#blah blah blah buzzwords

[satoriberry]

"radical islam" i'm gonna beat the shit out of you right now im not kidding

[gothicprep]

shrek’s drag alter ego talks a big game but she would be terrified of me if I went off my lithium

[ale-arro]

romantic attraction wants you to feel it so badly. bc why am i out here being like, "man i keep daydreaming about a relationship with this person, maybe i Am romantically attracted to them." meanwhile the daydream is that he's closeted so i can't tell anybody about it and we meet up like once a week and that's it. yeah classic normative romantic attraction

[baffledapple]

once again i am being subjected to "educational courses on generative AI" (lengthy advertisements that the higher ups want us to watch so they can say that we are trained in AI)

[showmethesneer]

It's so funny how most of the time when someone asks me my favourite movie and i tell them it's Atonement, they have never even heard of it. And by funny i mean it makes me want to scream for hours but I'm so used to it now that i just kinda accept it.

[bloomingonionbitch]

(my class today is from 1-5 PM...i can't wait for the professor to talk about human development and educational psychology while ignoring the fact that a four-hour traditional lecture maybe isn't the best pedagogical approach).

[poebrey]

we need to stop arguing with conservatives about what the latest appropriated and misinterpreted terms mean and start saying left wing policies in a factual manner the same way they espouse their beliefs

[financeprincess]

“high value men” “feminine energy” “dark feminine” “wife material” “hypergamy” “providers” “rotational dating”

blah blah blah blah blah whatever. It’s a farce. I knew this day would come when feminine level up content would become derivative and soulless and full of opportunists using buzzwords trying to sell courses.

All I can say is keep centering yourself every single day, get your bag, get your education, network, workout, eat healthy, sleep right, rest as much as you can, get your water intake up, get your skincare on, whiten your teeth, only let men near you who benefit you (note I didn’t say sleep with!), pay off your high interest debt, get your investments up, and cut out all the bullshit and noise. don’t even worry about “how to get a husband” “how to dress like old money” because honestly, that stuff will come naturally when you don’t have to fake it anyway. Do you really think actual “high value” (I don’t like this terminology) women are stressed about finding a husband? Do you think actual wealthy people care about appearing wealthy to others? Just get after it and you won’t have to worry about faking it at all. It will all come naturally.

[bloomeng]

One thing I will never understand is why most mdzs fans are so pressed about Jin Guangyao. I understand disliking him if you’re a huge fan of the canon characters he’s hurt, but so many of the people who hate him are only here for wangxian. And like wtf did he do to wangxian? To me, his biggest offense is killing Nie Mingjue who was literally already dying. But if you see any discussion online from people who don’t like him it’s only about how he married his sister. And it drives me insane.

Lemme spell it out (I say arguing with the wall)

1) When he is introduced to Qin Su he has no idea and accepts the engagement because it's expected of him to marry.

2) His father is a horrible abusive man.

3) Jin Guangyao sleeps with her once for the sake of propriety before he knows.

4) He finds out right before the wedding meaning that calling it off would be suspicious.

5) If he called out his father the best that would happen is him getting thrown out and losing everything he’s worked towards and the worst is his father killing him and Qin Su and even maybe her mother.

6) He never touches her again.

Whether MXTX meant it or not Meng Yao’s struggle is a foil to Wei Wuxian’s. This idea of severe classism controlling who gets to survive and prosper in this world is integral to the story. Wei Wuxian is lucky because he happened to be brought into a sect due to connections he had before his birth. Meng Yao isn’t so lucky. His mother being a sex worker is crucial to his whole story. Because of his mother Meng Yao suffers from this anti-sexwork rhetoric and I don’t say this lightly but a lot of his struggles in life are rooted in the misogyny towards his mother. So when people pick on him for marrying his sister— something he was forced into— and mock him for it… it feels tone-deaf. It’s similar to the way real-life misogyny effects the way people hate Madame Yu, but that’s a whole other can of worms.

To be clear it is not misogynistic to dislike Jin Guangyao that would be a crazy thing to say. It’s the way people go about it. When factors of his birth, his mother, and classism, in general, get mixed in, is when the conversation goes sour.

Jin Guangyao’s actions are not excused because his life was hard but neither are Wei Wuxian’s. People get so wrapped up in the POV of the novel they forget it’s biased. If the story were from Jin Guangyao’s POV I bet people would not loathe him to this extent. Which is so frustrating. Blah Blah Blah reading comprehension buzzword.

[monstersinthecosmos]

I really would encourage everyone to do a mindfulness check before you post about your problematic blorbo and do a proofread for disclaimers and excuses.

ie: "Yeah they're terrible but I like them!" or "It's canon!" or "[misc discourse buzzword gotchas about fiction not being reality, blah blah]"

Just don't! You don't need to! It isn't necessary!

What if we were surrounded by people who didn't constantly assume the worst of us and didn't assume we endorsed the wrongdoings of a fictional character? What if we didn't feel the need to self-censor to appease conservatives?

Blunting every post you share, everything you lovingly create, every silly thing you have to say with a moral disclaimer is an affirmation that there is a moral deficit and adds to the stigma about liking dark fiction. What if we were unapologetic because there's nothing to apologize for?

And you know what? The people you're trying to please do not fucking care lmao. It's not going to change their minds. They're going to think you're a scumbag anyway so why are we wasting time trying to gain their favor?

So don't pollute your posts with it, don't take attention away from your art and your fics, don't try to fill a quota for how often every month you apologize for your interests, because all it does is start a negative conversation around something that's really boring and takes attention away from the thing you're actually trying to say!!! You're allowed to be proud of your fanfic and artwork and meta and silly memes and fun lil ideas and you don't need to invite discourse every fucking time!!!!!

[scoobydoodean]

Dean under a truth curse:

DEAN You're covered in blood until you're covered in your own blood. Half the time, you're about to die. Like right now. I told myself I wanted out... that I wanted a family. VERITAS But you were lying. DEAN No. But what I'm good at... is slicing throats. I ain't a father. I'm a killer. And there's no changing that. I know that now.

spnblr: DeAn diDn't EvEn WANT to be arOunD LiSa and BEn ewWwW they have cOOtiEs he doesn't actUally CaRe AbOut ThEm hE NevEr even WaNTed A famIlY or At LeAsT noT liKe tHaT iT's just C o M p H e T he WanTed hIS BrOtHeR / cAs blah blAh blaH sUbURbs blah blah blah [buzzword] [buzzword] [buzzword] [BUZZWORD BUZZWORD BUZZWORD B U Z Z W O R D]

[xx-slug-xx]

Just so people in other areas are aware. The average every day conservatives are on the same page as the rest of us regarding the death of that CEO guy. Not speaking for all of them, but they get fucked by health care too and they are done. Idk why Fox News is so tone-deff about their own viewers' opinions, as well as like all the other news sources about this issue in regards to pointing the blame on conservatives. But I did want to get some thoughts out there.

This is not a political issue. What health insurance companies are doing as a human rights issue that affects everyone in the lower classes. Just because the upper-class conservatives are upset doesn't mean that all conservatives are upset. Yeah, crypto bros, nft dweebs, and AI idiots are corporate conservatives (typically) are included in the upper-class equation. The upper class, generally, is pretty vocal about silencing this issue. Because they feel threatened.

Don't let the media or social media make y'all think that this is political when its not. Don't let the media and social media distract you from one of the biggest problems in America. Sorry, but identity politics (blah blah buzzword used to talk about the issues of minorities I know. Sorry. Minorities of all sorts deserve human rights, don't come for me when that's not what I'm talking about) and other such things only affect a small number of us when health care affects ALL of us. Quite literally. It's more helpful to EVERY cause if the health care is actually helpful to us instead of something we buy into at major costs only for nothing to be done because treatment for this, that, and the other thing is "not medically necessary". We need to remember that the most important things we can do helps everyone Things like inflation going down, the economy getting better, better education, AND better healthcare all help out everyone. No matter who they are. And while I personally am favorable twards trans rights for obvious reasons (but yes, other issues too that I won't get into here), I feel that if we can solve other major issues first, then we can get to the other issues later.

The only reason this is political at all is because the government makes money when we're sick and injured through pharmaceutical companies.

(obligatory killing people is bad and I don't want people to die but I am frustrated that peace has gotten us nowhere with the health care crisis going on and I just desperately want change)

(I will not be censored but god damn do I not want to be arrested for something I said on the internet if shit goes south)

[secular-jew]

Maybe I'm dumb and missed something but "You were too much of a coward to post the source" Isn't the source literally in the fucking picture? Like, right underneath the population increase there's literally a source listed? (inb4: But you can't click it." Yeah I can't fucking click the sources in physical papers either, some don't even link the books in online papers.)

Also... bonus side note, any population count is gonna be considered an estimate unless you'd literally be able to count each person, birth and death. Estimate is because you can never be 100% certain, but the estimate goes based on the most available trends. Also, please note that 2.02% is a pretty significant increase during war time, or honestly any population, if you consider how many countries have downward trends. Just because the % isn't a huge number, doesn't mean it isn't a significant increase.

About the genocide thing, from my educational understanding, genocide always happens with the intent to eradicate an entire genetic branch. That isn't going on in Gaza. I think someone once worded it like so "Genocide is bureaucracy." basically you know it's going on because it'll be written down and the people in power will it, it'll be an "open" secret. Nobody "accidentally" does a genocide. War is not a genocide. Blah blah blah, genocide isn't some stupid buzzword for soggy leftists to throw around when their (actually) genocidal death cult is losing.

There's neither genocide not apartheid, two of the common terms thrown around by the global intifada that seeks to eventually dominate the west through demographic jihad.

Mobs always speak in robotic slogans.

Meanwhile, Arab petro dollars are funding Islamic Jihad globally, and the West, dependent on Arab oil, is importing full-price jihadists (acting as students) into every university, as these Middle East potentates are generously funding these schools.

Turns out, gaslighting works at zombie-izing entire population groups who aren't historically savvy and don't seem to have any ability to discern. The Islamist mob is savvy at enlisting immature students into their "protests" and the universities put up with it under the cover of "tolerance," because they fear losing their petro-funding gravy trains.

The millions of Islamist trolls (who sympathize with Islam), perpetuate the lies without a second thought.

The ICC is heavily influenced by Islamist propaganda and Islamist members.

[wolfertinger]

"extreme ableism to those who are support needs" this mf just reading words off a sheet and thinking we don't know it. blah blah blah, buzzword buzzword buzzword. you are low support needs, salem. you are the people being ableist to higher support needs autistics. you are not the victim. stay mad about it.

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[fuck-customers]

Sorry in advance. This one is gonna be REAL long and vent-y.

So I currently have a retail job that I've been at for 4 years. I'll be honestly, it's never been a great job and since it's retail, I obviously never intended to stay there forever. Honestly, I've stayed there longer than I intended to, due to a lot of disasters in my personal life. (legal battles, house fire, homelessness) And because it was easier to just stay at a job that I already had and was already established and trained and knew the drill vs. going through these personal disasters at a new job, trying to give a good impression and perform well while hiding the fact that I'm miserable and going through a lot of difficulties that I do not want to bring into work/have bosses or coworkers be aware of. (I feel very hesitant to share any personal info at work, because I worry that any shared info not work-related can be used against me, in minor and major ways. But perhaps I'm being unnecessarily paranoid.)

However, after all this time of me dragging my feet, it is unfortunately clear to me that I am going to have to get another job. My job was always part-time (with a promise that was a lie about being promoted to full-time with good performance) but now my hours have majorly decreased from 12-30 hours per week when I was first hired, to now getting 3-6 hours EVERY OTHER WEEK.

So now I have begrudgingly resigned myself to accept the fact that I need to apply for jobs. I'm terrified. I've accepted it, but I'm terrified.

I don't have very much work experience. I had a seasonal job before my current job (3 months) and I've been at my current job for (a bit over) 4 years, which looks good because it shows loyalty, commitment, blah, blah, blah. But that's IT. 2 jobs. No degree or license or qualifications. I was in a few clubs in high school, but I'm too old to be listing my high school achievements. I can't afford college. And I know that a lot of job applications have auto-delete programs that will just trash an application if it doesn't have the correct buzzwords...but how am I supposed to know the correct buzzwords? I've also heard about ghost listings where companies post job listings they never intend to fill so they get a tax write off or whatever. (Idk if this is true, but the idea is enough to terrify me) I also have a hearing disability and I suspect (but am undiagnosed) that I have a learning/neurological disability, possibly ADHD or mild autism.

So there's ALL THAT weighing on my mind. And then on top of all of that, I'm scared out of my mind about my own personal situation.

I figure I can probably fake it well enough for the first week or so, maybe the first month if I'm really crafty and lucky (I figure I can get through the application process by listing my P.O. box as an address without putting that it's a P.O. box. And I have a lot of clothes from before becoming homeless that I can change into so I'm not constantly wearing the same clothes) but eventually people at this hypothetical new job will figure out that I live in a car (I can change my outfits and use dry shampoo on my hair, but trust me, from experience I know that I can really only go about a week and a half without a proper shower before it becomes very noticeable, no matter how much dry shampoo I use. I am a female woman with medium-length hair, for perspective) and will treat me differently and disrespect me and treat me as less than human. Or possibly take advantage of me, shoving extra work on me because I "need the money" and making me a scapegoat. Or worse, firing me. Sure, it's illegal (I think) but if they really want you gone, they can find any minor mistake you have made (and being new at a job, I will likely make a few) and use that as an excuse to fire me. Or lay me off due to "budget cuts" or some bullshit. If they want you gone, they can make it happen.

But most importantly, I don't feel good about myself. I've never had particularly high self-esteem, but in past interviews, I was able to list positive traits of mine and spin the less positive ones in a good light.

But now I don't even remember a positive thing about me. It doesn't help that my mother (whose car I live in) puts me down every chance she gets. Every day, she calls me a loser with a dead-end job and tells me I need to get a new job, without listening to what I tell her I need from her to do so. (She doesn't have a job, but of course that's not a problem) For example, I do not have word on my laptop. I need to go somewhere (library? the paperclips store? Unfortunately the work network place in my area that used to help with job applications, resumes, etc shut down) to use a computer with word to update my resume, as the one I have on my computer does not have my current job. (I tried to use the online version...what a nightmare. Also, sure there ARE resume websites where you can use their templates and make your resume....for a price. Usually $50+ that I can't afford for something I will use exactly once.) She refuses to help, even though I think her laptop has word, but I am not certain, and instead just repeats the same things over and over like a broken record. "You need to get a better job." "You're going to die a loser at a dead-end job if you don't quit." "You need to get a full-time job." (Sidenote: she herself has not even glanced at job listings. There are NO full-time jobs available, unless you are a licensed professional, a doctor, nurse, teacher, etc.)

But despite all of that, I need a new job. I held our for the holidays, thinking with the holiday rush, I'd get more hours and I could use that to keep me afloat while looking for a new job in the new year. Well. Our hours continually got CUT during the holidays and I suspect the store may go out of business and I do not want to still work there when it does. (Even though I would LOVE to watch it burn) The harsh reality is that I need a new job. I just have absolutely no faith that I can find anything much better than my current job. I expect the most I'll find is part-time of 20-30 hours per week, which is still better than 3-6 every other week, but I truly need a full-time job. Which will not happen.

Posted by admin Rodney.

[444m777]

29 things I love about Michael: Day 14

This one might be a little weird to say but I was 11 years old when I found out Michael struggled with severe acne. Eleven being the age where it exploded and it became severe and I struggled with being teased and having all kinds of adults/family giving their unsolicited advice on what to do. It was a time where my mom told me she cried whenever she thought back to when I like 7 before my acne took over my face. My grandmother cried with tears running down her face. I went to visit her in Sint Martin as a surprise and she saw me and saw my face and wept! She said in tears how am I supposed to find a man with my face looking the way it did. YIKES! I was a child… very fucked up but yeah… it made me dislike mirrors/seeing my reflection BUT it was when Michael revealed he too had severe acne and the very wrong and unwarranted things people said to him made me feel like he was talking TO me.

Two things were going through my mind. Actually three things. First I was watching Living with Michael Jackson and I watched it secretly because my mom banned me from watching or speaking about Michael because she felt I was too obsessed blah blah… so I had to be on the look out (luckily the car they had at the time made a loud pitch so I could hear them coming). I kept running back and forth to the tv screen and the porch to make sure they weren’t outside. Second, THE Michael Jackson had acne!? But he’s perfect!? Is this some kind of joke? But I believed him immediately. My kid brain was just shocked! Not that he had acne but the fact that he got treated so badly for something he couldn’t help. Like, when he recounted someone asking for him and then they saw him and went “ewwww, what happened?”. I was almost in tears. Tears of sadness because I could relate to the hurt he felt because I was living it. I basically was like even Michael went through such a traumatic experience. I’m older now so idk how the public reaction to acne is nowadays. It’s certainly not blown out of proportion the way it was in my days and I’m sure also in his days. People can be terribly mean spirited and growing up with severe acne it was like I was given a death sentence. I was no longer a person. I was just a walking talking cluster of pustules.

“You were so cute when you were younger”. Uhm… I’m 11 I’m still young and still very much cute! But I never had the heart to say how I felt. I just kept it all in but boy did I cry myself to sleep because of it. But that night is what lead me to the third thing… I felt seen. And not just by someone who also had acne but I felt seen by THE Michael Jackson. There was a switch that night especially after that whole moment. I could say with honesty that that part of the documentary (even though Martin B. was a rat and an opportunist) it changed something in my brain. I no longer felt sorry for myself. Like I didn’t feel cursed. I was the only one in my family that had severe acne. My big sister had her acne moment and it hit her like a brick but it hit me like a WRECKING BALL! So it just made everyone focus on the fact that I looked “unclean”. Ugh the information regarding acne and the things people would say… my god! I know with the increase in interest for skincare, it’s changed but the damage had already been done. But Michael was a little salve of hope that maybe this is something I can “get over” and that it’s also not the end of the world. He didn’t stop. He didn’t crumble. It was tough and hurtful, but he knew he was more than just his skin condition. He got through it. And I held on to that for years. I still think about it often.

The power of media/media representation is so interesting and important that it has become a buzzword and is still gravely overlooked. To be a Black kid with acne being told you won’t find a man (at an age where you shouldn’t be worrying or thinking about being an eligible partner to somebody), being told that you were once beautiful and that that time has passed because you clearly aren’t beautiful anymore, receiving all kinds of “medical” advice that amounted to nothing, to watch your own mother be frustrated that you did everything in your power NOT to let it bother you because in her eyes it meant you did not care for your skin and situation… I just didn’t want to make it a big deal. I was a child but I understood very quickly that it was puberty/hormones. But my mom and everyone else turned it into a curse. My life was over at the age of 11. And Michael came in like “yeah it sucks but you’re going to be okay baby girl”. That was all I needed. He didn’t say it like that but that’s how I took it. I was forever changed. I stopped worrying so much about what everyone was saying. It hurt but the sting didn’t linger. I remember telling my mom about finding out Michael had severe acne too and she dismissed it🙃 My relationship with her now is MUCH better by the way. But back then… YIKES! 🥴

Anyways, I love that Michael gave me strength in such a terribly edited and purposely damning documentary. The pictures I’ve looked up years later of him with acne made me feel like I wasn’t alone. It’s so easy to feel isolated. To feel like you’re the ONLY ONE going through something shitty. I sometimes see those same pictures edited with a blur. And I get it, he would’ve scrubbed the world of those pictures if he could but I really like them. It shows and reminds me that we’re all human. I don’t see his scars/acne. I saw a lovely kid full of life. That is what I wanted people to see in me and not constantly point out my acne. I could go on and on but you get the point. We’re all going through some version of the same things but we’re more than our physical bodies and their conditions. Michael made me feel less ugly and more like myself at that age. So, thank you Michael for literally making me feel like I’m not gross at the age of 11 and that I wasn’t the only one who had acne the way I had it.

It’s Michael’s birthday month and so I’m sharing every day something I love about him. Feel free to join in or use the tag #29thingsMJ I’d love to read what you love about him