[bowsshowsandchateaus]

Okay y’all, help me out. Am I super out of touch with the service industry? Should I stop eating out? I know servers get paid way too little and that needs to change, but if I’m out with three friends and have a $15 meal, I just don’t think I should have to tip $10. That seems like a lot. Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

[catcrumb]

[iraprince]

[memewhore]

[bananahomo]

I reblogged this last month, tagged it, and said “might as well see if it works.” I used this video as a reference to find all the forms that i needed (which is A LOT, especially if you’re a dependent) and sent them through the mail, not really allowing myself to hope.

dude.

$2,714 of medical debt from my top surgery - gone. im shaking this was such a weight on me for 2 years and it fucking worked. what the fuck.

[all-pacas]

so, i live on  the fourth floor of an apartment building that faces a fairly busy street; it’s on a hill so car noises are pretty regular over the course of the day. because i’m high above the street, you obviously can’t see the cars unless you look out the window, right? but sometimes the sun reflects off the car roofs or whatever, and so there’ll be a light on my ceiling as a car passes by.

so my cat? whenever he hears a loud engine, day or night, he looks at my ceiling. even if there is no refraction going on. to him, those are the sounds of light on the ceiling. sometimes the light appears and there is a loud noise. it’s 8pm and a truck just passed and he watched the ceiling as the car moved past my windows – no reflection this time of night, but trucks are ceiling creatures and i just think that’s such a like – it’s a good correlation, buddy!! you figured it out!! you’re wrong but you’re so smart!!

[all-pacas]

this is NOT WHAT I WAS EXPECTING FROM THIS POST but anyway here’s my cat stalking trucks (on the ceiling)

[all-pacas]

25 hours later and rip my phone battery and i’m thinking i should’ve named my cat plato….or y’know……….at all

[all-pacas]

response to some common tags on this post:

yes he is a handsome and fluffy boy

yes he sits super weird all the time he’s a proper young gentleman

yes that chair has been through it; no one else touches it anymore it’s been surrendered to his control

no i did not ever name him he’s a shadowy figure of mystery (we call him fluffbutt)

no i had not really heard of plato’s cave before but boy do i know it now

[tiktoksithinkarefunny]

So a guy requested someone start beef with him because he was feeling left out, so I made this.

[sandersstudies]

This is legitimately one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen

[theconcealedweapon]

[tchaikovskaya]

i’m

[tiktokmuseum]

he's doing his job!

[surefire-tanis]

[el-garito-deactivated20210126]

awww 🥰👍

[jervae]

Oop 🤭

[pi4nobl4ck]

[anderwelt]

WATCH IT TILL TO END

[robinade]

Man: “I’ve now created the world’s largest functioning whoopie cushion!” *flops on it, creating a long farting sound*

*camera pans to nearby cat, looking deeply unamused*

[biteswhenprovoked]

The long-suffering, “this motherfucker…” look on that cat really brings that video together.

[zonerbonerz]

spotted on the bulletin board

[kaleidoscopecatiii]

Do you think my wife will be mad at me if I tell everyone this is how we met?

[kingpin-of-steel-act3]

[silverhawk]

dare i say that stuffed animals are one of the single greatest inventions of all time and im thankful every day for the fact that someone thought to make animals but in huggable plush form…..saved me from a lot of bad nights and nightmares as a kid, i love you stuffed animals

[kreature-ofthenight]

 You may offer your thanks to Magarete Steiff

She lived in Germany and could be considered as the first person to sew stuffed animals merly for children to play with and to counter the common “hard” toys out of wood or metal wich were popular back then.

There is even so much more to the story, because she was as you can see paraliezed from polio, she couldnt walk or use her right arm, she had to fight all her life just to be accpeted as a human being, she wasnt even allowed to sit in the front row of church in her home village and had a pretty abusive mother. One time she and her brother almost drowned but the townpeople only attempted to save her brother because he was healty. Her father saved her from drowning in last minute.

 Only her father and brother stood behind her, still she learned to accept her faith and make the best out of it. After a failed operation she said she had gone around living this way anyways. She started to sew, more importantly she started to sew with a sewing machine wich was realy new at this time. People would not buy from her at first but then she made a realy beautyfull dress for her best friend and suddenly everyone was crazy for her work.

Then she started to sew little elephants as pincushions, but when she attempted to sell them around christmas she quickly realized that for one children were crazy for them and wanted them as toys and also. this was what she wanted to do, bringing happiness to kids.

She expanded futher and gave work to over 20 women as sewers in her factory, her brother helped her to do so, and she started producing stuffed animals of all kinds (almost) their trademark was a button sewed into every anmals ear. It still is to this day.

Whit the economy crisis her factory, and she almost lost it, she already couldnt pay her workers, he factory was about to be forceclosed and the last hope was a toy fair they would attend,

and then she had an idea, she sewed a bear, the very first stuffed toy bear there was, with moveable head and limbs and realy soft fur and glass eyes, it was beautyfull, but at the toyfair most people thoght it was to expensive

most people because one american buyer fell in love with the bears, he bought them all and he ordered 3000 more, it saved the factory

you may ask why would anyone need 3000 stuffed toy bears easy, to support and advertise the candidacy of  Theodore Roosevelt as the U.S. president, trough that the toy bear invented by Magarete Steiff became well known as the

Teddy Bear

[friendlyfrankenstein]

<3 

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Disability history matters!

The fact that she faced so much ableism and discrimination in her life was indeed sad (and infuriating!) – and that may be the reaction of many abled people when they hear her story (the poor disabled little girl).

But the fact that she survived, and innovated, and brought modern machines to her hometown, and advocated for herself, and brought joy to so many people, in spite of that discrimination (and I do mean “spite”) is not sad at all.

It’s downright victorious!

[allthestuffandeverything]

#disabilityhistory

[memewhore]

[spiderliliez]

Taraji P. Henson (as Katherine G. Johnson) Kevin Costner (as Al Harrison) Octavia Spencer (as Dorothy Vaughan) Janelle Monáe (as Mary Jackson) Excerpts from one of the best biographical films, HIDDEN FIGURES (2016)

[brevityandclarity]

I wonder how many people don’t realize this white male hero moment was made up for the film. 

[thesmilingfish]

(x)

[kikkerje]

Reviving for the actual facts

[parentheticalaside]

I always found it interesting how the movie made this white man character actively anti-racist when he was emphatically not in real life and made Kirsten Dunst’s character the ultimate racist Karen when her clearest counterpart in the book was anti-racist, to the point of being hassled by white employees over being too friendly with the Black computers.