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"In the instance an employer makes an illegal request for a photograph as part of a job application, you may submit a complaint to the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission." Successful violation fee collections are paid partially to the one who suffered the violation, which in many cases exceeds a year of work at these shit jobs. There's only two weak points to a corporation, and those are in the budget and in the supply chain. Hit them where it hurts.

Fucking word.

Learn your rights!

AUTO REBLOG IN CASE YOU MISSED THIS THE 1ST TIME AROUND.  It is important to KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

my step mom was asking me more questions about the nonbinary thing and after talking to me for a bit, she said "oh, so youre a rosé! not a chardonnay transitioning to a merlot, just your own unique type" which was such a middle aged white woman way to frame it, but i cannot lie gang. it did make me want to cry

Phenomenon I feel happens a lot

most of the notes were just like "this is why we should communicate better and just say it" but i feel like this person elaborates a bit on the deeper root of this problem

this is what happens when you aren’t allowed to say no to anything. if instead people are allowed to say no, and don’t have to dance around it, and nobody gets offended by it, then what you get instead is people being interested and unafraid of asking. because the other person can just say they don’t want to talk about it, and that’s the end of the topic, no hard feelings or offense taken. if there isn’t a way to say no, you can’t ask anything, because you could be asking something offensive. which means you have to wait for the other person to show interest, but they can’t because you can’t say no, etc round the bush.

It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!

this is actually really helpful and affirming thanks

alternatives to “i want to die”:

Here's a few that I started to say because I thought they were funny so I was more likely to use them!

unforch :)

Blind Tumblr users: don’t get the latest iOS app update!

I just updated my tablet to the newest version of the tumblr app for iOS and it completely broke screen reader access for both VoiceOver and Spoken Content. This has happened in the past already, so I will file a support ticket and copy-paste my text from last time, but this really sucks. I sincerely hope this doesn’t affect all screen reader users, but I’m unsure how they could program this bug in a way it only affects me. If you rely on a screen reader to use the tumblr app, I’d advice to not get the latest update to be on the safe side.

When I say “completely broke access”, what I mean is that no posts on my dash or on individual blogs get read or recognized at all. No plain text, alt text, tags, etc. Note count and buttons still work though.

If you also run into this bug, here’s my advice. If anyone has something more useful, please tell me

If you have the latest version but your screen reader didn’t break, also please tell me! I would be fascinated to know if this bug is only affecting some people

TL;DR: The latest tumblr app update for iOS made it so screen readers no longer work in the app

Please boost!

Gut punch after gut punch

im baldr

this is baldr everyone

oh fuck huge fan, I love your gate

what

my what

u know how it is

intimidation check

a doordasher bringing mcdonalds to a group of four 25 year olds who have the exact same arrangement as the grandparents in willy wonka and the chocolate factory

I’ve had a bottle of wine and unfortunately this was the result

eternity

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I just think he needs to be squished tighter and longer

This has been done to death already, but here's yet another rant as to why Astarion is such a well written example of an abuse survivor. It just struck home on SO many levels.

1. Feeling like other people shouldn't be helped because nobody helped you when you needed it. You resent anyone who gets helped or treated kindly because, what was so wrong with you that nobody bothered to help you? What's wrong with you? At its core, it's immature, but it feels SO WRONG and unjust that everyone else gets a helping hand but you were left to rot. It takes a long time to grow past the resentment and bitterness, and even now I still catch myself slipping back into that mindset.

2. The CONSTANT PEOPLE PLEASING and wanting to entertain people, simultaneously wanting their approval and wanting them leave you the fuck alone. And at the end of the day, all the smiles and laughter is obviously so fake, and other people still see through it because it's totally disingenuous. Because it's an act, and it's not even well-acted. That's something I loved about the character - he's constantly trying to be charming, and it comes off as performative and shallow, which it is.

4. Pretending to be vapid and carefree but underneath it all, seething with hatred and resentment. Anger. Lots of sadness.

5. Being terrified of people but pretending not to be.

6. "Pushing through" the discomfort/disgust in order to please people. Constantly thinking your own needs are unimportant - then going in the opposite direction, ONLY thinking about your needs and fuck everyone else. You have no sense of balance or perspective. You go from 0 to 100. You are "worthless, bottle those emotions up" one second and "fuck the world, I am going to step over everyone to get what I want" the next. Not a healthy, mature middle ground. It's all or nothing, all the time.

7. The revulsion in regards to sex. Sex feels like it will never really be enjoyable, but you also feel pressured to just "get over it" because everyone else enjoys it.

It just hit so close to home, not sure if this post was coherent but I'm sort of in a daze trying to put my thoughts together about this character.

The Boomtown Rats (1980-12) from Record Mirror

New weird horse just dropped, folks.

A spotless giraffe was recently born at Bright’s Zoo in Limestone, TN and was just announced in the media this morning. They’re starting a public naming contest for her, of course.

I’d love to know what type of mutation causes this lack of of pattern, but I don’t know if we have genetics on that for giraffes the way we do other species. As far as is known, she’s the first spotless giraffe ever documented!

CLASSIC ROCK BOOKMARKERS PART 18: SINGERS

ALL THE PARTS

Part 19 is going to be about the 4th place:

feeling normal about this also