putridfairytale

I just realized Trump's re-inauguration coincides with MLK Jr Day, the man who famously warned of the dangers of white moderates... the people whose feckless liberalism left wide open the door for Trump and the mask off fascists in the first place. Now they'll be formally in control again, on the very day meant to honor the man who called it 62 years ago.

https://letterfromjail.com/

Read this and get jokerfied with me.

I'll check it out, thanks for the rec

Will was extra insufferable in this one, truly a dogshit interviewer. I couldn't finish it.

Hell fucking yeah, I saw documents flying around and got super excited thinking of the havoc one could wreak by destroying records of unjustly imprisoned and charged comrades. I personally would never, of course...

Charlie Brown, formal-operationally running at the football

If you're rolling your own, I'd be up for contributing my voice, if you'd have me.

I'm not very well-read on the topic (missed The Will To Change session, sadly) but I'm willing to become so. It is a topic of great importance to me (father of a transmasc teen), I like to think I'm pretty damn good at talking to people, I love talking to people, and I know a lil bit about audio production too.

Also... I hope this doesn't come off as pompous but I've been asked more times than I can count by coworkers and strangers alike if I do radio or podcasts, and when I say no, I always hear about how I should... I think it'd be fun to see what that would be like!

in the US, you can approach a pharmacist and ask for OTC medical advice. whether you get a decent answer depends on a lot of factors... if you're wanting to ask a corporate retail pharmacist it depends on how overworked and shortstaffed they are. if you have an independent community pharmacy nearby your odds are a lot better.

some pharmacists are offering oral contraception now, and I think anything increasing access to that is a good thing in principle. don't @ me about "access" to health care, btw, I understand it's not the end goal.

whether this will be a trend among other drug classes, idk. until we have a functioning healthcare system and people can get what they need when they need it, I think it's at least better than the status quo.

all in a day's work as another part of the safety net. providers are human too, like nurses and everyone else. glad your loved one was OK.

Talk to a hospital pharmacist some time, they've seen some scary shit.

can confirm. thanks for the kind words btw

you know, it's wrong to use the term healthcare system in the US. this thing we have is incompatible with health indeed. I hope you're doing ok.

thanks, life is busy but sometimes I think about getting into creative writing again. if it ever goes down I'll share. Tales from Not a True Pharmacy, where they definitely don't handle large volumes of pharmaceuticals with zero oversight

you do you

more serious note though, the extent to which people unironically say this about pharmacy is a key example of how for-profit healthcare and capitalism in general has corrupted the profession IMO. medicine, just like all health care should be free for all and healthcare workers should treat people with dignity and respect and should themselves be able to work their profession with dignity... if it looks like the pharmacist is a useless gatekeeper just counting pills all day that's because that's the extent to which the profession has been degraded. there's still important work being done behind the scenes but the amount of corporate BS far outweighs it. trust me most of them hate it too, even if they lack the awareness to see where the problem truly is. there are some scumbags but most of them know they should be making sure that people get the medicine they need safely, and not answering to CVS or Walgreens' bottom lines.