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I’m Rina or Ri - she/her or they/them pronouns. I’m privileged on many axes, mainly that I’m white, and I do my best to check myself regarding experiences that are not my own.

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grauline:

finding it necessary to remind everyone that it’s seasonal. i promise you it’s seasonal. everyone i know is out of their minds right now in some way or another. it’s seasonal.

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lambily-deactivated20200702:

As someone who ran track and cross country for 4 years in high school, this always fucking mystified me the most out of all the insane shit PE had us do.

Track and field club taught all new runners how to properly warm up, stretch, pace, etc. Its a process, and doing it properly takes 15-20 minutes to make sure your body is ready so you dont hurt yourself.

PE didnt do jack shit, they just said “go run a mile” so 70% of the fucking kids sprinted flat out the first lap and basically walked the other 3. Multiple people did it in boots or tennis shoes. I’m amazed more of them didnt pull a muscle or worse in the process.

I dont know what the purpose of PE was, but it sure as shit wasnt proper exercise. And I think a lot of people suffered for that. If they spent the time teaching us about the importance of physical health, proper nutrition, how to safely stretch/exercise, etc, we would all be better off now.

Let’s be real, PE exists to shame and torture the fat kids, and for pretty much no other reason.

*Insert that thing with all the people who dread gym*

this one?

the purpose of PE, as it currently exists in the American school system, is to prepare kids to join the military. that’s not some sort of moral-panic hyperbole. that’s…pretty explicitly the purpose.

most of the prominently nightmarish features of PE, such as running the mile or doing sit-ups, originate with the Presidential Fitness Test. This test, which president Eisenhower implemented in schools in 1956, was created after a different fitness test (the Kraus-Weber test) revealed that Americans were less fit than Europeans – specifically the Swiss.

The difference between the Kraus-Weber test and the Presidential Fitness test is that the Presidential Fitness test was specifically designed to test military fitness. While the Kraus-Weber test measured total fitness by testing things like core strength and flexibility, the Presidential Fitness test doesn’t really make much sense in the context of ordinary fitness – only in the context of military fitness. Do you remember being tested on how far you could throw a softball? That test mimicked throwing grenades. And it’s pretty easy to see why Eisenhower went this direction. In 1956, the Cold War was in full swing and WWII was barely in the rear-view mirror. There was a real possibility that we would be at war with parts of super-fit Europe in the near future. Eisenhower wanted the nation’s children ready to fight in that war.

The main issue with the Presidential Fitness test is that, as pointed out above, it really doesn’t teach kids how to stay fit or incorporate physical activity in their day-to-day lives. A soldier at war might need to run a mile with no warm-up, or perform a pull-up, but for the average middle-schooler? The tests were just kind of…pointless exercises in misery. You’re only really good at the Presidential Fitness Test if you’ve been practicing the specific exercises tested. And what 12 year old child is doing pull-ups for fun and pleasure? So instead of inspiring America’s children to train themselves into a super-fit army, it just humiliated kids who didn’t perform well.

There’s been a recent push for PE classes to focus more on life-long fitness (things like actually teaching kids to warm up, exposing them to different types of physical activity, etc). Unfortunately, the Presidential Fitness test has already done its damage. It continued to be used in schools until 2013. That’s 60 years of teaching kids to associate physical activity with shame and dread. The idea of military PE classes is pretty much baked into our cultural memory, giving us all a background dread of physical activity. and guess what, eisinhower?? that’s just going to make people less likely to be physically active!! Maybe if we’re trying to emulate the fitness of the SWISS, we shouldn’t have gone with MILITARY TRAINING FOR CHILDREN!!

anyways. take some comfort in the fact that nobody will ever judge you for your mile time again. and if they try, ask to see them run a mile. directly away from you.

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…You know, this explains why there was a marching band except for PE in all 3 districts I was in growing up better than anything else.

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nando161mando:

If you want to know why people have lost faith in capitalism, this might help

What the fuck

Jesus H. Christ!

Show this to every person you know over age 50. 99.9% of the people giving young folks flack about “not wanting to work” (even though over a third of us are already working 2 or more jobs) or “being selfish” (even though we’re the most-giving generations in history, especially when you look at the amount we give vs our income) as reasons for living with parents, other family, or roommates? Most of the people spewing that crap bought a house in the 80s or sooner. They could work in a gd mail room and afford rent, or work for a summer to pay for college that year. I know, I can hear you laughing.

Some good news: we can force that blue line up by organizing for workers’ rights, and we can force that red line down by contacting our local officials and telling them we want rent increase caps during and in between tenancies!

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mayakern:

prepping the “buy my skirts please” spell. like to charge reblog to cast.

y’all shit has been wild recently. i can get literally 90k views on a tiktok and make like 5 sales and then have the rest of my videos for the next 2 months barely break 1k views

and like twitter is dying and threads is mega sweaty and bluesky… exists. facebook has actually gotten to be OK for me but instagram is dead 99% of the time and then like 3 times a year i make a post my followers can actually see

so i cannot overstate how much y’all’s engagement on this is helpful and meaningful to me. not just because store sales = good but also because it has just been insanely demoralizing to feel like i’m constantly having to Make Content So The Algorithm Remembers I Exist and see so little in return.

social media is just one aspect of my job but this year it has been taking up a disproportionate amount of my time to the point where i get questions about if i even draw anymore. and it sucks but like. my livelihood and everyone else’s livelihoods here rely on me Posting so. what can ya do.

The kid got a couple of these skirts and they’re pretty good, they seem like, actually well-made, they have fucking pockets. Also they’re cool patterns. Even if I’m convinced one of them is just “Arizona Iced Tea Can”.

I was actually really confused by this post because having seen the product I assumed it was just, like, impossible to keep them in stock at all.

These are such pretty skirts, I love them, and OP if you ever decide to make button-downs or other workday-type shirts I would be all over that. :)

thank you! i actually do have button downs and they are also on sale!

Button-Down Shirts

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marta-bee:

The Abortion Absolutist

Warren Hern has been performing late abortions for half a century. After Roe, he is as busy with patients as ever.

The Atlantic

This was an interesting read. Surprisingly nonpreachy given the subject; and well worth the time.

This is oaywalled but it made me weep with relief to see an honest recounting for once, so I’ve saved some good bits:

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goats-ablaze:

woke up today and realized that tumblr entirely killed fuck ya life bing bong so here ya go again

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imhereonthekitchenfloor:

There are 3 main undistilled alcohols and 6 main liquors. Which alcohol is your LEAST FAVORITE* that you have tried?

Beer

Wine

Cider

Gin

Vodka

Whiskey

Tequila

Rum

Brandy

Don’t drink✌️

*See this poll to choose your favorite alcohol

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emil:

very concerning. apparently QLD drivers have had to get medical clearance from a doctor to drive if they’re autistic since 2012.

QLD is unsurprisingly very strict about this, but other states are adopting these measures. Link below has info on each state.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-20/autism-driving-licences-new-standards/103108100

Australia continues to make life hell for the disabled people living there. It’s unbearable the schemes they come up with to extort us. (As in collectively us disabled folks; i dont live there anymore)

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