sheer nonsense

26 - she/her - MI, USA Queer, loves cheese, probably sleeping. "save your sermons for someone that's afraid to love"

[culturenlifestyle]

Affirmance a 365 project of affirmation by @jefffrandsen

via affirmance (Instagram)

[petshed-blog]

[mythicalpiranha-moved-deactivat]

[gaytterenus-deactivated20180601]

Me nd my friends hangin out

[tiffanarchy]

cops want to be oppressed SO BAD

[tiffanarchy]

Working as a police officer is something you do. Its not who you intrinsically are. It’s just a job. You are not “blue.” You are a human being donning a uniform every day for a paycheck. This “I am blue” and “blue racism” bullshit is the worst form of identity politics I’ve ever seen. Get over yourselves, you whiny, entitled welfare hogs. 

[evangelinegallagher]

[charcoalfingers]

“Of course, she must be sleeping, sleeping deeply, wrapped in the darkness of that strange little world of hers.”

— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

[sixpenceee]

A sea turtle swimming up to a nap in a giant barrel sponge.

[thebroccoligoblin]

ABSOLUTELY NOT! THIS IS UNACCEPTABLY CUTE

[kitten-teearss]

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

Gross

[olearypoetry]

[fattyatomicmutant-deactivated20]

Goldman and Sachs literally fucking asked aloud if curing patients is a good business model.

Fuck this shit I want out of here

[galacticbreaker]

Holy fuck. Was this in a hearing? Sounds like it needs to be spread

[fattyatomicmutant-deactivated20]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/curing-disease-not-a-sustainable-business-model-goldman-sachs-analysts-say/%3famp=1#ampshare=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/curing-disease-not-a-sustainable-business-model-goldman-sachs-analysts-say/

[tredekim]

[fattyatomicmutant-deactivated20]

Rich people are fucking monsters holy hell

[frankendykes-monster-deactivate]

In case you were wondering why we fucking hate capitalism.

[2fngrsin]

Are the analysts really getting paid for that? Like… Can I please be paid for just stating the most obvious?

[solepunk]

It’s almost like they forget that they can create new products. Cure hepatitis c? Go make and sell a cure for another disease. It’s not rocket science lol

[tamascotchi-deactivated20190101]

this made me mad enough to make an actual political cartoon ugh hold on

[nonbinarypastels]

with 4/20 coming up here’s a reminder that if y'all support the legalization of marijuana you need to also be supporting decriminalization + the release of everyone in prison right now for marijuana-related charges (some of whom are serving as much as 20+ years) just as hard, if not harder.

if your pro-marijuana activism only supports white people starting weed shops and getting rich off of it while there are people of color and other marginalized people in jail whose lives have been ruined for doing the same thing and people still getting arrested every day for it and you just…don’t give a shit about that, that’s not cool.

[threesideddream]

so here’s a quick lesson about having patience with kids.

I have a 6th grade student who isn’t really interested in doing her homework (big surprise). from my experience, kids who aren’t trying to do their homework usually fall into two general categories – “this is too easy and therefore boring” and “this is too hard and therefore i’m not even going to attempt”. it became clear by October that she fell into the latter group, but most of the staff chalked it up to “she doesn’t understand it”. I didn’t really believe it because she was a very smart, emotionally aware girl and it didn’t seem like she didn’t always want to try, just that she would rather do other things than struggle with her work. 

yesterday, she got sent to my office, just so that she would have a space away from her friends to focus on her work, and she asked me to help her with two questions. I looked at them and they were fairly straightforward, simple questions about the results of using various amounts of force on an object. I did what I always do – I read the question out loud first, and then tried to help her use recall to figure it out. she did in a snap. I did the same with the second question, and before I even finished it, she went “OH!” and started writing her answer.

that’s when it hit me – she doesn’t have trouble with the material, she just has trouble reading and processing what she’s reading at the same time. big difference! I asked her and she confirmed that it was easier to hear a question and understand it than to read it and understand it. so I got her phone out, pulled up her voice recorder, and told her to try reading the question aloud and then playing it back to herself so she could process it and she looked like i had handed her the holy grail.

the moral of the story is that sometimes you have to set aside what you think is a problem with a kid and just watch for what’s easier for them. will she be able to do that during a test? maybe not, BUT now that she knows that the issue is processing reading and that she’s an auditory learner, she’s in a better position to ask for resources to help her work better in school.

so i’m off to the school counselor to let her know so she can possible get more tools for auditory learners.  

[did-you-know]

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[idealisticsun]

Someone send me these. I want dock-shaped gummies.

[mouseremote147863456]

BeyChella’s Record Breaking Performance 

[sosuperawesome]

Galaxy Cats, by Starmanda Art on Etsy

[kesus-deactivated20180911]

Young girls really are pressured now more than ever to be seen as beautiful and sexy and perfect like IG models and whatever the fuck…..like that’s why you see “me at 14 vs 14 year old girls today” posts……….we didn’t have this constant stream of content like they do…..content telling us to be perfect and to have perfect clothes and sharp eyeliner wings that look photoshopped and shit like that….I mean it’s always been there but not like this…and while I think girls should be able to dress however they want and do whatever they want…..you have to take into consideration the fact that this all stems from a toxic culture where women have to be perfect and beautiful…now at younger and younger ages….and it’s really gross…and the media continues to sexualize and like…make young girls seem older and more appealing than they actually are idk the whole thing makes me so uncomfortable and it’s only going to get worse :/

[djokovicnovak-deactivated201809]

And the wildest thing is, people will still try and justify it with the “there’s always been girls that dress older than they are!” argument. Which is true. But it was never the norm. Pre social media, most young girls were allowed be young girls. Here’s Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and Lindsay Lohan at 14/15 in 2001-2007. They were arguably the biggest young stars of the time but this is how they presented

They aren’t being styled to look leagues older than they are. They’re allowed to just be their own age and look their own age. Now, here’s Millie Bobbie Brown at 13 in 2018, Veronika Bonell at 15/16 in 2017, Skai Jackson at 13 in 2015, and Caitlin Carmichael at 13 in 2017.

There is a deep problem in our society that this is what people are styling children to look like. They don’t look like children, they look like young adults. They could wear these exact same looks in 10 years and they wouldn’t be questioned because they’re dressed and made up to present as adults. This is what is presented as normal for young girls, this is the image they’re told is the “right” one, the one they should aspire to.

There’s nothing wrong with girls - or boys - wanting to be pretty. But there is a problem with young girls being constantly told that pretty for them means looking over 21 at 13.