Ahh Mr.sneky

Don Wilson:

"I have noticed a significant increase in general laxity about PPE since COVID masking has been dropped. A significant % of OR staff (esp anesthesia & RTs) not bothering to mask inside actual OR even when sterile fields are open & set up.

Nurses inside OR generally much more consistent (they directly handle & set up sterile equipment).

I’ve seen unmasked anesthesiologists & RTs for emergency CS & gyne cases… I don’t get it. We mask to prevent contamination of open surgical wounds. Just because COVID mask mandates are over doesn’t mean INSIDE an operating room is a mask free zone.

Used to be that it was unthinkable to be unmasked inside an active OR. Even in the hallways during active OR time. It’s a sad commentary on the impact of the antimask stupidity spilling over to areas where it can impact quality & safety of the patient care environment.

I’m just one person who chooses to be fastidious about masking inside the hospital, I can’t take on the entire system. But it’s discouraging to see & I wonder how many patients go on to have nosocomial surgical infections because of relaxed cultures around masking now."

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Yesterday I saw an article about Hantavirus prevention that didn't mention respiratory protection when cleaning up mouse poop. Just gloves, bleach, and wetting rather than sweeping. Which is better than nothing, but for a disease as dangerous as HPS, I'm going to put in the tiny extra effort of an N-95 also.

Construction workers are masking less around sawdust and worse.

The anti-mask brainrot runs deep.

^ this exactly.

Linking other post involving now occupational hazards and injuries to workers due to managers and owners' attitudes on PPE:

This is eco-terrorism.

It feels like masses of people are ghosts living in theory and abstract and don't know what death is, what murder is, what a baby is, what flesh is

a couple weeks ago this guy posted in the chicago pagan facebook group saying that he’s a djinn and that there’s a portal between here and egypt and only he and one other person had the power to close it and there was going to be a massive sandstorm… like dude, close the fucking portal, why are you even telling us this

Had a meeting with Patreon today, and it went very well. Got to talk and advocate for NSFW creators a bit and push the queer agenda, and I learned a bit about Patreon's current push for free memberships. Honestly, I didn't understand it at first, but after they sent me this video, I got it a lot better. I have actually been having a lot of trouble with getting content from my favourite creators without algorithms getting in the way, and that reframe helped me a lot. Anyways, feel free to sign up for our Patreon for free? Especially considering now I understand how to do it and what it's for.

As protests start ramping up and violence escalates please remember:

DO NOT PUT MILK IN YOUR EYES FOR PEPPER SPRAY OR TEAR GAS.

It can and will cause infection due to bacteria. Flush with water, distilled if possible, and never EVER wear contact lenses to protests where there may be police retaliation.

Please reblog. It may save someone's sight.

Water reactivates pepper spray and it will hurt like hell. Use saline. It will still hurt like hell but you'll get it over with faster. Here's another link with treatment solutions.

Poison control says use lukewarm water.

Water does reactivate pepper spray but, importantly, you are flushing your eyes with means filling them with so much water it removes the irritant. There is no pleasant way to deal with pepper spray in your eyes but water is fine if you don't have saline.

people in the global south: hey isnt it so fucked up how america basically dictates world geopolitics and can directly fund and endorse our murder and displacement no matter who is in charge and how the system fundamentally prevents people from changing that and that americans who feign allyship make no effort to change that?

some annoying fucking white person with hufflepuff in their bio: so you're telling me you want me to vote for trump right. is that what you want. you want me to vote for the orange man. you're a russian bot aren't you

band is @/thepssyboys on Instagram

Alaska

Anyone missing a heavy stone/concrete Dalek?

the complete saga

Crossposting from Bluesky because nothing says 'I wasn't going to talk about this on socials, but...' like crossposting.

I'm too exhausted to go too in depth about it, but I've spent the last week too sick to work and while I'm trying to catch up, if anyone has a couple of bucks they can send my way as a Trans Day of Visibility kindness, ko-fi.com/lebmitchell is what I have set up. Thank you.

You can also find my artwork on Redbubble (www.redbubble.com/people/shiniesbylauren/shop and my writing on Itch (laurenthemself.itch.io/) if you'd like something other than my eternal gratitude for your buck!

the tl;dr version is I thought I had tonsillitis last Saturday based on symptoms similar to last November. I was set to head to the GP Monday.

Monday morning I tested positive for COVID.

I spent the week in iso, slept in the living room so I wouldn't make my partner sick, and was negative by Sat.

I wasn't going to put anything about it on socials—I obviously advised people I had seen in person to do at-home tests, and haven't heard from anyone to say they got sick, so I think I got it at the end of the day Saturday—but if I'm putting out the ko-fi link I think people deserve to know why.

The endless months of lockdowns in the early days were tolerable only because I had my partner to hug and hold. Spending Monday through Saturday completely no contact was hell. I was so lucky that the cats cuddled with me a bunch.

I put my goal on Ko-Fi as $500 but honestly anything that helps cover that unpaid week (I'm applying for sick pay guarantee too but that's only covering 14 hours) would be fabulous.

Signal boosts greatly appreciated. I don't often ask for help but am asking now.

I also have Beem (@LaurenThemself), and paypal.me/lebmitchell if either of those is preferable.

I'm at $140 of $500 and already feeling better about this situation, although there are some mitigating circumstances that mean I'm not out of the woods yet. I still have a post-viral cough but am otherwise feeling okay, and I am very grateful to everyone who has donated and signal boosted. Thank you so, so much. I know we're all doing it tough.

$175 of $500, and things have Escalated™.

My primary day job was transcribing and captioning tertiary education lectures. As of the 5th of April (yesterday), that role has been terminated for humans and the work will be carried out by a custom-built AI.

If you have a couple of bucks to spare, or just want to signal boost a person who's been replaced by a robot, I would deeply appreciate it. I'm obviously job hunting and I have progressed to the second round of the application process for another transcribing role I'm excited about, but (as it has been from the start) this goal is in aid of covering the gap between pays.

To explain the sick pay guarantee part, my state offers a limited number of hours a year, payable at minimum wage, to casual employees in certain industries. I'm applying to get some of those hours paid out for when I was out with COVID, but capping it at 14 hours so I don't use the whole lot and have some in my back pocket, cos they have to last til the end of 2024.

A big thanks again to everyone who has helped, wither by donating and/or signal boosting. I truly appreciate you all, and every little bit has helped (I'm actually feeling relief of my physical anxiety symptoms when I get a notification, which is pretty cool).

imaginary pixel art mushrooms

orange and blue

fun fact one of the world champions in pepper-eating contests is a trans woman and she actually faced significant backlash because people somehow thought she had a biological advantage. to eating spicy pepper

update bc i went back and checked: her name is brianna “the chilli queen” skinner and she set a record in 2017 by slamming back 23 carolina reapers consecutively. she only stopped when told to by the referees, and the next year she stepped down out of boredom. queen

Here's a picture of her, by the way

And her super supportive wife

The championship, it should be noted, is unisex. Apparently being a trans woman gives you an innate biological advantage over both cis men and cis women.

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There are ten trillion pictures of flowering trees to the point where they sometimes seem trite and overdone. But then you see a tree in full flower and go holy shit this rules and I've gotta show this to everyone so they can experience the same magic and wonder and there are ten trillion and one pictures of flowering trees