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  • Hey aminorjourney , found you a Landy to pop in your carry-on luggage… on Flickr.

    Hey Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield , found you a Landy to pop in your carry-on luggage…

  • Fear is a great driver

    So, despite sleep deprivation from being post (very busy) nights, I hauled my sorry ass out of bed yesterday and painted the porch, the patches on the wall that needed touching up, the sink pillars…

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    …and the wall in the laundry room.

    Today I put a second coat on the pillars and the porch, and will try and get a third done tonight.

    The list I’d made before was:

    – Paint the entryway
    – Paint the back wall (just touching it up, but there’s a lot of touching up)
    – Remove the doors and get them dipped-and-stripped
    – Touch up some paint in the kitchen
    – Finish the deck and the garden path
    – Weed the garden and chuck down 100s of litres of bark chip
    – Paint the bathroom doorframe

    Of which I’ve managed none. Well, part of one. And I realised that:

    – Remove excess grout residue
    – Make panel to go under sink

    Were missing from that list, thus making me sad.

    Frustratingly, the weather is not being terribly helpful with me finishing the deck; rain drenching the entire thing persistently over the last few days. I need to go and get some more pallets, so I may throw the roof rack on tomorrow and do that, especially since I’m running some friends to the airport later this week and will need the rack on for that.

    We are planning to go and see my mum this week too, but it’s come to my attention that might have to be a one-day event, rather than a two day one, because I think we might need another day for house stuff. Another week would be handy, but we really want to get the house on the market ASAP. Being scared we won’t sell it in time – that’s freaking me out a little.

  • Fast food workers in NY just won a $15/hr wage.

    I’m a paramedic. My job requires a broad set of skills: interpersonal, medical, and technical skills, as well as the crucial skill of performing under pressure. I often make decisions on my own, in seconds, under chaotic circumstances, that impact people’s health and lives. I make $15/hr.

    And these burger flippers think they deserve as much as me?

    Good for them.

    Look, if any job is going to take up someone’s life, it deserves a living wage. If a job exists and you have to hire someone to do it, they deserve a living wage. End of story. There’s a lot of talk going around my workplace along the lines of, “These guys with no education and no skills think they deserve as much as us? Fuck those guys.” And elsewhere on FB: “I’m a licensed electrician, I make $13/hr, fuck these burger flippers.”

    And that’s exactly what the bosses want! They want us fighting over who has the bigger pile of crumbs so we don’t realize they made off with almost the whole damn cake. Why are you angry about fast food workers making two bucks more an hour when your CEO makes four hundred TIMES what you do? It’s in the bosses’ interests to keep your anger directed downward, at the poor people who are just trying to get by, like you, rather than at the rich assholes who consume almost everything we produce and give next to nothing for it.

    My company, as they’re so fond of telling us in boosterist emails, cleared 1.3 billion dollars last year. They expect guys supporting families on 26-27k/year to applaud that. And that’s to say nothing of the techs and janitors and cashiers and bed pushers who make even less than us, but are as absolutely crucial to making a hospital work as the fucking CEO or the neurosurgeons. Can they pay us more? Absolutely. But why would they? No one’s making them.

    The workers in NY *made* them. They fought for and won a living wage. So how incredibly petty and counterproductive is it to fuss that their pile of crumbs is bigger than ours? Put that energy elsewhere. Organize. Fight. Win.

    Jens Rushing (via accidentalambience)

  • sybilar:

    I don’t need an hour, I got a Sophie.

  • funrobot:

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    angryasiangirlsunited:

    iseemtobeaverb:

    continueplease:

    nbcnews:

    Teen’s invention could charge your phone in 20 seconds

    (Photo: Intel)

    Waiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student’s invention. She won a $50,000 prize Friday at an international science fair for creating an energy storage device that can be fully juiced in 20 to 30 seconds.

    Read the complete story.

    Everybody, remember this face.
    Remember this name.
    If this becomes a commonly used & highly lauded discovery, at some point a White guy is going to take credit, even if he has to word it like “Improved upon a previous…”
    No no no
    Fuck that guy.
    Remember this girl.
    Remeeeemmmmmberrrrr

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    What about her name? I keep seeing this all over my dashboard, but I’ve never seen it with her name in the actual post and not just in the link.

    Eesha Khare. That’s who she is. Not just “Nameless-brown-girl-who-made-something.”

    EESHA KHARE KICKING ASS!

    so when this comin out

    Can I pay her directly for one

  • malakhgabriel:

    awgusteen:

    Ok so I have to talk about how excited I am about this book. It’s an upcoming children’s novel called George, written by genderqueer author Alex Gino. It’s about a little trans girl who wants the world to see her for who she is.

    I’ve poked around the author’s website and was really pleased by what I found and this looks like it could be a terrific read.
    You can pre order it at alexgino.com (which I am about to do right now) but if you can’t afford an expensive hardback bother your rich friends to get a copy or something idk in any case this looks exciting and I want people to know about it

    Also ask your local public library to order a copy!

  • Hi-La-Ri-Ous

    So I just checked and my SSN should arrive within 2-3 weeks of landing in the US.

    …

    I have 30 days to get my driver’s licence in Washington State.

    …

    I need either an SSN or ‘proof of ID’ – a multi-stage, minimum 2 week process – which involves presenting proof of address twice and waiting for a form to arrive in the mail.

    …

    I’m not sure that it’s actually possible for me to get a driver’s licence in Washington State before I’m not meant to use the UK one anymore. Anyone got any great ideas?

  • It’s Sunday

    I’ve worked two superbusy nightshifts – and last night was just insane. Nothing simple, no straightforward patients, not a single bloody easy thing all night.

    I was (and am) wrecked.

    Getting up off the sofa for night-three is proving to be quite challenging. Despite spending some time fuzzling and being nuzzled by next-door’s cat.

  • Defund Crisis Pregnancy Centers

    i-was-a-naive-prolifer:

    There are over 2,500 “crisis pregnancy centers,” or CPC’s, in the United States. These centers receive tens of millions of dollars from the federal government, and more money from 23 state governments, to provide “crisis pregnancy counseling” to people with unintended pregnancies. Several states require pregnant people to receive counseling at one of these centers before they can get an abortion. Christian volunteers generally make up the entire staff at these centers (they must legally refer to themselves as “centers,” rather than “clinics,” because usually none of the staff members are trained in medicine).

    Despite not being genuine reproductive health clinics, these centers generally set up shop right next to real reproductive health clinics, make visitors fill out “intake paperwork,” and have their volunteers wear white lab coats and carry clipboards in the hope that pregnant people will confuse their center for a real clinic that gives accurate information about reproductive health. They then proselytize anti-abortion rhetoric, using phrases like “your baby,” “your preborn child,” and “you’re already a mother now”; framing the pregnancy in terms of the pregnant person’s “relationship with Jesus”; and reciting objectively false medical information about abortion and birth control, including:

    Along with the false claims above, CPC’s have frequently been caught giving inaccurate readings of ultrasound images, such as when one recently told a pregnant woman that her IUD was a baby, because no one on site is actually trained in reading ultrasound images. Given all this information about crisis pregnancy centers, the federal government should immediately cut off funding to these centers for practicing medicine without a license, impersonating real medical clinics, dispersing false medical information under the guise of being a licensed medical clinic, and proselytizing Christianity, making the federal and state funding of these centers a violation of the separation of church and state. Women who have been deceived by these false clinics are the real #womenbetrayed.