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[astriiformes]

Accidentally typoed the elevation on one of the bryophyte tags I was digitizing for my herbarium job and the database itself shamed me for it

[ignescent]

What I love is that someone coded that error message into the system!

[twocubes]

she knocked that smug look off my face but luckily i was wearing a second, smaller smug look underneath

[nardacci-does-art]

[melissa-s23]

This post is so incredibly dumb and everytime I come across it I just can’t help but laugh. This site is just magical. Where else will you get this nonsense?

[huffy-the-bicycle-slayer]

I haven't seen dancing pumpkin guy ONCE this year, are you guys okay?

[huffy-the-bicycle-slayer]

FINE! I'll do it myself

[evolvingessence]

[heartonthefloor]

Like….when everyone has mental illness maybe the problem is with the systems 🤔

[anyroads]

Fun fact: “every individual could benefit from therapy” and “we need collective social and systemic change to improve people’s lives” are both statements that can coexist.

[anyroads]

Reblogging for the tags

[star-anise]

Another therapist commenting: as my readers know, I’m constantly enraged by takes like “Your mental illness is entirely societal so stop taking your meds”, but this? This is a good roundup of posts.

It’s like how everybody needs to go to the doctor, but also, we need to stop industries from poisoning the drinking water.

It’s like how every worker needs to figure out their own work/life balance, but also, every worker needs better pay, more sick leave, and shorter work hours.

People can need individual help to be able to adapt and thrive in the situations they’re in–but ALSO, we need to enact change on a societal level to create a society that values human wellbeing over profit or political power.

[livedinthecastle]

the concept of sending william shatner to space just because he was in space on tv is so hilarious. let’s send the dunkirk guy to war next

[guooey]

[commradequestions]

That is the cutest goddamn thing I’ve ever seen

[red-berin]

[hofessorx]

Stance

[kellykline]

i think "guy who thinks another guy is his sworn enemy but the other guy is just normal about it" is one of the better and funnier tropes ever

[aleh-atoria]

[imalreadydashingthroughtheno]

[missjukebox8bit]

Most corporate social media accounts use memes to try and appear hip with the kids so they’ll buy their product but the Sparknotes twitter account is clearly just run by a literature geek who was told they could make memes about old books and is having the time of their life doing just that

[faggotcitosis]

brooklyn 99 is paw patrol for adults

[gowns]

post from a friend who works on film/tv sets about the IATSE strike, feel free to repost

[ledeadface]

[Screenshot of a Facebook post.

"This is a #Repost and very well said:

Friends and family across the country- there is a very real possibility that Hollywood unions, the IATSE, will go on strike. This would halt almost all film and television production across the entire United States. This is a historic move, and frankly a necessary one.

Many of you are probably annoyed that you've cut the cable cord, only to now be paying basically the same amount for a multitude of streaming services.

We however are more than annoyed that these streaming services, which nearly everyone has, and which are owned by some of the richest corporations on the planet, are pretending that it's still an unknown business model that they don't know if they can make money from.

They want to pay us less to work on streaming shows than for shows that air on TV. They want to work us longer hours, and shorter weekends. They want to contribute less to our pension and health plans for streaming movies than they do for films that have a traditional theatrical release. They don't even want to let us break for lunch during a 12+ hour workday...

On top of all that, AppleTV+ is asking for a discount on our rates because they have less subscribers than the others, even though Ted Lasso just won all the Emmys last night.

This situation has reached a breaking point. The studios have decided to no longer negotiate, and therefore, our leadership has decided to call for a strike authorization vote. It's possible that this vote could lead to the producers offering us a fair contract to avoid a strike. Or it's possible that we will have to strike for what we need.

I hope that you'll stand with us in this fight.

In Solidarity...

#IASolidarity"]

[bisexualshakespeare]

https://iatse.net/amptp-film-and-television-negotiations-stalled-union-to-hold-nationwide-strike-authorization-vote

IATSE: Everything You Need to Know About the Union Planning a Historic Hollywood Walkout

The group that unites everyone from costumers to writers assistants may strike in the wake of stalled talks with the Alliance of Motion Pict

[mysharona1987]

[etraytin]

Obviously the health officials did not talk to anyone even loosely affiliated with an actual school. For reasons big or small, terrible or sympathetic, parents send children to school sick all the time.

[tesria]

Schools have spent decades encouraging nonsensical levels of attendance, rewarding kids who don’t take a single day off all term/semester/year, and even punishing kids who take “too much” time off sick. Kids who actually get ill enough to stay home miss out on fun things and “prizes” and awards, because going to school with the flu (or almost anything else) is considered right, good, and necessary.

Then a pandemic comes along that solidly half the population insists is “just the flu” and you think people are going to forget that you indoctrinated them to believe that if they were capable of being conscious (and sometimes not even then) they should be in school? (And later, in work - this is at least part of the point of this stuff, training you to work while sick).

To say nothing of the simple fact that parents are frequently without childcare options and are forced to be in work even if they should be isolating. That’s also a huge problem.

[toothyblowjob]

my school district used to regularly remind us that they would take us and our parents to court if we had too many “unexcused” absences. my middle brother actually had it happen to him when his mental illness caused him to miss too many days. the way schools fixate on attendance is absolutely going to get people killed.

[haberdashing]

Worth noting is that schools apply such harsh penalties for absences because their funding is often explicitly tied to regular student attendance. If students don’t attend class often enough, schools don’t get their funding, so schools go to drastic measures to force students to attend regularly come hell or high water. As with so many things, the problem is inherent to the system, not just the individual organizations within it.

[anarchistmemedistro]

they literally get paid per student in school per day

[hubblegleeflower]

Also, parents who keep kids home sick must themselves take a day off of work, for which they’re unlikely to be paid, and may lose their job.

[altruistech-deactivated20240608]

Eventually some redneck is going to be the reason why an emergency drone wasn't able to provide emergency assistance.

And it's quite possible that they could cost a life.

The internet likes to joke, but there are serious implications to hating on tech constantly and never talking about the good it can do.

These ignorant people are only exposed to drones violating privacy, they don't even consider that there's good being done.. again, because you're too busy making Terminator jokes.

[systlin]

You didn’t have to absolutely deepthroat the boot like that, man.

[miamicommune]

the police: *spy on people using loopholes in surveillance law*

@altruistech: actually theoretically it could have medical implications in the future :/

[pileofknives]

Lady in the back has that shit cocked and ready to fire

[bonerboyy420]

the sequel

[l0s3r-g0r3-d3s7r0y4]

Unless the drone is flying high enough to be in federal airspace, which is 400 feet, that counts as trespassing. And in ohio you are allowed to use basic force to keep someone off your property (ex beer bottles.) These people have the right to throw their beer bottles at the police drones.

[lastvalyrian]

is an emergency drone gonna give me cpr what does that even mean

[starfleetacademy]

Desire paths are just the best human invention because cities will spend millions on sidewalks and yet. Our little foraging brains will think ‘too far cut thru grass for food’ and others will be like ‘other human have good idea. I follow’ until there’s a beaten path when there’s perfectly acceptable sidewalks to either side

[starfleetacademy]

For example

[gamebird]

I was told that after laying out new buildings at Oklahoma State University a few decades ago, they held off on both sod and walkways for several months. People complained mightily about the dirt and occasional mud, but then the construction crews came back in and put paths along all the worn areas and sod where no one had walked. After that, no more complaints and the paths exactly matched where people wanted to walk.

[silly-jellyghoty]

That's the only reasonable way how to build paths. No matter how great right angles look like, people won't follow the grid. We are not a packman.

[smbc-comics]

[mysharona1987]

[pitbolshevik]

do they think we're only allowed to eat kraft singles or

[pitbolshevik]

i go to the american grocery store and step into the cheese isle pondering which kraft single i will buy

[jheselbraum]

Everyone wants to act like Americans don’t have cheese but no one wants to talk about the cheese caves, the caves where we put all our cheese because we make too much and our cringe government keeps bailing out our fail dairy farmers to keep the price of milk stable because The Great Depression so now we have so much cheese in this country we could literally stop producing cheese right now and still have enough cheese to give everyone in America a pound of it every day for four years. And I’m not even talking about kraft singles pictured above, I’m talking about an actual not cursed product-- real cheese. Cheddar, brie, gouda, munster, swiss, you name it we have a billion pounds of it, literally. We have so much cheese that we’re literally running out of places to put it and in an effort to get rid of it we reprocess a lot of it into kraft singles (hence it’s a cheese product and not actual cheese-- cheese is but an ingredient in kraft singles, much like how bread is itself an ingredient in German graubrot, although graubrot is a food item that is actually meant to exist on this earth and isn’t the end product a cautionary tale on how not to stabilize a vital industry when your economy is collapsing) and for a very long time we gave it away as part of certain food assistance programs. And that’s not even counting the fancy imported shit from Europe, because yes even though we still have way too much cheese we also still import it from Europe in addition to the too much cheese we already have.

[jheselbraum]

#tell us where the cheese caves are#I want good sharp cheddar#get some Munster and Swiss#get some other cheeses to try why not via @malconvoker

The cheese caves are in Kansas City, Missouri I believe, though I’m not sure how guarded they may or may not be.

[pierroticism]

thought this was something you guys were making up to gaslight the europeans only to find out the massive cheese caves are in fact, real.

what the fuck

[drtanner]

Like I get that we can't just feed the poor and the homeless cheese and nothing else but the fact that the US has an enormous stockpile of food that is costing it money and it STILL won't give any of it away really is something, isn't it.

[zenosanalytic]

Oh to be the person who got to write “400,000 square feet of Velveeta, buried deep beneath the earth” u_u u_u u_u

What high, in life, could ever top that?

[chubbychummy]

Okay bringing this back to the original topic tho, idk how many times I have had to explain to Europeans that kraft singles are not "cheddar" and are in fact not even cheese (they are marketed as "imitation cheese product"). Like... we eat... real cheese. There is real cheese. Also, try some actual fucking sharp cheddar - it's actually good and stop being judgmental pricks. But also, no, we are not alright

[nvpengyou]

when cats hold each other >>>>>>>

[nvpengyou]

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