25 yr old book enthusiast and environmental engineer in the making She/her. History hyper-fixation. Please send me messages about your special interests and academic or professional specialities, Iām begging.
As we read and rejoice about the federal raid on mar-a-lago I am seeing a lot of āHooray for Archivists!ā and āDonāt fuck with archivists!ā As an archivist, and one that has worked at a federal level, now would be an AMAZING time to call your representatives and demand funding for the National Archives and Records Administration.
Archivists and Records Managers work very hard and are unbelievably underfunded. Most branches of the National Archives have a backlog that would take 70+ years to process and make available to the public at current staffing levels. And they get more records in all the time.
leftist antisemites are really everywhere on this hellsite making & reblogging their posts likeĀ āthe Jews have too much power and privilege and actually their very recent genocide was not that bad compared to what my group experiences and antisemitism doesnāt even exist in my country and especially not in liberal spacesā
Goyim should reblog posts like this one instead of always only acknowledging antisemitism when it is about jk rowlingās goblins or easy shit like that.
Challenge the antisemitism that is coming from inside the house. Be a little brave. Because you will lose followers for reblogging a post like this, because there are antisemites following you that think this way, and assume you do too.
This one isnāt a hotbutton issue for Republicans vs Democrats so dont assume that just because you live in a blue state that your reps will definitely vote for it. Make the call.
Boost the heck out of this. It is bipartisan legislation, Sponsored by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and co-sponsored by Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH). The bill number is S. 4102 and I donāt think it has a House equivalent yet. If you tell your reps to vote for S. 4102 sponsored by Sen. Brown and co-sponsored by Sen. Portman, you could be completely changing the game for disabled married couples. (The Senate has a drop-down menu by state at the top of the website https://www.senate.gov/)
As of now (31 May 2022) this bill is in committee in the Senate. It was sent to the committee of finance. If your senator is listed below, it is ESPECIALLY important that you call them to express your support for S.4102 - SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act.
one of my coworkers tried to advocate for me during her exit interview bc of the 20k pay disparity between me & another person in my year but it sounds like it went really badly & she called me to be like uhhhh so if management retaliates against you just fyi itās mostly their fault but also kind ofĀ mine so iāll write you a really nice reference letter for your next job
spent literally all day in meetings about this today and management has agreed to enter talks about changing the pay structure after i sent them a unionized pay scale from a similar organization with all salaried employees CCāed lmao
we had a separate call without management afterwards and told each other our full pay histories and any justifications they had given us when we tried to negotiate past raises and it turns out theyāve been lying to us all about pay ranges for years l m a o, meanwhile the girl who started all this is sitting in on all the calls watching the chaos unfold around her like a righteous blazing angel and i owe her my life
This was the code name of a secret project Jewish Historian Emmanuel Ringelblum organized, managed, and carried out in the Warsaw Ghetto. As a historian of the Jewish experience, Ringelblum understood very early on in WW2 that Warsawās Jews were living through an exceptional historical moment which desperately required documentation. And so, he gather a covert team of writers, reporters, diarists, and researchers, and sent them out into the Ghetto to write, record, and take testimonies.
The Nazis began their first attempt toĀ āliquidateā (that is, get all Jews onto a train out of a ghetto, which would them take them to the Treblinka extermination camp) the Warsaw Ghetto in July 1942; thisĀ āaktionā would last through September 1942.Ā The Oyneg Shabes team understood that they were unlikely to survive to see the end of the summer, much less the war.Ā
Three of them set out to bury the 11 crates containing the Archives. With the burial, the three men included messages for the future generations they hoped would find and learn from the archives. One of these men, Israel Lichtenstein, wrote the following message to the future:
āI do not ask for any thanks, for any memorial, for any praiseā¦I only wish to be rememberedā¦I wish my wife to be remembered, Gele Sekstein.Ā She has worked during the war years with children as an educator and teacher, has preĀpared stage sets, costumes for the childrenās theaterā¦both of us get ready to meet and receive death.Ā I wish my little daughter to be remembered.Ā Margalit is 20 months old today.Ā She has fully mastered the Yiddish language and speaks it perfectly.Ā At nine months she began to speak Yiddish clearly.Ā In intelliĀgence she equals children of 3 or 4 years.Ā I donāt boast.Ā People who witĀness it and tell me so are the staff teaching at the school at 68 Nowolipki StreetāDr. Pola Foilman, Mrs. Blit Herzlich, Mrs. Zagan and others. I donāt lament my own life or that of my wife.Ā I pity only this little nice and talented girl.Ā She too deserves to be remembered.ā
Israel, Gele, and Margalit were last seen alive trying to return to their hideout in the opening days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, April, 1943.
The archives were recovered and dug up by the few Oyneg Shabes survivors on September 18, 1946. One crate is still missing. There is much more to say about these archives and their collectors, guardians, and survivors. Iām still learning much of that materialāindeed, my brief treatment of it above is incompleteāand a good chunk of the story will play a role in my book.
The content above is all from Who Will Write Our History? by Dr. Samuel Kassow. Heās a really lovely, generous man, an incredible scholar, and a kind colleague/mentor; he even shared some of his Yiddish translations with me.
new:Ā i made a FREE TEMPLATE if you're interested in this habit tracker notion setupš±šš
i've received a few questions about how i track habits, which honestly changes often, but i thought i'd share how i do it right now.
other posts that may interest you:Ā making a dashboard in notion (with template) | my notion tag
this is a pretty low-maintenance and simple way of tracking habits, while still using the wonderful database feature. i hope it helps you āØš
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title: how i track my habits on notion (an illustrated guide + free template)
habit breakdown: every year i take some time to define exactly what my habits are first (i like to use icons for simplicity). this way, i know what i have to do to check off a habit on a day
how i use it: every day, my dashboard has a habits section that updates daily. when i practice the habit, i just check it off. this refreshes automatically so itās convenient.
how i use it: at the end of each month, i can see how consistent i was with specific habits. i do this by looking at my monthly percentages and looking for patterns: did i burn out on a particular habit? why? and i think about how i should adjust these to my current reality every month, because life happens!
how i use it: then i jot down these numbers so i have a general idea of whether or not iām being consistent with the intentions i set at the beginning of the month. i ask myself, why or why not? and then i make adjustments to my new interests and priorities.
benefits
benefits ā an easy habit tracker helps you see what youāre doing each day so you have an idea of what you want to practice more, practice less, and gives you a better idea of how your habits are affecting your wellbeing, instead of just relying on vibes, which can make you hard on yourself.
encouragement ā checking it off gives me a sense of accomplishment. i had a tendency of thinking i wasnāt ādoing enoughā each month, but when i write things down, i have concrete proof that i did things that were important to me. you also get to look back on your month and be like, look at all these things i did for myself! and have a little celebration :)
how it works: calendar view: of course iāve created a template for you to use (yay!), but itās worth learning how i set up the template so you can adjust it to your needs. basically, each habit is a property, and each page corresponds to a day, which has all the habits on it like a checklist. every month i duplicate the page each day for a month (it sounds cumbersome, but actually only takes about a minute total). this allows me to review every month if i want to keep my habits the same, set habit intentions each month so i can reflect and consider, what habits should i continue? what should i stop? it keeps it flexible. also, if youāre going on vacation, need a break, or anything comes up, you can take days off and that way your statistics wonāt be skewed by stretches of time where you arenāt planning to practice your habits.
tip: hold alt + drag your mouse to duplicate pages super quickly for this step
how it works: count page: all you have to do here is filter the date to the interval youād like to see your habits summarized in. i keep mine as calculated per month, but you can set your interval for a week or year or something more specific.
how it works: daily view: i create a linked database and set the view to gallery, filter to āTodayā and make sure that all the properties for habits are enabled so they appear in a little task list. then i just check them off each day. it updates automatically.
closing: and thatās it! for me, simple is best. i change how i track stuff all the time, but for now, this works just fine. i hope it can help you too.
Currently, the policy of the United States on the Taiwan question is that the US recognizes that polities on both sides of the Taiwan Strait hold that there is only one China and that Taiwan is part of China. In the current tense international climate, it may be useful to considers alternatives to that policy.
Two Chinas Policy: The United States recognizes the independence of Taiwan as a sovereign state, separate from the People's Republic of China.
Three Chinas Policy: The US recognizes Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the mainland as independent states.
Four Chinas Policy: The US recognizes Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and the mainland as independent states.
One China Policy (Retro 1978): The US switches its diplomatic recognition back from the PRC to the ROC.
One China Policy (Retro 1911): The US recognizes the Qing Dynasty as the legitimate government of China and finds some schmuck to play Emperor-in-Exile.
Many Chinas Policy: The US recognizes the sovereign independence of every Chinese province.
Too Many Chinas Policy: Hong Kong makes a perfectly fine city-state, so why not let everyone do that? The US recognizes every Chinese municipality as its own independent state.
1436506450 Chinas Policy: The US recognizes the sovereign independence of every Chinese person.
2^1436506450 Chinas Policy: The US recognizes the sovereign independence of every subset of of the set of all Chinese persons.
2^1436506450-1 Chinas Policy: Same as above, but not including the empty set, because that doesn't even make sense because it's already claimed by Germany.
Infinite Chinas Policy (Countable): The US recognizes that (1) The PRC is a China and (2) for every China c, the successor S(c) is also a China, and (3) for every China c, c != S(c).
Infinite Chinas Policy (Uncountable): The US recognizes that the set C of all Chinas is an ordered field, and that every non-empty subset of C with an upper bound in C has a least upper bound in C.
No Chinas Policy: The United States embraces mereological nihilism and recognizes only atoms and the void.
Bathbomb was dropped off at my apartment very abused and scared he hid in the bathtub for an entire 24hrs. he barely/if ever ate for about a week and didnt begin exploring the apartment until 3 weeks in
it was a month before he came up to me and it was hard but i sat kinda near him every day i would treat him like he was a new cat and let him smell me before trying to pet him and if he even looked uncomfortable id gently stop and just sing or talk to him
now he climbs on my back and jumps on my shoulder if i dont pay attention to him so it takes work and time
cats are like ppl and have triggers and quirks and trauma and we have to be respectful and gentle its not that hard of a concept
new kind of guy who just really likes the first 30 minutes to an hour of horror movies thats just people doing regular things and turns it off as soon as the horror part starts to kick in
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