one important thing that Must be understood about interpersonal relationships is that you have to stop interacting with people who love you like they’re one slip-up away from leaving you. you have to trust that the ppl you love mean what they say. you have to believe that when they say “this hurt my feelings,” that they’re also saying, “can you please love me this other way next time?” and you have to wrap your head around the fact that even if you don’t understand Why someone loves you, you can accept that that they do. true, honest, & open love does not function like hp in a video game !!!!!!
i think instead of a express or self check out they should have pain in the ass lines. if you wanna do some pain in the ass shit like ask for a discount on a nondiscounted item or try to use six gift cards all with like 1.29 on them then you have to go thru the pain in the ass line. if you try to pull some pain in the ass bullshit in the regular line they void the transaction and put all your stuff back. if you want it you have to reshop. make you learn real fast not to be a pain in the ass.
[Image ID: Text reading: my social circles are so queer and neurodivergent that I forget we are in the minority and then suddenly I’m in a room with a bunch of people sitting correctly make regular eye contact and not interrupting each other and I’m like “hahahaha what the fuck is wrong with them” /End ID]
AJSJJDKSJD THE QUILTING SHOW MY GMA WANTS TO GO TO HAS A “FREE TICKET FOR UNDER 30s” IM!!!!! that’s SO funny ?? They wanna encourage young ppl SO much to get into quilting
what i imagine the quilting convention back room looks like
this is happening tmrw im soooo excited!!! my gma is bringing her walking stick for age related reasons but also so she can quote “knock those old ladies OUT of my way”
y’all it was so much fun, there were so many Incredible quilts there, i had an awesome time. here are some photos i took of the quilts, forgive me for how crooked most of them are, i took them v quickly bc my gma was getting tired
i wanna shout out this last one—ITS ALL THREAD PAINTING. THE WHOLE THING. it’s. i should have got a close up of it but it’s all thread painted it’s so so cool
& yet MORE quilts…
i wanna shout out the top picture — the skull quilt was so cool first of all & it’s ALSO the artists FIRST QUILT??? it was so incredibly cool & detailed I rly loved it. i also wanna point out the last quilt here, all of these flowers are applique & i had so much trouble keeping from TOUCHING it (which ur not allowed to do ofc). it was so gorgeous. the close up square above it is from the same quilt. just wow!
This is Simon Cowell! (No, not that one). He created the Wildlife Aid Foundation, which is based in Surrey, London. He was unfortunately diagnosed with a terminal cancer last year, and now seeks to make sure his work continues after he’s gone.
If you’d like to learn more about them, their Youtube channel is here, and their main site, including info about the fundraiser, is over here!
I had this work friend at my previous job who was gay. Lovely kid, from a kind of traditional family.
He hadn’t told anyone he was gay, because he was scared of being judged. But… thanks to the resident lesbian, he was outed to everyone without his knowledge because she clocked him and asked everyone about it while he was off work.
Everyone then put the clues they’d noticed on their own together rather than what they were doing beforehand, that being remaining blissfully and politely unaware of how his variety of behaviours linked back to him being gay.
Had I already clocked him? Absolutely. But I should not have been told about him, before he chose to come out to me.
This pride month, remember that even in the most accepting of environments, even if you personally feel comfortable being out where you are, that doesnt mean someone else around you is too. Do not assume that someone is comfortable with everyone knowing, or that everyone knows.
Because we might not have known. That person might not have told us yet. We might have been politely ignoring the signs because we didn’t want to assume.
It’s not your place to tell everyone someone else’s business.
Pro tip:
You do not out queer people, no matter who they are or what they did.
“But what if…”
Do I have to tap the fucking sign?
You do not out queer people, no matter who they are or what they did.
You do not out queer
people, no matter who they
are or what they did.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Imagine you’re 400 kilometres above the ground, hurtling along at eight kilometres per second, you get a short break from your strict work schedule to call up your wife who you haven’t seen for months, and she hangs up on you.
Chris Hadfield: Tell my wife I love her very much…
Cloth mother & wire mother is the best lesbian couple Halloween costume idea in the world
I saw this for the first time in early October last year when my daughter was less than a month old but my partner who was still recovering from childbirth gave a pretty unambiguous no on this one. We would have ate
I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.
My friend quit, and I’ve not given them a dime of my money since then.
Do not give to the Salvation Army.
Do Not. Give. To. Salvation. Army
My turn.
I’m a wildfire and disaster logistics specialist.
I deal with a lot of agencies who provide disaster relief.
I used to say the Salvation Army’s disaster services were the one (literally the ONE) good thing they did.
They would come in, set up a canteen trailer, make and pass out hot coffee and donated food in a disaster, usually being one of the first agencies to get there and the last to leave.
Then I found out.
Every time they did this, regardless of if they were actually invited or deployed by the agency in charge (usually FEMA, sometimes others) they would SELF-DEPLOY. Meanjng they would just show up. Ok. That’s not TOO bad, sometimes agencies have to take initiative and get there before the red tape is sorted out. BUT. They, after they left at the end of the incident, they would send FEMA or the host agency a BILL. They used one or two paid employees (usually the driver of the truck and a supervisor); and many VOLUNTEERS, but they would bill for EVERYONE’s Labor at standard federal rates. They would bill for the food they distributed even though it was all donated by another agency or private parties. They would bill for the coffee they made and the supplies. Except they would use electricity from the shelter location, water from donations or from the shelter, and in many cases, they would get the coffee and industrial filters DONATED, but bill for them at retail prices.
Don’t FUCKING give to the Salvation Army.
The Salvation Army is also ass to the workers. A good number of people join it, naively thinking that it’s doing good, and end up leaving cynical and beaten down. The management is hostile, if not outright abusive, and demand some ridiculous hours of it lower to mid-level staff. Don’t support these people.
Unsettling update
Find better local charities and shelters and give to them instead!
An offshoot of a squad of British rappers known for the novelty of being old white dudes, but who spit fierce bars and have the rough and tumble lives to back up their lyrics, the Northern Boys are like… the feeling of the now, in a nutshell. Partying, doing drugs, drinking, but with explicit declaration that it’s a poor coverup for depression, failed relationships, and the knowledge that it’s all going to end very badly. They’re also refreshingly equitable about queerness and transness.
Their most famous track is “Party Time” and it has the chorus “It’s party time, get your drugs out/Do you wanna make love to a sad old man?”
parents got a new cat they named lord montague and this morning i heard my dad in the other room say “i would have to advise against that decision, my lord” followed by a crashing sound
Japan's hilarious Jimi Halloween (jimi means "mundane") event is where participants dress up in "costumes" that illustrate boring everyday situations. There's a list of these on Twitter, and below are some of our faves from this year:
Person who was headed out but forgot something inside the home, is too lazy to take their shoes off so crawls back inside to retrieve it
Person trying to photograph something shiny but the reflection is preventing a good shot, so they improvise a way to block the light
Person who looks like they will be getting off at the next stop, meaning their seat will be available
Considerate boyfriend
Cashier forced to wear holiday-specific partial costume
Girl who is on the poster for "My Neighbor Totoro" but who never actually appears in the movie
Person who tries to reach for subway handle without taking eyes off their phone and misses
The person who has to hold the ribbons and scissors at ribbon-cutting ceremonies
Office worker responding to an emergency
Guy reading in bed who accidentally drops his smartphone on his face
Person who traveled to period costume event but forgot the wig
Person who wants to photograph their pets, but cannot reach their phone without disturbing the pets and thus ruining the shot
Person who gets their sleeve caught on the doorknob
Guy who missed the last train of the night
Person who makes it easy for restaurant workers to clean up
Person sitting in an aisle seat who is trying to see Mt. Fuji after hearing the captain's announcement
Person trying on eyeglass frames in a store but their vision is so poor they can't see what they look like in the mirror
Person who mis-poured the beer and must wait for the bubbles to go down
A parent trying to play Mario Kart
Politician who has been instructed not to tell the truth by his party, and his mind goes blank in the middle of the press conference as he realizes that the BS answers he's giving sound strange even to him
When the store clerk seems busy and hasn't gotten to you, so you pretend to be doing something on your smartphone so as not to put pressure on them
