I am but a Simple Woman

Maria | 27 | She/Her | Certified hopeless romantic| All Girls Are Cute, Don’t Argue With Me 💖 |Current Obsession: Getting My Shit Together <—Ask me how that’s going

[cannabiscomrade]

So Arizona launched an “education hotline” that allows “concerned parents” to report “””critical race theory””” and other things like ~gender identity~ being taught in the classroom

It would be a shame if the number and email were spread to bad actors looking to prank call the AZ Department of Education

602-771-3500 or empower @ azed .gov 🤡

Horne said two staff members are sorting through the calls, and two investigators are working on credible leads.

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

and for the love of god, don’t just spam it with memes or le funny shrek jokes or whatever, they’ll just hang up

make plausible-sounding reports for things that don’t actually exist, so that they actually have to waste time/resources investigating false leads - the goal is to waste time they would otherwise be using to do their jobs, not to get tumblr clout for being an epic troll

[neko-setsuka]

So apparently the internet article said the superintendent wouldn't be deterred by the prank calls because they would 'taper off eventually'. It'd be a real shame if this post stayed in circulation via queues so they get a consistent list of prank calls to filter through. 😇

[violettfae]

being a housewife for a husband: 🤢😰🤮

being a housewife for my wife: ☺️🥴😋🥰😍🥵😳😘😚🤤

[barryogg]

[velvetmysoul]

[jodalovesstuff]

Anyone have the gif’s of the Chilean goalkeeper Christiane Endler lifting two of her teammates with ease.

I need them for um reasons lol

[moonlight-mery]

Let’s take a look at it one more time

[bitternest]

Just so we’re clear about what an absolute unit this woman is

[postmarxed]

👀

[tyrala1]

[feral4catra]

[flexible]

Update: She can actually hold up three team mates.

[tlirsgender]

Weird peeve time. Calling lab grown gemstones "fake" is stupid because it's the same shit just not formed naturally. An artificially grown diamond is the same shit as a natural diamond it is the exact same material bro it's all fuckign carbon

[tlirsgender]

It's carbon it's pretty and it didn't involve slave labor what's not to love??? Hi I'm having geology opinions tonight apparently. And I'm right

[tlirsgender]

There is so much bullshit in the diamonds industry to be mad about tbh. It also ties into the bullshit of the wedding industry as a whole but we don't have the time to unpack all that

[val-ritz]

not even going to lie, the day i learned i could get like 15 lab grown rubies the size of dimes for $20 is the day i spent $20 on rubies, and i have never once said to myself "man, i wish this cost $1,600 and the lives of eight children to produce"

[fuckyeahmineralogy]

We are a pro-lab-grown mineral blog here, not only is it massively cheaper but massively more ethical as well in many cases.

[thegreenpea]

another very cool lab grown gem is Moissanite. It has a 9.25 on the mohs hardness scale where diamond is a 10. Moissanote also has a 2.69 refractive index in comparison to diamond’s 2.419 and here is the difference 

and the best thing about moissanite? It is all lab grown and it costs only a fraction of what diamond costs. So fuck the diamond indsutry and buy lab grown gems which cost significantly less

[patron-saint-of-smart-asses-dea]

Can Catholics be vegan? Communion isn’t vegan. Is it? Is Jesus a legume?

Guys, please, I need a break. Veggie Tales doesn’t cover this and that is the extent of my theological training.

[heresylog]

No. God put animals on the earth for us to consume. Refusing a gift is the greatest affront to Our Lord

[lesbian-bookworm]

Jesus is a legume. He is a peanut

[heresylog]

Heretic.

[toastbutteregg]

[the-last-girl-scout]

[butter-and-too-much-bread]

Managers really are evil aren’t they?

[infectedwithnyanites]

Love the paranoia inherit in interpreting any unmonitered conversations among your employees as potential threats.

[property-is-theft-deactivated20]

If you were confused where the capitalists stand “knowing your rights” is a threatening buzz word to them. 

[fitzreiley]

I’m a union member. From a union family. My grandmother and mother both worked in and for the same Union. My first job as a teen was working as a truck packer for fedex. Non-union. The new hire orientation was a half hour of class time. 15 minutes on all of our duties and safety procedures and everything. Then a 15 minute video on why unions were bad. At 19 I knew a fair amount about unions having been to many picket lines with my grandmother and mother. I took notes on ‘the evils the union’ when the instructor came back he asked us if we had any questions. I commenced to asking him about 10 minutes worth of questions picking about the ‘evils’ the union represent. Before I was even allowed on the floor for my first shift I was called into the floor managers office. They did not appreciate when I pulled my phone out to record our conversation. Long story short I was let go before my first shift and had to threaten legal action (because I’m just that petty) to get them to pay me for the time I was there ‘employed’.

Mangers don’t like when you have even an inkling of your rights and a union enforces those rights for workers.

[allthingslinguistic]

There’s a theory that early Europeans started saying “brown one” or “honey-eater” instead of “bear” to avoid summoning them, and similarly my friend has started calling Alexa “the faceless woman” because saying her true name awakens her from her slumber

English has an avoidance register used in the presence of certain respected animals, which sounds fancy until you realize it’s spelling out w-a-l-k and t-r-e-a-t in front of the dog.

Mx. Leah Velleman on twitter

[a-book-of-creatures]

Icelandic folklore requires you avoid saying the names of evil whales, otherwise you’ll draw their attention.

[william-snekspeare]

weirdo beardo 

[william-snekspeare]

update: 

[pinkfemme-deactivated20210608]

you hear me: homosexuality is inclusive of nonbinary people. nonbinary isn’t a ‘third gender’ and there are so many different experiences and genders one could be. nonbinary people are included in every sexuality.

[wolvierinez]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[enidtheghost]

this is no joke. i looked around the reviews of several different candles just in case it could’ve been a single bad batch but nope.

these screenshots are only from like 4 or 5 different candles but i could’ve grabbed plenty more.

y’all, seriously, loss of smell is a possible effect of covid. if things don’t smell/taste as strong as you remember GET TESTED and ISOLATE. if someone you know is complaining about their candles not having a scent, inform them and encourage them to get tested. and wear a fucking mask, y’all.

[ninja-o-s]

What a fuckin metric to see the disease!

[invaderxan]

Losing your sense of taste and smell isn’t just a possible effect. It’s very common and it may be a cardinal symptom (meaning it can be used in making a diagnosis). For a lot of people, it may be the only symptom. Worse, it’s a long term condition which can last for months, even after you recover from the virus. Doctors worry that some people may never fully recover their sense of smell.

A friend of mine was telling me a few days ago, how her boyfriend has barely been able to taste or smell anything since April. And honestly, that’s horrifying. No one knows exactly why the virus does this, but being unable to taste or smell anything can cause depression.

It’s a cliché on Tumblr to say “not enough people are talking about this” but, seriously, not enough people are talking about this. That social gathering you want to go to is not worth being unable to taste or smell properly until next summer.

[superinframan]

[k8e-88]

Why would you leave that in the tags??

[eroscestlavie]

when you’re a gay lion and you accidentally tried to introduce your lesbian lioness friend to one of her own exes at a gay bar and she goes into the bathroom and bitches you out for not being able to tell her endlessly rotating cast of girlfriends apart which isn’t really fair because first of all they all keep dyeing their hair different colors and second of all she keeps getting back together with different ones at different times and meanwhile you’ve been “single” for like 8 months but are spending a lot of time with one specific guy who works at your old co-op and were going to excitedly tell her about it tonight but now you’ve ruined the whole subject of dating by trying to introduce her to her own ex at a gay bar (which is a watering hole. because you’re lions.) 

[aiyanayanas]

[candiikismet]

Finally someone tackles gift giving. It’s my core love language and people don’t get it. At all.

[unfortunatelyimaginary]

Idk if gift giving is my love language to receive, but it is the one I most easily give. It's just little trinkets or shiny things that hold the message "I saw this and thought of you". The value/price is meaningless, but the time invested into the object has a lot of value.

[st4rwiitch]

this is fantastic now children in Puerto Rico wont be able to receive the education they deserve thanks to their messed up government

[dionysusbisexual]

Its even worse than that. I’m living through it. Not only are schools closing, hospitals are collapsing. Only around 9% of the island has electricity and it comes and goes at times.

People are dying in hospitals because of lack of diesel for the generators, a lot of the water is now infected, there are disease outbreaks and scareceness of food. I am safe, but many are not.

Some have water, others don’t. We need help. Sending money would be helpful but what would help even more would be sending water filters, filtering water bottles, food, medicine, if somehow possible diesel.

All of you reblogging this news helps, but what we need is physical help. If you can’t, then spread the word, but God if you can send supplies… Please… PLEASE do. We are dying. Help us, help us save ourselves. Help us save our people. Help us save out ISLAND.

[airyairyquitecontrary-deactivat]

If you’re not in a position to ship or transport useful items to the island (which is sure as heck the case for me in New Zealand) then the best thing you can do is give money to a reputable relief organisation operating in the area.

Hispanic Federation UNIDOS fundraising page for Puerto Rico.

Choose the fundraiser you want from the dropdown menu in the “Your Information” section (as you can see from the picture they have several).

Save the Children’s Hurricane Maria fundraising page.

[wadafuqreally]

Reblogging

[ephemer-os]

Maria is over but we’re still going through hell and the effects of it likely won’t fade for years to come thanks to HoW mUCh hElP We rEciEveD so support and awareness is always appreciated