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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 number of compliments i have gotten for reading a thing

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.

how dare you say we put jam in the printer

love seeing revisionism in the wild “free the nipple never meant you can walk around topless every where that’s still sexual harassment it just meant for like breastfeeding and stuff”no it literally means you should be able to walk around topless anywhere because get this. breasts aren’t fucking sexual organs.

I remember when I was about 12, I watched a show on TLC that followed people as they got somewhat uncommon medical procedures.

There was one episode with a trans woman getting different gender-affirming operations, including breast implants. It showed the procedure, and (what I found so fascinating that it's stuck with me for decades), as soon as the doctor put the implant in, a censor blur popped up on the nipple.

And you just know there was a meeting between the TLC lawyers and the editors and producers of the show to discuss what the difference was between a "man nipple" (can be shown) and a "woman nipple" (no no must obscure, 'tis naughty). And they decided that as soon as the implant goes in and the nipple has more mass behind it, that's the moment when it becomes a woman's nipple and must be hidden to comply with TV rules.

But it's the same nipple. On the same person. I know what it looks like; I just saw it. But TV and obscenity rules are rules, and the rules say woman nipple = sexual and therefore explicit, but man nipple = neutral, just fine.

"Free the Nipple" was calling out arbitrary bullshit like that, because someone just existing with their body parts should not be considered obscene, and the double standard that men can be topless but women can't is so blatantly ridiculous. All nipples are just nipples. If you get turned on or bothered by them, that's on you.

Mspaint time to shake off the rust

Being insane but cognitively aware of how insane you are is a special kind of hell because you know that you aren't normal and you can pinpoint the behaviors that label you as other and make people kinda go quiet and twitchy around you but you can't change them or your neurosis so you're stuck in a brutal cycle of trying to emulate normal people and failing horribly cus you know in theory how normal people look and act but in practice you can never change what you are and everyone else knows it too and this goes on forever until you die

It is not enough to get into a comfy sleeping position- one must go through several and spin like a rotisserie chicken to arrive at the position you started with.

simple joys

this is such an absolute delightful piece!!! i am so overjoyed to see other orange kitties also frolicking with their rainbow toys ( my guy, milo carries his around and loves it so very much ) 😭 💕

simple joys

(through gritted teeth) sometimes what's good for your mental health isn't another do nothing day or a little treat sometimes what's good for you is putting in some of the work. Not all of it at once but sometimes you have to finish that essay or at least take the next step or you have to clean your room or at least dust the shelves or you gotta do the laundry or at least put it all in the hamper and it's not fun and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks but you have to because i read a post on the internet that told me that's what being nice to yourself is sometimes

Are you guys ok you’re all reblogging this post a lot

we're all ADHD and glad someone else said the quiet part out loud so we didn't have to.

dude you gotta watch severance it's so exciting. in season 2 they go outside

In the latest episode, one them calls his boss and asks for the day off. It was so thrilling.

it's very disheartening to see people posting men they like from whatever stories they're into and being like he's like a woman to me BUT theyre not headcanoning this character as a trans woman theyre saying this character is similar to a woman in that he is bad at stuff maybe or isn't really where he wants to be in life but not in a gender sense like specifically in the sense of being pathetic and bad at things. like maybe he's in between jobs right now or maybe one time he cried. and this is womanesque behavior for a man to exhibit. and the people who say this? pronouns. sometimes even several. it really does boggle the mind.

good morning. let's get this bread

like the first rule of cooking is to have fun and be yourself and the first rule of baking is to stay calm because the dough can sense fear

we need to get more normal about nonsexual nudity i think

kind of missing the point pretty badly actually

i mean i kinda think insisting on not seeing boobs at all is kind of lame weenie behavior is the thing

this might sound harsh but imo that's just not a realistic accommodation to expect in a scenario where we're trying to destigmatize naked human bodies

We r talking about disconnecting boobs from the connotation of something different from an arm or a leg. Do you guys think forcing fat people to cover up their stomachs because it makes someone else feel bad about being fat or possibly becoming fat is a reasonable thing to expect

yeah, he sure is

i deeply apologize to everyone that i have hurt by suggesting that a former IDF prison guard who voluntarily left the safety of his home in the United States to seize the once in a lifetime opportunity to work inside of an Israeli concentration camp where he claims to have met the "one logical Palestinian" he's ever encountered in his life might have some kind of incentive for not exposing the full and unleashed depravity of US military operations against the Yemenis, who are the only people in the world actively working against stopping the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians that has been carried out for the last year and a half. this is a man with entirely pure intentions. after all, The Atlantic is a reputable, courageous and independent news publication. i shouldn't have dared besmirch their name.

i understand that every post about Israel or the IDF or hell, even the Middle East, at the end of the day, is a ruthless and unfair attack on you and your way of life. all of these people on the internet humanizing Arabs and Muslims and children and women and condemning them being raped and blown to pieces... they just keep focusing on the wrong things and it's probably extremely, extremely scary for you, even though it has absolutely nothing to do with you or Judaism whatsoever. or is it that you think that everything Israel does is truly in the name of Judaism? because i don't think that.

ultimately, there is only one thing to consider in this 75+ year occupation and extermination of an indigenous people: how any criticism might make you feel deep down inside. that is what we need to focus on and i can see now that i've made a grave mistake.

furthermore, i can't put myself in your shoes, so i can't imagine how it must feel to have to see someone suggest that the US media apparatus might be providing cover to a country that you've never been to, that you weren't born in, who desires to be an entirely pure religious fundamentalist ethnostate so badly that it's willing to slaughter, rape and desecrate the bodies of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and Arabs in order to achieve it's goals. all i can do is hope that you heal from this.

most of all, i'm sorry to Mr. Goldberg, whose honorable service as a Concentration Guard Camp has been besmirched. at the time, i did not realize that suggesting a reporter being a former member of the IDF might influence the way he views the current genocide that the IDF is carrying out. but i can see clearly now that there was a secret, evil embedded message in my four-word reblog that blamed this on every Jewish person in America. i hope one day you can forgive me.