I need a job where I just untangle strings and cords for people for hours every day

relationships and jobs are temporary. your shitty unpopular tumblr blog is forever

okay so. ive been coming up with a working theory on what causes coughing after a bong rip and how to stop it. and my current theory is that it's actually the inhalation afterwards that causes the issue, because your throat is still coated in smoke particles, and trying to breathe through it right after is going to agitate all of them. so my solution is to drink something right after exhaling but BEFORE inhaling, to wash down all the smoke particulates instead of kicking them back up into my lungs. additionally, it seems like "thick" drinks that leave a distinct aftertaste work better than plain water. specifically milk and beer (not at the same time, im not pounding down White Gilgameshes). even if my theory for the exact mechanism of why this works is flawed, it absolutely still works.

basically this is a really long-winded way of saying that you can stop coughing from bong rips if you chug beer after exhaling but before inhaling. inverted Strikeout

“get a job” as an insult: piddlin. implies one’s value is determined by employment. feeds into capitalistic ideals

“get a hobby”: strong. cutting. implies that instead of feeding your soul and potentially creating something beautiful, you are here bothering me.

"Interstate 55 carries 10s of thousands of abortion seekers out of southern states to Illinois, where abortion is legal. I-55 is covered with horrific, shaming billboards. Shout Your Abortion put up 6 good ones, to show love & affirmation to those making the journey." x

If I were to become the president of the United States, there would be three major things that I would attempt to pass while in office: mandated mental health care for six months to a year for veterans, attaching rehab centers to prisons, and putting an end to private — otherwise known as for-profit — prisons.

I expect that even if only mental health care for veterans is passed, that the rates of addiction related arrests should lessen.

The first of my three attempted changes would mandate no less than six months of psychiatric care for veterans. I expect this change to aid veterans’ needs to adapt to civilization after living in war. Many, if not most, veterans come back home with major depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or some kind of traumatic brain injury.

Roughly have of returned veterans don’t seek treatment because of stigma and long waiting lists, neither of which should be a major issue. It is my hope that veterans would learn healthy coping mechanisms and eventually find help on their own, without fears that come from the stigma they may face.

Secondly, there are far too many people imprisoned for nonviolent drug-eel crimes. Sending them to rehab rather than prison would potentially save billions of dollars spent to keep prisons running.

Keeping rehab centers and prisons neighboring each other, if not attached to each other, could potentially make treatment more attainable for inmates, and those who are “nonviolent” may just go to rehab while being close to someplace they can go if higher levels of supervision are needed.

My hope is that people would be able to get much-needed help instead of facing major problems that could arise from improperly treated addiction.

Private prisons aren’t nearly as safe or effective as public, federal and state prisons. Private prisons exist to gain profit from inmates, rather than reform their behavior. In most, if not all, cases, rehab and counseling are relied upon to decrease the repeat of many crimes.

Doing away with privately-owned, for-profit prisons would likely increase the number of individuals who may exit the prisons and not repeat the crimes that landed them there. My hope is that people who must face prison time may do so, and acquire medical and psychological help or assistance when it is needed, as privately owned, for-profit prisons will likely not offer such assistance in an effort to save as much money as possible.

The three changes I would attempt to pass would be social and cultural, while possibly effecting economy and military policies, and hopefully influencing other countries to make some similar reform. Helping veterans adapt to everyday life will affect even the people who don’t even know they exist. Making rehabilitation more attainable to inmates will help them in their battle against addictions. Removing for-profit prisons leads to greater chances of lowering rates of repeat crimes due to higher treatment availability.

Note: I am the original author of this essay, and it was published in the Wellsboro Gazette in November of 2020 as a guest column. The headline read as “OPINION; Local youth addresses veteran care, rehab, prisons”

You apply for 20 jobs on Indeed. The silence is deafening.

You apply for 20 jobs on Indeed. Half of them require you to create an account on the company website. You leave a trail of ghost accounts that will be used once and never again. You never receive a response.

You apply for 20 jobs on Indeed. One employer offers an interview, but it's so rare for you to receive any response that you forget to check the website and you miss the time.

You apply for 20 jobs on Indeed. One employer offers an interview, but you don't know the magic words that signal to the esoteric mind of an interviewer that you're fit for the job.

You apply for 20 jobs on Indeed. One employer e-mails you saying that 'unfortunately, you do not have the qualifications we are looking for'. You check the job again and see you applied to be a menial labourer.

You apply for 20 jobs on Indeed. Half of them require a car. No one stops to ask how you're supposed to afford one with no job.

You apply for 20 jobs on Indeed. One employer offers a job. The commute makes you want to die in your sleep.

You call the HR manager for the workplace in hopes of arranging an interview more directly. They don't even have an answering machine.

Employers complain that no one wants to work anymore.

jot that down

“For a suicidal person like Anne Sexton to have survived to the age of forty-five, seems to me an achievement, a triumph. Virginia Woolf, living to the age of fifty-nine, is even more extraordinary. Suicides are always judged as if they were admissions of defeat, but one can take the viewpoint that their having lived as long as they did is an accomplishment of a kind. Knowing herself suicidal as a very young girl, Virginia Woolf resisted—made heroic attempts to attach herself to the exterior world—as did Anne Sexton—as do we all. Why not concentrate on the successes, the small and large joys of these lives, the genuine artistic accomplishments? After all, anyone and everyone dies; the exact way can’t be very important.”

—

Joyce Carol Oates, from a journal entry 

(via gloomo)

I’m going to be posting about the meaning and history of some symbols that mean a lot to the LGBTQIA+ community. I’m not doing flags just because they are getting attention right now. I’ll post videos in my TikTok @xenonthestarbitch and my side blog @occasional-amature-news.

people with medical issues are not “putting a strain on the medical system”. that’s what the medical system is for. yes this includes people with substance use related medical issues and other people often considered undeserving of help

"Abortion is older than the police, the church and the State"

Pasteups in NYC

#AbortionRightsAreHumanRights #abortionsareessential

Just so we're all on the same page with the writer's strike.

If during the strike, it's announced about AI generated shows. We are not watching them. Not even out of curiosity. Let them fail every AI generated show they try make.

The human voice can not be replaced by AI. Don't let them try.

“well tv has sucked for the past few years why should i care about the writers striking”

hm. i wonder why there has been a decline in quality. it’s almost like when the workers cant survive and are squeezed the art suffers.