My Brain is a Clown Car

He/it. 30. You can call me Mojito. There is no theme. Welcome to Hyperfixation Hell.

[cillyscribbles]

finals mood

[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.

[our-queer-experience]

“shouldnt there be more records of trans people before” do you have any idea how much history was not recorded because it was personal and trivial and away from anything that could record it anyway?

[our-queer-experience]

somewhere out there is an 100 year old photo in someone’s basement of someone’s grandparent’s aunt who never married and had an adam’s apple she hid with scarves and the name written doesn’t match with the rest of the family’s names on ellis island somewhere out there a little girl tending to the chickens wishes he could grow up muscled and tanned like his dad and somewhere out there a poet who’s works will be lost when their family moves wonders if they can opt out of all gendered obligations and somewhere out there a miner wishes she could have breasts like her wife but her boss will kill her before she even hears the word transvestite and somewhere out there taller women with small chests put on loose clothes and worked for-hire jobs and died so far from where anyone knew them that whoever found him didn’t know that he had even been doing that. magnus hirshfeld’s institute was burned. a tree that falls in an empty forrest still made a sound even if we will never know

[maximite2themax]

mangomerry and crumbletazer or whatever they were called

[cryptotheism]

Poppers? Like jalapeño poppers??

Yeah sure

[sceptixfakemon]

i really genuinely wish I could hit chatgpt with my bare fists and hear its pityful electronic voice fade into glitched robotic gibberish and choking beeps as I hit it before I smash it for good and it shuts the fuck up forever

[sceptixfakemon]

no no it's fine

[sceptixfakemon]

why are so many people wondering if I'm horny for chatgpt. it's like the most unfuckable robot ever created heeell NO

[sceptixfakemon]

dragging you out of the tags like it's the last thing I'll ever do on this site

[outofcontextarthur]

[daft-junk-blog]

cities breaking down on a camels back

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

I'm probably never going to find it again, but there was a response to one of those "artworks we think we can make" posts that was like "Okay, go for it." Like, dead serious.

Are you going to come out of it with a Klein-level work? No. Dude was bonkers skilled. But I am here to tell you that if you've ever gone to Home Depot and shuffled through paint chips and been like "God, this is such a gorgeous color, I fucking love this color" and then immediately been like "...but I can't imagine painting a wall with it." and bought a can of soul-killing eggshell off-white or what the fuck ever, you absolutely can go pick up a $10 canvas from a craftstore and a $5 sample of that color and just hang 6 square feet of it on a wall and enjoy the fuck out of it.

For real, buds. If you see an artwork and you're like "Shit, I could have made that," that is a reminder that god can't stop you and probably neither can science.

[square-enix]

happy this is thancred tuesday

[noah-wyles]

all i want for 2026 is that gigantic rancid AI bubble to finally burst in such a catastrophic way that the consequences will be so good and i'll never have to see another AI generated image ever again

[fluoritegalaxy]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[monsterbutch]

this is one of my favorite reddit posts of all time

[formlessdemi]

God forbid Chippy do anything

[randomdeinonychus]

You absolutely must unmute this video.

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[sugarskeith]

URGENT HELP NEEDED

I just finished chemo last week (yippeeee) and in the days leading up to my last session I caught a cold.

For those that don't know, chemo destroys your ability to fight infections and a common cold can progress very quickly. I unfortunately have had to take the entire week off of work due to fluid in my lungs, and I'm struggling to stay afloat as is.

If you're able to help, I still have my GoFundMe set up and could really use some assistance so I can keep myself and my dogs fed.

Donate to Support Jenn's Fight Against Cancer!, organized by Jennifer Brown

Hello, my name is Jennifer. I'm 29 years old and just got diagnosed with Hodgkin's… Jennifer Brown needs your support for Support Jenn's Fig

[starlitbeetle]

Hey all, while we're busy normalizing women with hairy legs, hairy armpits and bushy pubes, let's also normalize women with hairy upper lips, hairy chins, hairy side burns, hairy chests, and all the other places where women are supposedly magically hair-free.

[abdalsalam-2000]

These may be my last words or the last time I write a post, so I will not forgive anyone who sees this post and does not support me with a single word and ignores me.

[abdalsalam-2000]

I write these words in great pain, my eyes brimming with tears. I can no longer bear this situation. I am exhausted by hunger, severe anemia, my father's cancer, and the exorbitant cost of the medications he needs.

[abdalsalam-2000]

All I care about is getting rid of the cancer my father is suffering from and the constant pain. Please help me buy his medication so his body can recover and he can resume his life, and to save me, my entire family, and my young niece who is suffering from malnutrition and anemia.

[abdalsalam-2000]

Please donate if you can. Your donation will enable me to buy medicine for my father, and it will save him, save me, and save my whole family. Our lives are at stake from hunger, disease, and anemia, and it will end the constant pain. Gofundme

[sporesgalaxy]

Nader's father needs pain relief. Donate what you can. This is campaign number 4 on the @gazavetters account. I personally assure you that your donations will go directly to Nader, his family, and his ailing father.

[abdalsalam-2000]

Friends, I beg you to help us and donate. You don't know how we will live if this aid stops. My family is large; we are nine people in this family, and we all depend on this aid to survive. Please, please don't hesitate to donate. Please donate now. We need 680 euros to reach 6000. Please, please donate.

[punkitt-is-here]

Please help out my friend!

[geniusbee]

these are getting weird

[wolf-aid]

We're in the middle of the school. Guys, we're done building the classrooms. School thanks to your donations, this is a very wonderful thing Thank you to everyone who donated and participated But we still have a lot of lacking

[wolf-aid]

Hey guys, let's be snug. Why don't we complete donations quickly? Why don't you help us spread this out for fundraising? This is considered an institution. Why doesn't anyone care about her? I'm overloading my energy. Please create posts everywhere. Everything is available in Gaza, but education is still not available please help with posting We're doing a good job, please share and donate now.

Donate to Help the children of Gaza get a safe and free education., organized by Asma Yunis

The Coastal Initiative in Gaza urgently needs your support to laun… Asma Yunis needs your support for Help the children of Gaza get a safe a

[faacethefacts]

Please donate anything you can, you could make a real difference in these children's education here!

[trawl]

Ibrahim is doing really really important work! Let's help him!

[wolfer-aid]

Hey guys, come on, come on, we can do it all together. Please donate and share this post now, and if you can post about it, you guys are our only hope. Come on, come on, please.

[wolf-aid]

Guys, I'm so excited about this school. We should raise as much donation to complete the remaining stuff. Please share this post and donate now your donation is very important Please read Don't ignore and help with one euro it will help. Please,put a like and donate.

[mavigation]

Things are coming together!!

[wolf-aid]

Guys, we just need 300 euros to reach 6,000 euros, that's very close, please donate now before it's too late. We can help the children in Gaza by learning. I swear to you guys that I am not a fraud or that. I swear everything I'm saying is true. And that all donations will go towards completing the construction of this little initiative. I hope you understand me.

[wolfer-aid]

Guys there is someone who donated 5 euros This is absolutely wonderful This donation in my opinion is very big Please if you can donate similarly please please donate now let us hurry before the start of the new semester just five

[afro-elf]

donate what you can, even if it's small 🦐

[arcadewave]

Please guys help and share This post Gaza children need to learn With your donation, you will help them get started as quickly as possible. Please donate to them if you can.

[faacethefacts]

Please donate!

[wolf-aid]

Guys, we are so close to only 6,000 we need less than 200 euros, please donate and share this post I am very excited to start education in the area where I provide and I will be a reason for this thanks to you and thanks to your donations and help please help me and donate as soon as possible

[punkitt-is-here]

We're making progress! Please help out Ibrahim and his goal, I want him to succeed

[wolf-aid]

Guys, just need less than 450 euros to reach 6,500 guys, we are very close! Please I hope you help us get there. We're almost done with this school. please donate and share this post I hope we get there as soon as possible.

[wolf-aid]

Friends, come on, come on, we are getting closer, we just need less than 350 euros to get there. Please now together donate even five euros That really will help us. Please, friends, I'm so excited to reach 6,500 euros, please now, come before it's too late. Because prices are going up more And more. Please help

[wolf-aid]

Guys, just under 150 euros to reach 6500 euros, we are very close guys Please help us Donate now before it's too late, guys. We're so close. We have to get there. Come on, buddies. I hope everyone donates a little.

[punkitt-is-here]

We're makin a ton of progress! any donations go a long way to helping out Palestinians