found underneath a video about the queercoding of lego batman
one time i went up to my friend (also my coworker) and gave him hug from behind and just like held him there for a moment and our one regular client walked in and was like “huh….so are you guys like….winnie the pooh and piglet?” and i lost my fucking mind. what does that mean. i also said yes and that i was pooh.
me and this coworker are now dating and the same client client came into today and was like “sooo winnie the pooh and piglet?” again so we asked him what he meant and apparently those were the only two male fictional characters he could think of that hug
winnie the pooh heritage post
not enough secret gardens and hidden passageways and bookshelves that open to a mysterious library these days. get working on that girls.
sorry for veggieangelism but really you can put pretty much any veg in the oven for 20 minutes at 400 covered in olive oil, salt, pepper, onion+garlic powder and have it be good
thought this was gonna be about Veggie Tales
400 ?!?!? you want me to overclock my oven for this ? I'll be scraping charred remains from the corpse of a previously-good kitchen appliance
Fahrenheit, love. 400° Fahrenheit.
Young people and old people's complacency and acceptance of autoplay terrifies me if I'm finished a video and another begins playing THAT I DIDN'T CHOOSE I'm already loading my gun
This blog is continued on side B. To keep scrolling, please remove the blog, turn it over, re-insert it, and press "play"
Hey op, there are people on here who don’t know what a B-side is
That doesn't seem like something I would have jurisdiction over
Click the next button when Tinkerbell makes a sound
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I love reading a book you are slightly too stupid for
ways to keep reading despite feeling stupid because the tags you all keep adding have made me realize that my post is being used to self harm:
- recognize that stupidity is a cultural concept leveraged against stigmatized populations who operate from devalued spheres of intelligence
- notice feelings of panic and shame and frustration rising in your body when you encounter a difficult text, react to them like a loving friend who thinks you deserve to learn things
- recognize the conditioning it takes to convince someone they are too stupid to deserve to learn things
- go back and read a difficult text whose meaning and nuances escaped you the first time around after you read two or three more and the first one has had time to cook in your brain
- open your brain’s mouth like a whale shark and cruise through the water digesting anything that gets caught in your filter plates
And sometimes you just won’t get it. You’ll turn it over in your head and you’ll poke and prod and reread and you won’t get it.
And that’s okay.
One of my most memorable reading experiences as a teenager was reading a novel called Sophie’s World. It’s a Norwegian “novel about the history of philosophy” and it was dense and complicated and confusing, but it was still so rewarding to read somehow. I still don’t understand most of the complicated philosophical concepts the book introduced, but just because I didn’t understand most of it doesn’t mean it wasn’t still interesting and entertaining. It doesn’t mean I didn’t learn anything just bc i wasn’t smart enough to understand the whole thing.
And the same goes for all of you! Just because a book is over your head doesn’t mean you can’t still learn, or that your time reading it is wasted, or that you’re stupid. It just means that you’re not going to understand everything and there’s nothing wrong with that!
Have fun, and good luck with your reading! :)
Sophie’s World was mind blowing for my tiny 13yo brain as well and I did not understand most of the philosophy stuff. I think I read it like three times (and also a bunch of other jostein gaarder novels, they weren’t all that incomprehensible). There was a PC game based on Sophie’s World in which you played like Sophie iirc and you were taught philosophy through perhaps more accessible means. I never completed the game though
You are not stupid I promise. All the best books have layers of meaning that become opened to you only as you re-read them throughout life...
thinking about bank robberies in the 30s makes me soooooooo angry. those days you could just pull out some guns with your friends and get away scot free. now you have to deal with security cameras and metal detectors and they don’t even have big vaults full of gold like they used to. technology ruined the bank robbing industry
What's new Scooby Doo? *sick guitar solo*
even if the artist were a human, there’s so much more to consider about a piece of art than just how it looks at a glance
i mean that’s a long perfectly straight line, was it done free hand? was it done in a single masterful stroke leaving the same thickness of paint the whole way through? are the edges of the line sharp enough to warrant the use of a magnifying glass if you were going to search for errors/rough spots?
and if the artist didn’t paint free hand, or if it were done in multiple strokes with different thicknesses of paint, or with purposefully rough and uneven edges, why?
what about the colour? the position of the line on the canvas? the width of the line? the choice of leaving the rest of such a large canvas blank? there’s so much to consider
and on top of all this sometimes the artist will be a snail
there are 2 sides of a same judgemental coin at play with modern art
1. people being “it’s just a line, the art world is deluded“ without even trying to understand it
2. People screaming at others “How can you not know that the droplet of color 6 mm at the 66 degree angle represents temptation and sin“ to someone who simply says “I don’t get it“ The meaning of the art is decided by the observer and if your targeted audience gets it you did a good job (even if the targeted audience is you and you alone) but that won’t stop people who are not the targeted audience on having an opinion again on the flip side. If someone doesn’t like/get modern art all they need to do is … not look at modern art. The moment they start talking about banning it they are limiting free speech and should be considered danger to the society
there are 2 sides of
a same judgemental coin at
play with modern art
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
just a little tip for fellow autistics: if a doctor asks “can you do x?” what they really mean is “can you do x without pain?”
Generally, if you just say “yes i can do that” they will assume you can do that thing painlessly and without issue at all times. you need to clarify “i can but it hurts a lot” or “i can only do this sometimes when x and y” etc.
They will also generally assume you won’t do things if they hurt too much, but a lot of us deal with pain very differently than an allistic person might. Even if some pain doesn’t stop you from doing something, you should still tell them you have it, it still “counts.” If you are not visibly (to them) showing signs of pain, they will almost always assume you don’t have any and you need to tell them otherwise.
I was at the coffeeshop in the village and someone asked me how my llamas are doing, and a woman overheard and told me that when she was a kid, her parents used to have a couple of llamas in their sheep farm, and every single sheep in their flock imprinted on one of the two llamas. Each sheep chose the best most charismatic llama according to mysterious sheep criteria, and never wavered in their ovine loyalty. Each of the two llamas was worshiped by a small sub-flock of devoted sheep who followed him everywhere like Jesus’s apostles and only left their field for transhumance when led by “their” llama. The funniest thing is the way this woman overheard the word “llama” and immediately came to sit next to me to tell me this, like she had waited since childhood to share her bewilderment about the two religious congregations of sheep led by rival llama prophets in her family farm.
I’d have trouble keeping that in myself.
i love how 100k of us feel the same need to tell everyone that she felt
how the hell do people work full time AND work out. and also eat. i feel like a dvd player
Do you ever think about just how powerfully symbolic Matthias killing the wolf in Hellgate at the beginning of SOC is? How him killing the animal sacred to Djel is a representation of him "killing off" the values imposed on him? Of him "killing" his old self, the drüskelle who'd sworn an oath to his country and to its cause, the boy who'd been manipulated and had his grief and pain exploited to fuel hatred, forced to drink the poison Brum had forced down his throat his entire life? Of how he recognises that "the life you live, the hate you feel – it’s poison. I can drink it no longer", but then there's the bitter irony of how that poison still kills him in the end as he's shot by another drüskelle, as he's "killed" by his past and the boy he'd been? Because I think about that a lot.
are you a “filters tags from my mutual’s new obsession” Tumblr user or are you a “learns about their new obsession (semi-forcefully) by osmosis” Tumblr user
there is a correct answer
Ok, but if you’re an independent contractor in the US and this happens? Find a lawyer, because you might have just gotten a huge payday.
Your position was just referred to as employment. Independent contractors do not have employers; they do not have employment. Congrats, your contact at this company just provided evidence that you were illegally missclassified.
This contact is claiming that you have set hours you’re obligated to fulfill. Unless a work task can only be done at a set time for practical reasons (i.e. you’re an audio freelancer paid to support a live event that occurs at a particular time and requires a certain amount of pre-show setup), a company cannot set an independent contractor’s work hours. This is further evidence that you were missclassified.
The whole exchange establishes that the company is interpreting an employer-employee relationship rather than expecting a service. Discipline and potential for firing (you cannot fire an independent contractor; no longer purchasing their service is not equivalent) establish that this person views themselves as a manager. Independent contractors cannot have managers.
This one text exchange could:
- Get you back pay for the full duration you’ve worked there, to bring you up to the compensation that an employee would have gotten
- Get you back compensation for lost benefits that an employee would have gotten
- Get you back pay for the additional self-employment taxes the company should have covered
- Get the company to pay back taxes to the government
- Get the company to hire everyone who performed a similar role, or face further penalties and fines
- A win would encourage the rest of their missclassified workers to sue for the same, or give them leverage to demand a better deal
If the company is going to screw you over like that, may as well make them pay for it.
Since this is getting a lot of reblogs, here’s a federal source that can help you determine if you’re illegally classified as a contractor:
You can also file a form with the IRS to force the company to correct your classification (assuming you meet the criteria), without necessarily having to sue:
Keep in mind that this is just federal. Most states also prohibit missclassification as an independent contractor; and even if states have more lenient rules, companies still have to comply with this federal law. The rules have largely been bipartisan and existed for decades, so they’re common.
States also have an interest in having regulations about missclassification: it’s a significant loss of tax revenue. Your self employment tax does not fully equal what a company would have paid for you in payroll taxes.
A lawyer can help point you in the right direction if a company is currently missclassifying you.
