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we have to thank our brave soldiers in fandom who write gen fics. we have to thank our brave soldiers in fandom who write character studies and stories with no focus on romance or sex. we have to get on our knees and thank the brave soldiers in fandom who write about minor characters and friendship and family with no focus on romance or sex. i know it’s hard to care about characters in a world that seems to only revolve around ships but i see you. and i love you

theartofmadeline

happy pride to the gay people in my computer <3

drunkwhenimadethis

I hate to say it and I hate to know it but if you crave intimacy and deep relation you truly have to muster the courage to go first.

#i've been working on this

fruitgravies

wandering

insta • twt • bsky

#wha #my girls....

cannibalings

big fan of a character seeking comfort in the arms of the thing that’s going to kill them. and i am psycologicalily normal too.

#many such cases

chamomile-teabag

WHAT ARE YALL READING RN you must tell me

#i finally gave into the urge to start rereading rote 😔#yes it’s only been a year since i read it. yes i have other books i should be reading #but i was having a weird day and decided robin hobb could fix me so here we are <3 halfway through assassin’s apprentice currently #also partway through blue lily lily blue which i will go back to once i’ve satisfied my rote itch

sizzlingcandyjellyfishhhhhh

no revenge because I forgot what you did #memoryloss

#orufrey

tzikeh

Maryland will become the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in retail stores, after passing Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.

Jesus fucking christ that this exists in the first place

boyslit

I WAS FUCKING WONDERING WHAT THOSE DIGITAL PRICE TAGS WERE ABOUT SUDDENLY i had hoped they were so the workers didn't have to finagle those little papers into the slider part anymore 😭

eclipticasolaris

Hi, yes, that is the OFFICIAL excuse made to me by the guy replacing the paper tags with digital ones at my local Walmart, but the end goal is to remove the numbers off the shelf entirely, replacing them with QR codes that you have to scan with the app…. Which requires your login information….. and also stores your card information so even if you didn’t use your Walmart account at the physical checkout, if you used a card they recognize, they assign that purchase to your Walmart account purchase history.

I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.

Sure. That’s how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:

Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.

No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.

So here’s what we’re gonna do gang:

Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:

Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.

Express that you didn’t actually want it, you just couldn’t see on the shelf how much it was.

POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.

When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you don’t want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)

If it’s a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If it’s a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.

In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.

Yes, call your reps. Yes, push for more legislation like this in more places. But also take an extra minute out of your shopping trip to MAKE IT HURT for companies to pull this shit.

antisocialxconstruct

I've seen some people in the notes express (very fair) concern that this is only going to inconvenience already under-paid laborers, and not have any impact on corporate. While I can't speak for every company or every store, I do work in a grocery store and I can tell you this is precisely the kind of thing that would have an impact, especially if people are doing it en masse. Stores absolutely track their shrink numbers, and they do draw distinctions between what gets stolen, damaged, or wasted for other reasons. If people are making it clear that the reason they're bringing things to the cashier is that the prices are not adequately represented on the displays, and rather than improving business it's wasting product, slowing down transactions, and causing confusion and mistrust in customers, that is a language that shareholders speak.

#head in my hands. it’s bad enough it’s happening with airline pricing and other online purchases #but when not even the fucking Grocery Store is safe…..

saggeses

I’m gonna be so fr rn, yall gotta stop acting like women’s sports only contributions/offerings are 1) that most of the athletes are queer 2) some sort of “morally pure” version of the sport. you don’t realize that you’re doing it but you’re de-valuing them to a point of queerness + morality meter. which the latter is just insane when there are POS’ amongst women’s sports

saggeses

“Don’t watch the NHL, watch the PWHL! They’re actually gay!” why is that the only selling point to you

saggeses

there is no such thing as a morally pure sport

#blows a kiss to women’s volleyball which i find genuinely more interesting to watch than men’s #because of the gameplay itself not just because i’m gay. although that helps #but echoing prev and grandprev women’s figure skating is Not a morally pure sport good god

wheelie-sick

If you are a leftist (NOT liberal) where did your parents sit on the political spectrum during your childhood

Far right

Moderately right

Center

Moderately left

Far left

I had multiple sets of parents at different times/other

My parents were split in different directions

I'm not a leftist

Voting ended onJun 5

Liberals and leftists are NOT the same thing. I am looking for the opinions of anarchists, communists, socialists, and people from similar schools of thought. don't ask me if you count as a leftist.

#my mom has gotten more leftist over the years i think. still moderate though #my stepdad is one of those annoying people who describe themselves as a “fiscal conservative social liberal’’#but he was always center-right leaning even if he liked to pretend to be progressive

pollsforadults

Spin the wheel. Now, imagine you're on a first date with someone who says they`re a [result]. How does this affect the odds of a second date?

100% guarantee I'll want a second date

It's significantly more likely

The odds don't change

It's significantly less likely

There wont be a second date. Absolutely not

Voting ended onJun 13

Picker Wheel is a wheel spinner for a random picker. Various functions & customization. Enter choices or names, spin the wheel to decide a r

(anon submission)

#serial lawn shitter #listen. i don’t care if you shit outside like in the woods or something #but on people’s lawns? come on now. no #really funny to imagine that being someone’s fun fact on a first date though

catgirlmimikyu

I don't understand husbands who dgaf abt their wife's interests. you should be getting hard every time she nerds out, no exceptions

#me when sadie talks about minecraft or pokemon :)

zmeess

take me with you, or let me follow

tip jar

#augh….#wha

peachfromcmbyn

People on Tumblr love sharing information about themselves no matter how asinine it is. And I'm the same way. Everybody tell me what the last thing you drank was.

#i mean. water. but the last non-plain water drink i had was my beloved black raspberry sparkling ice