hey uh I hate to tell you this but your golden retriever boyfriend comes from a pet store and not a reputable breeder

I'll become his reputable breeder

I got somethins to say

i already fED you

IRRELEVANT

Time shifting

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I wanted this but the original poster is transphobic

This is called the "analog loophole" and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it. They can encrypt and copy-protect all they want, but eventually the file has to be sent to a speaker and/or screen, and it has to get there in a human-readable form because that's the whole dang point

The simplest way to exploit the analog loophole is just pointing a camera at a screen or a microphone at a speaker, but direct recording is also always possible and always will be. Anything that can be displayed can be saved and displayed again

Just found out my facebook birding group is public because my cousin (a lawyer who is not into birds) casually said to me “saw you couldn’t identify a willet the other day… pretty embarrassing”

They lounging

They must know how cute they are. (Via)

i would die for tall girl and spinny boy

i am literally about to start weeping over this little bear

look at this baby 😭

i went to a tiny counterserve diner once and accidentally poured sugar instead of salt all over my hashbrowns and was eating them sadly anyways. the waitress took them away and started making me another one and I tried to protest, but she just snorted and said "we're not catholic here". now every time i'm doing something painful out of obligation i think about how that is not repenting, this body is not a catholic establishment, there is no nobility in suffering.

nuuuuuuu! My dreams, evaporated and condensed!

this is advice I've given friends directly before and I've probably also posted it but I really like giving it so here it is potentially again: do not create something for an imaginary bad faith reader.

there will always be someone who finds fault in your work. there will be people who read the messages on it wrong. there will be people who will take every compelling aspect about your work off of it so they can put in their own.

you cannot make art for these people.

you will never write a story that is free from criticism. you will never draw a piece that everyone finds appealing. you will never compose a song that everyone enjoys hearing. you cannot, fundamentally, set out to create something and only think of how you can avoid someone not liking it.

because, and this is key, there will be someone who sees every angle of your story and feels its intent in their heart and gushes to their friends about it. you will draw someone's favorite art and they will make it their phone wallpaper because they want to see it every day. someone will fall in love with your song and loop it on their way to work because it gets them through the day. and THOSE are the people your work is for. THOSE are the people you have to care about, because they love what you make for what it is - because it's itself.

if you set out to create something and file off every sharp edge, prune every thorn, you will be left with something fragile and weak, and it will be fragile and weak for the sake of someone who does not exist but that you were scared of anyway.

sharing art is complex and tangled and powerful, and anything you care enough to create deserves to flourish as itself. get sillay.

UPS WORKERS HAVE REACHED A DEAL THAT MEETS THEIR DEMANDS AND AVERTED A STRIKE!!!

This is actually misleading — it’s a tentative deal and goes to rank and file members to vote on in august. Many rank and file members may vote no on this deal because it actually doesn’t meet their demands effectively. For example: trucks getting ac only applies to new trucks in 2024, and older trucks will not be retrofitted. Also their demands were not met for part time base pay. So it remains to be seen what will happen.

From WaPo I’ve linked:

But as rank-and-file workers began to digest the details, some expressed disappointment about the size of pay increases for part-time workers. Others complained that only new delivery vans would get air-conditioning units — not older vans already in service — and not until 2024.

“A lot of guys who are driving will never see an AC unit before they retire,” said Damian Kungle, a part-time UPS employee in Canton, Ohio, who makes $16.65 an hour. “I keep telling them the fact that we got it at all is a win. We moved forward on issues even if they’re not perfect yet.”

Another quote from wapo:

“I’m part of a group of part-timers who think a $25 an hour [starting wage] is fair,” said Peter Lyngso, a warehouse employee in Chicago who makes $18 an hour. “This is physically brutal work. We’ve sacrificed so much. But, working this job, it feels like the good parts of life — like going out to dinner and taking a vacation — aren’t meant for us. I’m prepared to vote no.”

For more specifics on why some members are pushing for no votes

It’s also interesting to me that teamsters and ups were eager to push out “we’ve made history!” Big bold graphics for social media and then in small print say “tentative”

HEY. HEY YOU IN THE NOTES. REBLOG THIS VERSION INSTEAD!

Aw man, I only read the headline, a few days ago, and thought 1) "They're getting AC in the trucks!" and 2) "I don't have to worry about getting my heavy returns done when I still have no elevator, because they're not going on strike!"

I don't give a shit how inconvenient it is for me, I want them to have AC and decent pay and whatever else they are asking for. Fuck corporate.

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