20 days until the election and we are truly in the middle of a fight for our lives and those of others.
Let's talk about the difference between how the left is doing poll work and defending safety for voters at the polls, because that's important.
While Trump himself is calling on people to "watch the polls" and is encouraging voter suppression, the left is trying hard to do informative trainings and events to defend everyone's right for safe voting in person across the country.
Trainings you can sign up for include topics such as:
- Poll monitoring
- Bystander Training
- De-escalation (!)
- Combating disinformation
Why does this matter? Because one action is about intimidation and the other is about helping people feel safe.
If you are interested in training for this, there are two sessions you can sign up for: Today at 7.30 pm EDT or same time on Oct 20.
I just lost my job at ArenaNet as of today as part of a re-shuffling of projects, which means I am looking for a job as a Game Designer pretty much immediately.
If you have any job openings, any leads, any recruiters around.... I need to find a job that takes over my visa within the US within 60 days, otherwise I need to leave the country.
Being laid off on the spot is an extremely traumatizing experience.
I was locked out of my work computer within 10 minutes and I didn’t even get a chance to say goodbye to my colleagues.
Also, this is the only access I currently have to a computer...
I don't know how much it is on people's minds right now but some of my circles are talking more about crunch conditions because of Cyberpunk and while I don't want to add to that specific discussion, some thoughts came up about understanding phases of development better:
There is talk especially about recent trends where many large-scale games have a particularly long pre-production phase and pushing the development of the actual content production far back into the last year or so of development before release, which often causes crunch.
Often referred to as "the grind", it is the most difficult part of many dev cycles because it's often devoid of any new creative stuff and requires a team to just "make the game", work through all the content creation which is kind of a trot and can be tough to get through.
Just... fuck these people. Fuck these people for being clueless, cruel, controlling trash. Get the fuck away from my goddamn uterus.
If you think that taking our birth control is an unthinkable scenario, please let me remind you that this country and administration has performed unwanted vasectomies on immigrant women already. They will not stop for anything.
Next day of this and I have a lot of additional thoughts. First of all, it's REALLY sore and just very painful. Been icing it all morning.
I received a lot of messages from folks telling me about how awful their experience was with the implant - which is valid, but scary.
I'm not trying to discourage people from sharing their experience here, but it did make me frustrated that your only chance for really intrusive options for long-term BC are all trial-and-error and with a ton of potential side effects. That's just really inadequate.
The recommended time for trying any of the long-term option is 3-6 months at least - which means that you are expected to live through a ton of potentially really debilitating side effects for months on end until you know if it's for you or not.
Well. So. This is what I was up to this morning. With the SCOTUS going down the drain and with it likely reproductive rights, I felt forced to make a decision towards long-term birth control to protect myself for at least 5 years upwards. Not my fav thing to be forced into.
An implant lasts for 5 years and is hormonal based.
I've been thinking about a more permanent solution but am not comfortable having that decision forced onto me within 3 months, despite me being fairly certain that I do not want kids.
The reason why this discussion is important is because a LOT of people with uteruses in my circles have these discussions right now. How to protect themselves from what the shift on the SCOTUS could mean for our lives. Which is daunting and nobody should have to do this.