We are multiple generations now with no experience with strikes, and I see a lot of confused, well meaning people who want to help but don’t know strike etiquette.
1. Never cross a picket line of striking workers.
2. Never purchase or take free goods from a company who’s workers are striking
3. Honk to support strikers if you drive by a picket line.
4. Join strikers on the picket line even if it’s not your strike, but follow their directions and defer to them while there.
5. Say “that’s great, the strike is working, the company should negotiate with their workers” whenever someone complains about profits lost, inconveniences or other worker-phobic rhetoric. Always turn it back on the company, who has all the power and money.
Author: hidd3nsyst3m
It’s so weird how people are going around saying “Oh MYGOD I’m gOnna hate this halloween becausE LITTLE fucking kiDs are going to D R E S S U P as fortNITE skins and do those FUCKING dances”
It’s just like, Oh no, kids are going out to have fun…on a holiday meant for kids…..doing as kids do…the absolute madness of it all……….
if a little kid starts doing the floss or the the roy purdy dance in front of me u best fuckin believe as a vine-watching millennial that i am going to join them to assert our mutual dominance over the baby boomers. i believe the children are our future.
Gen z is being emotionally and mentally abused and living out of fear because of your parents and realising that you need to leave as soon as possible but only being in grade 9
FREE THEM
I say this without a shred of irony:
pageant moms are abusive monsters.
Am I the only one who wants Avengers 4 to begin with a Loki monologue similar to Thor’s at the start of Thor: Ragnarok?
I know what you’re thinking: “Oh, no. Loki’s dead. How did this happen?” Well, sometimes you have to get ‘killed’ just to get a straight answer out of something. It’s a long story. Basically, I’m a bit of a trickster.
I honestly believe the whole “adults require less sleep” thing is honest to god probably a myth created by capitalism
It is.
i honestly believe that sleep deprivation is the biggest ignored/neglected root cause of health dangers that prematurely kill adults
ask me sometime about the role of sleep in the leptin ghrelin cycle and how its interruption destabilizes weight homeostasis
or about the new research showing that heart disease is not caused by fat, like we thought for years, but by inflammation in the circulatory system whose root cause is unknown but one of the prime suspects is, you guessed it, sleep deprivation
but nobody wants to hear that lack of sleep is killing people. employers don’t want to hear it. and god knows that having sold their waking hours to capitalism to survive workers don’t want to lose the only time they have left to them to live their lives, mostly stolen from sleep
i mean even i don’t want to do anything about it and i love sleep, i just love overwatch more
this this this this this
our society places almost zero value on sleep
on enough sleep
on uninterrupted sleep
on regular, predictable, cycling sleep
all the evidence we have suggests sleep is really, really, really important to the processes of the human body, including both mental and physical health, and yet when was the last time you heard somebody suggest that people had a *right* to sufficient, regular sleep?
Reminder that
– Humans are not meant to sleep for extended periods of uninterrupted sleep.
By this I don’t mean “humans shouldn’t have 8+ hours of sleep a night”; I mean that we are supposed to sleep for four to five hours (ish), then get up and do something relaxing like reading for a half hour to an hour, then get another bout of four to five hours. This is what our bodies were designed for.
Sleeping the whole night through was a fad started with the advent of the lightbulb. Sleeping the whole night through is so recent (and artificial) that First Sleep and Second Sleep are mentioned in Dickens’ novels.
– Lack of sleep for even a single night severely compromises your immune system.
If you’re planning on getting little sleep or pulling an all-nighter, make sure to eat lots of fruit and veggies/take vitamins that day. Or even better, get yourself some bee propolis. It’s a natural remedy used for thousands of years in Latin America and is insanely good for boosting up compromised immune systems (if you get the drop kind, put 3 to 4 drops in a spoonful of honey and mix well with a 2nd spoon to mask the strong taste). It has no side effects and is all but impossible to overdose on.
– According to several government bodies around the world, chronic lack of sleep is literally tied for 1st place as the worst kind of torture (the other is solitary isolation)
– Expecting a teen to get up for 8:30 classes is the equivalent of expecting an adult to be at work at 4 am.
After babies, teens are the age group that needs the most amount of sleep. Puberty is exhausting, and the body needs time to recharge. Ideally, a teen should be getting between 10 to 12 hours of sleep at the bare minimum. Most teens are lucky if they manage to get 8. And that’s a gigantic problem; not only does lack of sleep affect mood (which is extra significant when your hormones are already riding a rollercoaster to begin with), but also has massive effects on growth, which is kinda what the whole puberty thing is supposed to be about.
– According to research “starting work before 10 a.m. is tantamount to torture and is making staff sick and stressed”
– Humans were not designed to have the same sleep cycle across the species. Much the opposite in fact.
Night owls and morning people are an actual thing. Because we’re pack creatures, Nature came up with a clever way for our ancestors to always have someone on the lookout for predators and threats: make people naturally alert at varying times so that there’s always someone alert to keep watch.
Forcing night owls to follow morning people’s sleep cycle means night owls live with what researchers have referred to as “permanent jetlag”.
(points my shaking fist at high school) WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME
My highschool started at 7:30AM and it was hell
I TOTALLY CONFIRM THIS. I am a night owl, and the thing is that my sleep cycle is so damn different when I don’t have school.
I will go to sleep at 4 am and wake up at 3pm. I usually get 11 hours of sleep, and I feel completely recharged. This is my sleep cycle.
But then here comes the damn school system which totally fucks it up. I get headaches which might last for hours, my eyes burn a little because I have barely slept, and I feel like I’m in full-on zombie mode.
Teenagers, especially night-owls, who suffer from sleep deprivation have lower grades and more emotional problems than their morning lark counterparts, according to a study that looked at the long-term sleep habits of teens.
THIS IS NOT HEALTHY!!!!
When they ask why teenagers depression & mental illnesses rates are increasing, this is a HUGE factor. The constant academic pressure + the sleep deprivation for both night-owls & morning people can be overwhelming for many.
I am almost literally nocturnal. My sleep schedule always slips it’s way forward until I’m going to sleep at around 4am lmao
*watches recipe in cookbook*
Okay so I need 3 eggs
*walks over the fridge*
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*opens fridge*
Wait was it 2 eggs
Hahahaha *starts sobbing*
executive dysfunction is telling yourself for two and a half hours that you need to shower bc you smell like your workplace and you absolutely Cannot do Anything Else until you shower, doing Any Other Thing before showering is illegal!!! but you still haven’t for some reason??? you’ve just been sitting on your bed in a towel scrolling tumblr for 2+ hours thinking “I need to shower right now immediately” and growing increasingly frustrated that you are still not clean and you haven’t eaten or done your laundry either
ok actually no I’m reblogging this because a) I am clean now (and I smell amazing, thank you), and b) I had a heckin Realize and I wanted to share it with y’all in the hopes it’ll help someone else with a brain like mine.
I figured something out about myself a long time ago– it’s only just now occurred to me that I was in fact solving a problem caused by executive dysfunction, and I haven’t been implementing this solution lately because my brain went “that’s a relatively new term to me and therefore a Different problem that requires a Different solution”. thanks a lot, brain.
anyway, long long ago, before I knew these fancy schmancy Official words, the problem, as I phrased it to myself, was such:
sometimes I get Stuck. I was doing something, or on my way to doing something, and then… I just. got stuck.
“Stuck” looks like refreshing my feed or dashboard repeatedly. or it looks like staring at a spot on the wall. or chewing my fingernails. or picking at a stubborn sticker. all the while, my brain drifts through various unrelated topics I wouldn’t be able to recall if asked. sometimes I can get Stuck for hours before realizing I am Stuck. sometimes I get so Stuck that I go to bed that way (feeling especially bad for being unproductive) and I have to just reset everything by sleeping.
one day I asked myself, “why is this happening? why am I stuck, right now, at this moment in time?” the answer, as it turns out, was pretty simple: I was trying to make a decision, and I got distracted. I haven’t moved forward because I haven’t answered that one question or made up my mind.
let me rephrase this in terms of executive dysfunction: many people have expressed that it feels like knowing you need to do a thing but not feeling “ready” to do it. many with ADHD may also be familiar with the feeling of needing things to be “just so” before you embark on a task- you need your setup to look a certain way, or you need to set a timer, or have the right music playing, etc.
when I get Stuck it’s often because I got lost somewhere in that setting-up process, and my brain took the opportunity to nyoom off into Distraction Town.
getting myself Unstuck is solved, 95% of the time, by tracing my steps back to the original decision I was trying to make- often something small and inane- and then troubleshooting from there. (out loud! verbal processing is totally punk.)
- “what was I trying to do?”
- “was I trying to decide between two things?”
- (the answer’s usually yes.)
- “what were they?”
- “okay, let’s decide.
- “okay, that’s settled. let’s move on.”
- and then I am free as a bird to nyoom in the direction of The Thing I Wanted To Do All Along, in the amazingly disorganized, scattered, yet rapid-fire way that I do many things.
so!!! in the case of my first post, where I hadn’t showered for 2 hours? turns out I had been trying to decide what music to listen to in the shower. (another hack: my chances of getting Stuck while showering decrease by 75% if I have music playing to help me keep track of time.) I couldn’t immediately make up my mind, got lost in thought, got distracted, and drifted. once I stopped and asked- “why am I stuck?”- then I remembered- “oh yeah! I wanted to listen to music”- and then decided- “I want to listen to Daft Punk’s Discovery album”- I was finally heckin able to shower. and also eat, and also throw my clothes in the dryer.
and may I add I only zoned out once, during the slow part of “One More Time.” 😛
I’m not saying this is a foolproof method. sometimes I don’t have a reason for being stuck, and that’s okay! I’m also not saying this is how every adhd brain works. it’s just how my brain works, and I’m sure there’s at least a few who can relate. for those few, I hope this helps!!
a lot of people are reblogging the original post without the update and leaving frustrated comments and that makes me sad! if I can find ways to hack my brain than so can you! executive dysfunction is a real and frustrating challenge, but don’t buy the lie that there’s no way to work with it or around it!!!
!!!!
Video Game : please choose your hair.
Available hairstyles :UGLY, UGLY, UGLY, UGLY, UGLY, UGLY, UGLY, UGLY, UGLY, ugly but it fits your character, UGLY.
me, someone recovering from an eating disorder, with a close family member who was hospitalised for 5 months with an eating disorder, who has read countless papers and doctor reccomend books on eating disorders: modern diet fads are just repackaged eating disorders. a lot of vegan diets have a purity complex attached to them that very easily enables the development of eating disorders. some vegan (and veggie but to a lesser extent) diets are so restrictive that they are outright unhealthy, despite claiming to be the healthiest diet you can have. there is a big problem in vegan activism of promoting this as good and kindest to the animals.
some dude with crusty white dreds and bunch of peta stats: why do you hate animals
My doctor literally will not allow me, in any capacity, to adopt any variety of vegetarianism or veganism because of my history of eating disorders.
Those movements provide disturbing snug shelters of self righteousness and insular thinking in terms of enabling and encouraging extremely unhealthy thoughts and attitudes towards food, the body and eating. It’s even more toxic in some senses because you can deflect it completely away from you and frame your illness entirely as a way to be kinder to animals and the planet.
It’s.. really concerning how I never see this addressed by non-survivors tbh and I wish I was brave enough to bring it up when people recommend I turn vegan for vague political reasons that ultimately are about enabling their own sense of superiority.
You’re 100% right!! My experience has been different because I was raised veggie and the family member in question was as well, and both my parents. However, I always got lots of protein and I was always told I could try meat if I wanted. It was a very healthy way of having that diet.
However.
So much of modern vegan activism – and the classism, the racism, and the ableism therein that is often not addressed – very easily fuses with purity complexes and goes nuclear.
Think of all the propaganda that revolves around veganism being CLEANER (despite the fact clean food is scientifically Not A Thing), of how it DETOXES YOU (no food detoxes you, as only your liver and kidneys can do that), or how ANYONE CAN DO IT (hint: they can’t).
The martyrdom of how it’s fine because it’s BETTER FOR THE ANIMALS.
The way it TARGETS YOUNG WOMEN AND GIRLS BY TELLING THEM IT’LL HELP THEM LOSE WEIGHT AND LOOK HOTTER.
It just really needs addressing but bringing it up so fucking often gets cries of “You’re just lazy!”/“here’s a graphic description of animal cruelty in x industry” and I’m tired but more than that I’m angry! !!
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