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me: wants to be multilingual, a musical prodigy, an artist, an author, a poet, an honour student, working in a well-paying job, successful and happy

me: sits on my couch eating three(3) party-sized bags of salt and vinegar potato chips and watching thirty-one(31) episodes of my favourite tv show in one sitting

#this is rudely personal towards me and my life

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Clouds rolling over Mount Tamalpais State Park, California

nicholassteinbergphotography“Cotton candy Waves” Here’s a time lapse from my shot Cotton Candy Waves. As opposed to a long exposure, this was shot with successive shorter exposures to show movement and texture. Love how mesmerizing the fog is.

I have just worked from 9:30pm to 4:30am on developing 1 school resource, for 1 fucking lesson. I also worked on it from 2:30pm - 6:00pm today, and on Friday from 4pm - 6pm.

And I have to get up at 7, skip breakfast-eating and lunch-making to fit in sleeping ‘til then, and drive an hour to my work.

I think... I am sick of my job.

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Taika Waititi ©Tamar Levine // Stardom

blackcatsandhats

literally my fave

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The homeowner said the buck shows up everyday, so they gave him a bed, too.

Spoiler Alert: Stranger Things 2 (but come on, it’s been two weeks)

The way that Mike and Eleven/Elle look at each other when they are reunited at the end of that ep is the most pure and good thing I have ever seen omg.

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straight culture is thinking that 50s fashion is the best but thinking 80s fashion sucks

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By Karen Zack (@teenybiscuit)

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I love this meme so much. It’s just missing my favorite

blackcatsandhats

Here’s something to lighten the #mood.

Just reflecting on the #metoo thing

Because I had to watch some fuckwit male colleague on a female colleague’s status about it get pedantic with the whole “what about men tho/men get abused and harrassed too” blah blah bullshit and was responded to by myself and others suggesting he make his own post about it and stop piggybacking etc. but he always had some irrelevant response that was evidence that he didn’t give a fuck about women at all, just wanted to derail. And I was really cross.

Because JUST THIS WEEKEND, at a fucking union weekend, ie. a supposed safe space, a champion of social justice and equality and equity, myself and another woman (well actually probs plenty of other women, but we both responded angrily to it) were physically harassed by a male member at a social event, in a sexual AND violent way, and in both instances, he physically fought back against our verbal and physical responses to stop him. JUST THIS WEEKEND I had to explain to another male union member why calling me a ‘good girl’ for making the ‘right’ choice in a matter was fucking degrading and shit, and made me feel like I had the status of a pet dog. JUST THIS WEEKEND I had to listen to a male union member ask me if a woman I had just complimented on her singing (karaoke party) was “my bitch.” JUST THIS WEEKEND I had to listen to a senior male member of the union opine about the word fuck at the pub, and rave on about virgin women getting it and prostitutes being paid for it. JUST THIS WEEKEND I was walked home from the pub at 1am ‘just in case’ I was at risk of being raped - it was a 2 min walk. Even though the guy who walked me home was nice, I actually didn’t know him, and when he waited with me at the counter of the hotel whilst I asked a question, and waited to get into the lift with me, and asked after my floor, and put his hand into the lift doors to stop them closing several times after he got out of the lift (because he wanted to chat), even though I know now that he was just nice and chatty, I was scared tbh. Esp. after what happened the last time I was staying at a hotel for work/union things by myself (pretty sure I posted about it on here at the time so).

I get that not of all of these are examples of sexual harassment etc., but they are ALL examples of the daily shit that MANY women go through. So if that dude from work wants to sit there talking about why women are talking about this, he can take a long fucking walk off a short fucking pier imo, because whilst he was sitting there complaining, I was still getting over the myriad of gross things that had happened to me BECAUSE OF MEN on the weekend. Fuck that.

#i am just really angry #at men

actuallyadhd

someone told me adhders always move., is that true? What's the correlation? im genuinely interested

I move a lot. I have Combined ADHD. I think it’s because my body moves if my brain isn’t occupied enough. It also helps me focus on stuff if my hands are occupied or my feet are twitching and stuff like that.

Followers, what do you think?

-J

blackcatsandhats

I also interpreted this as relocation of living arrangements, and I was like YEP personal reference is evidence!!

actuallyadhd

I was diagnosed with ADHD in college. I'd had symptoms my entire life and my parents knew I was different from other kids but I was never diagnosed because I was a good student and seemed to be functioning fine. But it was so rough to know that things were so much harder than me but never have it validated by my teachers or anyone, and it did a number on my issues with anxiety and self esteem. When I was finally diagnosed I literally cried from happiness. Now my sister shows signs [1/2]

[2/2] of having some sort of cognitive and/or emotional problems- she is easily upset, has extreme sensitivity to noise, takes statements literally, ect. But just like me at that age, she’s smart and well-behaved and does well in school. I want my parents to take her to see someone but they don’t want her growing up under the stigma of mental illness. I found out too late but when is too early (she’s about to enter middle school)? Can anyone who was diagnosed young say what it’s like?

I don’t think it’s too early for your sister, but I wasn’t diagnosed younger. (I was 28 when I was diagnosed.)

Followers, who among you was diagnosed in elementary or middle school? Was that good or bad for you?

-J

blackcatsandhats

I was diagnosed at 5 - 6. It meant I grew up knowing I was 'the ADHD kid' and not really knowing about lots of the impacts, because the conversations had were between my parents and a paediatrician. But on the other hand, my parents had the official diagnosis to push for awareness in my schools - to varying degrees of success.

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Guess it’s time to find a new brand of inexpensive conditioner; Garnier, being a subsidiary of L’Oreal, has gone and lost my business. Because Ms. Bergdorf spoke nothing but truth and is an Icon™.

All my white followers, hear me out on this: For one, even the best among white people (you, with the pointed exception of any creepy hatefollowers I haven’t blocked yet) have to unlearn casual racism…and doing so is a lifelong, ongoing project, because it’s inherent in the system. And, to be blunt: most white people don’t bother to unlearn it; it’s easier to be complicit than uncomfortable, after all.

And for another? She was fucking talking about Charlottesville. You know, where actual racists killed someone for standing up to them; and their Apologist-In-Chief tried to front like everyone was to blame? But clearly, the black trans lady who said “you’re all complicit, and most of you don’t even try not to be” is the real bigot here. Keep telling yourself that.

Anyway: L'Oreal talks a big game about promoting diversity; even as they fire and denounce a model for calling out bullshit when she smelled it, off of company time…and even as they manufacture skin-lightening products. So…I guess that chief among the “values” they were talking about must be unmitigated hypocrisy.

And no—do not try to talk to me about how she shouldn’t have “gotten political” or whatever. Skin bleach is not apolitical; and neither—if mainly because we live in a society where skin bleach is seen as apolitical—is committing oneself to diversity. They’d have known when they hired Ms. Bergdorf that she wasn’t going to just stand around and be decorative; they still fired her for reasons that add up to “being an Angry Black Woman.” (And not even on company time, either.)

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List of L’Oreal brands, from Wikipedia, some of the more common/familiar ones bolded:

Ombrelle

Garnier

Maybelline

NYX Cosmetics

SoftSheen-Carson

Carol’s Daughter (formerly black owned)

Créateurs de Beauté

Essie

Magic

Niely Cosméticos

Colorama

Lancôme

Yves Saint-Laurent

Giorgio Armani

Biotherm

Cacharel

Diesel

Viktor & Rolf

Ralph Lauren

Kiehl’s

The Body Shop

Shu Uemura

Clarisonic

Guy Laroche

Paloma Picasso

Urban Decay

Maison Margiela

Yue Sai

Helena Rubinstein

Drakkar Noir

L'Oréal Technique

L'Oréal Professionnel, including ARTec and Innate

Kérastase

Kéraskin Esthetics

Matrix Essentials

Mizani

PureOlogy Research

Redken 5th Avenue NYC

Carita

Essie

Decléor

Vichy

La Roche Posay

Inneov

Skinceuticals

Roger&Gallet

Sanoflore

Dermablend

Yes, that is a whole bunch of cosmetics and clothing companies, including some you’ve probably used. And many of them probably have some level of independence from L’Oreal, even though they’re part of its money flow.

So let’s do more than just refrain from buying their products. Tell your salon about these brands. WRITE LETTERS. CALL CUSTOMER SERVICE and ask to be escalated as far up the chain as you can get. Urge the executives of these subsidiary brands to speak out against this.

Tell Urban Decay why you’re going without your favorite eyeshadow this year. Tell Maybelline we’re not born with racism and it’s not pretty. Ask the Body Shop if they think racism is earth-friendly. Tell Diesel why you’re not buying their jeans, maybe phone their head office in Italy. Phone up the Ralph Lauren corporate office.

Google “[brand] contact info” for any of the above companies and start there, or try this convenient list provided by L’Oreal itself, or if you have a little time and some daring, try an Executive Email Carpet Bomb.

Please signal boost this post!

charactersofcolour

These incidents are always good oppotunities to start supporting smaller (black owned*) business

danielle-mertina

L'Oreal had direct ties to Nazism so this is hardly surprising. The principal shareholder lady just died and her husband and father funded Nazis using the proceeds of L'Oreal.

blackcatsandhats

All very important, but I thought L'Oreal sold The Body Shop? Not sure how old this post is tho, but google seems to think so too.