Charissa Cotrill's Blog, page 24
October 28, 2013
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NOT A JOKE: Photos from Personhood for Women
Also, check out National Advocates for Pregnant Women, org that stands up for the rights of women (often the ones with the least means) who have no way of debunks bad science and challenges religious lunatics in courts.
There is no “debate” about choice. Either women are people or we’re not.
*Doesn’t affect just women but people with uteruses, ok? Still very important
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Anyone have any info on these images? It’s very, uh, [citation needed]. I’m all for fighting back against insane anti-abortion laws, but it doesn’t help our cause any if people go off and make shit up.
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Guh, flawless. Non-Westernised interpretations of the steampunk genre FTW.
SAIBA LOOK!!!
Thank you for tagging me in this. This is amazing.
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Fun work? Is that even possible? What do you...
Fun work? Is that even possible? What do you think?
This comics essay is part of a book called Brick by Brick, which I am now raising money to self publish on Kickstarter! Please check out the link for more details!
This is a large part about why my team at work kicks so much ass, really. We have a lot of fun! Sometimes it’s not the work itself that we’re having fun with, but the team camaraderie, management’s passive or active encouragement (or at least benevolent tolerance) of our shenanigans, and the open encouragement from all levels to engage ourselves in having fun as much as possible really helps keep us motivated. In turn, we’re a hella productive team that puts out some quality work, and we manage some amazing feats that probably wouldn’t be tolerated in a much stricter, “businesslike” atmosphere.
Fun is SUPER important to getting through life. Honestly, I need to do a better job teaching my kids how to make their work fun — they’ll need that skill for the rest of their lives.
October 27, 2013
"Days seemed to drag on as I watched my brother get bullied and my mom lose her job. Ultimately our..."
When you became a doctor, did you not swear an oath to, among other things, try to prevent disease as much as treat it? Refusing to advocate weight loss to obese patients breaks that oath; how do you justify continuing to practice medicine? Serious questio
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The woman on the left is a mother from Miami who was so desperate to feed her hungry family that she was trying to steal a lot of food.
The woman on the right is Miami-Dade County Police Officer Vicki Thomas. Officer Thomas was about to arrest Jessica Robles but changed her mind at the last minute.
Instead of arresting her, she bought Robles $100 worth of groceries:
“I made the decision to buy her some groceries because arresting her wasn’t going to solve the problem with her children being hungry.”
And there’s no denying they were hungry. Robles’ 12 year old daughter started crying when she told local TV station WSVN about how dire their situation was:
“[It’s] not fun to see my brother in the dirt hungry, asking for food, and we have to tell him, ‘There is nothing here.’”
Officer Thomas says she has no question that what she did was right:
“To see them go through the bags when we brought them in, it was like Christmas. That $100 to me was worth it.”
But Officer Thomas did have one request:
“The only thing I asked of her is, when she gets on her feet, that she help someone else out. And she said she would.”
And guess what? The story gets even better.
After word got out about what happened people donated another $700 for Jessica Robles to spend at the grocery store.
And then best of all a local business owner invited her in for an interview and ended up hiring her on the spot as a customer service rep.
She started crying when he told her:
“There’s no words how grateful I am that you took your time and helped somebody out. Especially somebody like me.”
And to think it all started with one veteran police officer trusting her “instinct” instead of going “by the book”.
finally some good news to read
October 26, 2013
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I had a dream where every person, at exactly...
voidliminality:
ruffiticus:
mspoffin:
I had a dream where every person, at exactly...
