Were I a multibillionaire one project I would undertake is rebuilding medical education from the ground up. (Rant about how human temperatures work removed but also at least one specialty has to retrain residents on what constitutes a fever.)

🚨🚨⚠️ I just learned the account our GFM goes into to pay for things like rent and our unemployed member's expenses is down to $15 currently and rent is coming up in 3 days. Can anyone help with a donation or a boost? #MutualAid #CommunityCare #HelpFolksLive gofund.me/2724b38b6

I really enjoyed this and am looking forward to reading the others in the series!

Rivers is an incredible writer and generous soul. Please consider lending them a hand at this awful time, if you're able.

WHEW Sasha is still a little extra skittish but she was waiting at the door as usual this morning, back on her schedule! Thanks for the good thoughts! 💙💙💙💙💙

THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD

If you have good thoughts to spare, Sasha isn't coming when I call her, and she started responding to her name well before she'd let me near her. She's almost certainly just mad at me but we worry.

l'shana tova, friends 💙💙💙

That being said, this is going to be very expensive for me, at a time where I have a ton of other expenses related to my mom's death, so if anyone has a few bucks they'd be willing to send my way, I'd really appreciate it.

Not only is it taking two people to backfill the work I've been covering in my old department, the most recent applicant turned down for the higher-level role had 20 years of experience Meanwhile I'm just now realizing if I go elsewhere I won't have to restart on the bottom rung

Still could use a little bit of help! Even with all the hours I am working, I am still behind on car insurance and car payment 😢😢

The hotel that I'm living in needs paid for another week today, and my storage unit is due in a few days. If anyone has even a few dollars to spare, I'm currently still shy of where I need to be to cover it. #MutualAidRequest #TransCrowdFund cash.app/$Settiai paypal.me/poicelle venmo.com/u/Settiai

Wowzers I think it's been a minute (or a couple of years) since a ronavax had quite this much oomph I worked at about 1/4 pace and didn't have enough wherewithal left in the tank to heat up leftovers for supper. Sandwich to the rescue!

South Carolina area peeps, peep these cuties 😻 who are looking for a forever home!

Yet another reason flying is awful 🙃

I would not have put money on having a more emotional reaction to finally seeing Beauty and the Beast than I did to seeing Rent, but wow apparently I really really needed to see that

Not sure how long I'll be back this time, but it's time for our annual employee survey and it is always a challenge to use up all the salt in constructive and tactful ways (like telling them that people are noticing the pattern of age discrimination that's started appearing)

I just had to split my craft box into yarn crafts (knitting and crochet) and other crafts (cross-stitch, embroidery, and sewing), which is a great way to see how much fun is in my future AND postpones the day Sasha discovers yarn (she LOVES shoelaces so I do want to postpone that day)

Hello again! My ISP has had me in Mississippi for days 😭 I am slowly considering solutions (they all involve changing habits, which is the hard part) but I overall it's been a good few days here. I hope the same is true where you are 💙

#exercise i did a lot of extra walking when Denver boss was here a couple of weeks ago and decided to keep going and start (vvvvv slowly) training for 5Ks again and i've worked my way up from walking 0.5 miles to 1.5 miles, and am going to try 2.0 miles tomorrow

If you've got a little extra rn. If you've paid your rent and gotten your groceries and set aside a lil extra for yourself and have something more? Consider going through the mutual aid tags here and finding someone(s) who is still desperately trying to pay their rent. They're out there & need you.

Slept maybe 2 hours last night, which proved to be the PERFECT start to my vacation. Sometimes the cocoon of darkness is exactly the space you need to read a book at precisely the right time 😍

I'm still banging the drum about this. I need at least two full month's rent, and I'm almost there but not quite. Just a little more should do it! Thank you to everyone who has supported me so far.

Daily post for my family. Angie's got another surgery coming up in December, now. Dave is still looking for work. We're still prioritizing cat's needs and car repairs with limited funds and high rent. #MutualAid #CrowdFund #HelpFolksLive #CommunityCare #SkyHelp gofund.me/1698c1c3

WHEW bsky decided I was in Mississippi for a bit there guess I need to rebuild a backup plan to this place, despite not being near MS

Ah, feels like I'm back in school. I have to present a draft of a huge project at 2pm, have had several days to work on it, and at 11am have a few scribbles and a bunch of ideas in my head. I did NOT miss this deadline pressure 🙃

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WHEW my emergency pre-tariff UK book order made it here

who doesn't need a singing butterfly who sends hearts in their life?

Sword bae!!!! 🗡️♥️ Seriously, read this. It's awesome.

It worked out well overall but I did *not* expect to be gone from work for 5 hours for my mom's medical appointment today. We are so, so fortunate I'm able to do that with my job.

Book rec: THE COMPANION, by EE Ottoman I can't figure out how to describe it, though. First drafts included "quiet but fierce", "writing, sex, and plants, mostly not all at the same time", and "everybody's trans and everybody lives". Short and worth your time. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Just watched a trash panda go into Sasha's house to take a nap. (I did manage to chase it off, but it made the saddest squeaking sounds.) Sasha has been good with her collar, once we established that it was important to me, so now to get her used to a tag on the collar so she can have her own door

In adventures I thought I'd left behind, I was carded today. (The woman apologized and said she couldn't tell with the mask, whereas I'm, like, ma'am you just made my day.)

Through unexpected momentum, among other things my bedroom is free of clothes where clothes shouldn't be and I placed two very overdue orders (including a laptop that I am crossing my crossables is a better investment than my last one) You were a good, too brief, weekend, now to have a good week

Also if you guys have a couple spare dollars, please show some love to fightersforfelines.com (@Goose-Wolfie on V*nmo). A volunteer with them was in the ER at VEG last night and was a real hero for a sweet little kitty and I just want to share how much what they did mattered.

trying to figure out how one develops verbal filters, especially when nervous, without going through a lot of terrible embarrassing conversations in the interim i vetoed the option of just talking less

Canada is on the verge of adopting a national standard requiring N95s in healthcare—and your voice can help make it happen.

I am amusing myself by describing the upcoming change to my job (once we hire a second person to replace me) not as fully taking the promotion I officially started April 2024 but instead as them yeeting me from the department I built

Breathtaking. Watch this. GLORY in it. Do not let it pass by without a firm nod and an unspoken affirmation.

local boss still remembers my interview when she hired me in 2013 she has interviewed AT LEAST 750 people in the past 12 years VERY curious about wtf about me was so memorable (...this may be one of those things where my self-perception is misaligned with any known or hypothesized realities)

Not me knowing I needed to hem these trousers for weeks and waiting until the night before Totally just doing a lazy hem (tucking the current one under and using a few loose stitches) and calling it a night

Someone tell me it's okay to wear a navy shirt and black boots (olive-ish trousers, fwiw) (Denver boss is in town this week, it's raining every day, and my only waterproof boots are black)

Doing some major thinking about my life and what I want it to look like, in advance of some major changes at work (and a big week ahead), and I've made some big progress in clearing Mount Clothing so yay for that 🎉

This is the only thing you need to read about AI The part about being too emotional and putting words in people’s mouths ESPECIALLY

I'm just shy of $20 away from being good for another week. It would help a lot if I can show up at the front desk first thing in the morning to pay them unprompted since I was technically supposed to pay today. Any help at all would be so very appreciated. #MutualAidRequest #TransCrowdFund

lol came out of my colonoscopy with fewer diagnoses than i entered with, delightfully now for naps and books 🎉🎉🎉

I cannot remember who turned me on to this book (was it @singlecrow.bsky.social ? maybe???) but The Iron Children by Rebecca Fraimow was extremely good, and I could have happily read another 300 pages in that universe. If you're into mecha body horror, check it out. www.goodreads.com/book/show/67...

Remember that companies like HBO Max, Hulu, Amazon, etc. have customer support and contact information. That’s who you need to let know that you don’t want to see ICE ads in your entertainment, not necessarily individual streamers and content creators.

I will be moving to a better apartment to escape my dangerous neighborhood. To be able to afford the move, I need to have two months rent saved up. Though I have tried, unexpected costs have held me back from doing this. I need to pass the hat again. Anything helps. Thanks! paypal.me/MsAprilDaniels