Skimbledankstheradicalcat - Messy

I cannot overstate the importance of local school board elections.

We finally have a progressive supermajority in our district. Here are some things that are going on.

Lunch and breakfast are free for all students, regardless of income. They ask students at wealthier schools that don't federally qualify as an entire school for free lunch to apply for free lunch because it increases federal reimbursement, but they are simply not charging students for lunch or breakfast.

They fired the big corp that was handling lunches (sodexa?) and brought it in house and the selections include vegetarian, kosher/halal, and often local and organic foods. The quality is good. They pay attention to nutrition. My picky kid can usually find something to eat.

The schools are nut free. As the parent of a peanut-allergic kid, I'm grateful.

We're not banning books.

There's no shopping list for back to school because, get this, the district is providing supplies! They ask that kids bring a backpack. My kid's cheeseburger backpack has held up mightily and is still in great shape, so we're good.

Trans kids are protected at the state level, but also at the local level.

They're doing an overhaul of special education with an eye to eliminating ABA. This is a sea change.

Kids get a city bus pass, free.

I have so many feelings. One of my friends is on the school board, and she's been part of this huge shift in priorities. I feel like good things are possible again. This is what free public education should mean.

fun fact: in the 70s, Sesame Street parodied Goncharov as "Gotcha-Clock", in a segment designed to teach telling time

calling every instance of showing certain emotions "emotional labor" needs to stop. I just saw a post that was like "reminder that you do not ever need to be a good or kind person" like. Yes you DO???

congratulations to christopher eccleston

found a dude who does VR cruisin and boozin and im IN LOVE

hey if you have a pet or pets you need to reblog this rn and tell me in the tags what their names are. bonus points for including what kind of animal.

So much of the worst dating advice comes from a place of assuming your partner is manipulative and deceptive and then trying to counteract that psychological warfare in kind. Anyone who is in a genuinely happy long-term relationship can tell you that dating should not play out like an episode of Death Note. At it's best, it's just two people caring passionately about each other in a deeply human and honest way. The really insidious part of this advice is that if you ever meet someone who does genuinely care about you and doesn't want to play games, you'll probably drive them away by constantly assuming the worst of them. In your efforts to defend yourself from dishonest and scheming people, you become the most dishonest and scheming person in the relationship.

this was posted in a fat liberationist twitter group i'm a part of and it is unironically a cornerstone of my philosophy and politics

its labor day post mpreg karl marx