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No I don't know why it's called KMS Tools. You'd think it was an acronym or initials or something but I can't find anything at all. And more indeed...

Image ID: screenshot of the banner ad from the mobile KMS Tools website. Their name is white on blue at the top, with the tagline "Best Value Guaranteed" and a little maple leaf. The ad itself reads (in various fonts) from top left to bottom right:

Black Friday <Click to Shop Flyer>

SALE [Nov 1-30] Black Friday Sale! Extra Discounts During Our 17-DAY SALE [17-DAY SALE November 14-30 $AVE]

Savings in Every Department!

Power Tools | Woodworking | Hand Tools | Welding | Construction... and more!

Me: It stands for Point of Sale

Also Me: Time to head for work at the piece of shit

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if you can divorce. you can do anything.

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Part of the reason that it's a bad idea to stay at bad jobs is that they can really fuck with your head in a way that makes it difficult to work in more functional workplaces.

I made a stupid mistake but I have no idea what the scale of the mistake is. I feel like any misstep I make is a catastrophic failure. I'm upset so frequently that I'm thinking about quitting because I'm useless and it would be less painful than getting fired and that seems to be very far away from what my new coworkers think of me. I am behind on work and the only thing my brain wants to do is sit at my desk and grind in a marathon for like thirty hours until I'm caught up but because this is a functional business I'm pretty sure they'd be horrified if I did that.

I also feel like I'm being haunted by my old boss which is really putting into context how controlling and shitty he was when I'd basically gotten so used to it that I didn't notice that anymore.

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AM radio is like literal magic. There is music all around us that we can't hear, and to hear it you just have to tap a crystal (diode) to the earth and listen to it with another magic rock (magnet) and a tin can. You dont even need electricity to make it work because this music around us is literally all the power you need. Oh and at night when the sun has set, the light of the day gets replaced by MORE music because the signals can travel further at night. This is magic. If you even care.

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(via the author, at the Ex Bird place)

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In case you need it for your D&D games or siege actions— here's what the ballistic trajectory of a flaming pumpkin fired out of a trebuchet looks like.

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PLEASE watch this. i love chaotic sisters best dynamic in the world

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tbh i think it's really interesting how often the narration brings up & then essentially dismisses as ridiculous the idea of suicide wrt jean valjean ("we doubt whether he had thought of suicide, an irreligious act"; "Suicide ... was impossible to Jean Valjean"), because like even besides his repeated carelessness of his own life, to my view at least what he does at the end of the book is very much suicide. but likewise I fully believe that to his point of view (I go back and forth on the narration itself) he doesn't consider it to be suicide, which in many ways I think he probably feels he's not "allowed" to do & I think also he has a very limited view of -- see his tone of incomprehension around javert's suicide, see the narration saying "there had existed in Jean Valjean a profound hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against himself", as though active violence is the only way to kill oneself. anyways I don't have any particular conclusions around this except that beyond all this I also find it very sad that there's almost this sort of misunderstanding of valjean's character here from the narration itself (although I'm unclear if I'd see this as intentional or not from a writing point of view) where it takes his assumptions & unwillingness to look clearly at his own feelings & deep depression + desire for death without having to be responsible for it as it were (<- I don't mean this negatively I really feel for this feeling) etc etc I guess sort of at face value & comes out with a much flatter & even less sympathetic view of him than I think really exists if we look at his whole character & narrative. and it leaves him so alone too if even the narration which has narrated his every feeling so far doesn't get this. it's like he's fooled them all even to the point of fooling the writing itself & is now totally alone. anyways more on this maybe when I've thought about it more

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Or as Strunk and White said in Elements of Style (to the best of my memory), "Feel free to ignore everything in this book rather than write something inelegant."

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i think this is probably true of every office, but there's a middle aged woman working in business who doesn't hold any particular place in the chain of command but is Sovereign. i was running support and she has access to more secure network drives than i do. im pretty sure she has an admin account. i was having trouble with my parking pass and my boss just said to talk to kristen- one day later i had parking in any garage on campus. she's not even in charge of parking in our building

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You see it's quite simple: if they call the earth Gaia, it's fantasy. If they call it Terra, that's sci-fi

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My friend drove thru town with her baby and, more importantly, the baby Dracula book I had sent to her and it’s more hilarious than I could have imagined

There’s also a page where Jonathan is like “no wonder he wants to buy a new house!” When he sees the castle

In this house we bite and run

“No biting!” The theme here is that Dracula is a recalcitrant toddler. With a stuffed dragon

“That night, everyone slept very well.”

Perfection. Zero notes. I can’t believe I can send this to a baby and no one can stop me. Sorry, your baby is a new hilarious flavor of Dracula nerd now

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Diet companies won’t tell you this but starving yourself is a lot worse for your health than overeating