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The Machinery of Care
The system is the appointment. More precisely, the modern healthcare appointment — the quiet choreography of portals, pre-authorizations, referrals, billing codes, intake forms, waiting rooms, follow-ups, and automated messages that feels like care but often operates like administration wearing a white coat.
By Lawrence Lease12 days ago in Humans
What the System Forces You to Become
The Question the System Replaces By the time a person has passed through employment law, healthcare coverage rules, unemployment insurance, disability determination, and benefit eligibility, the relevant question has already shifted without ever being stated out loud. It is no longer whether the system helped or failed them. It is whether they managed to remain legible long enough to survive it. Each institutional layer imposes requirements that appear reasonable when viewed in isolation, yet become coercive when experienced sequentially:
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast12 days ago in Humans
By the Arch of Our Backs
A speaker uses a phrase passed around in failed relationships, to gain equal footing in his headship with us. Peasants. While we are still at his feet. He asks, “What do you bring to the table?” To you as a wise citizen, I say you bring your experience. Not just for your job, but for these treacherous speeches. I don’t bring my feelings, I get even with his eloquence.
By Caitlin Charlton12 days ago in Humans
I Collected Random Pictures From the Internet — And They Said More About Us Than I Expected
Sometimes the internet gives more than memes. It gives mirrors. Today, I scrolled. I clicked. I paused at a handful of random images that grabbed my attention. Some are riddles. Some are illusions. Some are questions that feel simple, until you think about them over again.
By Lori A. A.12 days ago in Humans
Letters I Never Sent
When Mariam returned to her childhood home at twenty-nine, she told herself it was only temporary. The truth, however, was more complicated. The house stood quietly at the end of a narrow street, unchanged in all the ways that mattered. The walls still carried memories, and every room felt like a paused moment waiting to resume. She had come back not to rest, but to confront something she had left behind.
By Sudais Zakwan12 days ago in Humans
The Forgotten Shelter: When the Hands That Fed Us Begin to Tremble
By Hazrat Umer A Heartbreaking Look at How We Treat Our Parents in Their Old Age Life is a circle. We start as helpless babies, unable to eat, walk, or speak. In those years, there are two people who sacrifice their sleep, their hunger, and their dreams just to make sure we are okay. Our parents. They hold our tiny hands as we take our first steps, and they protect us from every storm. But as the years pass and we grow strong, a dark shadow often enters our homes. We grow up, we become successful, and suddenly, the very hands that fed us begin to look like a "burden."
By Hazrat Umer12 days ago in Humans
Escaping the Shadow: Why Pain Cannot Be Drowned in Poison
By Hazrat Umer The Truth About Heartbreak, Hardship, and the Trap of Addiction We all face moments in life when the world seems to collapse around us. Maybe it’s a business that failed, a dream that shattered, or more commonly in our society, a heart that was broken by someone we loved. In those dark hours, the pain is so heavy that you feel you cannot breathe. Your chest aches, your mind won't stop racing, and all you want is for the world to go silent for just a moment.
By Hazrat Umer12 days ago in Humans
