Making My Way Through Nursing School

Successful people are not gifted, they just work hard and succeed on purpose

[whitepeopletwitter]

[pascalcampion]

Today is the day

#pascalcampion

[shinelikethunder]

can we please bring back “in poor taste” as a concept

Because at some point it got folded in under “problematic,” and now every damn thing that has Unfortunate Implications or deals with sensitive topics indelicately enough to raise hackles or gores somebody’s sacred cow is treated as a grave injustice or a threat to society. Online activism culture has lost the vocabulary to express “this deals with touchy stuff in a way many people might find inappropriate, and you should probably avoid it if insensitivity on this subject gets you angry/upset, but it’s not promoting hateful ideas or demeaning people or affecting anything but my opinion of the creator’s sense of tact.”

[foxyfandoms]

I think this really an important post. We’ve fallen into such a rut of “everything is right or wrong, no inbetween” that stuff that’s merely in poor taste is conflated with things that are actually offensively malicious.

[qlazzarusgooodbyehorses]

this is so well worded like i been trying to say this for awhile thank you

[chicklette]

Damn. This is the thing.

[queeranarchism]

I also kinda dislike that people started saying ‘problematic’ when they could be specific about what someone did wrong. It becomes this vague scary thing that someone ‘said something problematic’ and you don’t know whether they passionately defended nazis or made a clumsy joke about retail workers. And because we don’t know what someone means but we do want to be safe a lot of us just assume to worst and avoid people labelled ‘problematic’. This makes is a very effective tool to bully out people for minor flaws and to reinforce purity culture and disposability culture. 

[one-time-i-dreamt]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[oysters-aint-for-me]

I found this thread extremely helpful. I’ve been feeling so rundown and depressed these past few weeks and it’s good to know I’m not alone. And it’s good to remember that I won’t always feel like this. (Im also gonna reblog with an image description in a sec hang on)

[the-ladyguinevere]

Please stop making posts discouraging people from voting, especially if you don't live in the US. This isn't your fight, and you seem to think it doesn't matter who wins to you anyway. Let those of us who won't survive another Trump term deal with it. Hi. Me. Anarchist and socialist ideals are cool and all, but I won't get to be a part of them because I'll be fucking dead. This is not an exaggeration. I am 26 and I expect to be dead in 2-3 years if Trump wins. If Biden wins not only will I survive, but I will have the energy to fight his old racist ass on every awful thing he does.

[the-ladyguinevere]

Hey guess what: Trump has plans to eliminate Disability next year. He has the authority to do it by the method he is choosing.

Biden plans to expand Disability, increasing the amount you receive as well as granting ACTUAL MARRIAGE EQUALITY FOR DISABLED PEOPLE

I had to call off my engagement so that I can apply for Disability, but if Trump wins it won't even matter because Disability won't exist this time next year.

The idea that there is no difference between Trump and Biden is co-morbid with apathy for your disabled comrades. If Trump wins, I will probably lose access to my medications and be forced to work so my family can survive. The problem is that literally any job can and will kill me. I don't expect to make it halfway through 2023 if Trump wins the election. And that's just me. How many thousands or tens of thousands or more are in my situation? How many hundreds of thousands are WORSE OFF than I am?

Vote blue so there is a politician in office who we can actually fight on his bullshit. Don't stop protesting. Don't stop calling and writing. Push for the end of gerrymandering and the electoral college. But make sure your Disabled friends and loved ones are there to see the future you're trying to create.

[triviallytrue]

I don’t care if your post is about a literal nuclear war, if it contains the phrase “and you better not scroll past this” or something to that effect, I’m zooming right by

[thestateonmtv]

Dr. Conley's gonna be on Dancing With The Stars or in jail within 6 months

[risingtensions]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[softlygasping]

The horse has entered the hospital

[radicalgraff]

‘Antifa Soup’ stickers seen around Newark, New Jersey, referencing Trump’s claim that anarchists are distributing cans of soup at protests to be used as projectiles against the police

[lunah-goodbye]

growing up reading fantasy books was such a bust cause your whole life you’re left wanting more from life and like there’s something missing and you’re just waiting for that missing part to begin but it’s never gonna come

[lunah-goodbye]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[cranquis]

annnnnd there it is.

#myfeels

[wayfaringmd]

Same same

[dealinghope]

“White *Privilege is not having to create hashtags like #IfTheyGunnedMeDown

racism kills”

[cathemeralcoelocanth]

This is America

[robotsandfrippary]

fresh, clean no-terf version for reblogs!

Your mom and aunts aren’t on tumblr.  Please warn them about this as well.