Excuse the state of my microwave but here’s my $30, 20-year-old microwave from college (which still works fine!)
I use 5 of these buttons. 10sec, +1min/start, pause/cancel, and then RARELY, popcorn or defrost and honestly if I had neither it would be fine. I could cook popcorn with my air popper or just cook it by listening to the popping interval if it was a bag, and I usually thaw stuff in the sink or fridge. I could see leaving power level on there for fussy people, but I can’t recall a time I’ve ever used it for any reason. The rest are definitely superfluous.
Wtf time is 2:68
I appreciate the defrost/power level bc it makes it easy to soften butter/warms precooked sandwiches better and more evenly.
I like my devices as stupid as possible. This thing is made to heat up food, it doesn’t need to be able to tell what time it is. It should have zero insights into anything outside of its shelf. It cannot communicate with any other device to learn more. My microwave is in the garden of eden and it has no idea where the apple tree is. Let it think the time is 2:68.
Game which initially appears to be a conventional RPG with an unusually extensive tutorial chapter, complete with a helpful tutorial fairy who provides encouragement and explanatory tips and resets you to the nearest checkpoint each time you die. However, the things that kill you become progressively more unfair and unlikely with each reset, and the fairy’s explanations increasingly flimsy, until it’s revealed that the fairy has been teaching you the game’s mechanics incorrectly on purpose in order to trick you into killing yourself. The game then transitions into a time-loop horror scenario where your objective is to figure out how the game’s mechanics really work and complete the tutorial properly, thereby passing beyond the tutorial fairy’s grasp.
The most fucked up thing to realise as a transfem with an eating disorder is that they would like me more if I was skinny.
If I was slim I’d have more friends. If I was skinny I’d have bigger outreach. If I was skinny I’d be listened to.
And yet people wonder why EDs and dissociation is so common with transfems. Change ourselves or disconnect from ourselves enough to not notice the lack
Hey! If you take ages to eat in the day. If you have to work yourself up for every meal, with nicotine, thc, caffeine or the sheer high of hunger this post is for you.
This post is for you if you find yourself counting calories.
This post is for you if your safe foods are all “unhealthy”
This post is for you if your ritualism prevents regular eating
This post is for you if you dissociate to TV every time you take a meal because it simply can’t be experienced alone
This post is for you when you see all the popular transfems are slim.
This post is for you when you notice their fatphobic pattern of posting
This post is for you when you’ve been ghosted the moment you showed your fat
This post is always for you. Misogyny will always be weaponised and internalised to a more intense degree within transfeminine spaces.
Engage with fat and chubby transfems. Check in on your friends, ask them to eat. Be there for them if they do or do not. Decolonise and rid your mind of patriarchal standards. Transfeminism can set you free. Let it.
the “ACAB” leaving peoples bodies the second the NYPD tells them its okay to cyberstalk this random guy
I cannot stress this enough guys. until anything is proven Luigi Mangione is just SOME RANDOM GUY who is a suspect in the killing, and you should not be going through his entire life and publishing it on the internet
man it sucks so many people on here have absolutely convinced themselves that entire categories of consumer goods like perfume are bougie. you are depriving yourself of little treats by just assuming you cant ever afford anything! this isnt an avocado toast post either im not saying ‘just save up and buy it lol’, i would never say that, what im saying is perfume (that is: scents in liquid, paste, oil or solid form intended to be worn as a personal adornment) as a commodity starts at “free” and gradually increases in price from there. my favorite perfumes are priced everywhere between $0 and $300. one of the most lauded amber scents in the world (regrettably JUST discontinued), “Amber Paste” by Kuumba Made, is one of those little hippie oils you get at Whole Foods and it cost $10.
and im not telling you to wear perfume, obviously people have allergies and shit, or just dont care for it, im talking to the people who WANT to own fragrances. im saying they aren’t all going to cost $150.
you can also get unlimited (unlimited over a long enough timeline, they limit you to a couple or three per visit) free samples at a lot of sephoras and nordstroms if you live somewhere that has those stores (this depends on the location and a lot of other organic factors, you’ll have to check ahead of time or just try it if you’re nearby, it’s sort of random). if you’re actually buying something at sephora (and they have a lot of stuff that isn’t a million dollars as well, despite their branding) ask for every free sample at checkout that they have. they will often load you up, and not just with perfume. secondhand outlets like Value Village and Goodwill also do huge business in perfume because people are ALWAYS donating it.
sephora also does perfume refills. if you actually do buy a full size bottle, they can refill it for much less than buying a whole new bottle of the stuff. i don’t know exactly how much it costs because i havent used this service myself. and idk how careful yiou have to be about reeceipts either, but look into it if you bought a full size and its running out
idk it just bums me out there are all these people who actually want perfume and seem to think it’s out of their price range. the really basement-tier dupes of popular brand scents are so good these days it’s often worth dropping the $10 at Walmart or Rite Aid too.
some of my favorite ever perfumes were some weird crap i got in a crystal wizard store, or a drug store, or a goodwill, or whatever. if you want perfume you can get it
Sorry to hijack this post, but I’ve frequently encountered similar attitudes when it comes to attending the opera or a live classical music performance. Ask any regular opera patron and they’ll tell you that opera companies desperately need young people to come out to performances, that they can’t keep solely relying on the financial support of a rapidly shrinking circle of upper class patrons. I’ll hear “oh but it’s so bougie going to the opera”, no it’s not, there’s a reason why “Va, pensiero” from Verdi’s Nabucco became an anthem for the Italian revolutionaries during the Risorgimento. “Opera only caters to elite tastes, besides I don’t know Italian/French/German/Russian etc.” I guarantee that it doesn’t, and most modern opera houses use some kind of subtitle technology in their performance. “Attending the opera or symphony is too expensive.” If you’re under 30 or a student I guarantee that you can get absurdly cheap tickets. The Canadian Opera Company here in Toronto used to (they still might, I don’t know) offer $25 tickets to under-30s, $35 if you wanted the best available seats the day of, which is how I wound up with seats that would’ve cost me hundreds of dollars otherwise on more than one occasion. Just go, please, it’s always a wonderful experience.
Folks need to read more Emma Goldman:
“I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things.’ Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.”
Don’t fall into this trap of thinking pleasure and beauty are bourgeois. The whole fucking point of reforming the world is so we can all have pleasure and beauty and leisure time to cultivate them. You’re not a martyr to the cause by denying yourself pleasure. You’re just miserable, and your misery only serves the upper class, not the people you should be fighting alongside.
The Hollywood Bowl offers tickets for as low as a dollar for classical and jazz performances. I used to go with my parents ten times a summer because thursday shows were $5 for the cheap seats, and you can show up early with a picnic packed for dinner. People tend to think that the classical events are expensive and exclusive, but you have no idea how many times I listened to Mozart sitting on a bench with a chicken sandwich in my hand because it was cheaper to go see the LA Phil conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Bowl than it was to go to the movies.
I work for a Reasonably Well Known Regional Theater. We’re *dying* out here, and there’s usually a way to get tickets around $35 if not lower to most if not all of our shows. Call the box office and tell them you’re on a budget, be kind, but make it known that you very much want to see a show. Usually there’s a way.
oh so you’re telling me the guy had a 3 page handwritten explanation of his motives and mindset and a gun and silencer that matches the description despite it being a week since the guy was shot? hmmmm interesting
ALT
No literally these were my thoughts! They’re just releasing everything about him and literally ruining him before he’s been proven guilty
Newsflash!!! If your doctor says your baby has “gonads” that need removal or that there is a genital “deformity” these words are code for intersex baby. REFUSE UROLOGY SURGERY FOR YOUR INFANT UNLESS THEY CAN PROVE IT WILL EFFECT YOUR BABY IN THE NEXT YEAR. sometimes urethras are blocked or there’s legitimate impact to functionality. Otherwise almost always surgery can wait till your child is old enough to understand what is happening. As someone who went through pediatric urology- you don’t want them operating unless it’s 100% necessary. The procedures are gruesome and traumatic (and often not anesthetized) most people use it as a first resort when surgery should ALWAYS be a last resort especially for minors.
I need to stop thinking about my work days as “productive” days and my days off as “unproductive” days that I waste if I haven’t built something or deep cleaned my house. What the fuck am I accomplishing at work. My job doesn’t wash my dishes
sleeping is productive. Knitting is productive. Laying on my couch watching murder mysteries is productive. These things fill my life with good feelings. My job just pays my bills
Why would doing a hundred things be less productive than doing one thing
fellatio is such an awesome word. sounds like a pasta. but be careful! wouldnt want to order that at a restaurant … lest some nasty little creature get ahold of that thang
PHRASE ADDED!
“lest some nasty little creature get ahold of that thang”
consider three apples. now consider what “three” means in the absence of any apples, a three totally divorced from quantity. and consider that when you aren’t looking, the numbers fuck each other
I’ve been real busy lately because it’s December and I work at the post office, so of course I am
But that doesn’t mean I can’t show up with an unprompted PSA
Hey! Have you ever mailed a letter to Santa Claus? Have you ever wondered what exactly happened to that letter? Well wonder no longer! If it had a stamp and a return address, then odds are that it ended up on the USPS’s Operation Santa page!
Every year, the USPS collects letters to Santa Claus, and processes them to black out any identifying information. Last names, addresses, things like that. Then, the letters are posted on the Operation Santa webpage and people can adopt the letters.
Once you adopt a letter, you can buy gifts for them, wrap them up, and package them. Then you get a barcode from the website, and bring them to a post office. The clerk there will scan the barcode, which prints out a label with the address on it, and sends out the gift.
It’s anonymous on both ends, and is generally just. A really nice thing to do.
I highly recommend it if you have some money to spare this year and want to give a kid a moment of magic this year
It’s one of those things that the post office just happened to be positioned to do, and ended up knocking it out of the park. Unfortunately, I don’t think they advertise this nearly well enough, and most letters end up going unanswered
Seasonal Affective Disorder is just emotional scurvy, all my core wounds are reopening and they won’t be fixed until the big lemon in the sky comes back
wish the human body had like a crash log or something so I could pin shit down. Why am I having a sudden spike of anxiety when I’m just sitting here? Well it looks like there’s a conflict here between my medication and the better foliage mod
i feel like this shouldnt be the first result i get. its sharing what doctors have published, i guess, but trans people are way more reliable sources of information on HRT due to their actual lived experience being on it.
reading the personal experiences of other transsexuals & talking to my friends has helped me understand almost every aspect of hrt (especially learning abt feminising hrt from transfem friends, since there’s SIGNIFICANTLY less info in scientific journals!!!) way more than anything else by a long shot.
for anyone who’s unaware:
scishow, one of the most popular and reputable science channels on youtube and founded by hank green, posted this video six months ago titled “actually understand hormone replacement therapy.”
the video was presented by a transmasc person and they did not appear to have consulted any transfems in the making of the video; thus, the quality of the information was not balanced for transmascs and transfems. the presenter had experience with testosterone HRT but they did not seem to have consulted anyone who had been on estrogen HRT.
not only that but the information was so inaccurate it could *potentially lead to serious injury or death*
wait shit really? where? o-o
like fuck im not surprised but g-d
they claimed that T-blockers only was a legitimate form of feminizing HRT when in reality that will simply drop you to drastically unsafe hormone levels
Also!! I think I just? Forgot?? To post these here?? So here’s two old sketch pages from like 2 months ago that I gave to twt but never here- was messing around with drawing big pigsy!! Very floofy heeheehoo
(through gritted teeth) sometimes what’s good for your mental health isn’t another do nothing day or a little treat sometimes what’s good for you is putting in some of the work. Not all of it at once but sometimes you have to finish that essay or at least take the next step or you have to clean your room or at least dust the shelves or you gotta do the laundry or at least put it all in the hamper and it’s not fun and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks but you have to because i read a post on the internet that told me that’s what being nice to yourself is sometimes
Are you guys ok you’re all reblogging this post a lot
if you are someone who struggles with motivating yourself to attend to your chores, take care of yourself, or feel drained by the thought of hoarding so much responsibilities, i want to share a tip.
if you happen to be standing for some reason, try to complete all tasks that you usually do up standing. so for me, once i am on my feet, i do a sequence of activities like brushing my teeth, washing my face, ironing my clothes, brushing my hair, organizing my stuff for college, making my bed etc. without taking any break and i am able stack around 5 tasks comfortably. also, once the momentum is built, it gets easier!
similarly, if i am at my desk, sitting, i usually have my laptop there and always some work that needs to get done for college, admin or miscellaneous purposes. i try to do as much as i can.
this is particularly helpful for me because i am a big bedrot. especially when i am in pain or uncomfortable in general.
i just thought maybe it will help someone out there. this same hack might go in vain for me in a few weeks lol and i am just always figuring it out to push myself to be a functioning adult.
idk what teenager needs to hear this but please stop watching south park
someone else out there can probably explain it better than me but south park absolutely rotted people’s brains. maybe some of you are too young to remember, but 10-15 years ago people were honestly so vile because of that show.
south park made it funny to be antisemitic, racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, ableist etc. it introduced forms of bigotry to a lot of kids who otherwise wouldn’t have considered it otherwise.
your memes aren’t cute. I don’t care if you’re drawing those characters with your gay/trans headcanons or whatever. I’m surprised this is even an issue in 2023
Im gonna post the reddit thing about it
That last line is annoying but overall this makes good points. Fundamentally it teaches people that any kind of challenge to your preexisting conceits should be immediately dismissed and then ruthlessly mocked
idk what teenager needs to hear this but please stop watching south park
someone else out there can probably explain it better than me but south park absolutely rotted people’s brains. maybe some of you are too young to remember, but 10-15 years ago people were honestly so vile because of that show.
south park made it funny to be antisemitic, racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, ableist etc. it introduced forms of bigotry to a lot of kids who otherwise wouldn’t have considered it otherwise.
your memes aren’t cute. I don’t care if you’re drawing those characters with your gay/trans headcanons or whatever. I’m surprised this is even an issue in 2023
Im gonna post the reddit thing about it
That last line is annoying but overall this makes good points. Fundamentally it teaches people that any kind of challenge to your preexisting conceits should be immediately dismissed and then ruthlessly mocked
FMA is fascinating because there aren’t many works about what it means to be an atheist and a heretic to a god that you can not only see, but who has personally snatched body parts off of your living body and made fun of you for it.
They are having theological discussion in my notes but I think that people are too…divinity centric about Truth to make good interpretation of the situation.
Truth is a god in the way that gravity or magnetism is a god. He’s just a manifested force of nature. He’s sapient on some level, sure, which is a neat trick, but we managed to make meat think and we’re not extraordinarily special about it either. He didn’t invent humans and he didn’t spawn the universe the way that Rose would have expected the god of her religion to have done; he has minimal to no interest in the day to day lives of any creature and only intervenes when someone actively wanders into his grip of influence. He’s not a Capital-G God. Truth is to matter what fire is to flammable objects. He’s a metaphorical (and perhaps even allegorical) chemical reaction.
Ed isn’t an atheist because he saw god and cussed him out irl; Ed’s an atheist because he doesn’t believe that the brute force of Truth qualifiesas a god. Quite frankly, I think that’s a hell of a lot ballsier and a much more complete understanding of the situation. This perspective insulates him against idolizing the Truth as an ultimate divine force and makes Truth something that can be reasoned around or through, rather than with, which would never have worked.
Ed is a scientist. He’s always worked with the Truth in some way, shape, or form, because the whole point of science is an attempt to pursue lower-case-t truth. Being able to see Truth’s reflection in the mirror as he does doesn’t really affect Ed’s whole..everything.
I don’t wanna make ppl feel guilty for celebrating Christmas but I think how crazy it is that so many American Christians r pro israel and go on “pilgrimage” to occupied palestine and palestinian Christians living in the birth country of Christianity have refused to do celebrations in the midst of the genocide
Most Christians in America don’t know Bethlehem is an occupied city and it’s people struggle against empire as Jesus did. It’s not a mythical city it’s a real home to the descendants of the first Christians who are refusing to celebrate. At least the pope is saying something that’s probably turning the heads of catholics who’ve both sided this and who never really thought about palestine