Finally some honking on Norway

See also: Eurovision.

The popularity of chemically composed shampoo and the promotion of using it was an OG capitalist grift at the turn of the 20th century that just got out of hand.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked at a job that felt morally right.

I worked at a housing association that I thought would be useful in helping the unhoused with a type of co-operative housing, especially as they’re regulated. But no, it was all ‘pass on the poor folk to other associations’ and ‘try to grab property for cheap’ with the pooled rent money while skimping on repairs and improvements.

I worked in renewables for a while, and profit is always king there too. Safety was never the priority.

I worked at a crisis centre for victims of SA, which was also run to the bare minimum and largely existed as a flex for the person in charge to get write-ups in the Guardian. I can’t remember actually being able to successfully connect anyone with the therapists due to the length of the waitlist. We gave the bare minimum of advice. It existed on the lowest wages possible because everyone working there was supposed to feel good that they were essentially doing charity.

I did some advocacy work where I was connected with people that were unhoused, and where the job was to help them navigate the system in order to get assigned a home with a local housing association. Each case took months and nobody in the relevant council departments and housing associations gave a single shit. The clients were distressed (naturally), but were still given false information from every angle, and then it was all consistently used against them or leveraged to try and make them accept a lower standard of housing and/or care. They were treated like criminals for simply not having access to shelter. I worked hard and felt sad constantly. There were some successes, but a few people just quit trying to get housed because living on the street and sofa surfing were somehow less humiliating.

Those are the most ‘moral on paper’ roles I’ve held, and even they were a disgrace.

This is truly heinous! What absolute s c u m.

I don’t know how to do special emojis but just imagine one here that communicates ‘Jesus fucking Christ what the actual fuck’.

I’ve noticed people suppressing it or straight up just hand-waiving it away.

I had an important family member die quite horrifically because of covid (sudden, intubated, super traumatic). Yet people who know this in my life still say shit like ‘what’s the worst that could happen’ and chuckle to me when I insist on masking up.

I can never tell whether it’s because of delusion, denial, or nihilism.

Little do they know that the US and the UK are really just vassal states of Norway.

Many of the bravest and most impactful actions flow not from morals but instead grow from a place at our core where we finally acknowledge feeling dissatisfied.

Saying ‘No’ is a revolutionary act.

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“Will the company cover all medical costs if we’re shot during our normal work day?”

I was once a young kid living in an apartment that had the utilities shut off due to non payment. I didn’t understand why it was so cold or why I couldn’t get a drink of water.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you for having integrity and compassion.