Many people have asked how they can help in the aftermath of the white supremacist anti-Black terrorist attack today in Buffalo. Please check out this 🧵for organizations and people to donate to. Will add more as I learn about more.👇🏿
A pet peeve of mine in movies is when someone interrupts someone else, but the two actors mistime it so that you can tell the first one never planned to finish their sentence. Like they say "what about the--" and then a tiny pause and then the interruption comes. Drives me nuts
@intheflatfieId certain aspects of hypfixes can definitely be unpleasant but they can also be so fulfilling and wonderful and comforting … honestly any post that talks abt mental illness where it’s like This Mental Illness Makes You Horrible and Evil and Miserable Always pisses me off
“It can’t hurt to apply!” Yes it can. Constant rejection hurts. Spending hours on a cover letter & getting zero response hurts. Putting yourself out there in the hopes that someone will give you a chance is really taxing. Let’s stop pretending it isn’t.
In case you wonder what we mean when we say this: if I, as a disabled person, married my husband (who is husband is name only — and because we’ve been together for almost 20 years) I would lose EVERY service given to me by the government.
Every. Single. One.
It's important when talking about what happened to the 215 Indigenous children to remember to use active terms instead of passive ones. No "children died at residential school." That's a rhetorical sleight of hand to avoid responsibility. Teachers and administrators killed them.
Made an active google doc (linked here) to help consolidate Asian American community and justice organizations to look into, mutual aid links etc. Many of the orgs linked need donations. https://t.co/OxCiMbvnTS