my brother started calling our cat "doobie brother" which he then lengthened to "dubious brother" and has since morphed into "brother dubious" like he's some sort of fucked up little monk
brother dubious
"My liege, I'm afraid I have reason to believe your concubine plots against you. Worry not, your eminence, you can still trust me, of course..."
i have this cleaning mode that's evolved from some other ADHD habits called Abandoned Tote Bag. If you have too much shit on your countertop or desk or whatever, you take the entire fucking pile and either immediately throw it out, put it back in its obvious place, or chuck it into a large tote bag. Place the tote bag out of the way, but in an easy to access place. Let it sit there for a few weeks. If you need items from the tote bag, feel free to go grab them and leave them near where you used them. Eventually you may get the urge to actually take care of the tote bag. If there are items in the tote bag that remain, unused, you can more easily justify putting them in deep storage, giving them away, or throwing them out, since you very clearly didn't touch them. I have done this many times by accident but I think it might be an okay organization system now that I think about it.
Oh. Oh this is good. Oh I’m stealing this. Oh that’s going to be so helpful.
the best part of this is that you can leave the tote bag out as long as you like. but watch out
there is a cardboard box near my desk I haven't touched in over a year
This is actually a really good example of why internet of things is a security risk. The hackers couldn't have exploited the thermometer as an entry point if it didnt connect to the fucking internet to start with
[lmao @sweetenby]
You're telling me an Ocean Eleven'd this casino?
life actually gets better when you leave the house consistently btw like im serious
if you don't know where to go, just wander! go to the store and don't buy anything, go to the library just to sit and do whatever you were going to do at home, go to a park and just walk around/sit outside for a bit (weather permitting, of course)
just put some headphones in and walk around the block a couple times if you really have nothing else to do, just getting a bit of air and change of scenery is so good for you
me the first few weeks of forcing myself to go on daily walks (it gets better tho)
i really need tumblr to learn the concept of “if you physically cannot do this then this post is not talking about you” because jesus christ.
@a-spectacular-pigeon you get it.
you can tell this website is autistic as hell because someone posts a video with a mildly catchy phrase in it and no one shuts up about it for an extended period of time. or image even. image with a mildly catchy phrase in it even. we love phrases here on tumblr dot com love to repeat them. due to the autism
“Oh [other profession] wants better working conditions? WELL [MY profession] is HARDER I work TWENTY HOUR DAYS and I am NOT ALLOWED BREAKS and I’m PAID FOR SHIT and I have NO INSURANCE and I NEVER SEE MY CHILDREN so WHY are YOU COMPLAINING LOL”
have you considered that maybe YOUR job ALSO should not suck that much
have you considered
that maybe YOUR job ALSO
should not suck that much
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Blyla, Aayla Secura and Commander Bly (Star Wars) V.S. Nandermo, Nandor the Relentless/Guillermo de la Cruz (What We Do In The Shadows) V.S. Gafou, Gaston/LeFou (Beauty and the Beast)
I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.
Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.
w-what if potato is actually lucky
happy to announce that my latest bout of dreaming about tumblr induced in me the conviction that tumblr had just instituted a "pet" button that appeared below all pictures of an animal so that tumblr users could pet the animal. the most notable use of this was a post with a picture of a porcupine that had a thread of users below it saying 'ouch'
Whenever a person walks out of the accessible bathroom stall and sees me, a wheelchair user, sitting outside waiting for the stall, they often apologize.
In the beginning, I said, "No worries!" Because I was too scared to be confrontational.
Then I started saying nothing.
But after a while, I realized that some disabled people may be a portion of the people that apologize. And I never want to make an invisibly disabled person feel bad for using accommodations that they need. There are many different reasons a disabled person would need the stall!
(It is tiring waiting for ages while someone uses the stall to change, or do their makeup. It is not annoying for anyone who needs the stall to use it.)
So, I've decided to start saying, "That's okay! I believe every disabled person should be able to use the accessible stall!"
Because then, if they are invisibly disabled, hopefully that will put them at ease.
And if the person isn't disabled, it will remind them that the accessible stall is not just "the big stall."
It's worth noting that the stall is designed to be accessible for disabled people, not exclusively for us. There are several reasons to use the accessible stall, and not all of them are disabilities.
Other reasons to use the accessible stall:
- It's the only one with a changing station
- You have a stroller.
- You have a child that can't be left with someone else (shopping alone with an infant/toddler, for example.)
- All the other stalls are taken.
- You can't fit/can't fit comfortably in the regular stalls.
- You need to change. (I don't know if it's different in other areas, but most bathroom stalls I've been in are barely the size of a small closet, so there's barely any room to stand.)
It's frustrating to have to wait for an accessible stall when needed, so if you can safely and comfortably use one of the small ones, please do.
But the biggest frustration I actually find with waiting for an accessible stall is that there is only one. If we had more accessible stalls- if they were the default instead of those tiny ones, this wouldn't be an issue in the first place.
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To all my freshman babies who are panicking right now about how much your college textbooks cost: Yeah, you’re right, that’s some highway robbery. No, you don’t have to lie down and take it. You have options. Follow my advice and fly on your own debt free wings.
1. Forgoe the bookstore entirely. Sometimes you can get a good deal on something, usually a rental, but it’s usually going to be considerably more expensive to go through official channels. Outsmart them, babies.
2. Does your syllabus call for edition eight? Get edition seven. Old editions are considered worthless in the buyback trades, so they sell for dirt cheap, no matter how new they are. It’s a gamble, sure; there might be something in edition eight you desperately need, but that never happened to me. However, I’ve only ever pulled this stunt for literature/mass comm/religious studies books, so I don’t know it would work in the sciences.
3. Thriftbooks.com, especially for nonfiction and fiction. Books are usually four or five dollars unless they’re really new, and shipping is 99 cents unless you buy over 10$ in books, in which case shipping is free.
4. Bigwords.com. It will scan every textbook seller on the internet for the lowest price available, and will do the same to find the highest price when you try to sell your books back at the end of term. Timesaver, lifesaver.
5. In all probability, your library offers a service called interlibrary loan which is included in your tuition. This means if your library doesn’t carry a book you can order it for free from any library nationwide in your library’s network and it will be shipped to you in a number of days. Ask a librarian to show you how to search for materials at your library as well as though interlibrary loan; you’ll need to master this skill soon anyway. If you get lucky you can just have your required reading shipped to you a week before you need to start reading, then renew vigorously until you no longer need to item. I’m saving over 100$ on a History of Islam class this way.
You professors might side-eye you for bringing an old edition or a library copy, but you just smile right back honey, because you can pay your rent and go clubbing this month. You came here to win. So go forth and slay.
Can I add to this? 6. Find PDFs of your book to store on your computer. I managed to find an up-to-date edition of my textbook for sociology by doing this, and other books for other classes. It may be risky to have to look high and low for them, but it’s a godsend trust me
Other things to help college-bound kidlets:
Cheap school/college things. (Not all links are active, but still.)
Hobbies. (Because sometimes you need to turn off your brain.)
Libre Office. (Because Windows sucks.)
Practice in case you’re attacked.
If you have to deal with cops. (Especially important for POC because racism is still alive, sadly.)
square-hammer-round-sickle
also, you know those offers you sometimes get from youtubers for a big discount on a VPN subscription? take it, and use it.
just don’t use it for illegal torrenting and don’t get familiar with sites like the pirate bay. piracy is bad mmmkay.
this is going to sound ridiculous but guess what saved me $300 on ONE book for a fucking LIT class during my final quarter in college:
The library at your school PROBABLY has a copy of your textbook or of a recent edition. Wait until you’ve got your syllabus, go to the library, photograph the pages required for your class. If you’re only assigned 70 pages of a 300 page book it’s worth the hour you’re going to spend in the library to just go take photos on your phone.
And if you’re feeling exceptionally saucy, do the same thing in the campus bookstore.
(Less saucy than that but the library doesn’t have a copy and you can’t afford it? Split the cost with, like, 3 people from the class, photograph the pages from the syllabus, and return the book to get your shared cash back - usually you’ve got a day or two grace period in case you drop the class)
I know a lot of classes require a textbook that has a login code or some similar bullshit and this won’t help with that, but hopefully it will help with some of what you’re dealing with.
Also if you’re taking lit classes generic editions are almost always fine EXCEPT for Riverside and Norton editions. It’s generally not going to really matter if you get a $2 used penguin edition of Pride & Prejudice for a 200 level class; it IS going to matter if you get something other than the Riverside Chaucer or the Norton Hamlet for a 400 level class.
thank god for american public transit !!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
You get on the bus and then everyone does the Flintstones thing
if i was a fine, fragile linen would you handwash me 🥺 or put me in that damned maschine 😑
This is just straight up propaganda at this point. What utter fucking nonsense.
#this is just what someone looks like older/??#this is a normal person#and it's not like office workers don't work hunched over a desk at all times#it's the same exact position#i gurantee they used woman because they thought 'ugliness' was worse for women
