just a sad trans girl looking for laugh-out-louds
Me and my gf way back in the day trapped a stray kitten once.
It was living under a car. We put little piles of dry food out for it for a few days, gradually moving the pile further and further away from his hiding place. Then one day we made a little trail of food leading to a carry box that we filled with food. Once we heard it chomping away inside, we crept up and slammed the door shut. It felt like a scene out of a cartoon lol
Little thing freaked out and clawed at the door and cried for a while. But once we took it into the house and out of the summer heat, it was very happy.
Note, I am neither an experienced pet owner nor a trapper. I just like telling this story hehe
Edit: …what pronouns do you use for a kitten from decades ago whose sex you don’t remember?
Once the “weird” label took off, I thought it would lose some of its power because it was being used so much.
But damn. There’s no other way to put it. This is weird.
My sense is it’s getting at “what’s an overated candy flavor”
I’m gonna make some hedgehog stew today
I really wish the nomenclature was consistent. If you say “shreds”, it’d better be documents in a literal paper shredder, perhaps in service of obstruction of justice.
If you’re just referring to people saying “Trump bad”, please use “slam” or “blast” so I know to ignore it.
I thought most hoes would be quite easy to plow
When referring to a difficult task: “That’s a tough road to hold”, or “a tough road to hoe”, or “a tough road to [travel on]” or “a tough road to… [trails off awkwardly…]”, or just “a tough road”.
It’s a tough row to hoe.
It’s an agricultural metaphor. The row is a line of dirt in a field where you plant seeds. You use a hoe to dig the lines, remove weeds, and create little holes where you drop the seeds. Hoeing may be difficult if the soil is too hard or too full of rocks and weeds. Such a row would be a tough one to hoe.
To me, this says that your workplace has acknowledged and accepted that the way they do business is leading to burnout, at least for some people. But rather than using that as evidence that their business practices need to change, they’ve instead opted to individualize the problem. Our growth projections aren’t unreasonably ambitious, you just need to do more deep breathing.
It’s like how I’m told to take a vacation to relax, only to return to the same (or an even larger) pile of to-dos that I left behind.
Edit: If this resonates with you, check out the book “McMindfulness” by Ronald Purser.
Whatever it was, I forgot what it was today
Me, looking for technical writing jobs after writing a highly fucking technical dissertation: I have a PhD but I’m pretty burned out on being a try-hard so I’m just looking for a straightforward 9-to-5.
Them: We’re worried you’ll be bored.
Me: Anyone would get bored doing this, at least I’ll be good at it.
Them: No.
>demonizes childless cat ladies
>won’t let you get IVF
>makes memes about protecting cats
what do they want from us
I swear a social studies teacher told us that most rivers tend to flow north to south. Young impressionable child I was, I of course filed it away as a long-term core memory – right there next to PEMDAS, FOIL, and so on.
Then I mentioned it in college and got fucking embarrassed.
Search engine challenge of the day: Find another source for this behavior.
Yeah, outrageous headline, obvious hypocrisy. But if you read to the end, the article is basically in support of it:
But let’s get real: both sides of the political aisle are pointing fingers and making things worse. Trump and Vance have their supporters, while the Democrats are no strangers to throwing some fiery jabs themselves.
One side is spreading lies. The other side is calling bullshit – but that’s rude, so BoTh SiDeS aRe aT fAuLt.
It’s like an Arrested Development gag. One Ohio Karen overheard her neighbor talking about getting her pussy ate and now we gotta close the entire US border.
The 19 words: “…because democracy basically meaningless…” (pause) “Government by the people, of the people, for the people… but the people are [fools].”
I’m inserting “fools” cuz I don’t wanna use outdated insults.
And in the precise moment I saw this, I realized both of my monitors were displaying Excel on full screen. Sigh.