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Being trans and working in an office is funny sometimes

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being moderately proficient with computers in the early 2010s was casting a hex on your family to call you sheldon

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Rupert Giles + 🔥 🔥 🔥 [requested by Anonymous]

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I just want to say, if you've ever worked a low-level office job and thought 'wow this is piss-easy', that's not a sign that the work you were doing is objectively easier than other types of work, it's a sign that you were good at it.

by which I don't mean 'stop de-valuing office work' bcos that's not a real problem, no-one is doing that, I just feel like a lot of young people aren't aware that e.g. being able to type fast and accurately, open up a computer program you've never used before and figure it out unaided, are marketable skills, not things that 'everyone' knows how to do.

I've worked in 'easy' office jobs for 6 years now and believe me, some people are bad at them & do not find them easy.

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People on the internet: if you flex your fingers up like this, it means you've got hypermobility in your hands.

Me: (immediately tries it)

Me: that's bullshit. everybody can do that, right? Hey I know, I'll message my friend who not only is hypermobile but specifically has EDS because they have lived experience. Can you believe the internet says this is hypermobility?

Friend: bro that's hypermobility

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online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

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we are never making it out of the cave

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doing some writing for my lancer pilot and remembering how his psyche is a complicated woven web of misery where he just utterly refuses to acknowledge how often he has been harmed in deeply personal and in some cases invasive ways and trying to sprinkle that in with his new relationship

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heye every one.

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middle aged lady on my bus just called someone's partner "your whimsical idiot boyfriend" over the phone . with sincere frustration might I add

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Jérémy Frerot - Tu Donnes

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but i stay silly! *←said in the most world-weary voice you ever did hear*

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I find it kind of stupid how 'half full' vs 'half empty' is framed as an optimist/pessimist thing. If it starts full and gets halfway drained, it's half empty. If it starts empty and gets halfway filled, it's half full. If you don't know the starting state it's both simultaneously.

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dril and xkcd are at opposite ends of a spectrum slowly working to collaboratively post about every possible topic

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had a bad low blood pressure moment last night and messily asked my partner for saltines and water before realizing i should probably ask for the Blood Pressure Medication I Need To Take. while they went to go grab it though i still had water and crackers so in a daze i took a swig of water but didnt swallow and then tried to cram 2 saltines in my mouth. full of water. in bed. with mouth full of water

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by Lorraine Sorlet

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