Insanity: In the Eye of the Beholder

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[beardedmrbean]

[catasters]

[catchyvideos]

OP theaverycottage on TikTok ♡

[beemovieerotica]

out of the blue

[bantambookeater]

Breath of Life / Kiss of Death Naïade Residence https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNI81pDsUeU/

[autisticadvocacy]

Native kids with disabilities were held in wooden boxes. Sweeping reforms are coming

State officials in New York say the Salmon River district's special education program confined young children with disabilities in wooden bo

CW for seclusion, abuse.

A school in New York confined disabled Native children in wooden boxes. Indigenous children and disabled children have a long history of experiencing mistreatment and harm in schools. Everyone deserves an education free from seclusion and restraint.

For more information on the harms of seclusion, check out  the Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint.

[fashion-runways]

CHOTRONETTE Sage Sherbet Dress pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[eonblueinmay]

Watching the process of this absolutely stunning painting makes it even more beautiful.

The artist is Sydney Swisher

[kitsnicket]

[qsk-deactivated20191002]

what did we do to deserve animal crossing. like how did nintendo know it was always a dream of mine to live in a cute pink house and befriend talking deer and hamsters

[alchemeia-deactivated20190319]

fun fact animal crossing was developed with themes of moving from loneliness towards community and building friendships because the creator, katsuya eguchi, felt that same sort of isolation when he moved from chiba to kyoto and realized how much he missed that connection between himself and his friends and family

[qsk-deactivated20191002]

this is such a good addition i never knew about thank you!

[moghedien]

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

[moghedien]

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

[datgreenmonstah]

Still in the works, but nearly done with this, then hopefully will have the tutorial up soon.

[datgreenmonstah]

Here’s how to make one for yourself

Post by @datgreenmonstah · 1 video

💬 0  🔁 31  ❤️ 56 · Here is the tutorial, I don’t get paid doing this and I’m not an expert at this so please don’t think I can answer everyt

[mylo-space]

i imagine the first few times Rocky watches Grace sleep, he accidentally wakes Grace up, because he sees Grace move and is like, oh, alright! that was wayyy less than 29,000 seconds, but great! Grace is awake! and Grace has to, very groggily, explain to Rocky that just because a human is moving doesn't mean they've woken up. humans move in their sleep--which is a completely foreign concept to Rocky, whose body just completely shuts down, but he gets used to watching Grace toss and turn and snore. so, of course, i also have to imagine that there are times on the trip to Erid--after Grace has discovered how he actually got to space--when Grace moving in his sleep becomes terrifying for Rocky to watch, because it's not the peaceful sort of moving that he's gotten used to seeing, sometimes sleep isn't Grace making little human snuffling sounds and rolling around, sometimes it's thrashing, and sometimes it's screaming, and sometimes he begs someone to stop, don't do it, get off me, but there's nothing there, and there's nothing that Rocky can do to help, so he just has to sit there and watch and wait and hope and count the seconds until Grace wakes up and tells him, it was nothing. it was just a dream.

[cussundria-nerd-kneal]

I'm actually surprised we never got a scene for this exact thing in the books. Grace literally tells Rocky "I'm not going to move. For a LONG time!" And I immediately went: "That's not true, humans move around all the time in our sleep."

Hell, some of us fucking SLEEP WALK. We move around in our sleep a concerningly amount! (Now I'm imagining Grace sleepwalking shenanigans and Rocky suddenly getting a lot more vindication for needing to watch over Grace as he sleeps lol Because instead of it being a trauma cultural thing, it's legitametly for his saftey because Grace can get up and fucking touch things while being fully unconcious what the hell Grace weird crazy human--!)

But also... the interesting thing with our brains, our memories, even with medically induced amnesia... we still remember, deep down. That information those memories hold are still stored somewhere, even if we can't conciously access them. And some of the ways our brain does access them is through dreaming. But we don't remember our dreams often times. Our brains have several dreams over the course of a single sleeping sesson, if we hit deep REM sleep.

I truly thought we were going to get a scene of Grace waking up from a nightmare, terror still blazing through his system, Rocky freaking out because he can hear Grace's body responses and they're going haywire... but Grace doesn't remember what he was dreaming about. Just the faint looming dread of death on his horizon. He chalks it up to stress, and thinking about Earth slowly dying, and thinks maybe he had a dream he was still on Earth as the apocalypse was ripping his world apart.

But he wasn't. He was dreaming - remembering - those final moments in Eva's office, fighting for his life, realizing the horror that she was going to medically stripe him of his entire personhood, to put him on the Hail Mary to die.

[ilovecoelacanths]

went to a new optometrist today wearing my squid facts ‘save our freaks dont mine the deep’ shirt from @sarahmackattack that has a strawberry squid on it. and i wasn’t even thinking about it but the optometrist walked in and he was like ‘oh what does your shirt say’ so i showed him and he was like ‘oh that’s neat!’ and then i thought he might like to know about strawberry squid eyes since they have weird eyes and he is an optometrist and all. so i was like ‘yeah it’s actually a real kind of squid called a strawberry squid, their eyes are really cool because they have one big yellow-green one and one small blue one’ and he kind of gasped and went ‘oh my god that’s so interesting i wonder why they have that. do you know what their retina composition is like?’ and i watched as he minimized my chart on the computer and started looking up images of strawberry squid and then he googled ‘strawberry squid retina composition’ and he was like ‘sorry we’ll get to your eye exam in a moment i just really want to find out’ LMAO 10/10 optometrist experience will be returning

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[bad-love]

I just wanted to add this quote from the peppermint patty peanuts wiki page about Charles M. Schulz and his relationship with his gay cousin. The source here leads to a book that I did not read but the original source is Schulz's wife who confirmed this in an interview. If I can find the interview again I will link it here but uh. just in case someone tries to claim Schulz was a homophobe on this post again.

[rocketbirdie]

there desperately needs to be a separate option to report ads for hijacking your touch screen or automatically launching your browser/app store the moment you scroll past it. "malicious" is not a strong enough word. i need the "go fuck yourself and die in a pit of boiling acid x10000" option

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE