the metronome.

lost time is never found again.

[pointnclick]

"No one wants to work anymore." Damn right brother. If I could sit in a beautiful field for 40 hours every week of my singular precious life I would

[catchymemes]

[themandazepanda]

[luulapants]

In 4th grade, my bff was in a death feud over chess with a boy in our class but instead of competing like normal people they decided that the best way to determine who was chess master was for each of them to select one of the two biggest idiots in class and teach them to play chess, My Fair Lady style, and see whose idiot won. We are just now, 22 years later, grappling with the moral implications of this exercise.

[assiraphales]

I’m sick of modern celebrity drama. i want that vintage beef. famous people had plenty of drama that we don’t spend enough time exposing. I’m start starting a rag mag dedicated to digging up buried (literally) grudges. someone spill more tea about how harry houdini & arthur conan doyle went from besties to worsties bc one of them believed in ghosts and the other went around disproving them

[assiraphales]

uh oh the girls r fighting

[assiraphales]

arthur conan doyle: my dead son communicated w me from beyond the grave

harry houdini, who went to a medium on doyle’s suggestion and was not impressed: your dead son didn’t say shit x

[memewhore]

[alexaloraetheris]

Every day I discover forms of art I could not have concieved of before, and suddenly I am in awe of being alive.

[slipping-into-madness]

[posttexasstressdisorder]

FOLKS, PLEASE…DO YOUSELVES A BIG BIG FAVOR AND STOP USING TURBOTAX!  IT IS USELESS NOW!!!

THE IRS website will let you fill out and file your return THERE ON THE IRS SITE.  You pay like $12 for the actual electronic filing process, and THAT’s IT!

Unless you have tremendous amounts of Schedule D stock shit, TurboTax is NOTHING BUT A RIPOFF!!!

The IRS website is EXCELLENT.  They allow you to look up your past returns, and have every bit of information you MIGHT POSSIBLY NEED!

FUCK TURBOTAX!

LIBERATE YOURSELF FROM IT!!!!!!!

[nebulousmistress]

Actually, with Free File it’s FREE

No $12 fee

That’s the point of free

If you make less than an income threshold you get to file for FREE using various softwares that are REQUIRED to be and stay free or they lose the license to work with the IRS as part of the Free File program

If you make more than that threshold you can file for FREE using the Free File Fillable Forms where you type in numbers and click “do the math” and the website does all your math for you

Also fuck turbotax, I’m not even allowed to use it because it’s inaccurate enough that I’d get fired since Congress mandated all IRS employees’ taxes need to be PERFECT as a condition of employment

[surprisebitch]

[the-endless-storm]

Love wins

[surprisebitch]

update: mr spain replied omg

[jackironsides]

‘Me pillaron’ = ‘I got caught’

[runawaymarbles]

You know what, even IF trans girls were universally better at sports than cis girls, they should still be allowed to play on their high school sports teams because the mental health and well-being of trans kids, the social support kids get from sports, and the societal benefit of basic inclusion and normalization of trans kids are more important than who wins a volleyball game or whatever

[runawaymarbles]

I didn’t realize that girls got a say, or universally agreed on, who got to be on their sports teams. I wish I’d known this when I was 12– I’d have voted out Molly, who violated my boundaries by being a bitch

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

I went to school with a Paralympian. A multiple gold medal winner, no less. She used to beat us all hollow at every bloody sport, even though - and I cannot stress this enough - we weren't even doing the sport she became a Paralympic gold medalist in.

But she was never barred from participating because she was too good. No one ever looked at her and went "Well, she has an unfair advantage" and banished her to a Paralympians Only team. The nature of sport is that some people will be better than you. We weren't whiny little bitches about that who tried to get her disqualified so we could feel more special. We just understood that she was better than us, and got on with it.

Honestly, if you can't handle some people being better than you - whether that's down to raw talent, private coaching, or just higher natural physical stats - you probably shouldn't be in sports at all

[sportsbianism-deactivated202306]

sorry.... are you saying you think being disabled gave her an unfair advantage against you? you think she was winning because she was disabled?

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

This is the most astonishing intentional misreading of something to try and start shit I've seen in some time

[guooey]

[ihatecispeople]

i love it actually when nonnative speakers make mistakes that reveal how their native languages work.

lots of koreans online say they "eat" drinks which would assume they only have one word which covers the concept of consumption.

arabic immigrants in sweden (my mother included) have a hard time differentiating between "i think/i believe/my opinion is" which suggests that in arabic these different modalities of speaker agency is treated as one or at least interchangeable.

swedish speakers in english will use should/shall/have to/must with much higher nuance precision than native english speakers, to the point where they sound well awkward, because the distinction between these commands in swedish is much clearer than in english. i make mistakes between is/am/are and has/have constantly because swedish only has one pronoun covering all grammatical persons.

i've heard speakers of languages without gendered pronouns (finnish, the chinese dialects, and a tonne more) make he/she mistakes because it's hard(!!) to learn two or more gendered pronouns and when to use them correctly.

how neat is that?! it add a charm to international english usage in particular and make our appreciation of both our native languages and our learnt ones stronger...!!

[aandriskobold]

i love this! one thing i notice with a lot of people (native speakers of polish, romanian, french and others) is no differentiation between present simple (i go) and present continuous (I am going), because those languages only have one present tense to cover both. it's so lovely every time i hear it

i always think one of the most fun things about learning languages is that it teaches you how weird your own is! especially english phrasal verbs (the very different meanings of stand up, stand down, stand off, stand up to), or trying to explain the difference between being up to something and being up for something to my french friend. I love it!

[ihatecispeople]

another tag reminded me of how spanish speakers often mix up /v/ and /b/ because in panish they pronounced identically!

I wish more people had the ability to become bilingual because you're right, it makes you understand your own language at a more intimate and analytical level!!

[batsandboba]

despite all my dread i am still just a girl in a bed

[beansfrombeans]

despite all my gloom i am still just a guy in my room

[everwizard]

despite my despair im still just a gamer in a chair

[thebigcomed0wn]

putting “lying to kids is ok” on the table immediately looks bad. but theres nuance. because kids deserve to have as much context and respect as anyone else you live with. but also. telling them that leaving doors open will make ants carry away the entire house is necessary until their brains can quantify the heating&air bill

[funnytwittertweets]

[funnytwittertweets]

[xenosagaepisodeone]

can’t believe I’m only now finding out that hiro suzuhira redrew her anime goth girl in 2020 after finding out how iconic she is in the west

[blackgirlsreverything]