znonymous
joined 9 months ago
TL;DR:- Fuck my life. Finally got some time off from work, but zero rest. Back to work tomorrow.
Shit's fuckin rough. School here let out for a week. But I started work at a shitty ancient employer several months ago now that only grants time off at a rate of four hours a pay period, so I don't have enoytime off to take the whole week off, so instead, I had to take a bunch of half days so my partner didn't have to take care of both kids by herself three days in a row until holiday leave kicked in. Then, my partner unknown to her contracted a fungal ear infection last year and the doctor said, "Oh. Itchy ear? Just a 'perimenopause symptom'." So of course her ear infection suddenly flairs up for the first time, putting her in so much pain she had to go to the ER twice. First time they double dosed her on some kinda opioid and she was vomiting the entire night. Second time they gave her anti-vom pills and a single dose of opioids, but then the pain came back twice as quickly. They referred her to an ENT, but of course no ENTs are open on the Holiday weekend, so she has to just suffer at 4/10 to 8/10 pain for five days in a row. Luckily, the anti-fungal drops started taking effect this morning, and her pain has been halfway manageable without the prescription opioid pain killers. Meanwhile, my autistic son who also has an autoimmune disease is driving me insane because he is latched onto a small black toy car as a soothing item, but he keeps leaving it in random places and then freaking out when he realizes that he doesn't have it -- meaning we have to frantically comb the house and the backyard for it while he screams and moans and viciously bites his arm. Those episodes happen at least four times a day. I finally found the car online, and purchased it for $5 plus $6 s/h. This way, if he loses his mind, I can just produce the backup from my pocket while we hunt for the original.
Thanks, that actually helps me think about things a little differently.
Personal property
Even a deed to land (albeit a tiny fraction) that an imperial state has stolen from entire peoples?
I wish I understood the cultural significance of wearing nothing but an adult swaddling diaper during a live music performance.
Natalism?
When everyone is a bureaucrat, is anyone a bureaucrat?
State abolished!
My back hurts really badly (6 out of 10, chronically) these days, and it is super hard to pick up my 60 lbs. seven-year-old boy. But he is autistic, and rarely speaks. So when he tries to say "pick me up", I feel compelled to oblige. T_T
Thank you! 😊
Can I please see more pics of your setup?
My partner is super angry and depressed.
I am too but that's just my default state. And I've been this way since about 2016. But even more so since October 7th. I guess I feel kind of inoculated to it by now?
I would really love to try to get my partner activated in some organizing with me, but we have young kids and one of them has special needs. Being a parent is super demanding. But I went down this road before I got really radicalized into truly resenting and hating the US empire.
What's the best way for an insanely overwhelmed tankie dad to cheer up his radlib partner?
Why does this seem to me to be like anti-Russian propaganda from some Western rag known to print lies?
Super awful and mis-carriage of justice, if true and kid just did Internet search like article says he says.
Otherwise, joining anti-state groups is risky business in any country!
Also, not to be whataboutist, but this kid is white, and the US ruins thousands of black kids' lives every fucking year on far weaker charges.
And if the media even mentions any of it, the take is only ever: "Oh dear, whatever is to be done?"
Furthermore, it really does sound like what the US actually did to Julian Assange.