what draws me to decay i think is how utterly it rejects dichotomy. it comes from both within and without; it’s the mechanism that forms the clock counting down the days until we die, and it finds its way back to itself inside the body through inertia and opening. rot is a connective force that reaches out to itself through us, and rot is a destructive force that pulls everything apart, literally and metaphorically. to exist is to be marked; to be stained indelibly. to touch is to accumulate that stain and spread it. corruption is the tie that binds and the teeth that fray the cord between them until it breaks.
this is what makes medical horror so effective when done right, i think. the idea of a “clean” invasion, of a sterile cut that excises all traces of its existence after it passes through you, save perhaps a neat and tidy ridge of scar tissue; a fading point of entry with no exit. an isolated site of violence and violation meant to halt the progress of infection that is nevertheless seething with pain and inflammation, struggling against its restraints. the exertion of another’s will, another’s dominance, over one’s own body, and the wiping of the feet that walked all over it, the hands that grasped and tore into it, to remove all traces of their having ever been there after. the denial of any real connection, however grotesque and unwanted. gloves and masks and scalpels separating skin from exposed skin. a bloodless wound, a sickness and soreness whose reality is denied.
the food court at our mall has a little stream bisecting it, with bridges. and across from the greek/mediterranean place a turkish restaurant popped up. im eating in fucking 2fort
aw cmon dog i just wanna eat falafel now i gotta run into the sewers
Take note of which companies in America persist with rainbow capitalism this June, and which ones quietly refrain from participating.
Because the ones that don’t participate are the ones who were never actually interested even nominally in queer rights/wellbeing/etc. With Trump in the hotseat and queer rights being stripped back in every way he can manage it, the social landscape in America has changed, and blatantly support of queer folk is not necessarily the same money-maker it has been in recent years.
Which means that the companies that persist in openly supporting queer people, even in Trump’s America? Theres a good chance these are the ones who will support queer people regardless of what the social flavour of the month is.
Its not a foolproof way of recognising good, trustworthy, safe companies, of course. There will still be asshole companies that attempt to play both sides of the field, and will keep up the rainbow capitalism whilst also helping fund/platform/support conservative policies/politicians/etc.
But it IS a good way of identifying BAD companies.
Kind of like how some companies kept DEI guidelines even when the federal mandate for them was revoked — and other companies ditched their DEI policies the very second that they were allowed to. Is a company that keeps DEI guidelines automatically a trustworthy, moral company? Maybe. Maybe not. But any company that immediately gets rid of their DEI policies can be accurately identified as a shit company.
Same rule applies for companies that participated in Pride in past years, but quietly bows out of it this year. Take note of which keep it up, and which are absent.
the food court at our mall has a little stream bisecting it, with bridges. and across from the greek/mediterranean place a turkish restaurant popped up. im eating in fucking 2fort
aw cmon dog i just wanna eat falafel now i gotta run into the sewers
It’s important to me that everyone knows that standard practice is to literally count all the pollen that is collected from a cubic meter of air. Manually. With a microscope.
They probably don’t do this with pollen because you’d get RSI pretty quick, but when we had to count bacteria in the lab we’d sometimes use a clicky thing where every time you pushed the clicky button the number it displayed would go up by 1. This was handy if you were only counting a few hundred bacteria and didn’t want to lose count.
yeah but how do you make sure you don’t count the same one twice. Or miss any
When we do bacteria we put it on a slide like this:
that lets you count cell by cell. This makes it far easier not to lose count. If the sample is too dense, you can dilute it and multiply your results after counting.
i actually don’t believe all opinions are valid unless we’re talking about purely subjective things like music taste or pizza toppings or what you find sexually attractive in another person or whatever.
if an opinion doesn’t come with any knowledge or understanding of the subject one is carrying an opinion about, it’s just a hunch or an assumption or maybe even a hypothesis. hunches and assumptions can be fine if one is fully aware that they are nothing more than that and are open to being wrong. hypotheses are good if you’re going to actually test out your hypotheses and accept whatever your investigations reveal.
otherwise its all actually kinda dangerous. and anyone who can’t carry the possibility of being wrong about anything does not have an opinion that can be trusted. anyone who is unaware that their assumptions are assumptions and just trusts every stupid thought and belief their talking monkey brain has as true, is potentially dangerous to the world and should definitely not be allowed to make decisions that affect large amounts of people.
and yes i am keenly aware that this all just my opinion lmao.
they’re opening up a new sister store in a different province and they asked me to do some email correspondence with my joint health and safety counterpart out there to help him get set up and run the team, but they warned me before hand that he was “notoriously difficult” so i was absolutely dreading this thinking “shit, he’s gonna be one of those guys who thinks taking direction is an insult to his masculinity and he’s gonna be rude and suck”
but it turns out he’s just really autistic and needs super clear direction + he writes his emails like a 1911 telegram. i LOVE this guy. i’ve never worked with someone who wrote so clearly and in such detail, and absorbs everything i say. plus whenever he gets an email he responds immediately with “received. response to follow. thank you.” top 10 coworkers of all time. top 5 even.
„Difficult“ the man is literally the only son of a bitch on the planet communicating fucking properly
how the fuck are you gonna be serious about transmisogyny if you’re telling trans lesbians they’re silly little uneducated girls who haven’t accepted they’re supposed to be available to men genuinely what is your problem. what is wrong with you
the moment misogyny intersects with homophobia everybody seems to shut their brain off. last time this discourse kicked up I saw a lesbian (!) genuinely argue that “nobody is forcing lesbians to be with men” on the replies of a post and the op, not a lesbian, had to gently explain that that’s the very first thing that happens to lesbians under the patriarchy. let’s cut the unnecessary crap and get to the point everyone seems to be orbiting around: are lesbians bourgeois?
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Everyone on here needs to stop laughing about how "adopting pets from a shelter is for losers" and "those animals should all be hunted for sport instead." It's reprehensible on so many levels! First of all...
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