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happy annoy squidward day
Actually, Annoy Squidward Day is January 15th. Although the calendar doesn’t have the month written on it, if you continue to watch the episode, they’re competing for January’s Employee of the Month.
I’ve been waiting all year to reblog this
If you could please participate in or share with people you know who might be interested, I would really appreciate it! My friend (who is also trans) is running the research project and is an awesome academic with plans to go on and do a PhD and career focusing on improving trans mental health treatment and care.
This is a really great opportunity to help promote a trans researcher’s work & collect statistics and testimonials to help better trans healthcare. Please reblog!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WLXM7RP
Contact: [email protected]
NOTE: This study is NOT US specific!
This is worse. Looking at these you can tell they have no significant monetary value. They were confiscated as a fear tactic. Nothing more.
This picture breaks my heart everytime it appears in my dash. It’s a fear tactic, alright but—
The first one in the left corner: It’s a first communion rosary, and it’s not cheap.
The black one in the first line: That’s a widow rosary and it’s old.
The white one in the second line: is a commemoration rosary. It has a miniature picture in the round part. I haven’t seen that since the 70′s.
In the third line, multicolor one: It’s an Anima mundi, I have only seen those in the hands of Rosary ministery’s old ladies. The oldest ones are from the 80′s after Juan Pablo II came to Mexico for the first time. It’s one of the old ones, I know because the crucifixes are different. The third one on the fourth line: Red and gold. The style is old, the metal is dark, that’s a 50′s rosary, probably a quinceañera one (or it’s maybe older, from the 40′s when the brides carried red roses with their offerings).
The fifth one on the fourth line: It’s a quinceañera rosary with Ignatius’s tear. The style is old and in my part of Mexico is orphan girls who used it. At least it was when I was young. The third one of the fifth line: the blue one with the anchor. That one I have only seen in Veracruz and it doesn’t look new. The fifth one on the fifth line: That’s a 90′s wedding rosary. Black and white patterns were popular on that date. The fourth one on the last line: That’s a first communion rosary from the 30′s. It’s delicate and most probably silver. The rest wrench my heart too, the humble everyday rosaries with wooden beads and knots. Those are cheap and bear the wear and tear of their user handling. But those I described are much more.
Those are mother’s rosaries.
Those are not just rosaries. Those are mementos, that’s the proof of their families stories. They are taking from them the only portable things they can carry to feel the connection to their families. It’s not a fear tactic. Call it like by its name. It’s dehumanization.
philly turned out to evict trump, so if you want to say thank you for getting it done please donate to the philly bail fund.
philly has the worst cops in america, just two weeks ago they pulled a Black mother out of her car, beat her and arrested her in front of her 2-year-old son, who they then kidnapped and used for copaganda. she had committed the crime of getting stuck on a one-way street at the edge of a protest against the murder by cops of Walter Wallace, a Black man suffering from mental illness, who was shot in front of his mother.
there's no reason to expect cop behavior to improve now that trump's lost and they're angry. please support the people of philadelphia, who showed up.
for more on police violence, antiracism and radically transformative politics in philly and what you can do to help, see @phillybailfund, @phillybailout, @blmphilly, @phillywerise, @vietlead, and twitter hashtags #FreeAnt #WalterWallaceJr
philly/pa folks add more orgs & links if you have them!
Pittsburgh (aka PGH) ALSO showed up to evict Trump, and is one of the most racist and segregated cities in the country. It is particularly difficult for black women to prosper in Pittsburgh, and yet they still organized and registered thousands of people to vote.
I may not live there anymore, but this city means a lot to me. You can support by donating to these places:
Bukit Bail Fund of PGH, Pittsburgh’s Black Business Relief Fund, Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh <--(ULPGH also has a good amount of information available)
Info for PA/PGH residents:
Directory of black owned businesses, information on the PGH police abolition/defund movement, BLM Pittsburgh’s twitter
I know Philly is more populous and better known than Pittsburgh, but please don’t forget that they showed up for us too.
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I love that the "Defeating Sauron" part is the same length as the regular LOTR trilogy
Across the globe, scores of COVID “long-haulers” have been fighting for doctors to believe and help them. On Friday, they finally got a meeting with the World Health Organization.
Listen, I know it’s a B*zzfeed article, but if you listen closely you’ll hear the neglected screams of the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis community and all the researchers who fought for decades to get funding for this sort of thing, but because the illness got re-branded as “chronic fatigue syndrome” and WRONGLY classified as a purely psychological disorder, and not a complete autonomic nervous system collapse following a major event (trauma, prior viral illness etc), we’re both woefully behind and wholly unprepared for the mass disability event that is about to follow Covid-19 if steps aren’t taken Immediately to correct the guidelines being handed out by doctors to “long haul” Covid-19 patients when it comes to self care and long term recovery.
Jennifer Brea over on Twitter has been talking extensively about her experiences with having ME/CFS and then contracting Coronavirus on top of that (source). She also regularly boosts the experiences of others, and is one of the most forefront advocates for ME/CFS to be taken seriously by medical professionals worldwide, and her documentary www.unrest.film/ has been paramount to raising awareness to the neglect and medical abuse many people with chronic conditions face.
If you’re a “long haul” Covid-19 sufferer and you’re finding my blog because of the various chronic fatigue things I’ve posted over the years, I’m so sorry. We think I got it back in March/April, and while we also think my MCAS meds might have helped me recover better, it’s been a rough few months, even by my standards. But please know you are not alone. Reach out to the ME/CFS communities online. You’ll find support and resources that may help you affirm that you’re not alone or crazy and that yes, some of the things your doctors are recommending you to do, like “kick starting your recovery with exercise” is in fact making you worse. Many, many, many people with ME/CFS suffer from severe and debilitating exercise intolerance, especially if their ME/CFS comes with a side helping of POTS (Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome). My exercise intolerance is made doubly worse by suffering from a mast cell dysfunction (MCAS), which means if I exercise too hard or too much, I can trigger an episode of anaphylaxis and go into shock. Sounds bonkers I know, but as anyone with a chronic condition can tell you, the body is capable of wild and often terrifying things that as many, many people are now finding out, most doctors are either ill equipped to deal with or even believe in.
But for whatever it’s worth, I believe you. I believe you got sick, and you’re still sick, and if I can give you one piece of advice from one chronically sick person to another, rest. Please, rest, please don’t push yourselves. Be kind and gentle to yourself. Yes you might end up with some deconditioning, but you cannot show this thing who is boss by running a marathon or climbing a mountain. Health doesn’t work that way, no matter what the moral purists and healthful bloggers say. Be gentle, be kind. Your body is going through a trauma not yet fully understood by medical science, and you cannot expect to bounce back the way you once did. I’m sorry. You didn’t do anything wrong. You didn’t do anything to deserve this. It’s just how things are. But you’re not alone, and I hope there is some comfort in that for you.
Hey fam, thank you for the comments and reblogs of this post, I’m glad it’s helping people. I am going to gently request before any of you email me any further about what to do, that you read the link I provided to Jennifer Brea’s twitter where she explains that rest is paramount to recovery. She also details a few other things (especially helpful to those of us with MCAS). Most of the questions you are asking me are answered in that thread, as well as a few others which you may not realize but find useful to know.
Like me, Jennifer is not a doctor, she’s just an extremely sick person who has learned over the years how to Macgyver her body back together when doctors refused to treat her health seriously. Like me, she also does not endorse mystic woo-woo cures. She’s extremely knowledgeable about the actual science aspect of these things, but like all of us, is piecing this shit together as we go. None of us have concrete answers, merely our shared experiences of what it is like to live with a long term chronic illness for which there is little to no relief.
If you are rightfully angry that you are just now learning about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and the neglect and abuse endured by the sufferers spanning decades, please stay angry and prepare to fight for yourselves and the ones you love against the systemic ableism that prevents research and adequate treatment of this debilitating illness and the mass disability event that is about to occur. I am genuinely sincere when I say I hope I’m wrong about ME/CFS being the outcome of long term Covid-19 complications, but I don’t think I am. The only silver lining through all of this that so many people are being affected that it is now impossible for doctors to ignore, and while it breaks my heart to know that so many people are suffering in this way, it’s also a relief to no longer feel like we’re screaming alone in the dark.
Stay safe out there. And rest. Please rest. Let yourselves heal. Give yourself the time to climb that mountain in the future.
My ME/CFS specialist - who is one of the top experts in the world - has forbidden all of his patients from exercising. Not only can it make you worse, if you push too hard it can literally kill you.
His #1 piece of advice for ME/CFS patients is “Never ever under any circumstances ever push yourself.”
Rest. Rest rest rest. Anytime you’re even slightly tired, rest. If you think you might be getting tired, rest. Do not, under any circumstances, push yourself. Rest.
I get told to just push through it and doing excerise will give me energy, I never thought it could be harmful.
Is it okay to do excersise if you love it though? Dance is the biggest thing to my mental health recovery so, I always get tired but I now look after myself instead of feeling guilty
Regrettably that is often the advice given by doctors still operating under outdated criteria. I know it’s the advice still fully endorsed by the NHS in the UK, which is both unfortunate and appallingly harmful for all concerned.
I can only speak to my own experience and recovery, but gentle exercise is the end goal of recovery once you’ve got your ME/CFS under control, if you are able to get to that stage. “Pushing through” the fatigue and pain however with ME/CFS is now generally accepted to be harmful, and can potentially worsen symptoms if you are in the active phase of illness or may prompt a relapse (Jennifer mentions this briefly in the twitter thread. She realized even going for short 15 minute walks was putting her at risk of relapse during a flare up.)
General advice from my doctors has been to avoid anything that might break a sweat or anything that tires me out, so even my physical therapy had to be modified to be less strenuous to avoid relapses. If you really do love dance and need it for your mental health (and I understand that fully) something gentle like tai chi might be a good option for you. It’s been rec’d to me by umpteen doctors at this point as being a good gentle source of movement to help stave off further deconditioning, whilst also not wrecking my joints/spine/obliterating my autonomic nervous system dysfunction.
If you’re able to dance without worsening symptoms, it may well be fine for you, but you might also be setting yourself back and not knowing it. It’s a tough call to make :(
More of our friends are getting sick, so I’m reblogging this.
If you have a Covid diagnosis or suspect you had it and are struggling with extreme fatigue, please do not try to power through or think you can beat the fatigue through sheer stubborn will. You are setting yourself up for long term illness and possible disability.
The long haul symptoms of Covid are real.
Post viral fatigue syndrome is real.
ME/CFS is real.
There is no nobility in suffering. Physical exhaustion is not a moral failing to overcome. That’s the ableism inherent in late stage capitalism talking. Fight the system and take a nap.
i am begging my american followers to learn about tax brackets
Especially how they disincentivize growth and upward mobility.
you have not learned about tax brackets
alright i got this reply so fast i think i need to address this explicitly. tax brackets do not mean you will make less than before when you get a raise! say your income is taxed at 20% but have a 30% tax bracket starting at $10k, this means all the money you make up to 10k is taxed at 20%! anything above that, minus 10k, is taxed at 30%. the $10k you made remains at 20%, unaffected by the higher tax bracket. if you made exactly $10k you’ll have $8k after taxes; if you made $11k that’s 10k at 20% and 1k at 30%, so $8700! you should never turn down a raise because of tax brackets!
it surprised me when i learned this! but it also surprised me that i didn’t already know it because it seems so obvious in retrospect! it’s almost as if…some people…profit from us not knowing it
they’re straight up arresting journalists and reporters now in minneapolis for doing their jobs.
This is an attempt at an information blackout to control the narrative about what’s going on right now in Minneapolis. Any news coming out of police or national guard sources should probably not be trusted if this is how they’re treating folks covering the current events.
If I ubderstand correctly, a crew of black CNN journalists was arrested. White crews and reporters have a different experience.
Specifically arresting a black journalist and camera crew under the grounds of: “they’re black so we arrested them,” Is still an attempt to control a narrative … and still a form of information blackout or whitewashing, if you will.
If they’re arresting people providing a specific perspective and not arresting people who cannot provide the same perspective that’s not better.
How can we trust news sources if cops are targeting certain types of reporters [black] ?
Racially targeting reporters is still a form of information control. Minneapolis police are targeting black voices to silence.
It’s also intimidation. It’s saying: no matter who you are, what you are here for, if you are black, we’re going to arrest you. We’re going to use violence against you.
Make no mistake, this is about white terrorism intimidating black people, using police as the weapon.
What I learned from protesting in Ferguson
1. Don't post pics of fellow protestors. Wear face masks, helmet, googles
2. Turn off your location on your phone. Leave it even. It will be an alibi for you
3. Carry milk with you. Someone in the group should have a leaf blower to blow back gas
4. Travel in groups. Never alone. Move swiftly.
5. Don't go to a protest without knowing about a local bail relief fund. Write the number on your arm.
6. Remember this has happened before and it will happen again unless we have courage.
Burn it all down.
Don’t use milk if you can’t refrigerate it, you’re just going to give someone infections. Use water, it doesn’t relieve pain as much but it flushed pepper spray out of your eyes better.
A little too late for Christmas, but here, have the Gundam Christmas theme!
Gundam W’s OP 2 theme.
Honestly just wash your hands with soap!
Alec Goddamn Baldwin posted this to 1.4 million followers.
Oh bullshit, let me count the red flags.
First red flag… the right side is cut off and you can’t even read it all. I realize you can make it out with context clues, but if you believe you are trying to spread important medical info about a pandemic, maybe make sure all the damn words are visible.
I mean, what drunkard screencapped this?
Oh.
Well, good luck with those wine tariffs, Suzanne.
Thankfully I found a non-cropped version that is just blurry instead. Let’s see what other red flags it contains.
Second red flag? “A Japanese doctor.”
No name. No credentials. Just some doctor in Japan somewhere. Are they implying Japanese doctors are smarter or more competent? Are they implying he has some ancient samurai medical wisdom?
Red flag the third… What is a lung hospital? And is that where you are supposed to go when you get a viral infection? Wouldn’t a virus hospital be better?
Now we’re done with the Japanese doctor for a bit and have moved on to “Taiwanese experts” for our fourth red flag. Apparently, if you hold your breath for 10 seconds you can rule out infection. No need for a fancy test, just stop breathing! Plus, you might even cure your hiccups.
Okay, back to the non-descript Japanese physician. He provides the “best advice” which is red flag number 5. The best advice is already out there. It was released by the CDC and WHO. The best advice would not be some low-key secret only a rando Japanese doctor would know.
But let us look at this best advice for red flag number 6.
“Everyone should make sure the mouth and throat are always moist.”
That’s a red flag purely because I hate the word moist and wish people would stop using it.
“Drink some water every 15 minutes. Why not?”
That’s not terrible or anything. It’s the added “Why not?” that adds a 7th red flag. Can you imagine if doctors tried to convince people to take vaccines by saying, “Take all your shots. Why not?”
And then we get to the real bullshit. The ultimate red flag. The red flag larger than all the others combined.
Apparently, if you drink the virus, your tummy will kill it.
Because acid, I guess.
What if the virus enters through the nose? Should you drink through your nose every 15 minutes? And wouldn’t better advice be about keeping the virus out of your damn mouth in the first place? Ya know, wash your hands, stay away from crowded places, cough in your arm.
How is “Drink that damn virus right down and KILL THAT FUCKER WITH ACID” the “best advice”?
So… now that we have determined this is bullshit, how do we counteract this shitty viral post about a virus?
What is the best solution to quash this disinformation helped along by a glorified Donald Trump impersonator?
I say we fight fire with fire.
I have created my own shitty screencap for everyone to spread.
Sorry, I was hitting the wine pretty hard when I capped that.
It was box wine because that bottled stuff is too pricey. Probably because of tariffs.
You know what, I’ll just copy and paste the actual text.
“Drinking more water, while good for your overall health, will not keep anyone from catching the coronavirus, according to Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious diseases expert at Vanderbilt University. Schaffner told The Associated Press, “We always caution anyone healthy and people who are sick to keep up fluid intake and keep mucus membranes moist.” He also said: “It makes you feel better; there is no clear indication that it directly protects you against complications.”
–Snopes
Let’s look at the difference. We have an actual doctor’s name that we can look up. We know where he works, which we can also look up. We have a direct quote that can be verified. And there is even a link to the Snopes page for you to read more and check sources. No red flags. No mention of going to the lung hospital.
Though I am deducting points for the gross but alliterative “keep mucus membranes moist” which is just about the worst sentence in the history of sentences.
I wanted to post this here as well because I think during this time it is important we stay vigilant about the quality of information we share. I want people to learn how to better recognize bullshit and also how to refute the bullshit.
Please take an extra minute or two to check your sources and be kind to friends who are duped by bad information. Sometimes when people are scared it is easier to fall for things that look plausible. You can yell at Alec Baldwin though. He should know better.
These are amazing resources that run the gamut from food, medical, gas, emotional, and community needs. It’s supportive on all those fronts and talks a lot about mutual aid. It also links out to more informative articles and useful community documents.
Definitely have a look!
Hey if you’re schizophrenic/psychotic I just want you to know that you’re a wonderful person and that you deserve so much better than the demonization, marginalization and stigmatization you face in this society.
Please consider reblogging this/other positivity posts for schizophrenic/psychotic people every once in a while. If you have more than 100 followers, odds are that a couple of them experiences psychosis and that they rarely see positivity posts for people with their symptoms.
with all this coronavirus shit going on remember to support local asian owned business. theyre losing money and business because of racism and xenophobia. ive seen stories of staff giving people extra things as thank you because theyre so grateful for customers and its horrifying and sad. support local asian owned businesses always, but especially now.
