You don't need health care when you have SELF care!!!
Hello, [insert company name] rockstars! It's been an incredible year as we made record profits and refined our processes and team to be Lean (TM) and mean. We want to thank you for all your hard work and tell you about some innovations to your benefit plan you're going to love!
We want to give you the freedom to choose your own ways to stay healthy rather than being confined by the *air quotes* "preventative care" options offered by our old plan, so we've upgraded from our former Premium Plan to a Flex Option with a creative solution called an "HSA."
Instead of the employer-funded options in our old plan, you can now put part of your salary into an HSA, which you can then use to pay for a wide range of health options.
This includes over-the-counter medications to replace pricey prescriptions from those specialists you won't be seeing anymore! The really cool thing about this is the portion of your salary you put into the HSA is PRE-TAX!!!
The second innovative new way we're caring for your health is something I'm REALLY excited to tell you about. With some of the resouces we've saved from pivoting from a quote-unquote "Cadillac" health insurance option to an HSA-supported model...
...we've brought in a top-of-the-line marketing firm to design an internal Mindfulness website, because as we all know, even when you love your job, some days can get a little stressful. I mean, excitement about new projects is still stress, did you know that?
So if you're starting to feel a little bit grumpy on Hour 78 or 79 of your work week, we encourage you to sit back, relax, and visit the Mindfulness website to take a 3-minuted Guided Meditation Tour that'll leave you feeling refreshed and ready to get back to work!
These are just some of the incredible self-care options we're offering to you as we look for ways to make our employer-sponsored health insurance plan more Lean and efficient.
Remember: you don't need healthcare when you've been doing your SELF-care!
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So I developed tendonitis in my ankle/calf/knee from either a possible stress fracture in my foot or maybe from when I broke my toe this summer or possibly from the weird extra bones in my ankle or possibly from nothing at all.
(Modern medicine is VERY precise.)
And so my trainer is trying to help me deal with it, so we've been working on ankle stability and other stuff a lot.
And today after my workout he used one of those poundy massagers on my calf and HOLY SHIT, dear reader, I almost blacked out.
(like, not gonna lie, I had no idea those things actually had a real use--I hear "massager" and assume "vibrator")
I also want to say that the coolest thing about working on this has been feeling pulled into the excitement that @the_strix, @ajitgeorgeSB, @GoblinPrincete and some of the other authors on it have for its launch.
Like (selfishly, I admit) it's been really healing for me.
Like, it's so easy when you've worked in TTRPGs fulltime for somewhere like Paizo, where we were putting out SO MANY products every month, to just have all the joy sucked out of having contributed.
And especially with Paizo, because there was *so much trauma* for so many people on the team. Like, even the books I poured my heart and soul into, the launches felt muted because the process of getting them out had often been ugly.
So, a couple elephants in the room to address about the new Ravenloft book, as much as I can without breaking NDA.
First off, as far as I can tell, Mike Mearls was in no way involved with this book. I don't know what he's working on at WOTC now, but it doesn't seem to be print D&D.
Like, if you're boycotting all things WOTC because of him, go your way in peace.
If you're specifically boycotting D&D books, I dunno for sure, but I think you're boycotting the wrong department at this point.
aaaaaauuuuughhh having lived with a college roommate who refused to clean up her rotting food in the kitchen or the trash she threw in the corners because "it doesn't bother me, so why should I clean it up?" this makes me fucking FURIOUS
Like, it's bad enough to do that under normal circumstances. But when the person who prefers a higher level of cleanliness is your SIGNIFICANT OTHER and you're hosting a PARTY FOR THEM, you fucking suck it up and clean.
Like, maybe it doesn't bother you if the house is a mess, but if you know that having people over when it's a mess is going to embarrass them, and--I can't emphasize this enough--it's for a party that YOU initiated that's supposed to be a GIFT to them, you clean.
Like, we can spend all day parsing the nuances of nationalism vs. patriotism, but even most of the supposedly harmless forms of American patriotism are shaped by (and usually intertwined with) Christian triumphalism.
I bring up white supremacy here because, of course, that's the third string of the Christian-triumphalism/American-nationalism braid.
I know I've said this before, but there's a reason that there are a ton of Catholic horror movies and tv series (yes, I'm watching 30 Monedas, why do you ask) and not very many Jewish ones (short thread)
Like, Catholicism has DEMONS and SAINTS and a whole giant SF/F series cast of both which is great for cosmic war stuff
Judaism has <checks notes> God, who can be kind of horrific sometimes and whom Judaism's culture heroes spend a lot of time trying to protect humanity *from* and, like, bad humans?