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eintsein

Energy Management

A human-based organization method

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Other posts that may be of interest:

Getting stuff done: How to deal with a lack of motivation

Flexible time-blocking: A more breathable way to get things done

The ABCDE Method

damianimated

Pride was always a protest.

teapot-studies

Random writing tips that my history professor just told during class that are actually helpful

Download all your sources or print them so you can turn off your wifi

Give your phone to someone

Just. WRITE. Writing is analysing, you’ll get more ideas as you write. It doesn’t need to be perfect, for now you can just blurt out words and ideas randomly. You can fix it later.

Create a skeleton/structure before writing.

Stop before you get exhausted. It’s best to stop writing when you still have some energy and inspiration left, this will also motivate you to get started again next time.

Make a to do list

Work in bite sizes. Even if it’s not much, as long as you put some ideas on paper or do some editing.

Simple language =/= boring language, simple language = clear language.

Own your words. If they are not your words, state this clearly in the text, not just in the footnotes.

STOP BEFORE YOU GET EXHAUSTED. Listing it again because it’s easily one of the best tips a teacher has ever given me.

themedicalstate

“If you really believe in what you’re doing, work hard, take nothing personally and if something blocks one route, find another. Never give up.”

— Laurie Notaro

neat-deadandlive-things

Writers block when you're writing a thesis is hilarious.

I know exactly what comes next, I know exactly which words I can use, and yet I cannot for the life of me put those words on a page.

behardonyourself

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”

-Steve Prefontaine

niggazinmoscow

THIS RIGHT HERE

afronerdism

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

molothoo

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world

Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)

Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.

The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system

scretladyspider

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated

dantalaois

odinsblog

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.

bubonickitten

I’d also like to drop recommendations for The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness and Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.

They both tackle the historical evolution of modern-day mass incarceration (e.g. slavery giving way to convict leasing giving way to the modern prison-industrial complex & for-profit prisons) and how it relates to voter disenfranchisement.

embodiedfutures

We provide the New Jim Crow as a free PDF under our social justice resources alongside several hundred other racial injustice and prison abolition resources here.

journeytocps

All I can say is that instead of post colonialism, it's now neo colonialism, and race is just a construct for oppression and capitalistic power and prisons are just another institution for enslavement and keeping people of color as labour capitalism, and women are relegated to prostitution and forced child bearing. It's allllllll white male Eurocentric Hedgemony driven by a need for and hoarding of capital and exploitation of labour. Learn about the whole slave trade and dig into colonialism, and you'll see that it's all mechanisms of oppression and control, power and capital by specific countries. And that it's not over yet. Perhaps this can be our call to arms, BIPOC and women?

Colonialism in global perspective by Kris Manjapra (2020) Cambridge. Book

Colonialism and Modern Social Theory by Gurinder K. bhambra and John Holmwood (2021) Polity Press. Book.

"Neocolonialism" or "globalization"?: Postcolonial theory and the demands of political economy by Nagesh Rao. (2000) Penn State University. Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Volume 1, no. 2 165-184.

And for a sprictly Indigeninous perspective as it's kind of glossed over in the others,

The Treaty Relationship and Settler Colonialism in Canada by Carole Blackburn. (2019) found in the book, Shifting forma of continental Colonialism by editors D. Schorkowitz, J. Chávez, I. W. Schröder. (pp. 415-435). Palgrave Macmillian. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9817-9_16

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i am crying i can't breathd

silverjirachi

i know i already reblogged this today but this video has more emotion in it than my university-level acting classes

fatal-but-not-serious

Someone give these two their Oscars.

tinypixiie

if you haven’t been told this today,

- i’m proud of you

- i want you to keep trying

- take a deep breath

- everything will be okay

- please don’t give up

- people love you

- i love you

weusedtobegiants

But mostly we’re forgetting we’re dead stars too, my mouth is full of dust and I wish to reclaim the rising— to lean in the spotlight of streetlight with you, toward what’s larger within us, toward how we were born. Look, we are not unspectacular things. We’ve come this far, survived this much. What would happen if we decided to survive more? To love harder?

Ada Limón, from The Carrying: Poems

floralls

Oxford, Oxfordshire by Alixe Lay

thepowerwithin

You are blooming. Please give yourself time.

-nicole addison

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—reasons to keep a diary/written record of existence.

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