gay-coded early 2000s barbie villian

Conservative beauty standards are back with a vengeance which means it's especially important to go out this summer with bellies out and bodies unshaved. Also be unapologetically disabled with mobility aids and wearable medical devices and stim toys and ear defenders and all that stuff. You need it. People need to see it. Everyone needs to be reminded that life is unquestioningly more enjoyable when you're not living inside an arbitrary set of rules created by people who are offended by all the wrong things.

My work has a type of PTO called “flex holidays” and the number you get is equivalent to the number of corporate observed federal holidays your location doesn’t close. (The reason for this being that most of our locations are laboratories that can’t close fully ever, so if a site operates a standard holiday as a business day, they don’t have to pay holiday pay or finagle the schedule to accomodate a lot of people being off). I was kvetching to a friend at work about having to use my vacation & flex time for observing the various Jewish holidays and a different coworker was like “but that’s what flex time is for! So people can choose which holidays they want off or just take a random day like their birthday off instead!” And I had to explain to this lady who was at least a decade older than me that no, that wasn’t really how it worked. Because we all got off for Christmas after all, I couldn’t switch and take Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur off instead if I wanted to. So she would get her holiday off automatically and still have the same amount of flex time as me and could use it for vacation or to take off when her child’s school has an in-service day or whatever. And that on top of that, there literally wasn’t enough flex time for me to take all the holidays you aren’t supposed to work off, I had to use my vacation time for that or work anyway. Miraculously, this actually got through to her and she agreed it wasn’t fair, especially since our company gives veterans the option to take veterans’ day off every year without using PTO at all. Unfortunately, complaints to corporate remain ignored on the basis of “well if we let you take Jewish holidays off without using PTO, we’d have to do that for everyone!” Which no, you’d only have to do it for all religious holidays and we already close for the major Christian ones. Not to mention, I still can’t take off on veterans’ day because I’m not a vet and I’m not sure how letting the handful or less of Jewish employees at each location take at minimum Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur off without using PTO would be an issue given that, to the best of my knowledge, the company employees more military vets than Jews.

armand’s exes complaining about him being a needy bottom or whatever is pissing me off. fine i’ll do it since you’re all so fucking complicated

it’s still so wild that I managed to find my mom’s lost cat. but also, hyper obsessive autists get things done!!!! every single morning for months, I would check a series of local facebook groups, until finally she got spotted in a campsite. then from the time I saw that post, it took about 24 hours to organize her retrieval. and now she’s back to being a house cat! after being lost in the woods all spring and all summer! death via coyote is canceled, she will live into her 20’s and be a pivotal memory for my niece and nephew, who always ask on facetime to see her

here at frito lays company building, we have always belueved that organic life is aplague upon this world that must be eradicated at all costs

HATE when u can feel ur intestines writhing. cease your wriggling insolent belly worm

WHEN do you ever feel that

the worms yearn for escape

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I love how Zohran Mamdani is wearing a suit everywhere. And if he has anything else he puts it ON TOP of the suit. A basketball jersey. A high-vis vest. All worn over the suit. He’s like the mayor character in a cartoon who’s always dressed as The Mayor. If I didn’t know who he was and he biked past me in NYC I’d be like holy shit was that the mayor