you know how if you’re getting disability benefits, you get cut off if you have too much (even if it doesn’t bring you out of poverty)? Same with a lot of welfare benefits?
Why can’t we reverse that expectation?
If a household has more than (and I’m being generous here with this number) than 100 million dollars in all assets – that’s both wealth AND income – the rest is seized by the government as taxes and invested in social security.
If a corporation has more than (again, being generous here!) 1 billion dollars in profit, the rest is seized and invested in UBI
Joy, I hope I’m not being a bother but I have a lot of food issues and chronic illnesses like you and have you ever come across a person who’s had an allergic reaction to water? I can only have tap water in very small quantities (I can have most non-water drinks, which usually contain water) or I get really sick. I have to drink a specific brand of really expensive bottled water all the time to stay hydrated and it’s very annoying!
Since I moved here we’ve had to heavily filter the tap water because a) it’s extremely hard water and the stomach can find that hard to deal with sometimes and b) it was giving me a horrible sore throat for the longest time and we eventually realized it was the chlorine treatment doing it. So if you don’t have a filter that attaches to your pipe under the sink, maybe consider trying that. Or some other kind of system. We’re actually want to install a distillation system in the basement when it comes to replacing some things, for this exact reason.
If you have tried that, can I ask? Is the bottled water highly alkaline water? Because I too have a specific brand of bottled water which is my “rescue” water for when my acid reflux gets out of hand and even drinking water can make me throw up/hurt. But drinking alkaline water can actually help control it a little bit. (Doesn’t help long term cause the stomach needs acid, but it helps me to stay hydrated when reflux takes over, which it hasn’t for a while, cause we figured out most of my reflux was from food allergies, which was why the usual control methods didn’t work, except the h2 blocker stuff. Called zantac over here.)
None of this might be helpful to you, but yes, you can react badly to drinking water, but it’s usually some other factor at work causing it, in my experience. I sometimes find adding a little bit of sea salt makes regular tap water hurt less too, and if you’re chronically dehydrated (another cause for reflux most drs dont seem to actually mention) it can help to hydrate you better. Ask Google for the ratio, it knows better than me, off the top of my head.
Good luck, I hope some of this was useful and you can get some relief 💖
Chronic dehydration can cause reflux. *thumps head on desk* That. That might explain so much. Fuck. *goes to get more to drink, because fuck*
Hey if you’re ever embarrassed by any scars you have just remember that I have a three inch scar down the length of my forearm from where I scratched myself on a microwave while cleaning
Hey reblog this with your odd scar stories cause I think it’s cute and I wanna read em
I got a scar on my lip when I was 4 cause I slipped in the bathtub and my top teeth went through my bottom lip then when they were gluing my lip back together I jerked away now I got a scar.
Weird L shape on my arm from a waffle iron
Slice down my palm from when I was drunkenly showing off my knives, dropped one, and thought it would be a smart idea to catch it midair. By the blade.
One of my worst scars was from trying and failing to catch a falling cat. (The cat was fine.)
Dent in my forehead from hitting my head on the pointed end of the metal banister in kindergarten when I bent over to pick up my hat.
square burn just aboveo my right elbow from hot glue. Don’t lift it above your head and try to glue shit to the ceiling. Gravity works.
Scar under my chin from when I was 5 or 6, I tripped over a doorframe at school, and somehow managed to pretzel myself and bring the buckle on my sandal up to my face and cut it bad enough that I needed 2 stitches. I have never been that flexible before or since.
I have a scar in my palm from where I accidentally stabbed myself with a double pointed knitting needle
Haven’t used them sinceScar on the rood of my mouth from when I was playing the recorder in primary school music class and another 7 year old tried to silence me by slapping her hand over the end of the instrument.
Scar above my eyebrow from leaning over the railing of the boat while another boat went past us at entirely too fast, and the wake was really rough. It needed several stitches, but I was a little more concerned with the needle of novacaine to numb it and the blood damage to my favorite towel at the time.
Black dot on my left palm where I put a freshly sharpened pencil through it when I was maybe six? I’m not very clear on the when at this point; I was a very tiny Morgyn who was in school but did not yet have glasses.
New configuration of freckles and a patch of shiny skin on my right knee where I’d skinned it badly as a small Morgyn. I do not remember what I was doing for certain, but probably something with my bicycle.
And a long streak of rearranged freckles with texture changes, plus the entire inside of both forearms having a new skin texture from spending a month and more with very large, overlapping, possibly full-thickness blisters from poison ivy all over them in late spring 2014.
dolorousxqueen-deactivated20141:
Alexander Siddig as Doran Martell.
The Borgias: Secrets in Crimson: Unburied Trouble
Thank you to @jabberwockypie for cheerleading this AU’s beginning, and to @empresslucrezia for inspiring where this AU is going to go and this is the first necessary prequisite to get to.
Fandom: The Borgias (Showtime)
AU: Secrets in Crimson
Word Count: 1645
Characters: Cardinal Ascanio Maria Sforza, Guiliano della Rovere | Pope Julius IIPope Julius II would be having a better day if Ascanio Sforza had had the grace to just stay dead.
“Cardinal Sforza.”
The voice is flat, disbelieving, and Ascanio lets himself smile a moment before he turns away from the windows of the papal apartments to face della Rovere.
“Your Holiness.”
Ascanio makes a proper bow, coming forward to kneel and kiss the ring extended to him automatically. Though it is snatched back as his lips brush it, as della Rovere recalls that Ascanio should be dead. Has, in fact, been dead and buried for weeks now. Possibly months. Time passes differently when one is dead.
Go read this AWESOME story, wherein Pope Julius II has a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad day!
Next day reblog.
tumblr mirrors on ‘photosugar’
So idk if others have noticed this before – but it’s the first time I’m seeing this, hence the post.
There’s a website, https://www.photosugar.com, which apparently mirrors all pictures, gifsets etc. people post on their tumblrs (and also other social media sites like twitter and instagram, if I understand it correctly).
An eample for a tumblr user, with my name:
https://www.photosugar.com/tu/lordhellebore
Now it won‘t turn up anything but a 404 error in my case, because I sent an e-mail to the contact address, which is darius@photosugar.com with the title “My content on your website”:
Hello,
it’s come to my attention that you are mirroring all of the posts containing
pictures/gifs that I post on my tumblr. I am asking you to stop pulling the content from my tumblr and to
delete me from your website.tumblr username is „lordhellebore“
Thank you.
I got a reply consisting of the single word “removed” after just one day, and as you can see, it worked perfectly fine with the informal mail I sent. So if you want them to stop mirroring your tumblr, it seems all you really need to to is this.
I can’t test the site for all of my mutuals, but I’m tagging a few whom I found on there by random trial & error, and I suggest you look yourself up if you see this post and dislike tumblr mirrors (even if this one is only for pictures, not text).
@janiedean, @ladytp, @vaysh11, @lunavagantt, @einemelodieimwind, @robb-greyjoy, @youbuggingme, @ysilme, @rex-luscus, @bai-xue, @viendiletto, @electricalice, @contessa-de-leusse, @memetic-mutism, @bluecichlid, @mrs-storm-andrews, @ladymothwing, @prismatic-bell, @kittykatknits, @tinkili
….basically, whomever I’m trying at random, it seems that you’re on there.
Please reblog so others can know and ask for removal if they want to.
Found several mutuals there. PMing.
Da fuq.
This is the link I got when I emailed to ask to be removed:
Signal boost!
tumblr mirrors on ‘photosugar’
So idk if others have noticed this before – but it’s the first time I’m seeing this, hence the post.
There’s a website, https://www.photosugar.com, which apparently mirrors all pictures, gifsets etc. people post on their tumblrs (and also other social media sites like twitter and instagram, if I understand it correctly).
An eample for a tumblr user, with my name:
https://www.photosugar.com/tu/lordhellebore
Now it won‘t turn up anything but a 404 error in my case, because I sent an e-mail to the contact address, which is darius@photosugar.com with the title “My content on your website”:
Hello,
it’s come to my attention that you are mirroring all of the posts containing
pictures/gifs that I post on my tumblr. I am asking you to stop pulling the content from my tumblr and to
delete me from your website.tumblr username is „lordhellebore“
Thank you.
I got a reply consisting of the single word “removed” after just one day, and as you can see, it worked perfectly fine with the informal mail I sent. So if you want them to stop mirroring your tumblr, it seems all you really need to to is this.
I can’t test the site for all of my mutuals, but I’m tagging a few whom I found on there by random trial & error, and I suggest you look yourself up if you see this post and dislike tumblr mirrors (even if this one is only for pictures, not text).
@janiedean, @ladytp, @vaysh11, @lunavagantt, @einemelodieimwind, @robb-greyjoy, @youbuggingme, @ysilme, @rex-luscus, @bai-xue, @viendiletto, @electricalice, @contessa-de-leusse, @memetic-mutism, @bluecichlid, @mrs-storm-andrews, @ladymothwing, @prismatic-bell, @kittykatknits, @tinkili
….basically, whomever I’m trying at random, it seems that you’re on there.
Please reblog so others can know and ask for removal if they want to.
Found several mutuals there. PMing.
Da fuq.
@deadcatwithaflamethrower @norcumi @dogmatix @lacefedora @poplitealqueen
The Borgias: Secrets in Crimson: Unburied Trouble
Thank you to @jabberwockypie for cheerleading this AU’s beginning, and to @empresslucrezia for inspiring where this AU is going to go and this is the first necessary prequisite to get to.
Fandom: The Borgias (Showtime)
AU: Secrets in Crimson
Word Count: 1645
Characters: Cardinal Ascanio Maria Sforza, Guiliano della Rovere | Pope Julius IIPope Julius II would be having a better day if Ascanio Sforza had had the grace to just stay dead.
“Cardinal Sforza.”
The voice is flat, disbelieving, and Ascanio lets himself smile a moment before he turns away from the windows of the papal apartments to face della Rovere.
“Your Holiness.”
Ascanio makes a proper bow, coming forward to kneel and kiss the ring extended to him automatically. Though it is snatched back as his lips brush it, as della Rovere recalls that Ascanio should be dead. Has, in fact, been dead and buried for weeks now. Possibly months. Time passes differently when one is dead.
Go read this AWESOME story, wherein Pope Julius II has a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad day!
Next day reblog.
Something that may come as surprising to folks whose needs and comfort levels are already catered to by the world around them, is that “coping” is exhausting.
There are a great many people who are perfectly capable of adjusting to certain situations, be it a matter of social interaction, or physical disability, medical conditions, or whatever the case may be. Through trial and error we have discovered tricks and methods that allow us to function in a society that wasn’t created with us in mind, and we’re very good at making it look like we’re getting along just fine.
But it’s tiring. Always, constantly having to be vigilant and on-guard while everyone around us takes everything in stride, and then no one understands why, at the end of the day, we shut down. Because we were able to “get by” throughout the day, suddenly our unwillingness or inability to cope is no longer valid.
It’s like carrying a 20 pound weight all fucking day long. Just because you can doesn’t mean you don’t need or deserve a break. And then when you finally put the weight down, everyone around you scolds you and chastises you, accuses you of being lazy, insists that you’re just “faking because it’s convenient.”
This is why it’s so fucking unbearable living in a home where everyone chooses to disregard your limits and your comfort levels. Family members will say, “I’m not going to cater to your needs, because the ~real world~ won’t cater to you and you need to get used to that.”
Consider: People who struggle and cope through everyday life are already painfully aware that the “real world” doesn’t give a fuck about us. This is why we develop coping strategies that allow us to function. This is why when we finally come home, when we are FINALLY through with the “real world” for the day, we just want some goddamn compassion. We just want the people we live with to place value on our needs, comfort levels, and limitations. We want the people who say they love us to demonstrate that love through doing whatever small thing they can do to ensure that when we’re in the comfort of our own homes, we can actually be comfortable instead of having to continue carrying around that weight that we’ve been forced to hold up all. day. long.
“If you can control yourself at work, you can control yourself at home”
Well, nope. I can control myself at work BECAUSE I can let go at home.
Is that !
having to ‘normal human’ for a few hours at a time is fucking exhausting and not being able to relax when i get home is the reason for half my melt downs.
Garlic Butter Steak & Potatoes Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 ½ lb (650g) flank steak, sliced against the grain
- 1 ½ lb (650g) baby yellow potatoes, quartered
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 3 tablespoons butter, divided
- 5 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 teaspoon fresh thyme, chopped
- 1 teaspoon fresh rosemary, chopped
- 1 teaspoon fresh oregano, chopped
- Salt and fresh cracked pepper
- Crushed red chili pepper flakes, optional
Marinade
- 1/3 cup soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon hot sauce (or Sriracha)
- Fresh cracked pepper
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine the steak strips with soy sauce, olive oil, pepper, and hot sauce. Set aside to marinate while you cook potatoes.
- In a large skillet over medium-high heat, mix 1 tablespoon olive oil and 1 tablespoon butter. When butter is melted, add potatoes. Cook for about 4 minutes, stir and cook an additional 4-5 minutes until potatoes are golden and fork tender. Transfer to a plate and set aside.
- Keep the same skillet over medium heat and add remaining 2 tablespoons butter, garlic, red chili pepper flakes, and fresh herbs. Lay the steak strips in one layer in the skillet, keeping the drained marinade for later. Cook on each side for 1 minute each, until nicely browned – adjust timing depending on how you like your steak.
- Right before the steak is done, you can stir in the reserved marinade if you like, and cook for one minute. Add the potatoes back to the pan and heat through. Adjust seasoning with salt and pepper if necessary.
- Remove from heat and serve immediately, garnished with more crushed chili pepper, fresh herbs, and a sprinkle of parmesan cheese over the potatoes if you like.
Enjoy!
I’ve reblogged this like 44 times, but it looks fye and I’m gonna make it.
Wow this looks incredible
There's a Mirror on the Wall 