oh shit we survived

the moment of realization

i really thought all the art of Kabru wanting to kill Laios was like haha funny exaggeration, but wow yeah he really thinks about killing Laios. outstanding

If a worker who isn't the owner says ANYTHING similar to "I'm not really supposed to do this but-" and then does something that helps you, under no circumstances inform the business, including through reviews. You tell them that the worker was polite, professional, the very model of customer service and why you like to go there. You do not breathe a word of the rulebreaking.

Employee-customer solidarity

Even if they don't- Your review can be the thing that wrecks someone up accidentally;

"Janie was so helpful when I wanted to buy a new washing machine on Friday, she stayed with me for half an hour and wasn't pushy at all, we had a good laugh about our cats' silly antics and she got Adam and Suzy to carry it to the car for me- 10/10 excellent service, I'd come back any day!"

-But Management has a policy that workers should spend no more than 10 focused minutes on any customer at a time, and that they should always try to upsell the insurance and the higher price model, so Janie was breaking policy.

-And they aren't supposed to have their phones on the sales floor, so now Janie is going to be quizzed on whether she was showing photos of her cat to a customer.

-Adam is a warehouse worker and shouldn't have been in the front-of-house at all, Suzy is a porter, and store policy is both to use a trolley to move heavy items, and that only the porters should do it, so now Janie is in trouble for pulling Adam off-task, Adam is in trouble for walking through the shop floor, and Suzy is in trouble for poor handling procedure. Maybe the store even has a paid delivery service that Janie was supposed to upsell as soon as you said "I can't put this in my car without help", so this was all against policy.

Your review should always be as bland as possible, "10/10, five star service, will shop here again, thank you to Janie at the Town Street branch" You NEVER know what was technically a rule-break, capitalism is not your friend, the review process is part of the panopticon.

FIVE STARS, TEN OUT OF TEN, VERY GOOD, NOTHING MORE.

we’re cleaning out our book collection and my dad REFUSES to throw out the like 2005 toronto public school poetry anthology that has my fucking, sasunaru fanart as the cover and i’m going to pass out

in case anyone thought i wasn’t legit this is it. my teacher submitted this as an entry for the cover competition without telling me and it won and i had to go to the fucking schoolboard wide award show about it and shitty emo 10 year old me had to get up on stage while everyone clapped while this was projected behind me at a massive scale and none of the adults knew it was a fucking naruto thing but all my peers absolutely did. my father owns two copies and i think it’s the thing ive done that he’s the most proud of me for and it haunts me every day of my life

two enamel pins are back in pre-order at greerstothers.shop

I have an end-of-life patient to whom I spoke today. She burst out laughing and said, "It was all such fun. I just had so much fun." I wish this for everyone. I wish that we each would meet death laughing, with little regret and even less fear.

It makes me smile every time I see someone reblog this post with commentary about how it made them happy or changed how they look at life and death. This little old lady had no idea how much warmth and comfort she brought to thousands.

Ohhh my God, the current VA for Foghorn Leghorn actually dubbed it.

graph of what being hungry is like with adhd

Dude..

I forget I need food to survive..

I can't even tell you how many times I skipped breakfast, lunch and then I get hit with hunger..

I swear...

Nina Dul

Scars on your forearm show that once when you were twenty you got an infected cut while driving with your girlfriend through the Yukon Territory and your arm swelled up like an inflated balloon and you didn't know where to even begin trying to find a hospital or clinic so you stopped at a random house that had a red cross outside of it and the lady who lived there turned out to be a nurse and drove you to the doctor's office where the doctor was like "we gotta drain this but I don't have any anesthesia" so he told you to ball your shirt up and bite down on it while he cut you open and he drained an astonishing amount of fluid from your arm then stitched it up with a single stitch and charged you five canadian dollars for the entire affair.

Scars on your forehead show that once when you were, like, five or something you decided it would be fun to close your eyes and walk around like The Mummy/Frankenstein and bashed your head open on the corner of the wall by the furnace and your mom had to take you to the hospital but, hey, you got a new Transformer out of it y'know, so, win?

They are working on her! My bathroom! Soon (about 2 weeks) she will be Beautiful.

They took away all her insides

Freshly peeled bathroom

Yeah they took away the little wall surrounding it. So my guess is the plumbers were waiting for that and will take the bath with them next time. If they don't I'll ask about it.

It's not surprising they left the bath, it wouldn't be a bathroom without it.

They took the bath. Now she is just a Room.

Her skin is back!

My ability to take photos in these lighting conditions is not.

They appear to have concreted over the shower drain, which doesn't seem right to me, but I am choosing to trust the process.

She is starting to look like a bathroom again! Also, they have rediscovered the drain.

Recognisably a bathroom!

Still waiting on: painting, shower screen, hanging of cabinet (delayed until after painting, for waterproofing reasons). I have been informed that the shower screen might be a Long Wait since apparently there's some issue with the glass supply pipeline.

Show us the glass when it does arrive - my dad works in a glass factory and he has Opinions

(He actually started shit talking the faculty at my university when he visited during exam season because the windows were single glazed and to his Glass Expert Eyes poorly put together)

He's gonna hate it because this is a budget build and they're trying to push through a supply shortage so it's gonna be just the worst quality. Your dad is gonna be so mad.

#this is a soap opera to me#need updates

Update is that painter has not contacted me which is a problem since I really need this done by next Friday (in 7 days)

The problem with gardening is that you'll be filling up a water trough for the chickens and you'll see that big dangerous dead tree you need to get cut down and you'll think 'I wonder if the tree guys will let me keep the wood, I can use it for those hugelkultur beds I've been meaning to set up on the slope out there" and "oh I need to plan that carefully to direct the water flow because I've been meaning to build a channel out there to direct water away and stop it from flooding the house every winter, maybe I can use the beds to help channel the water" and "where should I put the pond? Maybe I can use them to build a deep swale and see if that holds water year-round instead and save money on the pond?" and before you know it you've been standing stock still in your yard for fifteen minutes mentally planning water channels and you don't know how long your water trough has been overflowing for

Also you forgot to make that cup of tea because you caught sight of a chicken on the way to the kettle and that reminded you that the water trough needed cleaning in the first place

The tree guys will probably be happy for you to save them the effort of hauling away the wood, unless it’s good enough to be worth money as lumber

I think they woodchip it up usually. The area I'm in already has a thriving pine industry so I don't think there's much of a market for second-hand random yard wood as anything but wood chips.

I need to talk with the twisted freaks on fragrance reddit so I can figure out how to smell exactly like this tea I just got

That would only work short term though I need it to be in my hair at all times always

The twisted freaks on reddit seem to suggest infusions with tea doesn't tend to work very well or last nearly as long as anyone expects. I will post and see if the other ingredients might leave a worthwhile impression in some kinda oil....

dude.

i knew a surgeon and he once told me “nobodys insides look like how the textbooks say they will. you never know what you’re going to find in there once you open them up” and that was easily the most ominous thing anyone’s ever said to me

when i was taking my first year anatomy lab, we’d occasionally find a cadaver where things would branch off or attach in the wrong order, and when we’d ask our prof about it, he’d just shrug and say “they must not have read the book”

When my friend was in med school one of the cadavers donated for them to autopsy didn't have a belly button, just smooth skin.

In the past 10 years of teaching in an anatomy lab, I have seen:

- A donor with a scrotum the size of my head. When we opened it up, we discovered it was a MASSIVE inguinal hernia and a good 1.5 ft of intestine were trapped down there.

- A donor with situs inversus totalis, whose organs were a mirror image of what we normally see (ie their heart pointed right and their liver was on the left, just for starters)

- A donor whose right common carotid artery branched off the aorta waaay over on the left hand side of the body and crossed alllll the way back across the thorax to get where it needed to be.

- A donor with 4 lobes for their right lung (should only be 3). We named the 4th lobe the Lisa Loeb, but all of the students were too young to appreciate our sparkling wit.

- A shocking variety of penile and breast implants. Y'all would not believe the number of different ways science has come up to counteract gravity.

- A couple of cases of ectopic kidneys, where a kidney didn't rise to its typical position just deep to the lowest ribs and instead stayed in the pelvis.

There is probably some other stuff that I am forgetting. Take home point is: the human body is weird and wonderful and you should learn more about yours!

....duuude.

Spleens Georg

Transcript:

I’m about to expose the men. Whenever you ask a man’s height, he’ll add an inch. So if he’s 6 foot, he’ll say he’s 6’1 and if he’s 6’2, he’ll say he’s 6’3.

Not me though. I subtract 4. I say I’m 5’9. Especially when there’s other men in the room. And then I just watch them panic. Not only have you exposed his lie, but now he thinks he’s 5’3.

What I do is not a crime, but it should be.

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

Incredible footage of a Octopus imitating a moray eel | source