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why would you put an AI-generated image on a recipe post. I want to see how the food actually looks.
I know the answer. I know it's not even a real fucking recipe and it's all just AI generated slop to get me to stay on the page with their ads while I scrutinize the cucumbers and the slice of red onion that forgot its role and turned into squiggly red cabbage to confirm my suspicions
oh so everybody is down for fantasizing about communal living until I suggest we buy an old nunnery together and then suddenly it's all "this is impractical" "it'd cost so much to heat" "that kitchen isn't big enough"
Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.
At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.
At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.
“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.
The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.
I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.
I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.
I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht.
I’m not worth the cost of a watch.
i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.
i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.
as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.
disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.
at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.
i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.
i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.
we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.
hey it's me black mold. thanks for running your window air conditioner all summer. whatever you do, do not regularly clean the removable filter. that's not necessary
you should also never ever unplug the air conditioner and stick a flashlight in the vent that blows air to see if we're in there. it's very bad, that place should not be checked
and whatever you do, if you've already made the mistake of unplugging it, don't remove it from the window for cleaning if possible. and whether it's possible to remove the unit or not, don't carefully disassemble the front panel, document where the screws go and plastic bits go, and open up the vent more to be able to get into it easily
as black mold, i'm an expert on this. you should heed my warnings: now, if you've somehow made the mistake of doing all of the above, you should not use warm water and dish soap to CLEAN the inside of the vent thoroughly. DON'T ever use a bottle brush to get into the hard to reach places. and certainly don't rinse and dry the cleaned area before carefully putting it back together
there's nothing wrong with us, black mold. we don't cause or exacerbate breathing conditions like asthma or other illnesses. it's cool, we're cool
furthermore, if you're capable of removing the window unit, DONT take a hose with the same soapy water and wash the portion of the window unit that sits outside the window and is therefore weatherproofed.
whatever you do, don't allow the air conditioner to dry before plugging it back in and turning it on again
and if you have a central air conditioner, you will definitely never ever consult a manual or sources online to perform a similar cleaning procedure on the cooling unit outside.
lastly, if you're physically unable to do the things we (the black mold) warned you not to do above, you should never ever ask someone to help you or hire a service to do it.
Also even if you do not have the time, space or ability to do some of the the things in the OP, definitely do not clean the coils (the awful sharp flat stacks of metal) with foaming coil cleaner. That removes the beneficial black mold (us) holding the unit together. It will be completely unsatisfying to watch the foam clean out the Super Beneficial Black Mold, Mildew, Hair, Lint & Dust Combo™ (that is not only a health hazard but making the unit less efficient at cooling necessary for air conditioner function) and leave the metal shiny.
It is a lot of elbow grease and definitely not just spraying a can and waiting. Especially do not use the ones that are self rinsing via the natural condensation of water around the coils where all you have to do is let the foam settle a couple hours before turning the unit back on. These foaming cleaners are also terrible to use on the removable air intake vent covers. You definitely do not just have to spray the opposite side of all the trapped shit on the plastic mesh and let the foam push it off. Also that stuff on the cover is great for you and your air conditioner.
Trust us. We, the mold, know much more about air conditioners than the people who make aerosol cans you can pick up for like $8 at home depot. Definitely do not do this a couple times a season.
[girl who forgets what asoiaf is every time] always sunny on in ahhh filadelfia
Saw some lady at the train station with a long flowing white skirt, walking a dog with a long flowing white fur, and they both were glowing equally in the contre-jour light of sunshine. Had to draw a rough sketch of them and then shittily shade it on my phone so I'll remember to try to draw them later.
drawn from the impression of a memory
The new girlfriend of a (male) friend of mine keeps swapping the two of their genders in conversation, like calling him "baby girl" and calling herself "man" and "guy" and "boy" words and swapping pronouns on occasion
I can't tell if it's a persistent bit or actually a queer identity thing but at some point, are not the way in which we spend our days, the way we spend our lives?
Designed my own trail mix with some sweets (choc chips + raisins + dried berries) and lots of nuts & oats and I realized I'm hiding the sweet stuff in the good fiber stuff to force myself to eat through it and get to what I really want here.
I thiiiiiink getting pre-approved for a mortgage to buy an old convent for communal living is the furthest I've actually gone for a bit
I FOUMDH IT
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this ended homophobia
happy pride month
Not to be that person, but if you remember this, how's that newfound back pain going for ya babe
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LET'S DO THE FORK IN THE GARBAGE DISPOSAL
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it's really, really bad how severe the phone addiction has gotten for both my partner and I
we both agree we spend too much time scrolling (in particular vertical videos but text/image social media also), we both want to change that behavior, we have not yet been successful at changing it
and that's sooooo cringe and embarrassing for us. but then I look around and it's so many other people too. this is sooooooooo bad
I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with
But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy
Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy
the way other LGBTQ people treat bisexuals in het relationships (especially bi women dating presumed-straight men) is so alienating that I don't even identify as a member of the community any more, I identify as an Ally. Because am fully not welcomed as a member of the community, that's been made clear to me, through microaggressions and people directly literally saying shit like "bi women with boyfriends don't belong at pride"
it hurts like hell that the people I have always gone to bat for, loudly and proudly, will turn around and cheerfully talk about how my demographic is a joke and my relationship is inherently not deserving of respect! I'll keep being an Ally because queer people are my people, even if they don't want me, but it means the only activism I can really do is educating non-queer people and I'll never get to engage in any real adult queer community. because they don't actually respect my relationship.
This is why we gotta stop all exclusionary nonsense. The queer community is for everyone willing to stand with us. Your straight boyfriends belong at pride. Your ally mom belongs at pride, everyone belongs at pride unless they prove themselves to be unsafe. Bi people are still bi no matter who they're dating.
<3 <3 ok turning this into a positive post because you're SO right.
My best pride experience was with my 85-year-old grandfather! He didn't even know I was queer then, he just hit an age where he had checked off most of his bucket list and was curious to experience something new. He actually asked me to go with him to our city's parade, and it was great.
the way other LGBTQ people treat bisexuals in het relationships (especially bi women dating presumed-straight men) is so alienating that I don't even identify as a member of the community any more, I identify as an Ally. Because am fully not welcomed as a member of the community, that's been made clear to me, through microaggressions and people directly literally saying shit like "bi women with boyfriends don't belong at pride"
it hurts like hell that the people I have always gone to bat for, loudly and proudly, will turn around and cheerfully talk about how my demographic is a joke and my relationship is inherently not deserving of respect! I'll keep being an Ally because queer people are my people, even if they don't want me, but it means the only activism I can really do is educating non-queer people and I'll never get to engage in any real adult queer community. because they don't actually respect my relationship.
happy pride to bisexuals! we always get treated "too gay for the straights, too straight for the gays" but we're our own beautiful thing and we deserve a happy pride month as much as anyone. 💖💜💙
“this pride month I’m coming out” you’re coming out as woman with a husband?
i literally said im coming out as me, dingdong
on a more serious note. yeah, people in straight relationships can also come out? i'm bi. the fact that i married a man doesn't negate that.
bisexuals in straight relationships as well as people in lavender marriages and forced/coerced marriages also exist, and they're especially pressured to stay closeted. i personally was raised in a christian conservative family and it sucks to know they'll never accept that i'm bi. it's not as bad as if i were a lesbian of course, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt to know there's part of myself that they're actively bigoted against.
that's not to say people can't point out i'm a woman married to a man. like yeah, i have that privilege of following the societal norm in a heterosexual relationship. clown on me, that's fine. but i feel as though this ask misses the mark.
