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[dragonprinsessa]

reincarnated soulmates is one of my favorite tropes

[thurstonwaffles]

Hey Shrimp Gang! Have you seen Thurston‘s favorite toy?

[dankmemeuniversity]

[explorerrowan]

They’re also shooting for 100% renewable plastic sources by 2030! All of the soft plant/leaf elements in sets right now and going forward are made out of bioplastic made from sugarcane, and they’re working on getting the regular hard plastic bricks out of that, too.

[lynnafred]

They’ve done it, actually! The full bricks are in the prototype stage now, and are expected to be 100% biodegradable without the need for a commercial compost facility. It’s very cool. Right now they’re testing the durability and playability of the bricks and seeing what needs to be revised/reworked on their final model.

[friedgengarz]

[fullhalalalchemist]

So its that easy huh

[cercerstuff]

As much as I love me some great environmental science, I can’t help but feel a small sliver of my inner child die at the words ‘Biodegradable Lego’ because this kills the imagery of the tradition of hand-me-down lego in a family extending so far as to have family lineage lego collections going back 1000 years held with great respect but still an understanding that it’s a toy as well as a familial spiritual artifact.

Plus you just know some kids are gonna forget about their super cool space ship or whatever they were playing with in the garden for like a week and it’s gonna rain and it’s gonna be a real tear-fest especially as now you gotta buy your kid more lego doesn’t he get that it’s expensive goddamn little shit.

Still totally worth it to save the planet tho.

[hobbinch]

Just so folks know, the sustainable Lego bricks wouldn’t like. Melt in the rain, or anything the last commenter is describing being worried about. That seems to be baseless projection and assumptions. This 2018 article explains that the company is looking to replicate the durability and texture of current bricks with sustainable materials. 

[welcometonegrotown]

It’s an extremely popular opinion among middle and upper class white people.

[reverseracism]

Also, aside from this completely uneducated reasoning as to why minimum wage was created…

I can guarantee that there are tens of thousands of teenagers who have to pay bills and help support their families or are the only financial supporter to their family.

[chescaleigh]

not to mention, if minimum wage was meant solely for high school students how would the business survive when students are in school?? are they only supposed to be open on the weekend? this “unpopular opinion” makes no sense.

[geocaprican]

Unpopular fact: in the 70s a minimum wage worker could pay for college with a summer job.

Unpopular fact: minimum wage was conceived to be the minimum amount of money a person would need to support themselves and their families when working 40 hours per week.

Unpopular fact: minimum wage was created because working men and women in this nation fought–figuratively in the negotiating room and literally in the streets–for a fair working wage, with sweat and blood and tears and death.

Unpopular fact: military service personnel are not the only people who have fought and died for your rights as American: labor leaders and common workers laid down their lives so that you could have a 40 hour work week instead of 80 hours; so you could have a 2 day weekend instead of none; so you could have lunch and bathroom breaks instead of going hungry and shitting your pants,; so you could have a three day weekend in September.

Capitalism would NEVER dole out basic human decency without literal human sacrifice.

[hazeldomain]

Unpopular opinion: if minimum wage is meant for kids, it should be illegal to pay adults minimum wage.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[doctorslippery]

A wizard…a druid…Dr Midnite lives here.

[midwest-merman-deactivated20210]

I love this song.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

not to be dramatic, but hearing someone acknowledge their mental illness and their symptoms in casual conversation or social setting is so affirming.

when someone says “yeah, I’ve been tired lately because of my depression. I’m gonna talk to my doctor about my meds,” or like they mention coping with intrusive thoughts, or delusions, or hallucinations, or focus issues, or compulsive behavior, etc. etc., like it’s normal, bc for them and for me and for so many people, one or more of those things ARE normal……..

TALK about a shot of serotonin STRAIGHT to my whole being

[satanhaus-deactivated20220217]

yo does anyone else feel CONSTANTLY guilty? like you’ve always done something wrong but you don’t know what it is?

[why-am-i-even-on-here]

Yes, and I’ve spoken to my therapist about it, who offered an explanation:

She says that people who from a young age were made to feel like they kept doing things wrong - people who’s parents had impossibly high standards for them, people who were bullied, people who have special needs, people who didn’t develop crushes on the “right” people, people who didn’t act like the “right” gender - basically ended up being made to feel guilty so much that guilt became their default response to everything. Guilt became the emotional response to anything which the person didn’t already have a set emotion for.

People for whom guilt is the default emotional response are also more likely to have low self-esteem, doubt their own experiences, and experience impostor syndrome. So, watch out for that too guys

[rocket-pool]

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Budget 2019: Albertans to pay more as United Conservative government reins in spending

Cuts coming for post-secondary, municipal grants

Alberta will cut public sector jobs, end the cap on post-secondary tuition, chop municipal funding and delay infrastructure projects, all with the aim of returning to a balanced budget by 2023.

The budget — the first under the province’s new United Conservative Party government — forecasts a return to a modest surplus of $584 million in the 2022-23 fiscal year.

“It has been decades in this province since we’ve actually seen a budget that has resulted in a reduction in operation spending,” Finance Minister Travis Toews told reporters during a news conference Thursday.

Toews said the government will make additional cuts if global conditions change or Alberta isn’t able to access new pipelines.

“We’re committed to balancing the budget in four years,” he said. “But should circumstances change, we will adjust accordingly.”

Rachel Notley, the Alberta NDP leader and former premier, called the budget “a lie.”

“A lie because none of what [Premier Jason] Kenney ran on is in this budget,” Notley said. “He’s not creating jobs. He is cutting front-line services and he raised taxes and fees on Albertans.

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @ontarionewsnow @abpoli @politicsofcanada

[topaz-eyes]

Jesus fucking Christ.  It’s quite clear Kenney is attacking anyone who might be even a bit progressive with this shitstain of a budget.

Seniors on fixed incomes?  Enjoy your out-of-control electricity bills that will no longer be capped at a reasonable 6.8 cents/kWh.  My energy bill last month (September) was already at the 6.8 cents/kWh cap, btw, so who knows where they’ll end up?  At least I’m in a position to afford it.

Also enjoy finding the money to pay those increased property taxes on your home because municipal budgets have taken a hit.

Working- and middle-income taxpayers?  De-indexing the tax credits means your taxes effectively go up every year.  Bet you didn’t see that one coming, UCP voters.

Severely disabled on AISH?  Removing cost of inflation increases is just fucking vindictive on Kenney’s part.

K-12?  K-12 funding is frozen for 3 years at $8.2 billion, with cuts to operational funds, at a time when populations are growing.

Post-secondary students?  Obviously Kenney thinks they shouldn’t be more than indentured servants.  Getting rid of the provincial tuition and education amounts?  A 7% increase in tuition per year for the next 3 years?  Increase in student loan interest rates by 1%?  You know damn well the post-secondary schools will increase tuition to the max because their own operating grants have been cut by 11% and will remain so.

I hope the UCP voters are fucking happy.  They voted for this.

[fugayyyku]

Jason Kenny is killing hundreds of jobs.

Conservatives don’t care about workers and they never fucking have

[tygermama]

“It has been decades in this province since we’ve actually seen a budget that has resulted in a reduction in operation spending,”

DON’T YOU JUST LOVE THE WAY THIS IS PHRASED TO LEAVE OUT THE FACT THAT THE CONSERVATIVES WERE IN POWER FOR ALL BUT FOUR YEARS OF THOSE DECADES?!

[xelbleedsglitter]

screaming at self to paint the fucking deer already

[xelbleedsglitter]

Here’s the fucking deer.

[xelbleedsglitter]

I scanned the fucking deer.  I might post him properly on my art account, but here he is clearer for anyone that wanted to see. 

[angryschnauzer]

Part of me didnt want to hit like or reblog because the notes were so beautiful…

But then i thought; this art is even more beautiful. And now hello 10002 notes.

[radha-the-introvert]

This deserves a second reblog

[shayberri789]

@annoyedlord

[boxodice]

angry yuan-ti prince guards his jewels

[devilcroc]

the biggest questions detective pikachu answered

no one but professional trainers has a full team of 6 in the pokemon universe because it would be a fucking gigantic hassle to deal with 6 animals, let alone different types that need different things

some people don’t evolve their pokemon because imagine having a fucking cat and then you can choose to make the cat five times as big and strong. would you do this if you weren’t battling.

[sindri42]

Technically if your cat isn’t battling it doesn’t evolve.

That does however give cat owners a strong incentive to not let their cat outside, because realistically any cat that is allowed to roam free is gonna rack up exp until it evolves.

[such-justice-wow]

I let my litten out one day and a week later incineroar rips my door off and demands wet food only

[schistcity]

we’re all getting “older” but age is a relative thing. i’ve licked things that are 250 million years old. you’re not that old and you’re not worth licking. 

[random-cluster-missile---moved]

Clare this is by far the most terrifying post you have ever made

[iriisid]

Is this person an archaeologist and referring to the “lick test” for fossils or does she go down on the old gods…?

[schistcity]

[corsolanite]

[everythingfox]

You know when your pet falls asleep on you and you don’t move because you don’t want to wake them? This is what this dog is doing with the cat and I don’t know how much more of this I can handle

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

Anyway if you haven’t checked out the #AbledsAreWeird hashtag on Twitter you are MISSING OUT.

[bluemoonbleeding]

My contribution to this is a girl asking ‘leg day?’ when she saw me struggling to walk. I told her I had a disability and she said ‘you’re good’. ?????

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

@deafeningsketchgalaxyhound I cannot believe you have HIDDEN THIS IN MY REPLIES I laughed so hard when I got this email notification you have no idea 😂

[themadcapmathematician]

So many people have asked if i use my cane for, like, an aesthetic. It’s not fancy or decorated, its a $15 cane from walmart.

[iholdmysaiproperly]

I’m a forearm crutch user, but I recently went to a fancy dress ball and used a fancy cane instead. Not only did most people assume it was for the aesthetic, there were actually people there USING THEM FOR THR AESTHETIC!

It was so annoying. Every time I wanted to use the stairlift I had to hike up my dress to display my leg braces so the attendant could see I’m Actually Disabled and not just another jerk with a cane.

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

Wow, what if you needed a cane but didn’t have leg braces? They would have denied you access to the stairlift? WTAF.

[nessautisms]

@ that one time i got a tic in science class last year and he got mad at me and i said “oh i’m sorry i have Tourette’s i can’t control it-“ and he deadass said “WHOS TOURETTE?? DONT BLAME HER ON THIS-“

boy.

[elhersfromhekate-deactivated202]

I was at a Pizza Hut once with my crutches and I was in a corner so I propped them in the corner (out of the way but I could pick them up. And no joke the waitress stayed at my table for 20 freaking minutes askin me over and over if she could take my crutches to the coat room. Here are the replies I gave often repeated but a short list:

- no, I need them to move and they aren’t in the way. Thanks.

- No thanks, I cannot move without them and i prefer not to flag you down to go to the bathroom so…

- I need them please don’t take them.

- are you fine with me flagging you down every five minutes to fetch them so I can go to the bathroom or get myself a coke? No? Leave them

And eventually…

- okay, if there is a fire or terrorist attack are you prepared to say now in front of witnesses that you will go to the coatroom, bring me my crutches and then leave for safety? No? Then leave them.

She didn’t get it even after that.

My friend was embarrassed and told me just to let her (no longer friends because it turned out she was horrid) and eventually at the 25min mark the waitress stormed to her manager, had a go at him, only for him to have a go back.

She returned and asked if I wanted the buffet or to order. The buffet you have to go up and get on your own. I was in freaking crutches. So I explained again….her reply?

“But it’s cheaper”

So I explained again.

Another ten minutes later I managed to get her to write down my order.

I would have left but said friend didn’t want to. Again red flag.

[superdoodleoakley]

i use forearm crutches. we were waiting outside a restaurant and i asked if there was somewhere i could sit, so the hostess led me inside to an empty table. the whole way there, she kept her arm around me to “help” (i put that in quotes because she was doing a pretty bad job of it) me walk and i just?? that’s what the crutches are for, ma’am

[anexperimentallife]

I can usually hide when I’m having a “hand curling into a claw day” from nerve damage just by putting my hand in my pocket, but no matter how many times I explain that I only need my cane SOMETIMES, whenever I’m without it, it’s, “Oh, so you’re all better now?” And next time I need it, “What happened? I thought you didn’t need the cane anymore.” I’ve given up on explaining, so now I just make up ridiculous stories. “Yeah, alien invasion. Got tagged by a disintegration ray.” Or “My real leg is in the shop. I’m just using a cane while I get used to the rental.”

(I wouldn’t mind so much except that the people asking are so often people I have already explained it to.)

[narwhalsarefalling]

someone once asked if i was actually autistic bc i was actually talking 🙄

[justdyingslowly]

able bodied people really fucking struggle with the concept of feeling sick forever. They’ve never been sick forever, just a few days or maybe a few weeks. Trying to suggest that feeling sick can last FOREVER, that you will feel poorly/be injured FOREVER and ALWAYS need support with it… something short circuits. If you have a good day it means you’re almost over your ‘illness’ to them because they can’t imagine a life where the ‘illness’ never stops. Doesn’t matter if its nerve damage, physical, mental, digestive - they just cant picture actually struggling.