inquisitivetree:

Young people can have back pain. Young people can have joint pain. Young people can require a cane to get around. Young people can have memory problems. Young people can get migraines. Young people can lose their eyesight. Young people can lose their hearing. Young people can lose their teeth and require dentures. Young people can have neurological disorders. Young people can go through menopause. Young people can have heart attacks. Young people can have strokes. Young people can go through all kinds of things you think only happens to older people and they don’t deserve to be invalidated or bullied just because you have never heard of it.

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me with my migraines and arthritis in my back

bumblebeerror:

bonediggercharleston:

rev-another-bondi-blonde:

In 1990, the high school dropout rate for Dolly Parton’s hometown of Sevierville Tennessee was at 34% (Research shows that most kids make up their minds in fifth/sixth grade not to graduate). That year, all fifth and sixth graders from Sevierville were invited by Parton to attend an assembly at Dollywood. They were asked to pick a buddy, and if both students completed high school, Dolly Parton would personally hand them each a $500 check on their graduation day. As a result, the dropout rate for those classes fell to 6%, and has generally retained that average to this day.

Shortly after the success of The Buddy Program, Parton learned in dealing with teachers from the school district that problems in education often begin during first grade when kids are at different developmental levels. That year The Dollywood Foundation paid the salaries for additional teachers assistants in every first grade class for the next 2 years, under the agreement that if the program worked, the school system would effectively adopt and fund the program after the trial period.

During the same period, Parton founded the Imagination Library in 1995: The idea being that children from her rural hometown and low-income families often start school at a disadvantage and as a result, will be unfairly compared to their peers for the rest of their lives, effectively encouraging them not to pursue higher education. The objective of the Imagination library was that every child in Sevier County would receive one book, every month, mailed and addressed to the child, from the day they were born until the day they started kindergarten, 100% free of charge. What began as a hometown initiative now serves children in all 50 states, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, mailing thousands of free books to children around the world monthly.

On March 1, 2018 Parton donated her 100 millionth book at the Library of Congress: a copy of “Coat of Many Colors” dedicated to her father, who never learned to read or write.

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Everything I learnt about Dolly Parton was against my will and it was an absolute delight every single time

You WILL learn about Dolly Parton and what a fucking amazing woman she is and you will LIKE IT.

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murielswedding:

“omg ur so quirky for not wearing makeup” people want so bad for not wearing makeup to be just as much of an active, effortful gesture as wearing makeup so they don’t have to acknowledge how much added labor they go through each day because to do so would be implicitly conceding that the act of wearing makeup has a cost. too bad though because, baby, we are genuinely just waking up in the morning and walking out the door without thinking twice about it

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love not wearing makeup

vaporize-employers:

my theory is they wanna get rid of avatars because it shows you who made the post. they’re hoping it won’t be as noticeable when they try to sneak in some content you didn’t sign up for, e.g. promoted posts, popular or suggested posts, deceptively presented ads.

i don’t think they would explicitly phase out the following feed, but i can definitely see them moving shit around in the coming months, trying to make that view progressively harder to find and use in favor of algorithmic ranking and/or paid content

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caffeineecold:

nothing has been more important to my being queer than when i went to my first pride parade, got seperated from my group, had a panic attack about it and was sitting on the side of the road holding a tiny genderfluid flag and freaking out. then this six foot five drag queen in four inch heels appeared from literally nowhere and sat down next to me. i, this scared-shitless trans bi kid at pride for the first time, very nervously told her she looked pretty and i told her my name and that i got lost and didn’t feel like i should be at pride and she held my hand and said “oh, honey, everybody deserves to be here, especially you. pride is for everybody who’s ever gotten lost, who’s been scared of who they are or where they are. you think we never been scared before? pride’s for you, honey, because you’re scared. you don’t have to be proud right now, but you’re gonna be one day, honey, i’m sure of it.”

i found my group soon after that and i never saw that queen again but to this day i am convinced i met an angel.

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sucre-sanguine:

plaguedocboi:

plaguedocboi:

Did you know that leeches were once used to predict storms? Well, a tornado warning just dropped and my squad is climbing

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@takemetoturch

My dad is a meteorologist and he has never once warned me about an incoming storm. My leeches, however……

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https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/19/weatherwatch-forecasting-tempest-prognosticator-storm-leech

*urgently* Lads, the leechometre is at 12 bong, I repeat, 12 bong!

“tempest prognosticator” absolutely sounds like some kind of arcane device a wizard would have lying around in his workshop

It would also probably have leeches in it.

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wait you can keep leeches as a pet? hold on i gotta go research

stealth-black-leg:

Thinking about the Cross Guild/Strawhat Tripartite parallel.

You have the ever-lucky clown and the trickster god

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the current greatest swordsman and the next in line

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and the transgenders

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