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say what you will about kpop but one of the funniest things i’ve seen in a while is the fact that all of the fans of this one kpop boy have a running joke that’s essentially “all namjoon stans say they’re married to him and i’m the only one not lying”
and then this one with all of its replies:
Everything BTS has ever done, both good and bad, related to all social justice issues
I find it absolutely fascinating how so many different people talk about BTS in such different ways, with some of their fans saying they’re among the most progressive celebrities on the planet while others say they’re the prime example of racism in K-Pop.
I was out sick for a couple days, had some time off, couldn’t get this off my mind (we love fixations), and I like pretending to be a sociologist, so: here’s a chronological list of everything BTS has ever done related to all social justice issues (racism, misogyny, LGBT issues, mental health issues, etc), both good and bad, compiled just to have it all in one place.
This could be used as both a callout post and a compilation of how great they are. Either way, I just request that you read all of it beforehand for a complete picture.
Keep reading
Look, I love the fae jokes. Hozier looks like he was pulled from a bog after a 1,500 year nap. His lyrics are poetic and morbid and romantic in a very other worldly way. BUT He’s right. Hozier has talked A LOT about how his music could not, would not exist without decades of innovation and creativity by Black artists. His entire style is based on soul and gospel and blues, WHICH ARE GENRES CREATED BY BLACK PEOPLE.
“My first introduction to music [was] Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf, the music that my dad used to play in the house. From there, I just fell in love with the music coming out of black America. A lot of my folk influences would be coming from Ireland. There is absolutely no rock and roll without blues music. There is no blues music without one of the most horrendous atrocities of human trafficking in the last few centuries. It is, of course, a really difficult subject. Everything that’s popular music swings off the work and the achievements and the legacy of black artistry…”
So while I love the fae bog man jokes, we have to acknowledge the tremendous influence of Black artists. There’s no Hozier without Black music.
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If yall couldn’t hear this in Work Song idk what to tell you. I really wish people could see past their imposed aesthetics of him and join the conversation he’s using his privileged to start.
Work Song is literally named after another song notably sang by Nina Simone
In fact, Hozier’s song Nina Cried Power (the title of which mainly refers to her singing “Power!” in the bridge of Sinnerman, I think) straight up lists several of his musical influences in the lyrics [link], and he says so himself [link].
And y’all should really listen to any and all artists Hozier mentions, they are excellent.
Someone (not me) made a playlist that compiles a bunch of musicians and music that Hozier has said inspired him, it’s great and y’all should have a listen.
21 days from now you will be in a better place
Look, I love the fae jokes. Hozier looks like he was pulled from a bog after a 1,500 year nap. His lyrics are poetic and morbid and romantic in a very other worldly way. BUT He’s right. Hozier has talked A LOT about how his music could not, would not exist without decades of innovation and creativity by Black artists. His entire style is based on soul and gospel and blues, WHICH ARE GENRES CREATED BY BLACK PEOPLE.
“My first introduction to music [was] Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf, the music that my dad used to play in the house. From there, I just fell in love with the music coming out of black America. A lot of my folk influences would be coming from Ireland. There is absolutely no rock and roll without blues music. There is no blues music without one of the most horrendous atrocities of human trafficking in the last few centuries. It is, of course, a really difficult subject. Everything that’s popular music swings off the work and the achievements and the legacy of black artistry…”
So while I love the fae bog man jokes, we have to acknowledge the tremendous influence of Black artists. There’s no Hozier without Black music.
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If yall couldn’t hear this in Work Song idk what to tell you. I really wish people could see past their imposed aesthetics of him and join the conversation he’s using his privileged to start.
Work Song is literally named after another song notably sang by Nina Simone
In fact, Hozier’s song Nina Cried Power (the title of which mainly refers to her singing “Power!” in the bridge of Sinnerman, I think) straight up lists several of his musical influences in the lyrics [link], and he says so himself [link].
And y’all should really listen to any and all artists Hozier mentions, they are excellent.
Someone (not me) made a playlist that compiles a bunch of musicians and music that Hozier has said inspired him, it’s great and y’all should have a listen.
Most corporate social media accounts use memes to try and appear hip with the kids so they’ll buy their product but the Sparknotes twitter account is clearly just run by a literature geek who was told they could make memes about old books and is having the time of their life doing just that
You guys missed the best one
I find it kind of funny that human babies are so fragile and helpless and useless that natural selection went like HARD-hard on humans finding babies cute. This thing is a wailing messy resource sinkhole so please find other reason to enjoy it. And the humans that did find baby cute and invest time in them, the crazy bastards?? Lived!!
And now there’s so much spill-over from “baby cute” gene that humans see literally any “baby” creature that even slightly resembles us, like
and we’re like 😍🥰🤩🥺🥺🥺 I wanna love you so bad. I wanna make so many images of you, you are so small, just baby. I’m inventing new emotions as we speak bc I love you so much.
Like, I’m almost convinced humans didn’t even domesticate dogs bc we thought they’d be useful, we saw some puppies and it activated our Big Boi Primate Baby buttons, it wasn’t even logic time baby, it was 🥺 time.
The funniest thing about that is the fact that neuroimaging of elephant brains have proved that they think that we – humans – are cute in exactly the same way. They most likely want to squish and cuddle us the way we want to do with puppies based on the firing of their neurons.
This is so important to me.
Actually hatebros, “survival of the fittest” means you have to make as many friends as possible in one lifetime. Naruto understands Darwinism better than you.
(These images are sourced from ethical places to interact with elephants)
hippie culture is based in racism (◕‿◕✿)
No it wasn’t..
that’s nice, but hippie culture is based in racism (◕‿◕✿)
really though, it wasn’t. stop trying to turn everything into a race war, tumblr.
Hippie culture continues today in people who call themselves “yogis” and practice smudging and wear dreadlocks. You know exactly who I’m talking about. They collect crystals and tattoo themselves with eastern religious symbols and pretend they are one with the earth.
Hippie culture is based entirely on the exotification of marginalised cultures.
Hippies have a fundamental misunderstanding of the pieces of the cultures that they use (I.e. Chakras, smudging, dreadlocks, etc.). The understanding that they have of these cultural aspects stems from racist interpretations of these cultures based on anthropology (which is still a very biased discipline), but at the time of the inception of the hippie movement, anthropology was still being used to show that other races were inferior to white people. Hippie culture takes bits and pieces of these cultures that they see as being “counter” the norm which is fundamentally racist because they see cultures of color as being outside the norm which further others people of color in a western context.
white hippies like to think they’re the least racist of all whites or even not racist at all because they travel to ~foreign lands and get to know the natives~ “embrace” dreadlocks, eastern religions and imagery; they think their appropriation of our cultures and history is acceptance when it couldn’t be further from it. the whole point of being a hippy is being “free”, a better and softer word for uncivilised which is what they ultimately consider us.
and if you think people of color talking about our experiences and things that affect us is turning “everything into a race war”, then you’re probably a racist
like 100% the hippie movement was counter culture. they were rebelling against the conventional, consumerist culture while coming from well off white families. there’s a really good short documentary that touches on it idr what it’s called but it’s about the Berkeley student protests in the 60s, shouldn’t be hard to find. a lot of them acknowledged that what they were doing was just to piss off their parents - there was no “admiration” or “connection” with the cultures they bastardized.
This is a very important message to consider, because race relations in the American Buddhist community are hardly addressed. The reality is that Buddhist communities are segregated (not institutionally) by race, and most of the loudest voices on behalf of Buddhism are white guys! This is not a coincidence. And this not only results in a very American reinterpretation of Buddhism–which is not entirely bad, but it does have severe consequences when it reinforces misunderstandings and misinformation about Buddhism. Not to mention that Asian Buddhist don’t get to explain what their own religion means; it is getting explained for them.
The reality is that 44% those who consider themselves Buddhist are White. Only 33% of them are Asian, and that group is obviously split between Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Thai, Cambodian, etc.
You’re interested in Buddhism and you’re White. That’s fine. But you have to realize that your position entails certain responsibilities, including making sure not to appropriate, commodify, fetishize, and essentialize historically Buddhist cultures.
What is a legacy?
“In a hundred years of movies, homosexuality has only rarely been depicted on the screen. When it did appear, it was there as something to laugh at, or something to pity, or even something to fear. These were fleeting images, but they were unforgettable, and they left a lasting legacy. Hollywood, that great maker of myths, taught straight people what to think about gay people… and gay people what to think about themselves.” (The Celluloid Closet, 1996)
1) Morocco (1930), 2) Wings (1927), 3) The Childrens Hour (1961),
4) Rebel Without a Cause (1955), 5) Strangers on a Train (1951),
6) Rope (1948), 7) Rebecca (1940), 8) Ben Hur (1959), 9) Red River (1948),
10) The Lion in Winter (1968)
Lisa who goes by the name @ostdrossel on Instagram has always been fascinated by nature and different bird types. So she came up with a brilliant idea: she uses a bird feeder cam, which consists of a camera box, a macro lens, and an attachable bird feeding platform. The camera is tiny and equipped with a motion sensor so that when a bird comes to eat, it photographs birds a non-intrusive way.
Photos by Ostdrossel ™
Via Sad and Useless
Don’t die with your music still inside you. Don’t waste your life. Don’t allow your talents and gifts to waste inside your head. Your birth was not an accident. You are here for a reason. You are here to express yourself. You are here to grow and evolve. But you can’t grow and evolve if you’re constantly suppressing your true self.
Allow your true self to speak. Allow your soul to express its most intimate parts. Get out of your comfort zone, and start working towards your dream, start aligning with your life purpose.
Your life purpose is your true mission. The moment you start doing what you’re designed to do, the entire Universe starts working in your favor. You don’t have to know how you will achieve your ultimate goals. You will always be guided, you will always encounter the right people and the right opportunities. But you have to take this first baby step. You have to work on your gifts and talents. You have to master the craft of being yourself. You have to become your true, authentic self.
I've applied for a low level position, and I've basically been told the job is mine as long as the background check comes back clean, which it will. My only issue is that the company runs credit checks on everyone, and I'm worried that could affect the job, and also I'm concerned it's going to be a hard hit on my credit. My credit isn't great, and I'm in the process of building it up again, but a hard check will lower the score and undo more than a year of work. Why do companies do this? I have glowing references and I'm a hard worker, which isn't something a credit check can tell them.
I have terrible news for you, kiddo: companies do this because of systemic discrimination.
Running credit checks on potential employees is one of the most unethical parts of a hiring process in my opinion. Not every employer does it, but the ones who do justify their actions by saying it’s “to make sure you’re a reliable and responsible person.” Which is bullshit. Your personal credit history has little to do with personal responsibility and a whole lot more to do with systems of oppression–racial, class, etc–that disproportionately affect the financial opportunities of minorities. So checking credit history is as good as saying “Is your family black and lacking in generational wealth because of decades of redlining, contract lending, and straight-up racism? Well then clearly you’re not responsible enough for this job!”
It’s one of those hiring practices that labor activists have been fighting to abolish for years. And now you’ve inspired us to write an article about discriminatory hiring practices like this.
Anyway, the good news is it might not be a hard check like if you were applying for a mortgage. So it shouldn’t terribly affect your credit. I know this doesn’t make anything better, and doesn’t give you any actionable advice. But I do hope you feel vindicated in your anger and frustration. Keep trying to repair your credit and apply to jobs. We believe in you, honey.
Dafuq Is Credit and How Do You Bend It to Your Will?
Imagine getting a degree, being forced into a minimum wage job and having to skip paying loans so you can afford bills for a year or two. And then when your loans default, suddenly you’re locked out from ever getting a good job because they destroy your credit score.
This is were I’m at. I had to start in on The income based repayment plan to pay down my loans and dig myself out of that hole. I barely got approved for a car loan, and that’s doing a huge amount of good towards getting my credit score up, but I can’t get any other lines of credit because I haven’t opened enough lines of credit relative to my low-middle credit score or some such Wall Street bullshit.
You’re probably going to see me say this again, but I checked my credit score yesterday and apparently my file is considered thin because I only have three lines.
One is for Verizon, which I don’t use anymore.
One I couldn’t decipher but it might be the original paypal one? I didn’t think they recorded that one–I tried to check–and it’s only online, so I used it until I could get something better.
One is the paypal line I’m currently using.
I’m also doing self lender, which was the only way I knew of at the time to get my foot in the door, and possibly made me eligible for the second paypal line.
But apparently some bigwigs view me as a risk because my file is too fucking thin. When I didn’t even want ONE line of credit, and only got it because I want to open up my options with regard to those who will give me the boot if I don’t have any credit at all.
Which is stupid. I was more responsible with my money before credit. I like the flexibility but there’s a reason I waited so long.
Avoiding lines of credit WAS my way of being trustworthy with my money. Having one open hurts my ability to do that. I know myself, I’m not great at this.
(Five lines of credit is considered good enough, btw. Five. Most Americans do not have $1,000 in savings and they want me to have five lines of credit.)
Motivation is overrated. No amount of motivation would’ve gotten me through hours of my accounting textbook. No “vision” is enough to keep me awake til the crack of dawn on an essay that I don’t even know if the professor will check. Discipline is what determines how far you go. On those days when your cute little list of #goals and vision of yourself 5 years from now aren’t enough, discipline will pull you out of bed and get you to work. I wish I knew this in high school because I thought I couldn’t work without motivation. I wasted so much time trying to find purpose before I realized that working now, albeit blindly, will ensure that I could chase any purpose I discover in the future. Sure, motivation is crucial, but it’s not consistent. It’s not reliable. You can only rely on yourself and your grit.
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Since we’re spitting facts
Right now, I’m sifting through 50+ applications for a new entry-level position. Here’s some advice from the person who will actually be looking at your CV/resume and cover letter:
‘You must include a cover letter’ does not mean ‘write a single line about why you want this position’. If you can’t be bothered to write at least one actual paragraphs about why you want this job, I can’t be bothered to read your CV.
Don’t bother including a list of your interests if all you can think of is ‘socialising with friends’ and ‘listening to music’. Everyone likes those things. Unless you can explain why the stuff you do enriches you as a person and a candidate (e.g. playing an instrument or a sport shows dedication and discipline) then I honestly don’t care how you spend your time. I won’t be looking at your CV thinking ‘huh, they haven’t included their interests, they must have none’, I’m just looking for what you have included.
Even if you apply online, I can see the filename you used for your CV. Filenames that don’t include YOUR name are annoying. Filenames like ‘CV - media’ tell me that you’ve got several CVs you send off depending on the kind of job advertised and that you probably didn’t tailor it for this position. ‘[Full name] CV’ is best.
USE. A. PDF. All the meta information, including how long you worked on it, when you created it, times, etc, is right there in a Word doc. PDFs are far more professional looking and clean and mean that I can’t make any (unconscious or not) decisions about you based on information about the file.
I don’t care what the duties in your previous unrelated jobs were unless you can tell me why they’re useful to this job. If you worked in a shop, and you’re applying for an office job which involves talking to lots of people, don’t give me a list of stuff you did, write a sentence about how much you enjoyed working in a team to help everyone you interacted with and did your best to make them leave the shop with a smile. I want to know what makes you happy in a job, because I want you to be happy within the job I’m advertising.
Does the application pack say who you’ll be reporting to? Can you find their name on the company website? Address your application to them. It’s super easy and shows that you give enough of a shit to google something. 95% of people don’t do this.
Tell me who you are. Tell me what makes you want to get up in the morning and go to work and feel fulfilled. Tell me what you’re looking for, not just what you think I’m looking for.
I will skim your CV. If you have a bunch of bullet points, make every one of them count. Make the first one the best one. If it’s not interesting to you, it’s probably not interesting to me. I’m overworked and tired. Make my job easy.
“I work well in a team or individually” okay cool, you and everyone else. If the job means you’ll be part of a big team, talk about how much you love teamwork and how collaborating with people is the best way to solve problems. If the job requires lots of independence, talk about how you are great at taking direction and running with it, and how you have the confidence to follow your own ideas and seek out the insight of others when necessary. I am profoundly uninterested in cookie-cutter statements. I want to know how you actually work, not how a teacher once told you you should work.
For an entry-level role, tell me how you’re looking forward to growing and developing and learning as much as you can. I will hire genuine enthusiasm and drive over cherry-picked skills any day. You can teach someone to use Excel, but you can’t teach someone to give a shit. It makes a real difference.
This is my advice for small, independent orgs like charities, etc. We usually don’t go through agencies, and the person reading through the applications is usually the person who will manage you, so it helps if you can give them a real sense of who you are and how you’ll grab hold of that entry level position and give it all you’ve got. This stuff might not apply to big companies with actual HR departments - it’s up to you to figure out the culture and what they’re looking for and mirror it. Do they use buzzwords? Use the same buzzwords! Do they write in a friendly, informal way? Do the same! And remember, 95% of job hunting (beyond who you know and flat-out nepotism, ugh) is luck. If you keep getting rejected, it’s not because you suck. You might just need a different approach, or it might just take the right pair of eyes landing on your CV.
And if you get rejected, it’s worthwhile asking why. You’ve already been rejected, the worst has already happened, there’s really nothing bad that can come out of you asking them for some constructive feedback (politely, informally, “if it isn’t too much trouble”). Pretty much all of us have been hopeless jobseekers at one point or another. We know it’s shitty and hard and soul-crushing. Friendliness goes a long way. Even if it’s just one line like “your cover letter wasn’t inspiring" at least you know where to start.
And seriously, if you have any friends that do any kind of hiring or have any involvement with that side of things, ask them to look at your CV with a big red pen and brutal honesty. I do this all the time, and the most important thing I do is making it so their CV doesn’t read exactly like that of every other person who took the same ‘how-to-get-a-job’ class in school. If your CV has a paragraph that starts with something like ‘I am a highly motivated and punctual individual who–’ then oh my god I AM ALREADY ASLEEP.
Very good post thanks for this.
Excellent advice for building and submitting job application documents.
This is the first good resume advice post I’ve seen on this site. Much better advice than the “lists of active verbs to use” and “here are resume templates”. Follow this advice.
zero light plants
THIS IS SUCH A SPECIFIC AND SUPER NECESSARY POST.
Spider plants are among the best natural air filters you can put in a flowerpot. They don’t just produce oxygen, they clean out other gases and toxins and whatever else is floating around the room.
Also they’re easy as fuck to grow more of because they reproduce by putting little mini plants out on stalks. Clip one off, stick it in a pot and you’re good!
Spider plants are safe to have around cats, too!
