just in case
I’ve seen a lot of posts on my dash tonight about users who are threatening suicide, with other Tumblr members posting in effort to try to get ahold of them. I think you all should see this:
IF THERE IS EVER A TUMBLR USER WHO HAS POSTED A GOOD-BYE MESSAGE, SUICIDE NOTE, VIDEO, OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS POST.
1. Scroll to the top of your dashboard.
2. See the circular question mark icon at the top? It’s the third one over from your home symbol. Click on that, and a screen similar to the one in the picture will come up.
3. Where you can type in questions, the box with the magnifying glass at the top, type in the word “suicide.”
4. Click on the first link that shows up. It should say, “Pass the URL of the blog on to us.”
5. Type in the user’s URL and tell Tumblr admin that the user is contemplating suicide and has posted a message indicating that they are going through with it or will be attempting. Hit send! Tumblr administration will perform a number of actions to contact the user and take the necessary steps to prevent the suicide.
TUMBLR: THIS COULD SAVE A USER’S LIFE. PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE SUICIDE THREATS.
Reblog this to keep other users aware. Suicide isn’t a joke, and neither is someone’s life. If you didn’t know this, someone else may not, either. Pass it on.
Imagine an alien comes to visit and you go on a camping trip. Be it some adventure where you have to hike into the mountains to find an ancient relic or just as friends. You’re in America and you hear a blood curdling scream. The alien jumps up from the fire but you have to grab their hand and tell them to sit back down.
“SOMEONE NEEDS HELP! what are you doing?!”
They panic wondering why a human wouldn’t want to help a fellow human.
“It’s not human.”
They would be bewildered but ultimately trust you as this is your native planet and you likely know best.
You explain to them that it was likely a mountain lion. Another apex predator of the planet that can make human screams.
And depending if this was another part of the world some birds can call your name or mimic children/people cryin.
“Your planet is terrifying. How do you know the difference between your own and what wants to kill you?”
“Just do”
It’s part of our evolution. It’s why we fear the dark and monsters under our bed. We slept in trees once and predators roamed below. We can’t see in the dark but predators can. We may be super predators but we were once prey too.
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I work at a daycare with infants.
One of our baby girls is fat, in the 99th percentile for her age. She is super cute and sweet. Lately, she has been sick with various breathing issues, so she has been reluctant to take her bottles. Normally, she’ll take 4 ounces of formula at lunch and 8 ounces in the afternoon. Today, I was lucky to get to her take 5 all day.
There was a substitute covering a lunch break in my classroom today. We emphasized to her that we need to keep trying to get the baby to drink her bottle until she finished it. She said, “Why are you guys so worried about taking her bottle?”
My coworker replied, “That’s where all her nutrients are. She needs the nutrients and the water.”
To which the substitute replied, “But she’s so fat. She doesn’t need it.”
Thin privilege is a small, pretty baby getting better childcare because the caretaker doesn’t think she’s too fat to be allowed to eat.