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I Saw the TV Glow (2024) dir. Jane Schoenbrun

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Boba-urnham

Hank Green (@/hankgreen):

Can somebody draw Boba-urnham?

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Adam Korenman (@/officermankorn)

Best I can do on short notice

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gab (@/GabyCakes)

this was drawn on the back of a happy birthday napkin, hank. Ur welcome.

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Entorix (@/TheRealEntorix)

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merel 🏳️‍��🌱 (@/merelisnotabird)

like the tea or the dude from star wars?

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Matthew Gaydos (@/MatthewGaydos):

Fett or Tea?

Hank Green (@/hankgreen):

I was thinking tea?

Admiral Restraint (@/dark_neverland)

¿Por que nos los dos? Also combining them so Boba-urnham Fett drinking a Boba-urnham tea

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a phenomenal waste of everyone's time (@/iamreddave)

Bouba Fett

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My cartoon in the New Yorker this week

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the US deli meat recall has expanded 35 times over, going from 200,000 pounds to 7 MILLION pounds of meat and poultry recalled due to listeria contamination.

if you checked your fridge before, check it again with the new list, there are over 70 products being recalled!

this recall of boar's head products now includes old country branded products. some were also exported to the cayman islands, dominican republic, mexico, and panama.

please note, people have died from this outbreak, dozens of people have been hospitalized, and since listeria can take months to kick someone's ass after exposure and then a while to be investigated and recorded by the government, these numbers are expected to rise. you do not need to have eaten meat or poultry to be exposed to listeria from this outbreak, you could have just eaten food that has come in contact with it like in a kitchen, deli, restaurant, or anywhere else these meats were used to prepare food. listeria is a nasty fucker that loves to contaminate whatever it touches. there is more information on listeriosis and high-risk groups further down this post.

announced july 30th, 2024, current as of july 31st, 2024. this is not a complete copy/paste of the announcement or all relevant information, please check the links for more complete information and updates from the government.

WASHINGTON, July 30, 2024 – Boar's Head Provisions Co., Inc., a Jarratt, Va., establishment, is expanding its July 26, 2024, recall of deli meat products that may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The establishment is recalling approximately 7 million additional pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products. Whole genome sequencing results show that a liverwurst sample collected by the Maryland Department of Health tested positive for the outbreak strain of Listeria monocytogenes.

This expansion includes 71 products produced between May 10, 2024, and July 29, 2024, under the Boar’s Head and Old Country brand names. These items include meat intended for slicing at retail delis as well as some packaged meat and poultry products sold at retail locations. These products have “sell by” dates ranging from 29-JUL-2024 through 17-OCT-24. View full product list. View labels.

The products subject to recall were distributed to retail locations nationwide and some were exported to the Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Panama. The products shipped to retailers bear establishment number “EST. 12612” or “P-12612” inside the USDA mark of inspection on the product labels.

most people exposed to listeria will not experience a serious infection. but listeriosis, the illness caused by listeria, can become pretty bad and can take weeks to show symptoms after exposure. listeriosis can cause lifelong disability or death. for people who are pregnant, listeriosis can cause stillbirths, miscarriages, premature births, and life-threatening infections in newborns.

say you ate a bad deli meat sandwich a week ago, or any food that may have come into contact with these deli meats, and you theoretically got exposed to listeria with an immune system not strong enough to fight it off. it could be weeks or even months before listeriosis starts affecting you. consider writing down what you ate, and where, and when, just in case you need to tell this to a medical provider in the future. if you do develop listeriosis, it may become difficult to remember these details later.

if your hypothetical sandwich (or whatever you ate involving the recalled products) had been thoroughly cooked, it may have killed off the listeria. listeria is killed with heat, which is why deli meats are suseptible to listeria contamination.

this is a type of contamination so serious and easily spread that entire delis are going to be shut down to be thoroughly cleaned. if you had these products in your kitchen, even if you cooked them before eating, the united states food safety and inspection service recommends deep cleaning your fridge to stay safe. consider what else may have come into contact with the contaminated food.

as a reminder, having previously been infected by covid-19 is one of the many things that can cause a weakened immune system, and many people with weakened immune systems do not know they have weakened immune systems until they get infected with something serious. you can temporarily have a weakened immune system just from a lot of stress or not getting enough sleep, so make sure you get plenty of rest if you are concerned. good quality rest makes the immune system stronger.

Consumption of food contaminated with L. monocytogenes can cause listeriosis, a serious infection that primarily affects people who are pregnant, aged 65 or older, or with weakened immune systems. Less commonly, persons outside these risk groups are affected.

Listeriosis can cause fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions sometimes preceded by diarrhea or other gastrointestinal symptoms. An invasive infection spreads beyond the gastrointestinal tract. In people who are pregnant, the infection can cause miscarriages, stillbirths, premature delivery or life-threatening infection of the newborn. In addition, serious and sometimes fatal infections can occur in older adults and persons with weakened immune systems. Listeriosis is treated with antibiotics. Persons in the higher-risk categories who experience flu-like symptoms within two months after eating contaminated food should seek medical care and tell the health care provider about eating the contaminated food. (rune note: emphasis mine)

FSIS is concerned that some product may be in consumers’ refrigerators and in retail deli cases. Consumers who have purchased these products are urged not to consume them and retailers are urged not to sell these products with the referenced sell by dates. These products should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase. Consumers who have purchased these products are also urged to clean refrigerators thoroughly to prevent the risk of cross-contamination.

FSIS recommends retail delis clean and sanitize all food and non-food surfaces and discard any open meats and cheeses in the deli. Retailers may refer to FSIS’ guideline, Best Practices Guidance for Controlling Listeria monocytogenes in Retail Delicatessens, for information on steps to prevent certain ready-to-eat foods that are prepared or sliced in retail delis and consumed in the home, such as deli meats and deli salads, from becoming contaminated with L. monocytogenes.

the wikipedia page for listeriosis notes: “Listeriosis may cause mild, self-limiting gastroenteritis and fever in anyone.” and “People who were previously healthy but were exposed to a very large dose of Listeria can develop a noninvasive illness in which the bacteria do not spread into their bloodstream or other body sites. Symptoms can include diarrhea and fever.”

and here is the united states center for disease control page on this outbreak.

as of the time this post is going up, the CDC page has not yet been updated with the latest recall information, and reflects the previous, smaller recall.

list of all affected product names under the cut. check the product information list for more information on each product and where they were exported, and here is what the labels look like.

this list is long.

do not risk this. do not mess with listeria. do not eat these recalled foods!

I did this on my phone while recovering from medical treatment, so please let me know if the formatting came out wrong.

LIST OF BOAR'S HEAD PRODUCTS CONTAMINATED AND RECALLED:

Virginia Ham

Whole Fiber Cappy Ham

Half Hot Butt Cappy Ham

Gourmet Pepper Ham Half

Sweet Slice Ham

Whole Sweet Slice Ham

Half Natural Casing Cappy Ham Half

Tavern Ham

Extra Hot Cappy Ham

Rosemary Sundried Tomato Ham

Sweet Slice Ham Baby Half

Head Cheese Olive Loaf

Pickle & Pepper Loaf

Liverwurst Paté 8oz Bologna

Thin Half Bologna

Thick Half Beef Salami Natural Casing

Pork & Beef Frankfurters

Giant Steakhouse Slab Bacon

Natural Casing Beef Franks 8/1 Canadian Style Bacon

All Natural Traditional Ham

All Natural Applewood Smoked Ham

Garlic Bologna

Lower Sodium Bologna

Beef Bologna Spiced Ham Square Half

Hot Smoked Sausage 1LB

Skinless Pork & Beef Franks 8/1 1LB

Beef Knockwurst 1LB

Skinless Beef Frankfurters 4/1 8"

Cocktail Frankfurters 12oz

Virginia Ham Half Skinless Pork & Beef Frankfurters 4/1 2.5 LB

SmokeMaster Beechwood Smoked Black Forest Ham

Whole SmokeMaster Beechwood Smoked Black Forest Ham Half

Sweet Slice Ham Service Case

Peppenero Garlic Ham

Roasted Pork BourbonRidge Ham

FS Porchetta-Roasted Seasoned Pork

TAVERN HAM - WHOLE

MAPPLE [sic?] RST PORK LOIN BABY HKRY SMK RST UNCURED HAM

FoodService Hickory Smoked Uncured Ham

Brown Sugar & Spice Delight Off the Bone Ham

Skinless Beef Franfurters 6/1

Skinless Beef Franks 12oz

Kielbasa 16oz

Natural Casing Beef Franks 8/1 14oz

Natural Casing Pork & Beef Frankfurters 8/1 14oz

ANDOUILLE CHICKEN SAUSAGE BRATWURST 1LB

LIST OF OLD COUNTRY PRODUCTS CONTAMINATED AND RECALLED:

OC CAPPY HAM FIBER 1/2

OC HOT BUTT CAPPY- FIBER

OC GOURMET PEPPER HAM

OC BLACK FOREST HAM 1/2

OC SWT SLICE SMK HAM 1/2

OC CAPPY BRAND HAM NC 1/2

OC TAVERN HAM OC ROSEMARY/TOMATO HAM

OC SWT SLICE HAM BABY1/2

OC ALL NATURAL UNC HAM

OC CANADIAN STYLE BACN JR

OC ALL NAT UNC SMKD HAM

OC HABANERO HAM OC SEASONED CKD FRESH HAM

OC BEECHWOOD SMOKD HAM WH

OC BOURBONRIDGE SMKD HAM

OC BROWN SUGAR & SPICE DELIGHT OFF THE BONE HAM

if you are a high-risk group and have eaten these foods or anything that may have come into contact with them, breathe. get a lot of rest and pay attention to your body over the coming weeks and months, and figure out where you can go to get medical care in case you start showing signs of infection.

stay safe, warn people you know, and take care!

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Naruto's eyeball pingpong

Oct 1st, #fics

Me: I'm reading a fic and FULLY forgot the "confusing game of eyeball ping-pong that Xiao Xingchen and Song Lan play."

Which is so funny bc Naruto also has insane eyeball ping-pong

Between brothers, tho, not lovers

Also me: Well the main one is brothers, the others are grooming and- oh wait, that one's kinda grooming as well. That one's puppeteering your "best friends" dead body with the power of the transplants Uh that one's nonconsensual vore to prevent your brother from massacring your village in your name Oh wait, there's a lovers one too! Sort of. And he didn't actually put it in his own eye socket, that's the one he forcefed Naruto via crow. (Crow, like the bird that flies, not the pie)

Also also me: Hm

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Best Friend: Crow pie??

There's multiple eyeball ping pongs in Naruto?

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Me: OH YEAH Major big time

Itachi to Sasuke (baited his brother into taking his eyes to save him from the blood curse or smth) (this was the main one I was thinking of before my memory unlocked all these other batshit ones)

Shisui to Itachi ("best friends," uh-huh sure. Bonus points for giving them to Itachi for safekeeping from Danzo)

Itachi to Naruto (Itachi forcefed Naruto one of the crows he had jutsu'd up. The activated sharingan eye was in the crow, and they both went down Naruto's throat. Came back out when a certain condition was met)

Madara to Obito (grooming)

Obito to Pain/Nagato (ig grooming? He didn't rly interact with him as a kid, and didn't tell him where the eyes came from as an adult)

Nagato/Pain to Yahiko's corpse, his "best friend," who he then used his eyes to puppet his dead body around, calling himself Pain

Whoa how did I forget Danzo! He murdered and harvested from dead Uchiha at least ten sharingan eyes

So yeah at least 7 batshit eye transplants

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Also me: I think I said something like "he fed Naruto a crow" and I wanted to clarify that he fed him a justu crow, like bird crow

Not like "eat crow" (like eat humble pie) I'm actually not sure what "crow" is in that metaphor

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Best Friend: I have never heard eat crow in my life

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It's not just about misogyny against the readers, but against the authors too. God forbid a woman be successful with doing what she loves - writing. (comment courtesy of @stinalotte)

can I be so real with you. can I be honest. totally aside from the moral panic about women on booktok being """porn addicts""" because they're reading erotica, I think it's so fucking goofy when people act as if there needs to be some kind of societal reckoning with how tiktok books "aren't very good." like, okay? they're commercial products mass produced for entertainment. tiktok didn't invent that; you're going to have to take it up with pulp magazines and dime novels and comic books. you guys would throw up if you found out about Fanny Hill.

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do NOT sort by kudos the real play is to find the most prolific writers in the hockey rpf tag and go to their profile to see if they’ve written a single bizarrely high-quality fic for the fandom you’re actually looking for

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Friend: Silm reads like a textbook. "This happened. Then this person went here and talked to this person. Then this happened" Me: Oof, bible flashbacks Friend: Exactly! It's like reading the Bible! Me: Lol that is the single worst pitch I've ever heard for the Silm. I HAVE to text that to my best friend immediately

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Anyways when I was sixteen I wrote a story about a spaceship's communications officer (think Uhura) who was given a brain implant when he was a baby that automatically translates every language in the universe, but which interferes with his ability to perceive and process subtle changes in tone. He hears an emotionless automated translator voice inside his head rather than hearing the real voices being physically carried by air vibrations. So he has the ability to interpret every word in every language, but he can never interpret tone of voice. And the ultimate message of the story is that understanding every possible text isn't enough -- if you don't understand subtext, you'll be isolated. The "communications officer" actually struggles to communicate more than anyone else on the ship.

You'll never guess what they diagnosed me with a year later.

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This is so damn accurate! I was listening to CPE on culture in the workplace and they were talking about how different generations are motivated by different things. But I was just sitting there thinking about how part of the generational difference is that the boomer generation GOT THINGS FOR THEIR SALARY/WAGES. We get NOTHING so of course we are mad and won't just "buck up and shut up" (comment courtesy of @mostly-taxes-and-whining)

Thinking about human behaviour compared to animal behaviour again.

It's funny to hear people (the older gens) complaining that "kids these days are lazy, they don't wanna work, etc." What do we get for busting our asses? There is no reward. Many will never own homes. Many are unemployed, trying to find work, and nobody will hire them because they don't have a million years experience and a masters degree OR they want people to work for minimum wage??? People are giving up because there is no reward. Why would we do all this for nothing?

Same as a dog that won't recall when you haven't reinforced it with a reward. Your dog isn't going to do what you tell it to if there is no incentive. No, your dog SHOULDN'T listen just because you're boss and it should respect you. That isn't how it works. They don't think that way. And honestly neither do people.

When we went hiking Sprocket wasn't always taking treats gently from me when I recalled her or she checked in and I rewarded and my one friend told me to stop giving her treats. I told him I won't work for free so why should she. And he said "I do things for free all the time because I want to do them," and I didn't say it then, but I wish I had, but if you like doing it, that's the incentive. It's a self-rewarding behaviour. Just like anything else a dog does, like chasing a squirrel or sniffing things or getting into the trash. Heeling instead of going off to sniff stuff or recalling off of something they want to chase is something you have to reinforce. You have to give them something better so they make the choice you want them to make. They won't make it just because they *respect* you. They won't willingly recall off of exciting prey out of RESPECT. You need to give them a tangible reward for that. You cannot possibly expect your dog to listen just because and then punish them for disobeying you.

Yeah, Sprocket bit my fingers a couple times. The one time pretty hard. But she was excited. She knows how to take gently and I reminded her and she tried very hard to be gentle most of the time. I wasn't going to stop rewarding her for checking in with me and recalling while we were off leash hiking in the woods. I want her to know that coming back to me is good and in the event of an emergency I would like her to not blow me off.

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#oh look it's my feelings about the current AI boom #automation can improve life if the wealthy and powerful are not the ones that controls what gets automated #and if we let go of the notion of the 40 hour workweek (tags courtesy of @zanzibarhamster)

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This and also respect work that humans enjoy doing. Creative work, problem solving, working with plants and animals and other people, raising a family or caring for elders, etc. Let us thrive in work that is fulfilling and find the time to do so thanks to the automation that assists us. (comment courtesy of @rum-and-shattered-dreams)

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This is literally what the actual source-of-the-name Luddites advocated. It is in fact what they lived Centuries of improvement in loom technology slowly reduced the working hours of weavers down from something like 50 hours a week to something more like low 30s.

What changed was that business entrepreneurs realized they could make incredibly low quality cloth with machine looms which didn’t require any more still than a child could have. So in places where the regulations were weak, they enslaved orphan children and force them to work 16-hour days pretty soon low quality cloth which they use the variety of false pretenses and unethical fiscal strongarming to sell it as if it was worth the same as high quality cloth.

This wasn’t even particularly effective, the vast majority of those machine room owners went out of business. But it was an enticing enough possibility for the capitalists in Britain that entire regions saw so many people go out of work that there was widespread starvation. The quality of cloth went down and never came back up, modern cloth is still of lower quality than the handmade stuff used to be despite the ostensibly higher threadcount (threadcount is not the end all be all of quality). And the amount of human labor involved is not actually substantially reduced. The limitations of machine weaving mean that more sewing is necessary than ever, and all of that is done by hand in sweatshops.

The Luddites absolutely had the right idea, and they lived it. Their work wasn’t always easy, but by and large they described liking their lives, feeling a sense of pride in their trade, and had good qualities of life. And they sunk the benefits of their productivity, as technology improved, into a combination of reduced work hours and better quality of life. (Though it is important to note that as being a weaver improved in terms of job quality the work was increasingly transferred out of women’s spheres and into men’s spheres. This was not a social structure devoid of oppression.)

So yeah. Read Blood In The Machine if you want to know more it’s a really good book. (comment courtesy of @crazy-pages)

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Yep. "Luddite" is a term of ridicule only in the sense that socialist, communist or union are: they were opposed to the enshittification of their day, and wanted the advancement of human knowledge and productivity to go towards reducing the burdens of life rather than into some murderer's pocket. (comment courtesy of @aquietwhyme)

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Absolutely.

It even plugs into Calvinism: Very little of what we call work brings us any closer to the Kingdom of God. But doing math? making art? gardening? running institutions justly and fairly? That's not only work, it's the best and most productive kind. And if it's something you love, you'll do it better, longer, than if you were just worried about having your family on your health insurance policy.

In addition, there are a lot of good and necessary jobs that are poorly regarded and badly compensated. That needs to change. The idea that the people we need should be treated poorly, and the people we don't should be abundantly rewarded, comes from diseased thinking. (comment courtesy of @raleigh-straight)

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Yes, but the idea that leisure is wrong and that we must work constantly is driven largely by religion. That's where the concept is leisure as a sin comes from.

Every time I've heard someone dismiss the concept of a universal basic income, shorter work weeks, or any plan that would reduce how much people are forced to work, the excuses are always based in the persons faith. That we must work or we inevitably will fall to sin and do bad things. Or however they want to rephrase the concept.

That's the dragon we must slay first, if we want to find a path to a better world. (comment courtesy of @thenightgaunt)

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It’s stunning, in archaeology, to realize that if you find a place which would have been accessible to people 10,000 years ago, and which has by whatever chance been preserved since that time, there’s a high chance that you will find art from that time.

Now, it’s possible that people back then were very selective about where they put their art, certainly. But it beggars the imagination, it does, to think that they only saw fit to chip rock petroglyphs in an inhospitable desert, only made paintings in a handful of caves, only scratched out their memories in tucked-away rock shelters.

It seems vastly more likely that, given time and opportunity, people simply made art as often as they could. That there is an inherent impulse to learn, grow, and create; anything other than those things should be viewed as a distraction.

Yet, in our modern times, while in theory we could easily exist in considerable luxury, instead there are those who make great effort to assure the majority of people devote the majority of their time to toil, for no tangible value to anyone at all. One might even go so far as to suggest that the actual goal of this is to blunt that human desire to grow and create. That what they truly fear is a world in which every person is free to pursue beyond the needs of food and shelter and health, to contribute to humanity in a way which has the potential to change our world rather than merely maintaining it. (comment courtesy of @hasufin)

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Based on historical evidence that we do have, I see no reason to think that pre-historical people who were as human as we are, biologically, wouldn't have done the same things as we do, re: art all over. So yeah, they probably did paint outside and carve trees and decorate trade routes and whatever, but it's just the hidden away stuff that's lasted this long*.

I 100% believe that squashing that impulse is baked into how we're currently living now, same as how schools work is meant to train up good employees rather than people who know how to think and learn well, etc.

if time travel is ever invented, I want someone to go back and check this for me, and take pictures. I bet they hung things from trees and painted way-markers and carved totems and painted themselves and all sorts of stuff. (comment courtesy of @samiholloway)

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Don't forget how addictive control over the lives of people is. (comment courtesy of @antarctica-starts-here)

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[Image 1 ID: A quote by Lord Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick.

If one machine can cut necessary human labour by half, why make half the workforce redundant, rather than employing the same number for half the time? Why not take advantage of automation to reduce the average working week from 40 hours to 30, and then to 20, and then to 10, with each diminishing block of labour time counting as a full-time job? This would be possible if the gains from automation were not mostly seized by the rich and powerful, but were distributed fairly instead. Rather than try to repel the advance of the machine, which is all that the Luddites could imagine, we should prepare for a future of more leisure, which automation makes possible. But, to do that, we first need a revolution in social thinking.

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[Image 2 ID: A quote by Buckminster Fuller, 1970

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living It is a fact today that 1 in 10,000 can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody must be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, we must justify our right to exist The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they have to earn a living

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[Image 3 ID: Two panel comic of a man in front of a workplace full of robots operating the computers. In the first panel, the man is crouched over on the curb, bemoaning:

Damn, a robot took over my job! Now I have to look for a new source of monetary income…

In the second panel, the man has his arms raised to the heavens triumphantly crowing:

Yay! A robot took over my job! Now I am free to actually enjoy life!

/end ID]

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“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”

— Dr. Denis Waitley (via purplebuddhaproject)

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“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”

— Earl Nightingale

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i was reading about the myth of prometheus today when the phrase "new liver, same eagles" popped into my mind, so i'm keeping that in mind for the next time someone asks me how it's going

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as someone who was a siiilly teenage girl not too long ago i just can’t help but feel for lydia bennet. i’m sure caution was way more emphasized back then, even with the kind of wealthy-kind of poor like the bennets, but i know i worked through some awful and tumultuous relationships and general boy-craziness when i was lydia’s age and even a few years after that—-she doesn’t really get a chance to make those mistakes and learn from them before becoming lydia wickham forever. though sneaking out with some guy and eloping with him are entirely different things and that’s the rub of her foolishness i guess😅

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attempted to mimic watercolor, realised it wasn't for me and ended up doing my usual rendering on top of it😂

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Tortoiseshell Shibari beginner guide! This started out as a little pose study and ended up spiraling wildly out of control. Hope y'all dig! (uncensored version on the money website)