Dis my blog

I guess. Why even have one? (Alleged adult, still clueless about So Much)

[disteal]

shout out to everyone who participated in the january-february mass depressive episode

[disteal]

Thank you everyone for another great turnout to the january-february mass depressive episode

[anxiousangerball]

It would be both acceptable and completely normal for me to engage in floor time here at the law firm where I am gainfully employed, right?

[dduane]

Heads up if you're a sewing hobbyist...

Buy those patterns you've been thinking about while you still can.

Parent Company of the Big 4 Sewing Pattern Brands Sold to a Liquidator - Craft Industry Alliance

The legacy sewing pattern brands Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue, commonly referred to as the Big 4, have been sold to a liquidato

[schadenfreudessa]

[victusinveritas]

Death death to the IDF. The audacity of people calling out war crimes.

[ikebanaka]

I think the best part of Murderbot is its staunch belief that it’s average at its job, and it only does better because it doesn’t have a working governor module

It’s always like, I’m just a SecUnit, the only reason I’m better is because humans somehow have worse judgement than me in my very narrow field of expertise, and I have the ability to process multiple things at once, and I don’t die when I get my shit wrecked. None of these are advantages over other bots, so I’m actually just average as far as skills go.

Meanwhile, Murderbot’s track record is something like ‘regularly takes out other SecUnits, regularly hacks fairly complicated systems, takes out multiple hostiles while saving and protecting clients/hostages, beat two Combat Bots in succession, and went toe to toe with a Combat SecBot while taking out two other SecUnits, rounding it off with inhabiting spaceships and crushing the incredibly difficult and malicious killware infecting them.’

That’s not even counting the guts, skill, and determination it takes to hack your own hardware/code which is fully capable of frying your brain in the first place

[lectorel]

Something I love is that a large chunk of Murderbot’s success is just - it literally asks for help?

There’s a line in Exit Strategy, “Bots are instructed to report and repel theft attempts, but no one ever tells them not to answer polite requests from other bots.”

Murderbot makes use of this a lot. It talks to other bots, like ART and Miki. It offers equal trades of assistance, like with the Combat SecUnit in Exit Strategy, SecUnit 3 in Network Effect, and the ComfortUnit in Rogue Protocol.

In Exit Strategy, it reached out to the human supervisors to get Dr. Mensah an opening to get onto the shuttle. Even at the very beginning, in All Systems Red, it warns the team about the external combat over-ride.

Murderbot makes itself out to be a natural loner, but ‘ask for help’ has literally been one of it’s go-to strategies since book 1. And I think that’s beautiful.

[normal-downloadfailed]

#murderbot would be very upset to know that its superpower is friendship (tags via hoarder-of-stories-27)

so true

[mlerpwonders]

Murderbot is similar to Percy Jackson where from the outside perspective they are a terrifying force of nature and inside their head it’s incoherent screaming about half the time.

[all-hail-trash-prince]

Oh Murderbot, I love you completely platonically and if I was there you would not have to make eye contact with me <3

[anxiousangerball]

What the fuck is this?

I mean, clearly it's an article. AND, it's a new trend. One that, I'm told, is very cool.

🙄

[anxiousangerball]

Back on my bullshit

I work in HR (never, ever go into HR if you think you'd like to help people. You will not be helping people. No matter what it looks like.).

I'm not a huge fan of my company as they engage in as many cost-saving measures against the employees as possible (but let's keep making the big bucks for the shareholders. Can't let them down).

Open enrollment season is coming up, and the nonsense that SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) spews now includes an article on how the biggest challenge for employers is to get employees to care about enrolling in benefits.

There are gems such as these:

I'm sorry..."willing to spend less?" What a batshit insane way to pronounce "DON'T HAVE THE FUCKING FUNDS TO PAY THE INSANE COST OF BENEFITS TO THE INSURANCE COMPANIES."

And yeah - why wouldn't people target the benefits they're least likely to use in an effort to lower their benefit costs.

But employers needing "to ensure employees see the value of benefits." As though employees are dim no-nothings who need to have the "value of benefits" spelled out to them, otherwise, they'll miss out on breaking the bank to be covered.

It's the spin they put on these articles that enrage me. The issue is that wages are not enough to allow people to live. It has nothing to do with employees not being interested in their benefits.

I will forever HATE SHRM and the libel it consistently spreads about employees. Fucking bootlickers at SHRM are all about the good of the company.

[girlmostlikely]

This is insane

[the-prophesied-disco-gay]

[anxiousangerball]

Three minutes to my next Zoom meeting. I could log on now, but how many minutes of small talk do I have in me? Do I really have 3 minutes. I don't believe I do.

[nikosheba]

A couple job interview hacks from someone who has to give a job interview every single goddamn day: (disclaimer: this goes for my process and my company’s process, other companies and industries might be different)

1. There are a few things I check and a few questions I ask literally just to figure out if you can play the game and get along with others in a professional setting. Part of the job I interview for is talking to people, and we work in teams. So if you can’t “play the game” a tiny bit, it’s not going to work. Playing the game includes:

- Why do you want to work here? (just prove that you googled the company, tell me like 1 thing about us, I just want to know that you did SOME kind of preparation for this interview)

- Are you wearing professional clothing? I don’t need a suit just don’t show up in a ratty t-shirt and sweatpants.

- Are you able to speak respectfully and without dropping f-bombs all the time? Not because I’m offended but because I don’t want to be reported to HR if you wind up on my team.

- Can you follow simple directions in an interview?

2. Stop telling me protected information. I don’t want to know about what drugs or medications you’re on, I don’t want to know about you being sick, I don’t want to know if you’re planning to have children soon, I don’t want to know anything about your personal life other than “can you do the job?” 

3. When we ask, “What questions do you have for me?” here are my favorites I’ve heard: - What does the day-to-day look like for a member of your team?

- If one of your team members was not performing up to his usual standard, what steps would you take to correct that?

- What can I start doing now to accelerate my learning process in this job?

- What are some reservations you have about me as a candidate? (be ready for this emotionally….it will REALLY help you in the future, and I’ve had people save themselves from a No after this, but can be hard to hear)

- In your opinion, what skills and qualities does the ideal candidate for this job possess?

- What advice would you give to a new hire in this position/someone who wanted to break into this industry, as someone who has worked here for a while?

Those are just my tips off-the-cuff. I work in sales in marketing/SAAS, so these can be very different depending on the industry, but I wish the people I interview could read this before they show up. 

[brehaaorgana]

Yes STOP TELLING PEOPLE PROTECTED INFORMATION IN INTERVIEWS. do not volunteer anything including “I’m currently pregnant.”

[random-question-polls]

Do you think high school prepared you for the adult world?

Yes

No

Voting ended onMay 20, 2024

We Ask, You Discuss™

[aru]

Tumblr Code.

[geekishchic]

If I ever see any of you in public, the code is “I like your shoelaces”

that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president.

always reblog tumblr identification

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

good god this just crossed my dash in the year of our lord 2023

[jeremysknoxes]

I LIKE YOUR SHOELACES??? IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2024??

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Let’s take it to 4 million, folks!

[alt-menu]

almost there!

[sociallyodd260]

TO 4 MILLION!!!!!!!!!

[snarky-wallflower]

THE ORIGINAL SHOELACES POST?? ON MY DASH IN 2024??

[abigail-pent]

@highladyluck

[dduane]

Gods bless the post. :)

(Remembering with pleasure when I got to do this last year with an auditorium full of people at Finncon in Tampere.)

[mysharona1987]

[sky-daddy-hates-me]

What the actual fuck

Palestinian Flags Fly at Protests Worldwide. They Won’t Be at Eurovision.

The organizers of the glitzy singing contest said that attendees would be allowed to wave only the flags of participating nations — includin

Organizers of Eurovision Song Contest ready to remove Palestinian flags or symbols

Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest say they reserve the right to remove any Palestinian flags and pro-Palestinian symbols at the show

[reggiespoon]

Boycott this goddamn song contest. Now. And forever.

[ivalioneisavenue]

BOYCOTT EUROVISION

[justanotherfanartist]

If you could magically be amazing at anything what would you pick except it’s niche things I want to get good at:

Jazz guitar (like Wes Montgomery)

Making video games

Astrophysics

Flirting with strangers

Jazz singing (like Billie Holiday/Chet Baker)

DIY clothes/tailoring

Writing long, deliciously detailed fanfiction

Getting people you’re obsessed with out of your head

Knowing exactly what your sexuality is

Voting ended onMay 13, 2024

[justanotherfanartist]

you people are NOT reblogging this

[sneezest]

from Falasteen Lawn at UW-Milwaukee

[garbage-empress]

Turns out the potassium nitrate I had as fertilizer for algae to feed my slut isn't fucking a nitrate salt at all and I am pissed

[suinicide]

I think a slut needs a more varied diet than just algae?

[garbage-empress]

This is the worst typo in the world

[garbage-empress]

This is the slut in question by the way

[garbage-empress]

It is with a heavy heart that I must announce the passing of the world's greatest slut slug, Gigi.

This is the last picture of her taken on the morning of April 11th, 2024. I believe she passed sometime between the night of the 11th and the evening of the 12th. I didn't clean the drips off the glass for this picture, I would if I knew this would be the last time I would see her beautiful visage I would have cleaned it so good.

She appeared healthy, but I had also been noticing egg spirals on the glass for the past couple weeks.

When I looked up egg laying shapes of all the mollusks in my tank, the only one that fit perfectly was that of Elysia diomedea — the species that Gigi was. Usually Elysia species need a mate to lay eggs, and she was the sole sea slug in the tank. However, Elsyia are all simultaneous hermaphrodites, and I wonder if her species is able to self-fertilize in the absence of a mate.

This unfortunately may have been her undoing, some Elysia species die shortly after laying eggs. I couldn't find if this is true for E. diomedea, very little is known about Gigi's species. I had her for about a year and most Elysia species live 1-2 years at most. No idea how old she was when I got her.

I didn't find her body. When Elysia species die, their bodies quickly disintegrate. You can often only tell they passed by their absence - these beautiful slugs rarely ever remain out of sight due to their partially photosynthetic nature.

She lived slow and died fast, chonked up on her favorite algae. She has climbed up a tendril of bryopsis into the sky, the galaxy on her back becoming one with the stars.

RIP Gigi, I will miss your silly muppet face, gorgeous ruffles and cat-like body language and the comfort you seemed to find splayed out to the light or curled up on a chunk of your favorite meal. You brought me and many others an amazing amount of joy in your short life. If any of your veligers survive into sluglets, I will raise them to the best of my abilities. If anyone else is interested in keeping one as a pet, please do a ton of research. They have very specific needs and eat a ton of live bryopsis species algae, and very little else. They won't eat nori or microalgae.

[suinicide]

Goodbye you fantastic little slut