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Can I ask what that means, "agree to uphold ethics"? Are those ethics determined by the NASW or each state or on even smaller levels? How does that work?

Because... What.

And I just saw someone say that y'all have a professional association responsible for ethical and professional standards, but no legal framework in the same sense? At all? And that any and all laws regarding social work that do exist only to do on a state level? Do I have that right?

It's the legal framework our whole profession is based on, including that all of our work has to be based on equity and inclusion, has to stand against discrimination, exclusion & oppression of any kind, centered in human rights, and had to help mitigate harm caused by oppression & inequality.

For example, my field is part of SGB VIII which is all about child and youth welfare and social services. It contains everything, from financing to responsibilities, ethics and moral standards, field of action, limits and regulations, and so on and so forth.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, WAIT. I am confused and I feel like I need to ask a US social worker directly bc my mind is not grasping this.

So like, over here we have laws, as in several social law books specifically, that regulate in detail what social workers do & how they should do it in what field.

To be clear, I gave up trying at all bc I didn't actually need to have the rest of the books. I like my old MMPs. But watching this clusterfuck is absolutely infuriating bc we just had a big guy of the book selling industry complain about dwindling sales.

Well, Bradley. What can I say?!

Since December, the only delivery estimates you got were "We can't get our hands on them either.", "It's probably going to be back in stock in about two to three weeks" and "available again shortly" (Game Changer has that label since December).

They weren't in stock in any stores at any given time.

I will say I'm getting more appalled the longer I watch the availability of the Heated Rivalry books in English in my city. It is now the middle of February, two episodes of the show are officially out here. At no point in time could you order any of the books & get an actual delivery time.

Holy shit what a sprint. Again with the upsets and surprises, it's wild to see.

And I could scream at y'all until I'm blue in the face if I thought for one moment that you give enough shits about real queer people to take an active interest in their real life. But alas. You'd rather be gross in Italy instead.

And real life queer people in and outside of professional sports- some of them the same ones you love to dehumanize hard enough to ship them the way you like - have to live with the consequences of the same brand of bigotry and toxicity you perpetuate every day in this fandom.

Or referees. Or anybody who's queer anywhere.

The same fandom who called an out bisexual actor a predator for allegedly being close to a grown ass co-star.

You haven't changed shit. You're living in a wish fulfillment fantasy world in which only your fetish matters.

I don't want to say this show had no impact without nuance, bc that probably isn't true.

But it has not changed the world. It hasn't even changed a single part of professional sports except for maybe making some leagues more willing to profit off the hype without doing anything to protect players.

He went to the police, their threat assessment said fuck all, nothing was done.

Within the last week this out bisexual man has now been attacked twice in his own home.

Yes, twice. I haven't read much on the second attack, the first one was a group of masked men beating him up on his front lawn.

The crowd was cheering, everyone was happy.

Then the harassment started online. Said referee was harassed, bombarded with slurs, doxxed & had a smear campaign started against him that went so far, even the public defenders office had to apologize for a false official statement. It was *nuts*.

Three weeks or so ago we had a bisexual referee (the only out & active queer man in the whole fucking men's league) propose to his boyfriend right before a game.

Magical moment, very Scott and Kip in episode 5, even though this man was already out but ppl didn't care much. Just a referee, right?

One example is living very prominently in my brain right now bc I wish a fraction of the "We ended homophobia on professional sports!" corner of the fandom would engage with it at all. The NHL is not the only bigoted league. I'm living in a soccer country. We have the professional soccer league.

One reason why I started to scrub the HR fandom from my TL was the way the fandom took credit for ppl coming out & made it into their real life accomplishment that this show and fandom would now change the world.

I'm not going to argue about representation, I just want to scream at the ignorance.

I've read the article about Heated Rivalry fandom bringing rpf and toxicity to the Olympics and i find the whole concept just as infuriating as disturbing, no matter where they bring it.

I also want to yell at them a lot about real life bc of their refusal to actually engage with real queer life.

It'll be interesting for sure, I'm curious if all the French athletes can keep up their red hot pace in the pursuit, their times on the slopes were all incredible. I'm still holding out hope that the Swedes will get it together for one race but we'll see.

TWICE! He really thought it's the moment twice and I'm like... Dude. If you do it once in your own post race interview, it's still a choice. But at the team press conference?? The whole story is so bizarre but the press conference bit might be what actually took the cake.

Biathlon is such a fucking mess and I'm always here for it.

Everybody else: "I'm so grateful and happy I won this medal!"

Sturla Lagreid to everyone who (didn't) ask and into every camera staying still long enough: "I am so sorry I cheated on my girlfriend six months ago and I feel so terrible!"

Like. Dude.

What.

But also biathlon staying messy af as always! Simon wanting to silence critics after her win was already hilarious. I wouldn't be so loud if I was convicted of credit card fraud after my own teammate sued me, but okay.

Just had dinner with Mr M and watched the sprint relive and holy moly, that sure was something. Never thought I'd feel sympathy for Jacquelin but man, missing the podium by 0.2 seconds after *that* performance is bitter as hell.

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so many families are in awful positions because ICE’s bullshit has collapsed the already fragile social safety net.

this family is living in their van in minnesota in winter. they’ve applied for help at over a dozen orgs and are still unhoused. with babies.

Hugo noms are open, and I want to talk about Best Pro Artist!

I was making a thread of some never-before-nominated artists... but I quit after three because it's taking an eon to research which pieces were published in 2025.

So maybe just share eligible artists here?

Here's the three I found!

Last year it was b who put me on Eliot Fletcher and Tarah DeWitt and that's been fantastic for me.

When it comes to romance it's honestly mostly ppl I know recommending books to me these days that makes me pick up new to me authors.

I think a lot of the romance authors I read now I found bc someone recommended them to me with a ton of enthusiasm so I had to check them out. It's been years now, but Alyssa Cole, Beverly Jenkins, Alisha Rai, Talia Hibbett, Suleikha Snyder, Mia Hopkins & Alexis Daria became faves bc of recs.