random musings

of a jaded life

[ommanyte]

I’m going to make a new font called Times New Bastard

[ommanyte]

It’s Times New Roman but every seventh letter is jarringly sans serif

[bouquetoftwelve]

[val-ritz]

With one line you activated every bone in my body and all of them are in attack mode

[identitty-dickruption]

when abled people talk about employability + disability I don't think they entirely understand the domino effect of unemployment/underemployment that can happen in a disabled person's life

the kinds of jobs that are considered 'unskilled' or 'entry level' are inaccessible for various reasons (e.g. involve having to stand up for long periods of time)

the time in your life when many people are expected to start working these entry level jobs is while you're still in school. the sheer exhaustion of school means that even when those jobs aren't completely inaccessible, many disabled people simply do not have the energy to do them

without any work experience, it's very hard to get work. the kinds of jobs that tend to have more accessible workplaces are either not entry-level or require a certain level of education to enter them. also without having gone through a hiring process before, it's very hard to even know what to expect from a job, which only creates additional barriers

even if you do have work experience, being disabled is not really taken as a valid reason to have gaps in your resume, which means you immediately look like a suspicious/risky hire to a HR department

disabled people, once we do have jobs, are more likely to be underemployed than abled people, meaning that we have fewer opportunities to demonstrate our skills in the workplace, and are less likely to be able to accumulate a back catalogue of good references to take with us in the 'getting a new job' mission. this itself keeps us underemployed

NOT to mention the fact that the exact same process can happen with respect to education (the being in special ed -> being able to go to university pipeline is basically non-existent. and if it is there, it is very hard to navigate). I'm not sure yet another 'employable skills program' can get us out of this one, chief

[seefasters]

this woman’s gender is unparalleled

[juliaferraioli]

goals

[juliaferraioli]

I had an article published today! 🎉

[strawlessandbraless]

Oh to be a Dumbo Octopus without a care 🐙

The dumbo octopus (Grimpoteuthis) is a deep sea animal that lives on the ocean floor at extreme depths of 9,800 to 13,000 feet.

Females usually find a mate around their second birthday and take a seamen packet from the male so they can fertilize their eggs on the go when they please. They can even get pregnant while being pregnant, they’re basically always pregnant.

Love to sea it 🌊

[juliaferraioli]

pregnancy inception

[juliaferraioli]

in so many of the little videos that my partner and I have taken together over the years, we are mouthing "I love you"

a decade's worth of "I love you"s

💜

[bricktoygrapher]

Rainy day ☔

[juliaferraioli]

perfection 😍

[thiefking]

actually you know what that's exactly it i would rather someone add 5 parantheticals after every sentence than use tone indicators it's 1. accomplishing SO much more in terms of clarity 2. extremely funny to look at depending on how they're used

[juliaferraioli]

/me stares in Scheme

[attackfish]

As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

[juliaferraioli]

What about an incredibly awkward frog that managed to sneak up on people and croak at the worst possible times?

Opening a new pyramid? Middle of speech CROAK.

Sneaking up on a crocodile? Inopportune CROAK.

Temple of Osiris rituals? Mid-exultation CROAK.

[juliaferraioli]

i want to outfit my dog with a lapel mic so that i can record her dreams

[juliaferraioli]

I think I became even more of a Sister Monica Joan fan (if that's possible) in this scene

[oldwindowsicons]

Windows XP - mmcndmgr.dll, icon 30559

[foone]

That is a tiny hammer

[juliaferraioli]

For tiny percussive maintenance of your dlls.

[fallingtowers]

i am the very model of a modern gay millennial i have a tumblr blog and a prescription for estradiol i've problems economic, psychological, and medical and sympathies political which border on heretical

[pyaasa]

[juliaferraioli]

apparently shop vacs ❤️ cocaine

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #683

Early Sesame Street puppets had light blue sclera since the cameras had difficulty picking up the color white, so these eyes would appear white on film. Occasionally, the blue would show through on film.

Source:

Getting Felt Up- A Puppetry Podcast. "23. Sesame Street Exhibit Guided Tour - New York Public Library." Discussion with Ryan Dillon. December 10, 2014. (~51:08).

[juliaferraioli]

Seattle from below