TO INSANITY AND BEYOND!

[charmedatlaw]

IF YOU ARE UNMARRIED, DON'T HAVE KIDS, AND HATE YOUR PARENTS PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HAVE A FUCKING WILL

this has been a public service announcement from your friendly neighborhood probate lawyer

[charmedatlaw]

Again:

1. The law doesn't care how long your parents and family have been out of your life

2. The law doesn't care about your long term friends or "found family"

If you don't have legal documents that say otherwise, your biological family calls all the shots.

This goes especially for LGBTQ+. Please do not get deadnamed in your obituary.

[omgsmoothmonkey]

If you aren’t legally married (even if you are, to be safe), consider having:

1) a medical power of attorney. This allows you and your partner/spouse to make life saving or life ending decisions. Keep several copies in accessible places like your glove compartment, a lock box at your home. While love might have won in the courts, medical professionals only have to follow your wishes if they want - or unless you can beat them over the head with the legal documents and the threat of a lawsuit

2) a legal document stating that you, as the spouse/partner, have the right to claim your partner’s/spouse’s body should they pass away. Frighteningly, even estranged families have more rights than a queer partner/spouse when it comes to this macabre task

[suburbanjustice]

Also everyone should have something called an advance directive, ESPECIALLY if you can drive a car, ride a motorcycle, or ride horses. In an advance directive you give explicit instructions for your healthcare and the handling of your body and you can designate a first, second, and usually third choice for your POA, who will make decisions on your behalf if you are deemed medically unable and the thing being decided on isn’t explicitly mentioned in the advance directive.

An AD is what lets you say ahead of time that you don’t want to be kept on life sustaining medication if you’re braindead and not going to come out of it, lets you say if you want to be cremated/open casket/whatever, and lets you make misc specifications. For instance, mine specifies that I be kept unconscious and allowed to die if I am going wake up and be completely paralyzed after some kind of accident, says I want to be cremated, gives instructions on last rites, and says what I want my parents to do with my ashes.

[iwannapushyourdaisies]

HERE is a good video on this sort of thing with a bit more information on how to go about it. it’s trans-centered, but the information is applicable to anyone who wants their rights and property respected after death

(also warning for anecdotes of transphobia in the vid too)

[spacespectrum-deactivated202010]

[singing-not-sleeping-beauty]

I think we need to apply this to older movies as well:

The homophobic gag in that rom com,

the racist side character in that coming of age story,

don’t just brush it of as a product of the time, acknowledge that it was bad then and remains a terrible aspect of the film today

[strangehorse]

[ID: a response to the tweet ‘What’s your hottest literature take?’ (By @cxcope). The reply is from liv / @boredromantic and says:

“ young women’s criticism of the (violent) misogyny in “classic” lit should be taken 100% seriously. if a teen girl says the rapey overtones of 1984 ruin the whole book for her, she’s not less intellectual. this goes double for girls refusing to read classics that are misogynistic”]

[raviposting]

[hollowboobtheory]

what's up I fucking despise the way we as a society have normalized caffeine addiction

[hollowboobtheory]

capitalism: it's literally impossible to both earn enough to support yourself and take proper care of your health let alone engage in hobbies all at once but good news! your desperation to relieve yourself of the exhaustion we forced on you creates demand for an unregulated mildly addictive drug!

[hollowboobtheory]

how many times have you heard someone say they get "the WORST headache if they don't get their morning coffee lol" like its a normal thing and not literal withdrawal

[hollowboobtheory]

I already put it in the tags but to reiterate: I'm not trying to be holier than thou here. I'm also addicted to caffeine. I don't even get a "boost" from it anymore most of the time, I literally only drink it to avoid the headache.

[triplehamburgerjack]

What's interesting is, coffee in this country used to be geared for and towards adults only. At the turn of the century I started seeing this push to market it towards young people and this was right around the media going gaga over how many starbucks there were every where. Anytime you look around and you say, 'Why are they normalizing this?" "This is [thing] everywhere?" all you literally have to do is chase the money angle and you'll see. They always create a market and then start pushing something as trendy or healthy or needful etc etc And you know, I'm sure people do love their coffee or whatever sugar uh whip frap thing it is but none of the things we like come from no where and it's always making someone money. alcohol and coffee have the same interesting and terrible normalizations -

[karnythia]

Children of color are old enough to face racism when they’re born. Old enough to bear the weight of stereotypes & hate before their little eyes can focus. But somehow white kids are supposed to be too delicate & too shielded to even know race exists because somehow that might hurt them. When your definition of innocent child doesn’t include my babies? I know what you’re on & I don’t have any patience for the lies you tell yourself or your children.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[nynehells]

YOU FORGOT THE BEST PART

[frawgs]

if ur rich send me money i’m not even kidding wtf are u going to do with it? buy another kitchen island fuck you

[warmdrool-deactivated20210404]

late capitalism nightmare

[thebookquotes]

When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.

— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

[civilizationkills]

maybe its bc i live in a place where forestry is one of the dominant industries but like tree planting rly isnt good. like the majority of the time its done by forestry companies to “offset” what they’ve cut down, and they almost always just plant fir & spruce monocrops and then they prevent the rest of the forest from naturally regenerating by spraying glyphosate, because they want to kill off the hardwoods that grow back since softwoods are worth more to the pulp industry… anything a company does that is supposedly “green” never is.

[markphilliprenton-deactivated20]

this short (18 minute) documentary is relevant

https://www.kcet.org/shows/tending-the-wild/episodes/cultural-burning

E1: Cultural Burning - How Native American Peoples Use Fire to Rejuvenate the Land | Tending the Wild

Suppressed for over a century, indigenous cultural burning is still practiced today and holds important lessons for managing the threat of d

basically, the california wildfires are a result of european colonizers overcrowding forests

[catchymemes]

[theskabouncer]

We got another one

[adulthoodisokay]

sourdough really do be like that

[whitepeopletwitter]

[lizardlicks]

OKAY YEAH I REMEMBER THIS ONE Basically it came from a survey done by Bank of America.  Of only their customers.  Of only those customers that had a long term savings account with them.  And only surveyed 1500 of them.  And that, friends, is how statistics is used to lie!!

[pangurbean]

Always ask who ran the survey, the study, the poll, ask how many people were involved, and ask about the breakdown of the demographics.

[lovelivingmydreams]

As someone who had to study statistics, this is important to know. So important that it’s one of the first things they taught me. “You can prove anything with statistics.”

[byeflexual]

“You can prove anything with statistics.”

[xserpx]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[pettyartist]

[optimisticbananaharmony-deactiv]

how,did I think he just looked,like that

[awrats]

this was supposed to be funnier than it actually came out

[aviss]

One thing that pisses me off a lot is the fact that the world is not made for single people. Ignore the fact that everyone and their dogs think it’s wrong not to want a partner, I’m talking about practical things.

I’m talking about rent and mortgage in a city like London with only one salary. Yes, it’s exactly as hard as you can imagine. Not easy on a single salary unless you’re senior management level, want to commute two hours each day, or you are lucky enough to have your landlady be your best friend. Or you don’t mind living in a shoebox pretending to be a studio. Otherwise, you’ll be in a shared house.

I’m talking about holiday and travel, where either you go to hostel dorms of pay double price for a room in most hotels. And there are no packages for one, or barely any, and they are in singles holidays where the objective is not so much travel but stop being single.

I’m talking about doing shopping and producing more food waste than I’m comfortable with because everything comes in bigger portions than one person can reasonably eat. Even with freezing more than half of everything there will still be something that goes off because you were too slow to eat it if you do shopping once a week. Or you have to go shopping every couple of days and eat the same those two days.

It’s not enough to have all media telling you you’re wrong for not wanting a relationship, the entire world will try to push you into forming one by making it too expensive to be single.

[cadaverkeys]

i had a dream where the hottest meme on tumblr was like… posts where you listed off people who should be prioritised for safety if the great flood happens again (like noahs arc) and it got to the point where they would span for hours and hours down your dash listing more and more obscure traits like “people who have had a front tooth removed but never had a filling” and “people who stood in dog shit last saturday”

[cadaverkeys]

i dont think i explained this concept well enough, i remember some of the images and they looked like this

[weaver-z]

If you ever, and I mean EVER think that you fucked something up royally, remember that the organizers of the 1904 Olympic marathon:

- Had zero stations for water on the 26 mile (42 km) course

- Accidentally gave North American competitor Tom Hicks a cocktail made of egg whites, brandy, and actual fucking rat poison

- Had a guy come into the race late wearing a beret and cutoff slacks, sneak into an apple orchard during the race because no food had been given to him for 40 hours, eat rotten apples, projectile vomit onto the track, fall asleep for hours, and finish in fourth place OVERALL because most of the other runners collapsed of exhaustion or injuries

- Conducted the race on a dusty road, which caused so much dust to be kicked into the air that an American runner somehow inhaled enough to tear his STOMACH LINING open

- Accidentally released feral dogs onto the track

- Fucked the other competitors up SO BADLY that Tom Hicks—the guy who ate RAT POISON and was HALLUCINATING the entire run—came in first place

[postmarxed]

[catchymemes]

[castielific]

Me getting ready for a barbcue near the lake: