I need this.

Reblogged last year, hoping it comes this year

How we weigh an octopus!

Herding cats is like putting the octopus in the basket.

Husband has discovered you can mail Kraft singles so he sent these out

I made him write “do not eat” because they are not shelf stable. I also decided this was a him-project and if he gets arrested by the USPS Cheese Crimes Council I’m not part of it but if it goes over well I’ll jump in and claim partial credit.

Here is what he took to the post office:

They began arriving this week. Here is our thread with my MIL. (She’s Blue, my husband is Red)

She is amazing. I did not think she’d actually tape it to the Xmas card wall! (Later in Dec that whole wall will be covered in cards.) How long do we think that will last before their dog figures out how to get to it?

Cheese is so far a hit with everyone and has arrived safely at multiple houses. I take back all my criticism and I’m now claiming to be a full partner in Operation Hand-Krafted Card.

@laid-back-at-lunchtime’s card got commentary from the mail lady?! Very glad she found it funny and doesn’t hate us. I was actually kinda worried we were gonna ruin the postal services’ day so this made us very happy.

The last text is sending me. 😂

doomed by the narrative and haunted by the narrative and a secret third thing (narrating the narrative)

YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON I RESPECT

This will go amazing with my bathtub that is just full of eyeballs

it doesn't even have canines

blood being frequently described as having a "coppery smell" in fiction is kind of funny considering that there is a metallic component to blood and it's not copper

in fact if your blood smells or tastes like copper you probably have more urgent things to worry about than it being outside your body. it's probably better that it's not inside you anymore actually.

story where blood is described as smelling or tasting "coppery" and it's actually early foreshadowing that all the characters are suffering from heavy metal poisoning

One of my favourite things is to collect photos of David Tennant in group pics looking like his arms are too long

RUSSELL T DAVIES SAW THIS TUMBLR POST AND MADE IT THE PLOT OF A DOCTOR WHO EPISODE

i realized this was also lost in the fall of the CH website so

since it’s That Time of Year again, i’m just gonna bring back my Every Christmas TV Rom-Com comic

I made the first page so long ago but hey, I finished.

Part two

also! Prada has blue sweats.

blue prada-

vector ass lookin mfer

He gets that vector ass from Pilates

dc comics heritage post

I love social media

I see this headline:

As a former cakewrecks lover, I figured sure, I’ll bite. Let’s see this cake. Literally nothing could have prepared me for this cake. 

They paid $49 for this “frog-themed” cake and honestly no amount of money in the world could be put on this masterpiece:

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i think it is unjust to deny a child their right to dig a hole motivelessly

Tell me a soft memory

My oldest brother is 10 years older than me.

When I was in first grade, he took me shopping for new school clothes — which was huge because, as the youngest of six kids, I lived in hand-me-downs.

He bought me a little navy blue, polka dot dress with a Peter Pan collar and red alphabet buttons. But, on picture day, I lost one of the buttons on the playground. I had a total meltdown because my brother spent his own money to make sure I had this new dress and I ruined it. I was a mess, totally inconsolable.

My teacher was also the mom of one of my brother’s best friends. She told him, and he, my brother and the entire football team searched the playground after practice for my lost button. Which they actually found.

My brother sewed the button back on himself in the car all while trying to explain that he wouldn’t have been mad even if I did lose it.

It was just a button and a dress.

But I did have one of those little red alphabet buttons sewn into my wedding dress.

that last line got me to tears, sobbing

Ohhh Musk has no idea how badly he's fucked up

Tesla Faces its First Ever Strike after Refusing to Negotiate with Swedish Union

Sweden has one of the highest rates of unionization out of the Nordics (which have the highest rates of unionization globally alongside Cuba and Vietnam) and the thing about that is you get sympathy strikes:

There's already talk of launching similar strikes here in Norway if the Swedes aren't heard. For an idea of what happens if they keep this up, let's look at the time McDonald's tried these kinds of tactics:

Or Toys R Us:

Tesla's presence in the country is limited compared to those, but I think it's fair to say their choice is going to be between pulling out or caving to their demands, because these kinds of threats to union power are not tolerated.

If you've seen news declaring the strike was called off and that the workers are all happy with their jobs: It's misinfo, those are scabs, the strike is on and it could very well break Tesla's resistance to unionization and trigger a domino effect in other countries if the Swedes win out.

It's confirmed, Tesla is doubling down and the strikes are ramping up!!

The import blockade began in select cities today, and Tesla has already tired to get around it. The unions have responded by extending the blockade to every port in the country, with further measures in the works if Musk refuses to budge.

With Musk controlling Twitter/X now, discussions about it on there are predictably filled with trolls and detractors. The workers at Tesla could all be tremendously happy with their jobs and it would not change the fact that this is an attack on the entire labour model that gives other workers decent conditions. This is not just about Tesla, it's about preventing it from setting a precedent for other employers.

IF Metall have asked people to talk about this on social media, particularly on X, to counteract Musk's army of trolls and build awareness and support for the strikes, so please do if you can. Here's an up-to-date (Nov 7th) article in English which you can share:

Talk about it! Post about it! (Be more concise than me about it!) The hate they're getting from Musk's shills on X right now is insane.

The Muppets as Goncharov (1973)

the only goncharov remake I want is a muppets version

[Image description: Gifs of the muppets with edited captions.

1 - Kermit, wearing a suit, says, "Yes, I am Goncharov."

2 - Several ticking clocks on a wall

3 - Miss Piggy and Kermit kiss, while Miss Piggy says, "Of course, we're in love; that's why I tried to shoot you."]

Well. There is a trailer.

holy SHIT

Ooo okay, I really wanted to know what the source of this was and it’s Additude magazine, a 2021 last-updated-in-2021 article here titled Why Anxiety Disorder Is So Often Misdiagnosed.

I know I vibed with this quote and saw others do so in the tags so I thought a source would be helpful.

@copperbadge this seems like it may be relevant to your experience.

Yeah, it’s interesting, I did write a response to this the first time I saw it on my dash, but then I looked at what I wrote and it felt both incoherent and unhelpful so I deleted the draft without posting. Maybe I can be more useful now that I’ve thought about it.

For context for readership generally: I received a diagnosis of ADHD and Anxiety simultaneously. I didn’t know they were assessing for anxiety, I disagreed with the anxiety diagnosis, the writeup of that portion of my assessment turned out to contain a number of factual errors, and my prescribing psychiatrist disagreed with it as well, so I’m not being treated for it.

The thing I came up against in reading this was that I got to this point:

A clinician should say, “Tell me more about your baseless, apprehensive fear,” which is the definition of anxiety. More times than not, a person with ADHD hyperarousal will give a quizzical look and respond,

And my automatic assumption was that the response would be what my response is, which is “It’s not baseless.”

It startled me to read the actual response of “I’m not afraid”. It never occurred to me to say that when I’m worried about something I’m not afraid. Of course I’m afraid. The world is extremely uncertain and our lives are all a lot more precarious than most people like to think about. There’s a fuckload to fear in this life. I honestly have spent decades baffled by shit other people don’t fear when they absolutely should.

So in the original response I wrote to this post I was like “Well, of course I’m afraid, that is a rational response to a lot of the shit that happens to me.” But that’s basically the second paragraph, so I didn’t feel like I was adding anything in particular by saying “Well….yeah.”

I dunno, having written all that I still don’t feel that I’m contributing anything meaningful, but I guess I can just talk about stuff and sometimes people find their own meaning in it. But yeah, it’s nice to see it explicated like that.

“you don’t like the proliferation of terms like Unalive outside of TikTok because you realize that you’re aging out of youth culture and it makes you uncomfortable!”

no I don’t like it because there’s something INCREDIBLY dystopian about being forced to soften terms for basic parts of the human experience like death and sex (and even more so terms for oppressed minorities- call me a “le-dollar sign-bian” and I will bite you) purely because advertisers and corporations demand it