Guess who just signed up for two (2) more fandom bingos and revamped her bingo card page? Anyway feel free to send me an ask specifying a square and what I should write for it!
I recently got an on-campus job. During the interview process, I requested that I not be scheduled on Friday nights or Saturdays as I am a Jewish student.
My boss immeadiately brightened and rushed to explain - “Of course ! Of course! We want to accomodate you! We have another worker who takes off for Ramadan. Do you need to take off for Ramadan?”
I shook my head, incredibly confused. “Uh. That’s. Not my jurisdiction. I’m good.”
Boss nodded but was sure to add “Let me know if that ever changes. We can help you with Ramadan.”
I’m scheduled to work with him tomorrow morning so will find out then 🫡 .We’re both STEM majors who use the early empty hours to study so I will report if I get more than a grunt out of him about it.
another stupid-early morning, and between our respective course loads- him organic chemistry and me pathophysiology- I asked for the full story in how he got all of Ramadan off.
He sighed, and let me know that he did indeed try to explain to our manager that all he needed was to get shifts not around sunrise or sunset. But that in him explaining what Ramadan was, the plot very quickly got lost into this unhinged confusion where our boss was trying to google how people could survive an entire month without food or water.
So halfway through, he decided to pivot and go along with it, expecting less shifts in March because that’s a difficult academic time anyway. Then, he had to keep a straight face when the end-product was the entire time off with paid leave.
So, now, he’s in a hell partially of his own making where his boss genuinely believes he doesn’t eat for a month and is trying to offer all non-Christian workers March off.
I offered him time off for Hanukkah. He hit his head against the desk, and groaned.
wait, follow up question, what’s he going to do next year when it’s not in March anymore?
I was also wondering this, so I asked him this most recent shift together.
He paused, considered the question for a moment, then answered- “I’ll have to check my syllabus and decide then.”
You heard it here first- newest update to the Islamic Calender. Ramadan is dependent on Ahmed’s course-load.
(He saw this post on a Youtube short and was amused by it, so he doesn’t detest the weird tumblr coworker. He also only gets a quarter of his normal paycheck for the month, which is not terrible at all for vacation.)
(Also. My boss is still convinced I observe Ramadan.)
Happy Ramadan to Ahmed and his course load. The Muslim Jewish solidarity nobody could have predicted. 🤣
Trump is all like “Australians sell their beef to us, but they won’t buy any of ours 😡”
Which…. yeah? Of course???? Why would we import external beef from so far away when we produce more than enough to meet our own needs??
Not to mention that USA still has both mad cow disease and foot and mouth disease, but Australia doesn’t – AND America has increasingly lax commercial-level health and safety standards, meaning the risk of pathogens like MCD/F&M spreading through the US are significantly increased, and we don’t have either here in Australia, so of course we don’t want to import beef from a country that could conceivably spread the diseases to us???
But even aside from that. There are not that many Australians. But there are a lot of Americans. AND Australians eat an average of 23.4 kilos of beef per year but we produce 2.2 million tonnes. We produce WAY more beef than our population eats. So of course we don’t import much????? And of COURSE it’s not from America, which is both significantly further away than our current importers (primarily New Zealand and Japan), AND which has significantly lower health and safety regulations than we do????
Meanwhile, Americans average aprox 37 kilos of beef per person per year, but produces around 12.4 million tonnes. USAs population is 12 times larger than ours but only produces 5 times more beef than we do, AND consumes more per capita than we do. Of course USA imports large quantities of beef. Because their domestic production doesn’t meet their domestic demand. Meanwhile Australia’s production vastly outweighs our domestic demand, so of course we don’t import American beef?????
Thats…… that’s how imports and exports are supposed to work???? You export excess of what you have to someone who has less of it, and in turn, they export to you the produce/products that YOU don’t have. This is fucking basic??????????
“Waahhh, Australia won’t import American beef 😭😡” yeah???? Of course we don’t????????
PLUS!!!!! Overall, Australia imports 34 billion dollars worth of stuff from America per year. Meanwhile America only imports $16 billion from us.
Putting tariffs on a country that imports more from you than they export to you is uhhhhhhhhh, FUCKIN’ STUPID. If america tariff everything we send to them it’s on all of $16b worth of stuff. If we tariff everything of theirs then we’ll be slapping taxes on more than double what they can tax us.
Trump is such a fucking moron.
Does this man not understand that the point of trade is to swap what you have an excess of for what you don’t have enough of
Why would we export masses and masses of beef only to import large amounts of inferior quality beef from the same people we just sold beef to
Does he think the USA is exporting large quantities of oil to Saudi Arabia?
why aren’t Australians clamouring to receive such exotic US beef flavours as
my fav thing about white collar is how neal is like truly a one of a kind artist. like yes he does forgeries. but more importantly he’s GOOD at them. the best. but his original work… the chrysler building, his skyline in the sand, show how truly skilled he is. he isn’t just a forgerer. he can create beautiful pieces on his own that reflect his experience. i love that they continuously don’t downplay neal’s skills. he could’ve been a successful artist, if he wasn’t born poor or in grew up in WITSEC.
genuinely. he’s a very smart guy, lots of other things he could be too–such an important part of his relationship with peter, because that man sees the potential. don’t know if he’d have had those skillsets in other circumstances, but i’m always a huge fan of scenes where he’s super creative. like not just knowledge, he has really impressive skill, and he enjoys painting and sculpting. (he’s gleeful when others appreciate everything he does)
Tony’s Chocolonely Inc., a New York, New York Corporation, is voluntarily recalling seven lots of Tony’s brand Dark Almond Sea Salt Bar (6.35oz); and Everything Bar (6.35oz) because the product may contain small stones.
The products were distributed nationwide and sold in the United States via retail stores and www.tonyschocolonely.com; distribution of the products began February 7, 2025 and ended March 24, 2025.
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this recall only affects some lots of the dark almond sea salt bar and the everything bar, due to the rock problem. they were distributed nationwide in stores and on the internet. I included their pictures at the top.
I am not able to format a table for tumblr, so check that recall link for the specific lot codes and expiration dates.
The recall was initiated following 12 reports of consumers finding small stones in the product not filtered during third-party almond harvesting and the almond processing process. All complaints occurred outside of the United States and Canada, and no injuries were reported.
they found rocks after there were 12 reports that said hey. there are rocks in this. this can easily lead to dental problems if someone tries to bite full force on a rock and breaks a tooth or otherwise injures their mouth. dental infections can eventually become life-threatening even in people who are young and otherwise healthy. so it is a good thing nobody apparently ate the rocks yet. or at least, nobody got injured while potentially eating rocks. yet
If you have purchased one of the affected products with the specified lot codes and have not yet consumed it, you are advised not to eat the product. Please return the product to the store of purchase for a refund or replacement or dispose of the product. Please consult the following webpage to confirm how to identify the lot code and claim a refund or replacement in your market: https://us.tonyschocolonely.com/pages/recall-fo-intl-0325
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please do not the rocks. thank you
2025 had a record setting 157 food recalls in Q1 alone. Most are for listeria and salmonella, but sometimes they’re for rocks in your chocolate or wood in your Lean Cuisine Butternut Squash Ravioli.
Deregulation of food safety is so profitable for companies. You don’t get a refund when they admit whoopsies, your Alehouse Clam Chowder and Smoked Salmon Chowder are infected with Clostridium botulinum. They already have your money! It’s up to you to stay on top of the recalls and throw away everything that’s contaminated.
This isn’t just annoying - it’s lethal.
Every listeria and salmonella recall notice comes with a warning that X people have been hospitalized and Y people have died. That’s how they trace the listeria - by working backwards from known infections. Those numbers only reflect insured people whose doctors or the ER thought to check, so they don’t include the poor and uninsured. The real hospitalizations and deaths are so much higher.
If you’re poor, you’re not throwing away perfectly good food - especially if you got this food from a food pantry. You’d think the recalled foods would go in the trash, but last fall when cucumbers were lethal they were plentiful at food pantries. Same for the listeria broccoli and bagged salad mixes. I bet there will be surprise chocolate bar treats at pantries in the near future.
Groceries get a tax credit for all food donated to a pantry, regardless of whether it’s safe, so this is a win-win for them. They get it away from the paying customers and get social good credit for donating X pounds of food per year to the poor.
This is all due to food safety deregulation.
It doesn’t have to be this way. If you’re already calling or emailing your local reps and throwing a fit about Trump’s policies, add food safety to your rant. Let them know we remember when a food recall was shocking, and those are the Good Old Days we long for.
He wasn’t expecting it. Not here, not now, not ever again. The city was quiet in that peculiar way only Matt Murdock could hear — the usual drone of traffic dulled beneath the weight of a recent storm, neon signs buzzing softly in puddles, distant sirens echoing like ghosts. He walked alone, cane tapping in steady rhythm.
Then it stopped.
The cane clattered to the pavement, abandoned.
Because somewhere, just around the corner, he heard it — a heartbeat. That heartbeat. The one he’d memorized through late-night study sessions, courtroom whispers, rooftop confessions. Steady, a little fast, familiar in a way that knocked the air clean out of him.
No.
It couldn’t be.
But the second he heard a shaky, whispered: “Matty?”
Matt ran.
The world tunneled around him, senses narrowing to that voice, that pulse. He turned the corner like the street was a lifeline, like salvation waited just out of reach — and there he was.
Foggy.
Standing in the soft streetlight, alive, real, blinking like he couldn’t believe it either.
Matt crashed into him like a storm.
He slammed Foggy against the brick wall, not in violence but desperation — as if anchoring him there would keep him from vanishing again. His hands fisted in Foggy’s hoodie. Their chests collided. And before either of them could speak another word, Matt’s mouth was on his.
Foggy gasped against the kiss, then melted into it. Fingers slid up Matt’s back, clutching him just as tightly, just as breathlessly.
When they finally pulled apart, foreheads pressed together, Matt choked out, “I thought you were dead.”
“I was,” Foggy whispered. “But I found my way back.”
❤️🖤
I HAD SO MUCH FUN DRAWING THEM AHHHH. Also not me making me sad with my own art ahahah cries in gay
So Crawford won. Elon is, as far as I know, still being investigated for ~election crimes~ in Wisconsin. Canada is still investigating Tesla’s alleged fraud with rebates. Illinois just elected a bunch of Democrats for local offices. Louisiana rejected a bunch of Republican proposed changes to their state constitution. Cory Booker held the floor of the Senate for 25 hours, breaking the record of racist shitheel Strom Thurmond and in the process, listing out the sins of the Trump administration in the Senate records and delaying their vote for some other Trump asshole. And Speaker of the House Mike Johnson got embarrassed by House Republicans joining Dems in opposing him and threw a baby hissy fit and shut down the House for a week.
We didn’t get Florida. But look at all that up there.
Oh and tomorrow, Tesla has to share information about how many cars it actually delivered in the first three months of the year, which unless they fudge the books, is going to be a lower number than they would like, and might make their stock dip some more. Or just drop. Forbes has provided a little graph of their sales.
Edit: and oh shit! Mike Waltz fucked up again and got caught using fucking Gmail for work discussions. Gmail. Because Google never spied on anyone. (He has a government email address.)
never forget the universal rule of the order of things: People Will Not Read It
signs at stores? émail? menu ?? instruction ? post online ? caption with andswer to question ? group hand outs ??? street sign ??? no. The Written Word Is The Enemy
The ability to occasionally Read A Thing will make you a hero in your workplace, especially if it is for example an error message that tells you what you need to do differently, or instructions on unjamming a printer.
To those of us in the US, waking up to Senator Cory Booker from New Jersey currently filibustering in the Senate Chambers. This is a masterclass in using the US Government’s policies for potential change. He is filibustering against the current government’s actions. This is what a filibuster is supposed to be here for. Between back-and-forth questions with other senators and reading letters from Republican districts, people who won’t go see their constituents.
If he reaches the 24-hour mark, he will pass the historical marker of the longest filibuster, which was set in the 60s by Strom Thurmond, who was attempting to stop the Civil Rights Act.
You can watch his filibuster live on TikTok. He is trying to ensure the whole world can see what is happening in the US government and what the people actually want.
I feel like we need a refresher on Watsonian vs Doylist perspectives in media analysis. When you have a question about a piece of media - about a potential plot hole or error, about a dubious costuming decision, about a character suddenly acting out of character -
A Watsonian answer is one that positions itself within the fictional world.
A Doylist answer is one that positions itself within the real world.
Meaning: if Watson says something that isn’t true, one explanation is that Watson made a mistake. Another explanation is that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle made a mistake.
Watsonian explanations are implicitly charitable. You are implicitly buying into the notion that there is a good in-world reason for what you’re seeing on screen or on the page. (“The bunny girls in Final Fantasy wear lingerie all the time because they’re from a desert culture!”)
Doylist explanations are pragmatic. You are acknowledging that the fiction is shaped by real-world forces, like the creators’ personal taste, their biases, the pressures they might be under from managers or editors, or the limits of their expertise. (“The bunny girls in Final Fantasy wear lingerie because somebody thought they’d sell more units that way.”)
Watsonian explanations tend to be imaginative but naive. Seeking a Watsonian explanation for a problem within a narrative is inherently pleasure-seeking: you don’t want your suspension of disbelief to be broken, and you’re willing to put in the leg work to prevent it. Looking for a Watsonian answer can make for a fun game! But it can quickly stray into making excuses for lazy or biased storytelling, or cynical and greedy executives.
Doylist explanations are very often accurate, but they’re not much fun. They should supersede efforts to provide a Watsonian explanation where actual harm is being done: “This character is being depicted in a racist way because the creators have a racist bias.’” Or: “The lore changed because management fired all of the writers from last season because they didn’t want to pay then residuals.”
Doylism also runs the risk of becoming trite, when applied to lower stakes discrepancies. Yes, it’s possible that this character acted strangely in this episode because this episode had a different writer, but that isn’t interesting, and it terminates conversation.
I think a lot of conversations about media would go a lot more smoothly, and everyone would have a lot more fun, if people were just clearer about whether they are looking to engage in Watsonian or Doylist analysis. How many arguments could be prevented by just saying, “No, Doylist you’re probably right, but it’s more fun to imagine there’s a Watsonian reason for this, so that’s what I’m doing.” Or, “From a Watsonian POV that explanation makes sense, but I’m going with the Doylist view here because the creator’s intentions leave a bad taste in my mouth that I can’t ignore.”
Idk, just keep those terms in your pocket? And if you start to get mad at somebody for their analysis, take a second to see if what they’re saying makes more sense from the other side of the Watsonian/Doylist divide.
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