Cool Beans? More Like Warm Rice.

Hey I'm Bridget. California. Talk to me if you want

[autumngracy]

Yo Biden just announced an infrastructure devolopment/clean energy/environmental justice plan and it's honesty pretty fucking amazing and much more ambitious than I ever would have expected from him, goddamn. He's trying to Eisenhower/New Deal our way out of the economic collapse.

Some notable points addressed by this plan:

Expanding American railway systems

Fixing the crumbling roads, bridges, dams, etc. that haven't been kept up

Capping abandoned oil wells

Undoing Trump's financial bailout policies for unclean energy companies

Reinvesting in American-made automotive companies

Getting America to 100% clean energy by 2035

Fixing air, water, and ground pollution issues that disproportionately affect poc

Getting justice for victims of environmental racism

Reinstating a bunch of environmental and medical jobs Trump had cut

Getting the US back on the Paris Agreement/Climate Accord

[tsarinajissa]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-14/biden-to-call-for-2-trillion-in-clean-energy-spending

[lyricwritesprose]

For those who were wondering what the point of voting for a leftist candidate was, if the leftist didn’t win—this is it.  Biden is trending leftward.  That’s what we want him to do.  He wouldn’t be doing it if the left hadn’t shown itself to be a real force.

I know that the work is never done and all that, but I think we can count this one as a win.

[parliamentrook]

please god vote. register ASAP. check to make sure you’re still registered because they’re kicking people off. look into your states mail in ballot laws

I don’t like the guy, and I doubt if most of this would actually get done, but please, it’s better than the guy actively dismantling anything good we have and pushing us backwards

even if you’re in a state that swings dem and you think your vote doesn’t matter, it does. the popular vote tally means something even if the system is broken. Hillary got millions more votes and that was the voice of the people. vote even just to add to the tally of people against Trump because you know the numbers will hurt his vanity

[thecuckoohaslanded]

And for all the “lesser of two evils” people out there who think a Biden victory means rewarding the Democratic party’s ongoing rejection of the left wing of the party, reminder that the alternative, GREATER of two evils, is THIS:

A new policy change to prevent trans women from accessing homeless shelters is teaching people how to police gender presentation and physical features just so the country can legalize a new way to get away with killing us.

This is the shit we would have four more years of if Biden loses.

Shelter workers may use “factors such as height, the presence (but not the absence) of facial hair, the presence of an Adam’s apple, and other physical characteristics which, when considered together, are indicative of a person’s biological sex,” the rule says.

If a homeless person appears too transgender for a homeless shelter, the shelter is allowed to ask them for proof of “biological sex.”

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/07/trump-administration-memo-explains-spot-transgender-woman/

Biden wasn’t even my fifth choice in the primaries.  But we have to focus on the general now.  There are only two possible outcomes this November.  We’ve seen how one of them turned out for us, and we all know damn well it’s only getting worse, and getting worse faster.  Do not forget that the other outcome is not just about Biden; there’s an entire Democratic platform that comes in with him, along with a complete 180 in White House staff, federal appointments, judicial confirmations, etc.  And the judicial confirmations ALONE are a huge deal.  If you are somehow NOT convinced that Biden would be better for us than Trump, I need you to understand the existential threat of these words:

Losing Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat to another Brett Kavanaugh.

Do NOT let your ideological purity put us through THAT.

Anything lesser than the evil we have now is a rejection of how far right the Overton Window has been dragged the last few years.  Don’t forget how much we stand to lose if we don’t live to fight another day.

[melsanfo]

Vote for your life.

[coughloop]

[colachampagnedad]

is this a whole foods review

[gummiehz]

i fucking love this so muchn 

[pleasestopandrew]

[kryptonians]

I remember watching a video where they posited that our base 10 numerical system was determined by the fact we have ten fingers. So what if another species has 12 fingers? What if they have 37 fingers?

[dragongirltitties]

my man got so stressed his beard fell off

[kaijuno]

[lindsaychrist]

i put jergens natural glow on one part of my arm to see what would happen and now i regret it

[strawberryzachary]

Wow she really needs to shave her legs

[lindsaychrist]

im a fucking man #whyineedfeminism

[broken-sunbeams]

I just need whatever u put on your arm… I don’t tan at all… Ever.

[lindsaychrist]

i literally said what it was

[troyesivan]

this post is such a fucking mess

[omega-level-negro]

Is no one going to talk about the perfect rectanglular shape this thing makes on her arm

[lindsaychrist]

i literally said i was a man already why is this still happening

[yourpersonalloverboy]

We going to skip how white people trying to be black? Again?

[lindsaychrist]

are you on fucking crack?

[10memes]

[mentholsmoker]

this person married a branch of bananas

[imfemalewarrior]

This is actually dangerous and neglectful bad parenting. 

Babies cannot stop eating, so the risk of overeating and vomiting is much higher for them, even when closely monitored (when I was a baby even if my mom fed me for 10 minutes it was too much and I would vomit as a result). This baby will keep eating until they vomit, and she is on her back with a bottle in her mouth, so she can’t even vomit properly and will run a much higher risk of asphyxiating. 

If my spouse did this I would seriously reconsider the marriage. And I wouldn’t leave them alone with the baby or any babies after them (actually I wouldn’t have any more children with them unless it was adopting an older child that did not need help eating) until they were old enough to communicate their needs and had the ability to eat unassisted (so basically elementary school). 

Don’t do this. You are putting your child at risk. 

-FemaleWarrior 

[reversetimelord]

“My husband is a horrible neglectful father putting our baby’s life at risk because he can’t be bothered to feed them for once, hahaha!”

Things like this are genuinely terrifying

[abitchistireddddd]

damn straight ppl are scary 

[ladycanuck-deactivated20221104]

Bottle feeding infants have no choice but to swallow to protect their airways. Bottles drip, sucking is a reflex. And they have no choice but to swallow the formula milk, and then there’s more.

A newborn or young infant can be forced to drink far more than their tiny stomach can hold. Cue the puking.

Never prop bottles. Pay attention to baby’s cues. Look up paced bottle feeding. Respect natural feeding rhythms.

It’s why medical professionals now recommend paced feeding (to prevent over feeding, vomiting and in the case of combination feeding - breast refusal).

http://www.peelregion.ca/parenting/feeding-baby/paced.asp

Paced bottle feeding - parenting - Region of Peel

I should note, generally breastfed babies have more control. They have to be latched and suckling to trigger the milk ejection reflex. In cases of oversupply ( yes this is a thing, I had it) babies will release the breast spluttering and choking and often clamp down to stop the flow (as painful as it sounds).

[fieldbears]

Related risk: Leaving a bottle unattended in a baby’s mouth for long enough can give the infant ‘bottle mouth’ if they have even the beginnings of cut teeth. Do Not Do This.

[jenroses]

As a longtime parenting educator, can confirm, do not ever. 

[star-anise]

Also, a lot of the health benefits of breastfeeding aren’t actually about the milk—they’re about the positive physical and emotional effects of skin-to-skin contact. Babies need physical touch, and lots of it, for their autonomic nervous system to release the hormones that allow them to grow and thrive.

Being held by another human and soothed by the rhythm of their breath, heartbeat, and movement is essential to creating future emotional stability and mental health. It isn’t important to be The Mother or even the one who’s lactating to provide that kind of closeness—you just have to put in the work and hold the damn baby.

Boys almost never get taught the basics of childcare the way girls do, and we think it’s adorable when men don’t know what they’re doing with their infant children. But it’s harmful to the babies, robs those men of positive relationships with their kids, and is preventable with education.

[oodlenoodleroodle]

(I’m AFAB and was never taught anything about babies either.)

[star-anise]

I mean, most people aren’t. We have a general cultural illiteracy about early childhood development. It’s incredibly rare to find, for example, jurisdictions where public schools offer courses in childcare the same way they might offer Spanish or Art. You’re just supposed to “pick it up” (usually by being a young woman in a family with babies and getting tasked with childcare, which is happening less and less these days).

(And when schools say they’re teaching “what it’s like to be a parent” they’re usually not teaching useful parenting skills, just trying to scare kids into not having sex.)

But for what routes there are, most boys are totally excluded–many girls begin babysitting strangers’ children to earn an extra income as young as ten, a practice which boys have typically been considered too dangerous to participate in. When public schools do teach classes about childcare, they’re generally aimed at teen moms, not all students in general. A lot of parent education and bonding programs are specifically aimed at “moms” and act like cats with boots on when dads show up. 

This is something I care about a lot because I care about preventing child abuse, and the no 1 way to do that is to educate parents about basic child care, like “It’s not good to just prop a baby up with a bottle all the time” or “Yes they WILL scream for no fucking reason for the first three months, learn to live with it” or “3-to-5-year-olds don’t lie to your face because they’re bad kids, they’re just learning how reality works”. 

These are the kind of things a lot of parents simply don’t know, because nobody tells them and trying to look for good parenting advice on your own today is like walking with pizza into a room that’s on fire. But men, especially, are put at a disadvantage when it comes to learning them.

[lynati]

If you want to have kids, please make sure you and your partner(s) learn about having kids first, so you’re not trying to wade through figuring out what is bad advice and misinformation after your child is already here and benefitting (or not) from you knowing those things.

[greelin]

“why do you like floral prints so much” because i’m not a person. secretly i’m just a mass of bees. trying to blend in with humans. unable to let go of my love of flowers

[ruinedchildhood]

at no point during this video did i know what was about to happen next.

[johnnythemizfit]

I’m sorry but umm… WTF!!??

[blkbutterfly816]

Yooooo somebody try it

[powerfulwizard]

Elementary school kids:

Scholastic book fair: this man tattooed himself to become a lizard

[kitsnicket]

This show was the funniest fucking thing

[chongoblog]

He never elaborated on this and it kills me

[bang]

what if one day tumblr decided to reveal all anon messages

[qosmonautical]

I have a story!!!

One time someone from my school made this confession page on Twitter that you could text and it would immediately post on the Twitter page, completely anonymously. It spread really quickly and everyone knew by the second day it was going on. Some awful things were being said on it, I mean literally no one was spared. No one had any clue who was running it and they wouldn’t filter any messages. The school board got so sick of this account that they contacted authorities to see what they could do to shut it down, but since it wasn’t affiliated with the school, technically, they couldn’t shut it down.

So, this went on for four days, just awful messages being posted about one another with no clue who was posting them (as anyone could text the number to send in). Then came the finale which changed everything. At eight, they would accept any DMs and post them, any texts, and then post them all at once at midnight. Everyone was rushing to send in their confessions, and like 100 or so came in.

Midnight comes. Messages flood in. Then the owner posts something a little weird, along the lines of, ‘Nothing was anonymous after all’. And posts a fUCKING LINK WITH ALL THE NUMBERS AND THE MESSAGES EACH POSTED AND SCREENSHOTS OF ALL DMS AND THE NEXT DAY THERE WERE LITERALLY FIVE DIFFERENT FIGHTS

[iampikachuhearmeroar]

that’s some regina george level shit right there

[thegoodvybe]

[femcassidy]

recommending people listen to a podcast is a microaggression

[trashwizard]

[sethalapod]

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[brunhiddensmusings]

this is about half of why tai chi works or if you dont know how to tai chi, ‘earthbender breaks’ work just as well

[loving-our-selves]

[Start I.D.: therapist Hack: anxiety is physical, so it needs a physical response, AKA fight or flight, take a walk for ten minutes it tricks your brain into thinking you're running away, you will start to feel relieved. End I.D.]

[pollo-v]

I don’t usually comment on posts like this but for over an entire year I suffered majorly from panic disorder experiencing DOZENS of panic attacks a day, to the point where it was a problem for me to leave the house or even my bed! Until one night i was freaking the Fuck Out, i was like! Screw it! I’ll make a run for it! I left the house at like 2am and just walked. Run a little occasionally and get REALLY angry while doing it and the panic would disappear! Instead of giving my head room to panic i’d give myself a goal: just walk around the block twice and THEN see how you feel. And reeaaally focus on that goal. Sometimes it’d take 3 hours to pass and sometimes only 10 minutes, but not once, to this day, has just getting out there and give into the fight or flight response not helped. By taking action you’re tricking your brain into regaining control when you feel out of control during panic/anxiety!

If u scared? Fuck it! Run!

[starwarsgraphictee]

[the-memedaddy]

Meirl

[byecolonizer]

Did the math, Bezos has donated about 0.0006272727% of his net-worth while Metallica has donated 0.0914634146% of their net-worth. When compared to the average net-worth of an american ($257,581.86) the difference in percentage becomes Metallica donating $253.50 and Bezos $1.62 

Tax the rich so we don’t have to rely on their fake philanthropy. Vote #BernieSanders

[anyroads]

call me when Bezos matches the girl selling her nudes

[socialistexan]

It’s what Jeff Bezos makes in 5 minutes! Eat the rich