Doin’ My Best

lol I'm Natalie, I'm 25,she/her, bisexual

[saywhat-politics]

[liberalsarecool]

#CO03 #ColoradoHouse

[kittyoverlord]

@gallusrostromegalus @katy-l-wood

I don't think we're mutuals but I followed u bc u live in CO and you have bigger followings than me so tagging u in case you see this and can share it.

[gallusrostromegalus]

I'm not in her district but PLEASE go double-check your ballot anyway to because the down-ticket races are being decided by even smaller margins and your local state and city reps have a huge impact on your Quality-Of-Life.

PLEASE go to your county website or check your email/texts (including spam, because that's where mine ended up) to see if your county has tried to contact you about your ballot and CALL, TEXT OR EMAIL THEM BACK PLEAAAAASE. It'll take 5 minutes and they will be THRILLED to hear from you.

If we manage to vote the bitch out it will be a very happy hanukkah for me indeed.

[marisatomay]

cooking baking

[doctorguster]

I really hate that tumblr shows you posts “based on your likes” cause right now I’m getting a lot of Sandman stuff, which is great, but I really hate that the Corinthian is getting the “uwu cute boy” treatment. Like the show really fucked up his character, he’s merciless in the comics, not to mention A GODDAMN SERIAL KILLER. A literal personification of a nightmare. Like the actor who plays him is nice to look at but this really treads the line of should you do that shit for characters like this. It kind of rubs me the wrong way

[hank-chill]

This is my uncle in 1984. 

[redbelles]

THE MUMMY (1999) + letterboxd reviewspart two ↳ part one | insp.

[funnytwittertweets]

[phantomleaves]

shoutout to any girls/women who have ever unironically and maliciously been called weird, creepy, scary etc

[doctorguster]

Bro why is there a view post button now on mobile for any post with more than 2 replies???

It makes ur extremely hard to read and I’m not clicking every post

[yms1]

going ghost on all social media except for tumblr is the move

[bogleech]

Things food snobs are wrong about

“Organic” isn’t better for you or for the environment. It actually means nothing of any significance at best and is sometimes even the more wasteful, more hazardous option.

A shitload of “natural” food including a lot of imported produce is grown and harvested through slave labor in inhumane conditions.

Pizza, fried chicken, french fries, fast food, candy bars and chips ARE nutritious. They are loaded with good things. Just because they have an abundance of excess fats and might not be healthy as a staple doesn’t mean they are “nutritionless” or that their calories are “empty.” Those are hokey buzzwords pushed by the people in charge of how much you pay for the alternatives.

Eating healthier costs more. Much more. Looking down on people for their reliance on cheaper food is extremely classist and expecting everyone to be able to live off fresh veggies and cage-free meats is insultingly unrealistic in the modern world.

“Processed” literally only means the food went through some kind of automated process. This can be literally the exact same thing a human being would have done to the food for it to be labeled “unprocessed.” Being processed does not make something less healthy.

Chemicals with long, scary names are part of nature. An apple is full of compounds you probably can’t pronounce. A shorter ingredients label only means they didn’t bother listing all 300 things the product is actually made of and HAS to be made of.

Preservatives, artificial flavors and other additives are not the devil. Most are harmless and in general they are part of the reason you haven’t already starved to death or died of a food borne illness.

MSG is not bad for you at all.

The fact that something might be made of “scrap” meats like pig snouts or chicken necks only means one thing: that we didn’t waste perfectly normal, edible meat.

I DON’T KNOW HOW I FORGOT THIS IN MY FIRST VERSION OF THIS POST BUT GMO’S ARE NOT DANGEROUS TO EAT. GMO’S ARE SAVING LIVES. YOU’VE ALREADY EATEN GMO’S BEFORE YOU EVEN KNEW THE TERM. IT’S FINE. EAT THEM.

[bogleech]

So I’ve literally done this twice before and so have several other people but here are sources on all of these, most of them fairly recent academic studies or otherwise the most up-to-date I could find:

Organic food isn’t better for you: [1] [2] [3]

Tracing food industry slave labor: [1]

Healthier food is more expensive: [1] [2]

Saturated fats (i.e. “junk food”) still provide needed energy, aren’t as bad as people thought: [1] [2]

“Processed” isn’t synonymous with less healthy, because it means a lot of different things: [1]

“Chemicals” also means a lot of things and many food components are misunderstood by the general public: [1]

MSG is not harmful: [1] [2] [3]

GMO’s are not dangerous to eat: [400 sources collected here]

[bellybuttonblue-deactivated2021]

[sunagirl]

The only thing you check for is if someone else already asked for PTO in the same slot. That's it.

My department fell apart 2 weeks ago when I took my PTO. we were already short handed, someone quit at the start of the week, and there was literally nobody to even call in to cover, so they were fucked. But that's on corporate for refusing to hire enough people. That's on corporate for thinking we need no overlap in our shifts, no midday people . That's not my fault that I needed a specific week off, or even if I just WANTED it off. Businesses know what they need to do, it's not on me to make things easy for a billion dollar corporation that doesn't even give a shit about my store.

[kamorth]

Word of advice kids: Don't take workplace advice from someone who uses Scrooge McDuck lighting a cigar with a bank note as their user icon.

[allthestuffandeverything]

If the whole place falls apart because I need a week off, then I'm clearly not being paid enough since I'm clearly extremely essential to having a functional store. If I'm not, then give me a damn week off

[lierdumoa]

Workers have the right to PTO. If a business can be destroyed by workers exercising their rights, it deserves to be destroyed by workers exercising their rights.

[emily84]

the sheer balls on Taika Waititi tho... disn*y tried to poach his talent to capitalize on it, then bound his hands, forced him to delete canon gay rep from his films, cut and cut and cut his ideas, and what does that absolute maniac do??

runs off to make a show on his own that not only centers on the same premise of the biggest franchise to come out of the evil mouse (potc) but also made it explicitly and unapologetically queer, full of actually DECENT representation for poc, women, nb/gnc people, gay/bi people, fat people, older people in loving relationships, none of that steroid-pumped wooden actors the evil mouse usually employs,, and it's just so fucking FUNNY, just, good enjoyable television, I'm... just... I am living, thriving, entire week made, crops are watered, in this essay I will

[ladychlo]

@mattxiv

[not-safe-for-democracy]

[guerrillatech]

[mckitterick]

ID from the notes - @treacherous--doctor writes:

"To those who don't get the meme: An oligarch is a very rich business leader with a great deal of political influence. This term is used very widely in Russia, but can (and should) be used in the United States or elsewhere"

@trashtfcanons adds, "or 'plutocrat' if ur feeling fancy or particularly canadian"

and @casualcollectorarcade-things adds, "'Robber Barons' is acceptable as well, you know keeping it old school."

[b33tlebreath]

This was the whole game.

[el-joselito]

[jimxugle]