#i got a job.....but at what cost

[horanghey]

yall.............

[skateboard-theta]

if i can be so honest for a moment. the most compelling thing about Yorklina is that Carolina just fucking dropped him like nothing. i crack up. go girl he meant nothing to you. blandest hetero ship ever

[pop-punklouis]

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[awkward-teabag]

Was looking at my iPod Nano and thought how utterly BS it is that companies say it takes too much room to have a headphone jack.

I already thought it was BS before but the claim invariably comes down to form factor and keeping the jacks would make the device too big.

My Nano is ~5mm thick with the jack (also it's thinner than that but the glass stands out to make it thicker). That's nearly 3mm thinner than the latest iPhone and even the thinnest iPhone is over 2mm thicker.

You're telling me as components and ports shrink and boards also get smaller, it's unfeasible to do something that was done a decade ago?

It's almost as if it's not that form factor/technology doesn't allow it and it's all about selling proprietary adapters and/or Apple-brand headphones/earbuds/airpods that can be paired without a jack, and removing customer freedom.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[manderleyfire]

– But you did it for me. – I did it for us. No more secrets. No more lies.

Annabel Scholey and Jack Farthing in The Serial Killer's Wife (2024), dir. Laura Way

[orcelito]

Considering the. Ahem. Ways this year has gone, I've not been thinking about it all that much, but. I did start this year with the motto of Year Of Unfucking My Life. With a few goals involved in that.

I got an official adhd diagnosis, as well as a diagnosis for PCOS. Other diagnoses in progress. Gotten adhd meds and birth control to regulate periods. I've gone back to school and I'm keeping up with it better than ever before. I've even been working on practicing driving, something I've been largely neglecting since I first got my driving permit, um... 11 years ago...

I just need to actually Get my license. And I need to get it before the end of the year. If I can accomplish that, then I'll say the Year Of Unfucking My Life was successful.

[pemguims]

am i . am i justified buying a new phone bc the vibes are just off with my current one and nothing else is wrong with it KDHOENFKSJDJEJ

[arnold-layne]

i hate that finding a good job this day always requires networking. what about us antisocial bitches that say more words to an npc than to a human in a day. i really should be able to get a decent job with skills alone, not through someone i happen to know, because i don’t know that many people.

[savrenim]

not to be another donations post but you may remember how over the summer we had massive amounts of plumbing problems and other unexpected moving costs? well. after proceeding to work every single hour available to me for six months, take no holidays whatsoever, and budget the hell out of every aspect of my life, I was actually on track to pay everything back and maybe have a little bit of wiggle room by the time summer came around!

and then we got a call from the vet about routine labs saying that if we didn't take Suzy in to an emergency specialty hospital immediately, she would die within in a week, she might die anyways if we took her there, but it was our only chance to have a few more months with her. after an extremely difficult household discussion, we decided that we needed to do as much as we could for her. she's been a beloved member of the family for 18 years. we were not going to abandon her in her hour of need.

with two days at the specialty hospital, the prognosis was better than we could have possibly hoped! the most important thing is she does not have heart problems at all, which means that we can treat her chronic kidney disease with normal IV fluids and with careful treatment she could easily be with us for years to come. the timely intervention also may or may not have saved her from acute kidney failure too, we'll know when we go back to the vet on Wednesday to get her blood checked where her levels have stabilized at.

two days at the specialty hospital means we are also down $3652 , and no longer are on track to pay back everything by July when it comes due unless a couple of uncertain things going forward Go Right, I do not trust everything to Go Right, and we're also still uncertain about what long-term treatment going forward is going to cost.

I still have my ko-fi and my patreon, but honestly, I'm aware that everything is tight for everyone always and there are also a lot of causes that need money right now and in the face of that "hey my family went super out on a limb to try to save our cat and would love some help not falling off" feels kind of shallow. but like. not to sound dumb or like a youtuber or podcaster, but, like. honestly I think the Most Helpful Thing that anyone could do for me right now is take a fucking HelloFresh link that will send you a "free" box for cost-of-shipping ($7ish?) if you Sign Up For An Account that you can then cancel Immediately After The Box Has Shipped and Never Give Them Any More Money Than That and get Six To Ten Meals Out Of It, and for getting someone to "sign up", they will give me a free box too. like. if 13 people are willing to take a link then I don't need to worry about food for the next three months. which would be. HUGE.

so I guess.... dm me if you want a link? otherwise expect to see a lot of promotion of my writing/ patreon as I scramble the hell to try to make this money up

[declamationark]

Something that has been nibbling at the back of my head is this difference between Akutagawa's reception at ADA in Beast AU and Atsushi's reception in canon. Like, what changed? I know Dazai's not there but to be honest, the way the ADA treated Atsushi and Akutagawa in the beginning is so different I don't know why like

Atsushi in canon:

He's the man-eating tiger they were looking for but he wasn't aware of his ability until then, he was starving and his self-esteem is so low it reaches the earth's core. He kinda bumbled through his entrance exam but still managed to truly pass the entrance exam ("I mean, if you die, you're dead!" still cracks me up), and yes, he does have that 7 billion yen bounty on him so I can see why he's a danger to the ADA but he did try to lure the port mafia away from the ADA even if they just thought he's running away (kinda true but also, did Kunikida ever know the real reason Atsushi was leaving and then cried when he realized the ADA isn't helpless?) When he and Kyoka got kidnapped by Akutagawa, Fukuzawa had to order the ADA to rescue them (Kunikida and Ranpo were on team don't rescue and I think Tanizaki and Kenji were neutral and Naomi's definitely team rescue since she got Fukuzawa) (also, did Atsushi and Kyoka ever find out they were almost abandoned? no?)

Akutagawa in Beast AU:

He was a starving orphan Oda literally just picked up from the riverside but here he tries to kill Oda several times. He is focused only in finding the man in black and getting his sister back and while this made attempts at conversation with him hilarious, it's paints the fact that he's not very good at socializing (Kenji is such a sweetheart in his part of the story). He disarmed Tanizaki the bomber but didn't actually pass the test, he had to be given that stamp test to get further into rescuing his sister. He was literally attempting murder every time Oda was near him but they still went to support him when he (by his own volition) stormed port mafia's base by himself (which is actually more dangerous than canon because of Dazai's influence and all that). He's cool despite his murder-happy actions but still

and all this is just... ?????????

What changed???? Is a guy trying to murder your coworker repeatedly and chokes every client in the neck that much more preferable to another guy who happened to get a massive bounty on him? Is there a missing scene in beast where Fukuzawa had to order the ADA to support Akutagawa as a parallel to canon? I guess the whole stamp shenanigans and the "I want to save my sister" made the ADA connect more with Akutagawa and therefore made them more willing to help him but huh???? I need answers, I really don't get why they acted so differently, the changes Dazai did only started(I think?) at the night he was supposed to choose Akutagawa, so was there a butterfly effect from that? It's cool and all in Beast AU but huh???

Atsushi got unwillingly slammed into Akutagawa's kidnapping van and he was almost left to his fate but, Akutagawa can willingly storm port mafia but got no-questions-asked I-gotchu-fam squad??

I genuinely don't know what changed

[carcarrot]

i guess im being offered the job lol

[fereldanwench]

i've been considering resuming job hunting again but i think I'm still, like, traumatized from what i went through in 2021 lmao

[cakemoney]

i don't want to put my uninformed foot in my mouth or get involved with the Discourse but i've been seeing the two extremes of reactions to the korean low birth rates issue (on tumblr and twitter both) and i'm just kind of like. look. i feel like "low birth rates (in many countries but especially japan and korea as part of this conversation) are more broadly the result of capitalism/a culture of overwhelming overwork that makes social relationships and having families incredibly inaccessible to young people" and "low birth rates are very much a part of the current conversation about misogyny and social expectations for women in korea especially in the context of reproduction as 'unpaid labor' for women" are statements that can both be true

[damnprecious]

do you ever just regret all your life choices

[autumnoakes]

me, who started uni thinking i was entirely neurotypical and able-bodied but just lazy: i'm a failure for how long it's taking me to finish this degree. i'm a failure for being unable to get a job while i do so, much less handle it while i study. i don't deserve to take a semester off, i need to be doing something. i need to be able to support myself somehow. i'm failing at life

random voice in my head: you're not even 25 yet. most of your classmates are the same age as you. you can only handle so much and the threshold is much lower for you than for an able-bodied and -minded person. everyone deserves a break and should be able to take one without consequence and it's a shame that you don't feel you deserve it. the milestones you're worried about aren't real and even the one deadline you're worried about is 4 years in the future and your advisor told you not to worry about it anyways. deep breaths. it'll be alright.