through the winter's night

[valtharr]

Would you believe me if i told you that it’s a German tradition on New Year’s Eve to watch a British black and white sketch from the sixties that’s entirely in English and deals with an old rich woman celebrating her 90th birthday while her butler impersonates her dead friends and gets more and more drunk throughout the sketch, with the highlight being the multiple times said butler stumbles over the head of their stuffed tiger carpet? And also that this sketch is not almost completely unknown in its home and that the writer and star of that sketch actually really hated the Germans?

[fatpinocchio]

It should be socially unacceptable to come to work with a cold or similarly contagious disease.

[infraredarmy]

It should be socially unacceptable to make your workers come to work with a cold or similarly contagious disease.

[shoggoth-the-bitch]

It should be socially unacceptable to pay your employees so little that they have no choice but to come in with a cold or similarly contagious disease.

[lindirs-gaze]

a little end of 2020 spirit

from limmy

[thebibliosphere]

Just saw a spicy hot take in the notes of an ADHD post that was like “adhd isn’t a mood disorder stop making excuses” from a supposed fellow ADHD person and like yes, ADHD is not exclusively a mood disorder. It’s 4 of them hiding under a trench coat with 15 other neurological disorders. And also:

ID, a screen grab from an article that reads: About 70 percent of adults with ADHD report problems with emotional dysregulation, going up to 80 percent in children with ADHD. In clinical terms, these problem areas include:

-Irritability: issues with anger dysregulation – “tantrum” episodes as well as chronic or generally negative feelings in between episodes.

-Lability: frequent, reactive mood changes during the day.

-Recognition: the ability to accurately recognize other people’s feelings. Individuals with ADHD may tend to not notice other people’s emotions until pointed out.

-Affective intensity: felt intensity – how strongly an emotion is experienced. People with ADHD tend to feel emotions very intensely.

-Emotional dysregulation: global difficulty adapting emotional intensity or state to situation.

/end ID. (Source)

Like not to be wildly and irrationally peeved about this, but bully for you if you don’t experience this as part of your ADHD, but over 70% of us do and saying we’re making excuses or not trying hard enough is the exact same shit neurotypicals say to invalidate us, and causes us real harm. Please don’t do the same thing. Trauma inflicted by neurotypicals is a huge part of why living with ADHD is so difficult. We don’t need it from within our own community too.

We all experience this shit show disorder differently. It’s a spectrum of one size fits no one, not a cookie cutter mold to fit into.

And yeah, you know what, this shit isn’t an excuse to behave badly, but you know what, knowing emotional dysregulation is a symptom of ADHD helps you to treat it and work on getting a handle on it. Knowing the reason it feels like the world is ending in your chest because something bad happened, and knowing it’s because your gremlin brain is perpetually starved for dopamine so there’s no cushion for the raw emotional feedback currently happening can help you, with practice, to curb the impulsive desire to do something rash or harmful.

I mean, fuck, there’s a reason for why suicide is so prevalent in ADHD, and I’m going to go out on a limb and say that impulsivity and severe emotional dysregulation is a part of that.

Knowing that the feeling will end and isn’t an accurate reflection of the situation, overwhelmingly painful as it is in the moment, can help. It does help. So denying this aspect as part of ADHD? Not helpful, and you need to take some time to sit with your thoughts and see why you want to distance yourself so much from this to the point of invalidating others.

[deglutitionborborygmus]

an inspector calls is forcibly removed from the gcse syllabus for being anti capitalist

[2006barbie-deactivated20210102]

ODE TO SEPTEMBER // 1. ‘The Dwarf’ from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens // 2. “On Disappearing”by Major Jackson // ( 3 & 6 ) // 4. “Fall,” from The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems by Edward Hirsch // 5. September Affirmation (Don’t Be Afraid) by Keaton St. James

[music-of-learning]

From Beginner to Intermediate: an intense plan for advancing in language

Introduction

I've studied Spanish at school for 3 years and now I'm at a low B1 level. I can actually understand pretty well while listening or reading but I can't communicate fluently.

This plan will include vocabulary build up, some grammar revision, a lot of listening, reading and writing. And could be used for the most languages, not only Spanish.

Plan

Every day:

Conjugate one verb in present, past and future tenses

Make a list about 10 - 30 words long

Create flashcards with them and start learning them (I use Quizlet for flashcards)

Revise yesterday's set of flashcards

2-3 times a week:

Read an article or a few pages from a book

Write a few sentences about anything in your target language

Listen to one episode of podcast (at least one)

Once a week or every two weeks:

Watch a movie in your target language, preferably animated movie as the language used there is easier. You can watch with subtitles

Grammar exercises

Translate some short text

Once a month:

Write something longer, like an essay or report, on chosen topic

Additionally:

Talk to yourself, to your friends, to your pets

Text with someone

Look at the transcription while listening to the podcast for second time

Repeat what you hear (in podcast or movie)

Check words you don't know from the listening and reading

Read out loud

Listen to music in your target language - you can even learn the text and sing along

Watch YouTube in your target language

Change your phone language to the one you're learning

Think in you target language!!!

***This is very intense plan for self-learners, you don't have to do all of these things in the given time. Adjust it to your own pace. I'll try to stick to this, if I have enough time.***

[plaguedoctormemes]

I remember seeing other videos of this performer. Reposted because I didn’t want to reblog from /sixpenceee.

Follow PESTRiCA on TikTok

[guerrillatech]

[thefallenauthor-deactivated2023]

"That which does not kill us, makes us stronger."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

[bigforeheadgaaal]

[jewishzevran]

This thread is a few years old but it bears repeating. I’m tired of being treated as if I am invisible. Listen to Jewish voices when we talk about fascism. I am begging you.

[vivianemae]

Derry, C. (Speaker). (2014). The benefits of violence: Why give it up? [Webinar]. Battered Women’s Justice Project. https://www.bwjp.org/resource-center/resource-results/the-benefits-of-violence-why-give-it-up.html

According to Derry and Barnes, there are many and varying reasons why violence is difficult to stop. There are five norms underlying sexual and domestic violence as follows:

1. Violence is acceptable - Violence is portrayed in the media, in home life or on the street as appropriate and even beneficial in some contexts. Why would anyone be motivated to change behaviour that is beneficial to them and is working well?

2. Male Gender Roles/Norms - The way the role of masculinity is defined in a relationship, that he deserves to be catered to, and the way male bonding occurs using women hating language. The male privilege is very difficult to acknowledge, let alone set aside and takes constant daily work to challenge within yourself and your social relationships.

3. Female Gender Roles/Norms - She adopts a service-to-others role and accepts him taking control of finances and decision making as only natural. The establishment of the Madonna/Whore dichotomy where women are either elevated to motherhood status, or degraded as a piece of flesh without personhood gives abusers the ‘right’ to dehumanise her and her thoughts and beliefs as a whole and complex woman.

4. Power - Power “over” the children, over where they go, what she wears, over what she eats, who she sees, over when he wants sex, over work, over income, power over every aspect of her life until she believes she cannot live without him. If she cannot see a life without him, she will not seek to access support services for the abuse.

5. Private Matter - the common and erroneous belief that Sexual and Domestic Violence can be addressed and repaired ‘behind closed doors’, or that both the victim and the perpetrator are equally at fault for the abuse. Law Enforcement and Courts particularly often lack the foresight to see aspects of violence and coercive control through tactics such as DARVO.

[andywarnercomics]

In honor of Day of the Dead, here’s a repost of my comic about the San Francisco Columbarium and the man who spent 26 years restoring it.

This comic originally appeared on Medium at The Nib. Go check out my other work there.

[true-me-snafu]

Emmitt and the Columbarium.

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

“Soft and easy September days had arrived. Evening came early, but the air remained warm and calm.”

— Arthur Schnitzler, Dying

[joshpeck]

there’s something about living life deliberately…wearing clothes that you actually want to and that you feel reflect you and your style not just because you’ve had them for years and don’t know what else you would throw on….listening to songs and creating playlists that excite you and represent your actual mood not just listening to songs that you’ve had downloaded for years that don’t make you feel anything special anymore…it’s VERY easy to stay with what you’re comfortable and it might take a bit of experimenting before you find what feels like a deliberate choice that reflects more of YOU but it’s absolutely worth the leap of faith you may have to convince yourself to make in order to stop feeling like a passenger in your own life

[saintdri]

L I Q U I D S 

★Insp★