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Hey you know that really disturbing thing where you yawn and your salivary gland shoots a concentrated spray of saliva out of one of its horrid nozzles like you’re a venom spitting snake for some godawful reason
ask-oncies-jizz
this is the most distressing post ive ever read because not only have i never once seen or even heard of this but there are dozens of people in the notes reaffirming it with shit like “yeah i do that all the time” “i had a friend who could do this on command” what the real, genuine fucking fuck
you gotta open your mouth reallly wide before you yawn and then yawn
you gotta open
your mouth reallly wide before
you yawn and then yawn
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Oh yeah, this! It has a name, did you know? “Gleeking.” The web page at Health.com explains it in detail, and gives directions for how to do it.
Interestingly, the word also has other meanings, dating back to the 1500s. It was both a card game, and a joke, trick, gibe or mockery performed at another’s expense. I blame E. R. Eddison for making me look this up, long ages of the world ago, when somewhere in The Worm Ouroboros he describes two characters spoiling for fight as “galling and gleeking” at one another.
…Unfortunately the OED sheds no light on how the word later got itself attached to the salivary exploit. A tiny mystery for another day.
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My boyfriend's professor doesn't believe I exist, so I sent this email
And his professor responded with this
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Shearing half a sheep seemed a simple way to show a season's growth of wool, but photographer Cary Wolinsky was wrong. The half-shorn sheep tended to lose their balance and topple to wool-ward. It took many tries before merino sheep number 30 “became our hero," Wolinsky said.
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I went digging to find the source for this precious animal, and tracked it down to tttttmaggie on little red book/xiaohongshu. What a cat of all time!
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People love to go “ in the Soviet Union they picked your job for you 😭” yeah cunt that’s what we’re doin now too except they make you bark like a dog for three weeks straight first getting denied everywhere you wanna work until you end up somewhere you dont like anyway. Let’s just cut out that middle man why don’t we
Forgot what website I’m on
HOW did you forget what website you're on, catgirlforeskin?
It’s been a long day.
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An incomplete list of things that employers commonly threaten that are 100% illegal in the United States
- "We'll fire you if you tell others how much you're making" The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 specifically protects employees who discuss their own wages with each other (you can't reveal someone else's wages if you were given that information in the course of work, but you can always discuss your own or any that were revealed to you outside of work duties)
- "If we can't fire you for [discussing wages/seeking reasonable accommodation/filing a discrimination complaint/etc], we'll just fire you for something else the next day." This is called pretextual termination, and it offers your employer almost no protection; if you are terminated shortly after taking a protected action such as wage discussion, complaints to regulatory agencies, or seeking a reasonable accommodation, you can force the burden onto your employer to prove that the termination wasn't retaliatory.
- "Disparaging the company on social media is grounds for termination" Your right to discuss workplace conditions, compensation, and collective action carries over to online spaces, even public ones. If your employer says you aren't allowed to disparage the company online or discuss it at all, their social media policy is illegal. However, they can forbid releasing information that they're obligated to keep confidential such as personnel records, business plans, and customer information, so exercise care.
- "If you unionize, we'll just shut this branch down and lay everyone off" Threatening to take action against a group that unionizes is illegal, full stop. If a company were to actually shut down a branch for unionizing, they would be fined very heavily by the NLRB and be opening themselves up to a class-action lawsuit by the former employees.
- "We can have any rule we want, it's only illegal if we actually enforce it" Any workplace policy or rule that has a "chilling effect" on employees' willingness to exercise their rights is illegal, even if the employer never follows through on any of their threats.
- "If you [protected action], we'll make sure you never work in this industry/city/etc again." Blacklisting of any kind is illegal in half the states in the US, and deliberately sabotaging someone's job search in retaliation for a protected action is illegal everywhere in the US.
- "Step out of line and you can kiss your retirement fund/last paycheck goodbye." Your employer can never refuse to give you your paycheck, even if you've been fired. Nor can they keep money that you invested in a retirement savings account, and they can only claw back the money they invested in the retirement account under very specific circumstances.
- "We'll deny that you ever worked here" not actually possible unless they haven't been paying their share of employment taxes or forwarding your withheld tax to the government (in which case they're guilty of far more serious crimes, and you might stand to gain something by turning them in to the IRS.) The records of your employment exist in state and federal tax data, and short of a heist that would put Oceans 11 to shame, there's nothing they can do about that.
Reblogging for US followers.
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I made an Angel Generator last night! I'm currently working on a better one (and an eventual demon generator tbh) but I thought it'd be fun to share the old version! And also that I'd get a kick out of seeing peoples' interpretations of their angels.
It assigns a body type, size and what its skin is made out of, among other things. Also (somewhat) custom palettes! I picked every fucking shade myself and painstakingly pasted their hexcodes into this thang. Enjoy!
Did a rough rendition of the guy I got for fun. I could elaborate on this design later but I have a lot to do this week lmao
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"This fic was ai generated—" Cool, so lemme block you real quick
i immediately thought of this
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queerly-tony
This is the best description I’ve heard for this method, I always thought it was bullshit because I never heard a description that actually explained how to do this other than “tap your head 20 times”.
I have anxiety-induced hissing, which sounds/feels different from sound-induced tinnitus (which I have also experience). Sound-based tinnitus actually sounds like you’re “hearing” something in your ears, whilst the hissing I have feels like it’s “inside my head”, if that makes sense. But this technique still helps!!
Here’s a visual I found because I couldn’t understand the instructions well
My ringing just went away for the first time in years. What is this blissful quiet.
wait wait i gotta try this, i don’t think i’ve had Actual Silence since i was like 5
HOW THE FUCK
Reblogging to save a life, and also because, even if you don’t have tinnitus, this is totally worth trying if you like new sensory experiences.
Just showed this to my dad, and in his words, “The cicadas are still there, but the train is gone.”
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When I talk about the value of work vs. the wages the worker gets, this is exactly what I’m talking about. And today, more of that value winds up going to the shareholders than even the business owners.
yeah okay ill reblog that >:(
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Reminder, since we're entering slush season and a lot of people are buying them now: door mats that say "welcome," "come on in" or similar messages count as invitations to both the fey and vampires.
Door mats that say "Smith Household" etc are safe if you live near vampires, but may count as giving your name out to the fey. Don't risk it.
Door mats with neutral images or text are fine, but make sure it's actually neutral. It turns out all those cheeky d20 mats that say 'roll for initiative' not only count as an invitation but an invitation to fight.
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Every time I see this I lose my marbles I love it so much. "For some reason I yelled who is in here as I was falling" is the point where my soul leaves my body. God I love.
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@coruscanttojerusalem this. this is it.
“Sky too big” also gets you on the tops of very tall, sharp mountains, where standing at the top means everything around you except the snow under your feet is blue sky.
Y’all’re joking, but I remember the agoraphobia I had the very first time I spent time in prairie states. There was this terror inside of nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. It went away when I flew back to the East coast.
It was there the 2nd time too, but not quite as strongly.
Even TALKING about it now makes me feel anxious.
Laugh all you want, but when you’re used to driving a few hours and hitting ocean, and an hour and hitting mountains, being surrounded by nothing but flat and Flat and FLAT and knowing that’s all there is for hundreds of miles does things to ya.
Not even slightly joking, though. Flat places give me the horrors. At least when you go up a mountain, you went to see the sky void, and you can hike right back down and hide from it in a nice valley somewhere. Safe little critter under the nice tall trees.
Out in the Flat Places* there’s nowhere to goddam hide from the sky. It’s all nothingness from horizon to horizon, and that nothingness wants to grind you under its boot like an ant, I swear to god.
*Flat Places may vary person by person, but I absolutely am including low hill country because I think it makes it worse. You look at the hills and expect to see mountains but none appears!
I don't know how you cannot love this view.
Donbas steppe
Truly, at no point would I ever say that such a landscape is not beautiful. I’m not dead to the poetry of these scenes.
But, simultaneously (and that’s the crazy part), the sky triggers my threat response.
And I know friends from plains/field/steppe-country who find it stressful to have mountains “looming” over them (their words, never mine).
Them: comforting wide horizons, I could see any threat coming. Me: I am exposed, I will fall into the sky :(
Me: comforting mountains, sheltering me in the valley. Them: these big rocks will fall on me :(
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She's looking out for you. Don't kill yourself for a company that defines you as an asset
it’s times like this I like to think of the wise words of Dis Stinko Uno Pinko, the Weed Lube Guy
CW: death
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hey does anyone have tips on not fucking up with the stardew valley fishing minigame? I've lost every fish I've ever hooked except the first one at this point
- tap-tap-tap-tap, you basically never click and hold
- when you first start out just ignore any fish that jump all over the place, you can't catch them yet and they'll only waste your time so let 'em go
- higher fishing level and better rods all make the bar bigger (as well as bobbers once you get there), in the beginning eating +fishing foods helps a lot
- figure out where the crappiest fish are for your season and fish there at first because they're the easiest to catch
- if you want to grind tediously just fish in your farm pond and you'll get nothing but trash, which gets xp while skipping the minigame
- sometimes shaking trees or opening mystery boxes will get you a fishing xp book
- there's a bobber that says it will stick closer to the fish but never waste your time with that one, it will make your life harder actually because now suddenly the bar moves Wrong. i was tricked by this bobber once and am still mad about it all these years later. YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO HELP ME.