Just Random Stuff

“Bang For Your Buck” 🦌🦋

It’s not even just about fair wages. It’s literally about the fact that you can’t dump industrial waste in a river here anymore.

Our cheap goods are so cheap because South American and Asians environments are being destroyed so you can buy a $40 pair of shoes every 3 months.

Cutting granite countertops has lead to a rapid increase in silicosis in the lungs out in California. All the working men and women in my family have died from pulmonary fibrosis. They were carpet layers, Post office workers, floor tilers. Staying safe in manufacturing jobs is annoying but also very, very expensive. Real manufacturing factories belch smoke and dust and grime that causes asthma and birth defects in surrounding communities. Everyone wants their manufacturing jobs back until they realize their kids are living directly under the Asthma Plant.

There will come a time when the workers in these countries rise up and demand better and things will start to even out, but if you want to honestly “do your part,” you gotta stop buying cheap shit for no reason.

I got an A on that paper.

Writing is a skill. Skill is muscle. If you don't use a muscle, it atrophies. If you are a student and you are tempted to use genAI to cheese an assignment, I am begging you for your own sake to not do it.

This is not a moral stance about genAI (which is shit at what it's ostensibly for, and full of lies and evil, and fueled by art theft and burning rainforests, and there is no good reason to ever use it for anything; that's the moral reason for why you shouldn't use it), it is a purely pragmatic stance based on the fact that if you use it you will never learn the single most essential skill that is used in every single workplace.

You will never learn to bullshit.

And if you cannot bullshit, you will not understand when you are being fed bullshit by others.

For your own sake you must learn to do your own thinking, your own bullshitting, because our trashfire society runs on bullshit and for your own good you must become fluent in it, because very few people will bother to translate it for you. It was asinine in the late 90s, and it is asinine today, but it is the central truth of adult society: everything is bullshit, and you need to know what is going on beneath the bullshit, and you need to be able to bullshit back if necessary.

I know that the expectations being placed on you are ever-increasing, and I know that it does not seem rational to put effort into explaining the plot of a Charles Dickens novel to someone who has read the thing 50 times and will read 50 identical essays about it over the weekend. I know you are being handed ever-greater heaps of what is functionally mindless busywork because of an institutional obsession with metrics that don't actually measure learning in a useful way. High school was nightmarish in the 90s and I am fully aware that it has only gotten worse.

Nevertheless, you must try, if only for your own sake. Curiosity is your best hope, and dogged determination your best weapon. Learn, please, if only out of spite.

I was able to get an A on that paper because I was able to skim the reading, figure out what it was about, and bullshit for 1500 words in the space of 40 minutes.

Unfortunately, what I heard was "read everything BUT The Old Man And The Sea."

Double unfortunately: the first day back was a test, on The Old Man And The Sea. Which I had read exactly zero words of. It was, notably, a short essay test. It wasn't multiple choice or fill in the blank. It was designed to require deliberate answers from scratch, entirely out of your own head, with nothing to go on BUT what was in your head.

And in the course of about 45 minutes, I was able to use the questions of the test itself to piece together a vague enough sense of how the story went to bullshit my way through other questions. I gave wide, thematic answers that were extremely light on details, since I did not know any of them, and did not even know this test would be happening until it was in front of me. An essay test for an AP-level English class.

I had a starting point of zero information, and an essay test about the thing I was supposed to have read.

I bullshitted my way to a B+ on it.

On a test I should have gotten a ZERO on.

It's been 16 years since I took that test.

I couldn't tell you a damn thing about The Old Man And The Sea.

But you better fucking believe I still know how to bullshit, and when someone is trying to bullshit me.

all my moots. if you see this and are my moot, its the same as tagging you cuz theres a lot of you guys>>>

like every time

And uhhhhh my birthmark is a mole on my back

I have bent pinkies, my middle name is Winter, and im in a play rn :p

My parents are both vegetarians, so I was raised vegetarian and I’ve never actually had meat

I have done a few theatre classes in my life, and I'd like to believe I do a good job in my own acts of silliness ;33

I have a few birthmarks, but my favorite is one that starts on the left side of my chest and kinda trails down my arm. It’s like splotchy and can be kinda hard to see in the summer when I’m tan, but it’s slightly more prominent in the winter.

Also, I don’t have any freckles on my face, but do have a few on my arms, chest, legs, etc.

Knowing that my dad will be going first and with my sisters arguing over their turn, I knew I was going to be last. Depending on how long it would take them all to finish, my mind said “f-it”. I took a few steps back and relieved myself then and there.

To this day, I don’t regret it. And surprisingly it’s a story that has been forgotten amongst them. So, I guess it’s now a story in my family that I’ll keep to myself.

001 @stella-pride

002 @inonisafk

003 @welpthisisboring

004 @sunshinevr

005 @drivenaxl86

006 @thatweirdstemrat

007 @silverhyenaart

008 @ghostopossumlives

009 @hermitcrab2023

010 @honeyshineshipsandshit

011 @thatonearoacefreak

012 @mygoogledrivescaresme

013 @sweetpuffling

014 @mooshi-arts

015 @soengineergarden

016 @therealsans29

017 @xxcybersuitxx

018 @lost-in-fandoms1999

019 @somboreking770

020 @carpaldragon

and if you do believe me here’s some proof

alr now that I’m done yapping I’d like to know what you guys lore is

@scun-gilli

@flywolf33

@onelonelyghostt

@hypersonicjd

Um, I have EDS and I have been doing Mountain Man Rendezvous my whole life, have been trading for like 12 years now, and this is my fourth year on the board of directors for the Fort Bridger Rendezvous

@thedeerman

@phoenix-arising

@arty-things

I don't wanna hear any of the emotional-wreckage psycho-sexual deviance comments that my answer might arouse

Soukoku

Klance

Jegulus

Next question.

Destiel

Satosugu

Vashwood

Satosugu

Itafushi

Ranga

I'm big on healthy communication and first love stories ATM 😭 must be because it's like 15 years with my husband this year and I'm getting sappy since we met as teens.

Renga

Shuggy

EraserMic (even after all these years, they're still special to me)

( bonus to stsg the devotion is peak)

Serirei

Yohana

Shiutoji

(Bonus for jayvik, it was great until, you know, fandom)

Thanks for the tag 🫶💕 Anyone else wanna do it? No pressure, of course <3

Number 1 ship for me is absolutely Dakavendish/Cavota because they lead me to meet the greatest people I've ever known, that being the MML fandom :)

Number 2 ship is Stobotnik because their emotions are so, so intense and the relationship between them is so good and they bring me much, much joy.

Number 3 ship is funny enough Bunny and Kitty from Courage the Cowardly Dog, because it was the first ever instance of a LGBT relationship I ever saw in my entire life and they got to have a happy ending :)

BillFord since these fuckers got me here

Radioapple the main reason I use tumblr

Stobotnik the toxic old man yaoi goes hard here

for the peeps I’m tagging these two got me into so so much yaoi. @scun-gilli @simonskizm

1: RadioApple (surprising no one)

2: Hannigram (also surprising no one)

3: Sonadow (read above)

1) radioapple

2) jegulus

3) victuuri

1) Radioapple

2) Destiel

3) JonMartin

(tied for third place is Ineffable Husbands and maybe it's telling that three of my top 4 OTPs involve at least one Angel)