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“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am going to write fire until it comes out my ears, my eyes, my noseholes—everywhere. Until it’s every breath I breathe. I’m going to go out like a fucking meteor!”

— — Audre Lorde, from “A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer,” The Selected Works of Audre Lorde (via lifeinpoetry)

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sleepbby

PSA: no name is impossible to pronounce. no name is too hard to learn, no name is justifiably butchered. kids with 'different' names should be taught again and again that being called by their name is a right, not a privilege

pillowprincesslexa

Europe is currently being burned alive and people still think climate change is a joke. It's warmer in North Europe than in the middle eastern deserts.

Nearly all northern countries broke their decades old heat records this week.

frogs-smoking-cigarettes

Its only in the low hundreds in farenheit??? In America we get that for like a month or two straight every year??? Y'all need to deal is it really normally so cold over there that yall can live with a little heat???

pillowprincesslexa

If you're gonna have an ignorant American attitude then please only stay on American posts. No one in North Europe has an AC in their houses. Stores, animal shelters, elderly houses, no one has AC. the houses are designed to keep the heat in. The people are not accustomed to the heat. A sudden climate shift like this is extremely dangerous to older people and babies specifically.

There are programs being run to inform elderly people what to do to not die in this heat. There was a heatwave in the Netherlands in 2010 in which approximately 500 more elderly people passed away than normally.

gayhags

Americans are so fucking annoying

lananiscorner

Friendly reminder to everyone who goes “what’s the big deal?”--Last year we had a similar heat wave and it caused our rivers to recede so much that people found stones with messages like “if you find this stone, weep” engraved on them, which are also known as “hunger stones”, left behind dozens if not hundreds of years ago when similar droughts hit Europe. This weather is so NOT normal for us. So very much not. It usually happens maybe once a century, but now we get this EVERY year. This is not normal.

I mean, I am on a fucking island in the Atlantic, where everything is build for really humid weather with temperatures between 5-20 degrees Celsius. Last Monday, we had 27 degrees. 27 Celsius. In a place where NO-ONE has aircon. Where we just had devastating wildfires last year.

I come from a place that has hot summers and cold winters. I know how to deal with both, but even I can tell that this is NOT normal and it is NOT healthy.

whetstonefires

...also most of america does not break 100F for a few months a year, what the fuck, and we did so less often even twenty years ago.

and even in most parts of America that do get a lot of heat, when it’s degrees over 100 people mostly become puddles and/or avoid going outdoors. that is a killing heat by the standards of any climate, it’s just that when you’re prepared for it you’re less likely to actually die.

please do not sit in Arizona and laugh at other people for not handling heat well.

Arizona was barely regarded as habitable until air conditioning became common.

nanonaturalist

‘Sup, Texas here. It does get super hot and humid here, for long stretches at a time. Months, even. Also? Every house, apartment, restaurant, shop, library, everything has air conditioning, to the extent that I have to wear a jacket indoors all summer. PLUS every room in every home has ceiling fans. When my AC broke at home, the temp in my house quickly skyrocketed to 96 degrees F in the middle of the night.

So yeah, asshole American up there, all high and mighty with “just deal with it”? How much time do you spend where you have absolutely no access to AC? And I mean, none whatsoever? Or are you hiding in your 72 degree hole all day because the pavement will melt your shoes?

I’m from Seattle. Nobody has AC there because it never used to get hot enough to need it. But there were days when it got into the 80’s, 90’s, and even 100’s. With no AC, no ceiling fans, nothing. If you can go to a coffee shop or a movie theater with AC, great. But when you have to go back home to sleep, it’s absolute misery. There is no escaping the heat. I had to sleep under wet blankets.

Europe is a bit different. The buildings are super old, the climate is very mild, and their infrastructure isn’t set up to handle hot weather. Do coffee shops have AC? Probably not, is my guess. Buildings up there are designed to stay warm, not keep cool. Is there any escape at all?

People’s metabolisms in Europe are not acclimated to handle hot weather like people in the southern US. This is important. If you aren’t properly acclimated for an extreme climate, and you find yourself in it? You can die. If that climate comes to you? You’re screwed. You can get heat exhaustion and heat stroke in just a matter of hours.

Europe, stay hydrated. Think cool thoughts. I’m so sorry. :(

July 29, 2019

startrekin-it

Another important thing to note, as we arent used to heat people with chronic illnesses and other things that require liquid medication are helpless. Im type 1 diabetic, im 100% insulin dependent. I lose my meds whilst out, or it denatures whilst im out and i eat something w/o knowing i could die, or suffer a fair bit that ultimately damages my body.

Last week East Anglia peaked at 38 degrees, with no wind. I went out twice that week and both times I had to throw out my insulin pen. My only option if i leave the house, or even stay in the house, is to ensure i put everything in the fridge of carry an insulated iced bag. Also with the heat, i cannot tell if my headaches and responces are a result of heat stroke or sugar intake.

Further more all our public transport has gone to shit with the heat, EVERYTHING is over heating and nothing is air conditioned; people are dying from overheating. So get out of here with your arrogance and superiority complexes. People are suffering.

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im-awkwardly-here

we need to talk about shrek more

yellew

*falls behind in life* haha the lag

heavyweightheart

given the facts that 81% of 10 yr-old girls are afraid of becoming fat and young girls report being more afraid of becoming fat than of getting cancer or experiencing nuclear war, i think we can abandon the idea that public anti-obesity campaigns are actually about promoting health

catchymemes

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the moon is proud of you

goodbyedearfriends-deactivated2

and so are the stars

revivalish

and so is the sun

i-can-do-tricks

the aliens are watching you, a little confused about your life choices but are proud of you too

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beaswellgirl

I love Gordon Ramsay so much.

He comes from a very poor family. His father was an alcoholic who beat him and his mother (he once poured hot tea over her and put her in hospital several times), his brother is a drug addict, he literally built an empire out of nothing.

He credits his mother as his biggest inspiration and often has her cooking in his shows.

When he left his first restaurant he pulled a successful Jerry Maguire - the entire kitchen staff went with him. That tells you what he’s like to work with.

He was one of the first to give a restaurant to a female chef.

He went to prison (Gordon Behind Bars) and taught inmates to bake and they opened a bakery (Bad Boys Bakery) that is still running. He hired one of them when he got out.

He did documentaries about the cruelty of shark hunting and cocaine. (when he discovered cocaine was used by his staff he didn’t fire anyone but made sure they are offered treatment)

His kids are a treasure.

He is always ALWAYS kind to servers.

When one of his partners (Marcus Wareing) wanted to leave they got into a fight and settled it in court, they no longer speak to each other but this is what Marcus said about him after the fight:

I feel bad that the first association to him for a lot of people is this shouty TV chef when he’s truly a wonderful person.

Oh and then there’s this:

this entire episode

someclevermoniker

never forget that the reason he’s “shouty and angry” on his tv show is that he’s yelling at people who ignore the rules of courtesy and food safety and basically feed their customers poison, something which would enrage any good person