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Checking in on y'all. This election eat you alive?

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I love you. Even if I've never met you, I promise, I love you!

Please, spread this for those who might need it right now

U.S. suicide hotline: call or text 988 (available 24 hours)

U.S. trans lifeline: (877) 565-8860 (when you call, you’ll speak to a trans/nonbinary peer operator. full anonymity and confidentiality)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357) – provides 24/7 confidential support and referrals for individuals and families facing mental health and substance use disorders, including panic attacks and anxiety.

LGBT National Help Center: (888) 843-4564

Trevor Project: Call (866) 488-7386, text START to 678-678, or chat online.

Take care of yourself and each other. Please stay safe ♡

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I have a masters degree and have been working in the same industry for 15+ years. I just got a raise last month that brought me into this range...I earned 23k in my first job. And before you ask, yes it was in a major city where that was below the poverty line.

That is not close to being realistic

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Hey, listen here, you jerk. We're just over here wrestling with our last shred of sanity. No need to call us out like that!

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fucking Yoda spellchecking my papers in microsoft word

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I have #whitegirl version of this. I went to school in a predominantly Black and Latinx students and teachers. I was often the only white kid in my class and I was a very stereotypical goodie-two-shoes, quiet, white girl in pig tails with straight A's. The adults viewed me the ideal, well-behaved student. I never got in trouble, and as such I got away with murder! I could wander the halls unchecked. The other students caught on to this and began to enlist me in their shenanigans. I walked at the front of the group and teachers and security guards all assumed everything was on the up and up! A security guard once walked in on me and a group of 5 other students sitting in a back staircase, saw me with a notebook in my lap and just assumed that we were working on a group project.

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In the office today as required. Literally, no one else here on my entire floor and only 4 other people in the entire building. On-site face to face collaboration is so valuable. Glad I'm here for it.

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The lengths people will go to to avoid using singular "they" in their writing is astounding.

The person must include a description of the person's own experiences at the person's current or former position unless the person has....just say THEY!

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My sister and I had a Barbie graveyard in the garden. We used to bury our "dead" Barbies with much pomp and circumstance. Sometimes they came back as ghost or zombies.

I remember desperately begging my mom to get me a Barbie car so i could make Barbie die in a horrible car crash (aka roll it down the stairs).

It kind of really confuses me when Barbie commercials have little girls dressing them up and brushing their hair Like no Barbie is not about fashion. Barbie is about collecting as many dolls as you can get your grubby 7 year old hands on and dominating the living room with your expansive empire of plastic women. Barbie is about creating intricate social structures and spicy inter-family conflicts between town house residents. Barbie is about formulating complex back stories for tortured Ken dolls with emotional scars. It’s about creating near-sadistic dramatic plot twists that split up marriages and cause that one Barbie you really dislike to be ceremoniously tossed down the stairs in order to be offed by the jealous ex-wife of Ken #4.

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HarperCollins Strike Update

For the full breakdown of what’s been going on since November, read here.

January 20, 2023

It’s been over FIFTY days. The strike is still ongoing. Harper has yet to even speak to the union.

Union members are still scraping on their second and third hustles (which most entry-level publishing people have) and donations to the strike fund. The union has set up a hardship fund (here’s the post about it on their official Instagram, for verification) so no more fiddling with checks or Venmo.

If you can donate, please do.

And whether you can or can’t, please do still share.

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I've got bad news for you...industry is not any better. Last week I had a meeting to talk about the meeting we were going to have to plan the agenda for the actual meeting.

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When your boss refers to your coworkers as "family"

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Passive aggressive emails from coworkers

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CALL IN AND GET YOUR VOTE TO COUNT!

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I'M DOING AN EXPERIMENT

To prove something to a friend, please

REBLOG IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

LIKE IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS DON’T BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

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I used to laugh at this, buy now I just think it would really happen.