dreamed that kindergarten nap was called sleep class and everybody went to sleep including the teacher. if you were awake it would get a little bit foggy outside and grey and cloudy, and these guys would start approaching the classroom from behind the tree line (forgive my shitty phone drawing)
and they were at least a story tall, some of them were taller, you could see their legs over the trees. they would approach very slowly. this one (the one i drew) had a name for some reason, his name is kick.
before i was totally awake my brain conjured a meme of a bunch of these guys approaching from the treeline and a child watching from the window with the caption “when you the only one awake in sleep class 😂😳😏”
ok this is TERRIFYINGLY close to what i saw in my head while i was sleeping thank you.
I wish depression were an emergency. I wish someone could take one look at how sick I am and go “oh my god, we need to get you to a hospital!” and then when we get there I get rushed into surgery and the surgeons say “it’s a good thing you brought her here when you did, this is a seriously advanced case” and then they put me under and spend the next ten hours pulling metres of long, sticky black strands of gunk out of my body, throwing it immediately into an incinerator so that it can’t infect anyone else. And then they could stitch me back up and I could rest a few days, and when I leave the hospital everyone can see how much better I am and they congratulate me saying “well done, you’ve been so brave, I’m so glad you’re ok. I love you.”
be normal about people who wear diapers. be normal about people who need colostomy/catheter bags. be normal about people who need to wear pads or pad their mattress. be normal about incontinence. it’s not funny or weird or gross, it can happen to anyone of any age, and it’s frankly embarrassing that some of y’all can’t be normal about the aspects of disability that ick you out
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post
…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment
likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post
i need all the help i can get for finals
Hey so
the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like.
Talking to friends with inept parents is crazy. No wonder they’re like this if their parents kept fumbling
“I’m having trouble adapting to my adult responsibilities” well no wonder, nobody raised you 😭😭😭
Hot tip for future parents: you actually have to guide your kid to adulthood. Feeding them and waiting for them to grow up is not enough since they are not house plants. A little more thought and care is required.
It was cocky and overconfident to call the Titanic “unsinkable” but one thing that’s overlooked is that she was genuinely really, unusually solid. She could float even with 4 compartments fully flooded, which even a lot of modern day ships can’t do.
And it’s not like they were wrong about her being solid! Olympic, her identical sister ship, survived being torpedoed and then running over the U-Boat that fired that torpedo. Those ships were solid.
It’s very clear that absolutely no other ship in 1912 would have been able to survive that collision, and it’s a testament to the quality of the ship that she didn’t sink in a few minutes Empress of Ireland style. Part of what makes the Titanic such a tragic story is that it isn’t a group of rich idiots locking themselves in a shoddy iron barrel to go 4km underwater. It was 2200 people, most of whom were poor immigrants, on a reliable ship on a commonly-made journey, and then something went horribly, unpredictably wrong.
“Nobody wants to work” yet im over here filling out 3945867483293064359469 applications on 500 different job hunting sites, each application demanding i take a 30 minute-test to PROVE that me and my paltry resume are worth a multi-million company giving me 16 whole dollars an hour. Nobody wants to work yet 97 of the 100 applications you fill out just ghost you (because when a Boss does it, that’s just how it is. But if you ghost? Unprofessional.) or give you some pointless runaround for 3 weeks until telling you you’re not a good fit because you only have 3 years of dick-sucking experience and they want 5. Nobody wants to work? Nobody wants to invest in employees. Nobody wants to hire, nobody wants to train, nobody wants to teach anyone new skills. Nobody wants to accept that YES, some people DO work to collect a paycheck and thats FINE, not all of us are born with a passion to be a Starbucks Manager. We’re all passionate about living and supporting ourselves and I wish bosses would stop being so lazy and rude and give my friends jobs for $20000 an hour
As someone who is stuck in a fast food job that refuses to hire sufficient staff (or even call in help from other restaurants(!)), and has had a paralegal degree since 2017 and has yet to be hired, I know.
We need etsy to get bought by someone who will run it like the navy i need to only see small businesses in eastern europe weaving baskets by hand and anime yaoi keychains with original fanart
Literally need someone with an serial killer level obsession with content moderation to sit at a wall of monitors sniping dropshippers. I need etsy HQ to look and sound like the nerv command center in Evangelion
I actually think it would be relatively simple to have a dropship-free version of something like etsy without too much of an increase in moderation, if you structured it right. The main problem is that my model wouldn’t have the rapid growth (and therefore rapid income for the platform) that online markets are going for. It would be very unlikely to ever achieve the breadth of etsy or ebay so marketplace creators wouldn’t be interested.
An AO3 Etsy?
Yep, an invitation-based system. Artists can apply directly to the platform for an invitation, by showing their existing shop on another site. These would have to be manually vetted by moderators to determine that they’re a) actual independent creations and b) actually belong to the person petitioning for an invite, which would be time intensive, but this shouldn’t be a huge problem because it’s only going to be the main way that people sign up for a short period of time. The real growth of the site would be in giving every seller, let’s say, one invite every six months (number and frequency can be tweaked to fit the platform’s needs) that they can give to anyone else that they want.
This makes it very easy to find and investigate violating sellers because there’s a clear chain of how they got onto the site. When a dropshipper or ai artist or whatever is flagged by a buyer, the platform investigates that seller as well as the seller above them (and anyone below them) in the invitation chain. If both sellers in the chain are dropshipping, they keep going up. They ban the dropshipped accounts, send a polite email to the legit seller who accidentally invited a dropshipper explaining that someone they invited was banned for violating the terms of service, and move on. The legitimate user is (secretly, internally) flagged so that the next few people they invite will have their accounts watched for a couple of months to ensure they’re not also dropshipping.
Since each user can only invite one person per six months, and nobody can sign up without an invitation from a user who’s putting their own reputation on the line (or by being directly vetted by the platform), this prevents automated mass signups of dropshippers creating a hundred accounts in case a few get banned. If a user is found to have invited, let’s say, three dropshippers, then they don’t get any future invitations to give out; they can keep using the site to sell as normal, assuming they’re obeying the rules, but the dropship invitation channel is cut off.
This system would make moderation of a big site with a lot of sellers much, much more efficient. It would be much easier to find problem areas and snip them off. But it would also mean a lot less sellers and a much slower growing seller base, which means less money for the platform, and sales platforms will generally rather make a lot of money through garbage than a respectable amount through a good platform.
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