obsessed with how ryoko kui sometimes draws falin wearing these shirts with the images of her skeleton chilling in the dragon's stomach. it's so fucking real. if i'd been eaten by a dragon i would 100% wear shirts like this too
as an aroace, im particularly dangerous, because i wont fuck or marry. i only know how to kill.
"The Egg Guy"
Source:
Which reminds me of this comic by Pocketss:
hey yall, i wanna post some public bus etiquette since there are always new riders on the bus who may not know this.
note: this is a public bus in michigan, usa, so if there are any differences anywhere else feel free to add on!
1: always have your bus fare or pass ready before boarding.
2: when boarding, make sure to let the passengers that are exiting off before you get on
3: let people with walkers, strollers, canes, wheelchairs, etc off and on the bus first. they need certain accessable seats and can need help on and off the bus, whether that be a helping hand or the ramp to be let down
4: let those on in the front of the bus off first if you are sitting in the back, especially if there is only one door available. it makes for an easier departure for those getting off the bus
5: often there is no eating, drinking, or smoking allowed on the bus. honor those rules unless there is an emergency where those rules would be broken. example: a diabetic having low bloodsugar
6: dont have phonecalls on speaker if you can help it. its just generally disruptive
7: most importantly, dont be a dick to the driver. theyre doing their job and are usually very nice and helpful. greet them when you get on and say or wave goodbye when you leave
Some additional bus manners for metro Boston:
8: Don't take the seats for elderly or disabled people if there are others available; if they're the only seats left and you're not elderly or disabled, give up your seat to those folks when they board the bus.
9. If you're able-bodied, offer your seat to anyone who's older, pregnant, disabled, or travelling with little children.
10. Take note of whether people use the back of the bus to get off instead of the front. This can speed up how long a bus has to stop.
11. Use the bell pull or push button to tell the bus driver you want to get off; if the stop is empty the bus driver might not stop there.
12. When you get on, ask the bus driver where your stop is if you're not sure. They will usually call it out for you so that you can take a seat, rather than needing to hang out at the front of the bus and impeding others' getting on quickly.
13. Take off big bags and put them at your feet if the bus is full and you have to stand, so you leave room for others to enter the bus and your bag doesn't hit other riders.
14. Don't put your bags on a seat so no one will sit next to you; everyone else has had or will have a long day, too.
15. Offer to help people with strollers, shopping carts, and big luggage to de-board the bus.
16. Check your transit authority's policies about animals, bicycles, scooters, and other big objects on the bus (and train). Some systems prohibit these, or limit the hours when you can bring them on board. Don't get left on the curb because you weren't planning ahead.
17. Don't distract the driver by trying to make small talk with them; they are manuevering an unwieldy and dangerous vehicle through unpredictable cars and people, and your attempt to be friendly could make things unsafe.
18. Bus rides can be long and sweaty and hot, but people's personal heat tolerances vary-- open the window if you need it, but listen to others' request to close or open the window too.
King
Happy anniversary to this post
im so happy i made all the correct choices that led to us meeting
its something like this i think
banned from the clock app for making too many alarms. you set too many alarms girl! banned from clock app.
thing that happened to famous singer-songwriter andrew hozier-byrne
I read somewhere, and believe it, that inkjet printers work on the modified Gillette razor principal: sell the initial product cheap and profit by selling the always-needed refill that keeps it working.
Except that - and here's where "modified" comes in - while safety razors will take any blade of the correct shape, printers can be DRM-chipped (looking at you, HP) to ignore anything but the manufacturer's own refills. Those can then be priced as that manufacturer pleases, and discount sources can do only so much to ease the sting.
They can also be chipped to stop working when one colour runs low, no matter the state of the others. (Looking at you again, HP). This can be annoying enough with individual colour cartridges; it's bloody infuriating if the four colours are in a single unit that has to be replaced en bloc before the damned thing starts working again.
We had one of those (guess what brand) and it didn't take much simple arithmetic to realise that it would take very few refills before we reached the price of a more expensive but much better device.
So we sold the HP and got a Brother mono laser 3-function for heavy work, and a cheap-ish Canon colour inkjet 3-function for everything else.
*****
Best move ever.
It cost about €130 more than a printer-only inkjet, was bought in April 2018, is only on its second toner cartridge (generic, not branded), works reliably on the house network and so can print from any device from PC to phone.
*****
For colour work @dduane has that non-network Canon, which continues to print well when required - cross fingers, spin three times and spit to foil the gremlins - probably because its 4 x individual-colour (we made sure of that) cartridge consumption is more balanced by doing only colour printing rather than heavy black-only use for docs.
*****
The Brother we got was DCP-L2530DW...
...which may be available at discount since it's been discontinued and replaced by DCP-L2660DW...
...though IMO this other current model, DCP-L2620DW...
...is better for home use.
The specs suggest it's a more direct replacement for our device, and that flat top is far less intrusive than the angled feed hopper (which also prevents use as, inevitably, a part-time shelf).
DD's Canon is Pixma MG2550S...
...and AFAIK is still current.
This info is provided for reference; we're not shilling for Brother or Canon, just passing on satisfied-customer opinions, so all of the above is IMO and YMMV
:->
hey good news
there's a specifically designated role in the naked mole rat ecology for "guy who runs off into the wilderness and fucks their way into a stranger's house"
Y'all have no idea how absurdly strange naked mole rats are as creatures They're cold-blooded mammals that live in a eusocial structure with a queen and drones, similar to ants, bees, termites and no other mammal on the planet. They barely need to breathe, with a respiration rate low enough to let them thrive in burrows with 2% oxygen, and survive with 0 oxygen whatsoever for about 20 minutes with zero lasting effects.
They live for over 30 years, which is absurdly long for a rodent, don't grow frail with age, and are basically immune to cancer because their telomeres just never shorten.
Naked Mole Rats are rodents that attempted to evolve into bugs, failed, and unlocked the secret to immortality in the process.
Shoutout to whoever it was who informed me a few weeks ago that some types of Zofran have stevia in them because I got to tell my doctor about it today, and he literally made this face behind his mask because he had no idea, and he is also stevia intolerant:
Me, rocking up for my annual physical and my bucketload of weird health problems: so anyway [drops some new medical lore here]
Dr. Brandon who has been hanging on for dear life to the rollercoaster that's been my health saga since he saved my life in 2019, sweating nervously as he yet again learns something new about himself against his will: exCUSE ME?
Thank you for the warning. I go to my doctor who handles my Zofran prescription next week, so I'll talk to her then.
I have a laundry list of medications I have to take already. The fact I have to specify which generic manufacturers I can use on over half of them is obnoxious.
I feel you. It's a pain in the ass, constantly having to check ingredients. Fwiw, I've got an old (empty) bottle that doesn't list it on the ingredients, but my latest batch from a different manufacturer does.
So, y'know, before anyone panics and throws their meds away, check the ingredients on your bottle. It just never occurred to me to check my new Rx until someone pointed it out, and I had a "mother fucker" moment of realization.
So, for those in the notes wondering how it's possible to have an intolerance or allergy to stevia, I hate to break it to you, but bodies can react to just about anything in weird and unpredictable ways.
However, one of the main reasons people may react badly to Stevia is that it is not artificial, as some people seem to think it is.
Stevia is actually a plant (Stevia Rebaudiana) in the Asteraceae/Compositae plant family, which just so happens to be the same plant family as Ragweed, y'know, that little bastard that makes hayfever season so fucking miserable.
There are other components of stevia that a person may react to, but given how common ragweed allergies are, I'd bet a number of people are also sensitive to stevia due to the overlap.
So there you go. That's your 'fun' little tidbit for the day from your weird Auntie Joy with too many allergies.
Everyone in the notes right now @ ragweed:
Very Silly Concept: a show called "Accessibility Nightmares" but it's structured exactly like Kitchen Nightmares. An accessibility specialist goes to different establishments and helps them make their businesses more accessible.
The accessibility specialist asks why the door at the top of the small set of stairs has a wheelchair symbol on it. The owner replies that's the accessible bathroom. The camera zooms in on the specialist as they process this information.
A customer with a service dog comes in to a restaurant. The hostess tells them they don't allow dogs. The accessibly specialist looks over at the hostess like
And there are web accessibility episodes too. The accessibility specialist stares at the white text on the light pink background of the home page like
The specialist asks why not a single product picture has alt text, and the business owner says "Well I mean, it's makeup, why would a blind person be shopping for makeup?" The specialist just
The specialist asks the web designer how a screen reader user is supposed to complete the captcha portion of the password reset process when there is no audio alternative. The designer admits they don't know.
#this post has 10k notes to me
When you left this tag three days ago, I thought "that's so sweet, but no. No way this concept is even close to that popular."
[ID: Four pictures of Gordon Ramsay in various states of confusion. /end ID]
This is it. This is my job. This is what I do for a living. I make those faces and then I tell my uncaring monitor exactly what is wrong with this website and what the site owner needs to do to fix it with all the fucks I can’t put in official work documents sprinkled liberally throughout.
And now I will be picturing Gordon Ramsey when I do it.
remember when u were like 11 and the only thing u wanted was a lava lamp
i feel so weird and ashamed and meditation is not fixing it
i feel so weird and
ashamed and meditation
is not fixing it
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
The fact that Microsoft Word has to be a subscription is upsetting. I already paid for it why do I have to pay again
Yes please be mad about it, genuinely- You used to be able to purchase a single disk to install it and use it forever after that initial purchase of one key. It sickens me to see all this stuff which used to be a one time purchase be shunted under a subscription now.
"Why is pirating going back up?!"
This. This is why. People don't mind paying a high price for software if it's only the once, or every 4-5 years.
But having to pay a high price regularly? Especially in the cases where you lose access to your own work if you don't?
That's why people are pirating software.
It’s possible to buy a non-subscription version of Word; Microsoft just intentionally makes it very difficult to find (and also expensive).
However, I know a guy who knows a guy website: MS Office Pro for $50. If the link starts going to a Page Not Found, just search the site; they usually have some form of this sale available.
Worth noting: while $50 is still more money than $yo-ho-ho, that money is a great way to make VERY clear to Microsoft that we DO want one-time-purchase products, not subscriptions.
My laptop just died. If it can't be fixed and I need to replace it, this post is gonna be a real life saver, because my family has been sharing an old version of Word that came with a limited number of lifetime licenses, and we're fresh out.
Get LibreOffice. It's fully compatible with MS Office, but it's free and open source. You're welcome. :-)