A Series of Empty Words

A blog that has almost nothing to do with anything. 30, M(cis), he/him/they

[orteil42]

i'm very happy with cookie clicker's success of course but it's difficult to tell if it was a freak fluke or if there was some sort of unsuspected secret sauce at play. could i do it again. modesty aside somewhere in my hundreds of design docs for other game ideas there could be the game industry equivalent of a nuclear bomb. i must tread lightly

[orteil42]

[lazy as shit, doesn't make anything] i.m saving the world

[fancyslothnick]

Thank you for your service creator of Cookie Clicker for not creating an even more addicting idle game for us to waste our economic output on, the shareholders thank you!

[kerink]

i know we're all sick of self-care being a marketing tactic now, but i don't think a lot of us have any other concept of self-care beyond what companies have tried to sell us, so i thought i'd share my favorite self-care hand out

brought to you by how mad i just got at a Target ad

[themythicalcodfish]

OP this is EXCELLENT

[whatbigotspost]

Now THAT’S a self care resource! If you’ve gotten distracted by capitalism’s appropriation of “self-care” and watering the meaning down to nothing this is a super helpful guide to cut through the bullshit.

[overcaffeinated-aro]

ok not to be that guy but like. labor rights and working class rights can coexist with 24h services and late amenities. its certainly hard to do so without worker exploitation in this political and social environment, it’s not a conflict likely to resolve overnight. but 24h services are important and especially valuable to those of us that are disabled or are on a different circadian rhythm. in fact more professional, health, and government services should be available or at least possible to work on asynchronously (if applicable) during late or odd hours, while workers also get sufficient pay for their labor and proper consistent scheduling. this would be much easier on the workers with night schedules if the entire professional world didn’t grind to a halt at 5pmEST

[knitmeapony]

I reblog this like nine times every time I see it, because not only would I love to be able to go to a thousand little third places like a public library or an arcade or a cafe that's just opening up at 2:00 a.m., but I would absolutely kill for a job that's like 6:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.

I totally think that we should split the day into four shifts with a half hour or an hour overlap and you would find people happy to do the work if it paid a living wage. 7-hour shift with a paid one hour lunch, so you're at work 35 hours a week but it's really a 30 hour work week.

Midnight to 7:00 a.m.,

6:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.,

noon to 7:00 p.m.,

6:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.

Even for something with a lot of regimented coverage like nursing, this would give you a ton of consistency and crossover time between shifts and even for emergency situations when you don't have time to sit down for your whole lunch, a 7-hour shift with a few breaks is doable without feeling fucking broken at the end of it.

Like this is just a noodle that a tired person is typing into their phone at the end of the day. There are no doubt even better ways to schedule things that just take a little time and consideration to figure out. It is all so very doable.

[drtief]

Adding to this, the most common long-shift workers are medical workers. It is very common for nurses, doctors, surgeons, and pharmacists to be pulling 12h+ shifts, often back-to-back. I feel like it should be universally understood that being this tired and burned out in a medical profession is a serious concern and a risk to patients. The last thing we need in 24h services like hospitals and urgent care/emergency rooms is tired people making mistakes. @knitmeapony's proposal or something like it could literally save lives.

[knitmeapony]

Absolutely yes! It also leads to both ageism and ableism in the medical profession, even when folks haven't completely burned themselves out. It's a self-sustaining problem.

[tygerbug]

This is the money Marge. Reblog for good fortune

[ellipsus-writes]

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- The Ellipsus Team xo

[dumbpollsonly]

pick a stupid super power

specifically just your butt can change any color whenever you want

you have retractable thumbs

you can summon guinea pigs

the power of prophecy but only about finches

you can turn into a duck on Tuesdays

you can turn forks into spoons at will

you can transfer your own hiccups to someone else

your right and left eye can swap places

you have prehensile ears

you can teleport but only to the nearest IKEA store

you can talk to moths

you can pick one part of your body and it will glow

Voting ended onJan 20, 2025

[kinsey3furry300]

Mooning the green lanten Corp to cripple then work my glowing yellow but then summoning guinea pigs inside thier lungs.

[fancyslothnick]

Hear me out on forks to spoons. It didn't specify the spoon weighs the same as The fork you made it from. Which in theory would mean you're generating a small amount of material each time you make a fork into a spoon. Given some testing, you could in theory make an infinite amount of any material by cutting the spoon back into a fork with some kind of press or something, it's probably less profitable than always having an Ikea alibi but more legal. If rules lawyering shenanigans aren't allowed IKEA wins

[trans-ralsei]

[trans-ralsei]

[caughtthedarkness93]

I love my job, but reblogging employment jelly for someone else I love.

[pallidprincess]

new weed idea

[pallidprincess]

[mothsbythelamplight]

Visit Original Link

[transmascmarypoppins]

why is this post completely broken in every way imaginable

[cecilsrandomeverything]

Broken notes… deactivated account… removed image….

Finally, we have them all.

[spacefinch]

In addition: OP’s name is just… gone. No “[insert username]-deactivated[insert a bunch of numbers]” as is the standard for deactivated blogs.

Just the world “deactivated.” Look upon their post, ye mighty, and despair.

[chatblancofficial]

It’ll be almost impossible to find this post unless it wanders across your dash.

[finemeal]

It also only has 1 note. Truly a broken post

[wolfjackle]

Yesterday I saw this post with 5 notes.

Today zero.

[mamamoble]

4 note rn

[booklover13]

2 notes as of now

[nat-20s]

You can replace [ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY] with [SCROLLING] but watch out. This sucks bad 👍

[nat-20s]

Some things about this post since getting quite a few notes:

1. If you see this post, highly recommend taking it as an opportunity to set a timer for 15 minutes and switch over to ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY. if after those 15 minutes, you want to go back to scrolling, that's okay!

2. Huge shout out to this popping up in my notifs often, bc I do go back to activity.

3. I think there are times where scrolling is fine. Right now, for example, I'm being connected to a machine for two hours to donate plasma and platelets. Yes this is a brag but it is also a time where scrolling is one of the few things I can do. (Though I will probably also read or watch something on phone lol)

[fancyslothnick]

Remind to self to do [ACTIVITY I ENJOY] instead for a bit

[cowboylexapro]

look at my doctors dawg im gonna die

[fancyslothnick]

[pragnificent]

This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life. 

[thingsamylikes]

I reblogged her late last year and my 2024 has been very satisfying work-wise and (secure enough to not stress out) money-wise so far. Money Snake is wise and good.

[carpecake]

Not worth taking the risk

[five-pillows-deactivated2025012]

Food sensory issues is just everyone calling you a picky eater whenever you refuse to eat a food that makes you physically retch or gag or any other visceral reaction of disgust and/or pain

[fancyslothnick]

So I basically forced myself through exposure therapy when it comes to my food sensory issues.

It sucked.

I gagged in restaurants, I forced myself to eat food I viscerally knew would make me do so. I basically bullied myself and demanded more acceptance when my body tried to refuse. I still struggle with a lot of the more major like... Obvious food offenders, I can't do peppers and onions in the open like... Almost every non-basic dish has.

I'm actually really good at cooking food I would rather starve than eat too, like I learned the flavor profiles, I know where they go, I know what they do to a dish, I understand the complexity and delight one can get from using a wide array of ingredients and flavors, but my stupid body still gags when I make my wife some onion dish that's smells good and looks good and she tries to make me also have a bite and I just gag. I cooked it, I know it's good, still fucked.

I personally think it was worth being able to be... Mostly less picky about food, but it was literally torture and honestly making anyone eat food they have sensory issues with outside a survival situation is inhumane.

I want to be clear here I did this to myself, I don't regret it, but if you try to make another person do this you're a bad person because it was torturous, and putting another person through pain for their own good instead of exposing them to the results of their inaction generally just leads to trauma instead of whatever good you were seeking.

[justshareefastuff]

7 Reasons you might be procrastinating and how to solve them:

[beriliaa]

[a-book-of-creatures]

You can only reblog this today! Next time Thursday 20 will follow Wednesday 19 will be in 2439!

[fancyslothnick]

My intuition says it should happen every 7 years or so, but the Tumblr user in me needs to spread misinformation uncritically until someone with more patience disproves this

[pitbolshevik]

I can’t believe you’re pro pit bull when one personally ate the tires off my car, making me late for work and getting me fired? Your complacency is damning

he was hungy :(

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[laerugo]

#tapping the reblog button with utmost care because i’m handling a historical artifact (via @malarkiness)