it's okay to mourn the person you could have been. it's okay to be angry or resentful at that lost potential. it's okay to be sad about it too. but i want you to know that there are so many parts of you, the you that exists right now, that are beautiful and lovely and meaningful. just because your past is lost doesn't mean your future has to be too.
any significant term of imprisonment will destroy your life. even a few days in jail can leave you unemployed and homeless. what about a year? two? five? can you imagine trying to recover from losing a that much of your life to the trauma of confinement? can you imagine trying to rebuild a life from less than nothing? prison is cruel and inhumane
Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours: Love Poems to God; from ‘Du wirst nur mit der Tat erfaßt’, tr. Anita Barrows & Joanna Macy
Hasan Minhaj has created an actually free website for doing your taxes online, and it includes both a gallery naming and shaming corporate tax avoiders, and THIS little gem - an ASMR video. About taxes. That definitely falls into the category of “things that are unfeasibly hot for some goddamn reason”.
10/10
It is literally named TurboTaxSucksAss.com and that is the best thing I’ve seen all day.
Hi guys. I am the sole provider of myself and my disabled mother. As of today I was notified that I have been furloughed from my job starting week after next. I cover all the living costs for myself and my mom and I have no other family to ask for help from. If anyone is able to donate to help me make rent and other bills I would be so thankful. I’ve been crying all morning. I’m completely devastated and I have rent and several other bills coming in the next few weeks.
Cashapp: $agfoster97
Venmo: Anna_Foster3
PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/watershield
I know I’ve been offering this already but I keep doing it in hopes it encourages even one person to help; this is exactly what these two didn’t need right now and it’s gonna be a tough start to the new year. Please please please, if you have anything to spare, give if you can and DM me your receipt (a screenshot of the confirmation page/receipt email will do) and I will do art for you. Just about any kind of art you’d like, including character design if that’s your fancy. Examples can be found on this blog. Please exercise your generosity if you’re able to do so, Anna and I would both greatly appreciate it!
I’m having a lot of trouble getting on unemployment since I have an open claim in another state due to moving for a job. It’s almost impossible to actually get through to unemployment over the phone. Please reblog this I don’t know when I’ll get any unemployment if ever
This is a the funniest fucking post I have seen in a year because first the spelling and backstory makes you think he got a role as one of the beatles, and then after the preposterous reveal she says that isnt actually a problem, and I don't think anything more could be funnier than the actual post cutting it off as she makes it all about the couch. Comedy writers please study this.
Also this is just a general piece of advice, police and feds can and will talk to you on the false pretext that they believe you’re just a witness or even the victim of a crime, when they’re actually interrogating you as a suspect, and will use your answers against you in court. They do not have to inform you of your right to remain silent or right to an attorney, nor inform you that your answers will be used against you. That’s only when they arrest you.
So don’t ever talk to cops, and if you absolutely must (like say if your car gets stolen and you gotta report it for insurance purposes), always be careful with your answers. Don’t get chummy and admit to anything even remotely criminal or admit knowledge of anything even remotely criminal. Answer as minimally as possible. And “I don’t remember” is your best friend when you don’t want to say what you know.
The executive orders Biden signed on his first day in office: 1. Requiring masks and physical distancing on federal property
2. Halting the US’s withdrawal from WHO
3. Creating position of Covid-19 Response Coordinator to manage vaccine distribution
4. Extending eviction/foreclosure moratorium till March 31
5. Extending the student loan payment pause till September 30
6. Rejoining Paris Climate Accord
7. Cancelling KeystoneXL and directing agencies to review Trump environmental actions
8. Rescinding Trump’s 1776 Commission which was the thing telling government agencies not to incorporate racial justice into their training
9. Preventing workplace discrimination of LGBTQ+ people
10. Requiring non-citizens to be counted in census and taken into account for congressional rep
11. Fortifying DACA
12. Undoing Trump’s expansion of immigration enforcement
13. Removing Muslim ban
14. Stopping border wall construction
15. Extending deferrals of deportation and work authorizations for Liberians with a safe haven in the US
16. Requiring exec branch employees to sign an ethics pledge
17. Undoing Trump’s regulatory approval process
If he keeps this energy up I might actually like him.
(make no mistake, I voted for him. But it sure as shit wasn’t because I suspected he might have a spine)
I made a meme for today
