Remember: it's okay for some things to be unremarkable! Identifying when you need to check a box vs when you need to be remarkable is a critical skill. Just *really* commit when the time is right.
Remember: there is no “correct” format or voice for writing a blog post, job description, or announcement
Conventions are an illusion to trick us into being unremarkable
Everyone who came before was just larping as someone else who came before. They don’t know your business
For a platform where people rage against the media so often, remarkable number of folks here taking this framing at face value. Notice the only actual quotation here is pretty bland. The rest is all careful framing to make the subject look absurd.
The word status is doing a lot of work here to obfuscate a real and useful point: although "status" absolutely shouldn't shape our view about any person's *inherent* value or worth, pretending that *credentials* are not the original way to accelerate trust is just lying 🤷♀️
I literally never reached the point where I couldn't talk because of contractions. I came in bc I'd been in "false labor" for 48 hr, had a nice chat w the nurses, was told the baby sounded great but my vitals were a little up. Checked dilation, then admitted asap bc I was at 9 🤷♀️
I called the doctor three times that evening, which was exactly what they said I should do, and here’s how every convo went:
“My contractions are now 2-3 minutes apart and very intense, should I come in?”
“Um, sigh, well….thats kinda up to you, but we really don’t need to see