“No one can love you until you love yourself” is like the worst possible way of articulating “if you don’t respect and value yourself, it’s very easy to become attracted to people who don’t treat you right and then justify their mistreatment, so be careful.”
so THAT’S what it’s supposed to mean. that actually makes sense.
“No one can love you until you love yourself” is like the worst possible way of articulating “if you don’t respect and value yourself, it’s very easy to become attracted to people who don’t treat you right and then justify their mistreatment, so be careful.”
so THAT’S what it’s supposed to mean. that actually makes sense.
im sure theres a word denoting the divide btwn what you believe as a citizen of civic society and what you believe as an animal with anger synapses. as a civic citizen i do not believe in the death penalty nor do i think anyone deserves to die for being stupid on twitter. as an ape,
I feel like making this distinction would also help with venting. “I acknowledge my feelings are irrational and primitive, and would never wish death on another human being. That being said, the asshole who slammed a door in my face deserves to be eaten alive by ants.”
im sure theres a word denoting the divide btwn what you believe as a citizen of civic society and what you believe as an animal with anger synapses. as a civic citizen i do not believe in the death penalty nor do i think anyone deserves to die for being stupid on twitter. as an ape,
I feel like making this distinction would also help with venting. “I acknowledge my feelings are irrational and primitive, and would never wish death on another human being. That being said, the asshole who slammed a door in my face deserves to be eaten alive by ants.”
Queen: Only if she can pass my test: failing to sleep on a bed with a pea under it!
Prince: Why are you screening for princesses with sensory issues?
Queen: She must be true royalty! Only the most autistic girl in all the land shall marry my son!
The phrase “most autistic girl in all the land” popped unbidden into my head last night and I couldn’t remember who had made the joke and had to Google it
Non online people: I love Harry Potter! I use Chat GPT to write my emails ;) Come find me on X, I’ll send you my ai-generated spotify playlist! I’m thinking about buying some cryptocurrencies, do you know which ones are good?
Me taking 500 points of psychic damage trying not to turn into a unskippable cutscene: Haha, conversations are so fun.
It’s available from bookshop.org and Barnes & Noble in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook. It’s on the front page of the B&N website and they’re advertising $5 off currently.
Also request it at your local library if they don’t already have a copy!
One of my professors had a wrong date of birth on his wikipedia page and when he fixed it a wiki editor changed it back because ‘the subject of an article can’t change the article as they’re not a neutral source’. Which is understandable for the body of the article but incredibly funny of this editor to be pedantic about a university professors birthday
i swear to god NOTHING makes me more pissed off then when everyone is like “oouheuehghoughough ough [thing] is so good it’s a classic you’ll love it” and they say it SO OFTEN that you resolve on principle to loathe [thing] with your entire being but when you actually get around to experiencing [thing] it literally IS That Good. physically trembling with rage at the fact that hamlet actually is one of the best plays ever written. DIE
me when shakespeare plays actually DO have modern-day relevance and universal themes:
The mattress company I worked for the first time no longer exists. It was long ago eaten and assimilated by a bigger company. But when I started it was an incredibly intense five weeks of training. I was told I was extremely lucky to be selected, and I was. From a pool of a hundred applicants only fifteen of us made the cut to entering the training program.
The course covered how to talk to customers, how to ask open ended questions, how to close a sale, and product knowledge. I learned a lot, and truthfully my greatest takeaway was a lot of social scripts that I could use in other areas of my life.
We also had a midterm exam and a final. Both included a roleplay element with a trainer and a written portion. They told us when we started that the course was challenging but it was still a shock to come in after the midterm and realize half the class had failed.
I was named valedictorian of training- a dubious honor as it meant I’d done the best in the class, but popular lore had it that valedictorians struggled the most on the sales floor. Lo, I struggled.
Not because I wasn’t good. I was. But because my manager set out to systematically destroy my self esteem. Every sale, every interaction I had was scrutinized and criticized.
If I sold a bed with protectors, moveable base, and pillows he’d ask why I hadn’t managed to sell pillow protectors too. His first trainee had thrived on being challenged and he’d never bothered to learn a different way to coach.
It was wretched. My performance started strong but nosedived after a few weeks with him. My trainer, a man I loathed for stonewalling me in my interview, came in to inform me I was on new hire probation. If I couldn’t get my sales numbers up I’d be let go.
His actual phrasing was, “When you have a bandaid do you like to rip it off or pull it slowly?”
Since it was eminently obvious why he was visiting and because I thought it was condescending I sweetly informed him that I liked to soak my bandaids in hot water so they come off on their own.
He was briefly startled at this derailing but then got on with the bad news. I signed some forms stating that I understood my job was in peril.
I went home furious. I thought long and hard about why I wasn’t succeeding and how frustrated I was with my manager. I came in the next day and my anger had crystallized into a cold sharp edge.
My manager opened his mouth to address the probation and I snapped, “Just leave me alone. Go in the back if I have a sale. If you must address a serious issue then you will give me praise on two things I did right and present it as a compliment sandwich. Otherwise just say good job and shut up. Your constant nitpicking just makes me anxious and I do worse. Back off.” Belated and begrudging I added, “Please.”
He raised his eyebrows in dim surprise but I’d gauged him well. He backed off. Dutifully he’d meander into the back when I had a sale and praised me when I closed it. I resented knowing it was only because I’d demanded complimented but they still boosted me up. My numbers skyrocketed, I landed my first split king sale, and I exited probation with flying colors.
The trainer came back in to congratulate my manager for turning things around. To my gratification he gave me credit for setting him straight and said I’d taught him a different way to lead. My manager would often genuinely praise that moment when I’d stood up to him, impressed with my stubborn refusal to fail and my insight into what would help.
My biggest takeaway from the whole thing was just that people need positive reinforcement to succeed. Praise people for doing a good job. If you’re ever in a position where you need to criticize someone put it in a compliment sandwich instead of just saying the negative.
Yep. That shit can poison an interpersonal relationship, if it’s common, and also keep the thing from getting done. Do not punish wanted behavior. People will stop doing it.
I am extremely thrown off and angered by this micromanaging when people do it. It feels incredibly disrespectful and demeaning. And I can tell you, even knowing that wasn’t the intent, and trying very hard not to take it that way, it never stopped feeling that way.
Unless there’s a safety issue I was unaware of, or there’s a way to save me significant effort or time, it doesn’t help to pick at how I’m doing something. If it got done the hundred times I did it when the person was not there and they had no complaints, how I do it is obviously good enough.
i found the weirdest yt channel like its not even really weird but im just???
but anyway some girl has spend years animating a show with her furry ocs set in a western universe with hints of?? native american and aztec mythology as well as like bits of others but not really cause theres a rabbit who wears a fuckin sailor outfit and i cant follow the plot at all and theres a crane called ichabod bc subtle
Okay, but for this to be animated by one person is fucking AMAZING because we have indie animated projects started and shattered by full teams that don’t even have this much flow.
Youtube is weird because sometimes you find amazing art projects buried in it’s annuals that defy explanation due to their quality and the fact they never went viral.
To watch
i’ve been binging this and i’m on episode 24 and really i find the story pretty interesting and not really that difficult to follow??? my only concern is how all the human children except for like Charles inexplicably look like full-grown adults instead of like actual children
I’ve been a fan of No Evil for a little over a year, and I really can’t recommend it enough! Episodes 1-9 are mostly just animation tests and shorts to get an idea of the characters (though episode 2 and 7 are important to understand the backstory and episode 8 and 9 set up two major conflicts throughout the rest of the series).
There’s a lot of exposition in episode 10 which can be hard to follow on a first watch but is really rewarding when you go back to re-watch everything. Also, the animation is freakin gorgeous now and then, just
SHAPESHIFTING
MAGIC
BEAUTIFUL CHARACTERS
FULLY ANIMATED ASL
PERFECT REACTION GIFS
Also they arrange and record a lot of the music in the show all on their own which is frankly amazing https://youtu.be/L6SZgUVTb4Q
No Evil is so good, you really get lost in the magic of the world and are soon invested in the characters. The designs are so cool and the songs are choice.
I highly recommend this one, these people put together an amazing story animating at home and recording in their closets and it deserves as much love in response as was put into its creation
Honestly when people insist that the end of USAID marks a “return” to some kind of hard-fisted age of imperialism, above all it shows that they somehow thought that US aid around the world was some actual act of generosity or Mere publicity for US empire, when the reality is that especially in Africa the aid Itself WAS the imperialism. The aid itself was specifically designed to undermine the development of local industries and foster dependence on the US on every economic level to undermine national sovereignty. Without the aid there’s suffering in the short term, but also a complete retraction of leverage in the long term and again, let’s be realistic: the US is not going to bring in boats and planes and conquer states on the African mainland that refuse to submit to its dictates. It can’t afford to and even if it could it can’t win.
Those who come with wheat, millet, corn or milk, they are not helping us. Those who really want to help us can give us ploughs, tractors, fertilizers, insecticides, watering cans, drills and dams. That is how we would define food aid.
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#the roof tiles looked to be made of some leather #a type I’d never seen before #each tile rose and fell in a way too steady to be the wind rustling it #I decided not to mention it and went to eat my lunch: fresh steak! #and then the whole roof came to life. in seconds a thousand eyes and teeth were leering down at my humble meal and me ]
hey if you are 14-17 It does get better you are just in your caterpillar goop era
Also sometimes the goop era lasts a little longer than other people’s goop
Reporting in just 6 weeks shy of 50 years-old:
You will re-goop several times in your life, often emerging with different wings and maybe even different skills.
You’re gonna be okay.
Fuck I needed to hear this today.
There’s many goops but things do generally get better with each goopening. Especially that first one.
are therapists using this post as advice for their patients??? hello???
that 50yo saying we regoop again and again is giving me much-needed hope. I’m definitely re-goopening and re-emerging, and hearing that this is growth and not just suffering is empowering <3
Example: “A love triangle where the person at the center of it is not only aromantic and incredibly uncomfortable with the situation, but suspects the two ‘rivals’ are simply looking for a way to spend time with one another, both being too obtuse to realize.”
They didn’t just cut out the parts with the oat milk, they skillfully edited over all the god-damn branding and replaced the audio.
But what I still find most hilarious about this whole commercial is the fact that everything they show in this solar punk world seems to be made with sustainable, zero waste and reusable materials.
Everything EXCEPT THE FUCKING CHOBANI BRANDED STUFF! The only plastic you see in this whole commercial is all the straight to the landfill packaging made by the very corporation that tries to sell how sustainable and “green” they are. Unintentional self satire at its finest.
They couldn’t even show their yogurt and milk in (basically infinitely reusable) glass containers because they pretty much only sell their shit in plastic
It is such a perfect example of the true face of “green” capitalism, it’s hilarious.
The punk in this solarpunk comes from cutting the corporation out of the picture
ALSO
Another really interesting thing about this edit is that they changed the label on the side of the apple-picking machine.
From “donations” to “commons”. It’s a subtle change, but it makes a huge difference in the world-building of the video. The former implies that this big orchard belongs to an owner and that they’re donating the fruits to “the less fortunate” (and, by extension, that poverty is still a thing); the latter implies that the orchard belongs to everyone and that the fruits are free to take in the spirit of solidarity.
Waffle To The Left brought out the potential in this gorgeous video and made it an actual solarpunk utopia — without brands and without corporate pandering, complete with true common ownership over land and resources.
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