gavfromromford.bsky.social
Moved to Scotland, walked the UK and Ireland, dropped outta teaching, did a Masters and now embracing the collapse era
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No.
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Oh yeah. And Aberdeen. Goodbye sanity.
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Is this sustainable with two more play-off games?
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Are they prescribing texts for section one now? Well that's depressing.
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A-plot of this episode is that O'Brian is being tortured by, oh... I don't know, let's say Moe.
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By refusing Wesley's advances. Wes sees going to DS9 as his experimental era and is like 'sure I'll fuck this gay Cardassian man' and spends a whole episode working up the courage to do it before shooting his shot at the end of the episode and being shut down completely by a savage Garak.
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Why can't boys have positive role models, gaming and porn? Why do we always lower the expectations of what boys can have and achieve?
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And if you or the reanimated angry corpse of you/ghost of you can do all the murdering? Well, that's just a cheeky bonus.
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Annoyingly spelt Kim's surname wrong which unfortunately invalidates my entire argument. Carry on.
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And the worse thing is we had a deliberately cruel and thoughtless Tory government for 14 years and it's not them that are doing it.
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And then why people might be more worried about being plunged further into poverty by these potential cuts. Taken together it looks a lot like a system designed to deliberately neglect people to death who aren't able to be productive for the economy.
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And as I've said before I think a lot of people backing Leadbetter are thinking of comfortable middle-class examples of *suffering* that can be alleviated by 'the right to die' and cannot fathom why people who are disabled and have experience of the NHS might be a bit worried.
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Absolutely convinced of their own righteousness and not making any connections or thinking. Atomised politicians for an atomised society. Of course that's not to say some of them aren't taking glee in bullying vulnerable people coz quite clearly some are... *looks at the letter signatories*
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I will, begrudgingly, release the bees from their Nick Cage duties so they can go back to the day job.
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The weekly sacrificing of Nick Cage-a-likes in a mask of bees is paying off
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Someone fell down an Insta hole didn't they?
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It's fine tho coz I'm gonna post it using 'Fix You' from Coldplay. Make sure to follow and use the hashtag and I might even acknowledge your trauma if I can monetise it some way.
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I did it 10 years ago and ultimately don't regret it but I am, famously, a person who does not do well in the warm and hates sunshine so... it's a good place tho
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S1E9 cont - also, Susanna Thompson Voyager Borg Queen you were stressed out for that moustached guy at the Colonel's funeral? Babe, you are much better than that. Mulder's Nasa love and fanboying was a fun touch too. Good ep.
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S1E9 - Space - this was a fun pulling together of certain lil things which I think the X-Files does very well. Challenger Space Craft, spooky Mars face and the Apollo missons all equal wacky and weird hijinks. The ghost effect was shit but the face changing still looked good...
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Clearly had more thoughts about this than I did about Ice but sometimes a The Thing homage is just a The Thing homage and a documentary that so ruthlessly exposes the cold heart of a countries culture towards vulnerable people needs a lil more consideration. You'll be pleased to know I'm done now.
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And I know there are people working in the front line who are trying coz, y'know, I'm on the bus to work right now. The system is so utterly skewed though that the good work and experiences (and they exist) occur despite it and it is a battle every day. Which leads us back to high staff turnover...
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... vulnerable people who need help will die as a result. And I thought that before they started to water down the safeguards even more. Skye House is this country red in tooth and claw, it is the culture of this country towards vulnerable people writ large and it sickens me.
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In the background of this we then have the assisted dying act and the talk around that running counter to suicide prevention and discussing human life in disposable terms. And again I am left with no alternative to point to our care services and state that by introducing that act in this climate...
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... or, more likely according to the Mental Welfare Commision's numbers, an MHO wasn't consulted before detention took place because they couldn't get one which is a massive failure because I struggle to believe any MHO with experience of children's social work would have sanctioned that.
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It also highlights, again, the murky and underesourced world of how Mental Health Detention works. Where was the MHO when that lass was detained and marched back to hospital? Either that was signed off by a social worker, in which case there a huge questions to be asked...
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But if you don't address those issues, care about the service and provide the level of training and pay and support necessary you're going to create burnt out cynics who will restrain someone and talk over them like they aren't there. And once that's embedded that's your workplace culture.
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So, how do you stop this culture from occuring. It's tough in a sector (like care) which sees high turnover, high stress and low pay. These are conditions that allow a culture like that to develop and thrive and no amount of Scot Gov mission statements will stop it however well intentioned they are.
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One of the other things was that they were able to reflect that they knew they were ill and that could be hard for staff but they are extremely vulnerable and at the whims of who is working there and a culture of 'them' against 'me' can quickly develop and this will be created by staff actions...
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When I wrote my diss about adult experiences being detained one of the things the people I spoke to raised was how often the peeps they remembered just showed basic and consistent kindness. This is remembered once they're better as is the counter... the experiences in this doc back that up...