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today i was talking to my therapist about being upset that my dad wanted a daughter and she told me 'your father is crying by a grave of his own making that has no corpse in it. you do not need to fill it for him and are not required to weep beside him' and I had to take a sip of water bc my mind stopped working for a moment
let fat people live in peace. text the awful shit you think about fat people to your mother or someone who is forced to care about your shitty opinions and let fat people uplift each other and like each otherās photos in peace.
ideally, fatphobes would get their shit together and unlearn all the things that make them think any person deserves subhuman treatment BUT i know thatās a lot to ask of the blissfully and willfully ignorant. so instead, why donāt you just shut the fuck up and let fat people live in peace???
Tumblr is actually a usable website if you pretend youāre the only person on it and donāt interact with anyone elses posts or read any shit anyone tries to tell you
every semester, without fail, thereās some freshman whoās likeĀ āoh I never check my email lolā and i get worried for them, bc theyāre going to miss some important email about a pop quiz or a test, or something and then fail. so if youāre a freshman reading this, CHECK YOUR EMAIL im not joking, professors will send you stuff via email that theyāll never mention in class. Iām in my email every hour on the hour before and after class. check that shit. put that app on ur phone, turn on notifs, go in and refresh every hour, check your spam, check your email
this has been a message from your concerned dad. check ur email, do well in school, i love you
PLEASE. Iām a prof and due to privacy rules, I am not allowed to send class and grade information through any electronic venue other than your school e-mail address and the course management page. That includes things like due date changes, class cancellations, extra credit opportunities, quiz study guides, etc etc etc.Ā
Every year I say this, and every year I have students who screw themselves over by ignoring those communication channels. Please. Help me to help you. Check your email daily.Ā
unpopular opinion: any infographic that does the wholeĀ āthis meal of consisting entirely of lettuce and apples is way cheaper than a Big Mac, checkmate poor peopleā thing must use the totalĀ price, rather than price per serving.
none of thisĀ āwell a thing of cinnamon is $8 and each has 200 grams so a gram is like $0.4 and divided by four itās really only $0.1 per serving.ā no. spices cost money. if I have to buy a new spice, thatās more money. how much is one canister? thatās the price.
did I have to buy a new pot for this? how much did that cost?
do I need multiple pots? is there complex timing? do I need to set aside an hour to prep? all that costs money.
when you get fast food, the total price is right there. we can talk about how that total price is artificially deflated due to the exploitation of labor and the industrialization of food, but the fact remains that a ten-piece chicken nuggets meal at burger king is like $6, and making them yourself costs a lot in buying a whole thing of chicken plus flour plus eggs plus spices plus frying oil (not even counting that a meal comes with a side and a drink).
(incidentally, this is an issue with anyĀ advice that calls for buying things in bulk because itās cheaper overall. yes, it is objectively cheaper in the long run to buy the $15 thing of toilet paper at $1/roll than it is to buy the $10 thing of toilet paper for $1.50/roll. but when you only have $10, then youāre getting the $10 one, because thatās whatās cheaper to you.)
Thisssssss!!!!!!
Being poor is expensive. And people want to overlook that, always, because itās such an unpleasant fact.
Also gonna just throw in, because I got thisĀ Ā all the timeĀ from annoying people while I was doing my field work supporting homeless New Yorkersā¦
A lot of places, like shelters, supportive housing, halfway houses, etc. donāt fucking allow you to cook or even bring in outside food.Ā
Yeah. My clients got fast food when they could. They went to soup kitchens. Telling them to go out and buy food and cook was IMPOSSIBLE, because they either a) didnāt have access to a kitchen at all, b) lived somewhere where it was against the rulesĀ to keep food of your own (which is dehumanizing as fuck but I wonāt go into how fucked up shelters and supportive housing can be right now), or c) BOTH.Ā
And my clients who DID have access to a kitchen and the ability to cook? Try cooking dinner on days when you have appointments with social services and have to travel. Try cooking dinner on days when itās paying for all of those ingredients you will probably only use once, or paying for your meds. Try eating lettuce when you only can afford ONE more meal for the next two days- are you going to pick the lettuce, or the fucking Big Mac.
The idea that it is as simple asĀ āwell just choose to eat this stuff instead of thatā comes from a total misunderstanding of what being poor and homeless looks like. It comes from a total ignorance of what life is like for a horrifying number of people. And it comes from a desire to blame the poor, the homeless, the unemployed, for their own position- because admitting that they are in that situation as a result of a system that lifts only a select few up while fucking everyone else over is too hard for a lot of people.Ā
Tumblr: Donāt scroll past this! Donāt ignore this! No oneās talking about this!
Iām an adult who reads three different newspapers. This is Tumblr, where I go to get away from the news. If I donāt want to read something on Tumblr, I donāt have to. If I donāt reblog something, that doesnāt mean Iām ignoring it. Iām not talking about it here because Iām talking about it to people in my real life.
Tumblr is not where I come to get news, and quite frankly, it shouldnāt be.
I donāt care what the Founding Fathers would have wanted, I donāt care if Jesus was a hippie or not, I donāt care what Marx prescribed. I canāt take living in a world where weāre all servants of long-dead men. You know what happens if you make a law the Founding Fathers wouldnāt like? Nothing, theyāre dead and theyāre never coming back. Iām genuinely envious of countries that can just make whatever laws they want without worrying about how 18th century agrarian noblemen would have seen it. Stop arguing that Jesus loved the poor too, what he loved or didnāt love is irrelevant, he doesnāt get a say in any of this. We could have a country that isnāt shackled to these ghosts if we collectively wanted to.
This is gorgeous.
Mama didnāt raise a quitter but she did raise an insecure perfectionist who never finishes anythi
some writer snob somewhere: Do not start sentences with But or And because doing so is grammatically incorrect.
me, writing my fic: But I donāt care. And you canāt stop me.
Sometimesā¦..the flow of your creative proseā¦..is more importantā¦.than grammatical guidelines,,,,,,
"why are people attracted to vampires theres nothing inherently attractive about them" we all know why people are into vampires its just that none of us wanna be the one to say it
I hate when people ask me āWhy are you so quiet?ā
Because I am. Thatās how I function.
I donāt ask others āWhy are you so noisy? Why do you talk so much?ā
Itās rude.
Found these two things today. Anyway Mexico is cool and reblog with other additions if you see them
Reminder: these are not wild fires. They were set on purpose by the Brazilian goverment.
It's great that other countries are doing something but please keep in mind that the Brazilian goverment has to be held accountable for the damage they have done even after this crisis is resolved.
ppl are so annoyingĀ āyou canāt paint ur bedroom pink youāre an adultā i did not spend my entire life waiting to grow up and control my life to paint my bedroom beige
I had a sales woman in furniture store try and tell me not to buy a hot bubblegum pink loveseat because she wanted me to āthink about the futureā
Bitch, I am thinking about the future. I already got a hot bubblegum pink couch at home and now I need a loveseat to go with it.
when I first bought my house, I announced my decision to paint my bedroom purple. I had wanted a purple bedroom for thirty damn years, you fucking bet I was gonna have one now. My friends decided, for some reason, that I meant what one of them referred to as ā14 year old girl purpleā (through whatās wrong with the colors a 14 year old girl chooses, I donāt know, even if theyāre not what I want as an adult). They didnāt believe me until they saw the color on the actual wall, even thought they helped me pick out paints. My mother, meanwhile, decided to get worried that if I painted my bedroom a ādark purpleā, it would be ādepressingā. As if, with an entire house to live in, I would spend all my time in the bedroom, which I wanted to be dark because I would be sleeping in there. In the damn dark.
I had like one, maybe two friends who were all like FUCK YEAH YOU PAINT IT WHATEVER COLOR YOU WANT, PURPLE BEDROOMS ARE AWESOME.
But when they actualy saw the finished bedroom, every single one of them was like, āOh yeah, thatās really pretty.ā (Well, the ones who supported me from the beginning were more like WOOHOO.)
And the moral of the story is: Fuck āem, please yourself. Either theyāll come around, or you can safely ignore every question of taste they opine about for the rest of time.
This applies to other adulting activities, too. When I was a kid, I decided that I wanted to have a wedding cake made of doughnuts. When I got older, I figured that I would be āmatureā about it and get a traditional cake, which the older adults approved of. Now that Iām 25 and facing the possibility of actual marriage in the near future, Iām just like āmarriage is a social construct but it comes with tax & insurance benefits, so just give me that goddamn doughnut cake.ā If they donāt like it then they donāt have to come to my wedding.
https://xkcd.com/150/
I would like you all to view my office. Iām thirty and my rainbow room is awesome, people can fight me
Iām thirty and my first big furniture purchase was a custom coffin shaped coffee table that opens up and is lined with purple crushed velvet. I would have loved it at 13 and I love it now. Growing up doesnāt mean you have to abandon what makes you happy.
GROWING UP DOESNāT MEAN YOU HAVE TO ABANDON WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY.
Iām 100% keeping this in mind
ASAN has cut ties with Sesame Street
Autistic Self Advocacy Network has cut ties with Sesame Street due to Julia being used to advocate for Autism $peaks Screening Program.
Link to the article from ASAN
Holy crap... A FREAKING SCREENING PROGRAM. We are not a fucking disease. We are not a puzzle piece or a burden.
There is a petition for Sesame Street to cut ties with Autism $peaks, which I suggest people sign, or contact Sesame Street directly if possible.
Please boost this, ND or NT. This is undoing all the good that Julia represented for autism.
People realize 'screening' is not the same as 'making diagnosis available to peopleā right?,
People in the notes are saying there should be screening because people need the dx. It's not the same thing.
Getting ANY diagnosis should be something done purposefully and privately by the person in question or their caregivers, not as a widespread search done by a hate group.Ā
There is so much stigma around autism, a group dedicated to spreading hateful and dangerous stereotypes running a program to seek out autistic people so that they can get their hateful messages in before the person or their caretakers have a chance to get a diagnosis or any kind of help from people actually trying to help autistic people is immediately incredibly suspicious if not outright insidious.Ā
The screening is specifically so they can find people uneducated about autism and push theirĀ ā100 Day Kitā that is full of fear mongering messages and that encourages parents to blame their children for disputes and anger within the house and to start abusiveĀ ātherapiesā.
Think of it this way: would my life have been easier if Iād known I was gay as a kid? Sure. Would I have wanted an anti-gay organisation screening me for signs of homosexuality and trying to convince my parents to send me to conversion therapy? Hell no.
Hell, I donāt even need a metaphor. I found out I was autistic when I was 11 but, due to the messages spread by people like A$, I wasnāt able to actually come to terms with it and use the diagnosis to help me until my last year of COLLEGE. And only because I did my own research and learned from actual autistic people. And that was without an organization expressly trying to push those views on me and my parents.Ā
Getting a dx earlier when itās attached to a ton of hateful messages and may make you end up in the equivalent of conversion therapy is not a benefit. A$ screening children is something that has no upside. And itās absolutely not the kind of thing a show like Sesame Street should be promoting.Ā
I have not heard of a single autistic adult who went through ABA who doesn't have c-PTSD from it. To give you a v quick idea.
Arrested for what! WTF! Are you kidding me? Heās not doing anything wrong! Sickening!
Hereās an article about him - itās from early July 2019.
āI will stay active for as long as Iām able to stay active ā and Iām at peace.ā
He wasnāt arrested just for walking around with a sign, though, he and a friend planned a sit-in in which they blocked the doors of a federal building housing an ICE courtroom to protest the imprisonment, neglect and abuse of migrant children separated from their parents. Getting arrested was part of the point - they were held for about an hour and a half and issued citations for a fine. He said he would not pay the fine and was seeking a court date to get further public attention for the issue. Heās deliberately using his privilege as an older white man to protest for people who have less power and are at more risk.
Go Alan Dornan!
