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Most of the time I honestly don’t understand what people are talking about when they say I’m physically attractive. It’s like the kind of thing that enough people tell you it’s true so I guess it must be. But it often gives me anxiety when people say that because it perpetually feels like people are just complementing me either because they feel sorry for me or they’re actually making fun of me.
CW body image talk
no matter how much fat positivity i try to surround myself with, I fucking hate my body size right now. I feel disgusting when I see videos or full length pictures of me. This isn’t what my body is supposed to look like and I don’t know how to reconcile with it.
Dear Tumblr: what do you do when someone close to you is on a self destructive spiral of doom that they are attempting to cleverly disguise as "doing whatever the fuck i want" but literally no one is buying it?
Watch: Michelle Obama sends Native American students a crucial message in graduation speech.
*raises hand faster than light*
no offense but if a girl ever did this to me my pussy would fall out my body
I’m gay I’m so gay
she can throw me off a bridge
i agree with everything above
Literal goals
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This is the goal
As a paraprofessional, I work with clients who can be extremely aggressive (biting, punching, charging, etc) and many suffer from PTSD, Austism, ODD etc. I do feel afraid in that moment but I am a TRAINED professional, emphasis on the TRAINED part. I don’t have a gun on me because I was taught to take down/restrain w/o one. How tf am I, a 5”2 woman working w/18-22 year old 6 foot plus men, able to take down aggressors w/o a problem but the mf police CAN’T?
SO TRUE.
I used to date an ex-military cop who literally explained it to me: "well if they manage to take me down, now they have a weapon, so it is imperative that cops keep them from getting a weapon." So you're saying you need to carry a weapon because you need to use your weapon to protect your weapon?
No, your cat is not tricking you or setting a trap for you. You’re just misreading what she’s trying to communicate.
Basically, there are two ways that cats bond with their colonymates (and if you own a cat, you count as a colonymate): grooming, and play. Grooming is self-explanatory; play mostly means means wrestling, because cats are hardcore like that.
A cat who wishes to engage in bonding - whether grooming or play - is going to do one of two things: either she’s going to initiate bonding, or she’s going to solicit bonding. A cat who wants to initiate bonding will just walk up and start licking or wrestling with with you; conversely, a cat who wants to solicit bonding will indicate, in some fashion, that she wants you to be the one to start grooming or playing with her.
Now, here’s the trick: because play for a cat typically means play-fighting, one of the most common ways for a cat to solicit play is to deliberately adopt a vulnerable position, thereby communicating that her prospective partner should mock-attack her in order to begin a wrestling match.
Sound familiar?
Basically, if your cat rolls over onto her back and looks at you really expectantly, like she’s anticipating some action on your part, and you go in for a belly rub and get your hand shredded, it’s not a kitty prank. Rather, you misinterpreted a solicitation for play as a solicitation for grooming.
You’ll save yourself a lot of blood loss if you learn to tell the difference!
(It’s possible to teach a cat how to roughhouse with a human partner without causing injury, but it takes work. If you aren’t able to put in that kind of training time, it’s usually best to redirect to a different form of play when you recognise that your cat is trying to get a wrestling match going; a game of chase is a popular alternative.)
This is important for all cat owners. Be a better cat owner and know our furry friends!
Report: 95% Of Grandfathers Got Job By Walking Right Up And Just Asking
Fun story my history teacher told us: his grandfather during the industrial revolution walked past a flyer which said “looking for smart strong boys” so he went into the factory, said “i’m strong and smart”, and he had that job from age 13 to 78
and this is why they expect the younger generation to simply “get a job” ahh it’s so much clearer now
#basically everyone aged Baby Boomer and up #still can’t wrap their heads around the fact that there’s no such thing as ‘just walking in’ anymore #like the majority of jobs you’d actually want require online applications and you’re lucky to get a rejection email (via halffizzbin)
Here’s another fun story: My boss decided to slap my work phone number on all the ads we post looking for newspaper carriers. So I receive a bunch of calls from people looking for jobs. Working only part time, I’m not usually there when they call, so they have to leave a message and I take their info to pass on to my boss. Sometimes it can be weeks before my boss calls any of these applicants back, if at all. How the callers respond to not getting a callback varies. Most don’t do anything, but some call again. If the person sounds young, they may leave another message clarifying their qualifications and reaffirming their interest. If the person is old, and I can always hear it in their voice, they respond by getting mad, threatening to cancel their newspaper subscription, and occasionally swearing. The older generation is used to getting a callback, and an immediate one, so they throw a tantrum when they don’t get what they want.
And everyone calls Millennials entitled.
Mind. Blown.
a harry potter au where potions is taught by gordon ramsay
neville: *messes up his potion*
gordon ramsay: *holds neville between two slices of bread* what are you
neville: an idiot sandwich
no no no!
Imagine that this is Gordon Ramsay a la Masterchef Junior
Neville: *messes up the potion, realizes it, starts crying quietly*
GR: What’s going on?
Neville: *explains how he messed up*
GR: Oh gosh okay…we can fix this, don’t cry, see, it’s fine now? Just be more careful when you’re adding the Newt’s eyes, all right? Drop them in gently. There we go. No more tears.
Neville: *giggles wetly, wiping eyes*
Yes, he only screams when he’s dealing with people that claim to know what they’re doing and clearly dont, when he’s teaching he’s very kind and patient because they’re still learning.
He’d probably do the bread thing to Malfoy.
nononononono. I get that Malfoy is a bit of a twat, but he’s still a kid. It’d be the teachers fucking up that he’d have trouble with.
Ramsay: All you had to do was treat it with a fucking Beozar!
Slughorn: It was a stressfu-
Ramsay: How long have you been teaching potions?!
or
Ramsay: So you’re going to raise this boy SPECIFICALLY so he can die as part of your twisted little scheme?
Dumbledore: It’s for the greater good, professor.
Ramsay: The greater fucking good?! *holds two slices of bread either side of dumbledoor’s face* What are you?
Dumbledore: Am I, per chance, an idiot sandwich?
Ramsay: Yes, you fucking are.
Okay, now I can reblog it!
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Fantastic!
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I’m in love
I MUST HAVE REBLOGGED A THOUSAND TIMESSSS
Just imagine him having a go at Gilderoy Lockheart though
what i meant to say was “thanks for your email. unfortunately Alice Isn’t Dead hasn’t really been targeting the Entitled Solipsist demographic. good luck avoiding content warnings in your other free media consumption.”
this is hilarious this guy is going to tell his friends not to listen to this because of what it has in it. what’s it called, again, what’s the name for it, when you tell someone what a piece of media has in it so that they can avoid it if they don’t want to see that? what’s that concept called
Tw: trigger warnings
What I remember most about emotional abuse is that it’s like being put in a box. How you end up in there is the biggest trick – I never managed to work that one out. Maybe you think it’s a treasure box at first: you’re in there because you’re special. Soon the box starts to shrink. Every time you touch the edges there is an “argument”. So you try to make yourself fit. You curl up, become smaller, quieter, remove the excessive, offensive parts of your personality – you begin to notice lots of these. You eliminate people and interests, change your behaviour. But still the box gets smaller. You think it’s your fault. The terrible, unforgivable too-muchness of you is to blame. You don’t realise that the box is shrinking, or who is making it smaller. You don’t yet understand that you will never, ever be tiny enough to fit, or silent enough to avoid a row
It’s time to make emotional abuse a crime - Lauren Laverne (via ninja-suffragette)
holy fucking shit this exactly what happened to me
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Let Hamilton be Hamilton, let it live, let it breathe, let it be successful…without you.
Tory Bullock, Actor/Writer/Director
The hit Broadway musical Hamilton is causing a bit of a stir because of their verbiage in a recent casting notice. For those of you who are unaware, Hamilton is a play that explores the story of our founding fathers re-told with a primarily Black and Latino cast. The open call for the touring company called specifically for “non-white actors.” Lawyer and human rights activist Randolph McLaughlin cited “this preference for one racial group over another” is against the law in New York City. (You can read the news article published here: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/03/29/hamilton-casting-call-non-white/)
This is a very interesting argument. I am a Mexican-American actor based in Los Angeles. I can’t even count how many roles I am not allowed to audition for because I am not white. Most Broadway shows, most TV shows, most roles in general are written specifically for Caucasian actors. So I do indeed find it “odd” to criticize a Broadway hit that has opened the door for so many actors of color. The lawyer, Randolph McLaughlin, says, “Imagine if a casting call was for WHITES ONLY. Al Sharpton would have a picket line.” Well, perhaps Mr. Sharpton and Mr. McLaughlin should peruse the casting calls of nearly everything currently being produced in Hollywood. Mr. McLaughlin might change his tune and see he’s barking up the wrong tree.
If this is a case based merely on semantics, why does the term “non-white” cause uproar, but “Caucasian Only” is perfectly acceptable terminology in casting? Is there an inherent attitude of acceptance that there are just more roles, (read: more opportunity) for white actors?
It is for these reasons that I began to write, for both stage and screen. As a non-white actor, I saw so many stories that were never about me. I couldn’t find myself anywhere mainstream. Upon the suggestion and tutelage of playwright, Josefina Lopez, I began to write. Now, I can’t stop. I’m writing us into lead roles. Because our stories matter, and more than that, our stories are about life, just like everybody else.
I think if you are outside of the entertainment industry, it might be difficult to understand how and why stories are told, and just how many people and hoops there are to jump through in order to get their film made. Let’s put it this way, it’s no easy feat. Last year, a good friend of mine directed a short film with an Asian-American actress as the lead (she wrote the film as well.) The film was reviewed and one particular reviewer (it should be noted that he is a straight white cis-male) voiced that he was confused as to why the lead character was Asian. It had nothing to do with the storytelling and that “there has to be a reason for alternative casting.” Yeah. Let that sink in. Our existence as actors of color is categorized as other-ness and needs explanation. Our existence needs explanation. Herein lies the problem. The ideology that folks of color are NOT the default, that our culture enters the room before we do. That is the sad truth that Hollywood is based upon. THAT is discrimination. Not a Hamilton casting notice calling for actors of color.
This is why it is so important to tell stories in new ways, in ways that include us, as people, as artists, as the center of our own narratives. Until we learn how to tell our own stories, things can’t change. Claiming our spaces and celebrating who we are is not “anti-white,” it’s necessary, especially in an industry that keeps perpetuating the narrative of us in chains, behind bars, cleaning houses, the list goes on and on. We are more than that. We are dreamers, we are writers, WE ARE ENOUGH. In the words of the closing song from Hamilton, “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story.” Let’s do it, let’s tell our stories. Pick up that pen, and write. Use your voice. Re-shape the narrative that is working against us.
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oh my god
delete the rest of the internet and leave only this video
PSA - PLEASE READ AND SPREAD HE WORD!!!
IF YOU SEE THIS PLANT AT ALL, DO NOT TOUCH IT!!!
Giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum) is an invasive herb in the carrot family which was originally brought to North America from Asia and has since become established in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Northwest regions of the United States. Giant hogweed grows along streams and rivers and in fields, forests, yards and roadsides, and a giant hogweed plant can reach 14 feet or more in height with compound leaves up to 5 feet in width.
Giant Hogweed sap contains toxic chemicals known as Furanocoumarins. When these chemicals come into contact with the skin and are exposed to sunlight, they cause a condition called Phytophotodermatitis, a reddening of the skin often followed by severe blistering and burns. These injuries can last for several months, and even after they have subsided the affected areas of skin can remain sensitive to light for years. Furanocoumarins are also carcinogenic and teratogenic, meaning they can cause cancer and birth defects. The sap can also cause temporary (or even permanent) blindness if introduced into the eyes.
If someone comes into physical contact with Giant Hogweed, the following steps should be taken:
Wash the affected area thoroughly with soap and COLD water as soon as possible.
Keep the exposed area away from sunlight for 48 hours.
If Hogweed sap gets into the eyes, rinse them with water and wear sunglasses.
See a doctor if any sign of reaction sets in.
If a reaction occurs, the early application of topical steroids may lessen the severity of the reaction and ease the discomfort. The affected area of skin may remain sensitive to sunlight for a few years, so applying sun block and keeping the affected area shielded from the sun whenever possible are sensible precautions PLEASE, DO NOT JUST READ AND SCROLL! THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT AND POTENTIALLY LIFE-SAVING INFORMATION!!!
Extra note: if you live in Oregon, New Jersey, Michigan or New York and see one of these, call your state’s department of agriculture to report it, and trained professionals will come kill it before it can produce seeds and spread.
Frankly, if you see one in general, probably call your DOA and see if there’s a program in place.
Do not burn it, because the smoke will give you the same reaction.
If for some ungodly reason there isn’t a professional who can handle it for you (and please, please use a professional), the DOA of New York has [this guide] for how to deal with it yourself.
OH MY FUCK I HAVE THESE IN MY BACKYARD.
Fucking invasives. Signal boost.
Re-reblogging because I checked Snopes, and not only is this shit true, but the text on this is pretty much the same as it is there! Stay safe, kiddos.
According to the US Department of Agriculture, these are currently the states and provinces in North America where Giant Hogweed is present. Even if your state/province is “clear” that doesn’t mean that it is not there. If you see Giant Hogweed in your yard or anywhere please call your DOA! This stuff is mad deadly!
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Also here is a human for size reference. Since they are huge it should be easy enough to see and spot when fully grown.
The burns can also be very bad, far worse than any poison ivy. Just Google ‘Giant Hogweed Burns’ and you’ll see. It can cause bad blistering, red painful rashes, and more. Please be careful of this plant!
They exist in Austria and Germany too. Please be careful!
Also, if you are in the Iowa/Minnesota area (maybe farther, I don’t exactly know), there is a close relative (also invasive) with yellow flowers called wild parsnip.
Flowers (source):
Leaves (source):
It only gets to about half the size of giant hogweed but has all the same toxic effects. The plants in the pictures look small but I’ve seen ones at least 6 feet tall with stems two inches thick.
A lot of pictures available of giant hogweed are fullsized and in bloom. Just because it lacks the flowers doesn’t mean it’s not hogweed! It is dangerous well before that point.
As seen above, another important detail when identifying them can be the stems. They often have this reddish speckling, and are covered in bristly hairs. Like the rest of the plant, you should absolutely not touch them either.
You can see here how the redness is mostly on larger, older portions of the stems.
For those of you in Ontario, here is a link to some more information via Ontario’s Invading Species Awareness Program . It has details on the plant’s growth, removal methods, and groups you can report sightings to.
Unfortunately I lack information on herbicide use, but if the responsibility of removing giant hogweed somehow falls to the owner, please research local laws/restrictions concerning the use of things such as glyphosate (roundup). It is always possible to make things worse instead of better, so exercise caution in all areas, not just the handling/disposal of the plant.
This is not bullshit. My sister works for the Cooperative Extension in New York and this is a big P.R. focus for them. They have trouble because somebody may spot some of these on a neighbor’s property and call it in, but they can’t get permission to go in and take it out because the neighbors think it’s “pretty” or they “natural” and want it to stay.
Here’s another thing about it that makes it dangerous and maybe might scare some people into doing something about it: this time of year, (winter) the dried stuff is tailor-made for attracting kids: long, light, jointed. It looks like bamboo and they will use it to frame up little huts, make beaded necklaces, use as “sword.”, etc. The worst is it’s hollow which makes it perfect for BLOW GUNS. Imagine getting that stuff on your lips….
I work at an environmental science college and can also confirm this. This stuff is bad bad bad news.
To all you aspiring herbalists and just nature adventurers: please, pelase be careful
I’ve brushed up against this stuff and it fucked me up for about two months. And the scars lasted for a year and a half after that
What the FUCK!?? THESE ARE IN MY FYCKKKIGN YAAARD?!?!?! OUT BACK ?!
oH FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Tis the season for giant hogweed warnings, my friends.
Reblogging here for reference!
Promoting men’s body positivity. We all don’t have chiseled abs.
I appreciate this post. For many reasons.
I want every last one of them
