I want so much more than they've got planned

Here’s his White House petition. As of August 17, 2020 it has 81,578 signatures out of 100,000. It closes on the 24th.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/justice-pervis-payne

And it’s the children that pay the highest price. An estimated 85,000 children have lost their lives to extreme starvation alone. Every 10 minutes, a child under 5 dies of preventable causes in Yemen. When choosing what charities or goals you want to support during the last few days of Ramadan, I urge you to keep the children of Yemen in mind. And if you’re not celebrating Ramadan, or are not religious.. you’re still human.

These are a few of charities that I know of that you can donate to:

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/yemen-crisis?

https://www.muslimglobalrelief.org/yemen-appeal (100% donation policy)

https://oxfamapps.org.uk/yemen

https://www.dec.org.uk/appeal/yemen-crisis-appeal

http://sharethemeal.org

If Yemen was 100 people:

80 need aid to survive

60 have nothing to eat

58 have no access to clean water

52 have no access to health care, however since Covid-19 their healthcare system has effectively collapsed

But Yemen is not 100 people

“Police will not investigate due to lack of public interest”

i've composed a list of all of the donation fund i could find. i will stand with black lives forever and always and everybody should do the same.

donate to the minneapolis bail fund here

donate to the black lives matter movement here

donate to the george floyd memorial fund here

donate to george floyd's family here

donate to the justice for regis fund here

donate to reclaim the block here

donate to the i run with maud fund here

donate to justice for jamee here

donate to the eric rosalia fund here

donate to campaign zero here

donate to the north star collective here

donate to black visions here

donate to the national police accountability project here

donate to the unicorn riot fund here

if i've missed any then please add them onto this post! if you're a black person with your own donation fund then feel free to add that too!

let’s actually talk about this for a second.

I think there’s a way for teachers to provide criticism and feedback for students without actually saying bad things about their performance. generally, teachers try to give students much more positive feedback than negative. I myself have run into situations where I had nothing good to say, and making up good things to say about a performance can be just as bad as bluntly criticizing it.

I find that good music teachers address problems without making it personal and then if the student improves, they talk about how much better it sounds and how continued effort towards improving that aspect of their playing/singing will benefit them. my voice teacher did a lot of these things today.

when my breath was disconnected and I made some ugly sounds as a result, my voice teacher didn’t say “yeah, that sounded bad” because that was already what I was saying in my head. we don’t need bad thoughts about ourselves and our abilities to be reaffirmed, because that makes us resistant to learning. he also didn’t say “your breathing was disconnected,” because that would make me self-conscious. he simply said “let’s talk a bit about breathing” and he explained how it works in relation to singing and gave me some vocal exercises. things went smoother for me and he said “good! did that feel better?” and I said it did, so we did more vocal exercises and he gave me lots of encouragement and positive feedback as I was improving and getting more confident with the exercises.

my voice teacher provided lots of feedback and criticism for me during the lesson while building my confidence to try some of the weird vocal exercises that would help me improve. none of the feedback came from a place of “your voice sounds bad” or “you’re not a good singer,” but from a place of “this is your starting point and I’m going to help you achieve beyond this.”

hello there! some of you may be job hunting right now, looking for remote work, work from home options, etc. as someone who’s been doing this, i wanted to let you know that you’re absolutely going to be coming across a lot of questionable postings, so here are some tips for spotting them: 

1. double check craigslist postings. i’ve come across several where i go back to confirm contact information and i find the post has been flagged for removal. often times, this means the job was bogus, and someone figured it out and went back and alerted the site.

2. if you get answers in your spam, read them carefully. i’ve gotten several responses back from people that have gone straight to my spam inbox. for me, this is pretty questionable. a company might indicate their information will go to your spam inbox, this could still be suspicious. just be cautious. 

3. if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. i responded to a nicely worded work from home position and was told he would be paying me 1500 dollars every week. and while that sounds very very nice, it also is very unlikely. a legitimate employer will be paying you by the hour and will give you a set of hours you’ll be working. a lump sum of money is suspect, and likely being used to lure you in. 

4. look up their names/contact info. i’ve gotten plenty of emails back that look and sound legitimate. they even have a photo of the person on the bottom. look that info up. if they have a phone number, search for it. i’ve dialed *67 and called a few numbers and found they’re absolutely not real numbers, or they only receive text messages. do not text, always call. also if they say they work for a business, look them up with your local Better Business Bureau. i kept getting ads for an “Expert Collections Agent Wanted”. everything about the ad was weird, so i applied with one of my lesser used email and got a response in about a minute. the website didn’t go anywhere, and my local BBB had five unresolved complaints. 

5. no legit WFH/remote company will ask you to pay for a background check. this one is vital, because they can seem really legit all the way up to this point, and then they’ll ask you to pay for your own background check. do not do this. this is not something you should have to pay for. you don’t work for them, you should not be paying them anything.

6. please, please, please be on the lookout for MLM’s. flashy videos with young people talking about “the product” are trying to get YOU to buy the product and then hock it to your friends. and for the love of god, do NOT be tempted to join a known MLM. no one is buying essential oils, or make up, or protein powder, or lip gloss. they’re just not. 

7. if you don’t know what business you’re applying for, it’s probably not legit. a lot of ads don’t have the company name in them, or any real identifying features. they say things like “do you want to be a part of a growing company with an amazing work environment?” and things to that effect. you should be able to know what company you’ll be potentially working for, who your employer will be, and how much money you’ll potentially be making. 

“MLM” in this context means “Multilevel Marketing” aka the modern Pyramid Scheme.  

Watch this video if you don’t know what MLMs are or why they’re bad, it’s highly educational: