Welp

28 she/her gamer

[jennaflare]

oh wonderful i will get some mileage out of this as a new reaction image

[lethalwizard]

[cmykristyart]

"Take charge of your destiny"

Happy 20th anniversary to Pokemon Mystery Dungeon :)

WIPs :)

[slipping-into-madness]

[thaumbody]

Here's a source for the analysis, but it probably is not the source.

Labor share of income hits record low as corporate profits soar

Workers’ share of US economic output has fallen to its lowest level since the government began keeping records in 1947, according to data th

Some points of interest:

Corporate profits are soaring. After taxes, they now take 12.3 percent of national output, far above their postwar average of 7.3 percent.

Adjusted for inflation, hourly wages have risen 3 percent since the end of 2019, Ip noted. Corporate profits over the same period have risen 50 percent.

The Economic Policy Institute calculates that since 1979 the productivity of American workers has grown 90 percent while the pay of the typical worker has grown 33 percent. Had wages tracked output, the average worker would earn $16.40 more an hour today.

The profits are concentrated among the largest corporations. Earnings at the 500 biggest US firms rose 28 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, the fastest pace since 2021, and their profit margins reached 14.8 percent. The seven technology giants known as the “Magnificent 7”—Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Tesla—grew their profits 63 percent.

In the United States, the richest 1 percent of households hold 31.7 percent of all wealth. The bottom half hold barely 2.5 percent.

[3liza]

HEY REMEMBER ALL THE RATS WHO KEPT SAYING WE WERE IMAGINING THIS

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you get a breath weapon like a dragon, and the options go from fire to things like gravel or bees

you have this breath weapon! (also you're a dragon)

are you happy with it?

yes!!!!!

a little

it's okay I guess

no.

NO.

result/other

Remaining time: 6 days 3 hours

[marxism-leninism-utenaism]

there are a lot of reasons why someone might become transgender but the most common one is to acquire more powerful sword techniques

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[rebel-hunk-enjoyer]

The worst-sounding piece of advice I've ever been given that does actually work is to frame your health concerns as coming from someone close to you, whom you do not believe. Tell your doctor that you've been having pain and your mom/friend/partner thinks it might be an ovarian cyst, but you don't think so because the pain is much more intense and it has to be something else. This gives your doctor an unseen third party to fight instead of you. They can't just tell this third party, who isn't present, that you pulled a muscle, they now need to prove to this third party that it is not an ovarian cyst.

At which point they will find an ovarian cyst, but they now get whatever fucked up satisfaction they derive out of proving you wrong, because you didn't believe it could a cyst at all, but guess what? They did find a cyst! It's such a good thing you didn't listen to your intuition and came to them to verify your lay diagnosis from that third party! Bonus? Doctor doesn't have to feel like they look stupid in front of a patient, which is really what all this is about. Not your health, why would you think your medical diagnosis is about your health? It's obviously about a doctor's potential ego.

And apparently this works. Apparently you just need to be able to always play 4D chess with your medical professionals in order to find an avenue of advocating for yourself and getting you medical needs met. Isn't that great?

I hate it here, actually.

[ineffectualdemon]

I've had a lot of success with "It's very unlikely to be x but considering my medical history and previous medical advice it's probably better to be safe then sorry you know? I'm expecting it to be (something minor) but don't want to be reckless with my health you know?" It's important to act reluctant to be there and that you think this is low key a waste of your time but you are trusting doctors more than yourself

And usually doctors immediately take the "of course you need to be checked out! That's the responsible thing to do!"

If they don't order testing adding on "I know it'll probably be nothing but can I get (test) or something to double check? I'd leave it but I've had a doctor tell me this sort of thing needs that and id like the confirmationwhen (relative) fusses at me"

[qelflinq]

the riddler is a girl with a “dapper femme” Pinterest board . And that’s ok. She has the hat from dont even joke lads . And that’s ok. If you moved to Gotham city none of it phases you. Your little cousin from the Midwest is sending you videos of ppl in weird outfits crashing out on the subway. You don’t think it’s funny anymore, like everyone knows about the cat lady. She’s really chill and actually she told u she acts like a cat because her body is inhabited by the soul of a cat, in addition to her regular human soul. And really that’s ok even if u don’t understand it’s fine. She shares her weed at parties and wears cool clothes. A lot of stigma came from those gotham woman memes and now a beautiful broad with the face and skin and eyes and powers of a crocodile can’t even swim at the pond without people taking their phones out to sneak a pic. The life of a weird lady is unnecessarily stressful and difficult. So if you know or love 1 & she is wearing an eccentric hat, or wants to suspend her enemy over a tank of vicious piranhas , u gotta gas her up. Or take her to the piranha store idk

[trickstertime]

Huh? What's this?? Something is on this 5c coin???

ENHANCE

[thejorie-deactivated20160327]

My three girlfriends. And yes, they smoke weed.

[airoehead]

that’s really great man

[clara-the-cat]

Yeah that’s really cool, I wish I had three weed smoking girlfriends, I’m happy for you

[mlarayoukai]

happy mothers day to her

[punkitt-is-here]

Hello person having transgender thoughts but convinced they aren't trans because they don't have the requisite amount of dysphoria they think they need

Hi I transitioned without even thinking I had dysphoria. Like later in hindsight I can go "oh that's probably what it was" but for the first year of my transition I was straight up like "I like being a guy but I like being a girl WAY more" and you can do that!! There is no prerequisite amount of suffering needed to make yourself happier.

[punkitt-is-here]

Gonna include these tags cuz they're good

[sufjansjoy]

does anybody know how to get out of bed. or be a better person

[sufjansjoy]

wow

[ominous-signs]

Sign I saw near a beach in California a few years ago.

[tgatbc]

[casmarotta]

just like before, save these and use them for anything you want! it’s never too late to start masking again 😷 <3

[transgenderer]

every spelunker should go in with a cyanide tooth capsule so if they get stuck they can take the gentle way out instead of being tortured by the earth for 72 hours and then dying anyway

[transgenderer]

@kropotkindersurprise said:

it should be an explosive device, so they widen that part of the cave at the same time and no other spelunkers will get stuck there

beautiful vision. i love the idea of a minecraft-style world where if you explode underground it just clears a radius

[atomicwrongs]

I escaped the trap perfectly fine but I gnawed off my own leg because people would never believe I was being hunted otherwise . They will see the stump and realise I was right, and they'll take it so seriously, and they'll know how sharp my teeth are and how strong my jaw is and how desperate and scared I've been this whole time