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5 votes
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New Jersey police union contracts fund six-figure “sick day” payouts, $2,500 “perfect attendance” bonuses and lucrative “extra duty” assignments
5 votes -
Norway approves Utøya memorial for victims of 2011 massacre, despite local concerns – memorial is expected to be ready for the tenth anniversary of the attacks on 22nd July
8 votes -
Sending stuff around the world
I want to try something new and send some sacks of coffee over the atlantic and maybe start a sidehustle. I'm in the process of checking tarifs and stuff, but I have no idea where to even start...
I want to try something new and send some sacks of coffee over the atlantic and maybe start a sidehustle. I'm in the process of checking tarifs and stuff, but I have no idea where to even start looking for somebody who would do the actual transporting or what it might even cost.
did anybody here do something like that?
how did you do it?
what did you send?
why did you do it?
what was your experience with it?
would you do it again?8 votes -
Sámi National Day – National day that falls on February 6th. This date was when the first Sámi congress was held in 1917 in Trondheim, Norway
11 votes -
Three American mothers, on the brink. Eleven months, multiple breakdowns, one harrowing realization: They’ve got to get back up and do it all again tomorrow.
10 votes -
I’m autistic. I’m hoping I can wear a mask for the rest of my life.
16 votes -
I can tolerate anything except the outgroup
13 votes -
The Pope vs. Lululemon
5 votes -
Considering the silence of teenage boys in the wake of my son's traumatic injury
13 votes -
Getting plowed - Exposing the bid-rigging, violence and sabotage at the heart of an unlikely racket: snow removal (2012)
4 votes -
A picture of what dating looked like in the 1950s
4 votes -
The deplatforming of Father Coughlin: The story of the anti-Semitic radio priest offers an intriguing analog-age precedent to the digital-age debates over the limits of free expression
11 votes -
The high price of mistrust
10 votes -
Stop making excuses for toxic bosses
13 votes -
Norway arrests highlight impact of pandemic on sex workers – governments should include sex workers in public health and financial support responses
6 votes -
Parents with disabilities face extra hurdles with kids' remote schooling
8 votes -
A factsheet about single people in the USA
10 votes -
Still alive
10 votes -
How'd y'all grow up?
If you care to explicate your personal situation... I'm interested! So, in what circumstances did you grow up and how did that effect you in terms of the person you are now???
15 votes -
Margo St. James, advocate for sex workers, dies at 83
7 votes -
Why you should stop reading news
9 votes -
The unsettling truth of the story behind "Mostly Harmless", the hiker whose mysterious death fascinated the internet
16 votes -
Bakersfield, California just ended chronic homelessness
11 votes -
How I survived a Chinese ‘reeducation’ camp for Uighurs
16 votes -
How the United States chose to become a country of homelessness
11 votes -
Sex workers say 'defunding Pornhub' puts their livelihoods at risk
16 votes -
How Iceland is closing the gender wage gap
6 votes -
How to resign, via Letters of Note
8 votes -
“Not like other girls”: On internalized misogyny in gaming
12 votes -
Until 1968, a married Texas woman couldn’t own property or start a business without her husband’s permission. Attorney Louise Raggio fought to change that.
10 votes -
Crying in H Mart: Sobbing near the dry goods, I ask myself, “Am I even Korean anymore if there’s no one left in my life to call and ask which brand of seaweed we used to buy?"
11 votes -
Plan to straighten out entire life during weeklong vacation yields mixed results
36 votes -
Shamelessness as a strategy
13 votes -
Nineteen weird things you can watch drop online if you stay home for New Year’s
7 votes -
How to compliment
11 votes -
No news 'til November
I'm going on a news fast until after Samhain (that's Hallowe'en for you non-heathens). Still figuring out what, exactly, that means, but basically, I'm minimizing (ideally, eliminating) my...
I'm going on a news fast until after Samhain (that's Hallowe'en for you non-heathens). Still figuring out what, exactly, that means, but basically, I'm minimizing (ideally, eliminating) my exposure to ... hmmm ... I guess "unnecessary stress and anxiety" is the best summary.
Turned off my Feedly (ahem) feed. No more Mastodon, etc. I'll still be visiting Tildes, but less ... and I just finished tuning out the news from my postings list (unsubscribed from ~enviro, ~finance, ~health, ~lgbt, and of course, ~news ... added a bunch of tag filters — covid, Trump, politics, the FAANG corps, etc). That seems to have killed 95% of the stress-inducing headlines. Will add more tag filters, as they prove necessary.
Thoughts? Anyone already try this? Anyone wanna join me?
PS: I have no idea how to tag this post. Tildes ModGods, please have at it, but try not to add any tags that'll inadvertently hide my own post from me. Danke, y gracias.
22 votes -
The year of Karen: How a meme changed the way Americans talked about racism
17 votes -
The lives they lived: Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year
5 votes -
Japanophilia
6 votes -
My mommies and me
7 votes -
Amid coronavirus outbreaks, migrants face the starkest of choices: Risking their lives in US detention or returning home to the dangers they fled
8 votes -
Thousands apply to be a Finn for ninety days – Americans, Canadians and Britons among those lured by campaign to attract foreign tech workers
11 votes -
A beginner’s guide to Italian ghost towns selling houses for €1
22 votes -
How the sun illuminates Spanish missions on the winter solstice
4 votes -
The journalist and the pharma bro
9 votes -
Surviving the winter
When I was a child I never seemed to mind the winter, but in the past two or three years it's become exponentially harder for me to live through the cold and dark. I'm dreading the next few...
When I was a child I never seemed to mind the winter, but in the past two or three years it's become exponentially harder for me to live through the cold and dark. I'm dreading the next few months.
The lockdowns in March and April were pretty agonizing because I had too many responsibilities but suddenly none of the support systems I had built up in my friend groups. I got through that because it was slowly getting warmer and I could just go on a walk if I needed space. But it's started snowing this week and I don't know how well I'm going to manage for the rest of the season, with it getting dark at 4 PM and seeing so few people. I get caught up in my own head in these destructive patterns of anxiety about past friendships and relationships and obligations that are very hard to escape from around this time of year. I have a lot of hobbies but I can't do most of them right now, so I kind of just end of staring at the wall or my phone for half the day, feeling bad that I screwed up a relationship or said something weird 6 months ago or whatever. On repeat for every day. I have some friends in the area who I like a lot, but I'm a little scared to leave my house from what I hear about the virus on the internet. I've been trying to do phone calls sometimes but they kinda just burn me out and make me feel worse.
I'm wondering if anyone else has a recurring problem with the winter like I do. I'm not sure if this is a normal thing and I'm just naive and haven't figured it out, or if most people are automatically as happy in the winter as they are in the summer. I've brought this up sometimes with people irl and they say "haha yeah I have seasonal depression too," but they mostly seem to just not like the cold (?), it's not the issue of banal-yet-existential dread and torturous self-probing that I can't avoid. I have a very sweet cat who will keep me company, and she's a good listener, but she doesn't talk a lot and she's hiding in another dimension half the time anyway. I journal and meditate every night, and that helps a little, but I really mostly rely on being able to go to pretty places to keep myself happy, and it's hard to do that when they're all closed or when it's too cold to be outside for a long time. If people have any thoughts or experiences I would love to read them.
thank you xoxo
19 votes -
Why the eviction ban from the US Centers for Disease Control isn't really a ban
9 votes -
What if you could do it all over? The uncanny allure of our unlived lives
9 votes -
Work (or, the five jobs I had before YouTube)
13 votes