samtsk:

Don’t invalidate people’s struggles because you’ve been through worse. If someone is tired after working for 5 hours and you worked for 7, it doesn’t mean that they’re not allowed to be tired. It doesn’t mean they can’t feel what they’re feeling just because you’ve had it worse.

can’t stress this enough

I think I’ve crashed from the adrenaline bullshit enough to get some sleep soon.

In slightly better news, I’m hoping to finally get out later to one local fish store, and try to bring home some more cory cats to keep the existing ones company. After they get out of quarantine, at least.

The bedroom tank should be good to go for that, after a water change and adding a heater earlier. Just need to put some more biomedia in the filter, to handle the fish load. It’s plants and snails only right now, so I don’t trust the filter to keep up without that. Better not to do that much in advance, though.

I did consider earlier that maybe I should hold off on getting more corys (or fish at all), after that bit of news. But, these really do need the company, and they’ve already had to wait too long. Whatever may end up happening there, it won’t be soon. And I can deal with it then.

Trump asked Sessions about closing case against Arpaio, an ally since ‘birtherism’

Presidents can set law enforcement priorities, but they are expected to steer clear of involvement in specific cases to avoid the perception of politicizing the impartial administration of justice.

Trump backed off the Arpaio case after being advised it would be inappropriate, but that he even tried is “beyond the pale,” said Chiraag Bains, a former senior counsel in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

Bains said he believes Trump “has a sense that the chief executive controls everything in the executive branch, including the exercise of criminal power. And that is just not the way the system is set up.”

pixelatedfrog:

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kevingetem:

If u defend my name when im not around I truly appreciate u

kipplekipple:

Wheelchairs aren’t furniture.

• Don’t move them unless the wheelchair user in question says you can. Even if we’re not in them at the time! Shout-out to the nurse who, during my last hospital trip, tried to put my wheelchair in the nurse’s station, thus effectively stopping me from going TO THE TOILET without asking someone. And, of course, various shout-outs to people who thought *I* was furniture and moved my chair while I was in it.

• Don’t lean on them unless you have permission from the wheelchair user in question. Again, they aren’t FURNITURE. They’re part of us. Lean on stuff that’s stuff, not stuff that’s people.

• If you walk into someone’s wheelchair, while someone is in that wheelchair, you’re walking into a person. You’re jolting us, shaking us, and potentially causing us pain (I have chronic conditions, and YOU ARE HURTING ME). Do what you do anytime you walk into someone, and apologise. It doesn’t need to be any more than, “Oop, sorry,” it doesn’t have to be a big thing (please don’t make it a big thing) but ACKNOWLEDGE US jesus christ this is so alienating. I get walked into all the time and excepting my loved ones I can’t even remember the last time I got an apology.

Wheelchairs are not furniture. They’re assistive devices. They are, for all intents and purposes, part of us and it is frankly incredibly rude not to treat them as such.

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hey just to make sure everybody knows

bogleech:

It’s completely, 100% natural and should always be acceptable to change your opinions.

It shouldn’t be embarrassing.

You shouldn’t have to pretend you were never wrong about anything and that you’ve always felt the same way about everything.

You didn’t catch someone being a “hypocrite” when some older post of theirs conflicts with a new one. The simplest explanation is that they learned or reconsidered something.

The ability to evolve your understanding of things should be something to celebrate and respect. How did we end up with this shitty fucking culture where a change of perspective is treated like a shameful flaw.

clatterbane:

Having good intentions doesn’t mean that you can’t also get intrusive where it’s not welcome. Maybe especially where it involves situations you don’t have enough information about to reasonably draw conclusions

There are also reasons I do try to stay vague where it involves other people’s personal business. No matter how close they are, or how hard that is sometimes. It’s not my place to spread that around. Especially having been on the wrong end of that way too much growing up.

Having good intentions doesn’t mean that you can’t also get intrusive where it’s not welcome. Maybe especially where it involves situations you don’t have enough information about to reasonably draw conclusions