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Matron of the ninth circle (grumpyoldnurse@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 00:51:05 JST Matron of the ninth circle
@HebrideanHecate @KeepTakingTheSoma @BILLSan345 @ForBritain There's a big difference between being unable to interact "normally" because of illness or divergence and choosing to be hard to get along with.
At the same time, I try, personally, in my personal interactions, to not be judgy about it because 1) it can be hard to tell the difference as an outsider and 2) the difficult behavior serves some kind of psychological need for the person, no matter how difficult it can be to negotiate socially around toxic people.
Anyway. This sort of thing is why I don't enjoy interacting with people very much. -
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Matron of the ninth circle (grumpyoldnurse@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 00:50:31 JST Matron of the ninth circle
@KeepTakingTheSoma @HebrideanHecate @BILLSan345 @ForBritain Manipulators going to manipulate.
That's the big problem, IMHO, parasitism tends to pay better and offer greater social advancement than working for a living. -
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Matron of the ninth circle (grumpyoldnurse@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 23:11:06 JST Matron of the ninth circle
@BILLSan345 @KeepTakingTheSoma @ForBritain Thanks. It might be a niche concern on my part, but I feel it leads to misunderstandings and both hyperbole of normative behavior and minimization of pathological behavior. -
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Matron of the ninth circle (grumpyoldnurse@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 23:09:35 JST Matron of the ninth circle
@KeepTakingTheSoma @ForBritain I wish people would stop using clinical terms in casual conversation, especially since they usually get the clinical term wrong.
Ahem.
Not all assholes are psychopaths.
Not everyone who is manipulative is a sociopath.
Not everyone who acts weird is psychotic.
Not everyone who is selfish is a narcissist.
Not everyone with rigid habits has OCD. Or Asperger's.
Not everyone who is distractable has ADD/ADHD.
Anyway, I'll hop off my soapbox now... -
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Matron of the ninth circle (grumpyoldnurse@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 01:07:55 JST Matron of the ninth circle
@stephagain @RadicalCartoons @againstgrmrs I didn't believe the stuff about litter boxes in public toilets until I heard it first hand from a very credible source.
I'm not saying that this is gospel, but these days, it's incredibly hard to tell. I would like a better reference, though, quote sources! -
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Matron of the ninth circle (grumpyoldnurse@spinster.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 18:11:45 JST Matron of the ninth circle
@HebrideanHecate @KeepTakingTheSoma Gawd, I hope not... -
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Matron of the ninth circle (grumpyoldnurse@spinster.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 00:59:01 JST Matron of the ninth circle
@polarisera I'm relieved to hear it was climate change, and not governmental mismanagement or, worse, a deliberate clearance for a land grab. You know, like the land grab that definitely didn't happen in Hawaii. -
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Matron of the ninth circle (grumpyoldnurse@spinster.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 10:47:05 JST Matron of the ninth circle
@againstgrmrs So... They think the mother is going to pass the fetus through ::squints:: the rectum. So, humans have cloacas now?
This is progress... -
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Matron of the ninth circle (grumpyoldnurse@spinster.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 10:26:49 JST Matron of the ninth circle
@KeepTakingTheSoma @HebrideanHecate @Ladyfat @polarisera From the mouths of babes. Or maladjusted middle schoolers. -
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Matron of the ninth circle (grumpyoldnurse@spinster.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:00:00 JST Matron of the ninth circle
@polarisera Oh, Japan is a lovely country. Too bad there's so many Japanese people there...🤡🌐
But, seriously, I hope there is a more nuanced message here that was discarded in favor of click bait. -
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Matron of the ninth circle (grumpyoldnurse@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 00:35:58 JST Matron of the ninth circle
@HebrideanHecate @RadicalCartoons @KeepTakingTheSoma @Ziltoidia @macha I've experienced this in my job. The talented nurses are expected to want to climb the management ladder, rather than stay at the bedside. If you choose the bedside, people side eye you. -
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Matron of the ninth circle (grumpyoldnurse@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 08:24:47 JST Matron of the ninth circle
@KeepTakingTheSoma @HebrideanHecate Like when they tried to tell us that home gardens are horrible energy wasters. Saw a commercial recently about how dishwashers are more efficient than hand washing... I guess it depends on how you do it... -
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Matron of the ninth circle (grumpyoldnurse@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 04:08:05 JST Matron of the ninth circle
@sim @FeartnTired @Gnomeshatecheese Again, there's a difference between exploring dark themes and just acting like a whiny teenager wannabe emo who substitutes gritty for intelligence. -
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Matron of the ninth circle (grumpyoldnurse@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 04:08:04 JST Matron of the ninth circle
@sim @FeartnTired @Gnomeshatecheese Exactly.
Again, dark themes aren't the problem for me. I did, in fact, enjoy reading about the vampire's point of view. But, once or twice was clever. Endlessly gritty is just lazy. -
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Matron of the ninth circle (grumpyoldnurse@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 04:08:03 JST Matron of the ninth circle
@sim @FeartnTired @Gnomeshatecheese And, that's fine if it's plausible.
There's this weird stylistic choice these days, where all the books have to be dark and all the tv shows and movies have to be gritty and I'm tired of it.
That's not to say no one should ever do a gritty show, but when they reframe the old Archie comics as gritty, it looks like they've lost the plot.
The best tv comedies were ones that dealt with heavy subjects, like All In The Family or Barney Miller. Lots of social commentary, lots of humor too. -
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Matron of the ninth circle (grumpyoldnurse@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 01:56:25 JST Matron of the ninth circle
@Gnomeshatecheese @FeartnTired It's a shortcut for the intellectually lazy; like what everyone else hates, hate what they like, and people will mistake your contrariness for intelligence.
Not to say I don't think there's merit in examining the darkness, or thinking about why literary villains do what they do (a well written antagonist isn't cartoonishly bad just because, after all) but making everything gritty and dire is just as intellectually childish as making everything default to Pollyanna. -
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Matron of the ninth circle (grumpyoldnurse@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 03:16:36 JST Matron of the ninth circle
@kdansky @charles_hart @jennuhdordie @guppy_trades @lifotheparty12 Very. If you want to avoid feminists in the bathroom, maybe use the bathroom that doesn't have feminists in it?
(No. Men CAN'T be feminists, actually) -
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Matron of the ninth circle (grumpyoldnurse@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 02:55:07 JST Matron of the ninth circle
@Chronic-Yonic I've heard suggestions of imitators... -
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Matron of the ninth circle (grumpyoldnurse@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 02:55:07 JST Matron of the ninth circle
Anyway.
I've been using the online name Grumpy Old Nurse since I was an irritable middle aged nurse. -
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Matron of the ninth circle (grumpyoldnurse@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 02:55:06 JST Matron of the ninth circle
@Chronic-Yonic But, is there a highway?