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i really like bagel job the 1 problem is that my new mixer who is polite and functional and big and high tech and new is just not as sexy as my beloved old ass 1976 hobart i had at the pastry place. she didnt have a safety cage at all. she was a beautiful and simple shape. she wanted to kill you so bad.

grubarchived

i am for workers rights. i am for workers safety. i personally like to have my limbs attatched and appreciate that my risk of losing a hand arm or entire body at my workplace is significantly reduced. but...............

grubarchived

there is something so beautiful about working with a very large and powerful machine that you literally cannot do your work without who also could and would kill you with no remorse. like the respect-and-admiration you develop for the beast living in your workspace who you rely upon for your livelihood and yet who is so dangerous... and when the machine is just very absolutely dangerous, and has no safety mechanisms whatsoever, you HAVE to think about it constantly... it's so beautiful to me

grubarchived

and i'm sorry but not only do you live and work with this beast and have to eke out a careful and respectful coexistence together, you also have to clean every piece of that machine, by hand, every day. you have to kneel and scrub every inch with a rag and warm sanitizer. it's a very devotional act. it's meditative... and u have to spend the most time on the most dangerous parts of the mechanism. u are kneeling on the floor tenderly cleaning and polishing the very same hooks and crushing arms and spinning housing that could tear you to pieces when the machine is running. u love the machine. she loves u too, surely, she helps you do the work you need to do to live. and she would kill you without hesitation. i have to lie down

notahorseindisguise

a lot of things seem to happen to the guy whos body i happen to be observing through its own eyes although from afar

austin7aksnes

foldingfittedsheets

Something that literally changed my life was working with a friend on a coding thing. He was helping me create an auto rig script and was trying to explain something to me but his words were just turning into static in my brain. I was tired and confused and there was so many new concepts happening.

I could feel myself working toward a crying meltdown and was getting preemptively ashamed of what was about to happen when he said, “Hey, are you someone who benefits from breaks?”

It broke me.

Did I benefit from breaks? I didn’t know. I’d never taken them.

When a problem frustrated or upset me I just gritted my teeth and plowed through the emotional distress because eventually if you batter and flail at something long enough you figure it out. So what if you get bruised on the way.

I viscerally remembered in that moment being forced to sit at the table late into the night with my dad screaming at me, trying to understand math. I remembered taking that with me into adulthood and having breakdowns every week trying to understand coding. I could have taken a break? Would it help? I didn’t know! I’d never taken one!

“Yes,” I told him. We paused our call. I ate lunch. I focused on other stuff for half an hour. I came back in a significantly better state of mind, and the thing he’d been trying to explain had been gently cooking in the back of my head and seemed easier to understand.

Now when I find myself gritting my teeth at problems I can hear his gentle voice asking if I benefit from breaks. Yes, dear god, yes why did I never get taught breaks? Why was the only way I knew to keep suffering until something worked?

I was relating to this same friend recently my roadtrip to the redwoods with my wife. “We stopped every hour or so to get out and stretch our legs and switch drivers. It was really nice. When I was a kid we’d just drive twelve hours straight and not stop for anything, just gas. We’d eat in the car and power through.”

He gave a wry smile, immediately connecting the mindset of my parents on a road trip to what they’d instilled in me about brute forcing through discomfort. “Do you benefit from breaks?” he echoed, drawing my attention to it, making me smile with the same sad acknowledgement.

Take breaks. You’re allowed. You don’t have to slam into problems over and over and over, let yourself rest. It will get easier. Take. Breaks.

beserkerjewel

It looks like "Diala" is back, since being busted out twice in the space of a day hasn't stopped them! But warning that this person is a scammer and not telling the truth about...anything, really! If you see them (or are incessantly tagged in these posts like I am), ignore them and/or just block them!

(Proof that this post is a scam here)

I'll also include a list of usernames that they've used thus far (these are just the ones I've seen after going through multiple days of my activity page):

@/dialag

@/diala556666

@/furrychangelingtitan

@/dreamyseerparable

@/diala8blog

@/diala345

@/diala7sblog

orchidvioletindigo

One of the links on the linked proof post is broken.

Here's a post I made about Veronica's previous fundraiser that flip flopped from being for a fictional Palestinian genocide survivor to being for vet expenses for Veronica's fictional pets.

If you see a fundraiser with Veronica Salber's name on it, it's a scam. I don't know why GoFundMe hasn't banned her yet.

identitty-dickruption

the eat, pray, love version of finding yourself is a matter of taking on aspects of The Ethnic without deconstructing the frameworks of western individualism. messaging that is not at all apolitical, and is in fact a modern remnant of colonial thinking. not to say that it’s inherently evil to solo travel or to learn about the world through exploring it. one just needs to be cognisant of how people from the global south are being expected, in such framings, to be the educators and enlighteners of global north citizens. where people from the global south are frequently made to represent the natural and the spiritual realms. and what that might say about the ways the world is still shaped by colonial ideologies

datadegroove-deactivated2026042

the power of a bowl of rice mixed with some fucking bullshit cannot be overstated

halogalopaghost

My favorite job interview question to ask is "what do you do during downtime?"

If they say things like "cleaning, restocking" etc, that's a green flag. Normal busywork that's unavoidable and reasonable to expect during downtime.

If they say "we don't have down time" that's a yellow flag. That means they want you to look busy all the time, even when there's nothing to do. This will drive me insane as I dust the same shelf for the fourth time in a week

If they say "there's always something to do" but don't SPECIFY, that's a red flag hard stop. They're understaffed on fucking purpose and you are about to have your soul sucked from your body by this company. do not walk, RUN for the exit. Every time I get this answer, I've ended up with the "watch you like a hawk" type manager that annoys the hell outta me.

Also interviewers really like when you ask questions at the end of the interview. It makes them think and engage with the process more, which makes you more memorable in general. My go-tos are 1: how long have you been here? and 2: what's your favorite thing about this job?

90-ghost

Hello everyone I made this post for a girl from Gaza her Name is Laial. I know her personally She doesn’t have a smartphone she using her mother phone sometimes no internet connection most of the time to create account on tumblr to share her story. Laial has been through a lot in this war because of what she doing since the day one Laial is a nurse. You can read her story on her GFM link below. Would you show her some love & support in this madness war & hard times including hunger and starvation right now.

Step by step we can make it happen and she reach her goal 🫶🏼🙏

Hello My name is Laial Ashour , I'm 25 years old , from Palestine from Gaza City , I studied … sally saad needs your support for Help Laial

90-ghost

Process : 1429$ / 5000$

Let’s help laial and her family to reach at least 5K

I want to remind you that’s laial and her family during the war this the first fundraiser they made NOW THEY NEED YOUR HELP TO SURVIVE THE STARVATION

90-ghost

PROCESS: 1640$/ 5000$

90-ghost

Laial and her family forced to leave their home because the IDF bombs so heavily there and they are invaded the area

Don’t forget them from your help now they’re displaced and without food & water

90-ghost

Process : 1739$ / 5000$

90-ghost

A reminder that’s laial and her family displaced and hungry..

90-ghost

2200$ more to reach the first 5K

90-ghost

1720$ to get the 5K $

90-ghost

You’re the only hope for laial & her family

90-ghost

1600$ to reach 5000$

90-ghost

I want to remind you guys you the only hope for laial and her family

90-ghost

can we help laial and her family reach 10K they only got 5K for the past 2 years they lost everything

don't forget them from your support 🙏🏼

90-ghost

Again guys laial and her family lives on your donations

storybookprincess

so a very long time ago, my dad worked with an arson investigator

this guy was often one of the first people on the scene following a suspected arson, once emergency services had done what they needed to do. at times, there were also civilians on the periphery. often, they were freaking out, and understandably so; their home or workplace had just, quite literally, gone up in smoke

this investigator wouldn’t try to calm them down. he wouldn’t comfort them or be a shoulder to cry on.

instead, he’d walk up to the person most visibly losing their shit, hand them a fire extinguisher, and say “hey, can you keep an eye out for any other fires, and if you see one, can you put it out with this?”

of course, there was no actual risk of another fire. he wouldn’t be on the scene investigating if there was even a chance that the fire wasn’t completely put out. but the bystander didn’t need to know that

because that person, without fail, would immediately pull it together, take the fire extinguisher, and stand guard. they were, at least temporarily, calm enough for this investigator to do this job

my dad has told me the parable of the fire extinguisher a hundred times, and i think about it a lot. i think about what it says about people and crises. i think about what it says about the grounding power of having a purpose. and i think about the importance of letting someone help me through something, even if that help is just going to be another casserole to throw into the freezer, because useless or not, that fire extinguisher might be the only thing holding them together

liminalbeauty

Holy crap.

artphobos

WELP, that ends my account.

thelittlenoctua

Qobuz is the most ethical alternative to spotify and even tidal (tidal is just pandora radio in a different font; you can't curate playlists, which i absolutely fucking hate, but you can curate playlists on qobuz, and the royalties they pay to their artists are far larger than spotify) that i've been able to find, thanks to this post on instagram by singer-songwriter laura burhenn. the post also lists other alternatives, including tidal, but qobuz is by far the best of the lot. they even have a free feature called soundiiz where you can transfer all of your playlists from spotify to qobuz!

liminalbeauty

Worth a reblog for this great info.

girlnextvore

When you see a Prep in hottopic

girlnextvore

“This Prep is ready for war bring it you emo fuck”

girlnextvore

why are people reblogging this again

this post is like 11 years old

WHY AREYALL DOING THIS

derinthescarletpescatarian

We’re all having a midlife crisis leave us be

thepioden

Chai tea bag + lil but of brown sugar + apple cider packet + 16 oz. mug of hot but not quite boiling water

it will not Fix You but like. maybe. maybe.

thepioden

tags by @eridan-ampora

thepioden

Update: this is the best post I've ever made because everyone is sharing their Warm Beverage recipes in the notes. Go check the notes for more Warm Beverages That Will Fix You.

ruinedchildhood

chaogongoozles

Sharing this for everyone who stumbles on this post!! Please be safe y'all, def use gloves, mask, and make sure to have good ventilation! Always check the ingredients of your cleaning products before using them together! Please share this so more folks are aware, they literally don't be teaching us important stuff like this to prepare for the Adult World™

cohendyke

the line “your worst sin is that you’ve betrayed and destroyed yourself for nothing” is so raw you’d think it’s from a destiel fanfic or even hetalia but it’s actually from dostoyevskys crime and punishment