Death Certificates – What you need, why you need them, and
how to get them
Prepare to spend a long and miserable time on the phone
What the Everloving Fuck is Probate
Some Simple Dos and Don’ts
Shitty Mad Libs – Templates for writing Obituaries and
Memorials
How to plan a non-religious death party
So you suddenly have to become some sort of hacker or some
shit
This is an eighteen page book that you can print out, download, share, and give away; it is meant to be used to collect information about funeral planning and account management after a death OR you can use it BEFORE you die and give people information so they’re not stuck playing Nancy Fucking Drew while trying to keep seventeen cousins who crawled out of the woodwork from gutting each other in front of the fucking casket as they argue about who’s inheriting grandma’s favorite dentures.
It’s not exactly cheerful and it’s full of things that are probably going to feel really fucking raw if you’re processing a fresh death.
I’m sorry! I love you! Death is shitty! I’m trying to laugh about it a little and I hope you can laugh a little too because otherwise we’re all just going to cry together.
Good luck!
(in memory of my weirdo mother and her weirdo siblings who all died too fucking young and left me holding this flaming bag of dogshit)
People with ADHD show a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity–impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development.
The following criteria is used in standard practice by professionals to potentially diagnose ADHD—which is classified as a ‘cognitive disorder’, and subsequently causes an imbalance of your brain’s chemicals [dopamine & norepinephrine] on an everyday basis. It is a very common disorder, but oftentimes overlooked during one’s childhood; otherwise resulting in misdiagnoses. Furthermore, this information provided should strictly be utilized for personal reference, opposed to self-diagnosis…
An especially rare and elegant hearse hailing from Argentina, this funeral car doesn’t just stop the show, it steals it. Asking price $79500.
Though the front fascia tends to hold most design flairs in North American domestic hearses, this Kaiser’s most striking feature is the rear, with the open rear utilizing four sophisticated pillars to hold up a “floating” roof, allowing the rear body lines to flow back from the doors and into the commanding taillights.
Note the rear lamps formed into shape of memorial flames.
Do you have books recommendation about comunism from non-white people? I will also love to know if there’s a place to see the books you read since they look interesting. Have a nice day
i dont have a storygraph or anything, so unfortunately i dont have any way to show you what im reading or anything, sorry!
as for communists of color this is really @journeysendinlovers ’s department, since she is well versed in all that. and what im currently reading (Black Metamorphosis New Natives in a New World) is definitely Not about communism as a focus, but is very astute and cutting in its observations of how capitalism is a function of white supremacy and how it was strengthened by the slave trade, so its a good (if sometimes visually confusing) read.
thank you for the tag 🥰 I do have a lot of reccs so this may be a bit long but that’s okay. A few caveats: these books and writings are not all going to be about communism specifically but will all be about various liberation struggles and ideas that I am reading about currently. This is by no means a complete list it is a general list of texts I am familiar with and that inspire how I approach my politics right now. Please use this purely as a suggestion list, you do not have to read every word of every text but I recommend it and I recommend discussing your reading with others it is the best way to learn.
In the Groundings With my Brothers by Walter Rodney
In Nobody’s Backyard by Maurice Bishop
The Violence of The Green Revolution by Vandana Shiva
Neocolonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism by Kwame Nkrumah
Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
Wretched of The Earth by Frantz Fanon
Gramsci’s Black Marx by Frank B. Wilderson (I hate this man but this essay is a banger)
If you’re Black look into afanarchists work, if you’re not, mind your business
Settlers: The Mythology of The White Proletariatfrom Mayflower to Modern by J. Sakai
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson
The Real Resistance to Slavery in America by Russell Maroon Shoatz
The Imprisoned Black Intellectual Radical Tradition by Russell Maroon Shoatz
Burning Down The American Plantation: Call For a Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement by Kuwasi Balagoon
Black Anarchism: A Reader by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
Women in Prison: How It is With Us by Assata Shakur
The Pathology of Patriarchy: Looking For Evidence at the Scene of the Crime by Sanyika Shakur
No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment and The Making of Jim Crow Modernity by Sarah Haley
I’m not doing the Thing, but if I were to do the Thing, what would be the first bit to tackle?
eg: I’m having trouble washing up. I’ll start by just getting all the dishes into one place and emptying the drying rack.
Often, you might find that the first bit was what you were stuck on, and now you’ve done that, you feel ready to do the whole Thing. But if not, that’s fine, you’ve set things up to be easier later! Similarly:
What can I do to set things up for when I’m ready?
eg: I need to apply for a job vacancy I’ve seen. That feels really overwhelming and I don’t have the energy right now. I will create an email with the correct address in and open the files I’ll need for tomorrow.
Half-done is half more than you had before, and it will make things easier when you come back. Reduce the friction and complexity as much as you can.
Will this task actually be any easier if I do it later?
eg: I need to re-spray my waterproofs. It’s sunny today but it’s going to be raining all week, so it would actually be easier to do it now so I can do it outside and let them air. ‘Kay FINE, guess I will.
or: I want to make progress on my Creative Endeavour. I’m having a lot of trouble focussing at the moment but tomorrow I’ll be better rested and my Creative Group will be meeting. It will genuinely be easier then so I should stop worrying about it for now.
Sometimes, you realise that it would legitimately be easier to do a task later. Other times, you realise it would suck more to put it off, and that can help give you a nudge to do it sooner. It also helps reframe it in your head from “will I do the Thing?” to “when will I do the Thing?”
These are some questions that I use myself and I thought I’d share them to see if they’re handy for anyone else!
No joke, go read The Open Veins of Latin America before even trying to send me a political ask. Mandatory reading.
It’s a cliché that every Latin American leftist has read it and quotes it, but that’s because it’s written in such a clear language with undeniable strenght on its facts. It presents the history of Latin America solidly just in the first few pages, and it only gets more engrossing the more it goes on. While it is now a bit outdated in the sense that it was first published in 1971, the historical, social and political issues presented are -in an unfortunate way- still current. It is a relatively short book, passionate and in a clear, poetic language.
Sometimes it’s good to return to the basics, and this is THE basic book if you want to understand the effects of imperialism in Latin America, and our struggle for freedom and identity.
Instead of losing your time with half baked twitteroid takes, go read it. Here you go, for free, in Spanish, Portuguese and English:
I must not buy. Buying is the purse-killer. Buying is the little-dopamine that brings total bankruptcy. I will face my wishlist. I will permit the limited time sale to pass over me and through me. And when it has expired I will turn the inner eye to see its impulses. When the mania has gone there will be nothing. Only $ will remain.
An incomplete list of things that employers commonly threaten that are 100% illegal in the United States
“We’ll fire you if you tell others how much you’re making” The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 specifically protects employees who discuss their own wages with each other (you can’t reveal someone else’s wages if you were given that information in the course of work, but you can always discuss your own or any that were revealed to you outside of work duties)
“If we can’t fire you for [discussing wages/seeking reasonable accommodation/filing a discrimination complaint/etc], we’ll just fire you for something else the next day.” This is called pretextual termination, and it offers your employer almost no protection; if you are terminated shortly after taking a protected action such as wage discussion, complaints to regulatory agencies, or seeking a reasonable accommodation, you can force the burden onto your employer to prove that the termination wasn’t retaliatory.
“Disparaging the company on social media is grounds for termination” Your right to discuss workplace conditions, compensation, and collective action carries over to online spaces, even public ones. If your employer says you aren’t allowed to disparage the company online or discuss it at all, their social media policy is illegal. However, they can forbid releasing information that they’re obligated to keep confidential such as personnel records, business plans, and customer information, so exercise care.
“If you unionize, we’ll just shut this branch down and lay everyone off” Threatening to take action against a group that unionizes is illegal, full stop. If a company were to actually shut down a branch for unionizing, they would be fined very heavily by the NLRB and be opening themselves up to a class-action lawsuit by the former employees.
“We can have any rule we want, it’s only illegal if we actually enforce it” Any workplace policy or rule that has a “chilling effect” on employees’ willingness to exercise their rights is illegal, even if the employer never follows through on any of their threats.
“If you [protected action], we’ll make sure you never work in this industry/city/etc again.” Blacklisting of any kind is illegal in half the states in the US, and deliberately sabotaging someone’s job search in retaliation for a protected action is illegal everywhere in the US.
“Step out of line and you can kiss your retirement fund/last paycheck goodbye.” Your employer can never refuse to give you your paycheck, even if you’ve been fired. Nor can they keep money that you invested in a retirement savings account, and they can only claw back the money they invested in the retirement account under very specific circumstances.
“We’ll deny that you ever worked here” not actually possible unless they haven’t been paying their share of employment taxes or forwarding your withheld tax to the government (in which case they’re guilty of far more serious crimes, and you might stand to gain something by turning them in to the IRS.) The records of your employment exist in state and federal tax data, and short of a heist that would put Oceans 11 to shame, there’s nothing they can do about that.
