man don't put that dumb "russia and china are trying to divide us because they just hate freedom so much!!" shit on my feed thanks
anyone who wants a "midwife" is going at it all wrong. you want to have a "goodwife," or perhaps even "greatwife"
counterpoint: i consider mids loud.
i've been ignoring recent cross-site meta because it is so massively pointless but i just saw someone on bluesky say it's unreasonably idealistic for cohost staff to not want to use volunteer labor because a social media website is by its nature about other people voluntarily making stuff on your platform that draws in more users, as if it's perfectly natural to draw an equivalence between me doing unpaid professional work on or with this site's functions and me logging in to write "WHAT DO YOU CALL A SUITCASE MADE OUT OF A GIANT RED FRUIT? A PORTMANTEAUMATO!!!!"