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"trans people just name themselves after characters" as opposed to cis people who name their children after names in the bible

People die on the job every summer. Remember that water and shade breaks are crucial when working in the heat, and calling emergency services for signs of serious heat illness (fatigue, nausea/vomiting, headaches, dizziness, clammy skin, confusion, agitation, slurred speech, high body temperature, rapid heart rate, etc.) is entirely appropriate. If you’re afraid to call 911 for reasons such as being undocumented, you’ll need to get very familiar with how to prevent, recognize, and treat heat illness. If you are symptomatic and not allowed a break, water, or medical treatment, walk out. No matter how broke you are, your job is not worth your life.

Official please put yourself first sign

irritating as fuck when people get mad at Black people existing in premodern historical fiction/fantasy media. like first of all, you're racist. and second of all, you are acting as though Black people didn't exist in premodern Europe which is simply false. especially when we're talking about the Mediterranean, like what the fuck do you people think is along the southern half of the Mediterranean Ocean?? everyone's on boats, there are GOING to be interactions with Black people in Northern Africa, and there are GOING to be Black people in Mediterranean Europe. stop being stupid. your imagined homogeneous white European past is not historical reality, get over it you massive losers

My parents always told me and my sister "all you can do is your best". I used to think it only applied to exams cause that's when I heard it the most, but it's actually impacted me much further than that. School really gave me a lot of issues with perfectionism and feeling like I'm never good enough, and I'm always sending myself into a spiral of self doubt (especially with my last job where there was SO much expected of you even if you were only there once a week). But my parents brought me back down to earth by saying "all you can do is your best", and what they weren't saying but there was an underlying sentiment of was "you can't give what you don't have, and if this is all you can do for today then that's enough. It doesn't make you a failure and it certainly doesn't make you less in our eyes". It's a hard lesson to internalise for me, but a massively important one

sorry but once you notice how often ppl use a southern accent as shorthand for being unintelligent you can never unsee it. classism is baked so deeply and why are you acting like anyone who talks the way my grandfather talks is stupid.

JRPG where the teenage firebrand protagonist is taken under wing by a wise older mentor figure in their twenties, as one does, except the third party member to join is in their thirties and regards both the protagonist and the initial mentor as dumb kids; the fourth is in their forties and thinks the same of the first three; and so forth.

I do think it's categorically good to expand one's cultural horizons, but a certain segment of Tumblr's userbase getting into East Asian historical fantasy has had the side effect that sometimes my posts get blorbotagged with the First Emperor of China.

@qin-shi-huang-di

that’s terrible!

personally I am of the opinion that vegans who are like “the way our food system currently works under capitalism on a large scale is exceptionally cruel to all animals including humans and is not sustainable, so I’m doing what I can to make the most ethical choices available to me about what I eat and encourage others to do the same” are generally very reasonable people who I agree with in spades. but vegans who seem to think human beings are not themselves animals who are ultimately also part of the food chain but instead some kind of other paternalistic higher entity that can never engage in ethical and sustainable hunting practices (and especially the fringe I’ve seen who think other carnivorous animal predators are also evil and need to be eliminated) are people I regard as foolish at best if not actively anti-indigenous and racist