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You guys need to see this because my brain has decided "have you heard of seventy dollars??" is a widely known meme I can reference regularly (it is not)

beardedmrbean

how to commit to the bit properly

epicsause-official

just made a tier list

transgender-mp3

If I may add

morkaischosen

terpsikeraunos

ancient greek word of the day: κακοθερής (kakotherēs), unfitted to endure summer heat

aphilologicalbatman-deactivated

this literally means “bad at summer” pass it on

zipstick

Reblog if you, too, are bad at summer

worldheritagepostorganization

World Heritage Post

whatrealbeautylookslike

crazy that you can overdose on literally anything. I don't mean like vitamins and stuff like that. you can overdose on water and oxygen. ya know. famously 2 most important things to Being Alive As A Human? yeah you can have too much and it can kill you. good luck

preserving-tiktok

taraljc

This is an awesome use of what is probably a master's degree if not a doctorate and I am 100% thrilled that she shared it even though it was embarrassing and she squeaked.

liminalbeauty

Thank you, adorable scientist, for making people's lives better.

punchspeedchunk

As an Australian, THIS WOMAN IS A FUCKING GODSEND.

weaselle

Californian (sup, fellow desert-havers) i've been using this since i saw it and it works so fucken good dude (i often have to put like 8 dogs in my car, so it's extra important my car isn't attempting to go super-nova when we get in)

itsnicsalad

brain grace,,, grain

sugarsylvie

Eevee finally accepts the cone!

dyketennant

have you all seen one of my new favorite reddit posts

vague-humanoid

According to a new report, Xbox is also abandoning physical media with its next console.

The Switch 2's specific terms of service says if Nintendo determines you are in breach of their rules, they can revoke your access to the sy

Are you eligible for a payout? Probably, but it might take a while and will likely be pretty small.

autumntides

I did expect to see the death of video game consoles in my lifetime, but I thought it would take longer.

thatlittleegyptologist

Clacton: Decision 2026

Flag Spaffing Cunt vs Count Binface

(For the uninitiated to UK politics: Yes these are the only two candidates for Clacton's MP. No serious party will run against the cunt because he's self aggrandising and only doing this to cover up money laundering and get sympathy for being a poor widdle persecuted man. Count Binface usually only stands in the constituency of the current Prime Minister for the bants, but in order to further humiliate Farage he's going to be the only candidate standing against him (also for the bants). Yes this is normal.)

ralfmaximus

Ignorant American here. What happens if Binface wins?

thatlittleegyptologist

Then Count Binface becomes the MP for Clacton and sits in Parliament until such time as this Parliament's term is up when a General Election is called (2029), or he resigns.

It's not without precedent. In 1997, the Conservative MP for Tatton and all round tosspot, Neil Hamilton, had a scandal in which he received money for taking easy questions. His constituents loathed him. 1997 was the year of the general election in which Labour and Lib Dem candidates would stand against the Tories in what was considered a very safe Tory seat. But then BBC War Correspondent Martin Bell announced he would stand as an Independent candidate running only on two policies: he wasn't Neil Hamilton and he would only stand for one term. The Labour and Lib Dem candidates withdrew leaving Neil running only against Martin.

Martin Bell won that election with a majority of over 11,000 votes and a swing to Independent of 48% away from the Conservatives.

Defeated, Neil Hamilton was ejected from the Conservative party and fucked around until 2011, when he joined UKIP, the party that gave us Brexit run by...you guessed it...the cunt that's now running against a bin.

Martin Bell served one term, as promised, and vacated the seat in 2001 at that General Election. He went to another constituency where another Tory MP had been accused of dodgy dealings. He didn't win, but he did come 2nd, after which Mr Bell retired from politics saying that "winning one and losing one is not a bad record for an amateur."

So what's happening now, is completely precedented. It just wasn't a comedian dressed as bin that's masquerading as landed gentry last time.

foxglovedforest

doubleca5t

I'm not necessarily rooting for the US in the world cup but I do think it would be funny if they made a deep run if only because I feel like, for countries that are actually good at international football, "You lost to the USAmericans" would make for god tier trash talk

doubleca5t

Imagine you're from a country where this sport is like a national civic religion and you lose to a bunch of dork ass losers who call it soccer. There's no coming back from that

doubleca5t

I thought the USMNT making a deep run and embarrassing some European teams in the process would be the funniest outcome for them in the World Cup but Trump using FIFA's limitless appetite for corruption to get a red card overturned for their game against Belgium only for them to completely embarrass themselves, play way worse than usual and lose by 3 goals is SO much funnier holy shit that's incredible

keplercryptids

I spent the afternoon arranging our books by size and color (and it’s so satisfying and looks amazing) and my partner came home and stared in shock at the bookcase and then said “i’m a librarian, you can’t do this.”

keplercryptids

him: you split up all the song of ice and fire books

me: yeah i know, they’re all primary colors, it’s perfect

him: [self-destructs]

operativesurprise

You’re a monster

thetumblrofrassilon

As a former bookstore employee, this hurts my soul. I mean, sure it looks nice, but how do you find anything?

keplercryptids

it has occurred me during this process that apparently not everyone thinks about books by what color they are? like, literally when i’m looking for a book, i picture it in my mind. i have a very…tactile experience with the books i read and idk! i thought everyone did that lol.

my partner was like “how will i find [this book] for instance” and i replied “easy, it’s purple” and he looked at me like i was a witch.

holdmecloseandfast

OP your brain is neat and I love you for it you funky little color-coded cupcake. But you’re still a monster.

krsonmar

This actually is interesting in terms of information-seeking behavior, which is a thing librarians think about a lot and often actually study (some library jobs require you to publish, and academic librarians, for instance, will often use the students at the college they work at to study how they search for information in order to figure out how to best provide them services).

When you go for an MLS (Master’s of Library Science, which is a thing, and which is usually required for “professional-level” library work [which is also a weird and contentious concept that I won’t go into here]), one of the things you study is the organization of information. This deals with how to determine what a book or other material is “about"—a concept we tongue-in-cheek call “aboutness"—and how to convey that to a potential user of the item and make it easy for them to find. Things like keywords and subject headings, do I put this book about how often wild birds attack aerial drones in with books about birds or with books about technology, if its a fictional novel do I put fantasy in it’s own section or mix it in with all of the other fiction, so on and so on.

OP is organizing books by how they would look for them. OP’s partner is thinking in terms of aboutness. This is a system that works for OP because it’s their personal library: they know basically what books they own and they only own books that are relevant to them, and if they know what the book looks like, that can be a quick way to find it.

In a library that assumes the public (or people who do not own that particular collection of books) are using the collection, that doesn’t work. Books are often re-issued in multiple covers, or re-bound in new covers when they get worn out, and if the user doesn’t know what the book looks like or is expecting a different cover, they’re lost. That’s why non-personal libraries used standardized cataloging systems like the Dewey Decimal System or Library of Congress System to organize a book by what it’s “about”, and then put books about the same or similar topics together, marked with labels and signage so a person unfamiliar with the book or collection can find their way to it.

Basically, OP’s system works for their own personal library, because it’s best suited to how the primary user—OP themselves—looks for books. OP’s librarian partner is coming from a background of thinking in terms of a public-facing collection, where aboutness is the key criteria and communicating it to a user unfamiliar with the collection is the priority.

And also, OP is a monster.

cobra-bubbles

my life with ADHD

mardu-mama

This is very true and a great post.

But low key makes me think about how people with adhd have been raised their whole lives to value a day based on what they accomplished vs what they experienced

thatgirlwithadhd

I think your point is excellent. But also consider:

That list might say things like “Paint a picture. Go birdwatching. Finish that great novel I started reading. Call my grandma. Learn to bake a cake. Visit my sister. Play piano.”

For me at least, the good/fun things are harder without meds too. I can have the best intentions, but following through is hard.

adhd-informative

This addition is so important.

ryan-sometimes

Working an office job will truly make you have the wildest enemies, bc why is my nemesis rn a woman I’ve never met and who exclusively haunts me by sending diabolical emails, and also a specific guy who left my company before I even worked here and made the system so fuckass that it ruined procedures for like a year

ryan-sometimes

Yesterday my nemesis (woman I’ve never met and whose face I’ve never seen) sent my office an email so rude, basically saying we had fucked up every project she ever ordered from us, one of the worst emails I’ve ever read in my life.

And it pissed me off so badly that I spent the ENTIRE WORK DAY today compiling evidence from every project my team has ever done for her, pulling past emails she’d sent us, putting together an entire case proving that she had been the problem all along. That she got projects mixed up, that she’d made requests that were nonsensical, literally everything you could possibly imagine. Screenshots of emails, reports we’d submitted, EVERYTHING.

This woman in particular has been terrorizing my team for years, her name is almost a slur in my office, I had simply had ENOUGH of her.

I put all of this evidence together and sent it to all of my bosses at 4:30pm. Then I took a long break to eat a sweet treat and drink some tea.

After my break, my bosses all called in an emergency meeting with me and they said they read my report and fucking loved it. And I sat on a teams call with my boss’ boss as she wrote my nemesis the scathing email I had always fantasized about sending, using the evidence I’d compiled, and hit send.

It was the most satisfying workday I’ve had since I got hired.