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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 5d

There's someone who was told they had to quit their job because their state [state job] doesn't allow them to work in their own system more than 40 hours in order to intern but they do not want to go into non-public sector work.

They do not care about experience in the field & its nuts.

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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 5d

It's the "your boss left, & other people will do their work, but we are going to create more work, & a committee, but the committee won't be too extra work."... but it is, it's so much more. Then anything you do for fun? You should drop that. The thing that keeps you from quitting? Drop that.

Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 5d

The worst part is it's not meanness, it's not anything straightforward. It's the "do more with less" when there's never been more. I've been at this damn place, applied & got better jobs & pay, 12 years & it never got actually better. The better pay meant more stress & less enjoyment.

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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 5d

Now I understand what the youths call a crash out.

Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 5d

Also, this program has made me hate librarians so much that I don't want to ever be one. I knew beforehand but damn the vocational awe & treatment of staff is toxic as hell.

Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 5d

Do I give my program feedback that making me do an internship has made me have suicidal thoughts consistently for the first time in years & want to quit my job? Because the fact that they require an internship for someone working in the field for more than 5 years professionally is fucked up.

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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 5d

Also, this program has made me hate librarians so much that I don't want to ever be one. I knew beforehand but damn the vocational awe & treatment of staff is toxic as hell.

Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 5d

Do I give my program feedback that making me do an internship has made me have suicidal thoughts consistently for the first time in years & want to quit my job? Because the fact that they require an internship for someone working in the field for more than 5 years professionally is fucked up.

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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 5d

& its the time for it, + having to manage health issues that already impact my job on top of the internship. Choosing not to eat bC I cant function high, but I cant walk to my car with IOB. I end up working later & later because we are understaffed but still have to find 12 hrs for the internship.

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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 5d

Do I give my program feedback that making me do an internship has made me have suicidal thoughts consistently for the first time in years & want to quit my job? Because the fact that they require an internship for someone working in the field for more than 5 years professionally is fucked up.

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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 8d

It's 3 am, and I just found someone's web page from 1997 for a required class at my college. It's time for bed - I have gone too far away from my goal.

Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 10d

Everything to be on the device itself & not the cloud after we had the AWS outage earlier this week. Separately, at least most pumps can run basal if the phone stops working, but of course, if you can't feel highs or lows that makes it difficult to trust that nothing is going to go wrong.

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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 10d

Its release & killed 3 iPhone batteries with that which is part of why I finally switched to Android [prior to pumping by 3 years] & wasn't planning to go back. Kinda stinks most of the newest tech is all iPhone only, but also phone only. I never thought I would be grateful that the FDA requires

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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah, I had my last phone self-destruct which is part of why I went with the Tslim over Omnipod or I would have purchased a dedicated phone for it [same with Mobi here as I am an Android user]. I was paranoid about not having an interface separate from my phone. I have also played Pokémon Go since

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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 10d

I did have to force myself to consistently sleep on one side of my body as I am a side sleeper. So it's 10 days left & 10 days right pretty consistently unless I injure myself & have to favor one side. I have bruised my arm several times with the G7 applicator which is always surprising.

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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 10d

Said there wasn't any way to test for allergies in any significant fashion [I have since learned there is but it's highly specialized with like 12? or less docs in the US who do that kind of testing & my reaction definitely isn't severe enough "yet"].

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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 10d

Last endo said, "Figure it out or we will have to switch you to Libre or possibly no sensor at all." Did a bunch of research & made my own process. Met with an allergist & she literally goes "you've done everything I'd have told you if you had come in right away." [6 mnth wait].

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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 10d

When I first started on the G7 I had WAY more issues than I do currently. Normally now if I have an issue there was something faulty with insertion & I need a replacement. Originally I had an allergy to the adhesive [still a mild reaction now]. I was initially refused a pump because of that.

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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 11d

I often have more concern over my friend & sibling getting my alert versus the low itself 😅 especially because my lows never happen at a "good time."

I had been high late last night, so I figured I might have a rebound lowish morning as I tend to, but wasn't expecting a low low.

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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah, this post came from my first "wake up low" I have had since Feb 2024 when I first got my G7. Woke up w/ my G7 reading 60s & I was already 50s. Woke up at 5:59 with a 6:00 am alarm very confused as to what was happening. Sadly alerted my friend who followed me bc I hit 55 on the G7 soon after.

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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 11d

Low blood sugar is like everything is in 8-bit & high blood sugar is like driving at night with astigmatism & everyone has their brights on.

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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 11d

Honestly, the opposite has occurred with regulation & shortages. Pharmacists can't order without risking investigations & often it costs them more to get the medication than the pharmacy makes back from insurance. So the patients [us] pay in time, money, attention, and stress.

Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 11d

There's been a big fight to bring down insulin costs, [& legislation, coupons, etc.] but the way we shame & hide ADHD & frame stimulants as a point of failure still in a lot of society [& a lot of parents see it as a failure of themselves] there hasn't really been a push to make them more affordable

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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 11d

I swear I check mute every time & then randomly returning from groups I am unmuted on zoom after 100% being muted prior.

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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 12d

Good news is after updating like 5 times [even though I had updated last week lol] and shutting it down overnight it was fine the next day. Hoping that it was just a fluke.

Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 14d

Works laptop trackpad has stopped working but I can use a mouse. All I ask of this laptop is to make it through December & its giving me grief 🫠. If I have to transition to a Dell while trying to complete this internship I am going to scream as none of my devices are compatible.

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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 14d

To December* not even through it. Hoping to troubleshoot later today.

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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 14d

Works laptop trackpad has stopped working but I can use a mouse. All I ask of this laptop is to make it through December & its giving me grief 🫠. If I have to transition to a Dell while trying to complete this internship I am going to scream as none of my devices are compatible.

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Mx Future Cyborg Librarian @mxmak.bsky.social · 15d

And then ofc I treated, didn't go up for ages & now whatever delayed breakfast + treatment hit my BG together for a stubborn rise. Bonus points for almost pulling my infusion set out which probably sent my adrenaline up lololol.

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