If You See This- No You Didn’t.

it's patti lupone's birthday have you listened to her breaking the sound barrier at the 1988 tony awards?

I always think of the description I saw years ago: Self-imposed deadlines don't help me, because I know the person who set them, and they're full of shit.

It's nice that loud noises don't stick to clothes like smells do. That would be really bad if they did.

you solve the mystery of what to have for dinner one night and you think "hell yeah case closed forever" WRONG there is a dinner mystery the next night too

proud victim of the tumblr accent. it's fading out of public consciousness as the tik tok accent takes precedence; a linguistic evolution that makes the tumblr accent 85% funnier to unsuspecting civilians. it's like releasing a disease on a non-inoculated population. coughing baby versus hydrogen bomb.

if you haven’t, i hope you fall in love with life again. i hope you wake up with a happy sigh, hope you feel like doing things you enjoy, hope you are surrounded by people who make you feel safe, hope you smile at yourself in the mirror.

There's always a moment of intense cultural whiplash whenever I realize I'm talking to someone who thinks "legal" and "illegal" are meaningful categories and ascribes innate goodness to following the law. It's like meeting a space alien.

ohhhh shit. target is recalling their up & up baby wipes (fragrance free & fresh cucumber scented) because they're contaminated with Burkholderia cepacia complex and Burkholderia gladioli, multiple people are reporting discoloration & infections. i just got a call about it cuz i had purchased those but i've already gone through them 😅 so no refund for me. but im fine. if you have these they're saying you need to immediately stop using them and bring them back to target for a full refund. this bacteria can cause life threatening infections in children/infants and people with compromises immune systems (ESPECIALLY cystic fibrosis!!) and i know lots of other chronically ill people follow me!!!!

If you use baby wipes go check them NOW. A lot of Burkholderia bugs are antibiotic resistant so infections can be really difficult to treat.

NO! Where’s the non-metals and metaloids?!

are they hydrogen or helium

oxygen, carbon, sulfur, xenon, iodine, neon, etc etc.

ooo okay i see the confusion. you're listing off a bunch of metals there

…. You’re breaking my chemistry nerd brain. Hhhuuuhhhh???

im an astrophysicist

but but, science is science?!

and different fields of science have different conventions and definitions for their unique contexts

I somehow hit the jackpot and grew up being raised by a mother who was actually good and liked me (while she was poor and disabled nonetheless! Big Fascism is always saying poor and disabled single mothers who aren't evil can't exist, get #owned lol), and that actually made me extremely anti-adult from a very young age. every single friend I ever made from ages seven to nineteen would constantly tell me crazy stories about what regularly went down in the penal institutions that passed for their homes, and that was all considered normal and fine and the gold standard for what nice suburban families were meant to be, meanwhile if I said something like "my mum lets me read any book I want and all movies and tv are allowed as long as we watch them together" then I'd get un-invited from every birthday party because I was deemed a corrupting influence (which, to be fair, I was, because I would spend a lot of time convincing my friends that if their parents' rules sucked and were unfair then it was okay to lie to get around them). and whaddya know I'm twenty-four and still get on really well with my mother and talk to her as much as I can and this is the case for literally no one else I know.

first they came for me and i was all like "hang on, aren't you guys supposed to come for other people first" but they pointed out that they had to come for someone first and we can't all be the guy from the poem and i couldn't really argue with that logic tbh

Watching older people struggle to use the McDonald’s kiosk genuinely makes me sad. It’s ever increasingly clear that technology literacy courses provided on a state level as a public service are necessary to assist people with the rapidly changing technology landscape. Society changes fast and rather than abandoning people to individualized solutions we need a socialized response to helping people adjust.

I went to get bloodwork done a few weeks ago and they had one physical receptionist and three kiosks. I reflexively went to the human receptionist but she wouldn't speak to me and directed me to the kiosks. So I went over to a kiosk and tried signing in but it needed my health card to be inserted into the machine. My insurance provider has switched to fully digital cards so I couldn't insert it into the machine. The machine tells me theres a scanner on the bottom that it can scan cards with. It wants me to rest my phone on the scanner. It fails to scan my card 3 times. On the fourth time the little stand to hold your phone literally falls off the machine. Eventually I get it to scan my card. I wait for two fucking hours in the cramped little waiting room with like 30 other people and I give up my seat to an elderly man with a cane because there were only four chairs in the waiting room. The singular human receptionist is only processing people every like 10 minutes. So even though I got there when they opened at 6am I didn't get called to her desk to confirm my paperwork until 7:45am and I didn't get my blood drawn until 8:30 am and I was subsequently late for my 9 am lecture because I still needed to drive to school. All of that to find out I have a severe vitamin D deficiency. It was hard enough for me to navigate. I couldn't imagine being elderly or disabled or speaking a language other than english, spanish, or chinese (which were the only languages the kiosks offered). The kiosks were way too high for a wheelchair user to reach on their own and were filled with small print that someone with vision impairments would struggle to read. Never mind the fact that the the whole thing was slow and poorly laid out. But yeah God forbid they hire a second and third human receptionist then maybe they would process people faster than a sloth. The whole system is designed to make you miserable and hopeless and waste time.