I bought a bunch of bananas and I’ve caught Cleo staring at them every day since
Update: I took the last one and now she wants to know where her bananas went
How do you know that she doesn’t just really love that bowl?
Because when we leave the bananas on the table without the bowl she stares at them with just as much love!!! She ONLY looks at the empty bowl right after we remove the last banana. Then she’s no longer interested
Good news! Noodle science has progressed far enough that I can finally introduce to you the Odile Critter, or Ophidile for short! (a contraction of ophidian and odile) though many other names seemed to work for her… I’ll put the alternative names under the cut!
She’s a little tiny eastern dragon, or perhaps a snake, or perhaps a ferret, or all three! What matters is that she’s wiggly and small and has so many modes of transport… slithering, hopping, flying?!
She stands as tall as Isabird, but she’s longer in the back so she ends up being technically the biggest critter of the main 5. She is good at collecting hoards of books inside of small spaces you don’t want them to be, like your vents.
Finally, you can add an Odile critter to your collection! Thank u for ur patience, this beastie went through so many ugly drafts before I found her.
(gripping the skink with both hands, pale and feverish, sweating and shaking as I look at myself in the mirror) “killing a character is a valid writing choice that can be a crucial plot mechanic and lend beauty and depth to the story as a whole” (wretches up blood into the sink) “even when it’s my favorite character”
I think it’s important to remember, as a rule of thumb, if you take advantage of a social service, it actually makes it easier for other people who need that service to access it. Most of the time, when these services get cut, it’s because politicians will look at usage and say “see, no one is really using this thing, we can afford to trim the budget for food stamps by at least half”. Whereas if you decide to step up and use these programs, even if you feel like you “don’t really need it”, at bare minimum it’s another data point advocates can use to say “hey, look, people are using this thing, this is an important service we are providing, do not cut our funding”.
I work at a nonprofit, and it is absolutely wild explaining to folks that being part of a program that reduces their energy bill actually helps us get funding to help even more people get energy bill savings.
You aren’t taking resources from anyone by using programs you qualify for. You are making a case for those programs being important enough to continue to exist and (in many cases) grow.
We live in a world so controlled by the idea of resource scarcity that we reason “If I get help, that must be taking help away from someone else!”
i keep seeing soooo many ppl saying the canada post workers are selfish for striking right around christmas time and that they shouldve waited until january or whatever like omfg that is the point are you stupid!!!
When workers strike this is fault of the employer. The employer could choose to meet their demands and end the strike. Striking workers are reminding their employer and the public how important and valuable they are. The employer is being selfish for not giving workers what they need during the season when they most demonstrate how valuable they are. If the precious holiday mail is delayed that’s on the employer not the workers- the employer is choosing to force a strike, they could make a different choice, the striking workers are only responding to what they are forced to do to get their needs met. If you want the strike to end, pressure the employer, not the workers.
Warehouse workers for one of the two lead grocery chains were on strike in Australia recently, and everyone was having a freakout about whether or not there would be any groceries on the shelves of that store for Christmas.
Now this was just one grocery chains affected. The other lead grocery chain was completely unaffected by the strikes, as were all smaller/independent/etc grocery stores. Meaning people were still perfectly able to get their groceries elsewhere. But the threat of limited stock over the Christmas period had the grocery chain SWEATING.
They lost something like 50 million bucks in a few days because of the strikes, and they kept trying to push the “if the workers don’t capitulate then you, shopper, won’t be able to buy your Christmas ham!!!!” But i don’t know anyone who was like “Yeah those damn workers, threatening my Christmas.” Everyone I know was saying “There’s an easy solution to this. Woolworths should just pay their staff and agree to their safety demands.”
Some stores even had messages of support from customers appearing on the empty shelves:
Anyway despite the best efforts of the media, general public sentiment remained on the side of the striking workers, and today, news broke that Woolworths has reached a deal with their workers. The threat of having no stock over Christmas gave the workers the extra impact that they needed to drag Woolworths back to the negotiation table.
The people striking in the lead-up/over Christmas are not your enemy.
The corporations who hold Christmas hostage as they refuse to give their employees safe working conditions absolutely a liable wage are your enemy.
Remember that.
Just as a cherry on this one, the Woolworths strike was successful even though Woolworths went to Fair Work and got them to declare the picketing unlawful and prevent the union from stopping scabs getting into the warehouses.
…so private citizens picketed instead.
Woolies withstood maybe three days of this before giving in, presumably because they can’t ask Fair Work to unilaterally criminalize people standing on public land.
i’ve seen a lot of really messed up images in my time on the internet, weird fetish shit, even a few IRL gore images but nothing. NOTHING evokes such a deep seated, gut wrenching fear in me like this image of the fucking water slide from Action Park with the loop in it
So I tend to put on a youtube video most nights to fall asleep to (laptop on a shutdown timer.) And lately, my recommendations are a lot of videogame speedruns or videogame hidden facts.
Last night I pulled up youtube and got a “I played the 10 worst wii games ever” kind of video. ~30 minutes long. Fair enough! Show me the terrible wii games.
I’m paying attention for the beginning, since hey I’m still awake. And maybe like, 6 minutes into the video the guy starts going into heavy detail about how to pirate and copy wii games.
And I’m like, shit, bold, considering this video has 500,000 views. Bravo and all that.
The terrible wii games go on. I fall asleep.
I wake up to the sound of like… mechanical grinding?
Look at the laptop. There’s a guy in a hazmat suit mixing dangerous chemicals, going “hey don’t mix these dangerous chemicals.”
I’m like, “Oh, the video ended. And the algorithm put me on… chemical mixing Youtube I guess.”
I look at the video Title. “I Played The Worst Wii Games Ever Made”
….Oh.
It’s still the video.
So surely he is… mixing chemicals to clean off an unplayable wii disk? Trying to touch up the lone copy of some forgotten game bought off ebay?
No…
He’s just.
Mixing chemicals.
I hover over the video sections.
The 10 worst wii game sections have ended. He played them all.
The last 10 minutes is just dedicated to… him in a hazmat suit mixing dangerous chemicals.
….????
I fall back asleep.
….
I need to go back and check this video to make sure I did not imagine this all in a half-asleep stupor
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if you watch through to the end, the “dangerous chemicals” he’s mixing include salt, flour, chocolate, sugar, and butter.
So I tend to put on a youtube video most nights to fall asleep to (laptop on a shutdown timer.) And lately, my recommendations are a lot of videogame speedruns or videogame hidden facts.
Last night I pulled up youtube and got a “I played the 10 worst wii games ever” kind of video. ~30 minutes long. Fair enough! Show me the terrible wii games.
I’m paying attention for the beginning, since hey I’m still awake. And maybe like, 6 minutes into the video the guy starts going into heavy detail about how to pirate and copy wii games.
And I’m like, shit, bold, considering this video has 500,000 views. Bravo and all that.
The terrible wii games go on. I fall asleep.
I wake up to the sound of like… mechanical grinding?
Look at the laptop. There’s a guy in a hazmat suit mixing dangerous chemicals, going “hey don’t mix these dangerous chemicals.”
I’m like, “Oh, the video ended. And the algorithm put me on… chemical mixing Youtube I guess.”
I look at the video Title. “I Played The Worst Wii Games Ever Made”
….Oh.
It’s still the video.
So surely he is… mixing chemicals to clean off an unplayable wii disk? Trying to touch up the lone copy of some forgotten game bought off ebay?
No…
He’s just.
Mixing chemicals.
I hover over the video sections.
The 10 worst wii game sections have ended. He played them all.
The last 10 minutes is just dedicated to… him in a hazmat suit mixing dangerous chemicals.
….????
I fall back asleep.
….
I need to go back and check this video to make sure I did not imagine this all in a half-asleep stupor
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if you watch through to the end, the “dangerous chemicals” he’s mixing include salt, flour, chocolate, sugar, and butter.
So I tend to put on a youtube video most nights to fall asleep to (laptop on a shutdown timer.) And lately, my recommendations are a lot of videogame speedruns or videogame hidden facts.
Last night I pulled up youtube and got a “I played the 10 worst wii games ever” kind of video. ~30 minutes long. Fair enough! Show me the terrible wii games.
I’m paying attention for the beginning, since hey I’m still awake. And maybe like, 6 minutes into the video the guy starts going into heavy detail about how to pirate and copy wii games.
And I’m like, shit, bold, considering this video has 500,000 views. Bravo and all that.
The terrible wii games go on. I fall asleep.
I wake up to the sound of like… mechanical grinding?
Look at the laptop. There’s a guy in a hazmat suit mixing dangerous chemicals, going “hey don’t mix these dangerous chemicals.”
I’m like, “Oh, the video ended. And the algorithm put me on… chemical mixing Youtube I guess.”
I look at the video Title. “I Played The Worst Wii Games Ever Made”
….Oh.
It’s still the video.
So surely he is… mixing chemicals to clean off an unplayable wii disk? Trying to touch up the lone copy of some forgotten game bought off ebay?
No…
He’s just.
Mixing chemicals.
I hover over the video sections.
The 10 worst wii game sections have ended. He played them all.
The last 10 minutes is just dedicated to… him in a hazmat suit mixing dangerous chemicals.
….????
I fall back asleep.
….
I need to go back and check this video to make sure I did not imagine this all in a half-asleep stupor
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if you watch through to the end, the “dangerous chemicals” he’s mixing include salt, flour, chocolate, sugar, and butter.
has anyone noticed lately how black friday deals or any type of “sale” deals aren’t actually deals. like i had something on my amazon wishlist that was $19.99 before, and now it’s saying it WAS $49.99 but is on sale for $19.99 for a “black Friday deal.” as if it wasn’t just $19.99 two weeks ago at regular price. like these damn websites atp are straight up lying and trying to trick people into thinking something is on sale/is a good deal when it’s not. and this isn’t exclusive to that one item or even just amazon. i’ve been seeing it everywhere. the fuck
There are a several sites for tracking this kind of thing, depending if you’re looking at a particular product or a particular market.
For Amazon, I like to sanity check Camel Camel Camel if a particular deal seems too off.
For example, Amazon is listing these headphones as a -43% sale at $199.99.
CCC backs that up! But also, looks like they do go on fairly frequent (if smaller) sales. Good to know!
This kind of thing doesn’t help if they make a dozen listings, or if they have one listing with several options that change the pricing. Still handy though.
This is a helpful tool! This applies moreso to Americans (though non-USAmericans can file reports), but if you notice activity described by OP, that’s called “deceptive pricing” and is illegal under FTC regulations. The FTC has a pretty simple reporting system here. This reporting also applies to all sorts of fraud, from scam calls to identity theft. It may not immediately resolve your personal issue, but it can help the FTC gather enough data and proof to bring a lawsuit against the company.
i love you people in my phone i know the seasonal depression is setting in so we need to hold eachother like a litter of kittens in a cardboard box okay…its important
hot take maybe, but my opinion of you automatically dives if the first reaction you have to a cool character is to ask if there’s a c.ai bot of them. write shitty fanfic like the rest of us, or just maladaptive daydream if you must. find a community and rp online!! we’re losing important social and writing skills to a tech product controlled by and overseen by the slimiest, most exploitative billionaires silicon valley has seen in a generation and we’re doing it willingly???
like sorry, but in THIS socio-political climate? it is inconceivable to me to ever build a mental dependency on a PRODUCT built by, and controlled by the ultra-1% to systematically exploit and make obsolete entire industries of jobs. imagine the sheer embarrassment of chatgpt going down and suddenly being stranded, left to your own devices and finding them painfully painfully lacking.
Men’s 38-in-one night time sickness cold & flu shampoo & conditioner toothpaste and mouthwash combo (plus nourishing skin formula with hydrating aloe)
be right back guys i need to run out to O'Reilly’s Auto Parts and get another jug of Boy Juice to soak in, got a big day tomorrow and want to wash up, brush my teeth, take care of these sniffles, and exfoliate
Folks, this exists and it’s called Dr. Bronner’s castile soap.
Men’s 38-in-one night time sickness cold & flu shampoo & conditioner toothpaste and mouthwash combo (plus nourishing skin formula with hydrating aloe)
be right back guys i need to run out to O'Reilly’s Auto Parts and get another jug of Boy Juice to soak in, got a big day tomorrow and want to wash up, brush my teeth, take care of these sniffles, and exfoliate
Folks, this exists and it’s called Dr. Bronner’s castile soap.
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Hi! Someone call for me? I’m a superhero who specializes in the study of God’s creation of Man in the Book of Genesi– HOLY SHIT A GIANT BUG!
People get so fucking weird about leather like it’s literally just clothes. “Ooh kink in public ooh I’m not consenting” to somebody else’s outfit? You know wearing clothes isn’t a sex act, right? That’s not how anything works. Btw are you normal about women? Probably not indicative of any weird ideas about clothing and sexuality, right? Ok just checking
Have you ever noticed how outside the kink community the conversation around “kink in public” is never about like straight people wearing vibrators in their panties or something, anti kink people just think it’s morally degenerate if a gay dude wears a vest. Which could mean nothing
It gets especially goofy when you remember how much kink gear is like visually indistinguishable from alt fashion. Or even just regular fashion. You’ll never know who’s lowkey fagging out because being into leather doesn’t mean you’re walking around cumming in your pants a lot of it is just like “I feel hot wearing this, which is a normal reason to wear clothes” or “the texture is oddly comforting to me” or etc etc etc. Whatever. (Gay voice) I didn’t consent to seeing Your shoes with that belt, honey!
There’s something that I find equal parts hilarious and terrifying.
On one hand it is so funny watching the generation previous to mine (I was born in 84) absolutely say the most unhinged shit online, doxx themselves, and get fired, after spending my entire childhood teaching me online opsec because every stranger was a potential murderer. Social media done rotted their brains.
But on the other I’m seeing kids coming up, seeing them spew all their personals online, and using that to model their unsafe behavior and put themselves at incredible risk because the internet actually got way more dangerous than it was, ironically, when I was coming up being told I had to basically outsmart the fuckin CIA. Now the actual CIA and other bad actors (government, private, and individual) really are out there and these kids are watching fucking meemaw post a photo of the front of her house practically captioned with her fucking SSN and thinking, “yeah, sure, the adults know what’s safe.”
I gotta be a fuckin millennial about this and beg younger folx to listen to the VCR generation: hide yourself online. Nothing should go there you wouldn’t want in the hands of the person who hates you the most.
A Star Trek idea: A comedy sitcom where instead of a Vulcan on a mostly human ship it is a human on a mostly Vulcan ship
All the Vulcans are fiercely protective of the ‘fragile, illogical, prone-to-danger, smart, reckless little human’.
To make the human feel more accepted (as it is only logical) the Vulcans try to include aspects of terran culture in the ship’s day-to-day life, failing spectacularly at it.
The human loves them even more for it.
They’ll get better at celebrating the human’s birthday next year. It’s the thought that counts.
@jvlianbashir THAT’S A GOOD END TO THAT EPISODE THOUGH…
the vulcans put together awful, bland decorations. they make a cake because it’s of “significant importance”. they go through the process of putting together this party and Studying this Human Ritual and the entire episode is setting up to what you KNOW will be a horrible result. they do a bad job!!
then when the human’s birthday comes, and they reveal the off-the-mark, underwhelming looking birthday bash, the human just. starts crying. because they had no idea their crew would go through all this trouble to celebrate their birthday, and even put up DECORATIONS, or make a CAKE, and there’s a birthday card with extremely polite impersonal messages written and a hundred perfectly tidy signatures.
and the vulcans are just standing around like “you appear upset. the Birthday Party was unsatisfactory”.
I would watch the fuck out of that
“Humans require regular physical contact to remain healthy. We have a weekly rotation for The Daily Shoulder Pat. Please inform us if this is insufficient contact, either in frequency, magnitude, or duration.”
Okay, I reblogged this because of how adorable it is, but then I started picturing McCoy as the sole human.
One Daily Shoulder Pat is a thing that exists and is currently being regularly updated
According to my records 140,000 people want to see this.
#Oh golly gee!!! I NEED my one daily shoulder pat in the WORST way!!!!! I hope things aren’t so crazy right now that you’ll have to postpone an update!!! I feel so needy 😩🥺
Updates have been on the slow side lately because Android is very busy, but I know for a fact that they ARE still getting written. As long as the author is still committed to the work I don’t mind recommending things that aren’t finished. I know Android well enough to say it’s bound to be amazing the whole way through.
i would love to talk about moral ocd its just that like any time i mention it i worry im coming across like an asshole whos trying to excuse his bad actions and shitty behavior
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