I don't know who needs to hear this, but I'm gonna get real Midwestern on your asses and say this: "Be a good person." ❤️ Give credit where credit is due. Respect women, Black and brown people, and everyone else. Don't be an asshole. medium.com/@nandoodles/im…
Follow those rules and you'll probably get far in life. People tend to like people they actually respect.
Oh, and: Tell people about themselves. When people mistreat people CALL. THEM. OUT.
Pro tips / #HealthyRelationships advice:
✅ Establish boundaries.
✅ Know you deserve respect.
✅ Leave people & environments where you, your ideas, and/or people who look like you are unwelcome or unsafe.
There's usually a grooming process — people rarely show you their whole entire asshole really early on in any relationship. They just give you a peek. When that happens, find ways to say: "You are showing me your asshole right now, and this isn't right."
Here's the thing .... Sometimes people fuck up. We all do. Hell, *I* do. When / if that happens, you want to do what sexual health educators call the "oops" and "ouch" exercise.
Here's what I mean by that. Whenever someone hurts your feelings and/or fucks up in your eyes, tell them. This is the "OUCH". Ideally, their response is "OOPS!"
Since people understand physically examples more than emotion ones, here's what that looks like visually. Someone accidentally steps on your toe. You say: "OUCH!" They respond: "OOPS!" (And, ideally, "I'm sorry.")
Different scenario? They step on your toe You you say: "OUCH!". They respond by simply doing it again. Well, they're being an asshole and you have some decisions to make.
I don't know either of these two people in the article, so this isn't about them — nor any other specific situation. I just see this place out in life time & time again: dating, marriages, families, people at work, etc.
Too often, people passively stay quiet as others do shitty things. Nope. Speak up, call 'em out. But, the onus shouldn't rest exclusively with people being wronged. Folks observing wrongdoings need to speak up, too. And, of course, folks doing wrongs need to knock that shit off.
Expect the best. Always. Let's all hold each other accountable for being our better selves.
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Good morning, loves! ❤️ Here are a few wisdom droplets for you: To state the obvious, every member of congress who aided & abetted last Wednesday's attack is a traitor to this country. #NatSec
If you've seen photos & listened to reports from congresspeople who were inside the Capitol during the attack, you know certain Republicans gave rioters pre-attack recognizance tours.
They also first-pumped to cheer attackers on as they trashed the Capitol, tweeted out the location of the fellow congress members' hiding spaces & one literally said (about the mob) "those are my people." Watch this entire video. #NatSec instagram.com/tv/CJ-OkgNAO1N…
By definition, they require imagination and expanding one's mind. For example, when you see an actor, you're picturing them as the person they're depicting — not solely thinking: "Hey, that's ____!" #StarringRole
Usually, "unwanted" is a dated term to describe an untimed, or unexpected, pregnancy. #SRHR#SexualHealth
Usually, it covers a lot of agency on the part of the person who became pregnant. In other words, someone who is able to become pregnant had a consensual sexual encounter, and that encounter resulted in an unexpected — or "unwanted" — pregnancy.
Not all photos are uploaded to Twitter using the correct specs to optimize display on Twitter. For example ...
Twitter apparently taught its algorithm to find the most interesting / relevant parts of of photos, then display a cropped version of those pics such that the most relevant part shows up as a thumbnail.
We have to stay up. Stay focused. Stay happy. Stay optimistic.
Thank you, @silverbranchus for hosting an outdoor, physically distanced #Oktoberfest event. Spirits need lifting right now, and you're providing that service. #RIPRBG ❤
Tonight I restore my soul. 🍻 Tomorrow, I get back to work.
The New York Times did this, back in 2016. Though, with Trump supporters and Duck Dynasty (vis-a-vis shows like Modern Family & Empire). nytimes.com/interactive/20…
It's the premise of #BigData. To riff off Aristotle's "give me a child until he is 7, and I will show you the man", in modern times, it's: "Give me your data, and I will show you who I believe you are, and push you in the direction of who I want you to be."
As an example, if you're getting election-related calls, texts, Facebook ads, etc., you're getting them because you're on a list. Data decided which list(s) you should be on.