have a yuriful day

I love getting unaccompanied minors (kids flying alone) who so clearly just. Don't want to be here lol. Sometimes I get to know a little of their story, like their parents are divorced, or a family member died and they're heading to the funeral, but usually they just don't want to talk about it and that's fine. But I always treat the flight like it's a challenge to make them smile. I offer them snacks and soda but that's never enough, that's whatever, they could get those from an airport vending machine. Chump change. So then I tell the worst jokes. Just the most embarrassing, kindergarten teacher, annoying dad jokes you can think of. And those always get a groan, or a "Seriously??" And that's my in! Now I can say "Why, what's your idea of a good joke? No, come on hotshot, make your best joke, let's see it." And they hem and they haw but of course they eventually tell me their very best joke because kids are little competitive comedy goldmines. And it's always super funny, so I laugh, and that's where they slip up. Because you know what you almost always do when your joke successfully makes someone laugh? You smile. And I'm like. Gotcha. Rookie move. Now you're going to end up having a good time in spite of yourself. I win.

Did this with an 11yo u.m. today and he said "What did the ghost say to the other ghost?" And I said "What?" "Nothing. Ghosts aren't real."

I get why our current general societal thing is to say it doesn't matter which undiagnosed mental illnesses you had when you behaved badly because you should still be accountable for your own actions & I actually agree with that in many ways. however I think some people have gotten overly fatalistic about how much simply knowing what your own deal is can transform your life basically overnight if you actually hold yourself to treating your own mental health properly. like I do not think figuring out I had OCD solved all my problems but it explained 90% of the most fraught online social experiences I have had cyclically throughout my adult life and once I got treatment for it I never had that specific issue ever again. sometimes it IS that easy.

I KNEW I had seen this exact same image before! Good old "Organisms On or Near Appropriate Signs" project.

did I just write the suicide note of the summer??❓❓🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

Something about the bastardization of the story time and time again proves that nobody in power really cares about the people who would resonate with King’s Carrie White. A girl so ugly and repulsive she’s been removed from her own story. The societal need for women and girls to be constantly perceived as attractive is what fuels a fair amount of her torment in the book, but that person isn’t even allowed to exist on the screen. We cannot empathize with her; it isn’t allowed. It’s fascinating to me.

Polycules should be able to trade people like sports teams do

Listen -- you're a good defender and your pussy is fantastic, but that's not what our team needs right now. We're trading you to Greater Boston in exchange for someone who has a car.

hey guysss so unfortunately the rumors are true and im leaving the narrative. Buttt the good news is my absence will create such a gaping hole in your lives that it will become a sort of presence itself, and so in a way it will kind of be like i never left! But i am. Leaving just to be clear.

$89/$500

no changes, and my girlfriend is running very low on her estrogen!!

we have no power, no food, no air, and we still need to pay our phone bill