“On a non-policy level, the purpose of Psych Ward Reviews is forpatients and former patients. Institutional settings like psych wards assume total control over the admitted patient. Through a simple blog, we can fight back. We can talk about how these places often hurt, not help. We can lay bare their secrets. We can say that we are people, people who deserve more than being cycled in and out of these institutions. While advocates work for more community-based alternatives to locking people in psych wards, we can help mitigate the harm by pointing out the ones that are better to go to than others.”

Newest piece at @estblshmnt on my blog Psych Ward Reviews, also on Tumblr @psychwardreviews

Use the phrase "My understanding was..." instead of "I assumed..."

If you use the phrase “I assumed…”, you’ll be viewed as having hastily jumped to a conclusion based on insufficient evidence.

If you use the phrase “My understanding was…”, people will merely think you misunderstood something, and will be far kinder to you (and in instances where what you misunderstood was something they said, they will often apologize, or fault themselves for not being more explicit).

This is especially useful in a professional/workplace environment. Telling your supervisor you “assumed” something typically results in a reprimand; saying “My understanding was…” will instead be attributed to a miscommunication, or a lack of clarity in their original instructions.

I starting using this and it has avoided so many arguments 🙌🏾

Big shout-out to Unity Autoworks in Brooklyn Park for doing this.

“These cuts disproportionately affect women of colour. Of the 32 services for women affected by domestic violence that have been closed since 2010, they were all specialist services which helped LGBQ and BAME women.”

“It’s timely because the cast of the film is entirely white and they are running with this slogan, ‘I’d rather be a rebel than a slave’ which implies passivity or acceptance of being a slave. But it also ignores the fact that women of colour were completely involved in the suffragette struggle. This film isn’t representing them.” 

Yoooo

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A recently published FBI report accidentally proves that while the police claim cops face growing threats from rowdy populations–like in Ferguson–the opposite is true. The report presents law enforcement deaths in 2013.

The report found that across the entire country, only 76 LEOs were killed in “line-of-duty” incidents. 27 died as a result of “felonious” acts and 49 officers died in accidents–namely, automobile (ironically, of the 23 killed in car accidents, 14 were not wearing seat belts–a violation for which cops routinely ticket drivers). More officers die from accidents than actual murders on the job. The report alsooutright admits that intentional murders of cops were down from 2004 and 2009.

Further, 49,851 officers were assaulted–a statistic that seemingly proves police are at risk. 29.2%, or 14,556, were actually injured (an admittedly high number). Still, a suspect fact is that 79.8% of the time, “assailants used personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc.).” This means that in a vast majority of cases, there was no physical evidence that assault occurred (outside of potential bruises and cuts,but this information is not public). Punches and kicks can be damaging, but nowhere near firearms and knives, which constituted a very small percentage of “assaults.” The report also does not specify what constitutes an “injury,” making designations of injury potentially arbitrary and subjective.

This means that the common police tactic of misrepresenting scuffles and charging people with assault could be at work (such as when a cop squeezed the breast of an Occupy protester so hard he left a bruise and in the chaos, she accidentally elbowed a cop. She went to jail for “assaulting” an officer). Of course, it’s a possibility that all 49,851 officers were simply “doing their jobs,” but at the very least it is important to be skeptical. …

"Accidentally" or someone on the inside leaked the info and made it look like an accident?

Awesome!

I read that Senegal has also been declared Ebola free. This makes me so happy.

Miley Cyrus got fined for 200k for illegal use of the Mexican flag stay in your fucking lane bitch

There are places in Japan where they will NOT serve any forgeigners.  Won’t even let them in the building.  All these white people who have fantasies of going to Japan and living out their Geisha Otaku fantasies are in for a wake up call.

The President of Zimbabwe is trying to kick out white farmers, he doesn’t want white people owning the land, and he has many supporters.

There was another article where a country in Asia (pretty sure it was Southeast Asia) stopped allowing white models to be in advertisements over there because of the damage it was doing to the women there.

Remember the white guy with the Buddha tattoo who got banned from that one country and they wouldn’t even let him in the country?

More and more people of color are speaking up.  They’re tired of white people who don’t know how to play nice with others thinking they’re doormats who will just welcome white people to everything, and I love it.

Commissioner Adam Silver said he will try to force the controversial owner to sell his franchise and Sterling has also been fined $2.5 million.

Go Forth and Educate Yourselves!

I’d also highly recommend watching the Jane Elliot Brown-eye/Blue-eye experiments, which can be found here:

Bow Down, Bitches!!!!  

HE HAD IT COMING

HE HAD IT COMING

HE ONLY HAD HIMSELF TO BLAME

IF YOU’D HAVE BEEN THERE

IF YOU’D HAD SEEN IT

I BETCHA YOU WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME

The Governor is dead.

the curse of the teenage girl - J.M (via spinals)