Month: July 2018

Click here to support Help Fund My Friend’s FMLA Leave organized by Kit Mead

k-pagination:

Hey everyone! ❤ So I have a really rad friend. Among other things, she’s helped me through my last inpatient psych stay by talking to me on the phone most nights and helping me find a last minute cat-sitter. 

We have supported each other through quite a bit and I’m proud to count her as part of my disabled, queer, Jewish family. But she’s having a really rough time. 

Her anxiety has worsened and she’s having a prolonged depressive episode. She’s been dealing with the stress of chronic illnesses, her job, and her mother, who is being homophobic and verbally abusive. 

She’s taking leave under FMLA to try and get things together again. This means she will be getting a lot less money. She lives in a city with a high cost of living – the payouts aren’t enough to cover her rent, groceries, healthcare, and care for her two beloved cats. 

This is the GoFundMe I’ve made, and if you want to support her and get a cool “Bureaucats not Bureaucrats” shirt out of it, go here 🙂 Thanks for any support!

Click here to support Help Fund My Friend’s FMLA Leave organized by Kit Mead

Disability and the Right to Marry – Pens and Needles

autisticadvocacy:

“Whereas abled-bodied people in the United States often qualify for an array of benefits upon marriage (health care savings, lower car insurance premiums, more social security options), disabled persons often lose life-saving resources.”

Disability and the Right to Marry – Pens and Needles

profeminist:

2pacschild:

genderphobia:

the-vaudevillain:

rosenby:

iliveondaydreams:

rosenby:

Summer means poor children are not getting 2 free meals a day at school so if you’re able, please consider donating to your local food bank.

Until September 2nd, if you’re under 18, you can receive free lunch at public library branches in NYC (proof of age shouldn’t be required), and from trucks at certain locations around the city. Some schools should be open and providing them, too!!

This is so helpful for anyone that needs it!

here is a website where you can find similar programs based on your location.

BOOST!!!!!!

TO!

Find Summer Meals in Your Community:  
https://www.fns.usda.gov/summerfoodrocks  

buckskin-babies:

knowledgeablevegan:

plantyhamchuk:

Luxury Oasis for Pet Rats / Critter Nation mod by /u/acroRATics

Wheatgrass is grown in the suspended container. When the rats finish digging up seeds and eating the grass, the love to construct burrows in the soil. The tubes are interchangeable, so when things need to be cleaned or move around, they can be adjusted. acroRATics is one part of a rat-loving couple, and they highly recommend supporting Central Texas Rat Rescue.

More photos here. Full discussion here.

Now THIS is a rat house!

holy thats some mega rad enrichment 

Source: plantyhamchuk

friendlytroll:

theladyscribe:

parentheticalaside:

“The media isn’t covering this” is a real “What do you want me to do, come over there and click the links for you?” situation. Every single time, I can prove that the media covered it. Every time. And, by the way, how do you know about it if the media didn’t cover it, you sanctimonious little twits? Do you think the professional photos being swapped on social media came from an eyewitness’s smartphone? Was that person in five locations at once, to get all those photos and information? No. They yanked them from a news site and posted them without credit or links. And then everyone started pretending that the information came out of thin fucking air, instead of from people working their asses off in dangerous conditions to get it to us.

“why is no one talking about this!!!” = I don’t watch/read the news on a regular basis

bonus round: ‘why does this have only 15 notes!!!’ on a 50k note monster with triggering photos thats been on my dash like five times. there really are things I can understand aren’t being covered *much* or in mainstream like tv news but 

hey wild idea what if. we didn’t try to motivate purely by guilt/fear.

I work at a vet clinic in the US and we constantly have to reassure people that vaccines won’t give their dog autism…

drferox:

alwayschoppedlady:

drferox:

alwayschoppedlady:

drferox:

The USA has many problems and their public education system is one of them.

Vaccinating annually is an extremely high-risk procedure.


Yet in the US, about 60% of veterinary clinics completely ignore this
research (and their association recommendations) and still push their
clients to vaccinate their dogs annually.


And the rapid spread of large veterinary clinic chains is making matters much worse.

As these corporate chains gobble up independent veterinary clinics,
the trend towards over-vaccination is getting worse, not better!

You’d like to think your vet’s primary concern, above all else, is your dog’s health.

Hey, if you’re having a bad day, this is probably not the argument you want to have.

Vaccination is one of the lowest risk things I can do in a vet clinic. Blood sampling has a higher risk of adverse effects.

While the rise of corporate medicine and chain veterinary clinics is absolutely a problem, many vets are strongly against it and most follow the WSAVA guidelines mentioned previously.

As we mentioned, annual re-vaccination after the first adult booster is not strictly required for core vaccines – distemper, hepatitis and parvo – but it can and often is still recommended depending on local risk factors for kennel cough, lepto, rabies and other non-core vaccines.

Greencross owns 132 veterinary clinics and 200 pet specialty retail
stores across Australia and the company earns about 725 million
Australian dollars (that’s over half a billion US dollars) a year. 


Greencross is buying up independent veterinary clinics all over the country. 


They also state their “philosophy” that pets should be examined twice each year. 


Of course!

Do you think this might be about the money?

It’s certainly not about the health of the animals, even though they
try to tell you it’s to protect your pet from deadly disease.


In the UK, pet owners are also being pushed to over-vaccinate their
animals, thanks to a devious scheme cooked up by a big pharmaceutical
company.


Yeah, I just linked you to a GreenX post. (I call then GreenX in case they are lawyer-happy). They are in my local area. They are a major issue with my industry. It is worse than you have stated above. What are you trying to argue with me?

A lot of pets must be examined every 6 months at least, specifically all those on prescription medication. Otherwise I can’t give out repeats. That’s a law I have to follow. It is also a good idea for elderly pets to have a check up every 6 months, they age fast. Health checks to not necessarily come with a vaccine, in fact most of the time they don’t. You make more money off a titre test.

sugarykitties:

smolgingerpirate:

thepolyglotdream:

p-y-w-t:

why do russians end their sentences with) while texting. ??

Yeah I was wondering the same thing! Can anyone explain?

ooh i’m glad to explain this!
see this smiling face 🙂 ? well! in Russia we somehow ended up not using the eye part. so if someone texts you with lots of “))“s in the end of their message, they are just trying to be friendly and smile!
same with (, if a russian person ends their message like that((, it means they are sad. hope that helped!)

#russians dont have eyes