sarapod.bsky.social
Social worker in public defense. Here for jokes, sports, ragging on the NYPD, and hating Eric Adams as volubly as I can.
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I was on a virtual town hall with an Oregon House rep yesterday and our AG was there, and he says all the Democrat AGs have been meeting EVERY DAY to go over the latest shit and strategize, and that gave me like such a visceral sense of “oh thank god there really are elected Dems on top of this”
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Many federal workers are resisting in quiet as well as not-so-quiet ways, and in many cases their commitment to each other and their mission is really moving and inspiring. I was with a bunch of them at a demonstration in front of Tesla last night in San Francisco.
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For example, I saw someone who has a rafting company post about how their business is falling apart because the park service won't let them schedule trips, so they're not buying supplies from their supplies, and so forth--a demonstration of the chain reaction of wrecking the federal government.
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Whatever your politics, to find your air travel is unsafe, your national parks are not functioning, your kid's education is unraveling, that services and functions you took for granted are unraveling is going to have an impact. Communicating why and what to do about it is key.
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Follow us, share our stuff, add stuff we should know about. What I know now is THERE IS A LOT GOING ON, and we want you to know it. There's strength in seeing that we're not alone, not all passive in the face of this.... bsky.app/profile/resi...
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oh my.
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disregard second man, he has apparently gotten up out of his alcohol and continued partying
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“we have random dirt bikes that have gotten around the barricade” “well now we got dirt bikes guys”
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there is currently an undetermined amount of djs, at least two, perhaps three, they are rotating
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One deep irony of the current administration is that Donald Trump most likely hates being president, hates having the duties of the office, and hates having to work with people he can’t just fire. Well good, I hope he suffers.
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"We are totally non-hierarchical!" say area community with strong, totally opaque, and thus totally unaccountable hierarchies.
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Many better things are possible. Mostly they will be accomplished by democratic governments operating through competent professionalized bureaucracies that can order people and resources around.
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It is, in fact, very possible to spend your life with a person you don't fucking despise.
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On a day-to-day basis just being honest and consistent and prioritizing protecting your staff goes far, but on a more macro level, in terms of like ... meeting goals and having organizational structure and stuff? No earthly clue. None.
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My old job. The job I now manage. WHAT A BUMMER.
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Ehhhhh! My job requires a whole advanced degree!
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rather die, but the point is if there's that much material about this stuff out there, and it doesn't all suck, why am I expected to just do the job with zero of that backgrounding? Ugh.
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We have a trainer at my job who's really smart, and she gives these half-day management trainings, and it's clear that she's trying to condense like a semester's worth of people management theory down into three hours. Now do I WANT to take a semester of people management courses? No I'd obviously
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I think it is a job that can be performed in a totally unskilled way, and usually is, but ABSOLUTELY shouldn't be.
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Also, there is ime way more expectation that you'll fall in line with diktats from above than there is for line staff. As line staff I had *way* more space to do things the way I thought they should be done. This might be particular to my weird workplace though.
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As someone who's been in management for a year, I don't want to be bad at this, but I have less support for getting good at it, and fewer models of how to do it well, than any job I've ever had. Mostly I just try to be consistent and honest and act like Ask A Manager and I'm doing ... ok
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"But they'll attack us as soft on immigration" they'll attack you either way! The public doesn't know anything, they're fucking morons!
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quality has seriously raised all food boats, as it were.
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in the rural tourist town where we were staying. We stopped for lunch in the middle of nowhere at a random hotel and they had an internationally inflected menu, all of which was nice.
British Italian food is still a fucking horror but it's really clear that by and large, the expansion in food
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This is because young people with no actual problems have spent years on places like Tumblr concern-trolling about one year age gaps and appropriations from communities they aren't part of. "Spot the marginalization" is like a game for them, with no coherent politics behind it.
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men soaking in toxic masculinity are all “why can’t we get women” and Tom Holland dances in drag and lands one of the hottest women on the planet, maybe there’s a lesson here