It's My Life

[tastefullyoffensive]

[tastefullyoffensive]

[theconcealedweapon]

This is why "I shouldn't have to pay for someone else's loan" is a bullshit reason to be against student loan forgiveness. Making the loans interest-free would greatly reduce debt without passing it onto anyone else.

[charlesoberonn]

Broke: Barbie's many different careers are a way to sell dolls and accessories to little kids.

Woke: Barbie had every single one of those careers and is an immortal timeless being.

Bespoke: Barbie's different careers are different versions of Barbie from across the multiverse who occasionally swap place with each other or combine into one Barbie.

[charlesoberonn]

[princesstadashi]

SO THERE’S SOMETHING Y’ALL SHOULD KNOW ABOUT...

[ginger-le-gay-deactivated202008]

Attack of the clones

[copperbadge]

I have often used Barbie to explain Greek mythology, and people laugh until I explain it, and then they get really serious and thoughtful. 

I say, “The Greeks ascribed aspects to gods. Apollo had many aspects, but all were Apollo. He’s like Barbie that way. She’s an astronaut, a veterinarian, and a rollerskater, but no matter which of those things she is in the moment, she is always still Barbie. She is Barbie in her aspect as.” 

Then people get not only the idea of “aspects” of godhood, but also, well, the changeable yet eternal nature of Barbie. 

[facts-i-just-made-up]

[raven-star7]

The beast doesn’t need to transform to be loved. He doesn’t have to turn into a boring fucking prince to be loved. Or renounce to the essence of who it is. To me love is not transformation, love is acceptance and understanding.

Guillermo del Toro

[aerialsquid]

This man gets me like no other

[uulta-deactivated20181225]

what .

[trapcard]

Daniel is a he/him lesbian we love that

[charlesoberonn]

Venn diagrams don’t really work past 3 circles.

[charlesoberonn]

4-circle Venn diagrams are problematic because they don’t include the intersections of opposite circles without also including one of the other two circles (in this example there’s no AC or BD)

The problem only gets worse with more circles.

[charlesoberonn]

You could solve this problem by using different shapes, like ovals

[blackcurrant-juice]

[up-north-values]

[wizard0rb]

november is the thursday of months

[wizard0rb]

november is like if you took october and december but instead of adding them together you subtracted them from each other

[trans-peridot]

I have no idea what this means but I know it’s true on a gut level

[pandora-s-shit-deactivated20220]

Having ADHD is that your brain either feels like

Or

And it can switch in a matter of seconds.

[devinwolfi]

bold of you to assume im not

[joyfully-it-devours]

THATS IT THATS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE

[oysters-aint-for-me]

birdy.., !’

[meow-moment]

Yep that's what it's like

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned that each woman spends approximately $5,600 on her period over her lifetime (x)

[toastbutteregg]

this reminded me of the reason why i bought reusable menstrual pads in the first place

im so happy with my collection

[cerenae]

where did you get them? theyre so cute I love!

[toastbutteregg]

@cerenae i got them here! i recommend 10/10!

[galadriel929-deactivated2020091]

Last period was the first time I didn’t use any non reusable products!

[memenerdlover]

REUSABLE???? THERE’S REUSABLE ONES?????

[gameofyarns]

I love reusable ones! Using them almost a year now!

[xochi-the-mochi]

WHAT!!!!

BROOOO

WHATTT

[canarycontessa]

hop aboard the reusable menses product train y’all! boss up your coochie!! all joking aside though, i’ve saved money, no more cramping or inner thigh rashes from the dioxins and other weird chemicals and (pandemic related) fewer reasons to take impromptu trips out of the house. win-win all around.

[moonlightmarathon]

i bought their trial pack (one of each pad size + pouch) just to see how these pads are like and just a day after using, i bought a starter pack (2 liner, 3 regular,  2 overnight + pouch)

i included a photo below beside my switch for comparison of how big the xl and overnight pads are (i love using both for for nighttime use). daily, i use my regular pads and when working out/post-period, i use the liners.

honestly these are such amazing investments. i cant see myself using commercial pads ever again. they dont stink nor leak and you just have to make sure youre not wearing lace or any flimsy underwear so they’ll stay in place. i totally recommend this!

[mango-pickle]

OMG WHAT THERE ARE REUSABLE ONES????

[moonlightmarathon]

PSA I JUST SAW THEY NOW HAVE ANIMAL CROSSING PATTERNS IM SCREAMING RIGHT NOW

the amazing part is that it’s 5 LAYERS AND COMES WITH TWO BUTTONS TO SNAP TOGETHER!!

I AM SO IN LOVE!! HERE’S THE LINK IF YOU GUYS ARE INTERESTED!!!!

PS! You bleed on the black bamboo fiber part and not on the villagers 😂

[maybeitsfinallytime]

Love these. Game changing. Don’t knock it til you try it.

[thespecialpsycho]

Sharing for people with vaginas who have periods and similar things.

Requesting others reblog to spread word.

If your blog is specific niche, I ask you Like/heart to bump signal slightly.

[tangledloversandfrozenhearts]

I recently ordered from them and I love that the colourful fabrics are water proof. They are worth buying!!

[brokeassbook]

I bought these because of a post I saw about them and did some research. I absolutely love them! I’m probably gonna get more soon cause I only got the trail pack, and am sick being on my period have having to do laundry right that second to have more pads ready. But absolutely 20/10!

[gay-space-project]

i literally stopped having cramps after i started using them

[theinxjnerd]

I bought some of these a bit ago. Forever reblog.

[kuplakupla]

I’ve been using the reusable pads for about three months, just about to buy more. They’re amazing!

[chicku-who-knows-deactivated202]

No one told me there was REUSABLE ONES???

[harpy-positivity]

Excuse me NO CRAMPS??? And do these cute little patterns not get stained??

[buzzcutbulldyke]

I don’t know about no cramps (I’ve heard that the chemicals in the disposable pads make cramps worse which I wouldn’t doubt but I have no experience) but mine don’t really stain! You are supposed to soak them, which is probably even better, but I just toss mine in the wash as soon as I change them (which encourages me to run a load of laundry lol, I run it with my towels and nothing weird has ever happened). I cannot recommend cloth pads enough I LOVE them.

[adayania]

I used these post partum with all of my kids, and I intend to buy them for my own kids when they start menstruating. I would like to add that they make diapers from the same material that will save you a fortune when you have babies, and it’s so much easier on their skin.

[anxietyproblem]

[swan2swan]

You know what?

I’m no longer holding Star Trek or Star Wars “accountable” for their clunky-looking sixties-and-seventies future technology.

Why?

Because the Enterprise is off on a years-long voyage through space. There’s no Verizon store, no Radio Shack, no Geek Squad out there. If the Klingons fire photon torpedoes and the bridge shakes and Spock’s head bangs against the fancy iPad72 touchscreen and cracks the glass, the ship’s toast. If Han Solo’s fingerprints get all over the starchart and the touch-calibration is off by half a centimeter, the Falcon is going right into a star. But if Mister Worf accidentally twists the command knob too hard and pops it off, he can just screw that thing right back on and it will keep working. Dust gets in there? Take it apart and clean it out. All the plugs are big and universal, all the power cells are functional and have a decent battery life, and nothing is built to expire in the next six months so you have to buy a new one.

That tech isn’t anachronistic or suffering a bad case of Zeerust–it’s practical, effective, and it works. Apple tried launching its own space exploration craft, it had to come back for full repairs within three months, and then it had to be upgraded over the next two.

But this? This is just good, long-lasting, fully-functional, and reliable craftsmanship.

[alexkablob]

The actual real-life space shuttles’ electronics looked pretty much like that for their entire lifespan and this is exactly why.

[marithlizard]

Oh my god, it all makes sense now. The Enterprise is the spaceship equivalent of a Volkswagen. 

[confused--robot]

Do people just not know what industrial/military equipment looks like?

Consumer devices are designed to break on purpose and lately be impossible to repair and no matter how sleek it is that’s a deplorable practice. On the other hand, industrial and military interfaces and hardware are designed for all the above points like resistance to fouling, repairable, designed for the angry 200 lb gorilla using it while wearing a space suit. I imagine a spaceship would look a lot like a ship down on earth:

In fact exactly the issues the above people pointed out about touch screens and fancy sleek touch control have happened. DDG-56 John S McCain suffered a collision with a commercial vessel due to complications with touch based throttle and steering controls; difficult to use, crew training, technical oversight. The Navy has decided touchscreens have proven to be a risk and will be replaced with more traditional controls.

Controls in aircraft look just as chunky because, again, it’s reliable and works. Granted multifunction displays (MFDs) and “glass cockpits” have been around since the 60s/70s in aircraft (first military and commercial much later) but in these cases they’re more display devices with switches and buttons for control input (iirc).

In summary I fucking hate when sci fi makes every surface polished white with enormous touch screens and gentle annunciators.

[swan2swan]

It’s been a number of years since I made this post, and this is one of the best additions (though there have been many good ones).

I also want to note that it has occurred to me that movies deliberately put in the smooth, sleek, consumer-optimized touchscreens and holograms because they’re selling you the products. They want you to see Tony Stark and Captain Kirk using these fancy smooth screens so you’ll go out and buy a new smartphone just like they use in the MCU (filmed on Samsung Cameras, using Apple Movie Studios!). 

It’s a SCAM.

[forcekenobi]

loved being like 12 years old and making an OC and saying “yeah they’re a hardened criminal. they’re deeply involved in crime. they’re in a gang” and then never elaborating on that because i didn’t know how crime worked. this is still my approach

[southernsideofme-deactivated201]

[just-shower-thoughts]

Some people are so awful that many friendships are formed solely based on the mutual hatred of that person.

[just-shower-thoughts]

We only open the fridge to check if we’ve lowered our standards of what we want to eat.