05.15 @ohfivefifteen - Tumblr Blog

Hitting my 30-something stride...

A list of things I’m becoming more and more comfortable with:

1. Shutting people down who waste my time.

2. Not giving a fuck about people who find my personality too “strong.”

3. Rolling my eyes at people who call me an “overachiever” and telling them that I’m not going to apologize for having higher expectations from myself than they do from themselves.

4. Boun. Da. Ries.

5. Telling people at work that they are NOT my family. When your boss consistently tries to tell everyone that they’re like “family,” I feel like they’re just trying to get you to feel a sense of obligation. I’m a team player. Y’all don’t need to be my “family” for me to be professionally supportive of you.

6. Keyword: professionally.

7. Good lord keep your fucking drama out of the work place.

knowanoah

Stop telling yourself that the grass is greener on the other side, because it’s not. It is greener where you water it. So take control of your life and start watering your own pastures and grow your own greener grasses.

moniquill

Fuck grass, clover is a nitrogen fixing legume and dandelions are super useful. Be the weeds. Grow on concrete in defiance of those who would thwart you.

luminous-lily12

It’s also greener where you bury a body

the-a-j-universe

This post really goes for a ride.

young-replica

blindedlife

this is the single cutest thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life

sodomymcscurvylegs

Nothing is more exhausting than watching Republicans talk about how things like universal healthcare and public education don’t work because “the government is incompetent” while consistently voting in politicians that defund these programs explicitly for the purpose of making them fail, so they can turn right around to their voter base and say “see, it doesn’t work? The private sector is the only choice” and their voter base still hasn’t caught on to this basic tactic to keep their tax dollars from being used to benefit the general population instead of footing the bill so the mega rich can avoid paying taxes of their own and losing a foothold in whatever market they’re trying to currently privatize.

gaypriori

I lost it at “2 bread”

shownumetal

1 gallon of regular chocolate

watchthelightfade

18 minutes of flour

whitestonelovers

5 plates of salt

africanaquarian

wtf is harper talking about

iwillmindfuckyou

are we really going to over look bellas salad

khealywu

Jayden knows what the people want

babyanimalgifs

This is adorable

neilcicierega

thesylverlining

what happened in roughly 1870 though

why was there temporary internet

with a few people searching for pokemon?

tacticalskirt

It’s a search of Google books, but the question still stands, what the Fuck happened in 1870

solongasitswords

I CAN ANSWER THIS!!

In the Cornish dialect of English, Pokemon meant ‘clumsy’ (pure coincidence).

In the mid 1800s there was a surge of writing about the Cornish language and dialect in an attempt to preserve them with glossaries and dictionaries being written. I wrote about it HERE.

bookshop

I just love that this post happened to find the ONE HUMAN ON THE INTERNET who had the answer to this question

shubbabang

Patreon | Webtoon

vosje

pEOPle WHO CAN WRITE…

PEOPLE whO CAN dRAW…

PEoPLE WHo CAN wriTE AND DRaW…

anonymousfragger

PEOPLE WHO CAN…

gotsickofmyoldurl

PEOPLE WHO CAN CAN…

platybara-deactivated20171114

CANS THAT CAN CAN…

doyougiveamotherfuckzayn-deacti

littlelostcat

And then there’s me:

maybe-once-twice-three

This last GIF. I’m in love.

househunting

$995,000/3 br/3500 sq ft

Richmond, RI

built in 1784

ohfivefifteen

Look at the most perfect house on the planet.

/screams softly

@blueflowerwine

I really want people to understand this. I really want people to grasp how different and unique this response has been. It’s something we’ve never really seen before despite the amount of mass shootings we have in this country. Too often (myself included) we say nothing will be done and feel defeated - but these kids are the future. They are not letting strangers and the media tell their stories and package their narrative. We’ve never seen kids protest this way after such trauma. There won’t be instant change. There may not be change for several years - but these students are not far away from voting, joining grassroots organizations, campaigns, etc or running for office themselves. I am so proud of them.

shaelit

“Cars kill more people than guns! What’re you gonna do, regulate cars next?”

You idiot. You moron. You utter buffoon.

Cars ARE regulated.

The permit test. The permit. The practice year. The regulations on how many hours you have to drive and at what hours and with whom. The driving test. The license. The requirements regarding insurance. License renewals. Road laws. Highway laws. Speed limits. Seatbelt laws. Carseat laws. Laws against drinking and driving and other forms of intoxication. Red lights. Not passing in intersections. Right of way.

WHO can drive and WHEN and HOW and WHERE are all regulated, because yes, a car in the wrong hands can kill a person. Just like a gun.

Oh but wait, there’s more!

I, as a licensed driver, can’t drive anything I want. I can’t drive a motorcycle. I can’t drive a speedboat.

You know what else I can’t drive? One of these.

To drive a semi-truck, I would need a Commercial Driver’s License or CDL. There are age limits involved, as well as required hours of training and study. There’s a written test and a driving test. There are also medical requirements.

And even if I passed all that, you know what I STILL couldn’t drive? One of these.

To drive a semi loaded with hazardous materials, you would have to get a federal H endorsement added to your CDL. And to get that, you have to jump through even MORE hoops, including another written test and a background check.

So yeah, guns should be better regulated. Any Joe Blow shouldn’t be able to stagger down to a gun show and get himself a sweet piece without some oversight.

And ESPECIALLY no one should be getting their hands on a semi-automatic assault rifle like an AR-15, aka the Hazardous Semi Truck of guns. There are professional reasons that a person might need clearance to handle and own such a weapon, but not a civilian. Not an unscreened rando off the street.

Try not to be such an utter wanker that you place the mere potential of a power-boner over the lives of actual children like those killed in Parkland, Sandy Hook, and elsewhere.

princesconsuela

4 stages of stress

teacherofthethoughtfullest

I think I reached all four today.

mollyrockstar

Shout out to the real heroes: the public school teachers who do not make, “That’s what she said,” jokes, even when the opportunities so often present themselves. Stay strong. You are the true MVPs.