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sometimes instead of a horrid little monk, divine visions of lesbians dance in my head dispensing wisdom
So. For those of you who didn't pay attention to the details of the legal spat between Krafton and Unknown Worlds, allow me to give you some details of the finest legal comedy of a generation.
Krafton CEO looks at the hype surrounding Subnautica 2, goes over the contract between Krafton and Unknown Worlds, realizes he'll have to pay out bonuses and freaks out because shelling out those bonuses will make him look like a pushover.
CEO goes to his legal department, asks them to come up with a plan to weasel out of paying bonuses. Legal tells him the contract is iron-clad and to accept the loss.
CEO refuses to take the loss, asks ChatGPT for a plan. ChatGPT says the exact same thing the legal department did.
CEO demands a plan from ChatGPT, which dutifully spits out a plan at this point because clearly the CEO is a goddamn idiot.
CEO deletes the chat logs, failing to understand that 'delete' doesn't permanently remove things.
CEO follows plan, and is surprised when Unknown Worlds sues for breach of contract despite being told by both humans and an LLM that is exactly what would happen.
Court does not go well for Krafton's legal department. It comes out that after ignoring the sound legal advice of human beings, the CEO went to ChatGPT and asked for a plan. When asked for the logs by the court, Krafton's legal team states they were deleted, thus that it's simply herersay. Judge goes "Oh, that's okay, we'll have our IT folks recover them." Krafton's legal team is astounded that's even possible.
The chat logs are recovered. It comes out that even ChatGPT was in agreement with Krafton's legal department, and only spat out a plan after being asked a second time.
The judge, now thoroughly done with the stupidity of Krafton's CEO at this point, rules in favor of Unknown Worlds. Her ruling doesn't simply undo the scheme, but effectively leaves all control over Subnautica 2's development in the hands of Unknown Worlds, including the early access release date, reducing Krafton to just publishing out of contractual obligation. Krafton must also return all social media platforms for Unknown Worlds and Subnautica 2 to Unknown Worlds' control. Financial damages will be determined at a later date.
Krafton proceeds to violate the court order in less than 72 hours by trying to set an early access release date before returning Unknown Worlds' social media platforms.
Summary: In trying not to look like a pushover, Krafton's CEO now looks like a complete idiot who's going to have to fork over bonuses, plus court-mandated damages, plus whatever comes out of violating the court's orders. Krafton's legal department may as well come to court dressed as clowns after this. I suspect Unknown Worlds might buy the rights to Subnautica back after all this and either relegate Krafton to just publishing or find a different publisher for future games altogether.
btw, Steam is currently having an "ocean fest" where they showcase all the ocean themed games on the store
which they obviously decided to do by complete coincidence and didn't mean to say anything by this or anything 🙂
Whenever I think about the value of something being done by a person who really understands the job from a lifetime of experience, I think of my first restaurant job. My goal was to work every position, and I started with a year and a half in the dish pit at 16yo.
When i started as a dishwasher, i was trained by an old career dish pit man named Claudio. He'd spent his whole life washing dishes. It allowed him to move to just about any city in the world that he wanted to and get a job without having to deal with complex hiring processes or strict resumé requirements. Which was the main thing he wanted out of a career. I still think about him.
He'd seen a lot of people come through that station who either didn't consider it a real job or thought it was beneath them, on their way to "better" or "more important" things. And, in retrospect, those first two days he was sort of doing the minimum with me that he could do and still respect himself when he told the manager he'd trained me.
But, maybe it was because i was really interested in learning all the positions there were in a restaurant because i knew they were ALL important, or because i was a hard worker, or maybe it was because i tried to have real conversations with him in my broken spanish and did my best to not make him speak any english unless he wanted to, but after a couple days there was a big shift in the way he and i worked together, and he started to really teach me.
That place ran the dish pit with one dishwasher, so when he was done training me I was going to be doing the job on my own.
The thing that stuck with me the most, for the rest of my restaurant career, was this... and it wasn't just the actual things he was saying, but a completely new way of looking at what i was doing within the context of how the restaurant ran. I came in for my 3rd day and he said
"When you work alone, you want to go home by midnight?"
we clocked on at 3:30 and took a half hour lunch break and usually skipped our tens, so, yeah i absolutely did want to get off work by midnight
Then, even tho i already knew where most of everything was by that time, he took me around and showed me all the dishes, cups, pots and pans, spatulas, silverware, had me look at all of it. Then he told me to remember that almost every one of the dishes I was looking at would be used more than once by the end of our shift- we were clocking on to wash the entire building full of dishes multiple times.
Then he led me back over to the industrial dishwasher most restaurants have, which looks like this:
and then this 60 year old career dishwasher from Mexico City said the thing that changed how I looked at restaurant jobs forever
"This machine takes two full minutes to run a cycle. We are on the clock for 8 hours. That means we have a maximum of 240 times we can run this machine. If you want to wash all those dishes, clean your station, mop, and clock off by midnight? This machine has to be on and running every second of the shift.
If you don't have a full load of dishes collected, scraped, rinsed, stacked, and ready to go into the dishwasher the second it's done every single time? You can't do it. If, over the course of 8 hours, you let this machine lay idle for just one minute in between finishing each load and being turned on again? Instead of 240 loads, you'll do 160 loads.
[like, literally, he had done this math, he had these exact figures]
160 loads instead of 240 loads means you are doing 20 loads in an hour instead of 30 loads. That means the dishes are going to pile up. The cooks will run out of pots and pans and will have to stop and wait for you, the servers will run out of plates and cups and have to stop and wait for you, and your night is going to SUCK. Every part of how this restaurant works can grind to a halt because of that idle minute between dish loads, and if it does you'll have an entire building of people in a hurry and all waiting on you.
And it means you're going to be here until 2 am doing the 200+ loads of dishes this restaurant goes through every night.
For this to work, you MUST have this dishwasher on and running every minute of the shift. As soon as you turn it on you have two minutes to have the next load ready. See these large items i put to the side down here? One or two of them takes up all the space in the machine. I keep them here so that if the machine finishes and shuts off before i'm ready for it i can stick one of these in there and turn it on again immediately. You have to think like that to do this job without stress."
The way he was looking at how the whole restaurant ran, the way he was looking at how he'd spend each minute of the entire shift, the way he broke down what the physical limits were and how to max them out so he could do his job and go home on time without stressing out... The way this 60 year old guy, who had never had professional ambitions beyond being a dishwasher, was still such a competent and brilliant expert in his field.
It was all such an important lesson, and one that stayed with me through every position i went on to work in restaurants, dish pit, busser, server, cook, all the way up through manager before I finally got out of my restaurant career
Claudio never wanted to be anything but a dishwasher who didn't stay any later than he had to.
But he knew how that restaurant ran better than most of the other people in it. I never had a chance to truly thank him for the specific lesson he taught me, because while it had an immediate impact, I didn't really understand how valuable a lesson it was until much later.
But I've thought about Claudio and what i learned from him many MANY times in my life.
All of this. Disaster befalls any company that holds no regard for the expertise of the lowest level staff.
In my younger years I worked at a medical office that managed both mental health and addiction recovery. The company had purchased an empty lot down the road from the building we rented to build a better facility with larger capacity. The CEO worked for months with the architect, and just as they were finalizing everything they happened to let me - who was the receptionist at that time - take a gander at the blueprints. It took all of three seconds for two major issues to jump out at me.
“The receptionist can’t see the waiting room from her desk with this layout.” I said. “It’s around the corner and blocked by a wall.”
“Is that important?” They asked.
“Do you want me to be able to keep track of the patients who are waiting?” I asked.
“Isn’t that what the sign-in sheet is for?” They asked me.
“Not everyone who comes here is signing in for an appointment, some are coming to check in, some people are here for the group therapy and need to be directed to the other side of the building, some people are painfully shy and if I don’t appear warm and inviting they won’t approach.” I explain.
“How often does that even happen?” They asked.
“Every day.” I explain.
“Bullshit.” They said.
“I’m not joking at all. Also, where is the chart room?” I asked.
“Oh, over here.” They said, pointing to a tiny closet on the far side of the building from the receptionist and check out desks. It was tucked neatly beside the CEO’s office. To get there the secretaries would have to go through two sets of security doors and it would be a five minute walk each way.
“Why isn’t it next to the front office, since that’s where the people who use it are?” I asked.
“We had concerns about people just going into the chart room to goof off and not do their work. It takes them away from their desks too much. You should only go in the chart room twice a day - once in the morning to pull the charts for the day, and once in the evening to put way the charts. It would remain locked and the CEO would have the key and let you in to supervise.” They said.
“We pull charts the day before so everything is ready to go and we can alert staff if a patient with additional needs is coming in. We have to go in the chart room every time a patient calls in that’s having a problem with their meds or is in crisis or otherwise has a question for the nurse. We have to go in there every time someone cancels and we are able to fit a waitlisted patient in. We go in there 20 - 30 times a day for legitimate reasons. The only reason any of us has ever gone in there to take a minute was when we got news that a patient had died and we were crying. And even then, we filed charts as we sobbed because no one in this office has free time.”
They stared at me.
“Sit with me for an hour and see what happens up here.” I said.
They took the blueprints away from me before I could keep looking at them, but they took me up on sitting with me. They didn’t last an hour. They changed the blueprints to fix both things I’d pointed out.
Unfortunately, they didn’t let me keep looking at it and they never asked the janitor what he thought, so no one caught the final fatal flaw in the design.
There were no closets in the entire building. Nowhere to put our supplies. And I’m not talking just a place for stationary and pens. I mean no janitorial closet. Nowhere to put paper towels and toilet paper or cleaning products. Nowhere to put holiday decorations or anything at all. They completely forgot about storage of any kind and immediately started eyeballing my hard-won chart room for it.
They wound up putting all the supplies in the cabinets under the sinks in the public bathrooms. And, surprising to no one, all of it got stolen after our first week in the new building. All our spare keyboards and monitors and phones and even our paper towels just walked out of the building. Because the CEO who had never worked a lower level job in his life wasn’t convinced closets were worth it.
I see a lot of Tumblr users who don't know their feminist history attributing the fact that women* are "allowed" to be masculine under the patriarchy as some sort of facet of the patriarchy universally accepting masculinity over femininity and that shit pisses me off so bad.
The reason why women* are "allowed" to be masculine when men* "aren't" allowed to be feminine under patriarchy is because DYKES and BUTCHES and other masculine women* SPENT DECADES FIGHTING FOR THEIR RIGHTS TO EXIST PUBLICLY.
The fact that women* can wear pants and suits etc. and are not constantly forced to be hyper feminine/in adherence with strict gendered dress codes without punishment (AND ONLY IN SOME COUNTRIES!) is a win on behalf of feminist political action NOT because of some baseline acceptance of masculinity in everybody by the patriarchy.
(*and people forcibly socially classed as women and men)
Like oh my lord some of you need to shut the fuck up and learn what it was like to be socially classed as a woman before the sexual revolution and what it continues to be like outside of the imperial core.
You are reaping the benefits of the activists who have come before you but because you do not know your history you are treating it like the boons of the oppressor classes and you are blind for it.
It's also the trans masc binder availability thing for me too.
I see people going "well trans men can easily get a binder" and like. Okay yes A: nowadays and B: potentially not anymore under this current administration. The reason binders are so accessible for trans mascs is because *trans mascs* got tired of the shitty options and made their own binder designs and binder companies and then dedicated to selling them at the lowest price to be able to stay in business but still be accessible in pricing for the most part. This isn't a boon that cis people have granted trans mascs, it's something trans mascs made for ourselves! And now with these new FDA warnings it's exceptionally clear that it was always on thin ice!
Here's something for the people agreeing with the above post to consider:
Trans women have been fighting for our rights at the same time that these "Dykes" and "Butches" (seemingly here only refer to cis women), yet these same gains have not been available to trans women and other transfems.
Trans women have been at the forefront of LGBT liberation since the very beginning, often leading the charge, yet we were never granted the same "allowances." The transfems of these times were only acknowledged as "men in dresses" and they fought for their rights to not be persecuted, to exist in public!
Why is it that it's more accepted for a "woman" to wear a suit than a "man" to wear a dress? Are you saying that trans women and transfems did not fight hard enough for our right to exist? That they didn't fight for this at all?
Or, as this poster so quickly dismissed, is it that masculinity is more accepted than femininity? This is not a fringe idea! This is a basic tenant of feminism, of feminist thought since its beginnings. Ignoring how masculinity and femininity are treated by our cultures, and how masculinity is women is treated vs femininity in men, is just burying your head in the sand.
And for the comment of binders, let me ask you this: Why was it that these trans men were able to create these companies, were able to secure funding and able to create these products? Why were these products able to be viable in the market? If you think that trans women do not have similar needs not being met by clothing companies and specialty products, we do, and many trans women would love the chance to create something like that.
Trans women lack the privilege and resources to create things like this. While these trans men were building brands to sell binders trans women have been fighting to keep our sisters off the streets, away from widespread homelessness and survival sex work.
When we call out these things, we are calling out these double standards. We have been fighting this same fight the whole time, and we have seen none of these victories or these concessions. There is a reason why.
That's not quite the truth, and I think you know that.
Trans women have 100% been fighting for their rights as long as cis women have been fighting for theirs. And now, because of this, it is possible to live openly as trans women. It's not easy. But it's possible. Much like how cis women still are plagued by misogyny, trans women still are plagued by transmisogyny, and the right to exist as themselves doesn't magic a systemic oppression away. Especially not in these current times when there is a global eye on trans women and the question of whether trans rights are a matter of debate. But now, at least, we have plenty of very public and very publicly transgender women whereas before the option to do this was simply not possible without risking a riot.
But trans men have also been fighting that fight since the beginning, alongside their transgender sisters. We've been there with you from the start. So please don't act like we just waltzed in and took the easy road to victory- we also have had to network to keep our brothers off the streets, out of sex work, out of prison, free from addition, and fighting to stay alive in the fires of depression and suicidal thoughts. Especially right now when those very same binder companies each have come under fire from the Trump administration- including companies that aren't even US-based.
Trans women can and do start businesses. Trans women can and do support their sisters. Trans women can and do own capital, have property, raise funds, and organize charity.
And- to further my point- it took very little searching to locate a breastform store which advertises as servicing both cis and transgender women as well as any gender for drag that needs breastforms, owned and operated by cis people who deliberately chose to welcome transgender women and drag queens despite the negative emotions about such at the time, that has been in business since 1994. I found another which is transgender owned and operated and established in 2008. I found another that is cis woman owned but with a team of both cis and transgender women, with an entire section regarding how to properly shop for and fit breast forms for the transgender woman as compared to a cis woman post-mastectomy, established in 2014. By comparison, gc2b- the first of the trans masc owned binder companies- opened in 2015 and changed the entire game of binding as before it was either expensive and improper binders or dangerous methods like ace bandages and duct tape.
And- to be clear- I also found silicone breast forms on Etsy while looking for silicone nipples for myself, since my top surgery removed my nipples. So, if affordability is a problem, I was able to find silicone breast forms for as low as $8 per pair. I don't wear breast forms, I don't need or want them, so genuinely I don't have any idea of how good $8 breast forms actually are. But they do exist, alongside my $8 replacement nipples for when I can go outside shirtless this coming summer, since I couldn't for a year after surgery. Some of these are made by transgender vendors. Some by cisgender vendors. But they are available.
So, it's not really true that it's impossible for trans women who have the resources to help, because... the trans women who have the resources ARE helping. And it's also not true that trans men were able to waltz in and just take the easy road way ahead of trans women, considering as far as own products and own businesses go we established at approximately the same time and we both are able to enjoy an easier existence than trans people 30, 40, 50 years ago thanks to their work fighting for both their and our rights.
Also re:
Why is it that it's more accepted for a "woman" to wear a suit than a "man" to wear a dress? Are you saying that trans women and transfems did not fight hard enough for our right to exist? That they didn't fight for this at all?
It's not because trans femmes haven't fought for the right to exist - obviously, and I certainly hope no one is saying that.
But the reason that it's acceptable for a "woman" to wear a suit but not for a "man" to wear a dress is because women as a group - mostly composed of cis women actually - spent over one hundred years fighting for the right to wear pants
Literally. Bloomers were invented in 1851 - and it was still almost completely unacceptable for women to wear pants in the 1950s
Seriously. Cis women (and trans mascs) spent well over a century telling the patriarchy to fuck off before they got the right to wear pants - which is, honestly, still often contested, as seen in some modern dress codes and professional attire norms, especially in more conservative areas, professions, and especially conservative Christian denominations.
Cis women (and trans mascs) got mocked for wearing pants!! They were beaten!! They were arrested!! They were fired from their jobs and barred from employment!! They were kicked out of restaurants and medical appointments and legal hearings!! They literally received death threats for wearing pants!!
The trouser-like garments proved practical in the 1850s, but full acceptance was a long time coming.
From women being arrested for ‘masquerading as men’ to trousers becoming a common part of everyday wear, pants were never just a piece of cl
Did You Know? Until January 31st of 2013, it was illegal for women in France to wear pants. Although it was not enforced in decades, the 179
This is not some boon of the patriarchy. This is not because the patriarchy considers masculinity acceptable in women.
It's because women spent decades fighting for the right to wear pants, but cis men have never had a mass movement for their right to wear dresses
Because, of course, cis men have been too busy shitting on femininity
Also, by the way, I used to do competitive events in college that required formalwear (think mock trial), and I was regularly scored lower because I had the temerity to wear a suit that included pants. In the 2010s. Both before and after I came out as trans masc. So like. As a whole. I think this vein of argument also really, really overlooks the degree to which women and "women" are STILL very much and regularly penalized for wearing pants, something that happens far more often than just in my example
Indeed, still a problem:
Female flight attendants at British Airways just spent two years fighting for the right to wear pants on the job—and they finally won. The a
[ID: youtube comment from Hal Sawyer:
My favorite relic English still used everywhere is the word "the" used in phrases like: "the more I look at this, the stranger it seems, or "the bigger they come, the harder they fall". This "the" is not the article of any noun, it is a different word, a conjunction descended from the old English "þā", pronounced "tha" which means either "when" or "then". Back in early Middle English the structure "if - then" had not taken over and if you wanted to express an if - then relationship you said "þā whatever, þā whatever", meaning "when such-and- such, then such-and-such". "þā" sounds almost the same as "the" and the spelling of the two converged, but the meaning remained totally different. "the more, the merrier" literally means "when more, then merrier" or "if more, then merrier'; same as centuries ago.
end ID]
this is so cool
now with added wiktionary link
update, correction to this:
[image description: tweets from user Matt (official) that read, "this is not quite accurate. this 'the' comes from þȳ, the old instrumental case of the definite article. so it's like 'whereby x, therefore y' or 'by how much x, that's how much y.'
þā ... þā does indeed mean 'when ... then' in Old English, but this temporal correlative is not where we get 'the more the merrier' construction. i'm afraid someone took an OE class and mixed a few things up.
so it doesn't originally mean 'if more, then merrier' as suggested in the comment. it has always meant 'by how much more, that's how much merrier' i.e. double or triple the quantity leads to double or triple the merriment." end id.]
thanks to @wovesaxe for this addition
my greatest accomplishment in life is that I inadvertently made my friend break up with her shitty boyfriend by throwing her a really fucking awesome birthday party
okay so I fucking love event planning and decorating and hosting and baking, aka all the elements of a banger birthday party. I am so freaking happy to throw people parties because it means I get to throw a party, then go to a party! yippee!
so my friend's birthday rolled around and I knew she wanted a party because I'd done them for her before, but I wanted to make it extra special because she was turning the big 25. so I did all the regular stuff I am So Excited About: had her roommates let me into her apartment while she was out, put up balloons and homemade garlands and streamers and table decor, made her favorite cake and snack plates and cocktails, ordered catering from a restaurant she loves, got a bunch of our friends to come over to surprise her, wrote her a disgustingly heartfelt card, etc. and then because it was the big quarter century, I was like I gotta do something extra.
now. I do not like clowns. my friend loves clowns. we've gone to the circus together and she's seen me literally close my eyes and hide when the clowns are out in the audience, meanwhile she's screaming and waving at them. so obviously I hired a clown for her birthday. (btw seeing him out of clown costume made me less freaked out because now I knew that the guy under there looks like someone's uncle.)
so she showed up after work totally expecting a party because I'm too paranoid to throw a real surprise party, and obviously loved it. and then I was like btw. there's a clown.
she lost her mind. she was sooo excited. she loved the party and she loved the clown. I was like haha yes I'm getting a good grade in birthday parties and didn't think much of it because frankly I do this a lot, and it's so much fun for me that I don't consider it work. like, I love doing all that for my friends. it's not any kind of sacrifice.
two days later, she texted me that she broke up with her boyfriend.
naturally I was like omg tell me everything I hated that guy let's get coffee. so we did and she told me that for her birthday, her boyfriend of nine months 1) forgot about it and didn't get her anything, 2) got mad at her for not texting him while she was at her party, 3) got mad at her for telling him about the party because it was "passive aggressive", and 4) called her immature and stupid for being excited about a clown at her birthday.
this was all very in character for him. but she'd just come from a lovely birthday party full of her friends who love her and want to put effort into making a nice day for her, where her friend who hates clowns hired a clown just to make her happy even though the party alone would've been plenty. and suddenly this wasn't a boyfriend being kinda forgetful and lazy, it was a glaring incongruity with everyone else in her life. so she finally dumped his ass. and I was soooo freaking happy. so clowns can be good.
that relationship was already over, she didn’t even bring her boyfriend to her birthday party at her own apartment
actually it's worse than that! she knew there would be a party, but not what day. I invited her boyfriend to the party. he said no.
Verified: Microsoft 365 gets massive 45% price hike — and it's all to do with AI tools (Tom's Guide - January 17, 2025)
oopsie i tripped and spilled my link to archive dot org's downloadable copy of Microsoft office suite for 2007, which features no AI tools and is a powerful word processor that still holds up just fine on windows 10!
While I'm talking about social stuff I had to learn as an autistic person
There's a LOT of social interactions between human beings whose purpose really boils down to being like that thing dogs do where they go "omg YOU'RE a dog??? I'M a dog!!!!!" And that's not a bad thing. Highly ritualized "meaningless" displays of human connection like friendly greetings and talking about things like weather actually do serve a purpose which is like idk ritualized displays birds do. YOU'RE a human? Omg I'M a human!!!! Wow!!!
And they don't have to be your favorite flavor of interaction. You can even think they're silly. But they DO serve a purpose or else they wouldn't be a thing.
There's lots of good and folksy responses to "how are you doing" that don't involve either lying or undermining the ritualized purpose of the greeting exchange, too. My great grandmother Ethel for example was a big fan of "well, I'm a-doin'"
"Things like 'How are you?' and 'Have a nice day' and 'What do you think of the weather, then?' What these sounds mean is: I am alive and so are you."
- Wings, by Terry Pratchett.
It sounds so cute when you put it this way
When I was a teenager I really hated and gamified smalltalk, but... Then I got cockatiels. And cockatiels have a thing called "contact calls". Basically, it's a particular set of noises they make to know where each other are without looking at them directly. There's variations, when the flock member is close it's a very sweet little sound, when they don't know where you are this can progress to a panicked shriek.
I kind of loved mimicking it. It let me interact with my birds in a whole new way that meant a lot to them, and it turned out to be incredibly helpful when my (completely unrecall trained, fully flighted bird) got startled in a bad gust of wind on the way between aviary and house and ended up circling in the bad weather, totally disoriented... And calling for us. It let her figure out how to get back down to come home.
Gradually I realised that lots of animals do this, actually. Cat activation noise is a contact call. Dogs do it in some kinds of whines. Social birds have big repertoires of them. It's just a ritual to keep in contact.
Then... I realised that's what a lot of those small rituals of smalltalk actually are. They are the act of petting an anxious or excited dog to soothe it, or letting each other know you're still in the room together. Humans have a huge variety in the way they use these, but I stopped finding a lot of them so annoying when I realised what the rituals were actually for.
I mean, I still prefer to use the non-word versions among friends and other people amenable to it, but. I find it, given in good faith, kind of endearing now.
I'm now suddenly reminded of the very particular meow my cat would do anytime she passed by an open door with people in the room. Just letting us know she saw us. No need to get up and follow or pet or get food. Not looking for anything more than that acknowledgement of seeing you and wanting you to know she was there.
I was actually just up in Ohio for the solar eclipse, and did you know, I'd never seen Spring before?
I thought I had, because down here in Florida we do get some flowers and nice green leaves as the weather shifts from cool to hot, but the trees are never bare and the flowers just blend in with the rest of the trees and in comparison this Actual Spring was some sort of magical wonderland, I swear to god, I've never seen anything like it
Apple blossoms???? are so pretty???????? the subtle changes of the colors, and they take up the whole tree and they're so damn beautiful????????????????? I had never seen them before, we don't have any apple trees down here at all, but now they might be my favorite flower
I'm familiar with cherry blossoms- we do have some cherry trees- but not like this. This tree was entirely pink and stood out so much! No leaves or anything on the trees, just flowers everywhere!!! I see why people like spring and cherry blossoms so much, I think.
And idek what these are but LOOK at that!!!!!!! Life and color!!!! Spring!!!!
So yeah. I went to Ohio and I thought it was beautiful and i wanted to share that with you. Your state is wonderful!!!
I'm so sorry to the person who doesn't love living in Ohio. I also live in Ohio but my mom is from Oklahoma and, in a similar type experience with a different season, she never knew what fall foliage looked like until she moved here. Apparently down there the leaves just all turn brown and fall off. But here they turn yellow and orange and red and purple and it's beautiful. And she had never understood why everyone talked about the beautiful fall colors until she moved to Ohio! And because of her appreciation I take pretty leaves less for granted! I hope the person who visited from Florida gets to come back for our fall. But here's some pictures because I love where I live so much and want everyone to see it. They aren't mine but they're all from Cuyahoga Valley National Park which is near where I live.
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(EDIT: now on inprnt!)
sometimes you have to take a long hard look in the mirror and say. okay buddy. you stayed up until 2am stressing about shit. you had a nightmare last night. you’re exhausted. don’t expect anything special from yourself today and don’t handle any dangerous goods. sparkle on
i really do think we should substitute gacha games instead for like. the random wikipedia article button. gives you the same "yay i got something new and exciting!" feeling without spending any money and you get to learn something new on wikipedia. the problem is that its missing a cute little storage menu where you can see all the links to different articles youve "collected"
so many people could be weaned off of gambling if we just gamified that website a *little* bit
okay so ummmmm. its real
absolutely fucking legendary first pull
this is probably my favorite tiktok of all time and I finally got around to showing it to my dad the other day and now he comes home every day and tells me about all the places he saw crumbling concrete and says "guess they didn't add enough chinchilla flakes"
My dad has worked in construction is whole life, primarily with a company that does concrete foundations, and I immediately sent him this back when I first found it on TikTok, and he IMMEDIATELY shared it with everyone he worked with. They apparently still quote it on his job sites to this day.
my thing with veganism/vegetarianism is that i DO agree that large-scale meat industry produces a lot of cruelty and that boycotting it is a justifiable thing to do, but i fundamentally do not see a problem with the concept of eating meat.
the cow's not using the meat. if i don't eat it then a bunch of microbes will. or like... a dog.
not to be a redditor here but like... the nutrient cycle requires that someone break down that meat or the nutrients and energy are just going to be locked in this corpse indefinitely. someone's has to eat the meat, someone is going to eat the meat its just that bacteria and fungal hyphae and little maggots are all so small we perceive them eating as "decay". we are all a bunch of mammals running around breathing and shitting and shedding dander and the cow is already dead.
but also holy shit factory farms are evil
Yeah and I say this frequenstly and will repeat it here...industrial plant-based agriculture is also evil. To humans, specifically. There is a high chance that anything that you buy at a grocery store involved human trafficing and/or child labor.
Like, especially in this climate of demonizing immigrants (and so many ag workers are immigrants or children of immigrants), I feel it's really necessary to remember that removing meat or animal products doesn't actually remove the cruelty from your diet.
Dreamt I had to come up with a new aesthetic and my idea was "celestial uncle"
Celestial uncle was like... unflattering middle aged man clothes but printed with centuries old cosmological diagrams and various esoteric imagery
Even partly-effective masks can stop the spread of COVID-19, so long as enough people wear them.
making up characters is so fun because you can be like “this is johnson he came from my mind” and all your friends will go “yippe!!! horray!!! we love johnson!!!”
very unfortunate but hilarious side effect of calling the example oc johnson in this post is now people are saying this in the tags