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  • Well, it’s been a while

    So the quiet around here, which those of you familiar with my blogging will be well aware of, is because of the new job. See, the new job is challenging in a way that is totally familiar – I feel way out of my depth, I feel stressed and anxious, and I spend approximately every waking hour preparing for – or doing it. Which is much like when I first started working in the ED.

    Of course, the students are expecting a teacher, so they get one. I have tapped lots of really amazing teachers that I know at various points to get suggestions. And I know plenty more… so hopefully I can continue to improve without driving everyone nuts.

    But it has meant that everything else has pretty much gone to the wayside. I’m managing most mornings to put in 10 minutes or so of Yoga, which is my new attempt to conduct a little bit of self care. And recently I’ve been committing to not working on Sundays, which is hard, but it does mean that I come into Mondays feeling a little bit rested.

    But I keep reminding myself that this is a new career, not just a new job, so it will be hard. It’s not news, but it is amazing how much I’ve forgotten over the years and how much I need to update, which makes it extra challenging. Still.

    It would be way easier if I didn’t care so much. But damnit, I’ve discovered I care about getting the students a good education. So that sucks, because otherwise I could do a half-assed job. :-/

  • elodieunderglass:

    lokis-mayhem:

    char7:

    primal–scream:

    thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

    imjustusingthistolikeartists:

    thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

    ominouslymathematical:

    thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

    blackphoenix1977:

    mutantlexi:

    cassiebones:

    ghostsships:

    thingstolovefor:

    I’ll be writing in Bernie as well. #Love it!

    Post: This is a really bad idea that will make it more likely for Trump to win.
    Bernie Sanders: Please vote for Hillary instead of writing me in.
    People: I’m gonna write Bernie in!

    DON’T. VOTE. FOR BERNIE

    All of these “I’ll write in Bernie” people, are literally the living embodiment of Privilege.

    The main point of this post: voting third party or writing in Bernie will split the vote and basically hand Donald the White House. 

    DO NOT WRITE IN A NAME

    DO NOT VOTE THIRD PARTY OR VOTE FOR BERNIE SANDERS

    FOR GODS SAKE BERNIE SANDERS HAS TOLD PEOPLE NOT TO DO THIS BECAUSE IT WILL NOT WORK AND IT WILL MAKE IT EASIER FOR TRUMP TO WIN

    ALSO, WRITING IN BERNIE WON’T WORK, HE ISN’T AN APPROVED THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE. WRITING HIM IN IS LITERALLY THROWING YOUR VOTE AWAY!

    THIS

    IT IS LITERALLY NOT LEGALLY POSSIBLE UNDER US LAW FOR BERNIE SANDERS TO BECOME PRESIDENT

    Now if you want to ACTUALLY show your support for Bernie, vote democrat in the senate elections

    Because if the democrats get a senate majority that means Bernie Sanders will be in a position of power in the senate

    That’s a way to ACTUALLY show your support

    Writing his name in on presidential ballots though? That’s WASTING YOUR VOTE

    YOU NEED TO VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON

    For literally the hundredth time: Voting for Hillary Clinton is the ONLY WAY to guarantee Trump does not become president

    Also it’s illegal to take a photo of your ballot

    YES that is important to remember as well!

    Listen, only 36 states allow write in votes And in 34 of those the candidate MUST register with the state in order for the vote to count. WHICH BERNIE HAS NOT DONE. THIS IS WHY HE’S SAID DON’T WRITE HIM IN.

    NINE states don’t even ALLOW write in votes.

    If you write him in, you vote LITERALLY will not count SO DON’T DO IT.

    For the love of all that’s sane, people, LISTEN TO THIS!! This is not the time for a protest vote or a statement vote. Your country will be placed into the hands of a literally fucking insane narcissistic sexual predator who apparently thinks he is running to become King Joffrey and not the president. Do not give me the bullshit reply of “Well, a president only has so much power”. He has power enough, add a Trump presidency to a Republican controlled Senate and that gives them all the power they need. Oh, and Trump’s VP choice is a religious zealot who thinks gay people should be “cured” with electroshock therapy. Nice, right? You want things like women’s rights, racial equality, marriage equality, affordable college, the right to choose, health insurance, stronger gun laws, freedom to practice a religion other than Christianity, a good relationship with our allies, trade agreements, etc., then you have one choice – Hillary Clinton. Write in Bernie, let Trump win and enjoy the next 4 years of all-straight-Christian-white-guys-carrying-their-guns-to-iHop rein.

    Please don’t waste your vote. This year is literally NOT THE YEAR to try to make a statement or whatever. Ladies, POC, this could be our LAST year to vote if the angry cheeto wins. Please just don’t waste your vote. This is too goddamn important. 

    Two more things:

    1. DO NOT TAKE PICTURES OF YOUR BALLOT. DO NOT TAKE SELFIES WITH YOUR BALLOT. DO NOT SHOW YOUR BALLOT TO OTHER PEOPLE. It is illegal in some states and invalidates the ballot in others. You might get away with it – you can check your local laws here. But consider this: it’s a very irresponsible thing to do in all states. If you’re going around cheerfully sharing your ballot on social media (why would u do this) then you are modeling a silly behavior and encouraging your social network to do the same. That is how social media works. Much of your social network will fall within areas where it is illegal or irresponsible to photograph their ballot, and when they happily share in your cool behavior, you’ve just… deliberately encouraged innocent/naive young people to invalidate their hard-earned votes for no reason? What a mean thing to do.

    but also

    2. DO NOT VOTE IN A CANDIDATE WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT. DO NOT VOTE IN A CANDIDATE AGAINST THEIR WILL. DO NOT VOTE FOR SOMEONE TO TAKE A POSITION THEY DO NOT WANT TO TAKE. This is irresponsible and disrespectful at best, and deeply creepy at worst. If Sanders has explicitly stated that he does not want you to vote him into the office of President – and he has explicitly, formally stated this – do not assume it is your place to override his will. “oh, of course he has to SAY that, but everyone secretly wants to be President” – NO. GROSS. WEIRD. LISTEN TO YOURSELF. If someone says “no” you can’t tell them that actually, you and all your friends have decided that they really meant “yes.”

    Bernie Sanders is a wily, savage, cleverboots Yankee fox and he is astonishingly good at playing the game. I trust him to do so; he knows his job. An 18-year-old from Podunk, Nevada who does not even know what players are on the board does not have a direct psychic connection to Uncle Bernie’s foxy brain that allows them to interpret the True and Secret Will of Bernie, and they are also edging dangerously close to Extremely Bad Consent Politics, which would embarrass them in front of their friends if they all thought about it for 5 seconds. You don’t know Bernie’s job better than he does, and consent is not an issue that people get to vote on.

    Seriously, don’t do either of these things. If you remove the politics and the Feelings, you’ll see that they aren’t good or kind. And if you put the politics and the Feelings back in, you’ll see that goodness and kindness are what we need to be steering with, above all.

  • unseenphil:

    micdotcom:

    In an ironic twist, Trump is now facing an email scandal

    Donald Trump has sought to make the issue of Hillary Clinton’s emails a defining one. But he has a habit of destroying and deleting thousands of emails and documents amid the thousands of lawsuits surrounding his business empire, according to a Newsweek analysis. He’s been doing for a long time.

    At the rate we get new “Trump explicitly does the same things he accuses his opponents of” stories, I expect that by election day, we’ll discover A: His dad was involved in the plot to kill JFK, and B: He was born in Kenya to non-American parents. 

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    wehaveallgotknives:

    someone once asked peter cook about whether he thought satire was an important political tool, and he said something like, “oh of course, just think about how satire was invented in – in the cabaret clubs of 1930?s germany. they just did away with hitler, didn’t they?”

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  • blackmattersus:

    Heavily armed militians acquitted when unarmed protesters get attacked and arrested

    What is justice in this country?

  • unicornempire:

    prokopetz:

    If you think about it, all these thinkpieces about how Millenials are “killing” various industries reveal a pretty colossal sense of entitlement.

    Under normal circumstances, if a given industry finds itself unable to sell products to a given market demographic, we’d say it’s that industry’s fault for failing to offer products that that demographic is interested in buying.

    It only makes sense to blame the target demographic itself is if we’re assuming that the established industries have some intrinsic right to that demographic’s disposable income that’s being denied – which is clearly nonsense.

    And I thought Millennials were supposed to be the entitled ones?

    Thank you for putting into words one of the factors that has rubbed me the wrong way about the litany of articles and quotes about how Millennials are Ruining Everything ™. 

    Like, I have worked very hard to put out real, genuine quality stuff. The best that I can make while offering it at a reasonable price, because a business transaction should be fair; you get a good product, the business makes some profit, everyone walks away happy. I am not even that old, and I have already seen a significant decline in the quality, craftsmanship, materials and labor sources in almost all of my purchases compares to the items that my family bought when I was growing up- and I’m talking the expensive stuff, too! We have bought two Dysons from Costco in the last two years (returned both, thank god for Costco’s return policy!) and neither one functioned as well as Megan’s old parent’s Dyson that was made in the 80?s. My grandmother has an old metal sewing machine that has been kicking longer than I have but I’ve been through about four sewing machines in my lifetime, each one managed to last twoish years. And these are the things off the top of my head, and it goes all the way down. Like how they started manufacturing secretly-smaller containers for things with the bubble on the bottom so you don’t notice there’s less product inside, or how Charmin made their rolls ‘shorter’ than they used to be but they are still technically the same number of ‘sheets’- I mean, I know I sound a little crazy, but if you’re Charmin and you reduce the amount of paper material per-roll by even a single penny, even a fraction of a penny, it would add up to much bigger profits; and a bigger expense passed on to the consumer, who won’t notice that the rolls are an inch shorter (except me because I’m weird that way)

    I see companies constantly finding ways to cut corners, pay employees less, and put out crappier merchandise, and then go “Why won’t anyone buy this stuff?!” and I just don’t get why they’re confused. 

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    the-movemnt:

    America: where peaceful activists are brutalized by the police but heavily armed protesters are greeted cordially. the double standard on full display

  • leonerdchurch:

    thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

    blackphoenix1977:

    mutantlexi:

    cassiebones:

    ghostsships:

    thingstolovefor:

    I’ll be writing in Bernie as well. #Love it!

    Post: This is a really bad idea that will make it more likely for Trump to win.
    Bernie Sanders: Please vote for Hillary instead of writing me in.
    People: I’m gonna write Bernie in!

    DON’T. VOTE. FOR BERNIE

    All of these “I’ll write in Bernie” people, are literally the living embodiment of Privilege.

    The main point of this post: voting third party or writing in Bernie will split the vote and basically hand Donald the White House. 

    DO NOT WRITE IN A NAME

    DO NOT VOTE THIRD PARTY OR VOTE FOR BERNIE SANDERS

    FOR GODS SAKE BERNIE SANDERS HAS TOLD PEOPLE NOT TO DO THIS BECAUSE IT WILL NOT WORK AND IT WILL MAKE IT EASIER FOR TRUMP TO WIN

    Bernie Sanders isn’t even a write in candidate. You are LITERALLY wasting a vote by writing him in

  • anexperimentallife:

    gothartwin:

    thenerdofsparta:

    khaleesijade:

    simaraknows:

    gilbertbielschmidt:

    seduce me with ur history knowledge 

    vikings made their woman handle the finances because they thought math is witchcraft

    The idea that unicorns are only able tamed and captured by virgins originated as a medieval joke. The idea was that it took a mythical creature to catch a mythical creature.

    There was once an English minstrel called Roland the Farter. He was awarded lands by the king on the condition that he turn up to the court every Christmas to perform his characteristic “whistle, leap and a fart”. His children could keep the lands after his death if they learnt and performed the same trick.

    There is graffiti from the Norse invaders that reads (roughly) “ I slept with Ingiborg, the most beautiful woman in the world ”

    A close friend of Alexander the Great named Dioxippus, once told one of his generals, named Coragus, to stop being so up himself, Coragus took offence and challenged him to a duel in front of all of his troops unaware that Dioxippus was a champion of Pankration, Ancient Greek Wrestling. Coragus turned up with all of his weapons and armour, Dioxippus turned up naked with a club, lathered in Olive Oil. The match was over in about 5 mins and Coragus got his arse well and truly kicked.

    When an army of Swedes went off to war with the Norwegians, they left all the women to manage everything, however, in the village of Smaland, right on the Southern Border, they were attacked by an opposing force of Danes. The women, led by a woman named Blenda, responded to this by inviting the invaders in, feeding them, making them comfy and basically having a massive party to get them REALLY drunk. When all the invaders all passed out, the women slaughtered them all with anything they could find, and when the men came back, the King was so impressed that he basically granted them a bunch of new rights that were previously unavailable to them. From that point on, all daughters had the right to inherit property, money and land equally with their brothers, and were allowed to wear military-style garments around town and at their weddings.  They were also given the prestigious right to wear the Royal Coat of Arms on their clothing – a tradition that has lasted to this day.

    The term in Chess “Checkmate” is thought to have come from the Persian term “Shah Mat” which means “The King is dead”.

    Captain Benjamin Hornigold, the mentor to Edward “Blackbeard” Teach, once captured a ship just so he could steal all of the crew’s hats, because his crew had gotten drunk the night before and thrown all of theirs overboard.

    Napoléon Bonaparte, the Corsican soldier who eventually became the Emperor of France following the French Revolution and Maximilien de Robespierre’s “Reign of Terror”, was terrified of cats.

    It is always different and also always amazing

    Anthropologists now think that the primary reason human beings first settled down en masse and took up agriculture may have been to facilitate beer-making. So basically, civilization exists because a bunch of our ancestors wanted to get their drink on.