Ashypinky: A blog about stuff

[drinkpisspissblood]

probably my favorite thing abt being a millennial is that i can lie on my resume abt shit like being proficient in excel bc i have the common sense to just google anything i dont know how to do which gives me a giant fucking edge over gen x in the job market bc somehow that strategy never occurs to employers and my underqualified ass looks like steve jobs every time i use a youtube tutorial to make a spreadsheet

[drinkpisspissblood]

legit if one more person comments some shit like “wait til your boss finds out and you get fired!!! im 42 and my only redeeming quality is that i know how to make a spreadsheet!! i hate millennials!!!” im gonna Lose My Whole Fucking Mind my boss already knows i google shit i dont know and literally hes just happy to have an employee that can get shit done that he doesnt have to pander to like an over-educated gen X “expert” that insists their skills are a market commodity but still can’t figure out how to put their fucking phone on silent in a movie theater bye

[pungent-petrichor]

I worked in a small hell as a mechanical design engineer for seven years..

When I went for the interview, the guy interviewing me couldn’t use anything more advanced than a landline phone. I explained I had no relevant experience but was FAST to pick stuff up. I offered to work a week for free and if I couldn’t keep up by the end of it they’d have lost nothing. I had the stuff down by the second day. I ended up surviving three rounds of redundancies over those seven years, and having to take over three other people’s work in addition to my own, and I still worked better and faster than my only colleague in the drawing office (who only had to do the drawing part), and saving the company (who btw were homophobic, sexist, racist to the point of throwing away CVs if the name ‘sounded foreign’, and paid me minimum wage the whole seven years) thousands and thousands of pounds just by making things cross compatible.

All that and I’d never seen a CAD program in my life before the interview. :’)

I even built them a proper database system to track the WEEE data, as when I was given the task the guy they’d fired had been doing it all by hand… And I didn’t have time :’)

[ashypinky]

GenX invented Excel and has been using it for 20 years. Has also managed to learn how to watch YouTube. Surprise!

[gogomrbrown]

media priorities

[theeeprotagonist]

??? These are both very important things I don’t understand why people act like we can’t care about more than one thing at a time. They’re important in different scales, but both are things worth caring about.

[twerkcircus]

Rice is a super important grain in a lot of cultures and the world running out of rice could mean that more people in those areas are going to go hungry/starve. So like yeah this is still a pretty big deal

[hey-there-nutlet-deactivated201]

“this important grain in a lot of cultures is running low and people in multiple countries might be affected by starvation because of this” “but what about this one city in the united states huh? the media’s priorities are bad. uwu” dont get me wrong i want to support Flint, Michigan but a grain that will affect multiple countries running low is more important. Stop being so America-centric please.

[starkillerrx]

[ashypinky]

Ya excuse me but as I write this, I sit 45 minutes away from Flint. And I care about billions of people whose diet depends on rice, too, but how about you don't pit them about my concern for my neighbor. I can care about both. Thanks.

[annieelainey]

PSA: Some wheelchair users can *GASP* walk

Wheelchairs are used for many disabilities; it could be very painful to walk, one may lack the strength to walk, have hyperflexibility, shortness of lung capacity, fragility of joints, muscles, skin etc. 

REBLOG so people STOP harassing wheelchair users when they stand up and even WALK out their chairs in public.

[cutieyama]

I hardly ever add comments to posts but i feel the need to add on. A couple years ago i was in a wheel chair because of my chronic illness. I went to an amusement park with my school and each time we’d go on a ride the people who work there must ask if i was able to walk onto the ride. A lot of people found this offensive (my sister is working at disney world and she told me that whenever there is a wheel chair the cast members must ask if they are able to walk.) I of course told them i was able to walk and when i got out of my wheel chair i got so many bad glares. After that field trip i was bullied the rest of my highschool life because people thought i was faking it. It got to the point where these girls from church ended up breaking my wheel chair. Please please stop harassing people who use wheelchairs.

[ashypinky]

Just this week, my podiatrist told me I am not to walk more than a block a day for at least the next two months to let damaged tendons heal and hopefully avoid the need for surgery. As a result, I now need to use the electric wheelchair shoppers at grocery stores. I'm so aware of people's glances and judgments. Also, I am getting a taste for what it is to have limited or no mobility and to need help or accommodation. A real eye-opener. And it has just been a few days. I have new found respect and empathy for people with limited mobility. Our society really doesn't take them into account.

[volatilequeen]

The distractions…

[mikekingvividkonception]

Shit is crazy out here

[weepingwilo-deactivated20180217]

I swear I was just talking to my mom about how no one is talking about Flint anymore as if the water problem has ceased. Smdh

[givemeunicorns]

Hey guys here are some places still taking donations!

Help for Flint

Life USA

United Way

Community Foundation of Greater Flint

Save the Children

[ashypinky]

On Oct. 1, 2016, it will be one year since the state admitted there was lead in Flint’s water. One year. They still can’t drink the water.

[ashypinky]

She’s trying...

Mom: I’m so excited about you and Stephanie’s wedding! Have you planned more of it? Me: We talked about what it will look like. She’s going to have a dress, but I don’t want one. I’m going to tailor a jacket. Mom: A jacket?! So, you’re going to be the man, then?

[ashypinky]

Been a while

So, not that anyone probably cares, but I’ve been gone a while, and a lot has happened in the world since then. Among those things is the targeted effort of the right wing to turn transgender people into the boogeyman of this election cycle. 

I work in politics in a state where two “bathroom bills” have been proposed. Of course, these target kids — especially teenagers — who are already more likely to be struggling with bullying in school. Isn’t it amazing that these pro-bullying bills authored by adults specifically pick on kids? But how like a bully to not pick on someone their own size.

Whatever I’ve said before on transgender issues be damned — this trend is vile and must be stopped. I can’t sit by quietly while grown-ups pick on kids who are already marginalized. I’m proud to play a role (however small) in fighting back against these proposals. They have to be defeated.

I know there’s been bad blood between communities, between parts of the radfem and parts of the transgender communities. I’m not interested in that now. There comes a time that what unites is more important than what divides, and in this case, we’ve got one hell of a common enemy.

To be honest, I don’t think my mind will change on everything. That’s OK, and this is not the time to hash it out. There’s a lot of places we can disagree, but on this one important matter, there has to be unity.

Like I said, it’s been months since I was active here, and maybe a lot of people have come around to this already, or maybe I just said the most unpopular thing ever, or more likely, it’s something in between. Go easy on me, I come in peace.

[refinery29]

This fan-made Harry Potter prequel about Snape, James, Lupin, Sirius, and Wormtail as recent grads is absolutely Incredible

The video, which is pretty considerable length at 25 minutes, was the brainchild of Los Angeles-based video editor Justin Zagri. It takes place in 1978 just after the Marauders have graduated Hogwarts and James has recently begun courting Lily in earnest. Enter Severus Snape.

Gifs: Broad Strokes

WATCH THE VIDEO

[micdotcom]

Watch: John Cena continues, “So, let’s try this one more time. Close your eyes.” 

[thatsthat24]

I wanna hug him. This was beautiful.

[a-joyfuljourney]

[ashypinky]

LUPINS!

[velvetfangs]

While recently in Iceland, I was able to capture these breathtaking stills.. I’m no skilled photographer, everything around me was actually this jaw droppingly beautiful.

[ashypinky]

Decided I’m going to go to Iceland in three years...

[fayevalentin]

y’all have GOT to stop making posts that demonize people for not knowing things that happen in other countries. it’s manipulative and full of guilt tripping. people shouldn’t be made to feel guilty about the fact that their country’s media is centralized - it’s not their fault. it’s one thing to make a post that brings attention to a situation but when you make claims like ‘nobody is even talking about this’ or ‘this isn’t america so nobody cares’ it really crosses into gaslighting territory and y’all need to fucking stop

[judeoceltische]

I’d agree, except that: nearly all, and by nearly all, I mean the exceptions are very very occasional, and DON’T involve Europe, of the stories in question ARE being covered by the US press, and also by English-language media available online. Tumblr harbors a fantasy that stories are being ‘kept’ from Americans. This is not happening.* What’s happening is that people are not reading the goddamn newspapers, or bothering to find out what that thing trending on Twitter is.

Now, does the ‘watch no one talk about this because it’s not in America’ approach do much to help anyone? No. Is it kind of obnoxious and self-righteous? Sometimes, yes. And a lot of the time, people are talking about it, just not enough, or passionately enough, to suit the poster. But Americans are not helpless victims of a dystopian government who can’t find out what’s happening in the world. Sometimes we choose not to.

Of course, most of the people doing this don’t know jack about what’s happening outside of THEIR neck of the woods,and they don’t even make excuses about that most of the time, so…er, whatever.

*OK, it is happening, but those things are being kept from the rest of the world as well, and do not appear in the London Guardian, if you get my drift.

[ashypinky]

YESSSSSSSS 1000x yes!

And to add, the situation is made worse by the entire news business going over a cliff in the past decade. The number of newspaper reporters in the US is down by about a half, and newsrooms have slashed bureau offices, particularly ones overseas, like nobody’s business. It’s hard to read the news when there’s no one left to report it. It’s a personal irritation of mine when someone posts “And yet no American news organization reported it and no one is talking about this” about an international story I already knew about because I READ NEWS. And then I post a story showing that yes, it was reported, you just didn’t care enough about the world around you to keep on top of things. And they’re like LOL  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

/rant

[halachachic-deactivated20160803]

Very Accurate

[unofficial-estonia]

On 14th June 1941, 10 000 Estonians, 16 500 Latvians and 18 500 Lithuanians were deported to Siberia in animal wagons by Soviet authorities. More than half of them never returned to their homeland.

[hircines-hunt]

…. I was having a good day..??

[unofficial-estonia]

so were those people who were sent to Siberia

[ashypinky]

The parents of one of my high school friends managed to escape and came to the US. Growing up, during the Cold War Era (yes, that old), she used to say how she was going to return to Latvia when it was free. Such a thing was inconceivable to me, that the USSR would fall. But it did, and SHE did. She went and helped rebuild that country for more than a decade. She’s back in the US now, and I thought of her and her family yesterday. Such a tragic story that is so unknown by so many people.

[mapsontheweb]

Parts of Michigan are further south than California, Nevada, and Utah, and further north than Seattle.

[ashypinky]

My mitten.

[ashypinky]

Janet Mock cancels Brown University appearance

Students objected to Jewish student group hosting trans author

Janet Mock: Jew hater

[redhester-deactivated20171212]

so i read the washington blade and the brown daily herald articles and both articles state that the students’ objection was mock’s speaking engagement being sponsored by hillel - because the students see hillel as supporting israel’s occupation of palestine. 

it looks like the student-led petition might have had anti-semitic language but there was no link so it’s hard to verify. 

does anyone have any more insight? am wondering how this is being received in the jewish community? 

[ashypinky]

I can tell you this Jew isn’t impressed. 

[ashypinky]

Janet Mock cancels Brown University appearance

Students objected to Jewish student group hosting trans author

Janet Mock: Jew hater