happiness is a lie

I write shit on the internet and then get in trouble for it. My name is Mel and I'm a 23-year-old Australian female.

[babygotthenavyblues]

just read the most goddamn infuriating book ever. 

like infuriating in the same way that people still haven’t got over Rose not sharing her door/bookshelf with Jack twenty years after the damn film came out. 

[babygotthenavyblues]

Things are properly working out here: we got two lots of (very) good news in two days, we are moving to a nicer apartment next week, and we are going on a roadtrip to Berlin over Easter 👍🏼🎉😁

[froslasss]

do you know how cute i would be if i had more money 

[of-another-broken-heart]

So the USA is trying to starve its poor to death. Not even an exaggeration. 

The SNAP program is getting some work requirements applied again which are expected to leave up to (or more than) a MILLION people without benefits. Of these people, 97% are at OR BELOW the poverty line. 

And the only way to “earn” your benefits - the way to “prove” that you don’t “deserve” to starve to death - is to work 20 hours per week, or 80 per month. 

Either pull a job out of your ass (earn your paycheck AND qualify for food assistance), OR participate in 80 hours of UNPAID labor (PLUS the expense and time of transportation to and from a set, unflexible location). 

And after working 80 hours (plus paying money you don’t have for transportation to get to the designated “program” location/s) for the state to “prove” you don’t deserve to die, you get… are you ready?

I’m gonna use the Florida figures, because that’s what I was reading up on.

Less than $200 in food assistance. The average is actually less than 150.

Care to do the math? 

$150 for 80 hours. 

$1.88 per hour. 

The USA is a fucking dystopia. 

[blossoming-tears]

What the ever living fuck.

[selphinrose-deactivated20181217]

@fullten @lady-feral I…what

[bogleech]

Yeah, I was hit with this. We’re okay right now since we’re staying with family, though feeding us puts a strain on them as well.

I make some internet money that works out to about 125 a week so if I wanna keep getting my food assistance I have to itemize that so it qualifies as a 20 hour a week job, which it probably does, but it’s ridiculous that anyone has to do this and most people under the poverty line will not be able to.

I HAVE had real jobs. I’ve had enough real jobs that the taxes taken out of my own past paychecks already cover all the food assistance I’ve used and plenty to come. I have already paid for this food myself.

And every day a politician somewhere in this country wastes enough money to feed our entire fucking population.

[bogleech]

I WANNA ADD SOMETHING IMPORTANT for anyone who thinks they might need to sign up for food assistance, cause a few people just asked me some stuff about it.

In your interviews and applications, they are going to ask “do you ever eat with other people.”

This is a trick question.

You’re gonna probably think “well, technically, yeah, I had lunch with my friend last week…my mom made me a dinner….”

STOP

Answer NO. Always always answer NO. This question is designed to weed people out. If you admit to literally ever sharing a meal with another human being, that actually allows them to deny or alter your benefit amount. Even though this is legally referred to as “supplemental” food assistance and it isn’t enough to live on by itself, Republicans already don’t want anyone to have even that, and they want to consider it “fraud” if you both receive food assistance and EVER share food with another person, whether you’ve used your benefits to buy ingredients for someone’s birthday dinner or your mom made you a casserole one visit.

The correct thing to say when asked these questions is “I purchase and prepare my own food” or “we eat separately.” Even if you’ve already told them you live with family or a roommate.

Remember: Republicans don’t even want assistance recipients to be able to buy “luxury” items like fucking pasta sauce. They would limit you to nothing but gruel if they could. They’ve fought and pushed to load the benefit process with “tricks” and catch-22′s like these to treat as wide a range of people they can as lazy fraudsters and moochers.

[selphinrose-deactivated20181217]

Hey @fullten , this is some super important information from bogleech here. Sorry to bother you to post it again but I think this might save some people some pain in the future to see this.

[maaarine]

The Huffington Post: “60 Stunning Photos Of Women Protesting Around The World”

[nowthisnews]

Killer Mike On The Importance of Voting

NowThis caught up with Rapper and Sanders supporter Killer Mike in the spin room following the democratic debate.

[bernie4thewin]

This can not be broadcasted enough

[violent-darts]

Dear American readers: this is actually more important than voting for president. Imagine what Obama could have achieved if he HADN’T BEEN FIGHTING A REPUBLICAN CONGRESS EVERY. DAMN. STEP.

[wilwheaton]

Voting is not a one time act and a wizard saves everything.

A-fucking-men.

[wordsnquotes]

torschlusspanik

(noun) An untranslatable, German word, torschlusspanik is used to describe the anxiety or fear that one’s life is passing them by and that their future opportunities are diminishing. It is also applicable to characterize the sense of urgency some people have in seeking a partner to settle down as they age. 

literally: door close panic.

tor (goal), schluss (end, closing), and panik (panic): these three nouns are all combine to express this feeling.

(via wordsnquotes)

[angryinkeddrunk]

Women with armpit and/or leg hair.

I think its disgusting. 

The more armpit hair you have, the more you stink. I know this from personal experience and from, of course, being around men. Even if you’re able to avoid the stink with deodorant, I think it looks repulsive. 

The leg hair just looks weird to me and makes me feel itchy just looking at it. 

I’ll just say it, its not ladylike and its not feminine.  

You look like a damn hairy beast, cave women and that’s not attractive to a lot of people. Including myself.

I know you guys know this too so stop getting angry that people think this is gross/unattractive.

For the record, I’m not a huge fan of excessive body hair on anyone but its especially unappealing on a woman. 

[unapologeticdyke]

anyways,,, i love being a hairy beastt

[heirloomparasite]

honestly if my body hair can repel people like you, that’s just a cool bonus. i love being my hairy cave beast self

[coeur-de-porcelaine]

Body hair is a secondary sex characteristic, it is just as womanly and ladylike as breasts and hips.

[owls-love-tea]

Everyone on earth is covered in hair. What do you think happens when you stop removing it? Do you not think that if it didn’t have a specific reason to be there, it wouldn’t be?

Lol anyway. Just gtg continue being a hairy beast babe 

[pinkcheesegreenghost-deactivate]

its funny that its only gross on half the population lmao

[jamaicanblackcastoroil]

i love when people claim hair makes people stink bitch you just don’t shower.

[babygotthenavyblues]

just had a job interview at a lovely firm for a position that i would be great at and love to do and i’m pretty sure i fucked up the interview and i’m so angry at myself :( 

[cliffnotesofanerd]

PSA: if you smoke marijuana, please tell your anesthesia team.

They’re not going to rat you out. They’re going to adjust your anesthesia dosage so you don’t WAKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF SURGERY.

[switchimpulse]

Some anesthesiologists will refuse to put you under if you’ve smoked cannabis within the past 24 hours – and let’s be clear, this is NOT because they’re morally against it – it’s because THC and anesthetic react in unpredictable ways and waking up in the middle of surgery is slightly less of a concern than SLIPPING INTO A COMA OR DYING. 

So there’s that.

[cliffnotesofanerd]

Yes, this too. Should have included this. It just wasn’t on my mind when I made the original post because my mind was full of NOPE NOPE NOPE after, you guessed it, one of my patients woke up in the middle of her surgery because she didn’t tell her anesthesia team she used marijuana.

[elephantsarevegan]

The first and most important thing in my own apartment which is already nearly ready yet: of course the kitchen 😂 i already have all my food here but not even a bed or anything else. Oooups 🙊 first time that i’m feeling excited for moving in my own apartment 😌

[maritsa-met-deactivated20210227]

Everything about the Ghostbusters trailer is perfect except the three white women are scientists and the one Black woman is an MTA service worker? REALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Really???

[glossylalia]

That was one thing I was REALLY hoping they would change from the original. Like that character could have been “street smart” while still being in a STEM field. Hell she could have been a PS science teacher at LEAST.

Love it overall but this is a real bee in my bonnet. It could have also been resolved if y’know idk ANY of the other main cast were POC as well. 

Such a simple thing and I hate it was ignored.

[aminimatcha-deactivated20150921]

my fiance has a degree in biotechnology and cytogenetics and worked at bed bath and beyond and older people would always ask him, “so did you go to college?” and when he said yes and told them his degree they would say, “wow!! then what the heck are you doing working here??” and if that doesn’t tell you how disillusioned and ignorant the older generations are to the situation many millennials are in right now i don’t know what will

[spellinwaiting]

the english language may be difficult to learn but at least we dont insist on assigning genders to inanimate objects

[urie]

my depression is just like “hey instead of making you sad we’re going to make you really lazy and unable to function so that people just get annoyed with you rather than feel bad for you”

[aqeu-deactivated20171207]

@ bernie supporters: if hillary wins the primaries, vote for hillary.

@ hillary supporters: if bernie wins the primaries, vote for bernie.

either of them are so much better than anyone on the republican side and don’t refuse to vote just because your fav didn’t win

[stephenride]