Done Poorly is better than Not Done

Satchel | 25 | Bi | He/Him

[spidey-sensz]

you’re too late, spider-man! weed has already been legalized!

[rainintheevening]

Okay, we got a new one, boys.

[fleshengine]

Close enough welcome back Chekov's gun.

[comma-souptra]

Prev you can’t bury this in your own tags

[elliegoose]

my potion #MyPotion

[exit-running]

per The Chart, this is a "Hell at the Bell":

[spidey-sensz]

You go to the crossroads to call on the devil. Closing your eyes you spin three times, chanting the rhyme you’ve been taught. You don’t believe it will work, you’re not even sure if you want it to, but somehow you’re not surprised by the man in the old suit leaning against a tree on the other side of the crossing.

“You called?”

“Gender affirming surgery, in exchange for my soul.”

“Straight to the point, no pleasantries? That’s OK. It’s not often I get asked for something modern medicine can provide, but given the state of things here… I understand.” With a wicked grin, the man crosses the street extending a hand. Seeing him up close, the dark round glasses and pointed goatee seem almost comically on point.

You hesitate, then thrust out your hand, quickly shaking his before you can second guess yourself further.

Losing your soul is more painful than you’d expected. It’s like fire coursing through your veins. You double over, clutching your stomach in pain as tears fill your eyes. Blinking them clear, you take stock of your body. No changes so far, but maybe it’s not immediate?

You look up to ask devil and your eyes instantly fixate on his fat fucking tits

[lizardsfromspace]

Nice one-line text post you've got there. Thankfully, I, a shrimp, am here to read the evil shrimp sentences written in shrimp colors that prove this post is really about something I'm mad about (shrimp problems, mostly)

[narwhalsarefalling]

my dad has just now noticed the tv has a shadow on it (its been there for a year) and it needs to be fixed now (we are LITERALLY eating dinner) because this is an emergency (tv works fine) (just has a shadow on it) (eating dinner)

[narwhalsarefalling]

an update: the TV now stuck on the Paprika DVD select screen despite the Paprika DVD not being in the DVD player.

But the shadow is gone, apparently.

[narwhalsarefalling]

Yes. Actually the Contraption is the audio/visual setup for the whole house.

[narwhalsarefalling]

The Contraption

[bug4932]

[bug4932]

the other pic we took the same day

[businesstiramisu]

#we planned the costumes and con before we started dating and i take no responsibility#i forbid henghost from posting this for months

[redstonedust]

ideal living situation is what i call the 'sitcom special' : having all your closest friends live in the same apartment building or neighborhood where you each have your own space but can wander in and out of eachothers homes at will, seemingly always welcome and never at bad times. and also all of you only have jobs when its important to the plot.

[xekstrin]

[stjohnstarling]

(x)

[beaujes]

@artemissoteira replied to your post "new 17 hayley williams songs..."

👀

Welcome to Hayley's corner of the internet. Go ahead and click around. Lose yourself a little.

code: 21G_y+dQQE(9v#Os

which seems fake but it is lol

[charlesoberonn]

If the US military wants so bad to liberate a desert region from a repressive religious organization, Utah is right there.

[charlesoberonn]

That’s the drone operator’s job.

[charlesoberonn]

I fear that the context of me making this post shortly after the US withdrew from Afghanistan has been forgotten and now people just think I want to blow up Utah.

[prokopetz]

I do enjoy it when a game is clearly trying to use a wildly inappropriate pre-built game engine for what it wants to do, but I don't see why RPG Maker should have all the fun. Do grid-based tactical combat in Inform. Write a rhythm game in Twine. Implement that precision puzzle platformer in Ren'Py. You know you want to.

[teal-deer]

Make a roguelike metroidvania in PowerPoint

[prokopetz]

I haven't bumped into that exact combination before, but I have separately encountered both a roguelike made of Microsoft Excel macros and a metroidvania built inside a sudoku web app.

[arcanistlupus]

To quote my wife: "The worst part about [the sudoku metroidvania] is that it's actually good."

[myfootyrthroat]

When the health food store unionized, something wild happened that I thought was just a goofy one-off, but makes more sense now.

There was a big push to eliminate "degrading jobs" but the strategy was to eliminate the position, then create a new position outside of the bargaining unit to do the work. So like, we wouldn't have dishwashers, but we'd have people who washed dishes that weren't eligible to be in the union.

I was like A) what the actual fuck? Dish washing isn't "degrading", it's fucking vital. B) What the actual fuck? You want to create a union just to exploit different people?

There were enough of us to be like "Absolutely the fuck not," and put a stop to it, but I was absolutely flummoxed that people involved in a union would say that out loud. Working with more leftists now, it makes sense.

[myfootyrthroat]

I think it was coming from a background that viewed labor as necessary to accomplish anything, but advocated for the equitable distribution of the gains made by labor... and then being thrown in with people who just thought labor was icky.

The first time someone told me that busing tables was "degrading", I was like "Oh, uhh, yeah, like it's very necessary work but under compensated for how vital it is?" and they responded "No, touching plates that other people have eaten off of is disgusting."

But I want to eat off of clean plates. So somebody is going to have to touch/clean those plates. And I respect that person and want them to be able to afford to live.

[official-torfmoor]

Those people sound like a guy I'd make up to be mad at.

[myfootyrthroat]

I mean, that job definitely had a Truman Show vibe. If they hadn't been in-person interactions, I'd think I was getting trolled.

[myfootyrthroat]

Just to put a bow on it:

In bargaining, someone on the Union side suggested that we eliminate all the cashiers and exclusively use self-checkouts (they were a cashier and didn't like it). The organizer told them that the union wasn't in the habit of eliminating bargaining unit positions. (This is the same person I've talked about how said that "as a prison abolitionist" we just needed to execute most criminals.)

When I explained holiday scheduling (time off requests granted in order of seniority, shifts assigned in reverse order of seniority). Someone was angry and said that time off requests potentially being denied "wasn't in the spirit of the union". When I pointed out that our departments made like 30% of our annual revenue between Thanksgiving and New Years and that required production staff to be working, they said that we just needed to create a class of positions ineligible for the bargaining unit that wouldn't be able to request time off. (Which again, most of us figured we'd just rotate holidays or something, but assumed that some holiday production was mandatory.)

[bees-and-mice-and-frogs-and]

I was on leftie tiktok (as a creator) for a bit and I saw this attitude there as well. I specifically remember one argument around cleaners where someone said that employing a cleaner was, like, ethically bad, and that "after the revolution" we wouldn't have cleaners.

It got me thinking, along with Ann Russell talking about how to treat cleaners (being a cleaner herself), about how we conceptualise domestic service as particularly degrading in all its forms, when, really, why is that? Why is paying someone to do something intrinsically bad?

Like, even in a moneyless, gift economy society, there would still be people whose primary contribution to their communities would be cleaning. Some people like to clean, and are really rather good at it.

I've talked ad nauseam in the past about how British attitudes towards cleaners and other service based positions today are the descendants of Victorian attitudes. That is, both the attitudes of conservatives and many progressives of that time. The trade union movement was particularly exclusionary towards service workers.

I think people on the left thinking about forms of labour can sometimes be worse than people on the right. People who have taken these positions generally just conceptualise them as something you need to do to get by, and there are particular employers where these positions are degrading but in general the jobs themselves aren't.

[myfootyrthroat]

Yeah, that really sums it up. There's stuff that needs to get done, so I'll never be of the opinion that it's degrading work. I worked in kitchens for a long time, and every other position is reliant on having clean dishes, so nobody can really be "above" washing dishes. The shitty thing about washing dishes or busing tables is how people treat the people doing it. The work itself is vital.

And some of those jobs are like, sure, you can throw almost any warm body at it and get it done adequately, but you still run into people where you're like "Holy shit, you're good at this."

[leebrontide]

People doing a job most people don't want to do should be paid MORE in order to get people to do it. That's how it would work if we weren't mired in a schema assuming that less-frequently-desired jobs are the province of people who "can't do better" and "deserve" poverty because they have less value as people.

[aroundtheworldinalibrary]

I worked in domestic service for a few years (ie. I was a servant) and I learned a lot, but one of the things I learned was:

The job is exactly as degrading as my employer thinks it is.

I worked for a couple of families who had always had servants, it was normal to them; they were great employers, treated me like a human being. I liked working for them, I’m still in touch with the kids of one of them.

I worked for a family who were uncomfortable with the concept. They wanted someone who cooks and cleaned and cared for their children so they didn’t have to, but they were uncomfortable with the idea of ‘having a servant’. They weren’t rude or unkind, but I hated it there. They viewed the job they were paying me for as innately degrading, and that made it so.

Dignity is not innate to some work and not others; dignity is innate to humanity, and if the job needs doing, the person who does it has dignity.

[eikotheblue]

California girls we're unaccountable

[eikotheblue]

California girls we're unforgivable

[triviallytrue]

unintentional plagiarism of another post! hbomberguy kill their ass

[eikotheblue]

california girls we're unoriginal 😔

[hybridzizi]

You're from Washington.

[eikotheblue]

california girls we're washingtonian

[hellenhighwater]

One of Vice's older tricks is Testify, which means that if I offer him a book, he has to sit up and put his paw on it to swear in, and hold it there for a moment.

[variablejabberwocky]

#to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help me Dracula

[ink-the-artist]

was testing something out for an animation project. check out this thing

[ink-the-artist]

baby need smoko

[scumcathundredaire]

[website-enjoyer]

in the 21st century you will either have to show mastercard video footage of your heterosexual christian marriage in order to unlock the copy and paste tools on your computer, or communism will make it so that you can get free surgery to add a knot to your dick. and you gotta choose which side you’re on pretty fuckin fast