The median annual income for a person right after they are released
from prison is $6,500, so it’s understandable why 70% of them receive
food assistance of about $200 a month. This summer the House passed a
bill that will deny food stamps to people who have served their
sentences for violent crimes.
From Alex Busansky (founder of Impact Justice) and Gary Maynard
(former president of the American Correctional Association) in the Washington Post:
Do you ever read a piece of writing advice so awful you’re not entirely sure if it’s satire or not.
If your character is an evil assassin, you might want to refer to his fingernails as daggers or stabbers.
Stabbers. Stabbers. Yep.
A jealous ex-girlfriend might have witch hooks or tentacles. Sugar- or flour-coated hands could be clues that a protagonist is a baker. Or a serial killer with a fetish.
Well this has taken an odd turn.
Use ‘hands’ too often, and the word will annoy readers. English offers a multitude of options.
Oh no.
Analyze what the hands are doing and assign a noun that suits them. In addition to the following, check the Movement section for verbs you could convert into nouns. For example, ‘boo-boo soothers’.
Get the fuck out of here.
prestidigitators
No.
shadow puppeteers
???
stranglers
WHY DOES IT KEEP COMING BACK TO MURDER
See also 300+ Words to Describe Human Skin.
I was looking for something else in my blog and found this post and absolutely lost my shit all over again lmao
If your jealous ex has tentacles you might have other problems.
I want everybody to see how quickly help, food, water, and electricity is restored to the outer banks and the beach and the Raleigh area. I want yall to see the sympathy people get for staying in flood zones, for the understanding many will get for not evacuating. I want everybody to see how it will only take a week or two for everyone to be back to their regularly scheduled lives.
And then.
And then I want everybody to look at Puerto Rico. I want y’all to look a back at people calling Boris idiots for staying on the island. At the debate posts on whether America should’ve helped or not. At the food packages full of candy bars and no actual food in sight. At the months of no electricity in communities, hospitals, nursing homes. At every school that shut down in the last year. I want everybody to see the loss life, the devistation, and the hundreds of homeless people in PR after Maria. I want everybody to look.
And then tell me to my face that Americans have ever given a shit about anybody but themselves.
Just a heads up, I’m pretty sure we’re not going to get much. 10 million was taken from FEMA and put towards ICE at the beginning of this year by Trump. I’m not sure how much help we’ll get. But this post, everything that OP has said above, at the same time, I co-sign this as someone who lives in North Carolina. It won’t be as bad as Puerto Rico here. But it ain’t gonna be good either. Also, another thing: Akon literally could of fixed everything in Puerto Rico in 30 days and the U.S. government said no. Because what everyone seems to forget here is Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory. There was no matter of wether the U.S. should of got involved. A U.S. territory is under control of the U.S. goverment. What’s happening in Puerto Rico is nothing short of goverment sanctioned genocide.
At least a thousand pallets of water bottles, meant for Hurricane Maria survivors, were left to rot under the Puerto Rican sun.
That is what Angelo Cruz Ramos, the mayor of Ceiba, told ABC News about
what happened to thousands and thousands of water bottles that are
sitting on the tarmac at the former naval base, Roosevelt Roads.
Cruz Ramos did not know the water was there and only found out when the
images, posted to Facebook on Sept. 11, went viral, he said. The area is
a restricted zone, so he is not been able to approach it.
Because the bottled water has been under the sun for months, all the
water is contaminated and is not suitable for consumption, Cruz Ramos
said.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency confirmed to ABC News that the
water was purchased by the federal agency and was determined to be a
part of a surplus of supplies in April. The excess supply was
transferred to the island’s General Services Administration, FEMA said.
Puerto Rico’s
General Services Administration said back in May that the agency
received around 20,000 pallets of water through a federal government
program to distribute excess supplies, the agency said in a statement to
ABC News. After delivering more than 700 pallets, they received
complaints about the smell and taste of the water from a municipality,
the GSA said.
The GSA are working with FEMA and the island’s department of health to
perform water tests on what they got from the federal government, the
GSA said. They added that they will be returning the water to the
federal government.
Ramos is not sure who is at fault. Because there were supply planes
arriving at airport in Ceiba hundreds of times after the storm – off
loading food and water, he wouldn’t know when this water actually
arrived on that tarmac, he said.
“The government of Puerto Rico did not receive the water to distribute
during the emergency, it was under FEMA’s custody and it wasn’t until
April 2018 that the surplus inventory was available upon request,”
Hector Pesquera, Puerto Rico’s secretary of public safety, announced at a
press conference in San Juan on Wednesday.
Right so today in class my math teacher, a human who is taller than our door and probably more awkward than it, casually mentioned how he isn’t married and how he never really felt attraction to any gender.
So a pan girl in my class puts up her hand and asks if he was Asexual.
One confused state and three queer people explanations later…
HE WAS BEYOND EXCITED TO FIND OUT THAT HE WAS VALID AND SEEN AS AN ACTAUL HUMAN TO THE LGBT COMMUNITY.
I shit you not.
My way too tall and way too smart and way too dorky and way too awkward maths teacher lived his entire life thinking that he was strange and abnormal for not feeling any attraction to anyone.
And a class of insane grade elevens changed that.
Awhile back I was explaining asexuality to my therapist and at some point she just like froze and was like ‘wait… maybe i’m asexual’ and got really excited and said she was gonna do more research on it herself. Which was not at all what I was expecting to happen when I told my therapist I was ace, but it was def a happy surprise.
EDIT:
i just realized i had originally meant to reblog this to my main, whoops! but i guess it goes okay here too lol
Reblog to help an ace figure themselves out.
When I came out to my mom as ace, she tried to convince me that that’s just how everyone felt, and no one really felt sexual attraction like they always suggest in media or movies, and it took a while of explaining but eventually she started understanding that sex wasn’t some compulsory thing humans had to do and other people did experience attraction. Turns out she thought she was broken for her entire life until she found out what being asexual was, and she’s so much happier now.
[Image description: Text art with abstract graphic illustration on
a light grey field. The text reads: “Being Ace can mean growing up
Assuming you’re Straight and Never Understanding why you don’t fit in
with everyone Else.” End Quote. The words are in varying sizes of the
Franklin Gothic Medium font.
The text is arranged on
either side of a vertical line, stretching from the top edge to nearly
the bottom edge, and colored in a gradient from black through grey, to
white, and purple (the colors of the Asexual Pride flag). This line
starts out straight, but curves, in a serpentine fashion, around the words: “you,
don’t, fit, in, with,” and returns to straight as it passes between the words
“everyone” and “Else”.
Many straight, black, vertical,
lines of varying widths fill the bottom of the image, contrasting with
the purple end of the central line. Description ends]
Some Ace-based art I made for Pride Month, 2018.
Hint: Aces ain’t straight, even though they may look like it at first glance.
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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