natalie - נוגה

25 🔯 she/her

[philosophybits]

“Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude

[fairycosmos]

seeking jobs that are ethical and fun for women with mental illness. part time hours and a minimum of 5 grand per month pay (non negotiable) 

[visit-ba-sing-se]

Ceasar be like “i cannot believe my friends in the senat would stab me” my brother in Mars you were actively abolishing their republic

[batmanego]

im having feelings about the uffington white horse again

[batmanego]

so essentially there’s this cool horse drawn into the hills in england made out of chalk and it’s like 3,000 years old.

people carved trenches 3,000 years ago and filled them with chalk in the shape of a horse but what’s interesting is that if you fail to maintain the horse by adding new chalk regularly, it will disappear. for 3,000 years, we’ve been filling in chalk in this horse so it doesn’t disappear.

we’ll never know what the purpose of the horse was originally. we’ll never know if it had ritual or spiritual significance or if it was just art. but we do know that people maintained it then, and, even though the meaning of the horse has long been lost to time, we continue to maintain it now.

the people who made this horse are long dead, but they live through us still, don’t you think?

[batmanego]

couldn’t agree more we’re best friends now

[klassizismus]

Details: Seascape, Alfred Thompson Bricher, 1890

[feral-ballad]

Joy Harjo, from An American Sunrise: Poems; “Break my heart”

[vangoghcore]

by astrailor_jp

[luthienne]

Everywhere around them, life was happening without their knowing, and their lives were also happening in the presence of all else. All existences were touching lightly as air and leaving invisible fingerprints.

— Juhea Kim, from Beasts of a Little Land

[ms-demeanor]

Watching yet another lecture in my speech class and the professor is talking about masculinity/femininity as a cultural dimension, which makes sense for the specific topic at hand that's fine, that's how this discipline addresses these categories, fine.

But then she starts discussing parental leave and is like "In the US you might be lucky to get two weeks off for maternity leave and the other partner might get just a couple of days, whereas in Sweden they get a really long time, it's like a month or two months, a really long time."

In Sweden, each parent is entitled to 90 days of parental leave after a birth or adoption, and together they are entitled to 480 days of parental leave.

I cannot explain enough to any of you who might not be aware of this: Two Months Is Not A Long Time For Parental Leave That Is Like The Bare Fucking Minimum Globally The US Is Just Fucked And We Have No Guaranteed Leave Let Alone PAID Parental Leave.

Federal employees in the US have a guaranteed three months of paid parental leave, and three months is pretty standard for businesses that have good perks and benefits, and if you work in a business covered by FMLA you can use three months of unpaid leave for parental leave and you're not supposed to get fired over it, but if you work at a small (under 25 employees) company or if you're part time yeah you can basically lose your job if you take time off to have a baby.

I'll also point out that the "family values" party in this country opposes parental leave largely because they think that mothers of young children shouldn't work at all and they think that men shouldn't take parental leave because they should be providers. This does not, to me, indicate an actual appreciation of "family" as a concept so much as it signals that they have only one definition of family and would very much like it if other types of families ceased to exist.

But anyway, jesus fucking christ two weeks is not enough time to recover from birthing a human or to bond with that tiny human and two months is not a "long" time for parental leave.

There's nowhere for me to yell about this in class so you're getting it here.

[clonerightsagenda]

I think new computers should just come with the Office suite. I think that should be a universal right.

[clonerightsagenda]

things that we have to get from our school/job that we should get for free instead:

health insurance

Microsoft Office

[twitblr]

Not much focus on rehabilitation

[obi-wann-cannoli]

This seems like a good time to mention the Prisoners Literature Project and Inside Books Project. Both of these organizations send free books to incarcerated people, and are always looking for donations - both books and money -and volunteers! (Prisoners literature project sends books everywhere but Texas - Inside Books project is just Texas).

[exoentomologist]

It’s also a good time to mention Books Beyond Bars, a group of volunteers that gets books (especially queer books!) and educational material to LGBTQ+ prisoners (both adult and youth offenders) in the UK.

The US equivalent is LGBT Books to Prisoners.

[rhizobiums-deactivated20230217]

[chrisdornerfanclub]

The United States government doesn’t have to take the position of sending people to work and school to their deaths and absolutely ensuring an explosion of breakthrough infections while saying “well it’s your fault if the conditions for mass infection we’ve laid out through our laissez-faire public health policies designed to extract the maximum amount of profit during a crisis kills you”.

This is the issue with taking a totally individualist perspective on the pandemic that blames conspiratorial individuals for not taking the right health measures. It completely ignores the whole role of the state which has deliberately prevented any kind of strict measures that would’ve saved lives because it would disrupt business too much and would empower workers and poor through aid. By placing all the focus and blame on anti-vaxxers we miss that we wouldn’t be in this position if the United States government cared more about global public health than its ability to profit while people en mass die. The anti-vaxxers play a role but it would’ve been a far more minor one if we didn’t have exclusionary patent laws that are allowing the virus to mutate in the regions of the world with the least access to vaccines (despite wanting them!) and if the state was unafraid of angering business by putting into place robust stay at home policies where we pay and deliver food to people to keep them at home.

The United States government is going out of its way to choose the most cruel policy positions during this crisis and have successfully gotten many people to shift blame from the most powerful agent in the situation to a bunch of idiots who are coughing to death because they think microchips can fit into a needle. Congratulations on swallowing that propaganda whole heartedly.

[amygdalae]

genuinely terrifying how adhd will have you be fully aware of the responsibilities you’re neglecting and yet its like you’re being piloted by a super chill hedonistic demon who can’t hear you/doesnt care

[brunetteg1rl]

mary oliver, upstream

[guerrillatech]

[gurl-blunt]

15 an hour is 31k per year. No one working FT should make less than at least 45-50k and should have full health benefits and I’m willing to die on that hill.

[bogleech]

We should also be doing what some other countries have always done: it should just be a crime for a boss or business owner to pay themselves a certain amount more than any other employee, so if they do want to give themselves millions of dollars they have to start paying all of their workers more first.

[utteranonymity-deactivated20150]

Fun little trick I learned in therapy: validation. When someone is upset, don’t try to fix the problem, point out the cause, or tell them it could be worse. Just validate their emotions. Be like, ‘shit yeah man, that sucks. I’m sorry you’re going through that. I’m here for you.’ That’s literally all you have to do to make them feel better. Thank you and goodnight.