idk who needs to hear this but take your fucking pto
We’ve entered Q4 of 2025, folks! If your PTO doesn’t roll over, start planning how to use that shit!
PTO is considered a part of your total compensation package. Meaning it’s part of your salary. When you don’t take it, you’re leaving money on the table that your employers will happily take back.
more realism that I personally think should be included on 911abc
uncrustables in the pockets of everyone’s turnouts
ravi is really into sports betting and is watching a game on his phone on the way to a huge fire call to see if he hit his parlay (I do not actually know what this means and think that it’s funnier if I remain ignorant; I will block you if you try to explain it to me)
can we get like ONE more woman on the main crew. to an extent it is realism to have only one (1) woman on the shift, and she’s a lesbian, and she’s a paramedic. but can we please have one more. please? for me. and she sticks around longer than Lucy did.
someone (eddie in my opinion) shows up to work devastatingly hungover on like a random wednesday and has to lock in to an unprecedented degree
[buck and eddie could not pull this off because it’s too real for them but possibly buck and ravi] unserious homoeroticism. there’s a running bit about them being in love with each other that ravi is pretending to be reluctant about but is actually having fun with, mostly because he can tell it’s getting under eddie’s skin
someone says something stupid on the radio and does not live it down for a very long time, based on one time someone accidentally said “penetration” instead of “penetrating trauma” on a radio report to the hospital and we all called him The Penetrator for a while
people arent even trying to learn how to pirate anymore its always “where can i watch this what service is it on” never “tokyo mew mew full episodes free online no virus”
please stop treating the word neurodivergent like it means the overlap between autism and adhd
i dont know how to articulate this well but some of you act like neurodiversity starts with adhd and ends with autism. you talk about “the neurodivergent experience” and everytime you mean “the overlapping experience of adhd and autism.”
please remember us when talking about neurodiversity. ocd, dyslexia, dyscaculia, personality disorders, tourettes, intellectual disabilities, schizo-spec disorders, etc. all fall under neurodiversity.
please stop saying neurodivergent when you mean “autism and adhd.”
this post is okay to reblog but do not clown on it
I am once again adding this graphic from Lived Experience Educator
don’t infantilise yourself. you are not a child who needs an adult to make your decisions for you. you are a splendid and magnificent autocrat and you are consulting your trusted advisors. you are exercising great wisdom by inviting an expert to give their opinion before making your ruling. often the path of wisdom is to say “good morning, I’m trying to [perform task] and I have a question about [aspect], can you tell me who I should speak to for advice?” before you do it. sometimes the path of wisdom is to hire a plumber. there are times when you cannot do things for yourself but that doesn’t mean you are not an adult. you don’t need a grown-up. you need a specialist.
I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD
Thank-you to all of my new Internet stranger friends for being so gracious about having my post shoved onto your dashboards. I loved reading all of your kind tags and comments! Both Martin and Bosco have been gone for several years now but for 24 hours, they felt very present in my life. I greatly appreciate this gift. ❤️
Reblog to have your dashboard be visited by the spirit of joy that death can end but not erase.
Love that this is well beyond 7000 people now and still going
@leavescrown Exactly! It’s a beautiful gift. Martin and Bosco out there travelling around the Tumblr community, continually making new friends.
This video has been getting AI accusations and it isn’t! All these types of woods exist! Though some of them are local names, I was able to track all of them down! Here are all the woods shown in the video!
Purpleheart Wood: Peltogyne genus, native to Central and South American rainforests. Freshly cut it’s light brown, then turns into rich shades of purple. It turns brown in UV light so it has to be finished with a UV inhibitor to keep those gorgeous colors.
Namnu (various): A type of precious wood found in China/South Asia, sourced from various different species of trees, hence the different examples shown here. High grades of the wood are known for the optical effect shown in the video. Unfortunately the types of trees that produce the wood are all critically endangered, which is why the examples shown are all items or pillars or fragments of pieces. The species are all strictly protected and new trees cannot be harvested.
That example in the video is just that one video that goes around with the inside of a tree that’s been struck burning while it still stands, but sometimes trees that have been struck by lightning and are cut down can have neat burn patterns in the wood (example), as the lightning goes to ground, so some people might want that. Who am I to judge.
Chicken-blood vine wood: Species isSpatholobus suberectus and it’s only that bright when it’s cut, it dries to a more woody color. Here’s a page with examples of what the wood looks like when it’s dried and some things made with it.
Amber wood: This one took a while. There’s a video out there claiming this is “petrified amber wood”. That’s not possible, I’m a geologist I would know. Since the video is in Chinese originally I presume, “amber wood” must be a translated local name. It’s sandalwood, which has that gorgeous bright red color. Even tracked down the video the clip is taken from. “Chandan wood” is another name for sandalwood. Which smells amazing.
Rosewood: The most well known of the woods here in my opinion. There’s a number of rosewoods, all in various shades of pinks and reds. True rosewoods are from the genus Dalbergia. Sadly they’re all endangered, but illegal harvesting continues.
Pink oak - Likely pink ivory (Phyllogeiton zeyheri). You need a permit to cut down one of these trees, but it really is that pink. One of the most expensive woods in the world, up there with sandalwood.
Burmese huanghuali: Rosewood…3! This is either Dalbergia oliveri or Pterocarpus indicus, but given that Pterocarpus indicus is descripted as having purplish heartwood, I’m guessing it’s Dalbergia oliveri. Though it’s not a true rosewood, Pterocarpus indicus is also sadly endangered.
Liudao wood: This is Abelia biflora, though it looks like it has been reclassified as Zabelia biflora recently. Either it only looks like that when the bark is being peeled or it’s the lighting in the videos. BUT this wood is used in making Buddhist prayer beads because of both its grain pattern connects to philosophy and its mention in Tibetan Buddhist texts.
Thank you for all that work!! I recognized some of the woods (since my siblings in law woodwork) but not all of them, and was going to look into them when I woke up, but you’ve gone and brought up all the treasure from the rabbit hole!
ALT
ALT
