Short-staffing has become a major problem in all sectors. Retail, food service, health care, education, factory production lines, call centers, child care, IT, office support staff, etc. Every corner of our society and economy.
Now we know that even in creative spaces employers are not willing to hire sufficient staff to accomplish necessary tasks, demand workers do more than their fair share of work, for longer hours, without fair compensation or reasonable breaks/time off.
This needs to stop.
monoculture forests are deeply unsettling in a way that is hard to explain to people who do not spend a lot of time looking at forests
this thing is alive in an undead hivemind kind of way and it wants to fucking kill me
this literally looks like a poorly designed video game
Let me tell you how bizarre these are. I was in one last week because I am doing a soil sample internship, and it was so strange. Like, I didn’t realize the forest was planted at first, and then suddenly I stepped forward, and everything was in straight lines. Not to mention, the lovely mossyness of all of it was covering up a LAYER OF SAND. The forest we were in was growing in Sand. Another surprise I was not warned about by my supervisor. When I finally asked him about it, her told me the whole forest had been planted after WWII, and the whole place was an old Soviet training ground. He then said, “Oh, I forgot to mention, don’t go on the other side of the road we came in here on, there’s unexploded bombs over there.”
That layer of moss that looks like lovely green foliage? It was about an inch think and dryer that a bone. (Which my supervisor’s dog found many of and kept trying to bring them to me. Very sweet, but ew.) And under that thin land of moss? Sand.
Also, to repeat, this place was a DESERT. Like, we walked out of the trees at one point and it was pure Sand. (Also my supervisor found an exploded bomb casing and proceeded to carry that around with him for the rest of the expedition)
Bizarre, spooky, and all around not the best time to be left alone in. Also very unsettling in other ways.
something im noticing is the redditors are just commenting on everything via reblogs with reckless abandon. and its so funny bc thats how youre MEANT to use this fucking website but we've trained ourselves out of it somehow.
I feel like a fucking chimp raised in a lab let out into the wild and just doing shit without understanding wtf is going on because I was raised to click the button to get cookie
look, that one's trying to upvote
When I don't understand my friend's hyperfixation but I'm still here to support them
I'm rotating your boyfriend in my mind hope that's cool
It’s finally happened.
After almost a decade on this site, I found another Tumblr user in the wild. I stopped to tie my shoe with rainbow laces this morning outside the silversmith at Colonial Williamsburg, and I heard it.
“I like your shoelaces.”
Oh. Oh no.
I responded the only way I could. “Thanks.” And then I reluctantly added, “I stole them from the president…and if that makes sense to you, I’m very sorry.”
The poor man, in full Colonial dress, stared at me for a long moment. And then burst into laughter. And said, “I haven’t thought about that in YEARS and this has never happened to me before.”
Yeah. Me neither. Not until today.
Tumblr rite of passage. Achievement unlocked.
@victoriansecret I found your friend!!!
THIS IS AMAZING
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THIS IS AMAZING
I DIDN’T LEARN ABOUT THIS IN DRIVING SCHOOL
Stop says the red light, go says the green
Wait says the yellow light, twinkling in between.
KNEEL, SAYS THE DEMON LIGHT WITH ITS EYE OF COAL SAURON KNOWS YOUR LICENSE PLATE AND STARES INTO YOUR SOUL
THIS IS ALWAYS FUNNY
@irritatedlifeguard I agree with your tags.
ooooh I wholeheartedly agree
my archive is full of said classic posts, if anyone wants to make this happen :)
Do you ever eat popcorn out of the palm of your own hand with such ardent desperation that you feel like both a wild horse and the gentle schoolgirl feeding it treats to gain its affection
Hey there guys. It’s me, in 2022, commenting on this post from 2016. There’s been a lot of people on this site lately being like “oooh no don’t make viral uwu I’m so pathetic, little, and defenseless and my poor notifications can’t handle 10k reblogs” well first of all ALL of us are pathetic, little, and defenseless and secondly none of our notifications can handle 10k reblogs and thirdly I’m not a coward and I think this should have a million notes. Not because of its own merit as a post, I just think it’d be funny if when I turn 30 this year and I reflect on the greatest accomplishments of my life thus far, I have to at least consider putting “famous tumblr popcorn post” on the list
Hey there guys. It’s me, in 2023, in May specifically, I’m 30 and for the record it rules, I had a lil aging crisis and now I’m past that and I’m just like goddamn it is great being in my thirties and I had a wonderful birthday NO THANKS TO YOU GUYS
actually, much thanks to you guys. Some of you were inspiringly crazy about this post. Frankly you worked harder for this than I did, and your efforts were touching and inspiring and funny and yet we STILL FAILED. GUYS WE GOTTA PUT OUR EYES BACK ON THE BALL. We have ehhh about six months before I turn the big three-one, which is actually the most important birthday because now you’re in your thirties For Real, and I personally can’t think of a better way to ring in my 31st year of life than by trying and failing to do something that I was hoping to knock out in my twenties.
Good luck, kiddo
Are you satisfied, op? When will it be enough?
I feel I couldn’t have been clearer about the number at which this will be enough
You guys I had this whole fucking bit planned. I was gonna pathetically beg for notes for months. It was gonna be a whole progressively building thing. But you guys were, and I say this with complete affection, so fucking annoying to me personally and to everyone who follows you. Again, I really phoned this in. Some of you guys were just like “what if I replied every letter of the alphabet one at a time and then did it again.” And then reblogged it 30 times. That’s so much work to make some numbers go up and again so annoying to so many people. You all should be proud. I did literally ask for this. Your weird level of work made me feel connected to a sea of strangers who wanted me to succeed but also, and again I say this with affection and love, annoyed me deeply along the way.
The perfect conclusion to this saga
My cartoon for the latest issue of New Scientist.
Our world.
Ten million dollars to find it. I wonder how many refugees that could have saved.
translation of white: (in turkish) fuck the impostor go do your tasks
(ps: white is named after the president of turkey)
oh thank god because when I put it through google translate it said this
I want slower packages delivered by transportation workers who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding
Some of us are old enough to remember when literally everything took about 4 weeks to ship.
My couch is arriving in 4 weeks and company gave us a $200 gift card in apology after telling us it would take 4 weeks when we bought the thing. I-this instant gratification is really doing something to us. I know I sound like a grumpy old woman but it is ok to wait for things if it means fellow human beings are treated fairly.
Just went to the grocery store and it is very close to midnight and so everybody there was pretty scrungy and tired and maybe whacked out, buying shit like cocoa puffs and cake (I was buying candy and ice cream so no judgement) and people were looking at me weird and I only realized until after I got home that I am like fully made up in a nice outfit and was very smiley and giggly bc I was listening to funny podcast and probably appeared to them completely out of touch with the reality of the situation I existed within
snapshots of my life
Honestly I think this image
holds true for more of my life than I would like to admit lol
seeing reddit refugees repeatedly hit their post limits and comment their thoughts on every reblog is kind of refreshing. site migration be damned these guys know how to blog
Reddit users on Tumblr:
Listen. Sometimes characters can shut up and wait until the next scene to voice their opinions in private, and you totally planned it that way.
And sometimes they were quiet because they know or believe something no one else does. Now you've got yourself a nifty little subplot/potentially major plot twist dontcha?
Still frame of a Tiktok video that says, “I got a tiny crush on this blind guy who lives next to me So I started wearing the same perfume so that he is able to recognize me when we’re in the same elevator and I always open my door with the wrong key at first so he can hear it’s me”. 604.0k likes and 2,643 comments.
Comment from user thewarmvoid beneath it reads, “this is….so so so cute. Do you understand how incredible this is? You’re making your flirting accessible and I’m weeping.” Comment is liked by the creator.
