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Imagine if politicians actually cared about the health and well-being of the people, instead of feeding corporate greed.
All our lives would be better.
The disgusting hypocrisy of it all? Congress gets socialized health care for life.
They love THEIR socialism. Their paychecks. Their food per diems. Their pension.
Because they don't want the "wrong" people getting it
Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)
MAN [IN THICK ACCENT]: Black cat bring good luck. Not bad luck. I have black cat - See, him face - And I am not dead today: Good luck!
“See him face”
I sure fucking do see him face
Him face
Reblog him face for good luck in 2021
Reblog him face for good luck in 2021 (2)
Reblog him face for good luck in 2022
Reblog him face for good luck in 2023
Always reblogging him face.
It has been... a very productive week for amirite foraging!
After cleaning them, time to sort!
The most common colors are orange, blue, red, and green, so im always on the lookout for yellow, teal, and pink. Im going to be prioritizing projects that showcase the more common colors before I even think about using bajablasticlase or fraisine.
Time to make it flat!
Now unmake the flat!
Free them.
Put them in place
Seal it in!
And then finally after an untold number of hours foraging for materials, making the amirite cabochons, arranging them, painting the tray, and putting layer after layer of very thin resin over the piece so that it lays flat and actually functions as a serving tray-
Its ready!
The plan for this is to be auctioned off at the local arts council fund raiser. I had a fun time figuring this project out.
y'all it's about to get really fucking humid and hot
you are so right so let's go over this shall we -
change in mental state: confusion, agitation, slurred speech, irritability, delirium, seizures
skin may feel deceptively cool or dry. you may also stop sweating entirely.
nausea and vomitting
extremely flushed skin - whole body!
rapid breathing/heart beat
headache
dry, swollen tongue
stay vigilant of yourself and others!!
hi, i’m a workplace safety person and i would like to further emphasize:
even if you’re used to heat, please understand that high humidity changes things drastically. your body’s ability to thermoregulate (cool itself down) is largely dependent on sweat evaporation. this is an interaction of physics; when a liquid evaporates, the surface it evaporates from is cooled down by that state change. when it’s very humid, sweat doesn’t evaporate as efficiently, so your body isn’t able to manage your internal temperature very well.
in occupational safety, we consider both the temperature and humidity together in a measurement called the heat index. basically, as the humidity rises, the “temperature” rises to reflect the added danger from the increased difficulty of thermoregulating. here is a chart from the national weather service:
the top axis is the measured temperature, and the left axis is the humidity. so if it’s 90° out and the humidity is 75%, the heat index is 109— or, put another way, if humidity weren’t a factor, it would effectively be 109°.
do not underestimate the heat. if you start feeling sick or light-headed, immediately get out of the sun, get somewhere air-conditioned (if possible), sit down, and sip cool water. if at all possible, do not get up again until you’ve been feeling better for 10 full minutes, and take it slow after that. if you don’t feel better, or if you start to feel worse, seek medical attention immediately.
when you’re dealing with heat stroke, minutes matter. your brain is starting to cook inside your skull.
When I took these, it was about 109 with 37% humidity (which is EXTREMELY humid for the desert) and I had been walking around for a couple hours when my friends noticed that I was bright red and not sweating. I felt fine, until I sat down in an air conditioned car and realized that I was dizzy and shaky and felt like I was going to throw up.
If you are going to be exposed to dangerously high temperatures, set a timer for yourself once an hour to check in. Look in a mirror, take your pulse, feel your forehead, MAKE SURE YOU'RE STILL SWEATING (if you're not sweating in temps like this you're potentially dangerously overheated or dangerously dehydrated) - basically pause for a few minutes to verify that you still actually feel okay because when the heat index is super high you *already* feel so miserable that you might miss the fact that you are showing symptoms of heat exhaustion.
Some things you can do to reduce your chances of experiencing heat exhaustion in a heat dome event are:
Stay hydrated
Keep electrolyte powders, chews, or capsules handy to supplement lost electrolytes. Make sure that whatever electrolyte supplement you're using includes sodium and does NOT include B or D vitamins (you're going to have to take multiple doses if you're outside for hours and you don't want to have to worry about limiting your sodium based on how much Vitamin D you've taken)
Plan downtime - give yourself a few minutes to recover and rest as best you can every hour you're in the heat
Wear lightweight, loose, breathable clothing
Spend time in the shade, carry an umbrella to make shade if there is no available shade where you're going to be
Avoid activity during the hottest parts of the day
Make use of a cooling towel; these work by soaking up water that cools by slowly evaporating, they are less effective in high humidity.
Use high SPF sunblock - this won't prevent heat exhaustion but a bad sunburn can make it harder to recover from heat exhaustion
Make it a point to check in on people around you as well as checking in on yourself.
If you interact with your local unhoused population, make sure that you know where your local cooling shelters are. If you are able to, get a case of water bottles and stick them in the freezer now so that you have bottles frozen and ready to hand out to people who don't have a place to cool down.
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oops shared without amendment: don’t use milk to rinse eyes just plain water
Rebecca Blake could also put temporary tattoos on any part of her skin that IS exposed. That way, if ever the police tried to identify her through photographs or footage, she would be able to point to the tattoo in the image and say "well that can't possibly be me; that person has angel wings tattooed on the back of their neck, but MY neck is un-tattooed."
'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'
what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip
Oh, they DO have those!
The like button should be at the bottom, looks like this:
The dislike button differs depending on your device but it should look something like one of these:
Hope that helps :)
Soft geometricals for this wintery outfit, pairing a dainty snowflakes kimono, paired with starry asanoha (stylized hemp leaves) ombré haori and matching obi
Something is missing from the debate over educationally suitable literature
Hey look, @larkandkatydid is right! (And me too) Whoda thunk etc.
Servamp Creation Timeline
It's vague, but here is a guesstimation of when each of the servamps were created by Saint Germain.
Kuro: Sloth is hardest to pin down in terms of a timeline. I have two theories:
Given his human name, "Adam", it was likely after Christianity spread to England. But the setting of his backstory has pre-Norman vibes, so he likely became a servamp between the 7th Century but before 1066. (The big if here is if he was of Anglo-Saxon or Viking origin.)
But some of the legends Kuro is associated with also involve 3rd Century Roman Britain. So as early as the 3rd Century isn't out of the cards, but it would be anachronistic with most of his backstory (the buildings, the dress of all the characters introduced, etc.) The other piece evidence supporting this earlier date is that he seemed confused by Gear's name, which is of Germanic origin. The Anglo-Saxon invasion of England occurred during the 4th-6th centuries. If he lived in the boonies even into the 500s, maybe he could have been a Celtic or Roman British person who was unaware of the Germanic invasions (The latter is unlikely given the Roman aversion to pants). And some of them, especially the upper class, were Christian before the Anglo-Saxons, which could explain his very Christian human name.
Overall, the earliest potential time was 3rd Century Roman Britain to early 11th Century Viking England at the latest.
Hugh: - Algernon and Hugh both have names of Norman/French origin. Algernon was an old man who seemed established in the area. Given the suffix "the Third" and the historical connection between that suffix and the inheritance of land, this was at least two generations past the Norman Conquest of Britain in 1066. The inclusion of the English "The Dark" in his name and Hugh's history of staying in England also support him becoming a servamp in post-Norman England. It likely happened in the 12th Century at the earliest.
Jeje: This is another tough one because of the lack of information. It was most likely prior to the Protestant Reformation given that fits with Freya's creation. So it probably happened somewhere between the 12th Century and 1517. The Black Death and the Crusades are both options that fit within this time period that also give potential reasons for his loss of faith.
When he first met Kuro, he was dressed like someone who was at least a bishop, a high ranking member of the Catholic clergy. But he could have also been a cardinal, as in one of the people who choose the pope. This was the time period of some of the most depraved popes, so there is lots of interesting story potential there. He could be from any country on the western side of the Great Schism.
Freya: Witch trials really kicked off in Europe after the Protestant Reformation, so she probably became a servamp in the 16th Century. She was likely from somewhere in Protestant Europe.
Lawless: Sometime between the 16th-17th Centuries is what makes sense here. I personally headcanon that he was a prince of one of the city states within the Holy Roman Empire, but Denmark is also an option given the setting of Ophelia. I'm leaning towards towards the 16th Century given Ophelia's design and when Ophelia was written.
Ildio: Ildio's timeline is difficult to figure out because the people he was dealing with were larping as people from a much earlier time period. It was probably sometime between the late 16th Century and early 18th Century given the servamps before and after him. He is probably from the somewhere near the Mediterranean.
Lily: The 18th century. Everything from his style of dress to the ideologies he espouses are so 18th Century Europe. Given the aesthetic of both himself and the Aliceins, he is most likely of French origin.
Tsubaki: Early 19th Century. It did not seem like Tsubaki stayed with Saint Germain that long in the grand scheme of things. Kuro said that Gear was interested in cameras around the time he left, and Gear is fascinated with new things. Given that context, Tsubaki was likely created around the 1820s.
It's no wonder Kuro decided to kill Saint Germain given this timeline. Saint Germain's experiments were accelerating. When Kuro made the decision to kill him, Saint Germain had made four servamps in less than three centuries...It looks like he took more time with the first three probably due to the instability, but Germain seemed to have figured it out by Freya and started mass producing them.
Cerberus is real
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"In recent years, there has been a rush on the internet to supply image descriptions and to call out those who don’t. This may be an example of community accountability at work, but it’s striking to observe that those doing the most fierce calling out or correcting are sighted people. Such efforts are largely self-defeating. I cannot count the times I’ve stopped reading a video transcript because it started with a dense word picture. Even if a description is short and well done, I often wish there were no description at all. Get to the point, already! How ironic that striving after access can actually create a barrier. When I pointed this out during one of my seminars, a participant made us all laugh by doing a parody: “Mary is wearing a green, blue, and red striped shirt; every fourth stripe also has a purple dot the size of a pea in it, and there are forty-seven stripes—”
“You’re killing me,” I said. “I can’t take any more of that!”
Now serious, she said it was clear to her that none of that stuff about Mary’s clothes mattered, at least if her clothes weren’t the point. What mattered most about the image was that Mary was holding her diploma and smiling. “But,” she wondered, “do I say, Mary has a huge smile on her face as she shows her diploma or Mary has an exuberant smile or showing her teeth in a smile and her eyes are crinkled at the edges?”
It’s simple. Mary has a huge smile on her face is the best one. It’s the don’t-second-guess-yourself option."
--Against Access, by John Lee Clark, a DeafBlind educator
I think this also includes the important idea of imagining the other. Sighted people (like myself) often consider visuals the *most important* part of an experience. This isn't and can't be the case for a blind person. If you don't have sight, then the particulars about the color/expression/etc. aren't necessarily going to be important to you.
Smiling matters because it's an indicator of emotion. The quality of the teeth only matter if it's relevant to the joke. Striped shirt only matters if the text describes it as polka dots and that's the point.
Describe the parts of the image that give context, because a person whose primary mode of interpreting the world is not sight will most likely not want extraneous visual information.
As one of the blind bitches, my best advice for alt text is to lead with the main context in a single sentence summary and get more specific later if it's relevant. Alt text is read in the order it's written: if a summary is short and simple, I can know if it's something I care about listening to the whole of.
"A photo of an orange cat stretched out in the sun on a window ledge", for example, gives me the subject matter immediately - it's a photo of a cat - and the detail descends from there. Anything else in the image is coincidence or unnecessary; the photo was taken of the cat, and anything else in the frame is unimportant. The reason why the image exists should be in the first two lines - and comedic timing still works in alt text form! "A photo of an orange cat stretched out in the sun on a window ledge. A second cat is falling off a cat tree in the background." still gives that moment of realization that a build up to a joke usually would.
(Defining if it's a real thing or an illustration or a movie scene or whatever is also pretty important for context - "an illustration of a dead dove" is pretty different from "a photograph of a dead dove".)
"A sunny room with a large window and a park outside with children playing in it. There is a wide, sunny windowsill with plants on it and a cat lying next to them, looking outside" describes the same hypothetical image, but the order of it changes the importance; while it would work to establish a scene in fiction (well, clumsily worded fiction, at least) it's missing the point as alt text - the cat's the reason the photo was taken, but everything else gets described first!
I'm no expert, nor do I intend to speak for Everyone With Vision Loss Ever, but as endemiccharm said, unless the details are relevant to why the image exists, they're probably not necessary to mention! Get Shorter.
You are a human being in America, not a lion on the savannah during a drought. It is not normal for you to refer to someone else’s kid as your “genetic rival” and wish them ill. Our species does not work like that. You do not sound cool, you sound like a weirdo.
“Why should I contribute to the survival of another person’s child by supporting food programs and universal healthcare?” idk maybe because we’re a social species and they’re children
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Good stuff.
Guys, I edit professionally. This list is legit. Incorporating these suggestions before you hire an editor will save you A LOT of money. Even if you did these and nothing else, you’d see significant overall improvement in your work.
That said, you don’t have to overthink these things when you’re writing a first draft. If you write, “she said angrily” in a first draft, you can always revisit the phrasing in a second draft. I mention this because overthinking style can lead to a loss of momentum, and losing momentum is why so many people never finish a draft. Give yourself permission to write fast, write messy or ugly, and edit your draft into beauty later.
Before fandom etiquette laws Anne Rice could materialize in your house and kill you.
It's so weird talking to people who's view of "here's the way life is for everyone" is shattered as soon as they talk to someone with disabilities (physical, mental illness, any). Like you'll say you'll have a problem and instead of helping you they'll argue with you about how you're not actually facing that problem. Like,
Me: Hey, I'm really struggling to find a job and a part of it is my resume. I was depressed & psychotic during highschool so I didn't do anything to gain skills or achievements to put on my resume. I also don't have anyone to put as a reference. What can I do?
Them: You can add your skills, hobbies, clubs you're in, and different volunteer work you've done! You can also get your teacher as a reference.
Me: I already know what to put on a resume, my issue is that I don't have things that I can use. Also, I'm in my mid 20s so I don't know if I can put my highschool teacher as a reference.
Them: Well if you're a part of a church or an activity group, you could add that. Also, think of any projects you've worked on in the past.
Me: I already know you can put these things on a resume. I'm not looking for suggests of things I've already done, I'm looking for what I can do now if I haven't done anything.
Them: There's no way you didn't do anything during highschool?? What about some odd jobs you definitely did for extra money, like babysitting or mowing the lawn?
Me: I spent all of highschool either in modified classes or in bed doing nothing - not even hobbies, what about that do you not understand?
And then you talk to someone who's also disabled and they're like "Here's a bunch of jobs you can do from home that don't pay much but look good on a resume, here's some free online courses that also look good on a resume, here's how you can be making small amounts of money in the meantime, here's some things you can put besides a professional reference, and here are your rights if your future employer tries to take advantage of your disability - which you probably shouldn't tell them about unless you need accommodations."
And suddenly my will to continue trying returns!
c...can we maybe get some of those ideas in full? Pls?
Two other people asked as well so okay! Though this post will be rather long.
Freelance Jobs You Do From Home That Look Cool On A Future Resume
Please research any company before sign up with then. So many companies are scams and pay you way less than you deserve for your work. Go to r/freelancers and search to make sure nobody has had some horrid experiences. There's also usually reviews of a company on YouTube as well.
Transcribing - adding subtitles to videos for deaf and other hard of hearing people. You usually read a big instruction manual, do two or three tests to see how well you can follow the instruction manual, and then get an e-mail if you can work with them or not. Depending on where you sign up, you can also fill out which topics you're knowledable on and less likely to make mistakes on when transcribing.
Translating - same as transcribing, but now you're translating one language into another. I have not done this before, so I'd suggest talking to people who have.
Article Writing - there are different websites you can sign up to work for where someone sends in a request for an article about a certain topic, you can write that article, and if they like it they can purchase it from you. Some websites have a ranking system where the more good reviews your article gets, the more money you'll get paid.
Article Editing - you can also get payed to fix typos and reorganize an article (or list) if writing isn't your thing.
Top 10 Lists - There are different sites that will pay you to write 10 ten lists. They usually require a specific amount of words and have an author's guide on their site.
Graphic Designer - if you go to different generic freelance websites, you can often find people who are searching for someone to design logos for their company or banners for their websites. It helps if you have a portfolio as well.
Virtual Assistent - scheduling appointments, answering calls, and managing email accounts from your own home. I haven't done this one so again, do more research.
Small Amounts Of Money
Qmee - I've been using this app for awhile called qmee where you do surveys for money. Surveys usually pay anywhere in between 30 cents and 2 dollars, and they have a feature where if the survey asks you anything sketchy then you can report them. You can also cash out whenever, like you don't have to build up a certain amount. (If you aren't American, you may only get a couple surveys per day.) An extra 20 dollars a month isn't much but it's nice.
Fiverr - A website where you state your talents and you can take on other people's smaller projects for small amounts of money. A funny example is this YouTube skit where someone paid some people on fiverr to come up with a break-up letter. I believe you can also keep a portfolio for any projects you make during your freelance jobs on fiverr too.
Redbubble - this is where you can put different designs onto different types of clothing, notebooks, mugs, hats, etc. It helps if you have a design that's from a fandom, references a meme, or fufills a niche. You can also go to TeeSpring if you want to put multiple designs on one item, but you'd have to promote your items yourself as TeeSpring has this issue where you can't search for new stores who aren't already popular.
Test Products - once again, please research any company you're going to do this for. There are companies that will send you products for a week or two and ask for a report on how well it works, what you like/dislike, etc.
If You Don't Have Anyone To Put On Your Resume As References
Volunteer Somewhere - animal shelters, tutoring, soup kitchens, summer programs, public libraries, etc. If you're able to volunteer somewhere, you can ask the people there if you can use them as a reference.
Volunteer Online - you can also do online volunteer work if you're unable to do physical volunteer work. Here's a list of examples of online volunteer work which includes things like creating a large amount of thank-you cards, transcribing books into digital form, or answer texts or calls on a crisis line. This may be a better option due to covid.
Add Personal References - friends and family members do work (just don't list them as professional references). It's especially helpful if you've done a project for/with them as well.
Or don't add references at all - references look good on a resume, but unless you're writing a federal resume you kind of don't need them? If someone is interested in hiring you, they may ask if you have any references. You can just say "no, this is my first job" (if it is). They might ask why you haven't worked before, but you can just say that it's personal or private information. Or you can give a vague answer like dealing with family matters.
Once you have some, this is how you would format your references.
None of these are long term solutions and not everything will work out for everybody. These are just helpful suggestions I've received over the years!
May I add Zooniverse for participating in citizen science projects? It gives you a Research Background, plus you can talk about admin/data entry etc
There's also a whole bunch of YouTube tutorials for learning Excel. And, if you've a mind to learn it, there's a mapping software called QGIS that's free to download, and the internet is full of tutorials. If you can learn it, it is an EXTREMELY sought-after skill in a lot of fields.
