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â#Actually Autistic people and others who need #Adaptive PPE: I recently discovered mask brackets, an insert for face masks that prevents the mask from touching your face as much and provides a bit more breathing roomâ
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Yâever leave a thrift shop with something so great you feel like you stole it?
So with masks and careful social distancing this weekend, we braved the Savers. I had the eye of the thrift gods on me for sure, because even without being able to use dressing rooms everything I brought home with me fit. Even the dress I wasnât sure was my style. But this isnât about the dresses, really.
So I was looking through the throw blankets, with the half assed idea that maybe I could find some to use primarily on my hammock, when I came across what seemed like an old school woven white coverlet like the one I have on my bed.
âHuh,â I said to myself as I reached for it, âself, that weave almost looks like crochet.â Then I pulled forth a fold, took a closer look, and my eyes did a O.O
Friends, it was indeed crochet. Very fine crochet, done with fine yarn and wee stitches.
The rose design was striking, and I wanted to see - just how big IS this blanket, anyway? It might be nice to have a second one to swap out with the one on my bed. So I pull it off the hanger, find an edge, shake it out, and loose threads fly in all directions.
For a horrible moment I think that it has a huge rip.
Then all the folds unfold and I realize that what I am holding is not, in fact, a rectangular item. It is triangular. It is a shawl. And as I look closely between the roses-centered diamond motifs that make up its construction,
...I realize I can see the thread they used to stitch the diamonds and triangles together. The entire shawl is handmade, construction and compilation, and with stitches so small it easily represented hundreds of hours of work. And what I had though were loose threads indicating an unraveling year were actually long tassels along the bottom edge.
Not quite holding my breath, I started looking it over. Surely there had to be something wrong with it! There was no structural damage, no stretching or tearing. Only, here and there, some small brown spots, as if someone had had the shawl wrapped around themself and spilled a wee bit of coffee or cocoa.
Even more urgently I searched for the price tag, and found none. When I got to the register I half expected them to refuse to sell it with no tag. The cashier brought it to the line manager, and I was fully prepared to pay ten, twelve, twenty four dollars for it.
$1.99
A DOLLAR AND NINETY NINE CENTS
When I got home I searched out and sprayed every spot with Oxyclean and let it soak a half hour. I scrubbed them out in cold water in the sink. I ran it through the washer with some other whites, and then hung it on the front of my craft cabinet to dry. It is so big that, wearing it as standard over my shoulders, the tip of the tassel on the point brushes my ankles. The spots are gone.
I feel like I stole something.
well yes, that's a stole a stole which was practically a steal
For a while when I was a kid my dream job was âart librarianâ, meaning I wanted to tour museums and be paid to improve the paintingsâ labels by adding book recommendations. âIf you like this artwork you might enjoy these books, whose story & writing convey a similar atmosphereâŚâ I used to visit exhibits secretly wishing I could get other visitors to tell me which book such and such painting evoked to them. Naturally I also wanted the museumsâ shops to sell all the books I would recommend for each painting, with a little reproduction of the painting in question slipped inside the book as a free bookmark.
I want this to be a thing. A #Monet book list, perhaps? #booklibrarianshouldbeathing
Please, please PLEASE. Stop telling native people your blood quantum. We donât care if youâre 10% native. We cannot validate your possible nativeness.
Blood quantum (how ânativeâ you are) is a colonialist construct and useless in determining if you are native or not.
If you want to connect, go and read about your tribe. You might find details within your family stories or even records in things like ancestry.com. (Records, not DNA packages.)
Find out who you are and try to CONNECT WITH YOUR TRIBE. Being native is based entirely on interacting with your people. Not what blood you have.
Stop telling native people about your blood quantum.
âBrave hero, you have demonstrated the Six Heavenly Virtues and been granted the power of the gods. Before you depart, you may ask of the Guardian one question, and it shall be answered.â
âUm, okay⌠no disrespect intended, maâam, but what is the deal with these trials? Isnât making people jump through hoops a little counterproductive when the fate of the world is on the line? Like, Iâm not even being metaphorical â there were actual hoops at one point.â
âHonestly, theyâre mostly aptitude tests. It wouldnât be a good look if we granted the power of the gods to somebody who immediately melted their own face off because they canât follow simple instructions, get it?â
âHuh.â
âBetween you and me, Iâve always said we should be honest about that part, but the Powers That Be felt having an interview process for becoming the Chosen One would send the wrong message, so here we are.â
âSo. Did any of those moral lessons actually mean anything?â
âHah! Yeah, we make those up after the fact to fit the format of the test.â
âI guess that would explain why one of the Six Heavenly Virtues is OSHA compliance.â
âSometimes the moral lesson team doesnât try very hard.â
The Six Heavenly Virtues:
1: Waiting For the Full Explanation
2: Starting Small
3: OSHA Compliance
4: Cardio
5: The Ethic of Fairness
6: Aim
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No one in the reblogs sourced, this is from a Free Comic Book Day, the whole story is really cute!
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Jury nullification. Pass it on.
Jury nullification is so fucking important.
This is something that more people should be aware of, if only because (in many states, at least) defense attorneys are actually prohibited from mentioning it to jurors. The law allows a jury to return a ânot guiltyâ verdict contrary to the facts of the case, but not for the defense to inform them of that power or to argue for its application in the current trial.
I didnât know about this. Wow.
always reblog
This is SUPER IMPORTANT and also a good reason to show up for jury duty. You know all those laws you think are stupid? This is your chance to maybe do something about it.Â
IâŚ. I thought this was common knowledge⌠signal boosting this because it obviously isnât!
Did not know this
Jury nullification in the United States has its origins in colonial British America. Similar to British law, in the United States jury nullification occurs when a jury in a criminal case reaches a verdict contrary to the weight of evidence, sometimes because of a disagreement with the relevant law.
Margaret Cho: Trolls Who Call Me âFat And Uglyâ Are Admitting Defeat
Margaret Cho has a simple philosophy for dealing with degrading comments about herself: If youâre debating a woman and you stoop to calling her âfatâ or âugly,â youâve already lost the argument.
The comedian explains how to turn misogynist attacks into a âmore palatable and pleasurableâ experience.
FUCKING THIS
this is why its depressing to work in a pharmacy.
I was definitely a profit killer when I worked in a pharmacy (which honestly was my favorite job in the entire world, but it was short-lived and nowadays you canât work at a pharmacy like that, itâs all tied in with corporate retail and no one should ever trust me with a cash register ever). It was not, however, actually a profit killer for the pharmacy, just for the drug companies, so no one cared. These days I do medical billing, which means I actually bill OUT from hospitals so Iâm mostly spending my professional time taking money away from insurance companies.Â
I will now impart all of my profit killing resources onto you, in case you donât know them. I think most of you know them, now. But just in case you donât.
THIS IS US-CENTRIC. IâM SORRY.Â
1. GoodRx - this thing has an app now, so you can look up the best places to get your expensive medicines at the lowest possible prices without insurance on the go, and you no longer have to print coupons because you can just hand over your phone or tablet. Times have changed for the better with GoodRx. Definitely use it before trying to fill your scrip, because it will tell you the best place to go. (You can do that on the website, too.)
2. NeedyMeds - Needymeds is basically the clearinghouse of drug payment assistance. They have their own discount cards, but also connections to many patient assistance programs run by drug companies themselves. They are good assistance programs, too.
3. Ask your county - This is not a link. This is a pro tip. Most county social services will have pharmacy discount programs for people with no and/or shitty pharmaceutical coverage. You can often just find them hanging around at social services offices; you can just pick one up and walk off with it.Â
4. Ordering online - There are a few safe online pharmacies. I keep a little database in a text file on my computer. Most of them are courtesy of CFS forums, my mother or voidbat, so a lot of that is a hat tip to other people, but if youâre in need of a place to get a drug without a prescription ⌠first Iâll make sure you 100% know what youâre doing for safety reasons and then Iâm happy to turn over a link.Â
5. Healthfinder - A government resource that helps find patient assistance programs in your area. This might also point out the convenient county card thing. RxHope is something a lot of people get pointed to via Healthfinder thatâs a good program.
6. Mental Health America - Keeps a list of their best PAPs for psychiatric medications, which can be some of the most expensive and a lot of pharmacy plans donât cover them at all.Â
This is so important ppl.
Signal boost the shit out of it!
Booooooooooooooooooost
Good Rx Saved my family a hundred dollars a month while I was getting signed up for CHIP seriously itâs a life savor especially for ridiculously expensive drugs like abilify
Useful info, friends! ;)
Since many of our followers are on medications, I feel like this would be an important resource. -Luna
Also! Some drug companies have patient assistance programs where they send you the drug for FREE if you are uninsured, or if your insurance doesnât cover that drug.
Do a Google search for âpatient assistant programsâ + (your med), or search the manufacturers website. Sometimes the info is online; other times you have to call.
Even some of the big name pharma companies have this. Itâs certainly not all companies, or all meds, but it is worth a shot.
Before Obamacare, I lost insurance and couldnât pay for my mood stabilizers (kiiiiinda important to have those when youâre bipolar.) I was on generic Lamictal, but I went to the official Lamictal website, filled out a form with a valid prescription, and they mailed my meds to me every month for free.
If you know anything about bipolar disease, you know that that was a literal life saver. Patient assistance programs ftw!
This is so important given the recent vote to repeal Obamacare. And the cartoon above is so on point Theyâre literally voting to kill people. Literally.
Some of my meds are no longer going to be partially covered by my ridiculously expensive private insurance. I just used the GoodRX website to look it up, and I can either spend $40 at Target to pay for one of them out of pocketâper monthâ, or I can get it at Sams Club for $4. No that is not a typo. The drug I need to take every single day to keep my allergies from spiraling out of control (yay auto-immune bullshit) is literally ten times cheaper at Sams Club. Holy shit.
Signal boost for my US buds
when cecil g. palmer said, âare we living a life that is safe from harm? of course not. we never have been. But thatâs not the question. The question is, are we living a life that is worth the harm,â
yeah.
wish womenâs fitness was more about boosting our energy and getting our bones and joints ready for our old age and getting strong enough to punch men and less about losing weight while getting a bigger ass
Wish women's fitness was more about joyfully moving our bodies to heal our minds and less about avoiding the shame of not being fuckable.
