safety closet

i'm trying to phrase it in a way that doesn't provoke a fight but I do want to ask some of the milsky people #onhere if they've re-evaluated their mental frameworks after the predictions last year that military would push back/resign/be a mitigating factor on Hegseth/Trump proved to be....not true

acab, sadly, must include fire and EMS. rotten, evil industries.

oh we know better. it’s drilled into you early on in EMT school. the problem is - a lot of EMTs and paramedics are actually bigoted as fuck and do not care.

i just which i could go back in time and explain to my younger self why this episode made me feel ways about stuff

a drawn image of three healthcare providers in a hospital corridor, posing for a photo. the person in the center is a blonde white woman wearing glasses, in blue scrubs, wearing an employee badge on a pride rainbow pill lanyard. the ID has her picture, with the text LENORE LEE, CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST, MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL CENTER, SHE / HER / HERS. she has a bulky watch on her wrist, a wedding ring, and a tattoo on her right forearm with a black stripe, followed by a gradient descending to the distal part of her wrist. she is smiling. the two people flanking her are also in scrubs, with the left one wearing a black hoodie and the right in a white labcoat. their features have been anonymized. the text at the bottom reads: Lenore Lee, Agent SHD-BOS, Inactive Status - 10 months before Green Poison outbreak

A blonde white woman is sitting on a subway bench. The NYC subway map is partially visible behind her. She is wearing green and black combat pants, a combat shirt, a khaki colored plate carrier, a green/black checkered shemagh, a headset with a mic, and a large coat with reflective stripes draped over her shoulders. She is cradling a sub machine gun in her arms and has an AR pattern rifle lying beside her. A backpack is seated beside her with various pieces of gear mounted to it, as well as a plush raven stuffie with large cartoonish features. She is wearing the same bulky watch from the last photo, except it is now glowing orange. The text at the bottom reads: Lenore Lee, Agent Transferred to SHD - NYC, Active Status - 7 weeks after Green Poison outbreak

A friend got me a gift commission for my Division agent OC, Lenny - and it’s INCREDIBLE. Artist is @/xxMAXTURBO69xx on birdsite. 💜

Working in a pandemic world is just listening to colleagues say “there must be something going around” on a weekly basis for years and trying to decide if you wanna remind them it’s covid or silently scream into the void again.

It is unforgivable how measles is ravaging the land killing children and I have willfully delusional liberals telling me we have to coddle the feelings of child abusers

sunsofcarcosa Badge image. Feb 3 my dealer: got some straight gas. this strain is called "honorable knight" youll be zonked out of your gourd me: yeah whatever. i dont feel shit 5 minutes later: only in death does duty end my buddy pacing: i am the sword and the hand that wields it

I maintain that simply arresting Elon musk and making a real example of him is the quickest way to global stability

legally you are my property. sorry that’s just the law.

women can do anything

yeah man i didn’t buy my kid a bike helmet cuz someone said it has the chemicals in em that makes the gay frogs. so my second daughter died. just a little oopsie doodle! learned my lesson. (daughters are too weak to survive)

fuck you. of course not vaccinating your kid is child abuse. you’re stupid.

yeah man i’m not anti-car seat, i’m car seat *hesitant.* you don’t know what’s in those things. maybe asbestos. nobody needed car seats when i was a kid. in my infant turns into a lawn dart that’s my god given right. this is america.

it bothers me that i see so much explicit nazi bullshit slipping into the discourse unchallenged on israel. you can be opposed to a genocidal ethnostate without going all protocols of the elders of zion with it.

they should make a type of boss that isn’t evil

lisan al-gaib

FINANCIAL TIMES Let me get all of this straight in my head. They want their allies to join in an ill-thought-out war of choice with unclear aims and an uncertain chance of success for any of the myriad aims stated so far. They want everyone else to just absorb any of the externalities like influxes of refugees, disruptions to shipping, higher oil and commodity prices and maybe even some incoming missiles. And then they also want to tariff everyone at 15%. I'm not sure they can keep pushing at everyone all at once indefinitely. There seems to be an inability here not just to anticipate second and third order effects, but even just to model a response from any other party, much less every other party.

the bluesky experience:

As someone else put it: "Just watch Outlaw Star instead"

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

i believe you

In all seriousness Firefly doesn't hold up in nearly any conceivable way in 2026 except that the vibe was undeniably good and also probably near impossible to replicate. Even if you cut out Whedon and Baldwin it just doesn't seem like a good idea

like i said. been there, done that. made my peace with dying. take me out quick and early, i’m good man.

early on during COVID our medical director sat EVERYONE down, at every 911 service, and told us “do not transport ANYONE to the hospital unless they are dying. if you bring them here they will get sick and will die. tell them that.”

never in my fuckin life would i have imagined hearing that. ever.

my whole career i’d been told nothing but “transport. always transport. if they don’t wanna go, convince them to. light cough? hangnail? papercut? get them in the fucking truck.”

have you ever seen a respiratory therapist *run* before? prior to 2020 i sure as shit hadn’t. then suddenly all i ever saw them doing was running. literally sprinting from room to room. the ratio of RTs to patients was unheard of.

i developed a serious drinking problem during that first year because it really did feel like the end of the world. overflowing EDs, people on improvised CPAP, people showing symptoms we’d never seen before in real people. overworked 911 and ED staff just collapsing from exhaustion and grief.

raw dogging early COVID, going in every day to my ambo shifts with the grim certainty that i was probably going to get sick and suffer serious complications up to and including death really soured me on the whole apocalypse fantasy shit. been there, done that, fuck you i quit.