rowantheexplorer:

twistedrunes:

I remember years ago listening to a doctor speak on the radio and something stuck with me ever since. I’m paraphrasing but the gist was this:

When someone who has been sad, distant, not themselves for a while suddenly starts going out of there way to see people, often giving them gifts or possessions don’t assume they got ‘better’. This is the time to really ask them if they are okay; to reach out and not simply accept the answer of ‘fine’ or ‘great’ or ‘never better’. Because for some people the relief of having made the decision to end their life can make them happy, euphoric even. 

He pointed out that often this change in the person is such a relief to their friends and family after having seeing someone they love suffer, they just don’t realise what has caused the change and frankly they don’t want to ‘rock the boat’ because they are just so happy to have the person they love ‘back’. But in reality, the person they love is saying goodbye. 

During the interview, he told the story of a colleague (back when he had a factory job before he became a doctor) who had been depressed for a long time. One day he came in and was really happy, people kept commenting on how good it was that he wasn’t sad and grumpy anymore. He gave people some of his things, took people to lunch. Went home and killed himself. 

He explained that when the police came to talk to people, they told him it was a common story they heard “but they were so much better.” 

So be there for your friends and family. Tell them what they mean to you. Let them talk to you without fear of judgement. LISTEN. Suggest people get help if you think they need it. 

Finally, let me add: The world will not be better off without you in it. You matter. You will be missed. Please don’t harm, hurt or kill yourself. 

And I feel it worth mentioning that this phenomenon is why medication and therapy go hand-in-hand. Studies have shown that just going on medication without regular therapy actually increases suicide risk, because now a person finally has enough energy to make the decision and do it, including energy to make all the goodbyes and other arrangements they feel need to happen first. Similarly, this is why therapists get really worried if a new patient comes for a handful of sessions and then vanishes from their radar, because it is entirely possible that they got just enough help to get over the hump of inaction but not enough to make things actually better. Depression and suicidal ideation are not things that just go away like that. If you have a friend who seems suddenly “better” without extensive, long-term treatment, keep an eye on them.

And just as a reminder, if you’re out there thinking about injuring or killing yourself, please don’t. I’d personally much rather you be here tomorrow, I care about you as a human, and I know that there are other people who care about you and would like to have you around tomorrow, too. Even if tomorrow is all you can commit to today, that’s enough for today, and we can worry about the next day tomorrow. Ultimate procrastination challenge, okay? Whatever your plan is, just hold off for at least one more day.

Source: feministism

I’m seeing a lot of tweets and posts saying things like “Vote like the fate of the world is at stake” and I get why that’s a rallying cry right now, but I have something to say about it.

Voting in this country (or any country with voting for that matter) is not just a right. It is a responsibility. It may not be legally mandatory – though it should be – but it is your responsibility as a citizen to participate in the selection of the people running our government.

Your vote affects taxes, healthcare, reproductive freedom, the environment, when and where this country goes to war, and the equity of all citizens. Your vote affects the lives of people who cannot vote, including children, immigrants, the incarcerated, and especially for America, the rest of the world. The choices this country makes has an effect worldwide and no one who is eligible should sit out.

The fate of the world is ALWAYS at stake.

Sure you legally have a choice. But you shouldn’t.

I was at work for over 12 hours, partially because they scheduled a mandatory meeting at lunch time on my busiest day that was in another building so even though the meeting was pointlessly short it still took around half an hour. I don’t even want to go to bed because when I wake up I have to go back to work. And there’s so much I have to do just to get ready for bed and I know that it’s really not a lot but right now it is. I hate everything right now.

sushinfood:

fattyatomicmutant:

queeranarchism:

putrandomnamehere:

mailidhonn:

hclark70:

the-real-skye:

galexy-astra:

LET 👏 RETAIL 👏 EMPLOYEES 👏 SIT 👏

The only major chain retail store that I know of that allows their cashiers to sit is the Aldi grocery store, a German chain. Their starting pay is also $12 an hour chain-wide.

The interior of the store looks like this so they save money on the annoying shelf restocking. Products remain in their boxes until being removed by customers.  No unboxing and putting stuff on shelves, and constantly having to rearrange it. Also, the boxes make inventory a breeze as a sealed box has a defined number of items in it. 

Typical American grocery stores have shelves like this

Every item has to be unboxed and neatly stacked on the shelves. If they get messed up by the customers, everything has to be rearranged back to specific rigid order. When you have to verify the inventory, every item has to be removed from the shelves to be counted and put back. Aldi’s also do not have plastic bags. You can buy reusable bags or simply use the empty cardboard boxes that are available.

Last is the carts. Most grocery stores have their carts strewn across the parking lots, rolling around and hitting cars until a store employee is sent out to collect them, after being yelled at by the manager when they were told to do other tasks in the meantime. Aldi’s chains those carts together and you have to put a Quarter in to release it. When you are done, you plug the chain back in and get your Quarter back. If others are lazy, you can collect and return the loose carts and collect the Quarters. 

It stops this…

Then the employees have to do this

reblogging this because I love Alidis

With the exception of the shelf stacking, all of this is totally normal in every single supermarket chain in the UK… what the heck America

Same for Germany… why would you make it any more complicated than that. Just. Why not let them sit??

They’re not normal for no reason. The right to sit during work seems normal for most retail workers in these countries because they are it is part of the labor rights that have been won by unions. Sometimes the right to sit was won in an agreement with the store and sometimes it was put down in national laws.

For example, in the UK your employer legally has to provide you with a comfortable seat if you do work that can be done while seating. In the Netherlands you have to be provided a seat if you work at a cash register for more than 4 hours a day or for more than 1 hour uninterrupted.

Unionize.

America’s Unions got killed.

Employees in Canada and America are regularly threatened by their employers if even a sniff of unionization is happening. No they cannot legally fire you for trying to unionize but they can cut your hours, emotionally manipulate you, turn your coworkers against you and drive you to quit. It’s awful. All to make the most money.

profeminist:

“Hey lgbt+ Tanzanians on Twitter or any other social medias please be careful change your location, go on private, Don’t trust people with your location, block the creepy accounts that you don’t know, do what you gotta do this is really scary. Be careful”

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Afro-faggot 🐬‏

Tanzania forms surveillance squad to identify gays on social media and arrest them

PLEASE SHARE this to get the word out to the LGBTQIA+ community and their allies in Tanzania! 

Source: profeminist