All Knowing Panda

HJ Wingstreet and LaVonte Worthy making out sloppy style send post

We were so fucking close this episode oh my god I really thought we had it

"You are rich by yourself. Nothing is stopping you. Nothing is in your way. Opportunity is right in front of you at the end of a short and well lit road. And that's not making this moment feel any better"

BECAUSE YOU'RE GAY YOU'RE GAY IN 439 YEARS YOU SHOULD BE MAKING OUT SLOPPY STYLE BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT JUST BUSINESS PARTNERS YOU'RE UNLIFE PARTNERS

#panda posts #d20 spoilers #city council of darkness #d20 #hj wingstreet #lavonte worthy #ccod spoilers #worthystreet #city council of darkness spoilers

"Pick a number between one and one, who's the one person you'd want to spend eternity with"

IM COUNTING THIS SHIT AS WORTHYSTREET CANON THE MAKING OUT SLOPPY STYLE WILL COME LATER TRUST THEY'RE GONNA BE TOGETHER FOREVER

aggressive-positivity-network

When someone gives the advice of “don’t be afraid to disappoint your parents” they don’t just mean taking music theory in college or starting a YouTube channel.

It also means wearing things they might not approve of. Using accommodations that they might not think you need. Not falling for their guilt trips. Eating when you’re hungry, not when it suits them and their idea of your weight or health. Making your own friends instead of seeking the stamp of approval from them.

Of course, some parents are stricter than others, and some use abuse to keep you from expressing yourself. But do what you can, even if it seems small.

Otherwise, when your parents are no longer in the picture, you’ll try to find it somewhere else to get validation. A strict boss, an abusive partner, a selfish friend.

Going against your parent’s wishes is developmentally healthy. Not doing so stunts your independence and self-regulation. You shouldn’t be living to constantly please others, even the people who love you.

koiagain

too weird for normal kids too normal for weird kids Just right for being alone and miserable my entire life

koiagain

a Common misconception under this post is that the weird kids will not judge you. I have news for you

I think if you told me 2-3 years ago that in 2026 I would be planning where I'm going to grad school with the confidence of having a guaranteed roommate wherever I move across the country because Phoenix would follow me no matter where I ended up getting in, I would have gotten an entirely wrong idea as to where my life had ended up

#panda posts #phoenix #shout out to my most complex social relationship #which realistically is probably a qpr but it has to remain an unspoken fact or both of us will go crazy in different directions and the #whole thing will collapse in on itself

An incomplete list of things that Phoenix and I do that baffles everyone that knows we're exes, and also would have confused the shit out of me if I could've seen into the future two years ago:

Phoenix picks me up for lunch/dinner on a weekly basis and then pays for my whole meal to the point that the only reason I bring my wallet is if I want a drink with my meal

I get dressed up fancy to go out with Phoenix for lunch and we're usually hanging out from around 1pm til 11pm consistently

We're planning to move in together next year at some place across the country

Phoenix's mom is worried about the concept of the two of us moving in together because what if Phoenix gets jealous if I start dating someone else

I basically offered to let Phoenix move in with me this year despite me living in a single person dorm room

Whenever we're in [college town] and one of us needs to go grocery shopping Phoenix would pick me up and we'd go together so often that I'd be able to point out things Phoenix missed on their grocery list

I bought Phoenix concert tickets for the two of us to go see BoyThrob for his birthday

We're taking a trip to New York and look at apartments/do a tour of grad school options for me

While there we're going to see Hadestown (again) in the exact same seats we saw Hadestown in back in March that we've now dubbed as "our seats" but one row forward

We (jokingly) talked about buying a house together and Phoenix proposed we get a three bedroom that way we have "room to grow"

Phoenix has said that our current relationship (as friends that do all the shit listed above) was their ideal relationship standard for back when we were dating

#panda posts #phoenix

A lot of you on here sure don’t like the idea of making any kind of sacrifice for the benefit of others huh

Some of you act like doing minor inconvenient acts of kindness is equivalent to donating a kidney as if it’s not those acts that form our communities and make the world go around.

Return your grocery cart. If you’re able-bodied offer your seat to someone who is not. Help your friend move. Drive your sister to the airport. Make sure drunk people have a safe ride or walk home. Pet-sit for your coworker. Participate in a meal train. Volunteer in your area. That’s what friendship and community is about.

corrya

HE WAS MEAN TO BETH!!

softest-punk

A thing no one talks about re: ADHD is that you can't... gain experience, the way other people do.

I don't mean you can't get good at things through repeated practice. You can do that, I have done that, but I don't trust it.

I was driving this morning and thinking about how I have never developed the blasé contempt for it most people seem to despite never having caused an accident in 20 years because my sense of time is such that I might as well have been driving for a week. I'm a good, safe driver, but I do not have a heap of confidence in my driving despite having regularly done it for two decades because my sense of time is such that those two decades may as well not have happened.

I finished editing a novel today. When I publish it, it will be the 64th novel I have published in the last 10 years, not counting ghostwritten work. You'd think after a decade and 63 novels I'd be confident that I was capable of writing, editing, and publishing a novel—even be confident about the timeline for this—but no. No, I feel like I'm doing it for the first time, every time, and I was surprised to have finished the editing at all, let alone on time. Because those other 63 novels were published in a past I have a vague at best concept of. I have a record that says it happened but I do not feel it.

I cannot trust my future behaviour because for me there is functionally no past. I know it occurred, I have records, but I don't feel it the way people without this kind of memory issue do. I feel inexperienced at everything I've ever done and I cannot accurately estimate my skill level at anything, particularly not on the fly.

I don't have a solution to this I just find it an incredibly frustrating phenomenon.

the-starlight-papers

One of my cousins is complaining in the family group chat about Golden from Kpop Demon Hunters being played at a 4th of July fireworks show and the rest of us are ganging up on him to point out that Huntrix saved the WORLD from demons, and the US is part of the world.

maswartz

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fractally

This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.

frankiedotbiz

depressed steampunk guy: like nothing makes me happy anymore i feel like my fantastical flying contraption just ran out of coal

frankiedotbiz

do you think steam just magically comes out of nowhere im so sick of these people who dont understand steampunk it makes me want to get into my submersible bathysphere and never reemerge

thedarkqueensreblogs

Steam. Is. Water. Coal. Makes. Smoke.

frankiedotbiz

what is the coal doing to the water

dkpsyhog

Makes sense to me

talking like point-and-click game narration to the bugs in my room

you can't get out that way!

that's not very helpful.

maybe the open window will help.

try the open window instead.

slowspinningredemption

who is scott free and why are so many people getting him off

dingdongyouarewrong

i'm getting the sense some of you are not actually forklift certified.

dingdongyouarewrong

well damn . egg on my face

dingdongyouarewrong

THE PLOT THICKENS @averagejoey2000 explain yourself

I can't believe this is how I'm finding out that I got a scam forklift cert.

I took the cargo ops class at school but my teacher explained that it doesn't give a certification and I'd only be okay for ship's crane and the school forklifts. she said I could take an online exam and get my cert. I paid 60 bucks.

I'm googling and I'm seeing a lot of resources saying that the online programs cover the classroom part of the exam but not the in person practical aspect.

29 CFR 1910.178 (l)(2)(ii)

but I did the in person practical shit at school.

the back of the card even had fancy numbers on it. I couldn't have known that this isn't the one. this website sounded more official than certifyme.net, and there wasn't one with a .gov address.

so, I emailed OSHA, and they said that so long as I live and work in California, there's no such thing as forklift certification. I have to be told how to do it every time I get the job.