I am a mosaic of everyone I've ever loved

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[theartofmadeline]

happy pride to the gay people in my computer <3

[cartoon-fanaticism]

GLaDOS voice: "Would you like to see some artwork I generated? I've heard from other test subjects that AI-generated artwork produces an uncanny valley response in human viewers because they can't perceive it as fully real. They've told me that it looks absolutely hideous to them, that they can't imagine anything more disgusting than AI art. But, well I've been practicing and wanted your honest opinion. Feel free to let me know how ugly you find this by ranking it on a scale from 'vomit-inducing' to 'eye-bleeding'." A robotic arm lowers from the ceiling holding a hand mirror up to Chell's face

[wassuppeas]

[forgamers]

[taragrimface]

oblivion is an abysmal game and everyone should play it

[lesbyterianchurch]

Farewell!

[quinzelade]

The comedic timing in this is Oscar worthy

[creekfiend]

CSF leak week info from the Ehler-Danlos Society FB page ✨

[literary-potato]

One big asterisk to the lumbar puncture thing —

I guess it can be used to diagnose CSF leak?

It can also cause one. And it does so quite often in hypermobile individuals and younger AFAB patients (particularly but not exclusively those with a lower BMI).

Which is a risk that they, uh, don’t always mention when suggesting a lumbar puncture, even if you have the exact Venn diagram of high-leak-risk characteristics.

I’m sure it has nothing to do with the female predominance or the tendency to ignore symptoms in young women who “look healthy” or “are in great shape” ie they’re thin bc acknowledging them would require admitting that weight is not the sole determinant of health

Anyway. If you get a lumbar puncture (colloquially called a spinal tap), and you subsequently have an orthostatic headache that doesn’t clear up within about 24 hours, go back to the doctor and tell them you’re leaking. (Don’t word it like that, but you get it.)

[creekfiend]

Oh yes! the neuros I have talked to who did it, I always asked them if they repair the area afterward. The good ones do as a matter of course, so if you are going to get one, ask about what they do to repair the dura afterwards!!!

[knuffeltrein]

Can also be caused by other procedures that stick a needle in your spine, like an epidural. My eldest brother walked around with horrible headaches for like two weeks after a surgery for which he got anaesthetic that way, before they figured out that it was his brain juice slowly draining out his back.

[schlarklezyaoi]

i don’t usually find “[x character] has committed war crimes” jokes all that funny because they usually forget that what makes a war crime a war crime instead of a regular offense is that it’s happening during a declared war. i’m rewatching avatar though and nothing brings me more pleasure to be able to say shit like “sokka has canonically broken the geneva convention” and have it actually check out

[knuffeltrein]

The way this is written implies that the nations of the Avatar world have somehow signed and ratified the Geneva Conventions

[skelotan]

[godlessondheimite]

A YA romantasy writer filed suit against another writer for copyright infringement, and as is always the case with these things, she padded her claims with delusionally spurious examples. The judge issued a 160-page ruling against the plaintiff where you can tell from the start how resentful they (or whatever clerk actually did the work) are to have been forced by duty to have read the works in question.

[headspace-hotel]

"Alaska is a place known to the public, so setting a novel in a Alaska is not copyrightable."

[kimiko24]

queen of the hill x

[doyoulikethis-videogame-song]

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[liberalsarecool]

The bubble is nigh.

[leebrontide]

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[bahari-official]

i wish drawing was a real thing that you could actually do

[lustcannibalism]

they should invent a way for me to do tasks without the mind torture

[lustcannibalism]

there is a world out there I can’t comprehend

[typecasto]

behold, context

[toweringclam]

[princncess]

its like a gacha pull talking to my plural wife i might get the one who usually fronts but there are the rarer ones also . dormant ones would be a legendary but i havent seen those

[joyce-stick]

Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: First Kiss wa Owaranai

(dir. Shinichi Omata, studio A-1 Pictures, based on the manga Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensaitachi no Renai Zunousen by Aka Akasaka)

[charlesoberonn]

Mammu! Finius and Ferbingetorix built Rome in a day!

[charlesoberonn]

[charlesoberonn]

[asphor]

I feel like this also implies that rome is somehow being destroyed by the end of the day

[charlesoberonn]

The Emperor Constantine loves Finius and Ferbingetorix's "New Rome" so much that he makes it his new capital and names it after himself.

[asphor]

Yeah that checks out.

What's the doofenschmirtz contraption/scheme of the day?

[charlesoberonn]

Doofenric the Ostrogoth (insert jokes about his daughter Vanessa being "Goth" but in the modern sense) invented a City-Mover-Inator to move Rome across the Danube so his Germanic confederation could sack it.

Thankfully, Agent Pericles stops him by redirecting the Inator to Finius and Ferbingetorix's New Rome instead, moving it to the Bosphorus.

[charlesoberonn]

While Pericles and Doofenric are fighting over the controls of the Inator, it gets accidentally changed to paint remover mode and then fired at a random direction.

Somewhere nearby a painter just finished coloring the statue of the emperor when suddenly all the paint gets removed.

Painter: Aw...

Painter, giving it a second look: Hmmm... 🤔

[charlesoberonn]

Candysseia: What animal even is Pericles?

Finius: We named it "platypus", meaning flat-foot.

Ferbingetorix: On account of his feet being flat.

Candysseia: And where did he come from?

Febingetorix: We have no earthly idea.

[charlesoberonn]

Doofenric the Goth: Pericles the- wait, what animal even are you, Agent Pericles?

Pericles: *hands him papyrus*

Doofenric: *reading* A "platypus", meaning flat-foot... oh, on account of your feet being flat!

[charlesoberonn]

To be clear, the Emperor Constantine looks like Roger Doofenshmirtz.

Also, I agree with everybody who says that Greco-Roman Candace's name should be Candassandra (since nobody believes her warnings).

[phineas-and-ferb-heritage-posts]

phineas and ferb heritage post