Lab’s Place!

Simply thoughts. I have tons of sideblogs tho.

[nightmarenightmarebightmare22]

One of those Eridian Welcoming Committee freaky letters has to be real. One of them has to be an alien fucker who saw Grace and shot their shot.

[justcakethanks]

Okay this was too good to pass up. Credit for idea goes to @nightmarenightmarebightmare22

[titsay]

Munchlax and Snorlax napping

[08pmdverse]

was thinking about my dawn a little today..

[memecucker]

sometimes i think about that one Los Angeles fire captain that turned out to be an incredibly prolific serial arsonist with one of the things that ended up giving him away being that he wrote a novel about a firefighter that becomes an arsonist and used the pen-name “Aaron Stiles” which turns out to be an anagram for “I set LA arson” 

[yeahiwasintheshit]

[flagellant]

hey yeah no this guy is actually a Big Deal in California at least in my town he set fires across central and southern california for over a DECADE before being caught. The FBI estimates he set over two thousand fires before being caught. After his arrest, wildfires in the surrounding area dropped ninety percent

[beardedmrbean]

[unfriendlymoth]

[dualcasterjay]

however small you may think this dog could be, it is sooo much smaller

[pyx]

victorian sterling silver seal peppers

[nchntd]

In the club

[vacuously-true]

I think I’m literally never gonna be sick of this masterpiece. I think watching it on a loop for eight hours could fix me. Dancing’s what clears my soul. Dancing’s what makes me whole.

[dimmadoome]

I just love that this very video is an accumulation of thousands of years worth of art made by people who have never met each other. The concept of this video was so completely unfathomable to every single artist who made the sculptures and yet they’ve all put something toward the creation of it.

[phantomknights]

i think people are starting to forget what the LA in LARP means

[asterism343]

*nodding sagely* Los Angeles Role Play

[virtualgirladvance]

okay gang lets find that son of a bitch markiplier

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: t a tatg t gt at t A A a g ag Ag a a gag t tat a tc a

Closest match: Kwoniella shandongensis strain CBS 12478 chromosome 5

(image source)

[hellsitegenetics]

[teaboot]

How people get nicknames:

Recipient of a third-degree burn in front of witnesses. IE, "I won't take that shit from a man dressed like a ghostbuster"= "Gostbuster" or "Buster"

A distinctive personal feature or quirk. IE, "Have you noticed how that new guy is always eating bell peppers?" = "Peppers", or "That chick has a massive forehead" = "Forehead".

An embarrassing thing you said or did. IE, "Did you seriously call Dale "Dad"?" = "Junior", "Baby boy", "Sport"

A game of name-mutation telephone. IE, "Donny Clyde" = "Bonnie 'n' Clyde" = "Bonnie" = "Bon-bon".

Irony. IE, calling a tall person "short stack" or a particularly dour person "sunshine".

A 'wrong place wrong time' one-off incident. IE, "He spilled oil on his pants and had to borrow a pair that were way too big and Jim saw him with the waistband pulled up to his nipples and called him 'Parachute'"

A batman-style origin story but not in a cool way: "One time she hit a deer with the company car and when she called the boss to tell her she was crying so hard we thought she was dying" = "Bambi"

The incredibly rare 'admiration' nickname, bourne only once a millennia under the light of the blood moon: "We saw him lift a truck once so now we call him 'iron man'"

+ How Nicknames Stick:

Your fate is determined by The Counsel

You hate it

It's accurate

[galileosballs]

Also, please do not listen to how people talk about cover letters on this site. Cover letters are important, and in many industries you can be damn sure they'll be read. And no, they're not 'fanfic about working in your office', or just re-stating the resume contents in a fancier guise. If you treat them like that, then of course they're not doing much for you. That makes you sound like a syncophantic windbag, and it's not doing anything else to help.

I was trained in the dark arts of the cover letter by my mother, who is a hiring manager. And her training has paid off: I've been consistently told my cover letters are excellent. Let me pass on the wisdom.

The job of a cover letter is to give a prospective employer strictly more information than is on the resume. This is where you take the resume contents and put them into context. You look at the job requirements (you are looking at the job requirements before applying, right?) and look at your resume and ask the question (in your head) "why would a person think this candidate would be good for this job?" and your cover letter is the answer to that question. If you don't answer that question, the hiring manager is going to have to do it themselves, and you have way more information to work with than they do.

This is especially important if you're moving from one industry to another, because then the relevant connections aren't obvious. It's also very important if you're overqualified, because then you can use the letter to say "I know it looks like this job would be too entry-level for me, but I'm interested to pursue it for reasons x, y, and z". You can also use this space to explain away something that might otherwise be disqualifying, like job-hopping or a long break in employment. The tone to strike here is always matter-of-fact and constrained to topic - don't go into detail about health stuff or personal tragedy, just tell them what they need to hear: that this period of your resume was affected by [bad thing] but that it's now in the past and you're looking forward to the next chapter. Remember, one of the things they're trying to learn is whether you'd be content in this role, or whether you'd be miserable and leave after 2 months, which would force them to do all the work of hiring again. You're trying to establish that you will fit right in and not cause problems. Knowing what drew you to this job in particular (and don't just say 'money', that's true for everyone) helps with that.

And the other mistake? Everyone writes cover letters that are too long. One page is fine. Two is the absolute maximum, and that's if you have a lot of specific things to say. It's a waste of your time and theirs to pad it out with fluff. Of my two most recent successful cover letters (i.e. jobs for which I was interviewed) one was 390 words and the other was 550. That's the length of this post. How long did it take me to write this post? About 15 minutes to write, 5 to proof and edit. That's how long you should be spending on a cover letter, maximum.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

every single conversation i’m forced into on this website is either “guac is extra” or “you hate pancakes”

[cheaphalloweencostume]

[no-terfs-no-swerfs-no-fascists]

We have no choice but to stan a queen 💪❤️👑

[themainspoon]

Trying to escape military service like: "Poison Seller, I require your weakest poisons."

[dumbtrannybitch]

it's actually so amazing she helped save the lives of the honorable men who did not wish to fight, while killing the most vile men, that is so fucking based

[dduane]

Meanwhile, via Bluesky...

[rogue-ai-cat]

And here is the resulting image. There is at least Someone in the U.K. government who is actually doing their job, and it is Chief Mouser to the Cabinet, Larry the Cat.

Source

[spiribia]

do you want a warm, weighted, vibrating plushie that acts like a heat seeking missile and intermittently stabs you? What I have just described to you is Felis catus and there is a dark secret to it

[worsecats]

Come closer... learn my secret...

[kimiko24]

I fucking love this video

[boozehund-blog]

[caden]

the conqueror… an unstoppable force

[boozehund-blog]

the fool…..

[drdaanvondutch]

steam notifications

your childhood best friend who moved four states away in 2014 is playing Terraria

coworker from your high school job is playing My Sexy Anime Neighbor from Sin University

ex friend who blocked you on everything but steam for some reason is playing The Binding of Isaac

the guy you genuinely thought of as a brother at one point but havent seen in years is playing Elden Ring

rando who was kind of nice to you in tf2 a decade ago is playing Team Fortress 2

your parents' neighbors' son is playing Resident Evil 4 (2023)