Just a reminder, we still don't know he's not the shooter, but waow based

tbh fuck anyone who says a single bad thing about libraries

Not content I normally reblog but libraries are super important and our world would be diminished without them.

The library was how I was able to read so many books as a kid that my parents wouldn’t have been able to afford.

Libraries are one of the only places on Earth that treats people the same no matter how much money you have. We can’t lose that.

Aside from everything else, the cynicism and nihilism of "both sides are equally bad" are so cowardly. You don't have to be informed about what either side is actually doing and what their positions are because "both bad!" You don't have to engage with what either side does in an honest way because "both bad!" You don't have to take a real position on anything and face any kind of pushback against your beliefs, because you don't actually stand for anything. You can continue to float through the world without knowing anything about what's really going on because you can fall back upon your comforting refrain of "both bad!" It's a cynical mask for being ignorant.

That paw tap did it

Don't make me tap the sign (again).

Impossible not to reblog.

Hanging out with old people rules because after a while they trust you enough to confess to murder totally unprompted

Wait what.

Sometimes old ladies had to kick the ladder out from under their stepfathers when they were girls and that’s valid

My grandma murdered her first husband the first time he beat their daughter.

My college was next to an assisted living facility and one time we went over there to draw people’s portraits so we could get practice drawing older people. The lady I was drawing idly told me that she "dealt quite handily with her first husband” while making a stabbing gesture. Five minutes later she requested I make sure not to draw her double chin. I honored that request.

So when I was a child my grandmother told all these great stories about growing up in the Alaskan wilderness. Amazing bad ass stories about her and my great-grandmother. I recently asked my mom why my great-grandmother moved from Texas to Alaska in the first place. Turns out my Great-grandfather was abusive to my great grandmother for years and she lived with that until the first time he hit my grandmother, who was like three at the time, my great-grandmother got him very drunk and beat him to death then moved to Alaska to hide from the cops.

Men don't realize their life expectancy went up thanks to divorce.

My mom is a gastroenterologist and she once told me that the old wives' tale of people who died of "stopped digestion" was pretty much made up to cover up for women who got fed up with their abusive husbands and slipped some rat poison into their dinner (esp in rural areas). Local doctors knew who these men were (everyone knew) and the community pretty much nodded along when the death certificate said natural causes. The widow would dress in black for a couple years and basically go on with her life.

When Money is the Weapon: Understanding Intimate Partner Financial Abuse 

Wow.

You should really listen to the WHOLE thing because this woman does not mince words

I really wish there was an option on those Customer Service Surveys that says specifically, “The representative I spoke to was lovely and helpful and deserves all of the raises but I think that you, as a corporation, should die in a fire.”

Hey just to add on, if you liked the representative, and the survey is asking for opinions on a scale of 0-10… please give the rep 10′s across the board.  Don’t try to be thoughtful and detailed and put down a 7 or an 8 or a 9.  A lot of times anything below a 9 or 10 counts as a zero (no, for real) and guess who it comes back to?  That’s right, the customer service rep.

At my job anything below a 10 is zero and our store is graded on our survey % so if anyone even puts 9s across the board it’s a 0 in the end and heavily brings down our stores score- which can lead to firings,

corporations: more horrible than i thought

Reiterate: Always score those surveys as 10s. Blast the company itself on social media.

So basically they don’t tell you that you’re fucking people over. Once again corporations being slimey as fuck.

Anyone else see the evil laughing face on the left? Gonna just nope on out of the evil space god thanks