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i'm kaleena i am gay and I'm 21

[practicalsmagic]

I’M SCREAMING

[bergaramadejs]

[yepperoni]

[queereyegifs]

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[japanesebonustrack]

“i can’t do simple hygiene bc im depressed” that’s easy babe! just do simple hygiene

[hundondestiny]

Y’all always have to wallow in your misery instead of considering maybe, just maybe, the encouragement people like this give is just telling people to do one, easy thing instead of worrying about a whole routine. Can’t make yourself shower? That’s fine, just brush your teeth. Don’t have the energy to do your hair? Okay, just brush your teeth.

Making 1 small change that can start improving your mood leads to other small changes. When I couldn’t make myself shower I would make sure I changed underwear every day. And then I started using baby wipes to keep myself fresh. And then I worked my way back to trying to take showers every day. My record might not be perfect but I’m getting better.

It’s really unhealthy to keep the mindset that anyone who isn’t miserable and suffering under their mental illness or emotional problems doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Maybe they’ve just grown to learn how to love and care for themselves in spite of what they’re going through.

[the-real-eye-to-see]

We know she’s just mad cause they have more melanin than she’s used to seeing

[crimeshetyped]

Lol I used to work at target and know for a fact that that’s literally one aisle sandwiched between several containing several an array of bland white dolls why would you fake a struggle like this?? It’s so flawed 😩😂

[dynastylnoire]

^^^^^^^

[pinkcheesegreenghost-deactivate]

White girls are so pathetic

[dollsahoy]

And…there’s absolutely no reason she couldn’t’ve bought one of those for her cousin, anyway? (I mean, no reason beyond “that cousin is probably being raised just like her and would do terrible things to the doll”)

[scribble-wizard]

i found this post on facebook this morning and went to My Generation to tally their dolls by skin color just to see how absolutely out of proportion the OP was blowing things. they have 106 dolls total on target’s website. 87 of these dolls are white. 46 of those white dolls are blonde. counting all their total dolls of color, you get 19 (and that’s being generous and tallying any exceptionally tan ones). only one of these dolls resembles someone east asian. so yeah, this lady only found 8 dolls (two of which are from seperate brands) and she’s still steamed when the brand she was looking at has 87 white dolls for her racist ass to choose from.

[kick-neckbeard-ass]

It got better!

[pinkcheesegreenghost-deactivate]

“I’m only 19…”

91% said NO redemption for you

[jolly-ob-saint-nixilis]

[timesalad]

This post went in 200 different directions

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

I’ve got whiplash. Also fucking BuzzFeed was the one who called it out? What reality is this?

[queenrinacat]

Buzzfeed actually frequently breaks stories. Buzzfeed News is legit investigative journalism funded by the rest of Buzzfeed.

[rainnecassidy]

If you’re old enough to remember it, you just lost The Game.

[raggedyanndy]

[revengar]

I have no idea what’s going on here

[witchaj]

Back in the early aughts, when many millenials were in high school, before Facebook and Youtube, The Game began. No one knows who started it, but the moment we learned we were playing it, we began to lose. The goal of The Game is to forget you are playing The Game for as long as possible. The rules of The Game are as follows: Everyone is always playing The Game all the time; at school, during breakfast, at night when you are asleep, etc. The Game never ends. The moment you remember that you are playing The Game, you lose and must immediately announce to those around you, “I just lost The Game!” thus making them remember they are also playing The Game and causing them to lose as well. Upon losing, you begin The Game again. Sometimes players could go weeks or months without losing, sometimes only minutes. At the height of The Game’s popularity, it became common to see people at events such as Comic Con or midnight movie premieres, wearing t-shirts proclaiming “You just lost The Game!” Once they were noticed, groans and shouts of “Fuck you!” could be heard for miles. These people thrived on the chaos, taking great pleasure in the cries of their victims. Most people eventually grew bored of The Game, and many began to claim they won by choosing not to care about it anymore. Some rely on a particular XKCD comic strip or Tumblr post to lend a sense of legitimacy to their feeling of victory. They are fools. It is impossible to win The Game. There is only losing. Only a few diehards remain loyal to the rules. The drop in popularity has allowed many to keep from losing The Game for years at a time. The growth of social media has caused a minor resurgence, although without the satisfaction of real time auditory feedback when causing others to lose, The Game will likely fade back into obscurity once again. Someday when we are old and gray, our grandchildren will innocently ask us to play a game of checkers, and we will shriek and shout until the whole nursing home joins us in defeat. Death is the only release from The Game.

[saintdollyparton]

Millennials have always been pretty nihilistic lol.

[straightallies-deactivated20240]

I hope one day that history looks back on ronald reagan as one of the 20th century’s most vile and disgusting serial killers

[haydrion]

may i ask why

[straightallies-deactivated20240]

Remember when like 6 Americans had ebola and it was an international emergency, and Obama flew out to meet survivors? Here is a list of things the United States government did in response: -Increasing the number of Ebola testing labs throughout the U.S. that can quickly and safely screen a potential Ebola specimen -Educating more than 150,000 health care workers on how to identify, isolate, diagnose, and care for patients under investigation for Ebola -Developing countermeasures — including the first Ebola vaccine to progress to Phase 2 testing — to prevent and treat Ebola -Converting at least 10 of the Ebola Treatment Centers into long-term Regional Ebola and Pandemic Treatment Centers for long-term readiness for years to come -Helping state and local public health systems accelerate and improve their operational readiness and preparedness for Ebola or other infectious diseases Source: https://whitehouse.gov/ebola-response

When the Reagan administration was faced with tens of thousands of gay men dying, they did nothing. They made jokes. They laughed. They caused an epidemic that killed 40 million people, because they hated gay men and thought we deserved to die.

[northcoastbear-deactivated20171]

There is so much more to it.  There is a myth perpetuated by Reaganites that he was an historically significant  President, in some positive sense.  If you are old enough to have voted in 1980, you probably know differently.  If you were born after 1980 you have been raised on this myth.  He sold Americans a fable about a Hollywood movie-like exceptional past and destiny, and led ordinary people around with portrayals of that mirage while his reactionary robber-baron friends set about dismantling 50 years of progressive advancements for working men and women, on their way to returning themselves to the position of unfettered economic domination they held between the Civil War and the Great Depression.  He was a union buster.   He gave us Scalia – need I say more?  He tried to give us Robert Bork (does anyone under 30 even know who he is?).  He lied about Iran/Contra.  He avoided dealing with AIDS.  He sealed the political sham-show between right wing capitalist kings and the evangelical thought-control snake-oil salesmen.  Americans don’t want to hear that they are ordinary citizens of the world, and they don’t want to hear that the aren’t anointed by some deity to lead the world to salvation.  They lapped it up, and they continue to do so.  

[ayellowbirds]

I have to wonder how the response of a more competent presidency to the AIDS crisis might have changed even the global impact of the disease. Where might we be today? How many millions of people would be alive and not suffering? Yes, Reagan was historically significant—for fucking things up in a globally devastating way.

[iammyfather]

When you hear how he slashed Income taxes, he did on the Wealthy, but he increased the lowest tax rate from 10% to 15%.

[wikdsushi-deactivated20201108]

His campaign was funded by Christian radicals, whose entire goal was to dismantle Roe vs. Wade and see American women relegated once more to back alleys and dirty knives.  He opened the door to religion in politics in a way the postwar McCarthyists never dreamed possible.  Now, 36 years after his election, maybe a third of American medical schools offer proper access to even first-trimester abortion training (in an era where that should mean a pill or vaginal suppository), and there are currently fewer doctors trained to perform late stage abortions for the entire US than there were pre-RvW (when such operations were only performed as a heroic measure).

[heylookitsarevolution]

And no one has even touched on his legacy of racial hatred, deliberate destruction of black communities and establishing of COONTELPRO to destroy the lives of black panthers and black activists, his actual murder of black activists and more. He was actually a demon.

[gehayi]

If you want to know how many lives could have been saved if the Reagan government had just fucking BUDGETED for AIDS research instead of telling AIDS researchers that they had to beg, borrow or steal any money for AIDS from other programs–then read And The Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition by Randy Shilts. And be prepared to have your heart broken at the unadulterated and wildly irresponsible waste.of time and human lives. 

Other shitty things Reagan did:

1) He almost tripled the National Debt. And you need to see the difference with zeroes:

When Reagan took office in 1980: $909,100,000  owed.(909.1 billion)

When Reagan left office in 1988:  $2,601,300,000,000 owed. (2.6 trillion)

2) He raised taxes on the middle class and the poor ELEVEN TIMES while in office. 

3) Unemployment soared after Reagan passed his tax cuts for the rich, and it took decades to get back down again.

4) He turned the U.S. into an illegal weapons dealer.

5) He funded terrorists, helping create the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. From NewsOne:

After Ronald Reagan was elected in 1981, U.S. funding of the mujahideen increased significantly and CIA Paramilitary Officers played a big role in training, arming and sometimes even leading mujahideen forces.

The CIA trained the mujahideen in many of the tactics Al Qaeda is known for today, such as car bombs, assassinations and other acts that would be considered terrorism today.

6) When his economic policies began wreaking havoc on the government, Reagan stole from Social Security–to the tune of 2.5 TRILLION–treating it for eight years as the private slush fund of himself and his rich friends. 

7) [T]he Reagan administration demonized opponents of apartheid, most notably the African National Congress, as dangerous and pro-communist. Reagan even vetoed a bill to impose sanctions on South Africa, only to be overruled by Congress.

They called him the Teflon president for a reason. All this shit–and none of it stuck to him. He got away clean every single time.

[whythatsbullshit]

Reagan is also almost entirely responsible for making colleges in California tuition-based. College used to be far more accessible to more people before Reagan saw to that. Most of what makes Reagan popular today (especially among conservatives) are actually the result of popular myths.

[elodieunderglass]

My mother has a lot of tales of life in NYC in the 1970s-80s. And she will talk endlessly about how the Reagan administration closed NYC’s state-run mental hospitals and asylums, which meant that the previously institutionalized “crazy people”* simply went onto the streets. There was a huge, unsustainable boom in the homeless population. Some of the displaced people were violent and had been committed to institutions due to criminal behavior. Some were just painfully lost and abused or brain damaged or disabled. Some were recently returned Vietnam vets who had been receiving treatment for PTSD when the hospitals closed. All of them - being formerly institutionalized mental patients - were completely unequipped to be dumped on the frankly filthy, violent streets of NYC.

Of course, since mental institutions in NYC were LITERAL HELL HOLES OF HORROR, there were a lot of good reasons for closing them down and de-institutionalizing was genuinely meant to be a good thing but it was unfortunately implemented by TOSSING THE PATIENTS INTO THE STREETS, which is not “reform.”

Reagan’s chirpy explanation (apparently) was that this would save lots of money. (And there were some Supreme Court decisions that ironically made this easier, such as the SCOTUS ruling “You can’t just imprison people for being sick or disabled” which was immediately interpreted as “Literally throw the sick and disabled into the streets! All of them! yay! saving so much money! The community will take care of them!”)

The community did not care for the former patients. The community was terrified and hateful and resentful and afraid. 

So you’d be walking to work with a spatter of light incomprehensible violence breaking out (shit is that a knife shit is that blood, oh no I don’t want to get AIDS). Or scenes that really stick with you like walking past an amputee war vet, triggered and dissociating, crying and dragging himself along and grabbing for your ankles and begging you to help him find his legs AND YOU HAVE TO WALK PAST OH GOD OH GOD as you kind of ascend to another plane of anxiety because you will be fired if you’re late for work so this man just has to deal with his own shit. WHICH DID NOT CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE OF SERENITY, especially for a mentally ill person like my mother who still isn’t over it.

And there was AIDS. And some cold fucking winters. And bodies in the streets.

This contributed greatly to America’s fear of the mentally ill. So many stereotypes about homeless people and neurodiversity came from this. So much of the fear of this incredibly vulnerable population came from this. And the needed reforms didn’t happen. “Oh, we put them in asylums but that was bad, apparently, so we let them out and that was AWFUL, so.”

This has mostly been forgotten, anyway. But you can read articles like this one which talk about how instead of leading to mental healthcare reform this whole bright idea just … ended up channeling mentally ill people into prison, and we’re still paying for that in America, because prisons aren’t actually for that.

SO IT DIDN’T SAVE ANY MONEY, IS WHAT I’M SAYING.

* A lot of this memory/imagery is filtered through my mother and she was accurately reporting her beliefs and experiences but was not coming from a politically informed place at the time.

[quickweaves]

I’m v passionate about public transportation and honestly idk why any major us city doesn’t have a light rail system

[quickweaves]

*azealia banks megaphone gif* PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IS A HUGE EQUALIZER THAT GIVES DISENFRANCHISED PEOPLE ACESS TO GREATER RESOURCES CREATES LASTING STABLE JOBS AND PRODUCES CAPITAL FOR METRO GOVERNMENTS TO INVEST IN PROJECTS THAT IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE

[beyonslayed]

because *republican voice* that’s socialism

[severalowls]

Because they did have light rail systems, extensive ones. And then it started hurting car sales and the automotive companies got mad:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy

So, with pressure from those guys it was effectively replaced by the Interstate system even within cities, and from then on urban planning was done specifically with every family owning a car in mind, which resulted in the vast urban sprawl of the suburbs built from the 1940s onwards, and why it’s now impossible to get anywhere without a car in most of the US. Which is basically unheard of elsewhere in the world unless you’re in the middle of nowhere.

Of course the cost of owning a vehicle has gone way the hell up since 70 years ago, resulting in a horrible situation for anybody living on minimum/near-minimum wage!

[grandpaahab]

Remember in Who Framed Roger Rabbit when they dismantle the red car to make way for a big fat freeway with personal automobiles? Yeah, that was a lot more historical retelling than just a jokey cartoon movie thing.

[bourgeoix]

The line “Hey there, Delilah / You be good, and don’t you miss me / Two more years and you’ll be done with school / And I’ll be makin’ history like I do” is an example of the classic erasure of women’s success when compared to men because who’s to say Delilah’s degree won’t come with a groundbreaking piece of research that changes her field forever and mr. plain white tees over is just writing simple chord progressions not discovering new theories of societal advancement. In this essay I will—

[americanfootball1999-deactivate]

Delilah went out and earned her degree and mr. plain white tees had the AUDACITY to say “someday I’ll pay the bills with this guitar.” Delilah honey dump his ass & go make your money.

[freshwaterbogwitch-deactivated2]

Not to read into this post too deep but this is an interview with the real ‘Delilah’ in the song where she talks about how she wasn’t actually even dating mr plain white tees guy when the song came out and for a long time the song was a source of discomfort for her.. She also talks about her accomplishments as an athlete in this interview, she’s a rlly talented long distance runner.

http://www.espn.co.uk/espn/story/_/id/8910175/plain-white-t-lead-singer-tom-higgenson-dedicated-hey-there-delilah-runner-delilah-dicrescenzo-espn-magazine

[thegirlwiththemooglehat]

yikes

YIKES 

[doctor-roman]

[lordendsavior]

“The double agent for the patriarchy is basically just a woman who perhaps unknowingly is still putting the patriarchal narrative out into the world. Is still benefitting off, profiting off and selling a patriarchal narrative to other women. But it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. You know, just because you look like a woman, we trust you and we think you’re on our side, but you are selling us something that really doesn’t make us feel good. You’re selling us an ideal, a body shape, a problem with our wrinkles, a problem with ageing, a problem with gravity, a problem with any kind of body fat. You’re selling us self-consciousness. The same poison that made you clearly develop some sort of body dysmorphia or facial dysmorphia, you are now pouring back into the world. You’re like recycling hatred. I find that really dangerous and I think it’s unacceptable and I don’t care if you’re a woman. I think constructive criticism is needed for anyone to ever evolve. For our gender to evolve we need some sort of constructive criticism. As long as we do it in a somewhat careful way. (…) So many of the worst things in the world have happened motivated by greed. And I just don’t think that’s an acceptable excuse anymore. How much money do you need? Really how much money do you need? How much money do any of these huge influencers who are worth millions or billions sometimes… why are they still promoting appetite-suppressant lollipops to young girls? And it’s not a fight against obesity. They have young, already slim girls, in their adverts for Flat Tummy company, this company that are absolutely everywhere, and they’re even being advertised in some of the most mainstream magazines, women’s magazines, and they have a billboard in Times Square. The money is built on the blood and tears of young women who believe in them, who follow them, who look up to them like the big sister they never had. It’s so upsetting and it feels like such a betrayal against women.”

Jameela Jamil explains why she thinks the Kardashians are “double agents for the patriarchy”

[warmbath]

[guardofvariansbutt]

The other day at the mall i saw a 15 year old sitting in a Claire’s piercing booth and it took every fiber in my being to not just grab her and take her to the actual, clean and sanitary and not guaranteed to fuck up your ears tattoo shop literally next door. Like I was frantic. Snakes manifested in my house

Piercing guns almost ALWAYS cause infections

They hurt more because they jam dull jewelry into your ear

Needles from a professional are designed to allow for minimum damage thus less pain.

The people working there literally have no idea what the fuck they’re doing and just guess it with a 1 hour training video vs a professional who trained under a mentor for at least a year and has a passion in the craft

They use bad metal for healings (copper, silver, etc) that can irritate ears. Surgical grade steel should be the only thing in your healing piercings

They put them on way to tight, causing swelling issues. Swelling is normal and piercings should be large enough to allow for that

They give you shit aftercare advice and cleaner (literally just buy saline solution at Spencer’s or hot topic for 8 dollars at the most and don’t touch them at all)

If done on cartilage it can LITERALLY SHATTER YOUR EARS

Please if any young girls in your family want their ears pierced take them to actual professional and don’t trust piercing guns. If a professional says your kid is too young (I.e a fucking baby) then trust their professional judgement. It costs more but you are getting essentially a art piece from a highly trained professional who knows what they’re doing vs a part time min wage employee who had 1 hour training on how to pierce ears.

I literally wrote an entire essay in college why piercing guns should be banned with pictures and my professor told me she was so interested in my topic and had no idea and even googled the topic herself out of curiosity and was horrified on the amount of damage they case

[vextera]

I am a licensed piercing professional and this is all sound and accurate advice. Get your piercings done by a licensed professional at a reputable shop. Not at the mall kiosk that uses piercing guns. Not by your friend who ordered a kit off of Amazon. 

Association of Professional Piercers Aftercare Guide:

https://www.safepiercing.org/aftercare.php

[sseureki]

#for those wondering why catfish is in it’s seventh season #this is why

[randomcanbian]

Jameela Jamil photographed by John Tsiavis for Vera Magazine

[tacochella]

I’M CONVULSING THIS IS PEAK 2018 JOURNALISM

[writing-prompt-s]

The zombie outbreak started 2 years ago now you find yourself cornered by a decaying zombie when you do the unthinkable and bite it first when it falls to the floor and grows its skin back and sits up and asks what is going on

[writerlymagic]

This may be the best subversive idea for zombie apocalypse stories i think I’ve ever seen.

[xxbluandorangexx]

“How the fuck did you know that would work?”

“I didn’t, dude, I just fucking panicked.” 

[caffeinewitchcraft]

“Bitch, you’re going to eat me? Me?! I’ve crossed three states in two months, mostly on foot, and you’re going to eat me? Not if I eat you first, bitch!”

~Later, accepting yet another award for finding the cure~

“Honestly, I’d like to thank spite which has carried me through much more than these past two years. Pure, unadulterated spite and adrenaline fueled rage. Thank you.”

[katsen13]

Wow I love this so much.

[itskaleena]

what if they bite each other at the same time

[xfilesbtvs]

[sweetener]

I have a story. It’s so cute.

[sweetener]