incredible that this is even a debate lol
Clocks go back: should nurses get paid for the extra hour on night shift?
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the cass ✨
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the cass ✨
@cassesque
same name on 🦋
futch icon • healthcare ☭worker☭ • ex student nurse • educator • cat mum • tortoise dad • hot takes not reflective of my employers • they/them
East Midlands, UK
Joined April 2011
- Here's a translation of various languages for you: Austria: Sweden Bomb Denmark: Cream Bun, formerly [RACIAL SLUR] Belgium: [RACIAL SLUR] Netherlands: [RACIAL SLUR] Germany: Choco-Kiss, Foam-Kiss, or [RACIAL SLUR] UK: Teacakes Slovenia: [RACIAL SLUR] Finland: [RACIAL SLUR]Never ask a German what these used to be called.
- Actual exchange in my triage room at work yesterday: small child [quietly, to mum]: "is it a boy or a girl?" me [having somehow never had this before]: "uh, neither" small child [wide eyed, excited]: "A THEY!"
- Yeah so remember ten years ago when trans people were warning that gender identity clinics were blazing a trail and making other services realise that they don't actually have to see any patients? This will keep happening and keep getting worse.Eight-year ADHD backlog at NHS clinics revealed bbc.in/3zTNUTV
- "How can two teenagers be driven to this much hatred?" We get it, you weren't visibly queer as a teenager so never had to face this first-hand. I was chased across my sleepy well-off hometown when I was 15. He had a knife. This happens everywhere, all the time.
- Replying to @cassesqueSlovakia: [RACIAL SLUR] Poland: Warm Ice Cream Argentina: [RACIAL SLUR] Iran: Winter Ice Cream Peru: Girl's Kisses Brazil: [RACIAL AND MISOGYNIST SLUR] South Africa: Sweetie Pies Israel: Cream-in-it Levantine Countries: [RACIAL SLUR], alternatively [SIMILARLY AWFUL NAME]
- Replying to @cassesqueguilty as charged (the kid and his mum went on to excitedly explain how his friend at school's older sibling is also A THEY) (complimentary)
- Replying to @cassesqueAlso please stop admiring how non-racist the British are. We just specialise in action-based racism rather than word-based racism.
- Replying to @ArcoNovellanScotland named it before the English had a chance. Don't get too excited.
- Replying to @cassesqueOkay this is now attracting a lot of Europeans and I just want to say YOU DON'T NEED TO SAY THE WORD, WE ALL KNOW WHAT THE WORD IS, PLEASE LEAVE IT OUT OF MY NOTIFICATIONS
- Replying to @cassesqueHis arm was just sprained. Wins all round. That's what you get for being cool.
- The surgeon just now muttered "fantastic, absolutely amazing" when staring at my vagina and I'm deciding to take that as a huge win.
- "all this transgender stuff just seems so new" Bro this was a century ago and we don't even look any different lmao
