the weirdest thing about a lot of the common criticisms of millennials i see is that they all seem to boil down to:
you are soft. you believe the world should be kind. you expect people to treat you fairly. you think your needs are important, that you deserve to be listened to, that you shouldn’t be hungry and frightened and in pain.
and people are seriously SO OFFENDED by this. like, how dare you. how dare you believe the world might be a good place, how dare you believe you should be treated well just for existing. life is pain, princess, anyone who tells you different is selling something, now wipe that smile off your face, shut your mouth and go suffer like i did.
and it’s just like… i have a kid. if she grows up expecting better treatment than i experienced as a young woman, i’m doing my job. i know the world isn’t perfect, but random cruelty isn’t something we should just shrug our shoulders and accept, and it’s so fucking weird how angry people get at youngsters who refuse to do just that.
White people deny that they live a different reality in this country because they don’t want to be made to feel uncomfortable for their privilege. But it’s the reality we are living in. There is a matter of police oppression on blacks, browns and people of color in this country and it should be acknowledged, not ignored or be argued against.
In 2015, 4,836 workers were killed on the job and another 50,000 to 60,000 workers died from work-related illnesses, according to the AFL-CIO’s Death on the Job report, released this week in observance of Workers’ Memorial Day on April 28. That means that the fatal injury rate held steady from 2014 at 3.4 deaths per 100,000 workers.
Workplace deaths aren’t evenly distributed. Some states—led by North Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana—have higher fatality rates, and some groups of workers face disproportionate risk:
Latino and immigrant workers continue to be at higher risk than other workers:
The Latino fatality rate was 4.0 per 100,000 workers, 18% higher than the national average.
Deaths among Latino workers increased significantly in 2015; 903 deaths, compared with 804 in 2014.
Almost the entire increase in Latino deaths was among immigrant workers; 605 (67%) of Latino workers killed were immigrant workers.
943 immigrant workers were killed on the job—the highest since 2007.
Older workers are at high risk. In 2015:
35% of all fatalities occurred in workers ages 55 or older, with 1,681 deaths.
Workers 65 or older have more than 2.5 times the risk of dying on the job as other workers, with a fatality rate of 9.4 per 100,000 workers.
The government doesn’t put the resources in to improve the situation: “Federal OSHA has enough inspectors to inspect workplaces once every 159 years.” And that was in 2015. Things will not be getting better under Donald Trump, who, with the Republican Congress, has already taken steps to weaken workplace safety protections.
Literally everyone will ask if you broke your leg(s). Everyone. Even people you don’t know. Theyll ask a lot and think you’re extremely fragile.
bruises show up within the first day of rolling around, and they can really suck
people will try to grab your chair if they think you’re struggling and it can be hard not to snap at them for it
static electricity is a huge issue. You will probably either continuously shock your leg when you’re rolling around or do what I did today and zap someone so hard as you pass that both of you nearly keel over
people will call you out as a faker if you do anything even remotely fun ever on your wheelchair. Wheelies? Obviously your legs are fine lol not like you have to go down fucking curbs /s
puddles are the worst and if there’s a curb with a puddle all around and you have some ability to walk its a better idea to just stand up and navigate the chair than to fall backwards into said puddle
weird looks from people are inevitable, especially from people who don’t like you
bus drivers will often push your chair and give you advise you don’t want to hear, even if you tell them nicely you can push yourself. Its really hard not to get mad at them for it
no wheelies in school. Though if you do it in the elevator when no one else is with you you can’t really get caught.
speaking of wheelies, always be ready to throw at least one arm behind you in case you fall. They say tuck your chin in but its easier and more reliable to throw your hands back and keep your neck up so you don’t hit the floor. Sore arms are way easier to put up with than head injuries
don’t even bother to try and roll back up curbs. You will either be there for an hour or fall backwards. I managed to do both.
90% of classrooms that aren’t special ed are not very wheelchair accessible.
people will automatically assume you’re faking something if you’re not considered dumb enough in their standards to fit in with disabled students (aka high class ableism at its finest)
people are going to give you weird looks if you don’t suddenly start sitting with the other disabled kids
standard backpacks usually dangle way too much to keep on you easily, so try to pack light
built in storage on wheelchairs cannot sufficiently carry books
don’t try to hold an umbrella. Period. Especially not with your teeth. It doesn’t work.
don’t try to give the bus driver your ticket while you’re stuck on the ramp. And speaking of, its easy to start falling down the bus ramp so be careful, and when in doubt throw on the breaks
and finally if you’re like me pray to god you don’t go nonverbal when someone is trying to push you and you don’t want them to because it is hard to get them to stop if you can’t speak
able-bodied people can and should 1000% reblog this, some of these things I’ve seen on tips about using a wheelchair but a lot of these weren’t things I’ve seen
With the launch of VOICE also came the opening of VOICE’s official hotline, which fields calls from those who allege they are the victim of a crime carried out by a immigrant.
According to BuzzFeed, since the hotline’s launch, the phone lines have been tied up with calls about undocumented aliens— from outer space.
Given that the launch of the hotline coincided with Alien Day, people put two and two together and launched a plan to inundate the hotline with stories of alien abductions. Read more (4/27/17 10 AM)
Fourth grader Gabriella Corley is trapped. She has type-1 diabetes and is allergic to the kind of insulin her insurer makes affordable — and her family can’t pay for the kind she needs every day to stay alive.
Glancing at the cheerleader from Elkins, West Virginia, at a recent football game, held up on her teammates’ shoulders, her grin as wide as her two fists in the air, you might not think anything was wrong.
Then you might notice the insulin pump about the size of a pager tucked into her black compression shorts, clear tubes going under her shirt. It infuses insulin directly into her body through a tube connected to a site on her abdomen.
“She’s a beautiful, intelligent, amazing little 10-year-old girl who stands up in the face of adversity every single day without blinking an eye and does it with a smile,” said her mother, 32-year-old Andrea Corley.
Soaring insulin prices and inflexible insurance policies have forced this working-class mom to take desperate measures outside the system to keep her child alive.
Gabriella is allergic to the kind of insulin her insurer covers at a $25 out-of-pocket cost. She can only take Apidra, but her insurance only covers 25 percent of the price, leaving the family to pay hundreds of dollars a month they can’t afford.
So her mom has turned to the black market, trading for the medication with other families with diabetes she meets online, a tactic that regulators and health experts warn is a health risk. And she cut a back-end deal with a sympathetic drug rep: If she bought one vial he would give her 10 vials from his sample kit, nearly a one year’s supply. Gabriella’s grandmother covered the cost.
Biden is a 4-month-old Golden Retriever named after the former vice president.
His owner Sidney took him to the Capitol to see Joe Biden give a speech.
“As soon as Joe Biden saw the dog during his speech, he pointed at the dog, and then started like cracking up. Right towards the end, I kind of signaled him, and he gave me a wink to come over,” Sydney said. “When I told him his name was Biden, his face lit up and he started kissing the dog, which is like exactly what I expected Joe Biden would do”
Today is International Tabletop Day! It’s time to grab some buddies and head to a local game store, coffee shop, or book store and play some board games. Here’s how to find a gathering spot near you.
The most important part of this is that, according to one poll, 53% of Trump voters think President Obama played more golf than Trump. Only 20% knew the truth.
Yeah, I’ve seen where Republicans have called Obama a draft dodger for not going to Vietnam, never mind the fact that he was something like 6yrs old at the time, or that Trump is *literally* a draft dodger. And many Republicans in Louisiana blame Obama for his handling of Hurricane Katrina, even though Bush was president. And there are still Republicans who like to blame Obama for 9.11.2001 — as if Obama, not the Bush administration, repeatedly ignored intelligence briefings titled, “Bin Ladin determined to attack Inside United States”
These are not rational people. They willingly choose to live in an alternative, fact-free reality. Easily verifiable information has never been more at our fingertips than it is today, but conservatives make conscious choices to reject and ignore it. At some point, you gotta give up on trying to convince them of anything real, because Republicans are blinded by hatred and racism
There’s a simple piece of information to be learned here:
“If republicans were capable of reason, they wouldn’t be Republicans in the first place.”
Giving lame excuses for why you can’t do a (loud/bright/flashy/etc) group activity because you don’t have enough spoons to explain autism and overstimulation/sensory overload and you’re afraid you’ll have a meltdown of you participate.
anyone else have that classic middle school experience™ where you lost a nice pen and you saw someone else using it a day later and they’d never used it before so you asked them where they got their pen and they hesitated but then they said “from my house” and you didn’t have any evidence so you couldn’t accuse them of stealing it from you but you always knew deep down
I love reading fics about OTPs having mental bonds and things like that, but they’re always so profound. It’d be so much more entertaining if they still thought like normal people. Imagine this stuff:
“You’ve had that song stuck in your head for days. It’s driving me nuts, too.”
“Why are you making a grocery list in your head while we’re having sex?”
“Is that really what you think about my ass?”
“Stop projecting so much belligerent boredom. I love this TV show.”
“No, you didn’t forget to lock the door. You can quit fixating on it now.”
“Yes, that sounds much better in your head.”
“Is that really who you’re daydreaming about naked?”
“Less homicidal thoughts about your annoying coworker right now, please. I’m in a meeting over here.”
“It’s coffee you’re craving. Go get some. And bring me some. You made me want it, too.”
“Thanks for the road rage thoughts. I’ll take the back roads home. See you in an hour.”
“If you think ‘knit, knit, purl,’ one more time, I’ll stab you with those needles.”
Well, isn't everything apparently about that with these guys?
Like a very large succulent plant, Scott Baio requires attention every once in a while—whether he’s telling liberal snowflakes to “grow the blank up” and quit with “all of your antics of Russia,” or coldly speculating that his former Happy Days costar Erin Moran died of a drug addiction and remembering her as an…
"Won't you please think of the imaginary victims that we're creating in order to justify abusing certain groups of people, and especially sow discord among the populace, to make sure none of you are strong enough to effectively stop us?
There are so many things that are wrong with ICE’s VOICE office. It’s an anti-immigrant smear campaign thinly veiled as a “public safety office.” It has historical roots in Nazi Germany, where a similar campaign was launched against Jewish citizens. Yesterday, an immigration attorney discovered that babies were mistakenly included in VOICE’s “criminal immigrant” database, because ICE is fucking incompetent. So it’s no surprise, then, that outraged Americans pranked the office’s 1-855-48-VOICE (6423) hotline with calls about criminal space aliens, something ICE did not quite appreciate. In fact, according to Fusion, ICE “kind of lost their shit.”
“This is the email I got from an ICE official,” writes Fusion’s Rafi Schwartz, “when I asked the agency for comment on the prank calls (emphasis mine)”:
The VOICE line remains in operation. As yesterday was its first day I can’t give you any sense of whether this group had any impact at all on wait times or call volume because there’s no prior data to compare.
I hope you won’t dignify this group with the attention they are seeking. But if you choose to do so...this group’s cheap publicity stunt is beyond the pale of legitimate public discourse. Their actions seek to obstruct and do harm to crime victims; that’s objectively despicable regardless of one’s views on immigration policy.
The VOICE Office provides information to citizens and non-citizens alike regardless of status, race, etc., whose loved ones have been killed or injured by removable aliens. VOICE provides access to the same information you and other reporters are already able to obtain. Yet this group claims it’s somehow racist to give the same to victims of all races and nationalities? That is absurd.
Further, openly obstructing and mocking victims crosses the line of legitimate public discourse. VOICE is a line for victims to obtain information. This group’s stunt is designed to harm victims. That is shameful.
What is “shameful,” “absurd,” and “despicable” is trotting out a “cheap publicity stunt” like VOICE and pretending to care about “victims” while simultaneously trying to strong-arm local law enforcement agencies over sanctuary cities and driving so much fear in immigrant communities over deportations that they are no longer reporting when they’ve been victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Oh, Donald Trump cares about victims alright—if they’re white.
They tell a shitty bigoted joke and if the reaction is bad they’re “just joking”.
But if they are reaffirmed it is no longer a joke and they’ll feel comfortable openly and sincerely discussing what would have been “just a joke” otherwise.
Customer (calling from Ireland): “Yes hello, I would like to -”
Sheep in the background: *gentle baa*
Customer: “Uh, sorry, what I want to do is -”
Sheep: *slightly more insistent baa*
Customer: “No, not now! -cough- Excuse me. I have a reservation and -”
Sheep: *VERY LOUD ACCUSATORY BAA*
Customer:“Arnulf! Please be quiet, I am on the phone! … Sorry, I sincerely apologize on behalf of Arnulf.”
me: “I love and forgive him.”
Customer: “Don’t, he doesn’t deserve it. Anyway, I’m calling about -”
Arnulf: *small, very self-satisfied baa*
I once took my kids to a local farm and we found a lil goat with its horns stuck in a fence, just sitting there kinda mournfully on the grass. We tried to help it get free but it was stuck tight. We petted it for a while and fed it some grass (as it had lawnmowered a circle around itself as far as it could reach), and then went back to the ticket office to tell them it needed help, but before I’d said more than: “There’s a goat-” the guy cut me off with a weary wave and said, “Yeah, we know. Stuck in the fence. That’s Brenda. She can get herself out whenever she wants. She just likes the attention.”
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