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we need carbs and we need fats and we need proteins and honestly fuck diet culture for normalizing malnourishment

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This is what a real, qualified OBGYN will tell you about what women feel when they get an abortion
Dr. Willie Parker, who is trained as a gynecologist and OBGYN, is a hero for the pro-choice movement because he’s honest about the undiscussed aspects of getting (or not getting) an abortion. Watch how he gives a consultation.
That last statement about regret is so important, because so many people don’t understand what it is or what causes it. Anti-choicers exploit this by manipulating pregnant people and creating doubt, which only increases the likelihood of regret, no matter what decision the pregnant person makes. You know what is best for you, even if it takes some time to figure it out.
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A Witch's Routine
Many practitioners in the community have started sharing their daily/weekly/monthly routines, so I've decided to join in on the trend. I think this is a great way for beginners to get a sense of where they might want to start, and may get more casual practitioners to consider attempting a more regimented routine. Either way, here's what I do regularly!
Daily
Meditation, visualization, and breathwork for a minimum of 20 minutes, though lately I've been trying to go for 60 minutes.
I give an offering to one of the gods, my ancestors, Agathos daimon, genius loci, or other spirits depending on the day of the week/month.
I read a book on the occult, witchcraft, paganism, or other related topics for a minimum of 30 minutes.
I say a prayer or read a hymn to the gods
I give myself a quick 1-3 card reading and check the current astrological conditions
I cleanse myself and my protective jewelry
I do an energy work exercise or practice my energy healing techniques on myself
Weekly
I cleanse my house and check/adjust my wards
I create lesson plans for my upcoming classes, spending several hours on research and practice per class
I do a longer prayer at least once a week
I normally do a deeper self-cleanse and energy healing once a week
Monthly
Write and lead a full moon ritual for myself and my group
Other assorted seasonal rituals and rites
What's your witchcraft/magic routine?
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“I am not an expert in immunology - I follow doctors for that. But I did spend 9 years as a manager at a pizza place that paid better than average wages for food service. And I am terrified of #COVID19. Not because the virus is going to kill people, but because poverty might. / https://t.co/SNke4cD3dW”
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I am not an expert in immunology - I follow doctors for that.
But I did spend 9 years as a manager at a pizza place that paid better than average wages for food service.
And I am terrified of #COVID19.
Not because the virus is going to kill people, but because poverty might. / Y'all, all laws aside, nobody in the restaurant industry goes to the doctor when they’re sick.
There are health code rules about what symptoms exclude you from work - you have to go to the doctor and get cleared, or be symptom free for 24 hours.
And they are *never* followed. / The people making your food do not have health insurance. Restaurants almost never offer it.
They do not have paid time off. Benefits like that aren’t imaginable.
They do not have enough people in the schedule to cover an absence. “Lean Staffing.” It’s more profitable. / The average age of a fast-food worker is 29. The average income is $8.69 an hour. I was taxed around 21% on paychecks.
The average doctor’s visit w/o insurance, costs $300-600.
43.7 hours. At minimum, more than a week’s take-home pay.
Going to the doctor is an *insane luxury*. I have watched people PRIDE themselves on working through illness and injury. I had a driver break his foot by stepping on a tennis ball in someone’s driveway, and then work another four days on a broken foot on ibuprofen and spite.
Flu-like symptoms?
Fuck out of here. MOST fast food workers are already on some kind of public assistance.
Many of those are “means tested” and require them to keep jobs.
laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pdf/2013/fast_… This means that
1) Fast food workers literally cannot afford to go to the doctor. They will do what we’ve always done - dose up heavily on DayQuil, puke in the bathroom, explain things away as being “hung over” or “tired,” and their manager will pretend nothing is wrong. 2) Fast food workers literally cannot afford to miss work. The median age is 29 for christ’s sake. These are people with bills, families, responsibilities.
Median 2-bedroom rent is ~1,194/mo. That $8.69 wage is ~1,190/mo take-home pay.
Even w/ roommates, that’s HALF YOUR MONEY. You can’t afford to take off work to go to the doctor, much less take off work when the doctor says you need to be quarantined for three weeks. You need every hour.
Otherwise you lose your job, then your housing, and anything else that keeps the wolf away from the door. When this happened to me, the doctor said I needed to be off my feet and resting for two weeks, light duty for another two.
I took 4 days. It was one of two times in nine years I missed work, both of them involving a trip to the emergency room.
https://twitter.com/NomeDaBarbarian/status/1092296791595216897
People who work food service are less likely to have reliable transportation - so they ride mass transit, exposing themselves to more people.
They live together in tight spaces, ensuring it spreads between folks.
They have poor diets, poor sleep, and weakened immune systems. ~14mil people work in food service in the US. They’re in every community. Everyone has to eat.
They live and work in conditions that make the spread of disease inevitable.
They won’t go to the doctor until it’s a crisis, long after they’ve passed things on to others. The Flu is bad enough, going around a kitchen.
#COVID19 is substantially more easily transmitted than the flu.
And we’ve created a situation where food service workers’ SURVIVAL depends on doing THE EXACT OPPOSITE of anything that could fight a pandemic. And these are the people making your food. The average food service worker is a millenial. 62% of us live paycheck to paycheck.
And it doesn’t have to be like this. In our parents’ lifetimes, it wasn’t.
God Bless the Conservative movement and their deregulation, pro-business legislation, and “choice.” Poverty is a public health crisis, y'all. Wage Slavery kills.
And if you can’t be bothered to care about that out of your basic human dignity, maybe the fact that the servile class you’ve been supported by can’t afford to not make you sick will fucking help.
Eat the rich. /end
https://twitter.com/NomeDaBarbarian/status/1232922661740613634
I’m a barista at a very large and famous coffee company (y’all know the one) and we are, technically speaking, supposed to have it lucky. Because we get paid time off and some of us do have health care.
Except paid time off doesn’t kick in until you’ve been with the company for a year. You are only eligible for health care if you work over twenty hours a week. And even with all this—at my store, the “work through the pain” mentality is SO STRONG, y’all.
I have gotten sick because supervisors have come to work sick; we pass it back and forth to each other, and try to blame it on the cold or the changing weather. I have had to call out maybe twice—once because I was new and sneezing and coughing and my friends were all telling me that it was irresponsible to go in, and once because a cold had ravaged my voice so badly I sounded like Kermit the frog’s evil twin. Both times I did exactly what I was supposed to do: called my manager with plenty of advance notice. The first time, she guilted me into coming in anyway, saying that she would try to find coverage for me but that it wasn’t likely she’d be able to. I struggled through four hours of that shift before my nicest coworker showed up early so that I could go home and get some rest. The second time, I got the day off, but had to cover 8- and 9-hour shifts the next two days to “make up for it.”
This is how we are staffed: we don’t have enough people to cover absences. If any of us is sick we will absolutely come into work—and I am stunningly, immensely privileged in that I was able to try to get out of working: most of my coworkers have kids and families that they need to provide for.
If Coronavirus spreads in the US, your friendly neighborhood baristas will be behind the counters. We will be smiling, stifling coughs, making drinks that we’ll be trying not to sneeze on, and running to the back to blow our noses, wash our hands, and get back out there, because you can’t run the floor with just two people during peak.
Eat the fucking rich.

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I've seen people say "everybody likes natives when we're talking about land" but honestly I think it's the opposite. They like hearing "native wisdom" tidbits about nature or the quote about how you cant eat money but when we protest pipelines then it's an issue. When we tell settlers their cottagecore fantasies are colonial, then we're overreacting. When we talk about unceded land, then we're in the wrong based on some kind of terminology nuance of what "unceded" means. We say we want to revitalize the plains & biodiversity, then we're a threat to agriculture & those poor poor cowboys & their ranches. We say we want full sovereignty & control over our lands & then people get scared. People dont like natives talking about land.
why am i physically incapable of being productive unless i’m basically held at gunpoint by the deadline
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Santiago — Chile, 23 de Noviembre de 2019.
Fotógrafo: Juan C García.
You can’t ever do “better” than you did, because whatever action you took was the action you had the least resistance to. That’s why you took it!
If your vibrational frequency had been higher, you would have had access to a “better” thought, feeling, and action, and done THAT!
You’re ALWAYS doing your best,
you’re ALWAYS on the path of least resistance,
you’re ALWAYS moving forward,
you’re ALWAYS manifesting things,
you’re ALWAYS wherever you are!
You’re NEVER stuck, failing, missing your chance, or getting it wrong. Don’t EVER think that you are!!
Payal Kundu Illustration - Manifestation
“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.” ~ Torkom Saraydarian
Magic doesn't mean spells
Dear baby witches--
I was raised in witchcraft. I rarely do actual spells or rituals, and the same is true of my mentors/teachers.
I was raised in astrology craft, so mostly we just acknowledged moon cycles. Rituals were reserved for full moons, equinoxes, solstices, and emergencies. Even in emergencies, spells must be timed carefully.
Later I studied with a lunar astrologer and added in my balsamic moon and new moon practices.
I studied with a kitchen witch and added in more garden and cooking practices.
But I dont usually do actual spells. Most of my craft is listening, reading the messages and energy from weather, the way candles burn, animals, birds, the way the pillows are arranged, speaking of which, I purposely manipulate the energy in my home by cleaning, organizing, arranging things, setting candles and plants and crystals where they're needed. Oh and of course, gardening, talking to the plants and trees. Communicating with spirits, angels, etc.
Oh, I do spells sometimes. But it's almost like... if it gets to the point where you have to do a spell... something's broken down. Which isn't bad or wrong. Stuff breaks down. But the thing is.... it's really good to do more listening and reading the energy than manipulating the energy.
At least that's my take.
So, I looked in the comments, expecting to see discourse or historical background etc, but I found none. Therefore, I decided to learn more and add background. Apparently this machine was used because of polio because polio paralyzes your lungs. According to the wiki article on this bad boy, patients would spend two weeks in there sometimes. They still have these machines, though much, much more modern but they’re barely used at all anymore: “In 1959, there were 1,200 people using tank respirators in the United States, but by 2004 there were only 39. By 2014, there were only 10 people left with an iron lung.” (x)
I’ve read about one man who still lives in an iron lung. He taught himself how to breathe again by gulping down air, but it’s quite laborious because of the paralysis. His name is Paul Alexander, and he’s a lawyer. He’s 71 years old and has spent 65 years in an iron lung. Wild, right? He’s been working on a memoir that he was inspired to write by the recent resurgence of cases of polio caused by anti-vaccers.
Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4414081 (can’t hyperlink because I’m on mobile, apologies)
It’s amazing to me to recognize that we only defeated polio in this past century - that my mother’s father had it (he got lucky, it only deformed his feet and thereby kept him out of a couple wars); my mother got the big vaccination that left her upper arm scarred; and by the time I was vaccinated, polio basically didn’t exist. My grandfather must have been born like around 1900, so - in the space of less than 75 years, this was no longer something that parents dreaded the possibility of every summer.
In the 1950s, my mother would go to the corner shop. The owners had a daughter a few years older than my mum. She lived in an iron lung in the back of the shop. Vaccinate your fucking kids.

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I was just about to spiral into a bad panic attack, and my boyfriend goes "Stick an ice cube in your mouth." I'm not really sure where he got the idea, and I kinda laughed at it because I didn't see how it would help, but he was insistent. So I did it.
And now I'm on my second cube, because it worked.
He explained his reasoning to me when he got home.
1. I would initially think "what the fuck" and be distracted from the anxiety. (Correct.)
2. The cold of the ice would shock my system, bringing me back to the physical world and reality, drawing my focus to the cold in my mouth, and keep my brain away from thinking "I'm panicking, I must be dying." (Correct.)
3. He assumed I hadn't drank much water today and wanted to keep me hydrated. (Triple correct.)
Rules for living in winter
From: 3rdritual