C’est la vie mon ami

I'm 21 she/her I like poems & any words that make you feel things™️

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[coffee-or-hot-cocoa]

i need all the help i can get for finals

[finnglas]

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

[e1b1l0e3]

[e1b1l0e3]

It’s always been his favorite season

[jaubaius]

Baby elephant chasing birds..

[e1b1l0e3]

That instinct to run to your mama after falling down 💗

[archliches]

ppl who don't get cats will try to argue that cats don't love you meanwhile cats will cry and cry and cry and cry like the world is ending until you hold them like a baby and give them a kissy on their perfect lil forehead

[ruinedchildhood]

[ruinedchildhood]

What is happening on twitter? 😆

[twitblr]

Not much focus on rehabilitation

[obi-wann-cannoli]

This seems like a good time to mention the Prisoners Literature Project and Inside Books Project. Both of these organizations send free books to incarcerated people, and are always looking for donations - both books and money -and volunteers! (Prisoners literature project sends books everywhere but Texas - Inside Books project is just Texas).

[shed-n-shine]

[plainsonglady]

I thought a new palette had dropped

[renthony]

do you love the color of the moon

[itsloriel]

Snow labyrinth by apulkkan

[tikkety-tok]

Apparently she’s not a fan of breaks 🥺❤️

[butchfagminotaur]

[harpyhormones]

hey i just wanted to put a quick post up for people that may not know, cuz i certainly didnt until a couple years ago, but the whole prescription glasses industry is a massive racket, and i wanted to let people know about the more affordable options for buying or replacing glasses

when you go to an optometrist to get your eyes tested, they take a lot of measurements and will give you a prescription that lists things like how near or farsighted each eye is, spherical and cylindrical measurements for astigmatism, etc, but one measure they almost always leave out of the portion they give you is your interpupillary distance, that is, the distance between your pupils, measured in millimeters

the reason they leave that out is because if you have your full prescription, including the interpupillary distance, you can just go online and buy glasses from a place like zenni optical for less than $20 USD. and if you go and buy them online, thats ~$200 they dont get to bilk from you

so, you have two options, you can either request your interpupillary distance number when you get your eyes tested, which they cant legally withhold from you because its medical information

This Is Specifically Enforced By The Federal Trade Commission!

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2016/05/clear-picture-complying-ftcs-eyeglass-rule

they dont get to withhold this! a lot of them will lie to you, or try to skirt around it, because they want your money. raise a fucking stink. this is an argument you can win.

the other option is to measure your interpupillary distance at home, using either a ruler and a mirror, or a phone app which is made for this purpose

https://www.zennioptical.com/measuring-pd-infographic

once you have your full prescription information, you can buy glasses online, made to your specific prescription, for well under a TENTH the cost of ones you would buy at a brick and mortar store

[softurl]

here are some other options for cheaper glasses! DO NOT LET YOURSELF BE SCAMMED BY LUXOTTICA if you live in the US or canada!! places like bon look (canadian) and warby parker (american) will give you paperwork to get reimbursed by your insurance plan, as well.

https://www2.bonlook.com/

https://www.warbyparker.com/

https://www.eyebuydirect.com/

https://www.coastal.com/

https://www.fetcheyewear.com/

https://lookmatic.com/

https://www.classicspecs.com

https://www.39dollarglasses.com/

[writingfeedsthedarkestones]

If you mention getting glasses online to the people at the doctor’s office, they will make a fuss about it. They’ll do the face, try and warn you that there’s no way to be sure the glasses will actually be made right, or that the delay in production is worse- But guess what?

The glasses are just as good as getting them in a store. And they take about the same amount of time to get to you. My mother has nine, I repeat NINE pairs of glasses from online, that she switches between. They’re really good, she adores them and they were hundreds of dollars cheaper than from the store.

I’m getting my third pair of glasses from online soon, and it’s the same deal. I like them, they’re cheaper, and online also has more options than the store usually does.

[punk-jaskier]

You can also just straight up lie and say your insurance would only cover them but the glasses you want are at another optometrist that your insurance won’t cover. They make less of a stink when you do that 🤭

[ruffboi-mags]

If you don’t have insurance and you’re in the US/Canada and want some solid glasses for reasonable prices, Zenni (zennioptical.com) is also very good in my experience. IDK if they work with insurance or not, as I do not have insurance, but my wife and I have each gotten multiple pairs from them (2 for her, 3 for me) and they have lasted, they work, and all 5 pairs, over 4 separate orders, WITH taxes and shipping, were $190.

Also the last order we got came with a little tool for checking interpupillary distance for future orders if we needed to, so that’s handy too.

[hibabeitsmeeeee]

I turn my head to gaze at the stars above me

and I am transported to a place where I know that people love me

the smell of peppermint makes my chest feel warm

as it expands to fit all the memories that books cannot hold

I exhale all the air my lungs can wrap around just to see a single red rose

vibrantly standing all alone by a blood stained stop sign

the white snow that surrounds it causes my eyes to sting

Much too bright for a silent sliding white tundra

My ears shiver pleasantly as I place each boot into the crunchy snow

After a few blocks I realize I forgot who I used to be

I think I smell honeysuckle but know I must be mistaken

But my mind believes as much as my senses and I find myself

on a mile-long driveway walking past vine after vine

of sweet summery honey suckle with blackberry bushes

peppered in between, filling the gaps like honey

I wish I could remember the way people smell

memories of parent trap make my stomach ache with nostalgia

I know I am but a season and I have no control

but when the wind blows in my face I feel like I'm a part of something

Wrap me in blankets made of lavender and mint, place me on a pile of fresh mulch

let me remember who I am- and then- I can find a place for you in my garden

and maybe one day we can remember places and people,

that light fires in our chests that will burn out as the seasons change, together

[hibabeitsmeeeee]

you drive, I look as trees glow red;

why not become carried away?

perhaps less love will fall as leaves

unleash themselves from certainty

why not allow cascading movements

I ask myself but you look up

at her and I, avert my eyes

so that I won’t know pain, illusions

provide hope over hills of disbelief

I walk you to class in the rain

and jump in puddles of idealization

[everythingfox]

Terror in the sky

(via)

[kaijuno]

I’m just super fucking bitter that once the flint water crisis got it’s 15 minutes of fame people stopped giving a shit. The water is still poisoned, people! Donations have plummeted and people have been forced back into drinking and bathing with the water! The medical effects of this are astounding, cases of legionnaires disease have skyrocketed, people are having seizures, people are having weird rashes break out over their body, people (including me!) are having their blood poisoned, and it’s not just lead! it’s coliform bacteria! it’s THMs! it’s all in the water and it gets into the bloodstream and breaks down blood vessels, causing bruising and petechiae and internal bleeding and no one gives a shit anymore and it’s only gotten worse like how many people are going to have to die until people realize this is still a problem

[contemporary-petroleuse-deactiv]

I would like to add that the people of Flint cannot sell their houses, because selling a house with leaded water is illegal. Additionally, households with children can’t stop paying for the water because living in a house without running water is cause for CPS to take their kids. Flint has been living this way for over two years. 

The people of Flint are trapped by the legal system. And it is only the most high profile case out many cities with a similar problem. 

Because the government has abandoned them, they are dependant on help from the outside. Donate here

[neshatriumphs]

https://www.instagram.com/p/COEluXKHRXo/?igshid=18sqz34fzhshs

[the-local-meme]

Little Miss Flint Clean Water Fund, organized by LuLu Brezzell

My name is Mari Copeny, I’m a 12 year old from Flint, Michigan. You may know me as Li… LuLu Brezzell needs your support for Little Miss Flin

Mari Copeny has taken the initiative to create a water filter. I’ve linked her GoFundMe that’s she using to raise money for it. She’s been able to raise $50k in donations but her next goal is $1 million

[catboydaredevil-deactivated2023]

Water is a basic human right, it says a lot about governments that fail to provide that. Especially for a so called ‘first world country’

[allhailweegee]

This is as of 4/26/21.

[sociolinguo]

Māori are trying to save their language from Big Tech

Te Hiku Media gathered huge swathes of Māori language data. Corporates are now trying to get the rights to it

“In March 2018, Peter-Lucas Jones and the ten other staff at Te Hiku Media, a small non-profit radio station nestled just below New Zealand’s most northern tip, were in disbelief. In ten days, thanks to a competition it had started, Māori speakers across New Zealand had recorded over 300 hours of annotated audio in their mother tongue. It was enough data to build language tech for te reo Māori, the Māori language – including automatic speech recognition and speech-to-text.

The small staff of Māori language broadcasters and one engineer were about to become pioneers in Indigenous speech recognition technology. But building the tools was only half the battle. Te Hiku soon found itself fending off corporate entities trying to develop their own indigenous data sets and resisting detrimental western approaches to data sharing. Guarding their data became the priority because the only people truly interested in revitalising the Māori language were the Māori people, themselves.”

[ninepoints]

“‘They suppressed our languages and physically beat it out of our grandparents,’ Jones says. ‘And now they want to sell our language back to us as a service.’”

…

“It would mean entrusting data scientists with no connection to the language to develop the very tools that will shape the future of the language. And worst of all, it would mean that Māori would miss out on the economic opportunities created using the language that belongs to them, much like they didn’t see the economic benefits of the land that belonged to them.”

[never-obsolete]

The Underwater screen saver, from Windows 98

[19rachel]

This was the last time the world knew peace