sound track, but I'm not coming up with one that feels right. Tumblr hivemind, do your thing.

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You mean PUNishment before praise?

Polyamorous drag queen named Poly Esther <send post>

lol, that’s terrible. I love it.

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WEEE!! WEEEE!!! WEEE!!! YAYYY!! YIPPIE! WAHOO! AWAWAWA!!! WEE WEE WAA WAA WAA! ZWEEM !! BABABABA! YAHOOO WEE YAY WYEE !! WEWEWEE!!

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Loved one got top surgery yesterday so I made this for him but I think y’all would appreciate it too