syncing forever

the point of life appears to lie somewhere between the synchronicity of your need to live and the need of everyone else for you to be alive. forever syncing, syncing forever.

[wellthatschaotic]

i love when the gender options are "male" "female" and "prefer not to answer"

like it just reads as "boy" "girl" and "what are you, a cop? i don't owe you anything"

[foone]

My gender is "come back with a warrant"

[foreversyncing]

I am once again

Throwing text into the void

Because I am sad

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

[biglawbear]

Good for this person. This is exactly what you do. Screw the job.

I had a job that made me work an all nighter, 30 hours straight, over Thanksgiving. I resigned that Monday and it was one of the most satisfying decisions I’ve ever made.

[running-in-the-dark]

Part 3:

[invaderxan]

Please pay attention to all the manipulation tactics this boss uses, because they’re pulling out every trick in the book.

“I’m not your boss, I’m your friend”

“Other people will be hurt by this and it’s your fault and I’m going to tell them all that”

Mocking language

Jobs are important too

“Be a team player”

“We’re your family too”

Talking as if this is a thing you must do

“We all make sacrifices”

Undermining your authority

“You caused all of this, really”

Accusing you of being “unprofessional”

“Look at the money you cost us”

“Just laugh it off and come back to work”

This is like a 101 course in how employers use guilt trips to coerce you into putting up with their bullshit. This is precisely why you should never trust those employers who insist that they’re “like a family.” They are not. It’s just a ruse so that your boss can neg you into putting your job ahead of your actual life.

[vocifersaurus]

Ok this is satisfying and all but he lost me when she *doubled* his rate for *no reason.*

What possible motivation would the business manager have for that.

This is a fable.

[elidyce]

@vocifersaurus  … the business manager’s motivation is pretty clear, in my reading. From her POV, it went thusly:

This company entered into a contract with us. 

This company royally fucked up.

This company tried to force their one qualified employee to sacrifice his PTO to fix their screw-up.

The one qualified employee quit.

They didn’t suck it up and take him back, but let the situation get WAY WORSE.

This has negatively affected MY company quite significantly.

They then tried to throw the employee under the bus for the whole mess.

The employee is still willing to do the work, getting my company out of trouble, but wants to get fucking paid what he’s worth, which is not unreasonable. 

I now have a loophole by which I can get my company out of trouble while shafting the other company VERY COMPREHENSIVELY.

I am at this point going to double the price PURELY TO PUNISH THEM.

Fuck those guys.

I’d have done the exact same thing, given the opportunity. 

Because fuck those guys. 

[uss-edsall]

one of the tabs open on my computer is this video and I think I might have a problem. I never close the tab and every time I look through my tabs during the day, I watch it again and link it to somebody to make them suffer

[givemearmstopraywith]

please don't go, please don't go i love you so, i love you so please don't go, please don't go i love you so, i love you so please break my heart, hey please don't go, please don't go i love you so, i love you so please don't go, please don't go i love you so, i love you so please break my heart please don't go, i'll eat you whole i love you so, i love you so, i love you so please don't go, i'll eat you whole i love you so, i love you so, i love you so, i love you so please don't go, i'll eat you whole i love you so, i love you so, i love you so please don't go, i'll eat you whole i love you so, i love you so, i love you so please don't go, i'll eat you whole i love you so, i love you so, i love you so please don't go, i'll eat you whole i love you so, i love you so, i love you so please don't go, i'll eat you whole i love you so, i love you so, i love you so

[vrabia]

ok but like. space shanties. 

there’s a thing that should definitely be a thing in sci-fi.

[vrabia]

my brain went straight to the ‘put him in the airlock ‘till he’s sober’ part of ‘what can you do with a drunken spacer’ and i never want to look back from this. 

[honestmerchantsailor]

THIS IS 100% A THING. It’s usually considered a subset of filk, so naturally a lot of prolific filk artists like Leslie Fish have a selection. Sci-fi filk is possibly my favorite genre of music.

Most of these are actually ballads, not true shanties, but still:

The Senate - Space Shanty

Kristoph Klover - Fire in the Sky

Duane Elms - Dawson’s Christian

Catherine Faber - Providence Skies

Julia Ecklar - Ballad of a Spaceman

Leslie Fish & Ann Prather - Hanrahan’s Bar

Julia Ecklar & Ann Prather - Pushin’ the Speed of Light

Leslie Fish - Ship of Stone

Leslie Fish - Guardians

Leslie Fish - Sam Jones

Vic Tyler - Space Hero

Vic Tyler & Duane Elms - Spacer’s Home

You can probably just google “sci-fi filk” and get a zillion more. It’s a surprisingly rich genre for one so unknown to most people.

[nailsofvecna]

I don’t normally reblog this kind of post, but this seems so perfect as background music for a dark matter game, I had to share it with you all. SPACE SHANTIES HO!

[out-there-on-the-maroon]

For those unaware reblogging this post, “What Shall We Do With A Drunk Space Pirate” was the close out song for the Mechanisms concerts. Their entire discography was taking folk songs and making them sci-fi epic concept albums. 

Some of my favorite songs include:

Matty Groves, now with electric violin, about a lute that controls the dead.

Pump Me Boys, now a shanty about keeping the life support systems running on a dying ship.

Gently Johnny, now about sirens in a neo-noir sci-fi city lulling people into complacency.

Rising of the Moon, now about a doomed manager of a space station that descends into chaos and mutiny, left abandoned.

[milflover42069-deactivated20210]

we're out of salt and vinegar chips *angrily punches a wall masculinely*

[tastefullyoffensive]

My life in one word

[theregoesallthefucksigive-blog]

i literally just spent 15 minutes trying to figure out this sign cause i thought it said “be r u shyo, u r tee” and i was really confused

[timewastingclub]

[theregoesallthefucksigive-blog]

whoever looked at these two mountains and thought of this deserves an award

[tastefullyoffensive]

via

[cognitohazardous]

im going insane thinking about this newborn alpaca fucking look at it

[icrsftlom-deactivated20210618]

[leafcrunch]

[tendie-defender]

New born alpaca

3 months later

[catchymemes]

[link-the-feral-anon]

When you remember the anti-vax movement

[burger-prince]

[tatsutahimet]

I first reblogged this in January, and here my ass is in March 2020 self-quarantined at home.

[reaperrmancer]

Ur right and u should say it

[ap-kinda-lit]

Reading this in 2021

[sizvideos]

[thelogicalghost]

I don’t care why, this is hysterical.

[bettsplendens]

This is the best kind of prank.

No scares, no injury, no property damage, just confuse the hell out of someone.

[unbotheredmuse]

[dankmemeuniversity]

[xelayxes]

[xelayxes]

@matzahball

[dracophile]

For a second I didn’t realize it meant “high” as in a stoner–I thought “High Geologist” was like a rank of geologist or something and he was insulted you would challenge him to naming stones

[hamptercatapult]

great poast every one👍

[shirecorn]

I have drawn him…. The High Geologist

[syberfire117]

Can’t believe he’s ace

[shirecorn]

He is now And here’s the photo evidence:

[aphorisnt]

hey guys…https://twitter.com/MatthewLillard/status/1322648148364324864 so does this make it canon?

[shirecorn]

the high geologist has ascended

[ethanrayne]

every time i see this post it gets…. better? but also weirder.

[venusrrvelez]

I always gotta reblog the High Geologist once in a while.

[sapphireclawe]

I love this too much.

[everybodyiswatchingher]

whats keeping me up at night