A man drinking with his cat on a rooftop, New York City in 1953.
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All these industries with shortages of workers and they can’t figure out why.
Im proposing the hypothesis that the reason we don’t have enough doctors/pilots/bus drivers/etc is that maybe, just maybe, having your entire industry function as a lifelong hazing ritual isn’t the best recruiting strategy.
Doctors are subject to 8 years of post-secondary education and are forced to work 48 hour shifts.
Pilots and other transportation workers have absurd hours of service requirements that start your rest period as “the moment you shut the vehicle down” and can be as short as 9 hours in some cases.
Railroad workers have to be available on-call 6 days a week and be ready within two hours notice. They don’t get sick time.
Retail workers have to keep a veneer of politeness against any and all abuse or they can be fired.
Truck drivers get paid by mileage and rarely see pay for shipper or receiver delays.
Work should not be designed to make you a miserable burnout and yet here we are.
"Lifelong hazing ritual" is EXACTLY it, and it's bad for everyone. For some rediculous reason, many ASL interpreter programs are the same way, and I came out super traumatized and almost left the field. Of the over 300 people who started in the program, only about a dozen graduated. And about half of those who did graduate, left the field within the first couple years. And then people wonder why there's not enough interpreters. Dude, you pushed them all out while they were still students.
Who have to do unpaid placements while they are studying. Who are told "Don't expect to have a social life or to be able to do paid work while on prac."
And who (if they manage to get their qualifications) get paid for 40 hours a week while being expected to work an additional 40 hours a week at home doing lesson planning and marking.
And they wonder why there is a shortage.
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cwtchpupReblogged stitchposts5hdirectactionforhopeMar 19FollowThe fact that physical therapy is not a frontline treatment for chronic pain is a searing indictment of the global medical field.directactionforhopeMar 19Seriously. If you have chronic pain, limits on how much you can walk/move, or both go see a physical therapist.I have had physical therapy ELIMINATE the following medical and pain problems, solely or in large part:Lower back pain so severe I could at first not even walk to the bathroom (sciatic)Foot pain whenever I walked (plantar fasciitis) Three years of a fucked up ankle that was at times seriously impacting mePain when typing (carpal tunnel), at least twiceWidespread nerve damage that caused massive chronic pain and left me housebound for two yearsThe physical pain/fatigue/other results caused by having to recover from that kind level of pain and inactivity (cough being housebound) for so longI try not to talk too much about my health on here, for a variety of reasons, but I am being newly reminded of how much basically every single person with chronic pain should be referred to physical therapy imhoIf literally nothing else, because being in that much pain for that long causes a lot of inflammation and makes your body get stuck bracing and moving in ways that ALSO cause chronic pain, so that has to be addressed too.If you don't have access to physical therapy, there are some really good resources, exercises, and videos online that can at least get you started (but be cautious if you can't get assessed in person), but I'm not qualified to vet or recommend any of those.But if any of this sounds like it might help you, and you can go to physical therapy, please go to physical therapy. It has been life-changing for me and has (in conjunction with other things) given me huge portions of my quality of life back.#psa#god. it really is an indictment of the medical field3,0063,936
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cwtchpupReblogged creekfiend1didentitty-dickruptionJul 22, 2025Follow“it’s worse if you aren’t diagnosed” is crazy in the tags of a post about discrimination against disabled people in employment processes. having Disorder on your records will not save you even if it means that discrimination is Technically Illegal (do you have the resources available for a long legal battle? yeah me neither). having Disorder on your records does in fact make you incredibly vulnerable in many respects, including at the hands of employers. let go of the idea that diagnosis is a privilege and let go of the idea that diagnosis will protect youidentitty-dickruptionJul 22, 2025as someone who has been both the diagnosed person and the undiagnosed person, and both the visibly disabled and invisibly disabled person. with every passing day I become more frustrated with the swathes of people on here who act like Everyone Knowing You’re Disabled is a special privilege. being invisibly disabled was hard on my body + difficult to navigate and explain to others. it was hard. but it was incomparable to the experience of being visibly disabled. and no, becoming more visibly disabled did not prevent people from accusing me of faking my disabilities, I promise. I’m not trying to oppression olympics this shit but please listen to one visibly disabled person before you assume that we’re automatically taken seriously or that we don’t have as many struggles as you do #ableism452,4454,374
cwtchpupReblogged howtoimpersonateanadult1dcaptain-price-unofficiallyMar 7FollowProton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ ProtesterA court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City em404 MediaWell time to find a new VPN provider. noisytenantMar 7Article is paywalled which buries Proton's response. Other articles summarize, but the clearest story is in their response to an email request for comment (emphasis mine):"First, Proton did not provide any information to the FBI. The data was obtained by the Swiss Federal Department of Justice through a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) process. Proton operates exclusively under Swiss law and only responds to legally binding orders from Swiss authorities, after all Swiss legal checks have been passed. This is clearly stated in our TOS and Privacy Policy.In this specific case, Swiss authorities determined that the legal bar was met because a law enforcement officer had been shot, and explosive devices were involved during an incident in 2024. Switzerland has one of the strictest privacy frameworks in the world, and legal assistance is only granted in cases involving serious criminal matters.Importantly, the only information that could be disclosed was a payment identifier because the user chose to pay by credit card although Proton accepts gift cards, cryptocurrency and cash. No emails, no message content, and no communications metadata were handed over. This actually demonstrates how little data Proton holds by design, our end-to-end encryption means we cannot access email content even if ordered to."This is the third known time Proton provided user metadata after the Swiss government was pressured by other countries.The truth is that no privacy-oriented tool guarantees 100% anonymity, because they still operate within a legal framework.You're free to look for another VPN provider, but you need to employ tight operational security measures if you want better protection—The service alone is not enough.ms-demeanorMar 11After the French climate protesters were identified via the cleartext parts of their communications on Proton (portions of the communications that could not be obscured as a function of SMTP, this is simply a part of how email works, not something that Proton can change) and the account creation details that Proton was compelled to produce (and that changed their log storage policy), Proton made a point of publishing articles that gave very explicit instructions on how to use their services as anonymously as possible and also made the information that they store much more visible to users. If you want to find another VPN provider and you want that provider to be as private as possible, Privacy Guides has a good analysis of which providers are a good option (note that Proton is one of their three recommended VPNs) and provides information on anonymous payment methods available for each option. The lesson to take from this is not "Proton won't protect your privacy" it's "assume the FBI will be able to identify every payment you've made with your credit card," which. I mean. C'mon that should be the baseline assumption and is part of why Proton allows you to pay for your account by literally mailing them cash in an envelope. 72,8043,213
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cwtchpupReblogged iknewiwouldregretthis3dcarebewearOct 1, 2025FollowI do often think about how the origin of “he would not fucking say that” was in reference to a post which depicted Cartman SouthPark responding politely when asked for his pronouns schistcityOct 1, 2025meme phrases are so mobile and versatile and that's really really beautiful but i'm always thinking about the first "she x on my y til i z" being "she ebbin on my neezer til i scrooge" and the first "fork found in kitchen" coming from a tweet about sehun from exo being spotted at a gay bar. like sometimes you just utterly nail it the very first time and no variation of the joke is going to be better. schistcityOct 1, 2025EXACTLY. schistcityOct 1, 2025a small collection#mama bear is 27?????19352,12280,543
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cwtchpupReblogged3dahotknifeJun 29, 2025Followwhere’s that article by james frankie thomas where he says like “prior to my transition there was only one kind of sex i wanted to have. and i thought i could never have it” because i am about to blow these people’s minds ahotknifeJun 29, 2025i found it 😌 the article was published on Slate and here’s JF’s commentary on it ahotknifeJul 3, 2025i have gotten some very odd anons about this post that i’m choosing to ignore. but i am going to double down on this. no i don’t care if girls watch gay porn or imagine themselves as a gay person or wonder what it would be like to have gay sex. so many people imprison themselves by thinking they could never be gay and/or trans. well i’m telling them they better watch out. being gay and/or trans is real. and it could happen to YOU. as a matter of fact i sincerely hope it does genderhexedOct 4, 2025Everyone who likes this post or examining this idea should read Idlewild by James Thomas (referenced above) 218,47830,722
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