carbonel-broom.bsky.social
they/them - English. White. AuDHD. CPTSD. Biromantic. Demisexual. AFAB. Fat. Feminist. Atheist. Childfree. // Intellect buffed. Social skills nerfed. Cat person.
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His idea of a discussion is telling people how to feel, and then them feeling like they're told to. End of discussion.
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I can't do this again. Paging Dr Freud; there is an emergency case in your waiting room.
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It's time for therapy, because every major relationship in my life has ended with me realising this like it's a fresh surprise, starting with my relationship with my late mother, and most recently descending into the crisis shenanigans of trying to divorce one of these fuckers.
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But with some people, you truly cannot lower your bar enough. With some people, you have to accept that realising they can get you to continuously lower your bar in order to keep them in your life is, in itself, a significant part of the appeal of keeping you around. It makes them feel powerful.
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"It will be fine to stay friends, though," I said to myself after packing my bags and leaving with the last shreds of my life's savings, "because, as a friend, I will need less from them, and they can meet those lesser needs."
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Oh god, they were SO young.
And that's not just sad anymore. Now it's scary, too.
Because if Trump and Musk thought they could get away with executing young 'libs' they'd be doing it already. Being able to wield this kind of power is the stuff of their wettest dreams. They are terrorists.
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Separate but parallel missions, roger that.
My dim silver lining to this fashfest: in the past month I've gained a feeling of kinship with the sane half of the US that's much closer and warmer than anything before.
You're still loud. We're still stuffy. It doesn't matter. We've all got shit to do.
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If we create a need then the market will respond and provide... to those who can afford it 🫠
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I'm asking this of other commenters rather than of you, @drneuro.bsky.social - not meaning to add to your burden by asking you to splain America to me. I'm really sorry this is happening to you. Regardless of whether it's technically legal or not, it's still fucking wrong.
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This is mad. Is redundancy not a thing in the US?
A UK employer has to go through well-documented Disciplinary Procedures and show failure to improve sufficiently before it can fire a worker for poor performance.
If the employer simply no longer needs you, you're owed a redundancy payout.
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I really hope you're right. If you've got some examples of void-fillers failing that you can share, their Wikipedia pages would make for mighty comforting reading right now.
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Seems to me that we in Europe have participated in arming Ukraine only just enough to keep Putin busy so he doesn't become our problem directly. We've been trying to get away with paying a cheaper price of war at the expense of Ukrainian lives. It's disgusting and it's time we stepped up.
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We're way past the point where Trump dying of natural causes would solve this problem. He's set the playbook and, seeing that it works, there's now a very long line of people behind him who will fight to pick it up and run with it the moment he drops.
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He just a baby!
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I didn't know that. That's beautiful. 🤍❤️🤍
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I look forward to seeing the west coast rechristened as the Dong of Canada.
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Posting on BlueSky will be preaching mostly to the choir. We need to get this stuff trending on social media sites that are used by the idiots who voted for the orange clown.
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Chaos is a ladder.
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I to am very excited for this! First heard about it a few months ago, apparently season one has already been filmed? But there's still no release date or even an official title yet. Meanwhile I'm sitting here chewing the arm of my sofa to shred with impatience...
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Yeah sadly I seriously doubt they're like dang, we know what we should do, and we wanna do it, but we painted ourselves into an awkward corner... Nah. They DGAF at best or are actively looking to push antivax rhetoric at worst. This wasn't a fuckup on their part. This is business as intended.
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Wait, if you're putting the waffles on a stick, does that mean you're eating the heads of your enemies?
No judgement friend we all gotta deal with these trying times in the way that works best for us
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Best burn I've seen today. And I've seen plenty. 🫡
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Salmon, good sir. The preferred dish of your patron's maternal grandfather. For a Tokyo twist, try sashimi. The rice may baffle your medieval English sensibilities but the fish is very, very good.
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You are 100% correct it's normal to feel this way. Therapy wouldn't mean you're saying the problem is you, it would mean you're taking steps to sustain your mental health as best you can through the insane assault it is facing. You do you tho, not my intent to criticise, I'm just very pro therapy.
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There's not much joy to be found in the current political fiasco but seeing @georgetakei.bsky.social and @number10cat.bsky.social hanging out being buds on Bluesky is a definite highlight for me
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It's not self-destructive if you're planning for a future executive order to be mandatory National Service for all 18 year old white boys. No right to refuse service = no recruitment problem. That approach would fit their authoritarian ethos perfectly, too.
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Full disclosure: On reflection, I can't subtantiate the above and it may be motivated reasoning by me. I'm now trying to figure out truth because the last thing we all need is more vaccine misinformation. I'll be back with sources if I discover actual facts, not just logical sounding theories.
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Full disclosure: On reflection, I can't subtantiate the above and it may be motivated reasoning by me. I'm now trying to figure out truth because the last thing we all need is more vaccine misinformation. I'll be back with sources if I discover actual facts, not just logical sounding theories.
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Yeah the logic is that healthy adults recover from flu just fine here so it's not needed. If that's true I bet it's because of paid sick leave being a thing here so transmission and severity are reduced. But I'm still trying to figure out if it IS true or just cost-cutting at the expense of lives.
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Bonus 3/3: to clarify I've googled of course and found the JCVI advice plus a Guardian article about it, but nothing critical, at least not in the first 5 pages of results.
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I've been spouting off on here lately about how flu boosters for healthy adults aren't necessary in an economy where paid sick leave is a thing, and if I'm talking shit about that then I'd like to check myself before I wreck myself. Thanks! 2/2
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Hey, I'd like to learn more about this (honest, I'm pro-vax and not sealioning). Can you point me at something about the flawed economic analysis that leads three NHS to only offer Covid/flu boosters to the particularly vulnerable? 1/2
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Embarrassing? Nah, that was 20 years ago when our biggest concerns were your loudness and your desire to talk about your feelings. Now half of you are terrifying but the other half are our beloved cousins in the fight against the global resurgence of authoritarianism. We're good.
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That's the magic of Chaucer, alright. Been dead for centuries but can still bring 'a litel tere to mine eye' 🥲
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By contrast, in the USA annual boosters are essential because most American workers can't afford sudden and unplanned time off work for flu. So they go to work and give it to e.v.e.r.y.o.n.e and make themselves sicker and more prone to dangerous symptoms. 2/2
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Recommendations differ from those of peer countries because peer countries provide paid sick leave for employees who get Covid and other illnesses. This reduces transmission and severity to the point where it is not sensible for state healthcare to fund annual boosters for healthy adults. 1/2
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They're counting on it. They're trying to incite violence that they can point to as a pretext for declaring martial law, which will give them even more powers to run roughshod over everything and everyone.
When the riot finally happens, it had better fucking succeed first time, or god help America.
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Oh damn the opening credits music flooded my brain instantly when I saw this, what a flashback
Have fun and say suck it to Werner von Croy from me!
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Marmalade is 🔥. I especially enjoy it with butter on a 🥐. Sometimes the 🏴 blood of my ancestors roars in my veins and I feel compelled to disparage all things 🇫🇷, but then I think about marmalade on 🥐, and all I want to do is 💋 a 🇫🇷 and thank them for their nation's contributions to this beautiful 🌍.
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HIS NAME WAS ARTAX.
SAY. HIS. NAME.
😭😭😭
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An excellent point, well made. If we get another vote then your plan can count on having mine!
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Jed Bartlet is my president 🥲
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This would be wonderful and I'd love it, but I doubt it'll happen - at least not for a long old time yet. We're still too proud to admit how gullible and greedy we got over the Brexit vote. We don't deserve a clean slate honestly. Some of us don't understand anything but sustained consequences.
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That is utter sucky madness and I'm sorry you folks have to deal with that. Flu vax for everyone makes perfect sense in those conditions!
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In the US, yes. In Europe, if you get sick, you stay home until you're well, and you get paid while you do it. As a result, severity and transmission of illnesses like flu are both much lower. It is not worth vaccinating healthy adults against flu here. They recover with rest and chicken soup.
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I'll get it as soon as the NHS recommends it and pays for it. I'm not forking out £100 to get it against my own doctor's advice.
I don't use public transport and in my workplace, if someone gets sick, they stay home until they're better. This reduces both severity and transmission of illnesses.
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So I just looked it up and it turns out we do actually! At least we do now, I don't remember getting it when I was a kid, but I'm 40. Adults are only vaccinated if there is particular need but kids are vaccinated every autumn at school. I have no kids so I didn't realise. Today I learned something.
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That makes sense. I was gently baffled at the idea of vaccines being more accessible in the US than in Europe, but if the related diseases do more damage in the US due to other policy decisions, that sure would explain it. I hope you get your revolution soon.