Messing With Sunshine

Joy, 28, Fandoms, TV, and refusing to go outside bring me joy. This blog has a lot of fandoms, feels, and ships. Sterek. Coldflash, Codywan and Jangobi, Catwin, Captain Swan. Stucky. Zutara. DW, HP, Miraculous Ladybug, Leverage, Hamilton, and lots of others. Check out the Navigation tag at the top for a list (it might be out of date). I'm a mess but I love making new friends so come say hi!

[moghedien]

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

[moghedien]

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

[medusadyke]

academic dishonesty is not something you can spin as moral lol i do not want to share a career field let alone a social sphere with a bunch of chatgpt using ass bitches

[medusadyke]

"you're just scared your diploma is going to devalue" i'm afraid you dumb bitches are going to become my colleagues and drag social services to hell

[hylianengineer]

I'm afraid they'll become scientists and data that lives depend on will turn out to be wrong - and people will die.

I'm afraid they'll become engineers and sign off on bridge designs that collapse - and people will die.

I'm afraid they'll become medical professionals who don't know what they're doing - and people will die.

The assumption that academic dishonesty is okay is rooted in the idea that what you're learning to do doesn't matter.

[constance-mcentee-deactivated20]

"The assumption that academic dishonesty is okay is rooted in the idea that what you're learning to do doesn't matter."

[clonerightsagenda]

I think this is just a trend everywhere but I've been very frustrated this week by how much admin work is being outsourced to me as the patient/customer.

My orthodontist tells me I can make an appointment with the surgeon. I call the surgeon. They tell me I need a new referral. I call the orthodontist. They do a referral. I call the surgeon. Referral didn't come through. They tell me about their special unique system we have to use. I call the ortho again and walk them through the referral. I call the surgeon. They say the referral was missing some details so they have to do it again. I call the ortho.

The insurance company calls me about repair shops. I give them the name of the repair shop which I already gave them yesterday. They say they're not in their system but I can use them, but I have to call the repair shop to ask them to contact the insurance company. I call the repair shop and they say the insurance company is supposed to email them.

I feel like at a certain point these constant fetch quests become unreasonable?? Is it too much to expect these groups to communicate with each other instead of making me run back and forth between them???

[clonerightsagenda]

Made this post and then the new property manager (who started on Monday and only finally emailed us today because I sent a vaguely professionally hostile email to her boss because I hadn't heard anything and was not convinced she existed) asked for a list of open action items which her predecessor should have had but apparently wasn't keeping track of, which I learned when I met her boss and provided her with the list of open action items, which I guess tragically died in a fire in the last 2 weeks since she was sitting at my kitchen table, being menaced by the skull. How many people's jobs am I doing now

[hlahlahlahlahly]

Executive Function Theft

The phrase arrived in my head so completely formed and concrete that I couldn’t believe it wasn’t already established in the lexicon, but at

[clonerightsagenda]

It has a name!!!

[lastoneout]

Gotta share the most evil form of this I had to deal with recently. Despite the fact that it's illegal, Banner Health, at least in Arizona, has an unspoken policy of never sending medical records to providers who don't work for Banner even when being repeatedly contacted across phone, fax, and email with all the forms and such filled out by the patient by those doctors. Like my pain doctor straight up told me trying to get Banner to send the records over was pointless and I'd just have to get them and take them to him myself.

And he's not lying, and it gets worse. When you request your records yourself they charge you for it. But, funnily enough, I had to request them myself after like a month of trying to get my diagnostic info sent over so my doctor would have record of my EDS and the major surgery I had in 2025. So not only did my disabled, autistic, wheelchair user ass have to spend a month calling people, going to offices, filling out forms, and a whole bunch of admin work that ate up my very limited useable free time and spoons, I ended up having to request the records myself and take them to my non-Banner clinic and then. And then. Banner had the audacity to try to charge me for that.

They refused to do their job for a month and then made me do it and charged me for it. Being a patient is a full time job and I fucking hate it. Don't even get me started on the fucking six month process of getting my wheelchair while I was also prepping for a major surgery. There is ONE company that Medicaid contracts with for wheelchairs and they will not do a single thing if you don't call them first. Took my mom nearly a year to get her chair because they just don't do anything if you don't call them every single day. I couldn't even get into the clinic bcs half the time they don't pick up when you call and the doors were all locked.

This is not the job of the patient but they face no consequences for outsourcing everything to us because they're above making phone calls or sending a fax or even opening a fucking door.

[icantspellthings]

Top 3 things people love insisting they don't have despite it being impossible

Pronouns

An accent

Bias

[icantspellthings]

Im going to shoot you people with a fucking gun

[televisionenjoyer]

Everyone has an accent it came free with your language 🙄

[unstill-deactivated20260502]

nothing makes me feel more alive than being insane about a little show

[dbdauplifts]

We're wishing happy birthday to the larger-than-life Lukas Gage, who plays our insatiable Cat King! 🎉

Lukas commands attention when he's on screen—he's simply as iconic as the character he plays. We hope his day is exhilarating! 🎂

If you have a moment today, send some love his way! 💙

[pearlycomplaints]

I was watching the Leverage DVD extras that I got from the library and I found out that Parker's counterpart in the Two Live Crew Job is the show's crime/pickpocket consultant! And the character is actually named after him. His name is Apollo Robbins. I love this show SO much! I love that they actually had a thief consultant on the payroll. Iconic! Such a criminally underrated show

[naamahdarling]

I told him he was NOT allowed to bite me and do NOT do that again!!! and he literally bluescreened. Did Not Compute.

[stillhere-erehllits]

This a a reminder to not fall victim to the sunk-cost fallacy. Just because you invested time and energy into something, does not mean you should indefinitely waste more time and energy on it, if you decide it’s not what you want anymore. This goes for anything, from books, to relationships, to jobs, to hobbies, etc.

If it’s not serving you anymore, move on.

[finnglas]

This is honestly one of the places I find Marie Kondo's advice most helpful. I stop, look at the thing I've spent time and money on only to realize I dislike, and I say, "Thank you for teaching me something about myself and my preferences. I think I've learned this particular lesson and we can part ways now."

And then I don't feel like I "wasted" things or made a mistake. I just tried one path of learning about myself, learned something, and now it's time for a different path. Works a lot better for my brain.

[ekjohnston]

The time Marie Kondo said "you can thank a a shirt you've never worn for teaching you about your taste", thereby making it NOT A WASTE literally rewired my whole brain. Acknowledge the thing and move forward, even if that means leaving the thing behind.

[peatchsoda]

your dear daddy x love sea boy, bye 👋

[ahotknife]

your work does not belong in the age gap tag if the aforementioned gap of age is not in the double digits. five years? i have good personal friends five years younger/older than me that's nothing. there is nothing scandalous about a 2-8 year age gap. we have another word for that, it's called a "peer". a real age gap is bare minimum a decade. a real age gap is two decades if you're committed to really doing it right

[ironicalmonocle]

Break them apart at your own risk 😇

[flygoing]

laptop overheating?? pour water on it to cool it down!

[chastittie]

i trusted you

[flygoing]

Do not trust people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people

[nonglukest]

chanel boy

[boysbeloving]

fav boy of the week

sky

[animentality]

[naamahdarling]

It's called bodily autonomy, you douchebags, fucking let old people do what they want. I hope she died with her back blown out and absolutely blasted on her substance of choice.

[kyraneko]

Yeah, bodily autonomy and the dignity of risk and the fucking fact that if you're dying anyway, there's no benefit whatsoever to wasting your last hours of earthly existence in the bland beige walls of a nursing home or hospital and it should not only be allowed but offered as a service to bring the dead or dying (or not dying yet) person out into the world to enjoy those parts of it that aren't allowed inside the bland beige walls of a nursing home or hospital.

Let them be taken outside. Let them be taken home. Let them be taken to their favorite places. Let them use their substances of choice. Let them see their pets. Let them do really inadvisable bucket list items. Let them risk precipitating their deaths. Let them go out on their own terms, and also let them hang out on their own terms in the meantime.

Also, deschedule ALL drugs for people on hospice. "You can't do that, you might die" "I have some news for you about the existing situation." I mean come on.

(Minnesota recently passed a "happy hour" law allowing nursing home patients to drink alcohol. It's a good first step.)

[my-dailydreams]