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Something a Little Fantastic

@absentlyabbie / absentlyabbie.tumblr.com

A blog of all things nerdy, silly, thoughtful, and surprising. She/Her. Actual Adult Human. 30s. Emotional support demon. White. Queer. Occasionally NSFW. I block blank blog follows.
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cpntredbeard

This is the End Goal of Capitalism

I have had strong visions of the need for a specifically geriatric care orientated fast response team for evictions,.

back in 2009 I was working with a teacher from my sister's school to get hours I needed to get my cna certification back. I was assigned to help with a few residents in what was supposed to be a very nice nursing home. One of the residents I was helping with was unaware and unresponsive at all times. She could not move nor speak and while we were sure she could hear she did not have any way of communicating.

So imagine my confusion when I showed up for my shift to see the other person assigned to her packing up this woman's belongings.

I asked what was going on and got that they were kicking the woman out. I wondered if they had said where she was going to go and the other aid explained that she hadn't been told anything but that it was very strange.

I helped pack this woman's belongings and went to help in another room.

About an hour later I checked up on the unresponsive resident only to see the aid back with her looking extremely distressed.

She let me know that they were sending the woman back to her previous address as the prices for the nursing home had risen and her social security checks no longer covered the costs. Since they hadn't been able to get ahold of her family the woman's payments hadn't been covering the full amount and eventually she missed several payments as the money coming in was ate up by late fees and such.

Thing is her previous home had been sold and her family had moved out of state. So they were taking her to the house of a stranger.

I went and reported this to my instructor and told her we needed to call the state board to report this. While I was doing that they packed the woman into a transport vehicle and drove her away.

They left her in a stretcher in the street.

My instructor didn't want to rock the boat because the school needed to keep working with this facility so that her students would be able to get their credit hours.

We got into an argument because I pointed out that if she didn't report it she was also breaking the law as this was a clear case of endangerment.

Our argument attracted the attention of other residents and nursing aids. When they asked what was going on I told them exactly what happened.

Unsurprisingly everyone was upset that the facility has just abandoned a woman who could not move or speak on a street in the middle of summer. It was around 90f out side!

My phone was locked up at the time so I kept badgering the instructor and made it clear I would be reporting the situation first chance I got and I would be naming her too as someone who chose to let this happen.(She kicked me out of her program for this but I did report her to her principal and school board.)

During this a bunch of the residents heard me point out how extremely illegal this was and how dangerous it was. All of the aids were talking to each other. And because they heard me loudly state I was going to report it once I had a phone people started slipping away.

And hour later transport returns with the resident and she is soaked in sweat and red all over. Her aid and I rushed over to clean her and put medicated cream on her skin. While we tried to get fluid in her aid proudly let me know that I reminded everyone that they had the power to help and people started calling the owners, state board, child services even. Two residents proudly told me that they called the police for a wellness check. So many people called and made a scene that the owners scrambled to get the woman back.

A few neighbors who saw the woman dumped even reported them to the police!

The absolute deluge of calls spooked the owners so bad they rushed to get the woman back to the facility before the news found out.

An investigation was started after that. I was told by the instructor that she didn't feel comfortable having me around even though I was right and that she wouldn't vouch that I preformed the hours I worked. I would have to start over with another instructor.

I asked her if she thought the part of the course that says you legally have to report neglect and abuse was optional.

Then I got my money back.

My sister let me know that the Owners of the facility decided to follow the law and got a case worker for that woman who found her family and was able to properly move her into a cheaper facility instead of dumping her on the street at a strangers door.

Which they should have done in the first place.

But packing her up and throwing out in the street was far quicker and cheaper. So that's what they did. Had so many people not fought for her they might have gotten away with that.

I'm not surprised another facility resorted to having that 93 year old arrested. Majority of care facilities are all about money first and the actual residents well being last.

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princelabia

promotional poster of bisexuality

you’re all missing out on how bonkers the original promo pic is

malpractice orgy, shoes on the bed, cuddy inexplicably the only one barefoot, every fandom has fanart of the infinite bed cuddle pile but house md made it a real promo art, my medical team and yes they smoke weed

The workplace attire stays ON during sex, the princeton plainsboro polycule threatens to expand to other teaching hospitals, the whole group chat, bedtimes md, everybody lies (down to sleep)

Bisexual heritage post

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scientia-rex

Also I didn’t think a funny post about people who cut you off in traffic only to end up waiting at the same stop light would provide me with a block list, but apparently a disconcerting number of people think they must be correct in regularly cutting people off in traffic when buddy. Bro. No. Do the math. If I’m going 60 miles an hour, and you go 70, if we are on a freeway we expect to be on for 10 hours, sure, you’ll achieve a meaningful lead. Over any given hour you can expect to gain 10 miles on me, which would another 10 minutes of progress on my part. But on the nine-mile stretch of highway that is part of my commute, you’re going to shave off maybe a minute, minute and a half. It looks like a lot of distance but it is not a lot of time. Don’t cut people off, don’t change lanes suddenly without signaling, don’t tailgate, just don’t be that asshole.

I really appreciate everyone who is having appropriate reactions to this and I can’t believe I had to block MORE PEOPLE

One of my administrators has a very distinctive sports car and every time she cuts me off in traffic on the shared portion of our commute I think to myself, thank god my car is incredibly unremarkable. If I did something shitty because I got distracted or was stupid I would not want everyone at work to know it was me immediately without question.

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I should probably clean this computer more often

The pop up mixed with all the labeled space objects make it look ominously like you're deleting a galaxy or something

We don't need them all

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candlejax

derin? why is your desktop picture an array of the solar system with skyrim typefont?

Not just the solar system

If anyone knows where this image is from I'd LOVE to know btw, I lost track of the source years ago

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kaz2y5tiel

He sells prints of it here, though this particular image is in the Creative Commons as well

There's also an annotated version here:

where you can click on different objects to go to their wikipedia pages.

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kactusnz

deleting the galaxy: King of All Cosmos vibes

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saturnaous
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moosemum

Quick Poll

I need to prove a point.

Like if your definition of “Spork” is this:

Reblog if your definition of “Spork” is this:

The first is a foon.

so we used to sell the top one at Eddie Bauer, and it is decidedly NOT a spork OR a Foon…because it’s a Spoon, Fork, AND A Knife. Note the edge of the fork portion!

They’re called Campers Friends and they’re heavy-duty plastic, meant to be washed and reused. They are their own handy entity, but they are not the same as the humble, reliable Spork.

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I love this picture because nobody is in any kind of recognizable fencing stance.

  • Adi Gallia is holding a boquet for a Prom pic.
  • Mace is about to knock a curveball into the stands
  • Yoda is swinging a broom at a spider on the ceiling
  • Ki-Adi-Muni is taking a creepy tinder selfie
  • Obi-wan is on Coruscant’s next Top Model and Space-Tyra has just told him “Play golf, but make it Fashion”
  • And Anakin Skywalker is grinding his flat ass on an stripper pole.

To be fair, all of these are entirely in character.

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ranty9000

Most of these don’t even match the actual lightsaber combat forms lol

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kurtssingh

The descriptions are so hilarious I have to do this. XDDDDD

I had not seen the illustreations!!

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bynux

hey I'm sorry I stopped in the middle of that sentence my brain decided to flush its cache and I totally forgot what this conversation was

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