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Hey, I'm Libbey, I pretty much 100% mobile blog and I know this is a mess

[sa2ha]

I keep thinking about how we really had teachers yelling at us as children and had to ask for permission to eat or go to the bathroom and couldnt choose who we sit next to until we were 18... and we really were obedient to all these obscure rules... and thinking about how we had our grown ass 50 year old fathers starting arguments with us over nothing and screaming without us being able to yell back??? As children? Our parents making fun of us for normal behaviours and things we cant do anything about like the way we look and genuinely thinking its funny and a good idea to do that? Youre all 50 years old arguing with and getting mad at 14 year old children for being children??? Idk its really hitting me that adults didnt use to see kids as people when we were growing up and they were so wrong for that because now as a grown adult i cant imagine treating children like it used to be normal for me as a child to be treated.... what goes on in your head for you to do that to them.

[sa2ha]

Thinking about that tweet that said “fucked up how we really had to ask teachers for permission to go to the bathroom as children and they used to say no lmao” like god what the fuck was that....

[glumshoe]

The other day I watched a little boy get knocked to the ground by an older kid who was running by. He burst into tears as his mother hurried over.

“Here’s a bandaid for ya,” I said, producing one from my vest pocket.

“Oh, he’s not bleeding, thank you though!”

I lowered my voice and leaned in. “Kids think bandaids are health magic,” I said. “Ask him where it hurts and exploit that placebo effect.”

She did just that, and instantly the kid stopped crying and thanked her. “I’ll have to remember that,” she said.

Children: #HACKED

[tinyqueenusagi-chan]

Also if you have a crying kid give them a cup of water. You can’t cry and drink at the same time and it gives them a chance to calm down.

Tell them their going to run out of tears so they drink the water.

My mom does this at her preschool after awhile the other children start offering the crying child little cups of water.

[maxanaxam]

Stuff like this is also a great test to see if the kid is actually seriously injured! Because with how much some kids cry over tiny bumps and scrapes, it can be hard to tell. But if you slap a Band-Aid on it or give them a cup of water or a piece of candy and they stop crying, they’re fine. If they keep crying despite whatever little placebo or distraction you’ve given them, you might wanna look a little closer at that injury or seek medical attention.

[raincloudsandsunbeams]

With my two’s class we ask them “more hurt or more scary?” It takes a bit of practice but after a few times they can answer without more prompting. More scary gets a hug and more hurt gets a look over.

[markingatlightspeed]

That last one is so important because it validates the child’s feelings and tells them it’s okay to have these feelings and lets them learn how to deal with them, rather than just distracting them from them. I also helps teach the child to both communicate their feelings more readily and communicate when they’re hurt more clearly. All really important skills for a child to develop young.

[the-memedaddy]

meirl

[assdevourer]

[emmikatjohnson]

Scooby Doo taught us that cops don’t do their jobs and it’s up to America’s youth to unmask the greedy old white guys that are terrorizing society.

[gorgonsach]

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[justgfy]

Unions are trash. Theyll Destroy a whole company for firing a shitty worker.

[gorgonsach]

unions are the reason you aren’t paid 2.50 an hour with steel beams about to bust ya head open shut up lol

[explorerrowan]

Unions are why you have 5 day, 40 hour full-time work weeks. Unions are why they have to pay you in actual dollars instead of “company credits” that you can only spend at the company-owned stores. Unions are why there are fucking fire exits at your place of work. Unions are why it’s not okay for your supermarket ground beef to be any percentage human.

You think your company pays you out of the goodness of their hearts? Or even out of “market pressure?” The “job market” is a myth perpetuated by the capitalists. Corporations would pay you nothing if they could get away with it. And you argue “oh, but if they paid me nothing I’d just go to another one.” Wrong. Because to maximize profits, they all want to pay you nothing. Corporations exist to maximize profits while reducing risk for investors. It’s part of their entire function to find ways to cut costs as much as possible, and that includes finding ways to pay you nothing.

Unions are your defense against that. You think all a union does is strike? If you pay union dues, a lot of that is spent on lobbyists in various governments reminding your lawmakers that you have rights as a living human being that a corporation should not be able to stomp all over. Unions hire lawyers so that if you’re fired for bullshit reasons, the union can stand up for you against your boss. They’re called unions because workers are uniting to pool resources so that they can stand up to these corporate overlords with more money than God. Unions exist because you might not have the words, resources, or time to fight workplace injustices all by yourself. That’s the whole fucking point.

And if a business shuts down because a union is striking, it’s because the business was abusing people and didn’t deserve to be in business anyway. Don’t make excuses for the corporations. They already have trillions of dollars and a couple million lawyers to do that for themselves. They don’t need your help.

[mierac]

The erasure of labor history from US history curriculum has caused so much fucking damage to this country. 

[desaturated7-deactivated2021090]

is your razor fighting toxic masculinity? does harry potter support trans rights? are your sneakers racist? has triscuits released a statement about police brutality

[watermelon-sheriff]

What a great way to summarize my absolute exhaustion.

[loversmore]

I want to be defined by the things that I love.

[nessa007]

Yes queen!

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[big-bad-bhardwaj]

[myinnerlandscape]

[fuzzypetal]

What if that was your house What if a sheep lives off the grass on your house

[saltymommie]

Shes my landlord

[sabertoothwalrus]

I’ve realized my Ideal Outfit is this:

button-ups, high-waisted jeans, and Docs. You literally can’t go wrong.

it’s perfect. you can dress it up or down. it’s flattering on any body type. it’s the perfect amount of androgynous, and it even has Femme and Masc variants:

Right now I’m wearing a botanical print blouse I thrifted off etsy and it’s from the 90s so it has shoulder pads sewn in. fuckin sweet is what it is

[coffeeseed]

All of these looks are prejudiced against people with big boobs 🗣. Like if I wore that either A: the buttons wouldn’t close, or B: the top buttons would have a huge gap between them, unless C: I spent $40 + on a shirt specifically designed for big boobs

[rollsthedice]

he’s so obsessed with me and boy I understand

BOY I UNDERSTAND

[flapjacques]

the set is complete

[theocseason4]

[wordlephd-deactivated20230215]

[funny-tik-toks]

[marisatomay]

if you told me on election night 2016 that in 2020 under an impeached-but-acquitted trump administration, 115,000+ would be dead and 44 million unemployed from a global pandemic, and during pride month 2020, while the pandemic still rages on basically unchecked, they would roll back protections against medical and insurance discrimination of lgbtq people on the anniversary of the pulse massacre, a week before he gives a speech on race in tulsa on juneteenth, two weeks after he teargassed protesters who were outside the white house fighting to end police brutality and racism, i would have said, “why do you think i’m crying so hard i can barely breathe.”