Work vacuum died. This is the fifth one since I started working here five years ago.

The first one died because my coworker vacuumed up rocks.

The second one died because my coworker vacuumed up rocks.

The third one died because my coworker vacuumed up rocks.

The fourth one died for unknown reasons that involved my coworker vacuuming up rocks.

The fifth one died a few minutes ago and it was a big mystery and my coworker was like “oh I don’t know what happened it just overtaxed for some reason” so I looked inside the hose and—get this—it was jammed with rocks.

He keeps buying bigger and more expensive vacuums and complaining about how shitty and faulty the last ones were and every time I suggest something like “what if you didn’t vacuum up rocks” he’s like oh no it is the vacuums who are wrong.

hey guys guess what happened again just now

🦀 time for crab 🦀

just me and my crab army *clack clack clack* 🦀

today i summoned 100 crabs! look at them!

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In my kingdom none shall be captured

Roam free little friends

i think a loving thing u can do for yourself before a solo trip is to have a line item in ur budget, as critical and untouchable as Plane Tickets and Lodging, called Stupid. this money cannot be used for anything other than bailing u out of stupid situations

sometimes the Stupid moments are obvious like “my designated in-bag phone charger™️ is missing and my phone’s dying” or “i can’t find the goddamn bus stop it’s getting really late”, but sometimes they’re small like “huh the food at this bar i wanted to go to is pretty expensive”. the temptation to do the risky but cheap thing (walking around with a dead phone, getting lost, drinking on an empty stomach) over the expensive but safe thing (buy another charger at the closest shop, call a cab, pay too much for some mid-ass chicken gyozas bc though you do want to try the signature local beer it’s been a minute since you ate anything) is mitigated. it’s fine, u can assure yourself. take it out of the Stupid Budget

This is actually a really smart idea

by  yespanioly

Melancholy (1876) by Odilon Redon

“Bro where u at we not supposed to be in heree”

always hilarious the lengths mammal moms will go to to retrieve a nearly-grown child from a situation of their own making. get back here

It's the ear dragging that does it to me every time 😹

Hot take, but cis people have gender identities. They aren't the gender they identify as because of their genitalia or what their birth certificate says. They're only cis because they identify with a gender and it happens to match their government documentation. Cis men aren't men because they're "obviously" men for having a penis. They're men because they identify as men. It's the self-identification that dictates this, not any other factor, even for cis folks. And we should be framing it this way. A cis man identifies as a man and a cis woman identifies as a woman. There is no automatic or inherent gender.

You are not "born a boy/girl." Infants don't have a gender. You acquire gender when you identify as it. No such thing as "biologically a man/woman."

"I don't identify as anything, I'm a man."

It sure sounds like you identify as a man, bud.

Giving a brownie to cis folks who rb this.

Gonna admit the "this isn't a hot take it's obvious" comments from a dozen or so people are grating on my nerves, so I'm gonna address that.

Just say you've never had an actual conversation with a cis person outside of a very leftist circle lol. Obvious to you. To you, fellow trans person. I wish I got paid every time I had to hear a cis person say they don't have a gender identity or don't "identify" as anything they just "are" a man or a woman.

Sometimes you have to stop and ask yourselves what group of people a post is mainly directed at.

Oh man some people won't like this either but while we're talking, cis people can use any pronouns they want to. Pronouns aren't a finite resource.

For a while this post actually ended up annoying the shit out of me. Because some people willfully misunderstood the point or argued with things I didn't even say. But overall, honestly, this has kinda created a good discussion on gender identity.

So I wanna add -

OP is pro cistrans/transcis, pro cis by default, pro neither cis nor trans, pro idfk what's going on, pro wait this post made me realize I'm not cis, pro probably technically agender but identify as cis, and pro not feeling a strong connection to a specific gender identity or having a fluctuating identity.

I don't actually think any of that contradicts my initial point that cis people who identify with their assigned gender do have a gender identity in some form or another, and I encourage them to explore it.

Not sure why people are willfully misunderstanding you OP bc I thought you were pretty fucking clear.

And before anyone comes for me, I'm a cis woman who uses she/they and I understand that my being cis just means someone slapped a gender label on me as a kid, and when I was old enough to understand what that meant I basically said "yeah that feels right we're good."

I've seen many memes about the reading comprehension on this website and I'm at least 87.6% sure that a lot of that is just people being trolls.

The divisiveness between trans people is so fucking manufactured, stop falling for it.

Fuck it. Tags.

Extremely concerning how people have boiled down our community to "whose side are you on?" I'm on everyone's side here. There's one side. Get on it. Take my hand, direct your anger where it belongs; together we can make a better world. Trans people with experiences that differ from yours are your siblings in arms, not your enemy.

If you liked this post, then you might be interested in my Discord server.

the poses is what gets me every time

It’s time to Be a Adult and mythologize your local Flora, Fauna, Rivers, and rock formations,

No that isn’t just a birch tree,

That’s the Sisters Rosamund, Lyonesse, and Miranda, They are under a shape shifting curse and trapping themselves inside a tree is the only safe way for them to figure out how to break it.

Leave them Ribbons, or crystals, Your secrets, your Social security number, whatever you think they will like

I believe in gentle parenting. Unfortunately many people refuse to parent their child at all under the guise of gentle parenting. Sometimes you’ve got to look your fourth grader in the eye and say “Little dude, that was an asshole move.”

the other side

Both equally important feedback to give children.

Most people think gentle parenting is "hey, sweetie, you shouldn't do that" while they actively destroy something, when in actuality it's more like "hey, every time you do (x) then (y) happens. You need to stop, kiddo."

For the ones like my youngest, who doesn't fucking listen and is an agent of chaos in the body of a toddler, repetition is needed and might need to be varied.

"I said stop, kiddo. You need to listen."

"Hey, I told you that when you do (x), then (y) happens. Why are you still doing this?"

Sometimes redirection is needed. Sometimes time out is needed. Sometimes telling him to go take a nap is needed.

Do I get pissed off enough to want to hit something? All the time. But I don't abuse my children and my emotional regulation (or lack thereof) is not their fault or their responsibility.

I think any marriage needs its running jokes, ones that you can repeat with variations, or make callbacks too.

One of my favorite bits is describing the romcoms I watch to my wife as though I have never heard of a narrative in my life.

"She runs a small plane company, and he's from a major airline trying to shut her down, so it's really anyone's guess what's going to happen."

"Get this, he's a stuffy office dork and she's a free spirit, and they end up stuck in the same cabin on a cruise. Sounds like a disaster, right?"

"They've decided to pair up and be each other's plus one at a series of weddings to feel less pathetic, but it's not like they like each other or anything."

So I told my wife that I hoped she would still enjoy me doing this bit forty years from now, and she smiled and held my hand and said that she'd never liked it, not even the first time.

this is what english teachers mean by poetry appreciation right?

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Protection spell for your feline friends! Like to charge, reblog to cast.

⭐️ Let’s protect all the kitties! ⭐️