Hodge Podge

I'm an amalgamation of the people I love.

[rogersandclarke]

[rebeccasteventaylor]

My workplace recently had a thing about ‘do you know how many days we lose to stress related sick days? Here are some ways to manage stress’ and it’s things like ‘keep a gratitude journal’

But I don’t know - when I started work, many decades ago, it was expected you’d start at 9, finish at 5. You’d get your lunch break. You are expected to give about 70% of yourself the majority of your time. The last hour of each day and Friday afternoon were quiet times. There was time in the day to hang out with your coworkers for ten minutes talking about anything, not just work.

Now you’re expected to come in early and leave late and work through lunch. Give 100% all the time, more if you can push it. Don’t take leave. Work every second of every day as hard as you can push yourself. Do not waste time in the kitchen just chatting. Why aren’t you working harder?

And perhaps we’re burning out and take massive amounts of stress leave not because we’re not keeping a gratitude journal but because we are all being pushed to breaking point consistently, day after day, until we snap.

The older days weren’t perfect. But there was an understanding that work wasn’t life, and we could relax a little at work and still get paid enough to live. Now we are expected to give everything we’ve got, then give more, and not get paid enough to do something as simple as get a coffee after work. Even our hobbies are supposed to be monetised.

I blame Reagan and Thatcher but also blame every business leader since then who thought that pattern of work was in any way sustainable.

[274th]

and this is why we don't have online sharing LMFAAAOOOOOO

[meowthiroth]

rate the fit

[robinstome]

there's no fucking way

[all-consuming-rot]

i havent actually seen anyone make real food for their miis it's all been prescription drugs and cigarettes and bees or a combination of those

[pandastar102]

I'm bad at art, but I made ass

[telumendils]

What do you think you're trying to understand about your story?

Dimension 20: Neverafter — Episode 9, “Origins”

[telumendils]

#the allegory to Black boyhood Lou brought to this character is simply unmatched by any other adaptation of pinocchio. it's That Good.

[lipstickchainsaw]

When you're unable to solve an IT problem at work, there really is nothing quite like having it escalated all the way up the ladder. With every step, there is a degree of smugness about how real my problem is, and that yes, I was right to have trouble with this.

[crowns-of-violets-and-roses]

You can get a minor version of this if one IT person solves it but they spend a bunch of time repeating things you’ve already tried and when they eventually solve it it’s by doing something you wanted to try but didn’t have the requisite permissions to do

[coral-skeleton]

Was in a situation where neither I, nor my boss knew what was causing the problem, so we ended up calling one of the head engineers, and ive never experienced anything quite as validating as the moment where said head engineer, after spending several minutes just staring at the problem, quietly said "what the fuck"

[sisifroggy]

I'm back after hoarding text posts like a little goblin while gathering screenshots from my Origins playthrough

Unhinged Text Posts: Alistair Theirin Edition

[fozmeadows]

Watching my toddler figure out how to language is fascinating. Yesterday we were stumped when he kept insisting there was a “Lego winner” behind his bookshelf - it turned out to be a little Lego trophy cup. Not knowing the word for “trophy”, he’d extrapolated a word for “thing you can win”. And then, just now, he held up his empty milk container and said, “Mummy? It’s not rubbish. It’s allowed to be a bottle.” - meaning, effectively, “I want this. Don’t throw it away.” But to an adult ear, there’s something quite lovely about “it’s allowed to be a bottle,” as if we’re acknowledging that the object is entitled to keep its title even in the absence of the original function.

[legit-writing-tips]

Another good post to read for those writing small human characters. 

[jennytrout]

My son was about three when he came to me in the middle of the day and said, “Mommy, there’s a knight behind the bush.” I thought he meant a toy knight or something. So I follow him outside and he goes, “Listen. Do you hear it? It’s night behind the bush.” It was a cricket. A cricket was standing in the little patch of shade under the bush, chirping. So, my son saw this dark area with accompanying nighttime sounds and decided, okay, well, that is a night right there. Their brains are incredible.

[deleted20211121]

My little bean knows she’s two, constantly saying proudly ‘I’m two!’ And the other day she saw this very frail old lady who looked one foot in the grave, pulled a face and said ‘oh shiiiit. She’s three.’ I almost screamed.

[cantnotknope]

I live in Korea and have a lot of international friends, and the same is true with language barriers in adults. 

*Looking at a bowl of pears* “Can you please pass me the… apple’s friend?” 

[imsopopfly]

Oh my favorite language based one was back when I was still in law school I was talking to this old Japanese man one time and he called me a “lawyer egg” instead of a law student and I still think about that turn of phrase

[thememedaddy]

[natalieironside]

The computer used to do something very basic & helpful and now it doesn't. I'm gonna complain

[softness-and-shattering]

The computer used to do something very basic & helpful and now it doesn't. I'm gonna complain.

[fruitfulchaos]

Sam Reich is such a cartoonish character to me. His last name is literally "Rich". He's this villain-y game show host. He's the son of the ex-secretary of labour who saved a comedy media company from extinction and does magic tricks as a hobby in his free time. What kinda muppet factory did they release him from

[xpastelsweetsx]

Acquiring “who tf is this guy? Who is he?” As my new vocal stim

[liberalsarecool]

Poverty IS a policy choice. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

[spcctz]

Because Brennan has gained experience playing the game of D&D instead of just running it, he is taking huge personality swings with Wealwell - the kinds of swings a PC would normally take with their own character (i.e., Daisuke having personal beef with Goldbeard). This is why I believe Wealwell Gotch is Brennan’s self-insert character this season.

Wealwell is insanely unhinged yet also so solid. He majored in standing, he throws up when he gets too nervous/excited, he has threatened to murder his brother, and he is so mad that you’re not taking the cave seriously.

Please, Wealwell is simply Brennan playing with his friends

[sewer-cheetah]

demi adejuyigbe my beloved keeps fucking winning and IM HERE FOR IT HOLY SHIT THAT LAST DANCE WAS TIGHT im so glad that we got to see him a lot in the last few months he deserves so much more

[cilceon]