whats the best way to trim the crest+beard of a silkie? this lady can barely see with all that floof!
apparently some people use little headbands to keep the fluff out of their eyes
80s chickens
yo im late but when i first got my polish frizzle bantams years ago from their breeder their crests were up to keep them out of the mud (because they’re show birds) and the result was amazing
We didn’t call it ‘cosplay’ back then, but yes, I did. Once. Then I got banned from ever doing it again.
#remember when cons starting posting rules that you actually had to wear clothing to be in the costume competition? #who says green paint isn’t a costume? #dammit, it was the 70s lighten up #George thought it was hilarious and laughed so hard we got in trouble for noise #that quote that circulated for a few years “I’m not giving you my phone number I just want you to carry me around on a platter”? #ok so maybe that came from that evening #or maybe that was just a rumor who can say #hotel security did carry me around on a sheet of plywood though #because there was a sign asking people not to walk naked from the pool through the lobby #did I mention it was the 70s? #ok no naked walking in the lobby #so I didn’t walk #I might have just outed myself because this was a wee bit infamous for a time #I probably should not be posting this #but honestly we were adults having fun and it was actually very innocent #just a little naked #and don’t forget that damn green paint #my kids are going to have a fit when they hear I posted this #lighten up kids it was the 70s
so my brother was telling me about this human resources certification he attended a while ago. in a panel, the panelist asked a bunch of people in attendance, “who here knows if an applicant for a job is right for it in under 60 seconds?”
hands shot up around the room, people smug about their ability to “weed out the riff-raff” when it came to hiring for their fortune 500.
“you should all be fired and probably in jail,” they said, waiting for the whole room to get uncomfortable, then continued, “because the only things you can really learn about a human being in under 60 seconds are all things that are fueled by prejudices and biases covered by american law. so now, i will teach you how to stop being racist, sexist, judgmental assholes and hire people that will better your company of employ.”
I need this to be force taught at all companies
This is a good example of why study after study after studyhas shown that discrimination against racialized people looking for work is very real. Oh, and don’t get too smug if you’re not in the USA – similar studies have shown that the same shit happens in Canada, Germany, the UK, Sweden – basically in every country you can think of.
Holy motherforking shirtballs. I don’t know if any of you follow US politics, but tonight has been incredible. Things are happening. Virginia flipped fourteen seats from red to blue—the biggest flip since 1899. Over 100 years ago.
Virginia also just elected the first trans legislator, Danica Roem. That’s significant in and of itself, but the kicker?? The man she beat is the one who created the anti-trans bathroom bill. Irony never tasted so sweet.
Minnesota just elected a black trans woman to the Minneapolis city council. A BLACK!! TRANS!! WOMAN!! I’m so proud of Andrea Jenkins.
Seattle just elected its first lesbian mayor. And she’s the first female mayor since the 1920s! NINETEEN TWENTIES!!
There are so many more minorities who have been elected into office (please add them!), and this is so incredible.
I haven’t had hope like this in a long time. I had forgotten how good this feels. Now, onto 2018!
The Virginia legislature is even better.
So far tonight there are FIFTEEN confirmed Democratic wins in districts that were previously held by Republicans. And four more races that are so close they’re going to a runoff. Democrats needed to pick up SIXTEEN seats to retake the majority there, a number so unprecedented that the absolute wildest, most optimistic projection by ANYONE gave a maximum possibility of the Democrats picking up 10 seats. Most projections would have called SIX a good night. It’s been decades since the Democrats picked up more than four seats in the Virginia legislature in a single night, and they’re inches away from retaking the majority with sixteen.
Of those 15 confirmed seats, all 15 were previously held by white men. A whopping ELEVEN of them were won by Democratic women, and not just white women. They’re a diverse bunch including a first time African American candidate who gave birth to premature twins during the race and never considered dropping out. One of the candidates lost her brother just weeks into her campaign to alcoholism and PTSD, and she stayed in to champion mental health reform for other Virginians in similar positions, as a leader of one of the Indivisible groups and a participant in the Women’s Marches in January. Some of the first Latina, black, and Asian American women won seats in the Virginia legislature, and Danica Roem kicked out the self-proclaimed “Homophobe in Chief” of Virginia and author of the states bathroom bill, who refused to even debate her. Some of them won in districts so solidly red that until this year the Democrats never even considered trying to contest them.
This was a night of absolute, electorate-shattering vindication on the part of diversity and grassroots progressives, and it stands as undeniable proof that centrist candidates are not the only option for electoral viability, and that’s a profound message for the Democratic party to absorb before the midterms next year. There’s no way around it anymore:
The future is female. And it’s diverse. And it’s progressive.
And even overwhelmingly gerrymandered districts can’t save Republicans’ bad politics from total annihilation at the polls.
This also shakes the foundation of the Republican party’s identity as it tries to stand by the administration’s agenda. Because if they ally themselves with him, they will lose BADLY.
let me fucking tell you a thing about self-diagnosis.
I have kidney stones, that if not medically removed, would kill me, and this has happened several times.
I’ve had them since I was 16, I’d go to doctors, they’d say, oh it’s your period, I’d go to another doctor, they’d say, oh it’s a UTI
it was not until I googled and searched up my particular symptoms, that I figured, hey, it might be kidney stones.
So I told a doctor, I’m like, hey I might have kidney stones, and so they’re like, lets do an ultrasound, nothing showed up. And so the doctor was like, I guess not.
And I’m like fuck, I wonder what it could be then, until I googled it, and found out that sometimes kidney stones don’t show up in ultrasounds.
If I didn’t google that particular information I would have died, because they wouldn’t have taken a cat scan and found MY GIANT FUCKING STONES blowing my kidney the fuck up.
Self-diagnosis SAVES LIVES, it saved my life, and it saves millions of others.
If people know there is something wrong with their bodies, and doctors continuously blow them off, if those people don’t look into it, or have someone help them look into it, they can very easily end up dead.
if abled people spent even half the amount of time supporting disabled people that they spend ‘calling out the fakes’ the world would be a much a better place for disabled people.
I don’t see how it’s unsupportive to expose people utilizing resources and garnering false sympathies who do not need those resources or sympathies. If anything it frees up those services for people who legitimately need them.
Of course! But the problem is that people take it upon themselves to go after absolutely anyone who is disabled and requires services, and us disabled people end up having to constantly (literally on a daily basis) explain and justify our needs. I think people think it’s very easy to get gov assistance, when that is completely not the case. It takes years, a lot of money and time, and a whole lot of proof. It’s super stressful to go through the whole process, and then every year/few years you gotta do it all again and reprove yourself. Most people have no issue with the gov keeping tabs on it all, since we don’t want people misusing it, but when regular people try to do the governments job, that’s where I have a problem.
Plus, they’re never kind about it! It’s always done in a horribly rude and sometimes actually scary way. You shouldn’t be forced to divulge your whole medical history to every person on the street (or in whatever institution you need access too, even though it’s illegal, people don’t care and do it anyways). 💜
@fightinginthenameofnothing I understand what you are saying, if someone is genuinely faking an illness to use resources they don’t need and you are 1000% sure they are not genuine then sure, expose them, call them out.
The problem with this whole “exposing the fake disabled” culture, like @fogblogger says, is that people are going after anyone on disability, anyone using disabled badges or getting any extra help/support etc.
I have been attacked for using my disabled badge, harassed when people see me walking because that must mean I am not disabled. I am in constant fear of people accusing me of lying and just being a lazy scrounger (all these things have been said to me in the past) and I even have severe anxiety as a result. People have taken this whole thing too far and so many genuinely disabled people are being harassed and abused because of it. This may have started with good intentions but is turning into a hate crime against the disabled.
People are even being investigated by the government because they’ve been reported as falsely claiming benefits. The governments own figures show that most of the people reported are genuine and they’ve just wasted all that tax payer money investigating someone who didn’t deserve to be investigated in the first place.
Obviously I would like the people who are not genuine and taking resources from those who need it to be caught out but if I had choose between protecting the disabled community as a whole or trying to catch out the 0.7% (actual figure of people in the UK fraudulently claiming benefits). I would rather one person get away with benefit fraud than risk hurting thousands of disabled people in a witch hunt to “catch out the fakes”
The public have no right to judge every single disabled person who needs help. It is not up to them to decide who is or isn’t disabled. We go through enough stress trying to prove that we need the help in the first place. We undergo assessments, Appeals, medical tests.
This is culture is not even helping to stop benefit fraud, it is just harming the most vulnerable people in society. disabled people don’t deserve this constant harassment and fear of losing their support just because some asshole on a power trip thinks that they can stop benefit fraud by going after vulnerable people.
Instead of trying to make sure “fakes” aren’t taking up limited resources, why not spend that same time and effort building more resources?
Also looking at the UK, with its ongoing austerity dumpster fire and encouraged easy anonymous reporting:
DWP also admit they don’t record how many people make malicious allegations – mainly due to the anonymity they provide accusers – and take no action (legal or otherwise against those who do.
There seems to be a large disparity between this and public perception: an Ipsos Mori survey in 2013 found the public believed 24% of benefits were fraudulently claimed – 34 times greater than the level seen in official statistics.
From last month (October 2017), and not at all unconnected:
Of course, it’s not as if the ones harassing and assaulting disabled strangers can even know who may or may not be receiving benefits at all, much less how legitimately. Just being disabled in public is plenty. Scroungers by default. It’s an unfortunately socially acceptable excuse for abusive behavior wrapped up in resentment. Self-righteousness can be one hell of a drug.
And letting other people go about their business without interrogation and harassment should be the default. That includes everyone.
Instead of trying to make sure “fakes” aren’t taking up limited resources, why not spend the same time and effort building more resources?
I mean, there are some obvious reasons the government would prefer to scapegoat us all as drains on society, but “concerned citizens” really don’t need to do so much of the dirty work for them. It’s really not in anyone’s best interest to keep squabbling over crumbs.
the searingly shitty thing about this in the UK in particular is that incomprehensible amounts in benefits go unclaimed while thousands of people just fucking die because the process of applying for disability payments is so traumatic and designed to grind you down until you give up.
this is what this culture of calling people fakers gets you. this attitude literally kills disabled people while resources that have already been allocated for welfare go to waste.
we could literally afford to give all those unclaimed benefits to all the nonexistent “fakers” and still have the same amount to give to everyone else.
and listen. I’m sure a few people are just dicks but in most cases if you are faking a disability to try to get welfare, I’d be willing to bet you seriously need that money. it’s a torturous system to engage with even if you have the most obvious, undeniable type of disability. going up against it fraudulently is an act of enormous desperation.
we need real social safety nets (basic income guarantee, anyone?) so no one ever needs to get that desperate, not more policing of disabled people that literally kills us.
So ,I’m a music teacher and every year we have what are called “walk through observations”. Basically, this means that 4 times a year the principal or vice principal comes into my class to assess my teaching. Fine. Sure. No problem.
Well, today I was doing an activity with my 1st graders called “Musical Groceries”. Basically, they make up a fake shopping list and then together we figure out what the rhythm of the words on the list is. To do that, a small group of students plays the beat on the conga drum while the rest of the students move around the room while chanting the word. It sounds weird but it’s a great way for the kids to figure out the relationship between syllables and rhythm.
They quickly get bored of walking the rhythm so I let them come up with their own ways of moving around the room.( skipping, hopping, etc) One student suggested they hop around the room like frogs, way down low to the ground. Okay fine.
Or it was fine until my vice principal walked in to do my observation only to find 20 seven year olds hopping around the room like a hoard of little hob-goblins, rhythmically chanting “BREAD! BREAD! BREAD!” while five other kids played ominous beats in a drum circle.
I have never seen anyone look so confused in my life and I really don’t want to know the rating I got on my observation.
i am laughing way to fucking hard at this, i cant even XD
“You got fired from the White House?”
“Hell yeah, worth it. Check it out”
Not all heroes wear capes 😂😂
Can we talk about about how disrespectful it is that he chose to be spray tanned in the Oval Office instead of one of the other 131 rooms in the White House.
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