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I’m going to give you the best piece of Adult Life Is Hard advice I’ve ever learned:
Talk to people when things go to shit.
I don’t just mean get it off your chest, although that’s good. I mean: Something’s wrong with your paycheck/you lost your job/you had unexpected emergency car repairs and now you’re broke so your credit card payment is late. Like, not just 15 days late. We’re talking, shit got crazy and now you’re 90 days late with compounded interest and late fees and the Minimum Payment Due is, like, $390, and you’ve got about $3.90 in your bank account. Call the credit card company.
I know it’s scary. I know you feel like you’re going to get in trouble, like you’re gong to get yelled at or scolded for not having your life together. But the credit card company isn’t your parents; they’re just interested in getting money from you. And you can’t squeeze blood from a stone or money from someone who doesn’t have any. So what you do is you call them. You explain you’re experiencing temporary financial hardships, and you’re currently unable to bring your account up to date, but you don’t want to just let it get worse. Can you maybe talk to someone about a payment plan so you can work something out? Nine times out of ten you’ll be able to negotiate something so that at least it’s not just taking a constant, giant shit on your credit score.
- Can’t pay your power bill? Call the power company.
- Can’t pay your full rent? Talk to your landlord.
- Had to go to the hospital without insurance and have giant medical bills looming in your place? Call the hospital and ask if they have someone who helps people with financial hardships. Many do.
- Got super sick and missed half a semester of class because flu/pneumonia/auto-immune problems/depressive episode? Talk to your professor. If that doesn’t help, talk to your advisor.
You may not be able to fix everything, but you’ll likely be able to make improvements. At the very least, it’s possible that they have a list of people you can contact to help you with things. (Also, don’t be afraid to google things like, “I can’t pay my power bill [state you live in]” because you’d be surprised at what turns up on Google!) But the thing is, people in these positions gain nothing if you fail. There’s no emotional satisfaction for them if your attempts at having your life together completely bite the dust. In fact, they stand to benefit if things work out for you! And chances are, they’ll be completely happy to take $20 a month from you over getting $0 a month from you, your account will be considered current because you’ve talked to them and made an agreement, you won’t get reported to a collections agency, and your credit score won’t completely tank.
Here’s some helpful tips to keep in mind:
1. Be polite. Don’t demand things; request them. Let me tell you about how customer service people hold your life in their hands and how many extra miles they’ll go for someone who is nice to them.
2. Stick to the facts, and keep them minimal unless asked for them. Chances are they’re not really interested in the details. “We had several family emergencies in a row, and now I’m having trouble making the payments” is better than “Well, two months ago my husband wrecked his bike, and then he had a reaction to the muscle relaxer they gave him, and then our dog swallowed a shoestring and we had to take him to the emergency clinic, and just last week MY car broke down, and now my account’s in the negatives and I don’t know how I’m gonna get it back out.” The person you’re talking to is aware shit happens to everyone; they don’t need the details to prove you’re somehow “worthy” of being helped. They may ask you for details at a certain point if they have to fill out any kind of request form, but let them do that.
3. Ask questions. “Is there anything we can do about X?” “Would it be possible to move my payment date to Y day instead so it’s not coming out of the same paycheck as my rent?” The answer may be “no.” That’s not a failure on your part. But a good customer service person may have an alternate solution.
Anyway! I hope that helps! Don’t just assume the answer is “no” before you’ve even begun. There is more help out there than you ever imagined.
Hey guys, this is an old post, but it’s still relevant, and I thought I’d re-up it for living in COVID times when a lot of people are losing income. Don’t be afraid to toss that in when you call to ask for help! “I’ve experienced a loss of income due to COVID-19″ is gonna be all you need to say for most places, because wow let me tell you how much this is the case. A lot of places are setting up COVID-19 specific relief policies, so this may be even easier than normal.
Good luck, stay safe, stay inside if you can, and wash your hands. <3
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(After reading the comments i’ve changed my caption. I had meant no harm and just thought it would be nice for a post to be just for trans folk)
Cis people constantly shove themselves into trans spaces. You're allowed to not want their interaction on a post for trans ppl.
a reminder for my transmasc pals
Rebloging for a note to self
Guys I found the only good thing on Facebook.
Update:
Oh fuck they’re inclusive ants, too?!?
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[Image 1: A Screenshot of an invitation to a Facebook group named: “A group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony.” Under that is a post in the group that reads: “We reached the center of the Earth. Now what?” Four people commented saying one word each in this order: scurry, dig, work, melt. These words are in capital letters and have spaces between each letter.]
[Image 2: Another Screenshot of a post in the group that reads: "It has come to my attention that when we put the spaces in-between letters it makes it difficult for visually impaired ants to know what we’re saying and so I was wondering if we could try to make this group more accessible for them. (The text to voice can’t figure out what we are saying with the spaces) (Picture of an ant for attention)” This text is then followed by a close up picture of an ant.]
[Image 3: A screenshot of some comments on the post in Image 2. Five people commented: adapt, adapt, inclusion, love adapt, adapt. These words are in capital letters and have no spaces between the letters.]
End of IDs.
Please do not reblog this post without image descriptions! The irony of sharing undescribed images that talk about inclusivity for the visually impaired is… Painful.
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Pit: Man, I hate solitaire.
Dark Pit: What did you expect from a card game invented for the lonely?
Being chronically I'll at a young age is really hard. People are constantly questioning the validity of your disabilities; while internally it's already a struggle to come to terms with.
I hate it so much. It's like they think I want this. How could I ever want this. It makes me want to tear off my limbs. I cry every day over this wicked curse. Why must every thing be taken from me. I used to bike, I used to work out, I used to go for long walks, plant trees, and so much more. Now I fall in the fucking shower, standing makes my body ache, and doing anything with my hands is a chore.
I hate myself so much.
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I've recently decided to paint a dodo, because why not? It is a very weird animal and a grim reminder of human encroachment.
However, there is one teeny detail of the dodo that is driving me nuts.
What did the Dodo ACTUALLY look like? What colour were its feathers? Or its skin? What configuration of scales did it possess on its feet? And did it have molts and whatnot as it aged and when the seasons came and went? And what did Dodo babies look like for that matter?!
Unfortunately, the Dodo is dead. As a dodo. So, we have to rely on other means. This means looking at remaining skeletons and museum specimens, contemporary illustrations based on live animals, and depictions made by travelers (specifically the ones that depict the actual birds and not how the meat tasted like).
The following illustrations and artistic depictions (unless stated otherwise) are from the english Wikipedia page on the Dodo , so take all of this with a grain of salt.
This is probably the best-known depiction of the Dodo, and what comes to mind for most people when thinking of the Dodo. This painting is referred to as “Edward’s Dodo”, and it was made Roelant Savery in 1626. This is a beautiful painting. However, there is a problem. The bird is chunky, and not in a good way. It doesn’t look like a healthy wild animal, but an overfed and bloated chicken or goose. This may not be the best depiction of a Dodo in its natural state.
So alas, we have to turn to contemporary depictions. And besides from how it tasted (not that good, apparently), how do they depict the Dodo?
van Warwijck (1598) Depicts the Dodo as follows:
“... a kind, conspicuous for their size, larger than our swans, with huge heads only half covered with skin as if clothed with a hood. These birds lack wings, in the place of which 3 or 4 blackish feathers protrude. The tail consists of a few soft incurved feathers, which are ash coloured...”
From this, we get a pretty good idea of the size of the Dodo, as well as details of the wing and tail feathers, which here are descibed as “ash coloured”, so maybe light or dark gray, and not white, Like they are usually depicted as.
Herbert (1634) did a very detailed depiction of the Dodo, which reads as follows:
“... her body is round and fat, few weigh less than fifty pound.... Her visage darts forth melancholy, as sensible of Nature's injury in framing so great a body to be guided with complemental wings, so small and impotent, that they serve only to prove her bird. The half of her head is naked seeming covered with a fine vail, her bill is crooked downwards, in midst is the nostril, from which part to the end is a light green, mixed with pale yellow tincture; her eyes are small and like to Diamonds, round and rowling; her clothing downy feathers, her train three small plumes, short and inproportionable...”
This description is not only quite apt and not that far from an excellent depiction of any animal with admirable attention to detail, this description rings a bell, as it’s surprisingly similar to a contemporary artistic depiction.
Specifically, this one. It was made by Indian artist Ustad Mansur around 1625. The bird in the middle is, of course, a Dodo. And surprisingly, some details mentioned by Herbert are visible, especially on the head region. The animal is also a whole lot slimmer than Edward’s Dodo, and has a very different earth-toned colour scheme on the body. The other birds on the painting are identifiable even today (Clock-wise from the upper left: Blue-crowned Hanging-parrot ( Loriculus galgulus), Western Tragopan (Tragopan melanocephlus), Painted sandgrouse (Pterocles indicus), and Bar-headed Goose (Anser Indicus)), so we can be pretty certain to say that the depiction is reliable and likely accurate, so we can assume that the painting depicts a live, adult, healthy Dodo. Most modern paleoartists use this depiction as a “default” Dodo.
The depiction however, has a surprise up its wings. The Dodo in the painting doesn’t have the curved tail feathers seen in most depictions, which curiously is also mentioned in descriptions of the bird. There may be many reasons for this. Maybe the bird is female and thus doesn’t have them (unlikely, because pigeons have next to none sexual dimorphism), maybe the bird is molting (i guess?!), or perhaps the zookeepers cut them off (some aviaries do that to pheasants,or maybe it was the stress?). Maybe we can get a better picture by looking at more contemporary depictions.
These sketches were found in the travel journal of the dutch ship, Gelderland. These were made around 1601, and are attributed to Joris Laerle, while the original artist is unknown as of writing this. These were apparently made of live and recently killed individuals. The head on the far right is especially beautiful, and the depictions on the left give a picture of the Dodos body structure as a mix of plump and lean. However, the tail is, again, either a little stump, or is not depicted at all. Maybe the Dodo never had curved tail feathers, or the birds depicted were molting. Who knows.
Contemporary depictions don’t stop there. Here is a painting made of a mounted specimen (unsurprisingly; it has that vibe of poor taxidermy) from the collections of Emperor Rudolph II, made by Jacob Hoefnagel in the 1600s. The animal is very dark in colour, and if we assume that the animal depicted by Mansur is an average individual, this one may be melanistic. Thus it may not be surprising that such a specimen was possessed by an emperor.
There is also this depiction of a live individual made by Cornelis Saftwelen in 1638. The bird is quite different from Mansur’s bird. The feathers seem a whole lot shaggier and a bit unkempt, the bare skin on the face is of a bluish hue rather than a more umber color, and the “hood” is not clear. Also, the eyes have a dark iris, while the eyes of Mansur’s Dodo, and those in the descriptions, has a light iris. Why are these two depictions so different? Well, a more unkempt appearance, incomplete bareskin features on the face and a dark iris are sometimes features found in juvenile birds that are almost fully grown, and are slowly molting into adult plumes. So perhaps this individual here may be a juvenile, and Mansur’s depiction perhaps represents an adult.
But enough depictions. Do we have any hard proof of the Dodo today? As it turns out, there are a lot of subfossil Dodo bones, and thus multiple skeletal mounts, the one in The Natural history Museum in London being of particular fame. Unfortunately, no skins or mounted specimens survive today. Oxford University used to have a mount, which was promptly tossed in a fire due to all the mold it had accumulated. Fortunately, a head and foot were salvaged from the fire. The foot has since been lost (bugger), so the Oxford head is the only skin left of the Dodo.
Artistic rendering of the Oxford Dodo head and foot, by Yours Truly. Based on illustrations of the specimens.
The musculature and heads of the Dodo, based on the skulls and skeletons of Dodoes, musculature of pigeons, and the oxford head by Yours Truly. Kind of rough, but you get the idea.
And finally, after all that, here are some depictions of Dodo busts based on some of the paintings from above. They only give a rough idea of the Dodo’s appearance, since these are artistic interpretations and not photographs. However, until we get a time machine, these depictions are all we have, and until that time, the appearance of the Dodo will still largely remain a mystery.
You know what’s funny?
As i was writing this, Darren Naish of Tetrapod Zoology published a blog post on this very same subject, and basically, he said everything I did, but better, with a lot of good argument.
Head over to tetzoo.com to read the article.
This is interesting, fascinating, sad, but I do wonder how possible would it be to clone a Dodo from the genetic material we still have now?
Or, at least, how possible would it be to decode/retrieve enough of it that it might be plausible to clone one if tech advanced?
Because, god, I'd love it if we could do that someday...
And of course the most important question we can ask about the dodo’s appearance: did it really dress like a sailor?
I will never forgive or forget what Donald Trump has done. And it will be a cold day in Hell before I ever vote for a Republican.
...ameriKKKa...
.. white privilege.
You know ain't shit gonna happen to them white folks
Are we even sure that they aren’t bringing these klanspeople in so that they can throw them a celebratory brunch or something?
I mean they took dylann roof to Burger King
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I saw him labeled as "The Child" in walmart on a lego set. I will never be able to call him anything else
lol actually hating taylor swift is homophobic soo
do people still listen to white musicians, I thought we moved past this
Taylor swift literally only helped the lgbtq community to make money off of it. Once her stupid song made enough money she dropped the community. So taylor swift is a little homophobic if you ask me. The queer baiting and using the community is homophobic.
Also her music is just trash as it is.