Month: June 2018

itsatru:

welcometonegrotown:

last year when i was teaching 11th grade one of my fav students came in crying so i put the class on a filler activity and we just talked. they were doing ICE raids in the city and she was worried her parents wouldnt be there when she got home. then she was worried that ICE may come to the school and take her. we looked the laws up together and printed it out so she could carry the papers with her. 

it is illegal for ICE to raid a school and take children. ILLEGAL. i told my student (and eventually the class in like a blanket statement because i had quite a few undocumented students) that if anyone did come i would put my body between ICE and my students and really struggle. honestly my heart broke so much that day – take care of undocumented people in your life because they deserve so much better than this ffs. this woman is so very evil and has a black heart and i hope she rots in prison

emmeetslawschool:

aphotovici:

okcupidescapades:

okcupidescapades:

i feel like the most important piece of wisdom i can impart on teenagers is that no one–no one–knows what the fuck they’re doing

my brother is 26 years old, makes $200k a year, and just bought a house with his fiance. he’s the success story you hear about but never actually meet in person, but it all happened by accident. he wanted to go to college for clarinet performance, but he got rejected from all the top schools. so he decided to major in physics instead, and then went on to get a doctorate to put off being an adult for a few more years. but then he ended up dropping out halfway through the program and accepting a job with google as a software engineer. so to reiterate: my brother majored in something he was not interested in, and then he got a job that had nothing to do with his degree. 

he isn’t successful because he had some master plan he followed, he just stumbled around blindly until something worked out. and that’s what we’re all doing–i majored in political science and now i do customer service for a company that makes industrial-sized gas detection monitors. the marketing director at my company has a degree in biology, and my mom has an MBA and works at a middle school.  no one knows what they’re doing, we’re all just trying different things until something works out.

so if you don’t have a plan, that’s fine. most of us don’t. and even those of us who do, don’t usually end up doing the thing they thought they would. it’s okay to relax and let life carry you wherever it’s gonna carry you. because even though a lot of us don’t end up doing the thing we wanted, most of us end up happy anyway.

I’ve been thinking about this post since I made it a few hours ago, and I realized that I literally don’t know anyone who’s doing what they thought they’d be doing at this point in their life.
I know a girl that has a degree in neuroscience and works in a restaurant (and makes quite a bit more money than I do, might I add), and a guy who wanted to be a parole officer but is now a security guard. I know people who wanted to be lawyers but ended up not having the grades for law school. I have a friend who’s 24 and just finished her bachelor’s, and two friends who decided to go to grad school because the idea of joining the adult world terrified them.

When I was seventeen, I was 100% sure that I was going to get a job as a bureaucrat and save the world. When I was a 21-year-old recent college grad, I found out that it’s impossible to get a government job unless you know someone. So I gave up and found something else. I know my teenage self would be disappointed if she could see where I’m at, but you know what? I don’t care. Because teenage me was an idiot. She didn’t know anything about the world or how it worked, and she couldn’t have possibly predicted the curveballs that life would throw at her. And because I don’t know a single person who’s doing the thing they wanted to do when they were teenagers.

I know a thousand people who aren’t where they thought they’d be, and zero people who are following the path they set out for themselves. All of us are confused and all of us are scared, and it’s okay if you are too.

Honestly thank u, i needed to hear this again

Looking back at my closest friends in college, only one is doing exactly what she thought she’d be doing, and she’s considering changing career paths. 

Looking at the most successful and happiest people I know, they’ve all gone through serious career changes before the age of 30. Most of them have done crazy things like cross-country moves or quitting a successful career to try something new. 

meatthawsmoth:

“We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious. They are quite right to be so. Charity they feel to be a ridiculously inadequate mode of partial restitution, or a sentimental dole, usually accompanied by some impertinent attempt on the part of the sentimentalist to tyrannise over their private lives.”

— Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man Under Socialism”

t3trahedron:

trufflesmushroom:

trufflesmushroom:

trufflesmushroom:

I’ve never had a reheading go this horribly before. I’d say I’m pretty good at beheading- I may have broken a neck once or twice, but never any parts I actually liked or intended on keeping, and usually a reheading is the easiest thing, right? Just a little squish and a pop and done, a complete person. But this time it just- it just won’t go back on the body?? Which is incredibly frustrating but also, like, why??

And the funniest thing is, I’m not even swapping a head!! This is a curvy dancer head going onto a curvy dancer body!! They match!! This should have been so simple!! But no, this head’s just flopping around like a limp flaccid idiot and my hands are all red and sore now but the head just isn’t attaching all the way!!

Today I did six beheadings and two other reheadings, and I wanted to get this one attached so I could take a picture, but somehow it just isn’t working!! The head is just getting squished around but isn’t stretching over the neck right!! And I’m way too lazy to go and boil the head just to make the slip easier!! And I don’t wanna keep forcing it cuz I might break something but this is!! So frustrating!!

Like, what could I possibly be doing wrong!! Fuck!!

I boiled the head and it popped right onto the neck in like two seconds.

I’m an idiot. Always do things the proper way from the get-go. Saves a lot of wasted time and struggle and ouchy hands.

BARBIES. I’M TALKING ABOUT BARBIES. I AM CUSTOMIZING TOYS RIGHT NOW I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER AND I HAVE NEVER BEHEADED AN ACTUAL REAL LIFE HUMAN BEING OR TRIED TO REATTACH A PERSON’S HEAD BY BOILING IT

For one horrible moment I thought it said ‘babies. I’m talking about babies’ there, which is actually a lot worse.

pavusiing:

kibbles-undbitches:

mariagvogel:

So I’ve seen the post he’s talking about around tumblr and twitter, but haven’t seen this on tumblr. I think it’s worth sharing.

(Also remember: do *not* pet service dogs!)

I know very little about service dogs. @pavusiing if you are in a place where this doesn’t require too much emotional labor, can you provide feedback for me on this? (Or anyone else with a service dog, Chels is just the only person I know)

I’m not trying to elicit emotional labor, I just want to know, if people are in a place to offer me perspectives. I saw the original post and it seemed to make sense to me that the dog would be trained to fetch an adult. So I want to hear from other people, because only seeing two individual perspectives doesn’t tell me much.

I’ve reblogged a couple things about this already (last night so no worries if you haven’t seen it) that are super important to read. @lumpatronics also addressed this on their own blog if anyone wants to take a peek.

I have a lot of feelings about people in the sd community being the service dog police.

I encourage anyone reading this to check out https://www.ada.gov/regs2010/service_animal_qa.html which is the concise Q&A the DOJ put out on service dog laws. THIS is all the correct info. Not what this guy says.

This guy has so much misinformation about both the OP and the laws in the US regarding service dogs it’s infuriating. I can go through them one by one.

1. OP is not a teenager. She is a grown woman. And a man minimizing a woman’s she to discredit her is sexist as shit.

2. The dog started as a family dog that showed the temperament for service work and was then trained. This is a perfectly valid way to go about training a service dog. And it’s perfectly legal to do so in the United States. OP however is training their dog with the help of a trainer so his comment is irrelevant.

3. He is talking about service dogs as if his disability and his experience is the only one. There is no one way to be disabled and no one way to have a service dog.

4. Barking is not the only way that the dog can perform this task. There is no law regarding that. OP for example has bad sensory issues and cannot have a dog barking loudly next to her.

5. Going and getting help is a 100% valid task. It’s usually to someone the dog knows but it is okay and LEGAL for the dog to leave their human to go and get any other human for help. Just because this guy doesn’t like it doesn’t make it any less of a valid task.

6. This was in a grocery store. The dog was not a few blocks away. The dog went an aisle over.

7. The ADA requires that a service dog be under control. This could be voice control OR a leash. It is legal for a service dog to be off leash if the leash interferes with a person’s disability or tasks the dog is performing. So theoretically a person who does not have the dexterity to hold a leash could work their dog 100% off leash. If the dog is under voice control it is legal. In OPs case, the task of fetching someone would be hindered by a leash. The dog was under control because it was performing a trained task. Therefore this is legal.

8. Service dogs can be trained to ignore other humans but it’s COMPLETELY DEPENDANT ON THE DOG AND THE PERSONS DISABILITY. Cricket is very vigilant of her surroundings because I need her to be for my PTSD.

9. The only criteria that legally makes a service dog is that 1) the handler is disabled. 2) the dog is trained in ONE OR MORE tasks (meaning only one task is Okay) that mitigate their disability and 3) the dog is under control. That’s it. None of this other crap this guy stated is a law. It’s his personal opinions. His own experience having a service dog is not someone else’s and people are disabled differently than he is and he needs to back off basically.

Source: mariagvogel