• toadstool wizard with toadstool robe, toadstool fingernails, toadstool purse, and toadstool wizard hat (top favorite of all time)
• low-level mmorpg man with an armored trench coat who paid for his mountain dew and candy with gold coins
• my coworker bob who looks incredibly shady when he shops during his off-time
• woman whom i helped find a dress for a date while she told me about her c-section and other life events
• man with a very sweet and well-behaved pitbull who sits in his owner’s shopping cart and gives kisses (i don’t know how his owner gets a full-sized pitbull into the shopping cart)
• couple who shop with their maine coon cat whom they call their son (the man pets his cat too hard and argues with the cat when it complains)
• mother with a young son who tells jokes to the cashiers every time they shop
• couple with matching black outfits, red hairstreaks, spiked collars, and visible hickies who definitely switch their dom-sub routine on a regular basis
• my 24-year-old goth manager’s 40-year-old punk boytoy who keeps coming in to buy vintage tv sets
• family of 5 with parents who look like they belong in a hallmark holiday movie
• guy who interrupted my work like “hey what would you say would be a good art gift for a mom who’s moving into a new place? you’re on the clock and i don’t want to look through all these canvases-” while his mom was right there telling him this is unnecessary, she can pick something herself, and she doesn’t really need anything anyway
• baby who screamed “HI!” at a guy so loudly he dropped a glass measuring cup on the floor
• young teen who, when they saw my pride pin, asked if i was nonbinary and opened up to conversing with me
• woman who piles her cart almost head-high with clearance-sale clothes to sell at a profit later (HATED)
• germanic elderly lady who speaks very little english but i enjoy helping her through basic pantomime and select words anyway
• family with a man carrying a bearded dragon lizard in each hand and wearing a backpack containing a tegu lizard (he set the tegu down on the counter for me to meet)
• man perusing our DVDs who told me about how he used to have a huge media collection probably worth millions that was destroyed in a house fire, but he’s learned to be chill about it; “we come into this world naked with nothing and we go out of this world naked with nothing”
• unseen monster who keeps leaving half-eaten pints of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream sitting around the store, enraging me further every time i find the evidence
• woman who definitely lied about being a senior to get a discount on senior discount day, immediately followed by a woman who said “i could lie about my age but that wouldn’t be nice”
• two different senior women who were shopping on their birthdays and wished each other happy birthday when they overheard each other
• noticeably gender-non-conforming customer who was buying clothes for a murder mystery-themed queer party hosted by the local kink community
• mother who shops for her several children once a year, specifically at goodwill during our memorial day sale, whose 165-item and $400-dollar purchase almost crashed my register’s computer several times and made the computer stall for 6 minutes while it struggled to apply the sale to everything (the receipt was about 9 feet long)
• elderly man who asked me for a pen and paper, then spent the next several minutes writing down a song in a language script i didn’t recognize at my register–my best guess is irish gaelic since it looked a little similar and he had an irish type of face
• very positive man who told me “i hope you live a radiant life to 101 years old”

"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."

"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."

One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.

I’m gonna be extra pissed if literally anyone on this website gets this wrong because of the sheer amount of “if you engage with Harry Potter in any way you’re a horrible person” posts I’ve had to see with my own two eyeballs on this website. Please God, at least let every one of you all be able to identify Rowling as the second statement.

The amount of people I've seen condemn these protestors for using the wrong words:

would say otherwise.

did saltiestgempearl miss the point on purpose or

If you use Zoom, be aware that they’ve decided they’re going to use your input (from both free and paid accounts) to train their new AI tools. And there’s apparently no way to opt out of this. :/

So here are some open source alternatives.

jesse pinkman has to take a month off of cooking meth because an orphaned gosling has imprinted on him as its new mother. Episode cross-cuts between Walter fuming about his inefficient lab setup and Jesse struggling to care for a baby bird

Starting to think you guys just want Malcolm in the Middle on the air again

hello website that likes fucked up houses. did you know that i wrote a gmless tabletop game based on house of leaves where you can create your very own fucked up house

it's called house. yes literally. the main mechanic is that you draw a map of a fucked up, sprawling, potentially never-ending house that grows as you explore it in-game. you draw from a deck of regular playing cards to determine the vibe of each room in the house. you might never escape! that's up to you. i'm not your mom

you can get it here and there's a 50% chance you already own it if you bought one of the big itch bundles during early pandemic. enjoy

Good god damn, I misread house as horse for much too long.

is that what your parents told you when you woke up and your pet elf was gone

08/07/2023

The thing that pisses me off the most is that even if covid WAS over, disabled people still fucking exist and deserve to participate in things. The brief period of time in which everyone was doing virtual and hybrid events, people could work from home, social events were actually accessible...all it did was show that we could be doing these things, and just don't fucking care.

Hybrid events should be the STANDARD. Including people who can't leave their houses should be the STANDARD. Some basic fucking consideration for the disabled should be the STANDARD.

And it's just. Not.

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i'm gonna go home and draw

ⓘ Misinformation check: He's not going to draw when he gets home. This user is known for often lying about this.

hey man what the fuck. untrue

ⓘ Misinformation check: This user has not drawn in weeks.

dude come on

ⓘ Misinformation check: He doesn't remember how to.

the man

i seriously used to watch this video every couple of days and try to debunk it but this dude is literally revolver ocelot in the flesh

gonna start referring to my abdominal fat as my “primordial pouch”

honest.. it needs to be better known that you can get phalloplasty without a vaginectomy (= keeping the vagina), you can get phalloplasty with or without 'burying' your t-dick (aka its either in the phallus or remains outside of it/accessible), you can get phalloplasty with or without creating testicles, you can get phalloplasty with or without urethral lengthening, and there are multiple options for graft sites outside of arm or thigh grafts.

i knew pretty much none of this before i happened upon the blog of someone who had phalloplasty without vaginectomy. this is all stuff a surgeon would explain to you - but you may never consult a surgeon if you, like i did, think the only option available for phalloplasty is forearm graft phalloplasty with testicles, vaginectomy, clitoral burial and urethral lengthening, and that doesnt work for you.

phalloplasty in general is misrepresented terribly all over the place and many, many people say "i dont want bottom surgery because phalloplasty cant give me (x) result" and the one thing holding them back will be something thats entirely possible. meanwhile the main thing you hear about phalloplasty in the community is "the technology isnt there yet" "it doesnt look good/natural" "its not functional" etc etc, and while that may be true for many people, i suspect the lack of information about what a post-op phallus can actually look, feel and function like and the options you have regarding the surgery play a big role in the really bad reputation it gets and makes a lot of people completely give up on a surgery theyd really want because theyve been fed outdated and incomplete ideas about it.

Living alone leads to habits that you don’t realize are weird until you stay with someone else and have to suppress them.

I’m staying with family right now and I can’t just go “AUGH” like a peanuts character in the middle of the night just because I feel like it. I also can’t lick cooking utensils anymore because other people are gonna be eating that. And I can’t rant to my Swedish horse because I left that at home and also ranting to an inanimate object in the middle of the house would make me look insane.

I was talking to my aunt about this because she also lives alone and we agree that when you start living alone you need to start making more noises when you do things like grunting when you get up and yelling at annoying inanimate objects because you need to fill the space somehow. But when suddenly other people are around you’re now in the habit of whistling whenever you open a cabinet and people who have never lived alone don’t understand what you’re doing.

If you ever stay with somebody who lives alone for a few days and they start randomly doing squats in the middle of the kitchen and clicking their teeth or making noises at birds outside, just let them. Believe it or not those are methods of preserving sanity. Shaking the fridge and demanding it give you answers is a shield against the impeding darkness.

Why do you have an inanimate horse in the middle of the house

Family tradition.

Do Not Let HR do this to you. It is not illegal to talk about wages in the work place. I did and got a 12% raise!

True info. Now let me add something: The power of documentation. (I was a long time steward in a nurses union.)

Remember: The "'E" in email stands for evidence.

That cuts both ways. Be careful what you put into an email. It never really goes away and can be used against you.

But can also be a powerful tool for workplace fairness.

Case 1: Your supervisor asks you to do something you know is either illegal or against company policy. A verbal request. If things go wrong, you can count on them denying that they ever told you to do that. You go back to your desk, or wherever and you send them an email: "I just want to make sure that I understood correctly that you want me to do xxxxx" Quite often, once they see it in writing, they will change their mind about having you do it. If not, you have documentation.

Case 2: You have a schedule you like, you've had that schedule for a while, it works for you. Your supervisor comes to you and says "We're really short-handed now and I need you to change your schedule just for a month until we can get someone else hired. It's just temporary and you can have your old schedule back after a month." A month goes by and they forget entirely that they made that promise to you. So, once again, when they make the initial request, you send them an email "I'm happy to help out temporarily, but just want to make sure I understand correctly that I will get my old schedule back after a month as you promised." Documentation.

[Image ID: Text reading: In the middle of a busy clinic at our practice, I got pulled in by my manager to speak to HR, who must have made a special trip because she lives several states away, and told I was being 'investigated' for discussing wages with my other employees. She told me it was against company policy to discuss wages.

Me; That's illegal.

Them: (start italics) three slow, long seconds of staring at me blankly (end italics) Uh...

Me: That's an illegal policy to have. The right to discuss wages is a right protected by the National Labor Relations board. I used to be in a union. I know this.

HR: Oh, this is news to me! I have been working HR for 18 years and I never knew that. Haha. Well try not do do it anyway, it makes people upset, haha.

Me: people are entitled to their opinions about what their work is worth. Bye.

I then left, and sent her several texts and emails saying I would like a copy of their company policy to see where this wage discussion policy was kept. She quickly called me back in to her office.

HR: You know what, there is no policy like that in the handbook! I double check. Sorry about the confusion, my apologies.

Me: You still haven't given me the paper saying that we had this discussion. I am going to need some protection against retaliation.

HR: Oh haha yes here you go.

I just received a paper with legal letterhead and an apology saying there was no verbal warning or write up. Don't even take their shit you guys. Keep talking about wages. Know your worth. /End ID]

At one of my old (shit) jobs my boss would continually come have these verbal discussions with me and would never put anything in writing I took to summarizing every discussion we had in email. Like “just to confirm that you asked me to do X by Y date and you understand that means I won’t be able to complete the previous task you gave me until Z date - 2 weeks later than originally scheduled - because you want me to prioritize this new project.

The woman would then storm back into my office screaming at me for putting the discussion in writing and arguing about pushing back the other project or whatever. At which point I would summarize that conversation in email as well. Which would bring her storming back in, rinse and repeat ad nauseum.

Anyway I cannot imagine how badly that job would have gone if I hadn’t put all her wildly unreasonable demands in writing. Bitch still hated me but she could never hang me for “missing deadlines” because I always had in writing that she’d pushed the project back because she wanted something else done first.

Paper your asses babes. Do not let them get away with shit. If they won’t put what they’re asking you to do in writing then write it up yourself and email it to them.

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