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…aaaaand I broke it–discordian.social I mean, not all of Mastodon. It’s a small instance on a small server, and I liked and retooted too much in a single day for the server to handle, now it’s unavailable. Damn.
The anti-mask brain rot is penetrating the hospital system in a terrifying fashion.
Masks are necessary for accessing central lines, and more and more nurses are starting to have issues with wearing a mask during STERILE PROTOCOL.
These lines are going right into our hearts and nurses are throwing tantrums about having to cover up their faces for 5 minutes.
This has not happened at my infusion center personally but I have mutuals and friends who have had to beg their nurses to put on the mask that literally comes in the sterile access kit.
To clarify since this is gaining notes fast:
This is a port, an example of a central line. You need to have a mask on when you flush the needle and put it into the reservoir in the chest, then put the dressing on. There’s a catheter from the reservoir that goes into the top of the heart.
There are other central lines like PICCs, Broviacs, and Hickman lines that look like peripheral IVs, but they’re still “central” and go into a central vein. Both access and dressing changes need to be done with a sterile mask and gloves.
Because of the access to the heart, the risk of bacteremia and sepsis from contamination is high.
There is a simple solution to this. Tell the nurse if they refuse to mask up that they have to put on the form that they refused to put on the mask to ensure a sterile environment so that if there is an infection, there is a legal trail by which insurance companies can follow in regards to a malpractice lawsuit.
And my spouse’s wife died of sepsis. It is not a pleasant way to die. Any nurse who refuses to mask up because it’s inconvenient and thus risks causing sepsis is a threat to public health and should be sued into oblivion.
This. Document it. A lot of asshole medpros shape up real quick when you demand they document their horseshit for the next person to see.
The Android app has become a lot worse with the latest update. Scrolling is slow and not smooth at all. Lots of useless new features I never wanted. And the regular dashboard on the website has been suffering from enshittification as well.
I suppose every commercial social network goes down the drain eventually. MySpace came and went (although I didn’t really use it very much), LiveJournal experienced a big exodus after it was bought by those Russians back then (I stayed there longer than I should have, before leaving the place for Tumblr), and Tumblr has been going downhill slowly before the porn ban, and a lot faster afterwards. Partially lifting the porn ban might keep some users on the site for a bit longer, but it won’t undo the damage that has already been done. Making the website and app uglier and more unpleasant to use won’t help very much.
I think the only way to avoid enshittification is using federated decentralised networks running on small noncommercial instances financed through user donations. Like Mastodon or most other parts of the Fediverse.
The interesting thing about Fry from Futurama: Taking away the sci-fi, time travel element, Fry is essentially the younger Homer Simpson who *didn’t* have to get married or have children or settle down before he wanted to.
Hey, I think Homer would have probably ended up with Marge anyway, Unexpected Bart pregnancy or no.
Eventually.
But Homer was denied the chance to ever experience anything else. He simply got forced into the“Suburban Dad” role even before he could cope with it.
Fry, at least, had time to learn and grow.
Is this a wrong idea?
It might explain why Homer was miserable and drinking beer and a borderline abusive dad all the time.
Homer was simply not ready for fatherhood at 22 or so.
Some men might be fine as dads at 22 or 23.
Homer was never one of them.
I reblogged this a while ago and I totally agree, but I do want to point out that a man who chokes out his son cannot be referred to as ‘borderline abusive’, if we are being realistic at least.
I know it’s still just a show and they do that for comedy and he does really love his kids and all that, but…yeah. Choking children is fully abuse. Didn’t want to be nitpicky with your works, but felt like it should be said ‘cause…you know.
I remember sitting in the room when members of Moms for Liberty were testifying in favor of allowing transgender medical discrimination, of codifying it into law through denying transgender minors access to gender affirming care… and yeah they are just as disgusting in person as you imagine.
We lost that fight, in the end. That bill became law, and in fact now the futures of transgender people in my state are very much in jeopardy because of a GOP supermajority in both Legislative chambers as well as taking the Governor’s mansion… and they have a significant part in it. They are disgusting and this rising tide of hatred is a bitter harvest we shall all reap very, very soon. It pains me to say it, but I can see no other end to this particular dance.
