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Hey, could you do me a favor?
Could you just RB this?
The little RB statistics chart is so pleasant and stimmy to look at and I want to see what it looks like when it gets really REALLY huge because it makes me think of some deep sea lifeform
here lemme help
*ahem*
reblog this post to kiss the person you reblogged it from
hope that works :)
THANK YOU THIS IS MAKING MY BRAIN SO HAPPY AAAAAAAAA
THIS IS SO SATISFYING ITS LIKE A GROUP OF PLANKTON OR A RAILWAY CHART...
Guys, stop being crap to creators. You aren’t hurting Amazon. You’re stealing from writers.
NOT OKAY WITH IT
I WAS HORRIFIED WHEN I FOUND OUT
THEN I TALKED TO PEOPLE AND THEY WERE LIKE “SO? ISN’T IT MERCIFUL?” NO BITCH IT’S NON-CONSENSUAL COSMETIC SURGERY ON BABIES. C O S M E T I C. SINCE WHEN ARE WE CHILL WITH COSMETIC SURGERY ON BABIES?
MORE VISIBILITY TO INTERSEX ISSUES
I DIDN’T SEE THE ADVOCACY UNTIL I WENT LOOKING FOR IT AND THAT SHOULD NOT BE HOW THIS WORKS
THESE SURGERIES ARE GENITAL MUTILATION. PERIOD.
I’M ANGRY AND RANTING AND I WANT MY FOLLOWERS TO KNOW THAT
LITERALLY UNFOLLOW ME IF U DON’T SUPPORT INTERSEX RIGHTS.
This is why abolishing the idea of biological sex as a binary is important. The idea that everyone Must fit into one of two discrete categories is literally artificially enforced by doctors surgically “correcting” people who don’t fit into this strict binary view, without the consent or even the knowledge of the people themselves.
This literally fucked one of my exes up for life. They struggled with gender their entire life as a result. She came to terms with it mostly and never loudly identified outside of the way she was forcefully assigned but the QUESTIONS were there and self doubt and all kinds of issues. So fuck this noise. Fuck compulsive cosmetic surgery on intersex kids.
A gynecologist has published The Vagina Bible. Twitter will not allow her publishers to use the word ‘vagina’ in their ad copy. They can show the book’s cover, but the title can only appear in photographic form.a
"Kids these days are poor because they don't want to work hard like we did" factoid untrue.
First of all "kids these days" somehow includes me, a 30-year-old mom, just b/c I was born in 1991, because the way we do generational distinctions is comically dumb. But anyways.
Everybody I know in my age group and younger is a massive workaholic. As for me, I do science at work and I've been scienceing in the same industry for almost a decade, and I'm a writer. For the past couple years I've completed one full-length novel's worth of words every six months or so. I have 2 books out that are doing pretty damn good by indie standards and I have a Pätreøn with really high reader engagement. Both of my 2 careers are going as well as can possibly be expected, to the great detriment of my mental & physical health. I still live paycheck to paycheck and have to beg for grocery money on the Internet every couple of months.
Listen, teens: This game is rigged. We're not broke because we aren't working hard enough, we're broke because we're being robbed.
The average USAmerican worker productivity has more than doubled since I was born in 1984 - think computerized record filing, email, cell phones, smartphones - but I’m not making twice what my parents made. Or working half as much. Or retiring twice as fast.
But all these millionaires done turned into billionaires.
Something is very, very wrong.
I’m 40 and have finally reached the point where I can (usually) pay bills AND buy groceries AND get my kids a pizza on Friday nights without overdrawing my bank every month. But I still have mountains of medical and student loan debt that’s just not going away.
We were all sold a bill of goods, and some of us elder millennials spent a lot of years internalizing the idea that we were moral failures because we couldn’t deprive ourselves of all pleasures, that if only we hadn’t rented that movie or bought that ice cream or gotten that haircut, we would be millionaires.
It’s bullshit. You’re not lazy and you’re not bad with money. You’re being exploited.
The Welsh Viking is pretty cool!
He’s going to run 5 kilometres in his viking armour on May 9th to raise money for Stonewall!
Oh my goodness this is getting a lot of notes! Since I see posts on tumblr about how a lot of people seem to think all historians and archaeologists are crusty old bigots I’d just like to add that this guy is an archaeologist. A very vocally anti-racist archaeologist who goes out of his way to be as inclusive as possible to queer people.
Reblogging to watch later!
Always get your historical facts from anti-racist archeologists.
Wait, how’d the run go!?
Oh gosh I forgot to update on that! It went well, he was sore and tired but no injuries, and he raised over 1700 pounds!
Emergency cleaning: Unfuck your whole house in the shortest time possible
So, your landlord/parents/home inspector/favorite movie star is dropping by, and your place is a disaster. You don’t have much time to clean it up. You’re in emergency mode. Let’s get started.
Don’t panic. Panic leads to fear, fear leads to procrastination, procrastination leads to the dark side. You can do this, but you have to stay calm.
Unlike maintenance cleaning, we’re not looking to completely unfuck one space at a time. Instead, we want to decrease the overall mess in stages, spread evenly across the whole area that we’re concerned about. If you think your home is at Level 10 filth, we want to bring the whole thing down to a Level 9, and then down from there. One really clean spot in an otherwise messy home is not going to be helpful here.
Get prepared. You’ll want to shut the computer down (or turn the modem off if you need your computer to play music). Trust me. Get your music going. Gather up trash bags, your vacuum and mop, some rags or paper towel, sponges, and other cleaning supplies. Use what you have on hand. Don’t get distracted running to the store and spending an hour browsing cleaning supplies. A multi-purpose cleaning concentrate or a jug of vinegar will be just fine.
Breaks are very important. Depending on your time constraints, work in 20/10s (20 minutes working, 10-minute break) or 45/15s. But take breaks because otherwise you’re marathoning, and marathon cleaning is no one’s friend. Keep hydrated, don’t forget to eat, and check in with yourself frequently to make sure you’re physically doing OK.
Make your bed. This will be your home base if you get overwhelmed or need somewhere clear to take a break.
Start with the garbage. Going from room to room, throw out anything that is obvious trash. Once you fill a bag, take it out. Repeat as many times as necessary.
Move on to dishes. Gather the dishes from all over your house and bring them to the kitchen. If you can, start them soaking in a sink of hot, soapy water or start loading the dishwasher. After the dishes are all in one place, spend one 20/10 getting started getting them under control.
Now it’s time for your flat surfaces. Countertops, tables, dresser tops, etc. Clear them off and wipe them down. Don’t get distracted in too much sorting and organizing. We’re in crisis mode here. There will be time to get in-depth once this is all done. The same applies to cabinets and closets. Unless you have reason to believe people will be opening closed doors, leave these alone for now.
Attack the floordrobe and shoe pile. Get your clothes either put away or in the hamper. Start a load of laundry if you need to, but keep in mind that laundry and dishes have three steps: wash, dry, and put it away, goddammit!
Get random stuff up off the floors. If something is trash-worthy, throw it away now rather than just move it around a bunch of times. Otherwise, put stuff where it belongs.
Take another 20/10 or 45/15 to catch up on more dishes, if needed.
Head into the bathroom. Pour some cleaner in the toilet bowl, fill the sink with hot water and cleaner, and either spray the tub and shower with cleaner, or fill the tub up with some hot water and add cleaner and let it soak. Put everything away that’s out and shouldn’t be, clean the mirror, counters, and toilet seat. Sweep or dry mop the floor. Wipe down the sink and tub/shower, and give the toilet bowl a scrub. Mop the floor.
Sweep and mop the kitchen floor.
Vacuum everything you can, and sweep everything you can’t.
Walk outside of your house (don’t lock yourself out, please). Walk back in and see what catches your eye first. Go and deal with that.
If you’re being inspected or your landlord is coming in for repairs, spend time on whatever area they’ll be focusing on.
Give the whole place one more once-over and pay attention to anything you’ve missed so far.
It’s an old trick, but if your place is a little funky-smelling, put a pan of water on the stove on low heat and add some citrus or cinnamon or vanilla. Don’t leave it unattended or forget about it.
Take a shower, put on something clean, and eat something.
You can do this. It’s overwhelming, yes, but it is not impossible. You just need to do it. You have a list. You have directions. You have a whole bunch of Internet strangers who have been there before and who are cheering you on. You can do this, but you need to get started.
Why are you still here? GO. START. NOW.
the number of times in my past that I desperately wanted/needed someone to sit me down and tell me this stuff. I will never get back the hours and hours lost to headless-chicken mode, but it’s nice to know that in the last year I’ve learned so many coping mechanisms :D
If I’m working on a much tighter timeframe, my priorities are:
- take out any trash that’s half full or more (and if applicable, all kitchen waste/ mulch), plus collecting any trash items on the floor or surfaces in relevant areas
-corral dishes into tidy stacks in the kitchen
-clear some floorspace: clothes piles, half-packed suitcases or shopping bags, etc
-do a quick sweep/vacuum of relevant areas (if really pressed for time, focus only on areas with visible dust bunnies /soiling)
-clean toilet, sink, & mirror & tidy bathroom counter clutter
-eyeball the clutter level on prominent surfaces like counters and tables. If you’ve got mini mountain ranges of stuff & 10 min left, literally sweep it all into a box or laundry basket, stick it out of the way, & move on. If you have less clutter or a little more time, you would be AMAZED at how much of a difference it makes to just… stack things neatly & square the stacks to each other. The goal here is the appearance of organization, not actual organization.
You got this 🙌
Adding my well-loved strategies here, developed when I lived with 6 others during Uni, on my own + then totally honed while raising two small humans + working.
Remember: the goal here is the appearance of clean + organization, not actual clean + organization.
I vote you START by going outside + walking back in to see what catches your eyes.
Focus on that after you do bathroom + dishes
Budget your time. Example - Have 3 hours? Your phone timer is your best friend! Count backwards:
Last 20 min is for showering + putting on clothes which make you feel FaBuLoUs.
15 min before that is putting things in boxes or closets or under the bed so they’re out of sight.
Now you have FIVE sets of 20 min cleaning + 5-10 min breaks. Perfect! Plenty of time to perform a miracle.
Decide what you’ll focus on in each block of time. Example: bathroom, dishes, clothes/bedroom, counters, floors. I personally start with the bathroom because immediately ONE WHOLE ROOM looks + s m e l l s better; it gives me momentum to keep going.
Drink a few sips/ glass of water before starting a new area.
Coach yourself with loving kindness
Just realised as I was typing this out I a l w a y s refer to these sessions ‘miracles’ as in, “Time to perform another <insert time you have here> miracle!”
Along the way I respectfully talk to myself as if I was a kid or teenager, “Bravo! You did a great job getting the garbage out.” “Nicely done on the dishes!” “Ya, cleaning a stinky bathroom isn’t much fun AND it’s going to look and smell so.much.better afterwards!”
When critical, judgmental voices pop up, thank them for reminding you how important this task is and then suggest they get a cuppa tea and sit on a chair out of your way.
Play music which is calming and up beat. Ex: The Spice Girls “Tell Me What You Want” is ridiculously perfect.
Looks and smells
Appearances + smells beat perfection every time!
LOVE the boiling an orange in water on the stove tip!
If you have essential oils, put a couple of drops of mint, lemon, lavender, tea tree oil, cinnamon or thyme (or combine a few) in garbage cans, recycling bins … even in a bowl of water you put your towel/cloth/sponge in to clean off counters.
Fluff any pillows you have on chairs, couch + bed. Place them where they look good to you. It’s YOUR place!
It is playing by the (seemingly arbitrary) rules to stuff things in closets + drawers to get them temporarily out of sight!
You did it! Time to jump in the shower, get dressed + greet your guest(s). BRAVO YOU!
minor tumblr user's carrd: over 25 dni!!
25 year old who was going to prey on this minor: oh damn 😔 here I was planning to groom them but i can't because of their dni 😔 what a shame 😔😔😔😔😔
actual things you can do to keep yourself safe online instead of relying on a dni:
don't use your real name! not even your first name, if it's unusual!
don't tell anybody where you live! not even what state you're in! keep that shit a sexy little mystery that's between you and your mail carrier!!
liberally use the block feature!!!! use it!!! just block people if they give you the heebie jeebies!!
don't post selfies that you've also posted on facebook or anywhere else! reverse image search can be used to find your name if the same image is tied to fb or insta or anywhere else your actual name might be
consider not posting selfies at all actually esp if you're a minor......., shit can be dangerous
there's no reason you have to advertise your age if you're a minor <3 you don't have to tell anyone! don't lie, and please don't interact with 18+ content, or with adults who are uncomfortable with people under 18 interacting--but you don't have to go out of you way to say on your blog "hey I'm a minor and a member of a vulnerable community"! and if someone asks then you are allowed to tell them to fuck off
tell people to fuck off if they ask you questions that could be used to identify you
this all counts for discord servers too btw. I'm 26 and as a kid on the internet I was warned about "chatrooms" and told to stay safe and not give out any personal info in a chatroom because that's dangerous. And It Is
discord servers are chatrooms y'all. not everyone in your public fandom discord is your friend
Bah, Humbug! Behind every billionaire hoarding wealth are underpaid and exploited workers. Let’s explore some issues of workers past, present and future.
☕ In 2021, when workers at three separate Starbucks locations in and around Buffalo NY, started organizing to unionize, company executives swooped in with anti-union efforts. Workers are fighting for higher wages as Starbucks claims record profits in 2021.
📦 In 2019, Amazon withheld a third of its driver’s tips before being ordered to pay the $61.4 million back in a federal lawsuit. Warehouse workers across the country have also experienced grueling working conditions that include: too few bathroom breaks, excessive productivity goals, & unsafe working conditions. Amazon saw record profits in 2021.
🍟 In 2018, McDonald’s workers walked off the job for what would be the first of many multi-state strikes to demand an end to the rampant sexual harassment in their restaurants. Despite McDonald’s promises, they have failed to adequately address continued sexual violence at their stores. McDonald’s saw record profits in 2021.
❤️ Created in collaboration with @FightFor15.
Boss made a dollar
I made a dime,
That was a poem
From a simpler time.
Now boss makes a thousand
And gives us a cent
While he’s got employees
Who can’t pay the rent.
So when boss makes a million
And the workers make jack
Then that’s when we riot
And take our lives back.
#WorkingClassSolidarity
Friendly reminder that Kellogg and John Deere workers are currently striking.
Bonus Kellogg content:
December 7, 2021 12:00 PM PST Last Updated 8 hours ago United States
Kellogg to permanently replace striking employees as workers reject new contract
welp.
The John deere workers succeeded! Their strike ended Nov 18th ish.
Under the new contract, workers will receive an immediate 10% raise and an $8,500 one-time bonus.
Shoutout to Kelloggs workers for rejecting a two tiered contract that would leave their younger colleagues behind. Mad solidarity.
Here’s how you can support them:
https://www.thestand.org/2021/11/heres-how-you-can-support-kelloggs-strikers/
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FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU
SIGN THE PETITION HERE ASKING THE MINISTER OF CONSERVATION TO BAN NEW MINES ON CONSERVATION LAND!
@kiwibes it’s got options for submissions from different countries, and from what I can tell, signatures from overseas are fine! Archey’s are very endangered and very unique so international input can easily be argued from that angle as well!
A lot of people have noticed it’s already hit the desired 6000 signatures: keep signing!
Nothing puts pressure on the conservation front like 1) bad publicity, 2) bad international publicity
It’s honestly so easy to trick coworkers into thinking you’re good at your job all you have to do if they’re an older person perhaps from the boomer generation is use a short cut like control a to highlight an entire document or know how to format page numbers in the footer of a word document correctly
i export a word document to pdf instead of printing it out and scanning it and they're shocked by my tech savvy
it isn't even just boomers, i've been watching a fellow millennial do math with a calculator to enter the results into excel for like a year
I have multiple students, most of whom are gen-Z, who have submitted screenshots to me by taking a picture with their phone of their computer screen.
i read this article a while back about how there are a lot of younger people who grew up with search indexing for all of their files, so they have absolutely no idea how to navigate file directories or even what they are
“I grew up when you had to have a file; you had to save it; you had to know where it was saved. There was no search function,” says Saavik Ford, a professor of astronomy at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. But among her students, “There’s not a conception that there’s a place where files live. They just search for it and bring it up.”
I am not used to Excel can someone tell me why not to use calculators
couple people have already answered in the replies but for posterity
aaand assuming you enable solver in excel:
I have to negotiate a contract next week and I dug this up specifically to crunch numbers and figure out just how underpaid certain jobs are. It made things so much faster! Thank you ❤️
hell yeah!!
The screenshot thing isn’t really helped by the fact that in the year of our lord 2021 Windows still makes you open a whole different program to take screenshots of selected areas (rather than using the Print Screen key). And when you look up “how to screenshot Windows” it’s a bunch of pages that give wrong advice and then direct you to third party apps that are definitely suspicious.
Mac at least has a keyboard shortcut for screenshotting selected areas.
(though, psst, if you’ve seen posts going around about how Firefox is good and you’ve thought “sounds okay but eh, effort”, recent versions of Firefox have a keyboard shortcut (shift-control-s) that lets you screenshot any part of the webpage easily. It’s a surprisingly good quality of life browsing improvement.)
in win10 shift+win+s lets you screenshot selected areas, it's how i took the screenshots above (it also pops a notification in the tray that lets you mark it up and save it if you don't just want to paste it from the clipboard)
if you go into clipboard settings you can also enable clipboard history which will save a history of things you've copied, then you can hit win+v to select which one you want to paste
Disabled people aren't being class traitors when they report on their civil rights and humanity being violated
You all need to be very very careful in these next couple of years to be extremely good allies to disabled people because it is very likely they are going to attempt to kill us and the way that's done in this country over the past few decades has been denying us access to necessary services and the money we need to acquire most of those services. So many people have died waiting on disability and the likelihood that this is going to get worse is very very high.
Hey, please take this seriously, this is me ringing the warning bell like I've done often over my life, I have been dismissed often and then have been proven by time to be correct. I would appreciate abled people sharing this.
i’ve been fighting to get disability for six fucking years, this is before we got a lot more disabled people cause of covid, all of whom the government wants gone
It took me three years, a court hearing, and finally asking a congressman for help. I was homeless for a while, and nearly died. When it finally came through, I still got screwed out of two years back pay because they would only go back to when they got around to having me see their doctor. It's not even enough to live on independently, and if you do anything to try improving your situation, or get married, you risk losing even the pittance (even less than US minimum wage) they pay.
I was extremely lucky in getting on disability when I did. I have a disability waiver that’s supposed to give me access to additional services and I live in section 8 too. I am so freaking lucky to be approved for the services I have. And yet I’m still not safe.
Doctors love to ignore all my health issues since my file is complex and my issues not easy to figure out. I advocate for myself, but often times it only leads to being treated worse and getting labelled a difficult patient.
I’m supposed to be getting 4 hours EVERY DAY of direct PCA services, and 7 hours per week in homemaking services. I currently receive none of it. Staffing shortages, made even worse by the pandemic. I live alone. My waiver is meant to keep me “in the community” instead of ending up in a nursing home at only 30 years old. If I end up in a nursing home, I’m done for. There is SO MUCH neglect and abuse that happens in nursing homes... It will be so easy for them to neglect me into non-existence at that point.
My point in saying all this? Getting disability payments is just one of many fights we have to stay alive. If I lose my services, I have NOTHING. I will *die* without disability services and welfare. I’m a lucky one and I STILL almost got evicted this year because my disabilities prevent me from doing a lot of basic home tasks and I haven’t been getting the services that are meant to handle that shit so that I can have a safe, clean place to live.
This shit’s serious. We’re not exaggerating about any of it. We need support from allies, we really do. We’re literally trying to survive here.
frothing at the mouth over the sheer number of undeclared allergens in both prescription and otc meds
ID: screenshot of tags via @deathcallsmedaddy reading "#but how do you feel about it #on a scale of one to ten #how bad is the frothing?" End ID.
we are at a fucking 12/10
"Worryingly, they discovered that 93 percent of medications contain allergens, including lactose, dyes, and peanut oil. Almost all medicines contain ingredients that some people might not be able to tolerate, such as gluten."
and medications have none of the same requirements to label allergens as foods, and supplements don't even need to be truthful about their content. im currently having to go through and throw out/replace my medications bc I recently had an allergy escalate to "potentially deadly" and am now finding that process was helped by the fucking thing being hidden in half my fucking medications
so yeah for anyone with moderate to severe allergies, check ALL the meds you take, especially if you're reacting and don't know why.
this is one of those "reblog to actually save a life" things i think
This @thebibliosphere’s life on this marvelous planet we call home
I’m allergic to the dyes the put into antihistamines. We found out one time in the ER when a nurse gave me the pink version of the tablet and my allergic reaction progressed from “probably going away but let’s just be sure” to anaphylaxis.
Same with epi-pens. I’m allergic to the preservatives used to keep epinephrine stable. I still have to use them in the event of anaphylaxis; it just means I’m at higher risk for biphasic anaphylaxis and need to be pumped full of about a bajillion other rescue meds and hope like hell they’re enough.
This is why compounding pharmacies need to be brought up to better standards of regulation than what they currently are and also become standard imo. The need the customize medications to better care for allergen risks is desperate.
listen. listen. the consumption of animal products is about mutually beneficial relationships Not domination and that's why prioritizing animal r*ghts over animal welfare is an absolutely brain fungus take to have
urban leftists who've never so much as raised a chicken will be like "umm think about the politics of your diet???" because they can't conceive of the fact that domestication is an incredibly sweet gig for most livestock where they don't have to look for their own food or shelter or water are protected from predators and also get free healthcare and a quick clean death
100%
The actual issues with our current livestock system are because of capitalism and industrialization. Can we please focus our energy on the global paradigm being cruel and unsustainable to us, the planet, AND livestock instead of getting lost in virtue signaling
Because it’s about bigotry, not animals.
See also the number of attempts to illegalize kosher and halal slaughter.
Kosher slaughter requires the animal to be raised and treated almost as one of your own children. Before you eat, your animals eat. Before you batten down for a storm, you batten down your animals. They get good food, clean water, plenty of space to run around in. Why? Because if the animal is diseased or otherwise “blemished” IT ISN’T KOSHER. And when the time for slaughter comes? It’s literally done in the blink of an eye with a razor-sharp blade and not in the presence of other animals, so as to avoid pain and distress. I’m not Muslim so can’t speak for their community in any kind of detail, but I’ve had a couple of Muslims before be like “yeah, that’s basically halal slaughter, we differ on some rather minor details but we’re 99% on the same page.”
AND YET!!! When laws against “unethical” slaughter come up, are they ever about factory farms? Animals being slammed in the head or electrocuted to kill them, but without any guarantee of success, and then strung up still alive in some cases to be bled out? About battery cages? Have you seen anyone trying to shut down Tyson Chicken? NO! NEVER! It’s always the small farms and ethnic/religious butchers who get put on the chopping block.
Scratch “animal rights” and you’ll find bigotry and white supremacy all the way down.
All of this, 100%, and don't even get me started on the campaigns people keep starting to ban whaling from Inuit and other First Nation groups. Like we can quibble on whether white vegans who push for that sort of crap are consciously and deliberately supporting genocide, or whether they are just so racist that they genuinely don't know/care that genocide is the inevitable result of the policies that they are supporting, but frankly? I don't care which it is, and I don't really think that anyone else should, either.
Hey you know how I said I was going to make a workbook on the kind of bullshit you need to do when someone you love dies? I actually did that.
HERE IS THE VERSION WITH LOTS OF SWEARING AT THE USELESS, SHITTY SITUATION YOU’RE IN.
HERE IS THE VERSION WITH A FAIR AMOUNT OF BLACK HUMOR BUT NO CURSEWORDS.
Featuring Helpful Sections such as:
Death Certificates – What you need, why you need them, and how to get them
Prepare to spend a long and miserable time on the phone
What the Everloving Fuck is Probate
Some Simple Dos and Don’ts
Shitty Mad Libs – Templates for writing Obituaries and Memorials
How to plan a non-religious death party
So you suddenly have to become some sort of hacker or some shit
This is an eighteen page book that you can print out, download, share, and give away; it is meant to be used to collect information about funeral planning and account management after a death OR you can use it BEFORE you die and give people information so they’re not stuck playing Nancy Fucking Drew while trying to keep seventeen cousins who crawled out of the woodwork from gutting each other in front of the fucking casket as they argue about who’s inheriting grandma’s favorite dentures.
It’s not exactly cheerful and it’s full of things that are probably going to feel really fucking raw if you’re processing a fresh death.
I’m sorry! I love you! Death is shitty! I’m trying to laugh about it a little and I hope you can laugh a little too because otherwise we’re all just going to cry together.
Good luck!
(in memory of my weirdo mother and her weirdo siblings who all died too fucking young and left me holding this flaming bag of dogshit)
This is so radically kind, thank you
You’re welcome!
Life is short, kindness is what we’ve got.
When my mom died it wasn’t exactly unexpected but it was still sooner than we all thought it would happen. It was a huge punch in the guts and the thought of making things and not being able to show her and share them with her still hurts but in that first month it was like drowning.
So I made this for her, and shared it with and showed it to other people who are hurting, because my momma didn’t raise a quitter but she sure did raise a softhearted fool who wants everyone to feel a little more loved and a little more worthy and a little less alone.
I love you. Take care. Be kind.
This is important, useful, and so very damn kind.
