I need sleep to do battle again tomorrow

| Jayy, thirties | current favorite emoji is 🌞| sideblog is @readwritejayy |

[jayykesley]

my brain, stomping it’s feet: i wanna use one inconsequential negative experience to spiral into an echo-chamber of self hatred!!!

me, stirring my tea with my little plastic knife: no, we don’t do that anymore

[mobius-m-mobius]

#don't be suspicious.gif 🎵

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

full offense but mina didn't spend the last fucking quarter of the novel doing literally every single fucking thing she could to keep herself in good spirits after her assault (even after she's been deemed unclean by the heavens) and taking everything dracula forced on her (especially the telepathic link) and turning it against him to help her loved ones kick his fucking ass just for dracula adaptations to go "but what if they had a sexy dark romance <3 what if she was the reincarnation of his dead wife <3" what if you go fuck yourself. what then

[dogpuppy]

[coffeeshopsinfall]

Sometimes, you just need to read a book about a woman having a mental health crisis. It will either fix something inside of you or mess you up even more. Both if you're lucky.

[gargoylegf]

God has given mankind the wisdom and creativity to create instant ramen.

Give praise unto the Lord for he is good, and his mercy endureth forever!

[astrotheyge]

Project Hail Mary (2026) Kier Lehman, Music Supervisor

[ecceagnesdarling]

Dating and marriage is so scary. What if he looks at me and is only able to see "catholic ✅️ not bad looking ✅️ good with kids ✅️" so he decides I'll do and starts acting the way he expects me to want him to act and then I don't notice and get married but he doesn't like me specifically, he just didn't dislike me and I happened to be there, so we spend our days solving the normal issues that show up until we burn out of this and start fighting about dishes and the kid's behavior, nothing truly bad, but since he never liked me specifically, the mundane kinda sucks and we'll be told all marriages are like that because taking care of a house and raising kids is hard by itself and we'll to believe that the dishes and the time it takes to get ready to mass really are to blame and we never solve anything and we really start to believe this is how things goes and I'm just feeling sad because I have too high ideals for happiness and I should just accept that arguing about the washing machine will just be part of my routine now and other woman have it so much worse, it's just the washing machine

[tokkibean]

i do not “delete sentences” when they start “hindering the plot” i COPY PASTE THEM into a SEPARATE DOC made just for keeping all my USELESS LINES that i will also NEVER USE so therefore i should JUST DELETE THEM but i DONT because id FEEL BAD if i did

[harpyharpyharpy]

You don't actually have to kill your darlings. You can just put them in the oubliette #myoubliette

[scacao-blog]

I have to put them in timeout until I have some emotional detachment to them so I can finally delete them

[wizardarchetypes]

scariest thing is when you're a kid in a huge family run by women and then you go over to a house that's deeply patriarchal & misogynistic. i remember when i was 8 years old and i got invited over to my friend's house for a big birthday party with her entire extended family. after the enormous lunch that served over 30 people, i got called into the kitchen to do literally hundreds of dishes, alongside all the other little girls and women. not only were the boys our age all excused from the meal to go play, but all the grown men went to the living room to watch sports together and drink. i couldn't believe it. i asked why some of the grownups were watching TV but the girls had to clean up and all the women just laughed and laughed at me.

[wizardarchetypes]

as a teenager when i learned the word "sexist" and used it the older women balked at it and tried to convince me this arrangement was a good thing actually because women need space from men, and cleaning in the kitchen after parties is a sacred domain of safety. and i was like actually i think needing private safety from your own husbands, sons, and brothers sounds even worse. like do you understand you somehow made this even more troubling than it already was

[wizardarchetypes]

like i think it's fine if a bunch of sister-in-laws/wives want time together without their husbands & brothers to talk together in camaraderie. i'm not judging that. obviously. but dare i ask why the women's meetup could only take place while doing manual labor for a nearby room full of men

[wizardarchetypes]

it's also interesting how this ingrained rigid social structures in children bc i was mostly friends with boys at that age and in fact was at the birthday party of a friend who was a boy so i remember complaining to him at school that it was weird all the girls had to help clean up because i didn't know any of the other little girls so i felt really left out that i didn't get to hang out with my own friends for a chunk of the party and he and the other little boys were like "that's just the rules."

[wizardarchetypes]

yeah growing up in the Appalachian bible belt I absolutely often saw this re-enforced by women.

[omtai]

Lolll *washes up unconscious on the shore* Yaaaaayyy

[thoughtportal]

Happy Labor Day. Today I learned about probably the first strike to happen IN SPACE.

[belligerentbagel]

“We would never work 16 hours a day for 84 straight days on the ground, and we should not be expected to do it here in space.“ 

The day when three NASA astronauts staged a strike in space (Hiltzik, LA Times)

[themythicalcodfish]

SOLIDARITY IN SPACE!!!!!

[drendarmorevo]

The opening poster is missing a *lot* of nuance in favor of a message, and makes a totally bullshit supposition of the “punishment.” Because NASA doesn’t work that way.

Now, before I begin, I am in no way undercutting the efforts of these astronauts or their work and what they helped accomplish as far as how they contributed to how astronauts are treated in space. I simply wish to clarify a few things.

Firstly, the three astronauts were, in fact being overworked, they were being given so many tasks that during morning check-ins only one was attending so that the other two could continue working, they were badly behind schedule and this resulted in what we currently call crunch. This had also resulted in a shortening of their sleep schedules which led to increased stress, this is compounded by the fact that sleep in space fucking sucks. Microgravity, machine noises, disrupted circadian rhythm, and the literal inability to “lay down” makes achieving sleep frustrating at best.

So, the overworked, under-rested, weary astronauts… forgot to check in for a single orbital period. They worked the whole time.

This fatigue was noted afterwards and the day after NASA had what Carr referred to as “the first sensitivity session in space” where their schedules were re-evaluated.

Suggestions of a “strike in space” are unsourced and exaggerated. And near as we can tell NASA took the whole matter reasonably and DID change how astronauts were scheduled.

Now, l let’s talk about the hardcore bullshit of the consequences. Mister “makes shit up” in the opening tweet is misrepresenting facts. First, the youngest astronaut on the mission, Gibson, was already 37 when he flew, the others were 41 and 43, why is this important? Because Skylab 4 happened in 1973-74, the next planned manned spaceflight? Apollo-Soyuz in 1975, the crew for which had been chosen before Skylab 4’s crew had even gotten back to Earth, and the next manned mission wasn’t until 1981. In the intervening period the only one that would’ve been even up for consideration would’ve probably been Gibson and that’s if he had kept up with his physical fitness in those seven years. Pogue retired from NASA a few months after returning home, Carr retired in 77, and Gibson retired in 1982 after serving as CAPCOM for STS-1 in 1981 (meaning he WAS CONSIDERED FOR THE CREW), he stated he was “uninterested” in flying on shuttle missions.

Rant over. Short version, astronauts were overworked, forgot to check in, had their schedules re-evaluated, resulting in general reassessment for future missions, all had good careers after the fact.

[dailycatsblog]

[the-composite-doll]

Wait is that THIS cat?

IT IS

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

I do also think that many problems and frustrations in Henry Spencer's life could have been solved or at least lessened if he had put Shawn in a theater class or improv club as a kid

[tzikeh]

Maryland to Become First US State to Ban Surveillance Pricing That Charges More After Mining Personal Data

Maryland will become the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in retail stores, after passing Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.

Jesus fucking christ that this exists in the first place

[boyslit]

I WAS FUCKING WONDERING WHAT THOSE DIGITAL PRICE TAGS WERE ABOUT SUDDENLY i had hoped they were so the workers didn't have to finagle those little papers into the slider part anymore 😭

[eclipticasolaris]

Hi, yes, that is the OFFICIAL excuse made to me by the guy replacing the paper tags with digital ones at my local Walmart, but the end goal is to remove the numbers off the shelf entirely, replacing them with QR codes that you have to scan with the app…. Which requires your login information….. and also stores your card information so even if you didn’t use your Walmart account at the physical checkout, if you used a card they recognize, they assign that purchase to your Walmart account purchase history.

I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.

Sure. That’s how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:

Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.

No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.

So here’s what we’re gonna do gang:

Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:

Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.

Express that you didn’t actually want it, you just couldn’t see on the shelf how much it was.

POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.

When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you don’t want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)

If it’s a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If it’s a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.

In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.

Yes, call your reps. Yes, push for more legislation like this in more places. But also take an extra minute out of your shopping trip to MAKE IT HURT for companies to pull this shit.

[antisocialxconstruct]

I've seen some people in the notes express (very fair) concern that this is only going to inconvenience already under-paid laborers, and not have any impact on corporate. While I can't speak for every company or every store, I do work in a grocery store and I can tell you this is precisely the kind of thing that would have an impact, especially if people are doing it en masse. Stores absolutely track their shrink numbers, and they do draw distinctions between what gets stolen, damaged, or wasted for other reasons. If people are making it clear that the reason they're bringing things to the cashier is that the prices are not adequately represented on the displays, and rather than improving business it's wasting product, slowing down transactions, and causing confusion and mistrust in customers, that is a language that shareholders speak.

[huariqueje]

Whispers of light - Line Holtegaard

Danish , b, 1980 -

Oil on canvas , 100 x 150 cm.

[smallrituals]

MY OWN THOUGHTS by Helena Minginowicz (Polish, b. 1984)

acrylic on paper towel, 23x48 cm, 2026