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just saw something on tiktok that honestly made me so mad (and no it’s nothing to do with tiktok itself)

someone had left a comment on a video saying that parents letting their kids get the Chicken Pox was basically child abuse and they should be jailed

well fucking excuse ME smartass, i guess my parents should be in jail, because I caught it from a classmate (unintentionally) at the end of the school year when i was 6?

because it was fucking 1994 and the mother fucking vaccine DIDN’T EXIST YET????? (the vaccine was approved in the US in 1995 btw, so it was technically in progress, but it wasn’t approved yet)

oh sure it’s preventable NOW

but what about those of us who got it before the vaccine?

my parents didn’t want me to get it, but i got it anyways, so yeah, I have a risk of shingles, but y'know what? my parents don’t deserve jail for that

you wanna go back in time and jail every parent whose kids got smallpox because the vaccine didn’t exist yet?

millennials and gen-x had it fucking BEFORE the vaccine was a thing, don’t judge our parents for not giving us something that didn’t exist

Getting trained as a pharmacy tech at work..

One of the acronyms in the computer system is ICQ

…I’ve been on the internet way too long because fuck if I can remember what it stands for at work, because the IMMEDIATE association in my brain is ICQ Messenger

Y'know .. this thing:

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Yeah… That’s ALL I can fucking think of when I read that acronym

abz-j-harding:

foreheadkissesforzewu-jun:

wemblingfool:

pwntishness:

wildlyunlikelynae:

stimman4000:

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I suddenly understand why jewelry is expensive

Hopefully people will start to realize why trades in general are so expensive. You’re paying for someone’s experience to make a good finished product that takes skill and years of practice.

However there is also a giant gap that needs to be filled in trades. As people are aging out of jobs like tailors, carpenters, bookbinders, leatherworkers, etc, there aren’t enough young people going INTO the trades to repopulate the jobs.

Please. Please. Consider going into trades.

These are the kinds of jobs people “fall into,” because they aren’t visible, and are never talked about.

Kids never grow up telling people they want to be a bookbinder. They don’t know they even exist. And schools never ever present them as valid options. And if they do talk about them, they are treated as invalid compaired to NFL Linebacker, President, and Brain Surgeon. After all “jewelry maker” is something people do to supplement their “burger flipping” income, and not an extension of blacksmithing.

But that’s the crux of it, isn’t it? Crafting and trade skills are an extension of artistic skills, which are often seen as completely invalid, and a total waist of time.

As the daughter of a professional bookbinder/book restorer, I had to reblog.

reblogging because I was in a course at college that covered Artisan skills such as these. I have friends who have since gone on to do Jewellery, Carpentry, Ceramics, Glasswork AND Blacksmithing. Ironically I ‘fell into’ comics. 

windows to Artisan jobs are still around, the rising interest of upcycling and restoration has brought young folk into doing them.

Boosting because Artisan trades should be valued and carried on. 

queerculus:

saywhat-politics:

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Keep your messaging simple:


“Trump fired everyone in charge of airplane safety, and a week later planes started crashing into each other.”


That’s it. That’s the messaging. Don’t get bogged down disputing Trump’s false claims. Just blame him, in short and repeatable sentences.

  • Trump removed bird safety regulations in his first term and now bird flu is killing so many laying hens that eggs are $5 a carton
  • Trump removed food safety standards his first term and now we have recalls every few weeks
  • Trump cut the subsidies for the solar farms under construction so now electricity costs more
  • Trump disbanded the pandemic response team and we now we have bird flu and tuberculosis outbreaks

publicmenacerunnerup:

‘don’t be political’ ‘I don’t want to see that on my dash’ ‘keep your opinions to yourself’

NO. Absolutely not- over my dead fucking body, you hear me?!

Don’t you dare try to make yourself small, don’t you dare be passive and roll over while they run your country to the ground. I’m not even American and this makes my blood boil, watching all the horrible things happening over there.
They have taken your rights. Do you understand me? It is propaganda, plain and simple. Staying quiet just to appease other people is exactly what they want. They want you to remain passive, they want you to hope that things will get better on their own.

here’s the simple truth- it won’t.
not unless you do something about it.
we all saw it with the UHC shooter, citizens being abused and refused for years, but the second someone leaps into actions, suddenly the gears start turning.
I understand that politics isn’t for everyone, and it may very well mentally affect you.
but I believe this isn’t the time for that.

YOUR PRESIDENT JUST PUT A BUNCH OF LGBTQ KIDS AT RISK. THE WORLDS RICHEST MAN DID THE NAZI SALUTE AT YOUR INAUGURATION. YOU ARE WATCHING THEM TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS IN REAL TIME ON NATIONAL TELEVISION.

for fucks sake, that doesn’t bother you?

this is the time for action. Do not let them take away your voice. Be inconvenient. Be angry. Be a public menace. Be as fucking difficult to the government as you could possibly be.

it could actually save a life.

shouldhavestayedawayfromhere:

And remember kids, the next time someone tells you “the government wouldn’t do that!” – they’re gaslighting you. Bark at them. Bare your teeth and let them know that you know what you saw and what you heard. Don’t move an inch from the standpoint you have, don’t let anybody talk you out of the picture you’ve made yourself. It’s not “oh yes they would”, anymore. It’s “they do and they will continue to do so.” Be attentive. You know what’s happening. Be loud about it.

deathtokillian:

For the people who left TikTok after the “TikTok ban” and wonder if it’s going down hill. Yes!

Since it came back I’ve seen on my fyp

Swastika jewelry, shirts, hats, etc recommend in the TikTok shop

More Maggots (trump supporters)on my fyp

A guy doing a Nazi salute to an anti Nazi song

People are having to refollow leftist creators because TikTok made them unfollow

Hashtags are being removed/no longer exist that are critical of Trump and republicans

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