This shouldn't be forgotten. Those crimes were not made by putin himself. His soldiers had the choice. Robbery, rape, murders of innocent - those are the values of russians.

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I can't wrap my head around of all the horrors and suffering that the russian soldiers caused ordinary civilians. The worst part is that these things will only continue if Russia isn't stoped by harsher sanctions and weapon aid for Ukrainian army RIGHT NOW.

I work in a kitchen. We are always told to not just stand around, that’s rule number one. Even if something’s on the stove, usually you can do something else while you wait for it.

EXCEPT

If it’s milk. “You stand right there and watch over it, do NOT leave.”

What’s even better is if you’re forced to leave because you need something from the fridge or something. So you dash into the back and get it and if someone wants to ask you something you just go “MILK! ON THE STOVE!” and everyone jumps out of your way and goes “oh shit, run!!!”

It’s the funniest thing I’ve ever encountered at work

In French we literally have an old saying, “I have milk on the fire” to say “I’m very busy at the moment” 

I had a chef give me a recipe that required me to boil milk to reduce it by half.

He had the nerve to criticize me for not multitasking. No. I’m not leaving boiling milk alone for a second. You blink and it’s overflowing/burning.

Usually anecdotes about french is either something so old no one uses, or an outright lie. This one is an exception, “j'ai du lait sur le feu” (I have milk on the fire/on the stove) is 100% a common french expression, it’s got my seal of approval.

In case anyone was curious: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Rochelle Walensky claimed that “So really these are people who were unwell to begin with and yes, really encouraging news in the context of Omicron. The overwhelming number of deaths, over 75 per cent, occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities."

We're just inconvenient to have around. Let us die like lame horses. We were already sick anyways, right?

#mydisabledlifeisworthy

also if you look at the list, it includes things like vitamin deficiencies, anxiety or depression, needing glasses, being short (??), being overweight so like. most. most people??? the vast majority of people??? (to be clear it would be utterly fucked up if they just meant disabled people, but its somehow worse than that)

Don’t forget acne, seasonal allergies and lactose intolerance.

The CDC is using the general populations’ acceptance of eugenics to sell their own deaths to them by saying something people hear as “only the chronically ill and disabled are dying” and then changing the definition of comorbidity to be “any condition the people who are actually dying have” aka common medical conditions. Like lactose intolerance. And acne. And the general population is buying it because they do not GAF how many chronically ill and disabled people die.

here’s to you for still working on stuff you never mention out loud

Friendly reminder that this world was designed for neurotypicals and if you’re neurodiverse or mentally ill and you’re struggling, please be kinder to yourself because you’re doing your best in a world that wasn’t designed for you

As a nurse, I encourage you to read and repost, and quote at length.

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How can a disease with 1% mortality rate shut down the United States?

Franklin Veaux - updated 6 hours ago, professional writer

There are two problems with this question.

1. It neglects the law of large numbers; and

2. It assumes that one of two things happen: you die or are 100% fine.

The US has a population of 328,200,000. If one percent of the population dies, that’s 3,282,000 people dead.

Three million people dead would monkey wrench the economy no matter what. That more than doubles the number of annual deaths all at once.

The second bit is people keep talking about deaths. Deaths, deaths, deaths. Only one percent die! Just one percent! One is a small number! No big deal, right?

What about the people who survive?

For every one person who dies:

So now all of a sudden, that “but it’s only 1% fatal!” becomes:

That’s the thing that folks who keep going on about “only 1% dead, what’s the big deal?” don’t get.

The choice is not “ruin the economy to save 1%.” If we reopen the economy, it will be destroyed anyway. The US economy cannot survive everyone getting COVID-19.

THIS THIS THIS

If you don’t want to add the numbers, by the way, that’s 55% of infected people who are dead, hospitalized, and/or develop long-term disabilities as a result.

So, keep delivering packages during a tornado warning where the packages you’re dropping off will very likely be flung off the porch in the ensuing winds and, you know, tornado vortex dropping down thus resulting in them not being delivered and you getting fired for not delivering the packages? 

Or get fired for seeking shelter from the literal tornado?

Where the fuck is OSHA? Where the fuck is congress? Amazon has been doing shit like this for decades and no one gives a fuck?

We need labor unions in this country so badly.

you know how people call other people like “king” or “queen” endearingly? do you think we’ll be like “omfg CEO” in a post-capitalist future 

So. Today in class we assigned Macbeth roles to students to read. When I asked the class who wants to be Lady Macbeth, a young man raised his hand. I kind of stared at him like “Lady Macbeth,” and he nodded like “I know what I’m about ma’am.” So then the student who ended up as Macbeth raised his hand and said “HE’S THE ONE, HE’S MY WIFE!” So I said “yeah sure why not,” and the entire class period they were blowing kisses to each other and winking at each other, and every now and then Macbeth would say “I’m the luckiest man on Earth” and Lady Macbeth would put a hand to his chest, and be like “BABE!”.

I just stared at them, knowing that they CLEARLY have never read ‘Macbeth’ before, so… all this lovey dovey… I don’t know if I have the heart to tell them the truth.

Update:

THIS is what “boys will be boys” ACTUALLY means

my great-grandfather had to leave italy in the 20′s because he hit a fascist with a tuba, so if you think I am going to take this sitting down you are going to have to catch these hands and also this tuba

Fun story my Great Great Grandma left Germany in the 1920s because she had family in the US and could get citizenship pretty easily and once she was over in the US she then smuggled over 15 jewish families out by forging family documents so now my aunts are currently in the process of trying to tell the real ones from the fake ones because my great gran just died and there are legally over 100 surviving descendants but we know that math is a lil screwy.

Sometimes a family is you, your kids, your grandkids, your great grandkids, and the 15 Jewish families you helped smuggle out of Nazi Germany.

And your tuba

I will let you… fill the gaps.

Being professional

My man was really gonna let a fucking BEAR into his house for the views and the BEAR had to be the sensible one here

there is no final version of yourself. we never stop growing or changing, nor should we. stop beating yourself up for not being ‘there’ yet.

The final version of yourself is the one you die in I think

Oh, well I don’t know how it works with you mortals

fun fact! this quote has gotten popular on twitter, where no one has any idea it’s from a tumblr shitpost, or of the horrors that lurk in the original notes

twitter comments:

tumblr comments:

Twitter: This is so deep.

Tumblr: Only about six feet.

my body, tearfully: when sleep???

me: my dude we just woke up!! It’s time for wakefulness and doing things and Productivity

my body, weeping: but???? when sleep?????

me: okay, finally now is sleep

my body: no. wrong.

Colleague: hey, what’s up with Nov 5th and Supernatural? seeing lots of chatter about it and I wasn’t here last year so any insights you have would be appreciated!

Me: okay so there is way too much context for this to type out in slack. have a minute to have a quick meeting so I can fill you in?

Colleague: sure, that would be great!

One thing I love about Tumblr compared with other social media is how absurdly obsessed everyone around here is with random anniversaries. Something interesting happens on Tumblr? Someone’s make a post that goes viral? There is a funny discussion in the comments? Tumblr has a big outage? We have a new Tumblrversary! The coming years people will massively reblog stuff from that day wishing everyone else a happy <random> August 27th</random>.

On SLACK you did this on your WORK CHANNEL conceivably at WORK?????

i work at [tumblr] lol

and hilariously that is not why it is called that.

It is the circle of the bears cause of ursa major and ursa minor, and the circle without bears cause ya'know opposite part of the sky.

We lucked right into that one....

#so what you’re saying is#the stars dictate whether bears do or do not exist in places

Astrology is real but only for predicting where bears will be