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Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

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Seizures of eggs at U.S. borders soar, while fentanyl rate falls https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5342554/eggs-border-seizures-fentanyl

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West Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as medical disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreak | TPR

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I love telling people that fat people can't even donate their bodies to science for research and medical schools and they're like "that can't possibly be true!" and I get to watch them furiously google and be like "no it says here the weight limit is around 215lbs but depends on height"

and then I get to watch them panic when I tell them "yeah so I'm like...well above that bestie and I cannot donate my body to science."

and then I get to be like....and who tends to have good health outcomes when surgeons and doctors haven't been allowed to practice on different specific bodies?

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Can't Have Nice Things

The Ketamine King Musk has shutdown the IRS's Free Tax Filing system.

Of all the things a government could off, a way to Freely calculate and file your taxes seems like a good one. But the richest man in the world thinks we shouldn't have that.

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YOUVE MADE ME GET INTO FORCEFEM (I think it was your reblog anyway) AND MAIDS. well okay the maids was always there but still….i’m unabashedly myself now and you (and the Anim server people tbh, even just thru going thru everyones thoughts and reblogs my feed) have helped a ton :]

Tldr; you eureka! People rule

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good news cappy! your game is getting people into... forcefem?

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[ID: A digitally drawn comic of Toph and Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender talking about Zuko’s scar.

It begins with Toph approaching Zuko, who is sitting near a campfire. “You have a scar?” she asks. Zuko replies,  "Oh! Uh, yeah… You didn’t…?“ Toph cuts him off and says, “Came up in passing with the other guys.” Toph casually makes herself a seat out of rock and sits down next to him. “Must be pretty badass if everyone assumes I know it’s there, too,” she continues. Zuko looks aside awkwardly and says, “… It’s on my face.” “Ah.” Toph replies.

Zuko says, “Maybe you could… feel it?” “Huh?” says Toph. “I guess, if I concentrate hard enough.” Zuko reaches for Toph’s hand. “Uhm, just with your hand, if you want,” he says. “I don’t think I can describe it.” “… Gotcha. Guide my hand then, boss,” Toph says. Zuko does so, and there’s a pause as Toph touches his scar. The fire reflects in her eyes.

As Toph pulls her hand away, Zuko says, “…. You know, my left eye is almost blind, too.” “Seriously?!” Toph exclaims. “Why aren’t we a tag team yet?! The blind bandit and the half-blind dweeb!” “Come on…!” Zuko moans. End ID]

id by @strawberrygiorno , thank you!

i’ve had this comic sketched out for months but only decided to finish it now, it’s based on something i drew a couple years back of toph and zuko….don’t think too hard on when or how this takes place because i don’t really know either! it’s just a concept i’ve always wanted to draw

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So a couple days ago, as part of the work shit show, you posted something to the effect of "I'm going to need to create a How To Find Hardware document for work, so I'll also put it on Tumblr." While I, a Tumblr user, love getting valuable information for free, I will caution you (and others in a similar situation) that most US employment contracts consider anything you create while on the clock to be a "work for hire" and is therefore owned by the company. This can be documents, software code, or more tangible objects. Some companies are total assholes about this, and take it even further than "when on the clock" and will try to assert that anything you invent during the years you are an employee can be patented or trademarked or copyrighted by the company. Exercise caution when giving work documents to the internet; sometimes managers that seem totally rational while you work for them get vengeful when you put in your notice for greener pastures.

Like you, I work in tech, and I have witnessed greed over intellectual property. There are still ways to share your knowledge.

Apologies if you already know this, and I just read your post incorrectly!

Thanks for checking in and good looking out!

The funny thing is it's kind of going to be the opposite of me writing for the company and then sharing with the internet; I'm going to be editing and repurposing a big chunk of writing I've been working on for the internet to adapt it to the company and I'm going to take that as the excuse to also work more on the thing that I've been wanting to put up online for a while.

This is also how the Password Manager guide that I've offered to the company would work; heavily editing something that I've already written and offering it to the business while taking time to finish the very different guide for an internet audience.

To be clear, these will be demonstrably different (and legally distinct). For instance, this is one of the covers that I've made for the password manager book:

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this coffee tastes like i can still have a beautiful life

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There is a cool and popular tweet about Samus Aran microwaving spoons but we could not find it so I had to reconstruct it from memory*

*I have never seen the thing in question so I had to invent a memory first.

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here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life

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I couldn't love

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Lesbian erasure

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People are like “it’s so beautiful no clouds at all” it could use a little clouds if I had to be honest.

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