The Blog of Boredom

Doing nothing makes me go on Tumblr...

[stuckinapril]

hey man I found a piece of your soul stuck in the text messages of old friends you don’t speak to anymore. do you want it back

[biglawbear]

[ryebreadgf]

[meltingpotofinterests]

[ashstfu]

[stargazerofgoldenwords]

Between Chappell Roan telling people to stop looking up her family members and Hozier going into his girlfriend's Instagram comments to chastise fans harassing her, I'm completely here for famous people saying "Okay the parasocial shit is getting out of hand, you guys are getting too bold and it stops now."

[wheeloffortune-design]

I think the internet as a whole needs to ask themselves one simple question when they see a video.

Why was the camera filming.

There are so many videos that seem real, but when you realize the camera was already filming with a great angle, you can see that it's all staged.

Yes, there are dash cams, security footage, people accidentally filming real things happening. But so many are just staged!! And no one in the notes takes the camera preparation into consideration!

This is 2024, you need to know how to spot bots lying to you, but also humans lying to you.

[trappezoider]

Thank you, professor.

[chiphater]

we all got really lucky that alexander fleming wasn’t allergic to penicillin huh

[chiphater]

imagine the guy who happens to discover the Mold That Heals You but unfortunately he’s part of the 10% of people who’s bodies turns it into the Mold That Kills You Harder

[oscarjamesleigh]

Tumblr is a fate driven website. You can't find posts through the search function, you see them when you're meant to.

[sandersstudies]

So I kept telling my husband to stop unfolding his clean clothes and leaving them on the floor, and he insisted he wasn’t doing any of that even though I had the evidence.

Just found the cat pulling t-shirts out of his drawer, which had been left slightly ajar. The culprit has escalated from trashcan crimes and is trying to cause upset in my marriage now.

[sandersstudies]

I discovered the ruse a bit faster than the former but she ALSO pulls clothes off the hangers by trying to “climb” them so she can sit on the top closet shelf.

[sandersstudies]

HOMEWRECKER

[titimylove]

get her a cat tower, she wants to be tall

[sandersstudies]

She HAS a cat tower it’s the tallest one the store had

And she has LOTS of toys and many snackies she has NO reason to cause mischief except her own bastardly motivation.

[sayruq]

[arabian-batboy]

Find a protest near you here: X, X, X, X & X

Donate or join Palestine action here: PALESTINE ACTION

[clownboybebop]

kicked out of the bdsm scene for saying “you got it, boss!” in an old timey henchman voice whenever someone tells me what to do

[holeenjoyer-deactivated20240913]

kicked out of the old timey henchman scene for saying “yes goddess” in a bdsm voice every time someone tells me what to do

[clownboybebop]

hang on we could have something really special here

[tamarrud]

Both devastating and terrifying how we all know what redlines Israel had erased in Gaza in order to make way for new war crimes in other places, and witness Lebanon be the first applied example. The really tough part for me is seeing the first days of Gaza's 2023 genocide being replicated in Lebanon, from the kind of attacks to the way they're reported. It's like reliving those days, but this time knowing exactly where things are likely heading unless Israel is stopped.

[technofeudalism]

god forbid 5000 year old girls do anything

[flamei7]

[postpoeticparadox]

holy shit bronze age pro sheep bone gamer girl

[mysharona1987]

[ithinkthatthismustbetheplace]

That’s because it’s not skilled labor, anyone can do those things. In order to make good money, you have to be able to do something that not everyone can do.

[ralfmaximus]

ARTISTS aren’t skilled labor? Really.

Make me some art RIGHT NOW. Paint me a portrait in oil-based acrylic. 

What? You don’t know that acrylics are water based, not oil based? Gee, that’s something only a skilled painter might know.    

Or instead compose me a song. Design packaging for this new product we’re launching in 10 days. Make me a webpage with eye-popping graphics you didn’t steal from another site.

Artists do all that. In fact, every manufactured thing you touch passed through the hands of a skilled artist at some point.

FAST FOOD! If fast food is ‘unskilled’ then why does Wendys, McDonalds (et al) expend time on training employees? Surely if any asshole off the street could do the work they can just slip right in there and start slinging happy meals on day one, right? 

Do you know the correct EH/OSHA-approved way to wash your hands? Do it wrong and you are literally violating the law. 

Quick: what do the symptoms of Hepatitis-A look like?  

Or let’s talk janitorial services. Do YOU think you can clean an entire floor of an office building in the allotted time? Where does the trash go? The recycling? How do you get ahold of the waste removal company when the dumpsters are inexplicably full at 4am? Whom do you call? What’s the account number? Is this even your job to worry about? If the dumpsters are full where do you put a night’s worth of collected trash?

What do you do with hazardous waste you might encounter, if you’re cleaning (say) an industrial workspace? Dispose of it incorrectly and that’s a crime.

What’s the procedure for when you encounter a trespasser in a secure building where supposedly nobody but you is working? Can you identify a fake or expired employee badge? Are you supposed to? Your training probably covered that. 

How much would we have to pay you, dear @ithinkthatthismustbetheplace, to deal with a seriously clogged toilet? Shit-smeared walls, standing waste water, the entire place trashed as if it was 3am after a frat party? You have less than an hour to return that restroom to pristine condition. And no, building services is not going to help you.  

You don’t think that requires skill? 

Or adequate compensation?

[reelaroundthedavekan]

All labor is skilled labor

[tinabelcherseverythingisokface]

^^^

The idea of “skilled” or “unskilled” labor is inherently classist, and misses the fucking point anyway. All labor has dignity, whether you THINK it’s “skilled” or not, and all people deserve to live comfortably, whether they’re able to work or not.

When you peel back the layers of this bullshit argument it becomes obvious that it’s just another way to keep us huddled masses infighting instead of building guillotines.

[kenderfriend]

I’ll always reblog this 👍

[pheonix199]

Nobody has managed to convince me that professional cleaning service people do not have super speed, and yet that is allegedly unskilled labor.

Unskilled labor is a capitalist lie.

[fierceawakening]

Unskilled labor is a capitalist lie.

[lotrlocked]

If you are performing labor you are demonstrating a skill. There are methods, procedures, policies, steps, rules, instructions for literally every single job. Knowing those things and doing it correctly IS A SKILL.

[catchymemes]

[multishipperpirateking]

HUMANS ARE CURIOUS AND LOVE LEARNING FOR THE SAKE OF LEARNING AND THE FACT THAT THE MODERN EDUCATION SYSTEM ROBS US OF THAT INSTINCT IS THE WORST

[mysteriouslyjellyfish]

currently obsessed with british murder mystery tv shows where all the murders happen in the same town in every episode and everyone's just like oh yep there goes another one, just another day in shirefordtonstead

[bailesu]

This is where the people who colonized Cabot Cove came from.

[hyperlexichypatia]

The absolutely essential aspect of these stories is complete, unbroken, total genre-blindness of all characters. If they, even momentarily, realize that their small town actually has a shockingly high murder rate, the effect is ruined. In an urban crime show like Law&Order or whatever, the cops can go to anybody on the street and say "We're investigating the murder of Jackknife Bob" and the witness is just like, "He got whacked? Oh well, I didn't do it." But in a Small Town Murder, it is absolutely imperative that everyone the detectives talked to is shocked that such a thing could happen! "Dear me, a murder? Right here in Shirefordtonstead? Good heavens!" Ma'am, it is season seven. You are the fifth proprietress of this quaint antique shop. The first three were murdered, and the fourth was the killer. In the normal, rational world, living among this high a murder rate would have a profound, dare I say traumatizing, effect on your worldview and your perception of your own safety. But you are not of the normal, rational world. Your unshakable and clearly counterfactual belief in the safety and stability in your surroundings is built into your character. And for this I love you. Never, ever change, Tiny Quaint Friendly Villages Full of Constant Murder.

[my-random--thoughts-deactivated]

[evaconly]

every time this post comes across my page on a new platform i smile because we’re all just enjoying her adorable joy

[what-a-bastard]