MedicineMane's Positive Ponies

A place where I post ponies promoting positive propaganda.

[herpsandbirds]

Black-legged Poison Frog (Phyllobates bicolor), family Dendrobatidae, endemic to Colombia

ENADANGERED.

VERY Poisonous.

photograph by Diego Ugalde

[jame7t]

I still think it’s objectively fucked how the world is built for morning people and if you wake up later than everyone else you’re seen as a malicious aberration of some sort. I am that but it’s not because I wake up at 11 fuck yourself

[silvishinystar]

My redraw for @poketcg-art's Hoenn card redraw collab!

Original card by Masakazu Fukuda under the cut, I love how dynamic it looks!

Found it here: Mudkip | POP Series 4 | TCG Card Database :3

[charlesoberonn]

No offense, but the group with some of the most unexamined internalized privilege are right-handed people.

A right-handed co-worker told me once that I put the papers in the plastic sleeve upside-down. I joked that from my perspective, she's the one putting them upside-down and she just didn't get it and started arguing with me.

I had to physically demonstrate to her that the papers are right-side up when you hold the sleeve so that the opening is on the left.

[charlesoberonn]

I feel you. I'm left-handed but I can't use scissors in my left hand (even left-handed scissors) because I got used to only using them with my right.

[background-character-341]

For all its faults Tumblr has truly ruined all other social media for me because my friends all have Instagram and are all trying to get me on Instagram more but every time I open Instagram there are like fifteen things screaming for my attention and when I get over myself long enough to start scrolling it's like. Where is my chronological dash. Where is the following-only option. Who are these people. Why are there so many videos. Everyone is screaming at me. And then before I know it I'm thirty minutes into scrolling and I haven't seen a single thing that I actually care about. At least on Tumblr when I see stuff I don't care about I know someone I follow has found a new interest.

[sobcat]

old painting, deer infront of the windows xp solitaire winning animation

[medicinemane]

Mostly I'm just stupid and worthless

[medicinemane]

I miss... ice cream

I think it's been like 2 years since I've managed to get my hands on any... I really really wish many things were different (like... that I didn't suddenly have to listen to my dad loudly shitting, really want him to talk to the dr about his guts, but the heart stuff keeps coming up and is more important, but I shouldn't be able to hear someone in the bathroom from rooms away)

I'm tired of being broke and basically an unpaid servant to my parents... I'm tired of shit like ice cream being something I get like one every 2 years... I'm tired of not having been on vacation for like... 19 years? (My trip to Phoenix, cool as it was to see a friend, wasn't really a vacation for me cause I was stressed any scheduling the whole time)

I'm tired, a shotgun would cure me

[brosef-von-dudehomie]

Why are the dial hands underneath the metal pin?

"I'm a security guard and I am tasked with doing rounds of mechanical rooms. I've been asked to look at these specific water pressure dials and examine whether the hands are stable and to inform the administration of the building if they are not. I noticed that two of the hands are underneath the metal pin on which they should rest if they were at zero. I'm very ignorant in plumbing, but is it supposed to be like this? Why is it like that? Doesn't it make the hand impossible to rise above 0 since it's blocked by that pin?"

[hawkeyedflame]

[brosef-von-dudehomie]

This is @hawkeyedflame and @supreme-leader-stoat fault

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Woe, thousands of strangers be upon ye

[medicinemane]

The more I think about it, the more I think this is a failure of design with the dial. It ought to have another pin at 300 so it's obvious when it's maxed out instead of looking close to the same position as if it's at zero

Now this is very much a hindsight 20/20 thing, not saying I'd have thought that before seeing this post, but having seen that failure state, I think that or similar is the solution, cause the dial failed at communicating danger

Like I 100% get his confusion, but the dial should have built things in to make it impossible to be confused because it shouldn't have been able to be near zero (on the wrong side cause it's off the chart with pressure)

[andthepeople]

always funny to remember darth vader is anakin skywalker. the adrenaline junkie chucklefuck who used to dive head first out of speeders and built a pod racer in his yard when he was like six is now upper-middle management for the evil empire. half of his appearances in the original trilogy are Meetings. vader spends like 80% of his time dealing with bureaucratic bullshit. status updates. team meetings. holo-Zooms. budget rundowns. anakin betrayed the jedi and caused the fall of the republic and his punishment is being CC'd on every email forever. and you know what. he would hate that. the punishment fits the criminal

[my-dailydreams]

[femmepathy]

The mile-long rainbow flag being carried down First Avenue in New York City.

[arcaneasexual]

“For New York City Pride in 1994 (Stonewall 25), Baker created a mile-long rainbow flag that was carried down First Avenue in Manhattan. During the parade, Baker used scissors to cut segments from the flag to be rushed to Fifth Avenue for an impromptu protest march in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the headquarters of New York City’s anti-gay Catholic archdiocese.

^“At the bottom of the image is the segment of the flag cut for the St. Patrick’s Cathedral protest. Photograph by Mick Hicks”

“Gilbert Baker wearing a white sequined dress (right) and other protestors triumphantly march the cut pieces of the mile-long flag past St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Photograph by Charles Beal”

[monokuromatic]

You write? You do writing? Oh!! Do you use Plonko AI? No? But it’s so good. It would help! It’s not bad! I use it, ya know? Wait, no, listen! What about Binko AI? Or WordHere AI? You should use Jumbi AI! What? Why not? It’s uncensored! But you gotta try Looby AI!!! All the creative writers are using Geneboombibabimba AI!!! You GOTTA!! I just met you and I’m telling you, YOU GOTTA USE POOB AI!!! POOB AI FOR WRITI—

[emnesoi0]

this is the future liberals want

[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.

[medicinemane]

I do kinda wonder if there's actually a single other person on the planet in my situation of "I don't live with my parents, they live with me"

And sure, "my parent is sick so I'm like 50 myself and had them move on with me so I could keep an eye on them", yeah that happens plenty, but not what I mean

I mean, "I bought a house, but my parents followed me out of their shitty situations into my better one and I just gotta deal with it cause they'd be homeless without me, and cause I not being able to work means having to make a 3 person household work off my mom's disability check"

I just see so many people taking and living with their parents, and believe me, few people I relate to or sympathize with more... especially cause I think everyone thinks that's me too, but like I get it and no one is a bigger defender of people living with parents than I am

...but that's not me, and I wonder if anyone else actually understands the unique horror of all the bads things about living with parents, except it's in my house... I'm trapped with them in my own house

I've had friends say "I hope you're able to move out soon", no you don't get it, this is my house, I own it. I like it, I don't want to move... I shouldn't have to move out of those house I bought to get away from my parents, buying a house should have done that

...really really hope the state gets these people would be homeless and dead without me, and they see fit too pay me for caretaking... I really really need this

Hell, even this process shows why they can't live alone. I say "mom, they say you need to apply for a case manager, so I guess this is in your hands, just look up ihss"

I had too much faith in her to do what I did, type that in, then add my state to the search, then go to the official state website, then... read 3 paragraphs, then comprehend the part where those 3 paragraphs said "contact your local case manager, here's the state directory"

She contacted I don't know who to try and get help doing this, and I have no idea what they'd cost, so I'm like "ok, here's the case manager directory, please contact them and"... shit, I just said that assuming it's obvious I mean "contact and ask for a case manager and then try to get an assessment"... she may literally not understand that. I'd think that's obvious, but maybe I'm wrong cause I thought the part on the page that said to do that was obvious too and she literally said something like it was all Samarian to her

Just... am I wrong or does that kinda sound like someone who can't really take care of themself? I'm certainly gonna present it to any assessor, cause every way they're compromised is another chance at both... just a baseline approval for any money, and perhaps more pay but also... I'm not making this shit up, they both get so overwhelmed and stop thinking while trying to do tasks on a regular basis

Like I'm fucked up, but I look so competent compared to either of them. I'm not exaggerating about that they'd be homeless without me... and I really hope the state sees that too

Anyway though, just seriously don't actually know if anyone else has experienced "I bought a house to try and get away from my parents, but I just had to let them move in with me, so I've never actually gotten away from my parents"

(Also gonna tell any assessor about how I take a 3 day trip to Phoenix, first words to me when I get home aren't "hello", they're "the dryer's broken"... can't be gone even 3 days, can't even get a proper greeting, I'm just maintainance and housekeeping, and so I have to go pop the back off the dryer and find that no one's been pulling the lint out so I have to clean the vent line)

...I appreciate that my uncle said if I just went "fuck it I'm out" he wouldn't blame me... but... where would I go?...with what money? My house is literally the only reason I can afford to exist

I'm tired... I just saw that post about living with your parents, and talking about how grateful they are while needing to get out... but that's what makes me wonder if anyone else even gets it... I'm not grateful, cause it's my house and I'm a conscripted caretaker/parent/priest/therapist/friend

Anyone living with parents gets some of it, but I wonder if anyone fully gets it... not being able to clean in the building I own because (and this literally happened last week) I might recycle cardboard boxes that my mom wants to keep and are deeply important to her that have been covered in trash for months... and now she's really upset with me, because she's not seeing me, she's protecting the ghosts of her parents on me and me recycling...

These, these boxes, me recycling those boxes is because I'm every man thing her parents ever did incarnate, I am the avatar of every thing they ever did that she never got closure with them for, but don't worry I'm also her best friend and so all's forgiven after sobbing to me about how I made her feel stupid and bad because I recycled boxes without asking

I have a friend who gets cleaning with someone like that, very very similar experiences with parents acting like that... but even with my friend... does anyone get what it's like for that to happen in the home you own and to have people tell you they're sure you'll be able to move out some day

No, no gratitude to shackles that refused to let go and I wasn't good enough to escape. Does anyone get what it's like when they're not putting a roof over your head, you're putting one over theirs?

...I'm not gonna leave these thoughts on that post, cause it's about something different... something I fully get, and I relate to, but isn't me

The random tumblr users isn't my confessional, and the post is solid... if you're anyone but me, but I regularly see it go around and it just eats at me a little more each time because it just makes me feel so alone cause no one else seems to get it

Shotgun would cure me

[medicinemane]

But seriously, who goes "I have the perfect name for our electric kettle, and it's Smeg. We shall write SMEG on the side of it, costco, would you like to carry our smeg kettle?

It comes in the choice of three colors, black, red, or white

You need to be a costco member to get it (I don't know if anywhere else sells smeg electric kettles, but you could have that sitting in your kitchen so anyone who comes to visit can walk in and see SMEG on your counter

SMEG