mutt ⌖ atlas

Part of socializing and having friends is being a good listener even when you don't actually give a shit about the subject.

Your are hurting other people's feelings when you bluntly respond with "Anyway..." and then change the topic.

It can not always be about your preferred topic.

not to be dramatic but i have cried over getting up at 3 AM six days a week to catch a 2-hour bus to Prague (there is no later option, this is the only bus that hits the station i need, cool, great, love that for me) and then i get to wander the territory like a stray dog waiting for everyone else to show up to work at 9.

did i mention it's unpaid.

i have questioned every single life choice that led me here. couldn't even be a well-paid crisis,, ts had to be a free one. and i kinda have nothing to complain about because there has only been lectures in neural networks to try and get me to understand what the fuck is going on so i can eventually join the project. no actual job done on my end yet.

BUT. i'm actually kind of excited to keep going with it remotely once i'm back in kyiv.

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

Also, don't follow that pop science idea of black/brown people not needing sunscreen, please. Save yourselves. Because while melanin is [PT: is] a protection from UV rays, you can still very much get skin cancer. And the darker the skin, the less doctors are taught how to see skin cancer. So it's way more common for y'all to be left with it with no diagnosis. Making it easier to have it reach its latest stages with no treatment, and end up dead.

This is especially important with these heat waves we've been seeing. Heat strokes are at an all time high. Protect yourselves.

I was volunteering as a safe stop in a convention, with some prevention health equipment, and in 2 days in a very small venue we had 8 heat strokes that ended up in the ambulance.

No shirt, no bra, completely bare torso, just like cis men are allowed to

It's about desexualizing breasts and "female presenting nipples" and not being criminalized for our bodies if we want to go topless because it's a million damn degrees out. This was a popular growing movement that was still widely known a decade ago!