I’ve Been Waiting A Whole Damn Year To Post These…. :D

There was the Italian plague of 1629 to 1631, which isn’t really 1620, but it’s rather close.  This is also called the Great Plague of Milan, and it killed over a hundred thousand people.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1629%E2%80%931631_Italian_plague https://www.historychannel.com.au/articles/16000-venetians-die-of-plague-this-month/

There was the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 to 1722.  It was the last significant European outbreak of the bubonic plague.  Over a hundred thousand people died here as well.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_Marseille

From 1817 to 1824, there was the first Asiatic cholera pandemic.  Hundreds of thousands of people died.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1817%E2%80%931824_cholera_pandemic

I can’t find any consensus on what these people are talking about for the 1920s outbreak.  It could be the Spanish Influenza, which went from 1918 to 1920 and killed between 20 million and 50 million people.  https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/1918-flu-pandemic  There also was the 1924 Los Angeles pneumonic plague outbreak which killed 30 people.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924_Los_Angeles_pneumonic_plague_outbreak  

https://philnews.ph/2020/01/23/1720-plague-1820-cholera-outbreak-1920-bubonic-plague-whats-next/ something that talks about this as a whole.  

And yes, I know that Wikipedia isn’t a great source, but I don’t want to go into much more depth with this.

Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought I’d post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.

Reblog to save a life?

That’s no way to refer to Canadians 

There’s people out there who’s job is to stab trees and boil their blood into breakfast gravy.

I found this really important tiktok about what to do if a Jehovah's Witness or Morman missionary comes to your door:

As a note!  Therapists cannot tell your parents what goes on in your sessions, but they are legally required to tell them if you are in danger of hurting yourself or others (if you’re a minor)

"Should parents read their daughter's texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?"

Earlier today, I served as the “young woman’s voice” in a panel of local experts at a Girl Scouts speaking event. One question for the panel was something to the effect of, “Should parents read their daughter’s texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?”

I was surprised when the first panelist answered the question as if it were about cyberbullying. The adult audience nodded sagely as she spoke about the importance of protecting children online.

I reached for the microphone next. I said, “As far as reading your child’s texts or logging into their social media profiles, I would say 99.9% of the time, do not do that.”

Looks of total shock answered me. I actually saw heads jerk back in surprise. Even some of my fellow panelists blinked.

Everyone stared as I explained that going behind a child’s back in such a way severs the bond of trust with the parent. When I said, “This is the most effective way to ensure that your child never tells you anything,” it was like I’d delivered a revelation.

It’s easy to talk about the disconnect between the old and the young, but I don’t think I’d ever been so slapped in the face by the reality of it. It was clear that for most of the parents I spoke to, the idea of such actions as a violation had never occurred to them at all.

It alarms me how quickly adults forget that children are people.

halloween

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pride month 2: electric spookaloo

There also is a Jewish holiday where you do shake a lemon at God (Sukkot with the lulav and etrog)

im singehandedly repairing jewish-goyische relations through my outreach with my facebook friends