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the fact that i still have to unlearn shame… like come on that’s literally the most embarrassing thing to not have unlearned yet

Black movies that are not about trauma, slavery, or being accepted by white people >>>>>>

i made a letterboxd list for this actually

HOMIE TYYYYYY

My early 20's was really me like "I WISH I had the time to eat healthy, sleep, and work out but I just have too many other important things in my life right now" meanwhile I was emotionally absent, disassociating from stress and lack of sleep and nutrition, and totally abandoning myself for an idealized version of me I thought I could become simply by force and willpower

Insane to reflect on like....if you don't take care of yourself you actually CANT show up for anything you love or want

Why doesn't anyone teach us that

Maids, cleaners, janitors, and sanitation workers are all the most important people of civilization by far. Even 12 hours without them is VERY noticable and they simply need to be highly compensated for it

'Six AM', 1930 - William Wolfson

Hi, I'm a janitor. The facility I work in had its first floor flooded with sewage and while a restoration company came and sucked up all the water and placed fans everywhere to try the place out, I still cleaned the entire floor and threw away all the contaminated furniture. Same thing happened last year, but only a couple of rooms flooded on that floor and it was only water from a sprinkler system. This year was so much worse and I feel like no one in management gives a shit. The entire upstairs was absolutely going to shit because I was focused on the downstairs. Despite the work I do, I have to beg folks to spread around my little bear commission posts every month because I simply can't afford to live on what I'm paid lol

So, truly thanks to everyone who makes and shares posts like these recognizing sanitation workers. It's really a thankless job.

Hey guys, I know there are a lot of really severe tragedies in the world right now and I in no way desire to push those aside, nor do I really want to load another thing onto people's plates, but anyone here in the US needs to be aware that on March 11, 2024, an agricultural company known as NEW Cooperative spilled 265,000 gallons (1500 tons) of liquid nitrogen into the East Nishnabotna River. This is the ecological equivalent of dropping a nuclear weapon into the river. Over a 60 mile stretch downstream of the spill its been a near total ecological wipeout for the river. So far, an estimate of 850,000 fish have been killed from this spill, and that's to say nothing for the insects, amphibians, reptiles and birds that relied on or lived in this river. It is literally filled with animal corpses. This river flows into the Missouri River and the impacts will likely continue to spread far past this 60 mile stretch. And this disaster has barely made local tv in Iowa, let alone national tv, despite the fact that 60 miles of river ecosystem were just wiped out in a way that may be impossible to recover from. And what's the punishment for this heinous act of destruction through negligence, you might ask? As it stands, its looking like a 6k fine from the DNR to the company. Not 600k. Not 60k. 6000 dollars. The maximum fine that the DNR can charge in Iowa is 10k unless they decide to take it further in court. That's why these spills are so frequent in Iowa: it's literally cheaper to eat the fines than it is to bother properly storing fertilizer. I don't know exactly what the proper course of action is here, or who needs to be contacted to enact change--I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable than me will chime in with that information--but at the very least, every one of us should know. Every one of us should make sure we don't forget this. And every one of us should blacklist NEW Cooperative fertilizer unilaterally.

Sources:

WHO tf keeping pads with no wings in production?? Put it in your draws and by the time you walk out the bathroom it’s down the street buying scratch offs at the corner store. Like girl

why don't people in zombie apocalypse stories ever just wear suits of armor? you think any zombie is gonna get their shitty rotting jaws through this?

I'm gonna rip and tear my way through the zombie apocalypse completely unharmed because none of the undead hoards will be able to get through my plate mail

everyone else is like "oh we gotta stay inside the most secure places possible and never leave" and I'll be storming through the wastelands in my bloodstained suit of armor, blasting the Doom (2016) OST and plowing my way through waves of the undead. one of them tries to bite me but his shitty rotting teeth don't even leave a dent in my armor before I turn his head into paste. I'll be unstoppable until I die of dehydration or something like an idiot

this goes along with my other pet peeve about zombie apocalypse stories, namely: why does no one ever think to ride a bike? 

bikes are quiet- if the zombies react to loud noises, they won’t hear you on a bike the way they might hear you in a car. bikes don’t need gas, meaning you won’t be stranded if you run out. bikes are much, much easier to maintain than a car- there’s no computer that can short out, no fiddly engine bits that could kill you if you mess with them wrong. you can learn how to maintain a bike with a couple weeks’ worth of classes. almost every adult knows how to ride a bike, and without cars on the road, it’d be much safer to do. 

what i’m saying is

American author Mark Twain (b. 1835) lurches from his grave only to give you a massive thumbs up and die again

Mark Twain essentially invented the genre of a bystander sent into a time-travel sci-fi plot just to get someone to draw this image for him. And today we can simply search for such a picture. It is a time of wonders

#this post has everything. zombies. knights. bicycles. knights on bicycles. mark twain.

one of the biggest things I can advocate for (in academia, but also just in life) is to build credibility with yourself. It’s easy to fall into the habit of thinking of yourself as someone who does things last minute or who struggles to start tasks. people will tell you that you just need to build different habits, but I know for me at least the idea of ‘habit’ is sort of abstract and dehumanizing. Credibility is more like ‘I’ve done this before, so I know I can do it, and more importantly I trust myself to do it’. you set an assignment goal for the day and you meet it, and then you feel stronger setting one the next day. You establish a relationship with yourself that’s built on confidence and trust. That in turn starts to erode the barrier of insecurity and perfectionism and makes it easier to start and finish tasks. reframing the narrative as a process of building credibility makes it easier to celebrate each step and recognize how strong your relationship with yourself can become

They should invent a new kind of sleep that makes me less tired

‘Fun’ fact I learned from a fatigue management course i’m currently on: Sleep doesn’t count as Rest!

While you’re sleeping, your body is at rest, but your brain is using a hell of a lot of energy to process the information you took in while you were awake. Updating memories, creating dreams, balancing homeostasis, etc. So when every little drop of energy counts, sleeping isn’t going to totally recharge you.

You need Doing/Thinking Nothing time during the day in addition to sleep, by whatever means you find work best for you.

Today 40 Palestinians died in an Israeli shelling of homes in central Gaza, while more than 100 were severely injured (majority women and children). Yesterday Israel bombed Syria, killing two. Israel also bombed Lebanon, killing a woman and a girl.

Just to be crystal clear—Israel is now simultaneously bombing Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria.

As all of this is transpiring, US asks the ICJ not to call for an immediate end of the occupation. Reasoning? Israel’s “security concerns” need to be taken into consideration, due to the Hamas attack on October 7. As a reminder, the Hamas attack killed 1,139 Israelis—while Israel’s ongoing genocide has killed an estimated 29,000 Palestinians. And the reason it’s “estimated” is because a lot of bodies are still buried under rubble and unaccounted for.

A John Hopkins report estimates that the number of Palestinians dead could surpass 74,000 in the next 6 months.

it’s worth reiterating that Israel is intensifying its attacks in conjunction with an all-time low of aid trucks allowed to enter Gaza. It was reported the other day that this number fell from an average of 133 to an average of 47 throughout February. Only 4 trucks have entered Gaza this Wednesday. If they’re not massacring Palestinians, they’re starving them half to death.

If this isn’t pure evil, I actually don’t know what is.

Please donate to Palestinian families trying to evacuate this bloodbath. And if you can’t, spread this as far as you can. Hundreds of Palestinians are dying every day. At this point it has come to funding them or watching them die.

Just spent $100 on painting of a woman with a full bush. Living my best life as a dyke.

Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!! 🌳🌳🌳

*the longest yea boy ever*

“you should be at the club” i should be by the sea. i should be in the mountains. i should be awestruck and rendered speechless by the majesty of the natural world. if you even care

Today 40 Palestinians died in an Israeli shelling of homes in central Gaza, while more than 100 were severely injured (majority women and children). Yesterday Israel bombed Syria, killing two. Israel also bombed Lebanon, killing a woman and a girl.

Just to be crystal clear—Israel is now simultaneously bombing Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria.

As all of this is transpiring, US asks the ICJ not to call for an immediate end of the occupation. Reasoning? Israel’s “security concerns” need to be taken into consideration, due to the Hamas attack on October 7. As a reminder, the Hamas attack killed 1,139 Israelis—while Israel’s ongoing genocide has killed an estimated 29,000 Palestinians. And the reason it’s “estimated” is because a lot of bodies are still buried under rubble and unaccounted for.

A John Hopkins report estimates that the number of Palestinians dead could surpass 74,000 in the next 6 months.

it’s worth reiterating that Israel is intensifying its attacks in conjunction with an all-time low of aid trucks allowed to enter Gaza. It was reported the other day that this number fell from an average of 133 to an average of 47 throughout February. Only 4 trucks have entered Gaza this Wednesday. If they’re not massacring Palestinians, they’re starving them half to death.

If this isn’t pure evil, I actually don’t know what is.

Please donate to Palestinian families trying to evacuate this bloodbath. And if you can’t, spread this as far as you can. Hundreds of Palestinians are dying every day. At this point it has come to funding them or watching them die.