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anxious frog

@k1w1dr3ss

just a random bish with too many interests - currently hyper fixated on six of crows - bi/questioning poly - non-binary (they/them) - 18-20 y.o.

I feel like a good shorthand for a lot of economics arguments is "if you want people to work minimum wage jobs in your city, you need to allow minimum wage apartments for them to live in."

"These jobs are just for teenagers on the weekends." Okay, so you'll use minimum wage services only on the weekends and after school. No McDonald's or Starbucks on your lunch break.

"They can get a roommate." For a one bedroom? A roommate for a one bedroom? Or a studio? Do you have a roommate to get a middle-wage apartment for your middle-wage job? No? Why should they?

"They can live farther from city center and just commute." Are there ways for them to commute that don't equate to that rent? Living in an outer borough might work in NYC, where public transport is a flat rate, but a city in Texas requires a car. Does the money saved in rent equal the money spent on the car loan, the insurance, the gas? Remember, if you want people to take the bus or a bike, the bus needs to be reliable and the bike lanes survivable.

If you want minimum wage workers to be around for you to rely on, then those minimum wage workers need a place to stay.

You either raise the minimum wage, or you drop the rent. There's only so long you can keep rents high and wages low before your workforce leaves for cheaper pastures.

"Nobody wants to work anymore" doesn't hold water if the reason nobody applies is because the commute is impossible at the wage you provide.

Shared in a public post on FB three years ago, my FB memories just brought this up;

This guy was 67 years old when he started his transition. On the right he is pictured 3 years on T and just recently after his top surgery, so about 70 years old.

It is never, ever, too late for you. I suspect that's why he shared it the way he did, to show others not to be afraid, if he can do it as a senior citizen it's okay if you can't do it as a teen. Live. Survive. And whenever you're ready, chase your happiness. You deserve it.

Man. Can’t believe I have to make this post but here we go.

Please be kind to each other in my notes. This is a fun, silly tumblr poll that I started to celebrate characters that people like me can see themselves in, not an excuse to tear down people/fandoms you find irritating. It is especially not an excuse to tear down a guy who, to the best of my knowledge, was a kind and beloved person who put a lot of work and dedication into writing his character.

At least in this humble aroace’s opinion, every remaining character from the last couple rounds has been more than worthy of taking home the crown, and c!Techno is no exception. Please think before being needlessly rude, and please spend like. 30 seconds on google before throwing unfounded accusations at a dead man in my replies.

And to the vast majority of Cad fans in my notes who have been nothing but delightful and kind, shoutout to you and your boy! I’m rooting for him as well 💜

tl:dr just be kind to each other, y’all. In this house, we aspecs uplift and support each other and the characters that bring us joy.

Ace out.

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Bro I fucking love the DB Cooper case nothing about this whole situation sounds real. None of the passengers on the plane realized they were being hijacked until the plane landed two hours after it was supposed to and the fbi showed up with suitcases full of money. The note about the bomb almost went unnoticed because the flight attendant thought she was being sexually harassed so she didn't read it. One of the main suspects was the first trans woman in Washington to have a sex change operation. A reporter who was so dead set on his suspect that he brought him to court was so upset about being wrong that he went catatonic and was treated with electroshock therapy and it WORKED. There's been multiple "I'm DB Cooper" death confessions. He never even SAID his name was DB Cooper. Either he got away with a million bucks in today's money and the most iconic and harmless crime American history or he impaled himself on a pine tree while falling a zillion miles an hour in the dark while clutching duffel bags full of cash and either option is equally hilarious. He wore a clip on tie. He committed an act of sky piracy. What in the fucking looney toons

ACE SWAG BRACKET FINAL ROUND

CADUCEUS CLAY (Critical Role)

  • Cheerful cowman who brews tea grown from dead bodies and spent an entire bar scene nursing the first alcoholic drink he's ever had in his life. He does not like alcohol." -- anon
  • Canonically ace AND aro

c!TECHNOBLADE (Dream SMP)

  • Fervent anarchist who lives out in the wilderness with his best friend and army of pets. Famously a hater of orphans and all kinds of government.
  • Popularly hc’d as being in a queerplatonic relationship.

[Image ID: an edited Smash versus screen with an asexual flag background that features two characters. On the left is an official art piece of Caduceus Clay, a pink-haired fierbolg in fantastical clothing. On the right is an image of Technoblade’s minecraft skin, which resembles a pig in a crown and royal outfit. End ID.]

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HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO CHOOSE I LOVE THEM BOTH

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More stories from hell (retail) today I was ringing up this lady and she goes oh I want to do part of this on a gift card and the rest on normal card and I go ok and then she hands me a folded piece of paper. I think oh OK it must be folded around the gift card, right? Wrong. It is a folded sheet of 8×11 printer paper with "$40" written on the inside in ballpoint pen. I go what is this. She says a gift card. I say this is not a gift card. She says yes it is. I say this is a piece of paper with "$40" written on it. She says "well it's a gift card." I say it absolutely is not. I am grinding my teeth. She says well I want to use it. I say you physically cannot do that bc it is a piece of paper. I cannot scan or swipe it. I apologize, as if this is my fault, and not because she is completely insane. I hate it here

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It's been a hot second since the last time I cried tears of true rage but damn if I didn't come close today

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My coworkers were like wow how are you still in a good mood after that my brother in christ after that interaction I went to the break room and took an extra adderall

Soo did y'all know you can get a soldering iron for 8 bucks? I didn't. I do now. I'm about to burn the shit out of myself.

it's fun to run it's fun to play, it's fun to make things out of clay it's fun to fill your car with gas

it's fun to break things made of glassss

now the burning will commence

horsey

first time doing stained glass first time using a soldering iron. It looks like shit and i could not love it more

Also i think it might be permanently attached to that table, but y'all know how it is you win some and you lose some .

the horse has been unstuck from the table and i think I'm getting better at this ^^

this post is from may 3rd so i thought I'd update it a bit.

I ended up using the glass not used in the horse to make this as my first Real stained glass thing, finished may 17th:

May 19th:

and now this is what I've been picking at on and off when i have the time to do so since:

i think... there might be a theme here.

(this was finished in March 2023,)

Anyways happy birthday to me having a mania fueled sleep deprivation and pots episode in the craft store.

and some more i can't be fucked to figure out when they were made:

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everyone has to stop making posts like "the world's loneliest ant has died in secret" its making me sad

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the worlds happiest ant has found large strawberry crumb