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Homeless Cat Opens Its Eyes For The First Time In Months, Stuns Everyone With Their Beauty

Cotton the cat was alone on the streets, starving, disease-ridden and close to death. His eyes were scabbed over with mange and he was being eaten alive by mites, finding any kind of food without the use of his eyes was next to impossible. But then his guardian angel arrived.

With lots of care, Cotton has finally opened his eyes

glimher

deadgiants

This mayday remember, friends don’t let friends get arrested. Take ‘em back.

wruith

That one dude just straight punching the cop in the head

alpine-insurrection

Happy May Day!

politijohn

dad4god

Where does it say in the constitution or any of the amendments that eating is a human right?

seelcudoom

it also doesn’t say you have a right to not be murdered, its a piece of paper dipshit not some holy manuscript passed down by god all mighty to be the sum total of human morality

inadvisablyappliedmagic

Also literally it says “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. Guess what you need for life dipshit

eroticcannibal

Wait, there are people who think human rights are decided by whats written in the constitution? The american constitution?

snommelp

Friendly reminder that when the UN voted to declare food a human right, there was exactly one country that voted “no”

interclouds

looked this up and it’s legit. also this map of legal right to food by country, color coded to how it’s established either by national law, international law, or treaty coherence

guess what countries colored white means

mothbug-deactivated20200626

Forever grateful that the Wallace’s Flying Frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus) is a real living creature that exists on this earth at the same time as me.

w9sp

As soon as I saw this my brain instantly just

he propel

mothbug-deactivated20200626

please join the pokémon design team

humanityinahandbag

LISTEN UP

Today I did something that terrified the fuck out of me. But ladies, we all gotta do it at some point.

I got a contract for fulltime work given to me.

I looked at it.

I realized, calculating the amount they wanted to offer, that it would actually be less than I’m making part-time now.

So what did I do?

Let me tell you, every single piece of me wanted to stay quiet and settle and work my way up the ladder.

Until I realized that

I am worth more than they were offering, and it would be an insult to value me at any less than my actual worth.

I have a masters and a year’s worth of teaching under my belt.

I am a qualified professional who wants to make more than assistants pay.

Their reasoning for the pay was insurance. I’m given insurance that’s worth a great deal, so I shouldn’t worry too much because that added up to a bigger salary. Except insurance doesn’t do jack shit if I can’t pay for an apartment or car costs or student loans.

What did I do?

First

I breathed. I took a breath. I washed my face and had a quick cry in the bathroom. Ain’t nothing wrong with a real fast cry.

Second

I left a note on my bosses desk asking if he could speak to me about my contract whenever he was next available.

Third

Once in my bosses office, I calmly handed him my contract back and said, “I’m very honored that you thought of me for a position, but I cannot accept what you’re offering me. I have a masters and I’ve taught in this school for a year, and I’d been under the assumption that I’d be receiving a different position than this.” He asked me what I was looking for. I said, “I would work for no less than [MY RANGE]. And if you cannot offer me that, then I’ll have to continue working for you full time until I can find another position elsewhere that can.” I thanked him very much for the offer. I was polite and upfront about my expectations for the position that I wanted.

I can’t tell you what will happen. But I can tell you that going in there and establishing myself as a no BS worker who looks out for herself and negotiates got me farther than if I’d said nothing.

I don’t know the outcome yet. I really don’t.

But I can tell you that he is currently rewriting my contract with higher pay.

Will it be high enough to keep me there? I don’t know.

But I do know that today was me putting myself forward and taking a chance, and chances, no matter how small, do pay off.

Ladies.

DON’T BE AFRAID TO SPEAK ABOUT YOUR CONTRACTS.

IT’S FUCKING TERRIFYING.

BUT DO IT ANYWAY.

BECAUSE YOU’RE WORTH MORE, AND THEY SHOULD KNOW THAT.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

princessofbadassery

Friends, there is something I need all of you to know:

As a group, white, straight, cis, upper-middle class men negotiate their salaries every single time. Every time. They have for decades.

It’s gotten to the point where 8 times out of 10, companies will low-ball all of their new employees just like what happened with OP, expecting to get a counter-offer. This happens for a combination of three reasons:

1) Most hiring managers are white, cis, upper-middle class men who cannot fathom that anybody would not know they need to counter-offer, or would not feel the urge to, or would not know that they can.

2) Due to employment discrimination (yes, it’s illegal, but it still happens all the time), many new hires are also white, straight, cis, upper-middle class men who know to negotiate, further contributing to the idea that “everybody just knows”.

3) Corporate owners, executives, and upper management want to get away with paying employees as little as possible. If they know that women, people of color, queer and trans people and people from below the upper-middle class are less likely to negotiate, they see that as a bonus. This is part of why the wage gap exists, and part of why companies try to (illegally, in the United States) keep employees from discussing salaries with one another.

If you counter-offer after receiving a job offer, you will not shock anyone. The hiring manager may act shocked. They may act scandalized. They may try to shame you. But don’t be fooled: they are very likely able to pay you much more than what they offered you. Counter-offer every time.

catiematie

My husband’s mom had two companies in a bidding war for her because she was offered another job at better pay, so she went to her boss and told them what the better pay was and that’s why she was giving notice.

They upped her pay on the spot to exceed the offer from the new company.

When she went to the new company and said she couldn’t accept their offer because her current position have her a raise above their offer, they upped their offer again.

They did that for about a week until nothing companies topped out and her current company won.

You are worth it. You can negotiate. You need to negotiate.

accidental-muse

this is amazing, and i challenge you to apply to other areas of your life as well. all of them.

you are worth it.

neurotiddies

RB IF YOU AGREE

dwengolyn

TERFS will never be rad, dud.

aemryst

M00ds

princesstigerbelle

I love these

north2007

my little flower prince

(via Margo)

x

“The only time you should replay your past is to remember how good something tasted.” ~ Oreo 🍕🥙🍗

princesstigerbelle

Nice quote Oreo

theoreocat

How to make a DIY felt Pet apron 🥣🍳

princesstigerbelle

😻😻

babyanimalgifs

This is so wholesome

anx1ous-op0ssum

Update: he finally got the cat to the vet to see if she had a microchip

callmebliss

I was already on board with his sweet wholesome open-to-love-and-nurturing heart but I was fully unprepared for getting to that last tweet and seeing how off the hook HOT dude is