PhD in Pronouns

Ya done good A-Train

I really like this website because somebody will be like “there’s nothing wrong with darting out from behind a parked car into traffic, bootlicker” and you can be like okay this clearly evolved from a valid point about how the US is too car-centric. But something happened to it.

[Image ID: comment by duckcontinuity that reads: off chance that post would be from a deer rp blog, which is the other great thing about this place. /End ID]

my cat is completely obsessed with watching the bathroom sink drain and I have started calling this "her shows." as in when I'm in the bathroom and she meows and runs up I'll be like "oh you want to watch your shows?" and run the faucet for an extra few seconds so it fills a little. she will then sit there at the edge of the sink for ages totally entraptured by the drain. blorbo from her sink

went to a new optometrist today wearing my squid facts ‘save our freaks’ shirt from @sarahmackattack that has a strawberry squid on it. and i wasn’t even thinking about it but the optometrist walked in and he was like ‘oh what does your shirt say’ so i showed him and he was like ‘oh that’s neat!’ and then i thought he might like to know about strawberry squid eyes since they have weird eyes and he is an optometrist and all. so i was like ‘yeah it’s actually a real kind of squid called a strawberry squid, their eyes are really cool because they have one big yellow-green one and one small blue one’ and he kind of gasped and went ‘oh my god that’s so interesting i wonder why they have that. do you know what their retina composition is like?’ and i watched as he minimized my chart on the computer and started looking up images of strawberry squid and then he googled ‘strawberry squid retina composition’ and he was like ‘sorry we’ll get to your eye exam in a moment i just really want to find out’ LMAO 10/10 optometrist experience will be returning

Hell yeah

i wish there was a way to say "you're right, but this is really ineffective and even counterproductive messaging to anyone who doesn't already agree with you" without sounding like an asshole

really good "shocking number of people are confidently objectively demonstrably completely wrong" poll

"Obscure facts" it is NORMAL AND COMMON FUCKING LANGUAGE. Don't blame Tumblr because you're embarrassed at how ignorant you are.

official ibuprofen post

I love how varied and universally weird the circumstances for making lifelong friendships are. Here's this guy I accidentally messaged once and I could not imagine my life without them now. Here's this girl I was so scared of when I met her, I would kill for her and remind her to rest on the regular. Here's this other guy we have so much in common we used to joke we were the same person in different timelines. It took us years to meet in person and I attended his wedding. There are also people who entered my life in absolutely unremarkable ways but changed it forever for the better. It's wonderful how easy it is to find people to love.

This is the best post I have ever written, read the notes and be blessed by loving your friends magic

Basically what I'm getting from the present "giving 100% at work" Tumblr discourse is that a lot of people have fairly narrow notions of what blue-collar versus white-collar jobs actually entail. There are in fact manual labour jobs where a significant chunk of your average work day consists of Fucking Around, and conversely, there are desk jobs where you crunch eighty-hour weeks for years on end until you suddenly drop dead from heart failure at age 32. It's absolutely true that you're more likely to end up in a No Fucking Around Allowed situation in a blue-collar occupation, but you can't tell whether or not someone is in that position based purely on whether or not they work in an office. Shit, call centre workers are white collar on paper, and the kind of fuckery a lot of call centre workers are subjected to involves genuine human rights violations.

These guys always have like, a Master's in some type of engineering and think the course on error analysis they've forgotten half of from their undergrad qualifies them to debunk the expertise of thousands of people who've done actual peer-reviewed research.

the greatest pain of my life rn is that I love the concept of permeability of the soul so much and would like to export it to other media discussions the same way people talk about "drift compatibility" outside of the context of pacific rim, and it comes directly from a 25 page short story that's written like a play script and is freely available online so should theoretically be really easy and accessible to direct other people to, but that short story is also straight up completely incomprehensible without the ~1500 pages of dense gothic scifi that precedes it.

like for some reason 2025 was the year of specifically apple tv releasing permeability of the soul-core media (severance, murderbot, pluribus), but the venn diagram overlap of, uh. scifi appleheads (???) and people who have read "the unwanted guest" are me and mayyybe six other people