For example, October is national domestic violence, book, emotional wellness, breast cancer awareness, pizza, LGBTQ history, Diversity awareness, fire prevention, Italian American heritage, and health literacy month.
The source article has 11 more pages by the way...
Idk if this is a hot take or not, but not everything needs a month or day. Having every month be multiple awareness campaigns both lessens the impact they have, and causes a fatigue among those who are actively trying to support those causes.
"let me just try to do this state government mandated thing " OOPS, YOUR SOCIAL AND PHONE NUMBER ARE NOW WITH SCAMMERS. I've gotten 30 CALLS THIS MORNING. LUIGI IF YOU CAN HEAR ME, PLEASE. STATE FARM IS 2 WEEKS FROM DEVELOPING A NUCLEAR WEAPON
I think I speak for a lot of people right now. If the bombs dropped I'd jump for joy. If a civil war started I wouldn't be able to stop smiling. I'm just waiting for the next once in a lifetime event, which should be happening any day now, there's one every fucking week.
I fucking work all day, just to have an insurance company reaching up my ass to take another penny of profit. Just to have the president of the FUCKING UNITED STATES go on another golf trip and bomb another school. WHAT ARE WE DOING
My favorite part of having recurring habits is when people around me learn them, and then get worried for me if they don't happen.
I.e. my manager checking in on me after I didn't do my usual 5 minutes before 5 check in (I was washing the coffee pot, chill)
"oh, I can't do that right now. I only get 2 image uploads a day so I have to save mine today for creating a sign later" JUST FUCKING USE YOUR BRAIN IDK MAN
Coworkers be like: "I use chat gpt for everything. My kids also agree that it's destroying the environment. Anyway, I'm super excited to go camping this weekend and enjoy nature. Let me first ask chat gpt how to organize a room because that's a lot of work."
"They're poisoning the water"
"They're turning the frogs gay"
"They, they, they, Who's they?"
What if the administration is just confused and thinks nonbinary people are the cause of all conspiracies, and that's why Trump is going crazy on them...
Only 17 working days away from potentially qualifying for a fast track visa OUT OF HEREEEEEEE
Shout-out Walmart for pissing me off enough to actually look into foreign work opportunities, love that fucking store