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ive been trying to listen to the adventure zone but every time it cuts out after like ten minutes????

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glumshoe:

You know that Mister Rogers quote?

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”

I’ve been getting a lot of asks from people who want to know how to keep from losing it in the current chaos and darkness of American politics. I can’t tell you that. It’s hard. No one’s on the best footing these days, emotionally or mentally. These are strange days and they may get stranger yet.

But Mister Rogers was right. Look for the helpers – there are a LOT of them, everywhere. I know as well as anyone that dire news overwhelms the heart and mind, but don’t lose hope. Everywhere people are coming together and standing up in ways we haven’t really seen for a generation or more. That’s a good thing. That’s a *wonderful* thing. That’s the light in the darkness. There are helpers everywhere. Just make sure you are one of them.

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etherealfelidae:

urinfntycrsh:

if you donate to ACLU, tweet your receipt to Sia and she will match it up to 100k.

if you donate to CAIR, tweet your receipt to grimes and she will match it up to 10k

please add on other people/celebrities/whoever that are doing this so everyone can make the most of their donations!

Hank Green is donating $5 for every handwritten sign/message of support written to muslims/immigrants/refugees to the ACLU, so make sure to tweet those at him.

Chris Sacca is matching up to 75k if you tweet your receipt of donation to the ACLU at him.

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excess-of-cats:

amemait:

rembrandtswife:

loneozner:

me: *waits patiently in a line in a busy establishment with limited employees who can only work so fast

every 40+ person in the vicinity: OHHHHHHH MY GOD THIS IS RI-DIC-U-LOUS why is the space time continuum not being broken to IMMEDIATELY ACCOMODATE me, The Most Important Person In The World,

As a person of 40+10, I think some (not all, certainly) of that behavior is due to our remembering when retail and food establishments were sufficiently staffed. Picture the supermarket you go to most often: How many registers are at the front of the store? How many of those are staffed on a weekday afternoon? On a Saturday morning? As a teenager, I worked as a supermarket cashier; out of half a dozen registers, I would say four were open at any given time, and all of them were staffed on Saturday, which was still the primary shopping day for a lot of full-time homemakers whose husbands got paid on Fridays.

Same thing with banks; my bank branch has at least six teller stations, but I’ve never seen more than half of them occupied at one time. The library where I work: My unit once had four people and now there’s only two of us. The Periodicals Department had fourteen employees when I was hired for it in 1994; now it has less than half that many people. Every single library department has lost staff as people retired and were not replaced because the budget would not permit it.

And the fault for that lies not with the impatient older customers nor with the Millenials or whoever may be behind the service counter; it lies with the 1% who won’t hire enough staff, won’t pay decent wages, don’t offer benefits, and basically sit on their wealth like a dragon on its gold. Our economy is basically at the mercy of Smaug.

Huh.

Makes sense. You hire as few people as possible, work them until they burn out, and then hire new people to replace them ad infinitum to minimize the amount of money you have to spend paying employees.