the sea, storm driven ⁠—

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

unstoppable force (desire to write) vs immovable object (tired)

when you go to a doctors office their favorite thing to do is tell you "okay check out at the front desk" when you're done. and the front desk tells you ummm you can just go! and you're like don't I have a copay? and they're like we don't know, we have to ask your insurance company first. and you're like well my insurance card says the copay is $30, can I just pay it right now while I'm standing in front of you? there's a card reader right there on the desk. and they're like nooo we have to send a representative on horseback during the next waning moon to meet with their claims adjusting associate director of benefits management and client services in the secret glade to negotiate. and you're like oh okay and go home. and you get twelve emails asking you to take a survey about your experience

AND THEN in eight months you start getting phone calls from unknown numbers and when you finally check your voicemail they're like Your Balance Is Past Due We're Going To Kill You (even though by this point you have forgotten that you ever went to the doctor). and so you go to your MyChart account and log in with your username and password and you have to reset your password for security reasons. and you get two emails that say Your Password Has Been Reset. Was This You? and you have to go find your phone and enter your two factor authentication code and then you have to select which location you visited and then you have to click through all the Reminder: Complete Your Health History Profile where they ask if you've had any new surgeries even though you definitely told the nurse about this at your visit and then you have to find the Pay Bills tab and your balance is $179.23 and you're like why is it so expensive I thought the copay was $30? and you download a PDF of the charges and find out that they charged a late fee of $15 a month even though that doesn't add up to $179.23 and you don't even remember being told you had any balance at any point and you could call a representative and ask about it but that would probably take at least half an hour and there's no way it would actually get rid of the charges. so you go pay it anyway and you have to go find a paper check to look up your bank account routing number because they'll charge you an extra 3% if you pay with a credit card and there's a fee of $2.75 for convenience also. and then you get three emails that say We've Received Your Payment! Thank You For Your Payment!

May 1st, 2014

everybody in management in this place is lucky i sealed my spiritual energy and took a vow of pacifism btw

Thank you all for being a patron of the Wonderful Funny Circus, coming from far and wide for so many years to see our wonderful funny clowns. Since we are the only operating circus that has such wonderful funny clowns, we know how much you come to our circus specifically to see them, and to laugh and have fun in a way that, simply put, no other circus can offer. We have decided to executed the clowns

pinterest needs to either rework or get rid of their self imposed "ai modified" feature now. it's making people mistake regular art for ai, and not enough people understand that the label means that pinterest touched the image up without the uploader's consent i was genuinely under the impression that it was reserved only for ai generated content until a month ago but since i'm on this topic, i'll plug some lesser known websites that might be of use. they're not all for reference, but they have their purposes salvaged.nu is a good archive website for graphics and textures from ~2010 x6ud.github.io 3d reference for animal skulls referenceangle.com 3d head reference ransomizer.com is a good generator for mixed media text eyy.co if you want to add jpeg artifacts to an image monopro.org if you want to dither/pixelate an image 3dgifmaker.com turns an image 3d and lets you apply effects. very fun website Glitchy3bitdither lets you select from many dithering/diffusion filters. again, fun website airtightinteractive.com emulates the look of an rutt/etra video synthesizer. cool shit snorpey.github.io/jpg-glitch corrupts a jpg/png 29a.ch/ditherlicious dithers an image in black and white dithermark.com dithers an image according to a palette and algorithm

rb to tell prev they're being so brave right now and pat their head a little please

I know someone needs this

This was awesome to come across. Thanks. Reblogging so mayhaps it will cross the path of someone else who needs this.

reblog to give prev a fUCKING BREAK in 2026