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White-Collared

I'm just sitting here on a Monday;

Trying to survive the second week of a complete return to the office that has only started approximately 2 hours ago (because the first half hour of staring at my screen hoping my brain kicks in doesn’t quite count, I think);

Regulating my temperature like a reptile - shedding layers and then sunning myself in a window - because building maintenance can’t establish consistent airflow through the maze of canvas-covered half-walls (and my government-assigned 8x8 square is right below a vent);

Drowning out what workplace-sounds I can with a video essay detailing some drama about mod-makers having paywalls for their Sims 4 and ParaLives content (the half-hour of mediocre entertainment is surely worth increasing my cumulative disdain for Society™);

Somehow still overhearing the unsolicited monologue of a coworker I’ve never met being bestowed upon a good-natured colleague I have known for years but generally only talk to through Microsoft Teams (whether it is received as a boon or a burden has yet to be determined);

And being coerced at all times by my pessimistic, gremlin-brain to accept that my lived reality may, for this moment, be the most mundane, privileged version of hell a mundane, privileged person like myself could willingly subject themselves to without fear or recognition.

I think we have a pizza party tomorrow.

humming-fly

you ever have just like, a really bad idea

anyways if you like bad things here’s a postcard

humming-fly

I was trying to figure out why this post starting spiking recently and then I found out you animals had this queued for Mother’s Day

#happy mothers day!

the1handsomeboy

EXCUSE ME Runescape? If the fantasy is pirate captain I better be able to drink and drive this bad boy

neypotzli

forestry worlds hitting different lately

kiwimidnight

TINY WRLD (2020)

cocotine

#things that make my heart feel full

quest-draws

Image description: A four page black and white comic of my tortoiseshell cat, Bunny, complaining that I won’t let her in from the screen porch.

Page 1

Panel 1: A small tortoiseshell cat sits on the other side of a glass door, looking up sadly, saying, “Mama! Mama, help! I’m in the screen porch!”

Panel 2: She scratches at the door. “Mama! Mama I’m trapped! I’m trapped in the screen porch! Mama!” she cries.

Panel 3: She looks through the glass with her sad, innocent expression. “I see you, Mama! Can’t you hear me? Why won’t you let me in? What have I done, Mama!”

Panel 4: The left corner is dominated by a close up of her face, as she reminisces about the cat tree in the screen porch. We see her perched on the very top, looking out over the backyard.

She says, “Was I not grateful enough, Mama? You gave me a throne, here in the screen porch! A place where I could look down upon the world as a god!”

Page 2

Panel 1: While she’s perched atop her cat tree, it begins to rain outside. Bunny looks askance at it from behind the screen.

“But I couldn’t touch it, Mama!” she narrates, now in boxes instead of word balloons, “I could see the rain lavish the earth, but never feel its cool caress!”

Panel 2: A paw rests on the screen. On the other side, two birds chirp, unbothered by the presence of Bunny.

“I could smell the blood of the song birds, but never taste its warmth! I lived as Tantalus in this screen porch, Mama!”

Panel 3: Sitting on a cushioned chair, bunny looks out over the yard, barred from her by the porch screen.

“Tormented by what I could never reach!”

Page 3

Panel 1 : Another reminiscence, this time of Bunny running through the open door to the screen porch earlier that day while I was taking out the garbage.

“And yet I returned, again and again and again! Was that my sin, Mama? Is this my punishment? To be condemned forever to a hell of my own choosing?”

Panel 2: Returning to the present, Bunny looks up from the otherside of the door, her eyes wide.

“Is this what you call justice, Mama?” She says. “Is this what you call love?”

Panel 3: From Bunny’s perspective we see me; I am ignoring her, going about my business. She calls out to me, “Answer me, Mama! Mama!”

Panel 4:I glance back at her, unmoved by her cries. “Mama!” she yells.

Page 4

Panel 1: Pulling out we finally see more of the wall which has the door to the screen porch. Directly beside it is a cat door that goes through the wall, out into the screen porch. Another cat, Bunny’s sister Maggie, is coming through the cat flap with no issue.

I say, “ Bunny, I know you know how to use the cat door.”

Clawing at the window, tears in her eyes, Bunny screams “MAMA!!”

End ID.

oneheadtoanother

stranger-nights-ahead

It's important to me that everyone knows that standard practice is to literally count all the pollen that is collected from a cubic meter of air. Manually. With a microscope.

Someone is actually literally counting the pollen

hellooocaffeine

I love science

lesbianshepard

do you ever see paleolithic art and go “oh fuck that’s good” like they hadn’t developed agriculture or the wheel but god damn could they paint horses real good

lesbianshepard

look at this pretty accurate horse art. this is from chauvet cave and is between 31,000 to 28,000 years old.

worldwithoutmiracles

(reminder that a lot of detail and pigment has also been lost over time, so we are also only getting some of the effect the artist intended)

I fucking love cave art, and while I’m not sure “photorealistic” is even a fair measuring stick for skill (would you accuse Picasso or Chuck Jones of just not knowing how real people look?), it’s clear these images were made by people with an intimate knowledge of animal behavior and anatomy

the fact that any part of these works survives in our hearts and minds across 30,000 years, that any part of us can see something like this and recognize it as not only true and alive, but art… well, there’s a reason I have multiple cave paintings tattooed on me

#things that make my heart feel full #reminders #art #paleolithic

thefriendlypigeon

Castiel sitting at an ethereal pond ✨

Prints available here!

👉COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN👈

[my social media links]

#spn

z-ndjenja

can we all agree that pressing foreheads together is an underrated act of affection??

moonylves

What if I was bloody and beaten on my knees while you (brainwashed) tried to kill me and instead of begging for my life I begged for you to come back to me because “I need you”, and that broke you out of your brainwashing spell thing.

But no homo.

#spn

balcklion

A circulating video of sisters who bought the same clothes for their husbands 😂❤️

g1sunstreaker

this gag NEVER fails to make me laugh. watching them all file in one by one and collectively laugh harder every time the next guy walks in…i could watch videos of this practical joke all day

cumaeansibyl

Their faces as they collectively realize they’re married to the funniest women on the planet

#things that make my heart feel full #fave

freeuseshanehollander

Look, just because you’re obsessed with all that Wild West stuff- No, I’m not. You have a fetish!

For @justcastiel’s follower celebration! Jan 14: cowboy

ms-demeanor

excuse me, i'm borrowing a work laptop and there's a wall to stop me from going to gaming sites. do you or anyone else have any suggestions to bypass the wall?

I would strongly recommend not trying to get around blocking rules on your work laptop because your work is almost certainly logging what happens on the laptop; if they check those logs at the very least you will no longer be allowed to borrow the laptop, and possibly you won't continue to have a work to borrow a laptop from.

Also, depending on how huge a deal anyone wants to make of this, it may be actually illegal to do this on someone else's computer (and even if they lent it to you, that is their computer, and what you are discussing is sometimes described as "unauthorized access" and is a no-shit crime; people also don't think that logging into an ex's email that they had the password to is a crime - it is. Don't do this shit)

You can do whatever you want on your own computer and your own network. If you are on somebody else's computer you have to follow their rules. This is annoying, but unless you are certain that you are good enough to do this in a way that will be completely undetectable to your employer, you shouldn't do this.

If you work someplace that provides you a computer for work, you should ONLY use that computer for work. Assume that your boss can see everything that you do on that work computer and act accordingly.

ms-demeanor

Like, just as a very normal example, one of the things we frequently get requests for at work is a report of how often someone is logging in to their profile and how much time they spend logged in to various work-related programs. This is information that our clients sometimes use to build cases for termination.

ms-demeanor

Do not torrent from your work computer, and yes I would delete everything that you've got on there. Stop doing anything non work-related now, remove anything you've installed or downloaded that is non work-related.

I'm torn about whether you should tell your supervisor or just not say anything until it's brought up. It's going to depend a lot on how on-it your company is. If your supervisor is cool and your company is chill, you might want to approach the company and say "hey, I did something thoughtless and I was treating the company computer like a personal device for a little while before I had a lightbulb moment and realized my mistake then deleted my personal information from the machine" and see what happens. If your company is not chill, remove everything and if anyone ever confronts you about this don't lie and say you didn't do anything - they've got logs - but say "I'm sorry, I was treating the work computer like a personal machine before I realized how inappropriate that was and stopped using it in that way; I removed my personal information on X date and have not used it that way since, my apologies."

Companies don't just track your activities on work machines because they want to know what you're doing, they do it because it can be a big security risk; if you've been torrenting on the work computer and you're not REALLY REALLY REALLY sure what you're doing, you can end up getting the machine compromised and then introducing a compromised machine into your work's network and infecting other machines or you can end up with a keylogger vacuuming up sensitive client data.

If there is ANY RISK WHATSOEVER that you've ended up with any kind of malware/virus/keylogger, you have to bring it up with work IT. Frame it as a thoughtless mistake and tell them you're approaching them proactively because you don't want to risk introducing vulnerabilities to the environment or put company data at risk. Don't tell them about any crimes you were committing (torrenting copyrighted material is a crime) but let them know that there may be malicious software on the device and it should be imaged.

ms-demeanor