my thoughts & life

Clara | 22 ♌️ 🇵🇷

[begaydodrughailsatan]

Mental illness can be cured by thinking about The Character but be careful because mental illness can also be caused by thinking about The Character

[mysharona1987]

The French really don’t fuck around.

[oaktreegirl-blog]

[sirfrogsworth]

It’s admirable they are at least giving the flies a fighting chance. 

[gulistan-blog]

㋡🥀

Magical forest..

[paranoidbookreader]

[temporalkingdom]

Who is your dad, now?

[thou-creature-of-the-deep]

I WILL reblog this video every damn time I see it because this kids is A GENIUS

[suuniva]

POSTING THIS AGAIN!!!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!!!

[whitepeopletwitter]

Hold up…

[whitepeopletwitter]

Portal

[twiststreet]

!!!

[juneboba]

[commandtower-solring-go-deactiv]

This is incredible because it is super difficult to visualise how much 6 feet actually is and most people don’t bother to try

[jumpingjacktrash]

HOLY SHIT ok first of all that is a brilliant use of technology, and second, that activated my flight response bigtime and i bet it convinced people to evacuate that weren’t gonna, which would’ve saved lives. so good job folks, worth the effort.

[blogthegreatrouge]

Why can’t she share that protective shield spell that she clearly casted on herself at least?

[harrowbarkdogagesimus]

good reminder that 6 feet of water is taller than most people

[dzamie]

Also, while this definitely looks scary, it’s important to remember that your car can and will float away in less than one foot of flood water, and even just a couple of inches is enough to knock you off your feet and kill you through abrasion if not drowning.

I have personally seen the aftermath of a less-than-6-feet-of-water flood down a hill. Ground-floor windows generally did not exist anymore, and least two houses had their ground floors forcibly converted to open-air patios.

[memewhore]

[sweaterkittensahoy]

The fucking legendary WAIT to fake bomb them to show them you knew the whole time. 

Legend.

[error-404-fuck-not-found]

i love that there was definitely an intelligence briefing where someone in charge heard that there was a fake airfield in progress and went, "...hey you know what would be funny?" and then everyone else agreed it was indeed SO funny that they would devote man-hours and a sizable log to making a fake bomb to drop on it while being only somewhat busy fighting a war, but never too busy for a funny craft project

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

Something to ponder

[stopstalkingmechallenge]

To whom it may concern.

[hollydermovoi]

“I know I’ve told this story before, but my abusive ex refused to let me take birth control. I was on the pill until he found them in my purse. I went to the Student Health Center—they were completely unhelpful, choosing to lecture me about the importance of safe sex (recommending condoms) instead of actually listening to my problem. Then I went to Planned Parenthood. The Nurse Practitioner took one look at my fading bruises and stopped the exam. She called in the doctor. The doctor came in and simply asked me: “Are you ready to leave him?” When I denied that I was being abused, she didn’t argue with me. She just asked me what I needed. I said I need a birth control method that my boyfriend couldn’t detect. She recommended a few options and we decided on Depo. When I told her that my boyfriend read my emails and listened to my phone messages and was known to follow me, she suggested to do the Depo injections at off hours when the clinic was normally closed. She made a note in my chart and instructed the front desk never to leave messages for me—instead, she programmed her personal cell phone number into my phone under the name “Nora”. She told me she would call me to schedule my appointments; she wouldn’t leave a message, but I should call her back when I was able to. And that was it. No judgment. No lecture. She walked me to the door and told me to call her day or night if I needed anything. That she lived 5 blocks from campus and would come get me. That I wasn’t alone. That she just wanted me to be safe. I never called her to come to my rescue. But I have no doubt that she would have come if I had called. She kept me on Depo for a year, giving me those monthly injections in secret, helping me prevent a desperately unwanted pregnancy. I cannot thank Planned Parenthood enough for the work they do.”

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Curious Georgiana (via grrrlstudies)

I know I’ve reblogged this before, but it bears re-reblogging (?).  This is how you respond to abuse, this is how you give people control over their bodies/uteruses, this is how you act as a generally non-judgmental and compassionate person.  I love this story so fucking much.

(via coffeewithants)

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

And THIS is one of many reasons why we need to safeguard access to birth control.

[kosmicznacebula]

it's always a good day to complain about English speakers

[fthgurdy]

Important addition: Maria Skłodowska-Curie was born during partitions, which means Poland didn’t exist, which means her insistence that she was Polish was a significant act of defiance against the occupation, which means that you should respect that instead of arguing that ‘well she had French citizenship’. She couldn’t have Polish citizenship despite being Polish, that’s kinda the point she was making by keeping her maiden name and naming a chemical element she discovered ‘Polonium’ .

[morepopcornplease]

HOW TO PRONOUNCE: Skłodowska

L with a dash through it (ł) makes a “W” sound. and W makes a “V” sound.

skwo-DOV-ska

[sapkalikedii]

[adamthegirl]

Researchers gave thousands of dollars to homeless people. The results defied stereotypes.

You've heard this refrain before -- giving money to homeless people is not the best way to help them because it might be squandered, or spen

[juicetrump]

[repotting]

“Researchers gave 50 recently homeless people a lump sum of 7,500 Canadian dollars (nearly $5,700). They followed the cash recipients’ life over 12-18 months and compared their outcomes to that of a control group who didn’t receive the payment. The preliminary findings, which will be peer-reviewed next year, show that those who received cash were able to find stable housing faster, on average. By comparison, those who didn’t receive cash lagged about 12 months behind in securing more permanent housing.

People who received cash were able to access the food they needed to live faster. Nearly 70% did after one month, and maintained greater food security throughout the year. The recipients spent more on food, clothing and rent, while there was a 39% decrease in spending on goods like alcohol, cigarettes or drugs.“

It’s almost like people self medicate to survive intense stress like, idk, not having the cash to live anywhere but outdoors. People who are extremely poor do not want to be poor, we WANT to be safe and have autonomy in our lives but capitalism makes that impossible for some people.

And drug/alcohol abuse, even when prioritized over eating and other necessities, isn’t some kind of alien mindset, it’s very often a matter of not having the resources to actually be safe and fully meet your actual needs so you have to cope somehow with the suffering that deprivation causes.

[whatbigotspost]

This is a perfect example of the kind of important study that shouldn’t NEED to be done, but does need to be done so we can once and for all implement policies that actually help people.

[quousque]

i think it’s important that it was a lump sum all at once, instead of little amounts intermittently. If you’re homeless and, say, addicted to alcohol or meth or whatever, and someone gives you $20 a day, for 12 months, what are you gonna do with that? $20 isn’t enough to pay for a place to sleep that night. You can get some food, but you can’t stock up on anything because you have nowhere to put it. You can’t buy a new pair of shoes. You can’t pay for medication. You can’t really save it up because what are you gonna do, walk around with $5000 worth of twenties in your pocket? until they get lost or stolen and you never got anything out of that money? But you can go and get $20 worth of alcohol and maybe the rest of your day will suck a little less.

But if you get that $5000 all at once and then nothing for the rest of the year, that’s enough to get an apartment for a month, and your meds, and food, and clothes, and then well hey you can look for a job (and you have a mailing address, wow!).

if you’re in a shit situation getting dribs and drabs of money can keep you alive but it won’t help you really change your circumstances, but a large lump sum can do that.

[env0]

I have brought this study up to multiple people who despite the research, still cannot break their stereotypical image of people who are homeless.

[feral-engineer]

I’d really like to see the study done again with long-term homeless people and larger sums of money. They specify recently homeless, and I wonder how the data changes with someone who has been homeless for a while. Or employed vs unemployed homeless people. What happens if you give them 5k a month for a year? What happens if you give poverty or just above poverty income families 5k lump sum? Neurotypical v neurodivergent, when a large quantity of people are homeless because of their neurodivergence and subsequent discrimination?

Yes, this is one of those studies that shouldn’t need to be done, but it also provides really useful data on how best to help people, and how poverty affects people, which is important when you’re an organization with limited funding looking to maximize your impact on a whole community.