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By the way I was at a con and Colin Baker said "My doctor is full of sentiment, but not sentimental. He would step over a dead body to help a butterfly with a broken wing." If you even care.

nudityandnerdery

From the media that brought you "Millennials are killing [insert industry here]" articles for years and years and years, now we have....

"Hey, Gen Z, we're gonna relabel vacations into something else now and tell you how you really should be wary of taking vacation because it might impact your financial future."

This is a goddamn dystopia, we know this, right?

rabid-transcendentalist

winteriine

genuinely this reminds me of that one tumblr post about that cult indoctrination technique where they make unreasonable requests of you, and when you refuse, suddenly it’s YOUR fault for having a sense of self-care. it’s YOUR lack of commitment, YOUR lack of dedication — not the insane request of a company that does not actually care about you.

the idea that failure is an individual failing and not the oppressions of a broken system.

this is just flat-out manipulation. it really always has been, but this is the form it’s taking nowadays. crazy

fyrmayj

*sigh*

Hey OP it would've been nice of you to include a link. A lot of people are upset because of the interpretation that this is talking about vacation... it's not.

"...Gen Z are taking time between jobs to have time out."

Like. Yeah, it's still misleading to call it a micro retirement, but it's at least talking about time Not Employed At All, and not just...vacation / time off while returning to the same work. It's talking about leaving space and time between one job and the next.

Full article here (if you have Firefox you can tap the icon in your url that makes it text only and avoid the paywall to read more):

As “The Great Retiree Return” trend rises, so does the Gen Z "micro-retirement" trend. Discover what these age reversal trends mean and how

nudityandnerdery

That's an entirely different article than the one I was quoting, hence why it's saying something different and the text in the screen shot I included isn't anywhere in that article.

This is the original article, which they've also rewritten to make it a little less god-awful- they original version of it is still available on archive.org.

great-and-small

Video of a crab where nothing happens

thecatsmustbecrazy

special delivery

fgrobichiko

BRING ME SCHRÖDINGER’S HEAD

quietwingsinthesky

favorite thing in the whole wide world when a story is about how a typically “negative” trait is the one essential to saving the day. a character whose anger pushes them further than any of their kinder aspects. someone so stubborn that they cross a finish line no one else could reach. greed that becomes justification to protect people. ruthlessness that gets the job done right. the coward who becomes a hero because they were the only one with the sense not to face something deadly head on. selfishness that keeps you alive.

I love when our ‘worst’ impulses are shown to be as important to who we are and how we handle things as the best parts of us. sometimes you don’t conquer what everyone says is wrong with you; sometimes you learn how to make use of what comes naturally instead of fighting against it.

nestofstraightlines

“All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine!”

The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett

wakingfromthewater

This was shared as a "bad" joke but I was so charmed by it I've been thinking about it for days.

artistic-octopus

wordswithkittywitch

Moose at the next table: No they don't. I've been waiting here for an hour.

totally-not-an-al1en

memewhore

2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241

Woman murders man in broad daylight

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beautiful like to reblog ratio on this

drtanner

That's because people are reblogging it every time they see it. Like I'm doing right now lmao

chaumas-deactivated20240115

this video was always funny but I found this guy’s Instagram and he is Always Doing This, like it’s hundreds of slow motion videos of him walking muscled and shirtless through crowded streets around the world as people react to him—many of them appear to be filmed on the same street as in this video. which means this lady probably sees him doing this all the time and was like OH THERE HE IS AGAIN lmfaoooo

itsladykit

That does beg the question--did he upload this himself?

chaumas-deactivated20240115

yes and he did not acknowledge it in the caption or tags at all 😂

marithlizard

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In case anyone hasn't heard, the cyclospora outbreak affecting tons of people in the US right now is coming from Taylor Farms produce. Best to stay away from bagged lettuce and prepared salads completely right now, but especially the ones mentioned in the screenshot:

Taylor Farms Earthbound Farms Little Salad Bar (Aldi) Marketside (Walmart) Kroger House Brand Target private label greens Costco salads and greens etc Trader Joe's chopped salad kits and fresh produce Fast food: McDonalds, Taco Bell, (Yum! Brands), Chipotle, Subway, Pizza Hut, KFC, Olive Garden, Top Golf, Red Lobster, Burger King, etc.

This is not the first time I've heard about a Taylor Farms foodborne illness outbreak. I stopped eating their salads after reading a description of the conditions in their facilities. Doesn't sound like they've improved anything.

We need a fully funded and staffed FDA, and regulations with teeth - and that's exactly what we don't have under Trump. To make things worse, the CDC is no longer tracking these outbreaks. We're on our own.