Silver, they/them. Should probably start posting

abuse in caregiving professions (like teaching or nursing) is not solely a result of power dynamics. it's also because people who go into those professions often have a idea of themselves as Good People, and are consequently incapable of recognising or acknowledging when they've hurt someone else. instead, they mentally put 'people who have inconvenienced me' into the Bad People box so they can freely abuse them while maintaining their moral high ground.

i read ross greene a lot when i was working with "difficult" or "behaviourally challenged" children. his refrain is "kids do well if they can" - meaning, in short, that most kids act out only when the demands of a situation exceed their capabilities. punishing them for this is not only cruel but also completely pointless, because they also don't want to be doing what they are doing.

My recommendations would be: lettuce, a red onion, garlic cloves, carrots, celery, some kind of quick-cook noodle or grain like oatmeal or egg noodles or a type of rice (depends on preference). Optionally, some kind of potatoes for mashing or instant mashed potato flakes pairs well with the chicken.

Use the detachable limb meat parts in one meal with a side. (mashed potato, side salad, pasta, grain, etc.)

Cut the breast meat from the carcass and store safely for adding to later dishes.

Put the carcass/bones/skin in a stock pot with water to cover, along with 1/2 to 1 onion, some amount of garlic, and a few of your carrots and some celery (don't need to cut finely). Bring up to a boil and then reduce to simmer for 6-ish hours. You have chicken bone broth. (You will want some sanitized jars, strainers, bowls, and maybe a funnel to store the broth.) This will make multiple jars of broth depending on your water level and how much you cook it down. Refrigerate and use within some reasonable amount of time.

Using the stored chicken bone broth as a base, you can boil your noodles of choice with finely cut carrots and celery and some portion of the chicken breast meat. Maybe 1/2 to one breast? This makes homemade chicken soup.

You can use the bone broth to cook grains, like making a savory version of oatmeal for example. Pretty sure this also works with rice.

You can use your salad greens and remaining grated or finely cut vegetables (carrot, onion, maybe celery) to make a salad and slice some of the remaining chicken breast meat on top.

Or, you can use the chicken breast meat and celery with other ingredients (mayonaise usually) to make chicken salad. (I sometimes put elbow pasta in my chicken or tuna salad as an extender so it's combo pasta salad like tuna-macaroni salad, for example.)

If you have instant mashed potato flakes you can also cook those with the broth in place of water in the recipe. If mashing potatoes from scratch, I would cook them first in plain water and rinse and then use the chicken bone broth in place of some portion of milk or butter one would normally use

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PBS: Language as Prejudice - Myth #6: Women Talk Too Much (via misandry-mermaid)

Every EVERY women’s studies class I’ve been in has had this problem and failed to address it. 

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What if the children go to schools unafraid of tear gas and bullets?

What if the birds come back, and the bees are healed, and every species moves from endangered, to threatened, to thriving?

What if the rainforest ADVANCES?

What if every parking lot had solar panels? What if every structure had solar panels? What if we built climbing gyms and terraced gardens in the skeletons of old coal power plants?

What if you baked your neighbor bread, and they shared their home-grown blackberries?

What if every person who needed a home, had one? What if every person who needed healing was healed?

What if every body was treasured for what it was, not what it should be?

What if every trans child's parents attended their graduation, their wedding, their new-name-day?

What if every warehouse became a closed-circle repair station? Goods flowing out, and back, and out again? What if landfills started to SHRINK?

What if the water and air were clean? What if there was enough public transit that the cars dwindled, leaving the streets safe for kids on bikes, evening deer, midnight cats and foxes?

What if we win?

The condors are back. The whales are saved. The sea turtles are no longer endangered. The cranes are back. The bees are recovering. The air in LA and Tokyo and London is clean again. The aquifers in the LA Basin are refilling.

Children are kinder than previous generations. Parents are stopping the abuse cycle. Being trans and queer is more acceptable than ever on a ground level.

It's hard to see if you're young, if you don't know how to step back from social media and the news. But remember--bad news sells, and the algorithm knows despair keeps you scrolling. It's a skewed lens.

We are fighting and we are winning against this adminstration's bullying. We are coming together against the bullies and they are running away scared because they don't understand that we will do that.

People are working hard every day to find ways to make sure fewer animals get hit by cars and planes and rockets.

Maker spaces are more common than ever. Solar and wind are more common than ever. Coal plants are shutting down every day.

Unprecedented numbers of acres are being bought back or given back to their rightful stewards, and the world heals because of it. People are working hard every day to learn how to help a forest recover faster.

We are not at zero. We are at decades of effort to heal the world. We've come SO far.

In 1982 there were only 22 California Condors left in the world. In 1992, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), with its public and private partners, began reintroducing captive-bred condors to the wild. In 2001 the first wild nesting occurred in Grand Canyon National Park since re-introduction. In 2002 there were only 8 pairs of wild nesting birds population-wide. In 2008, for the first time since the program began, more California condors were flying free in the wild than in captivity. Today there are nearly 500 – more than half of them flying free in Arizona, Utah, California, and Baja Mexico.

When I was born, there were no condors in the wild. I'm 37 now, and there are over 250 condors flying free.

When my mom was born in 1955, there were days when she wasn't allowed to go outside to play, because of the air pollution. When I was born, that never happened anymore.

When I was born, humpback whales were critically endangered, and people thought they were going to go extinct. Today, they've recovered to exceed their recorded numbers. Other whales too!

We fixed it.

Since 1990 extreme poverty has decreased worldwide by over HALF.