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how it feels when you and your mutuals have highly stigmatized disorders

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It’s not a phase, Big Bird.

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Green Arrow #2 - "A Slight Case of Vertigo..!" (1983)

written by Mike W. Barr art by Trevor Von Eeben, Dick Giordano, & Tom Ziuko

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cure of ra

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steven universe has this thing going on where textually he was 100% assigned male at birth but is also narratively/allegorically transmasculine. he's mtm transgender, somehow.

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watch one abandoned house restoration video and you start getting suggested videos like this

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goodbye june HELLOOO APRIL!!! 😋😍😍🥰🥰🍁🍁🍂🍂

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there IS a middle path between "worshipping every cis guy who says anything vaguely feminist and then being shocked when people use this to cover up their own misogyny" and "treating every single cis male feminist as inherently suspect and probably a lying predator who only talks about misogyny for clout/to get laid." we don't have to do either. there's this cool thing called "seeing other people as full human beings" and i think it's worth trying out

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Europeans, Brazilians, anyone else who doesn't deal with American work culture- here is a fun fact for you. We can be LUCKY to have a 1-2 week vacation.

Let me tell you about my job. It's a typical office job in GIS (engineering field type job thats sitting on a computer looking at data), has insurance included (not that the job pays for the insurance, just that it is included. It comes out of your paycheck if you sign up). Pays roughly $19 an hour for me, but I know I make the least out of all my coworkers for... reasons. Paid time off (PTO henceforth) is in hours, and it is assumed you take 8 hours of PTO a day. I have currently 21.7 hours of PTO starting from Jan 1st 2025. I have used 28 hours of PTO.

This isn't guaranteed. They don't have to give me this. I have one 'free' day of PTO as a floating holiday. I have to ask in advance to use it but I still have it. Also, PTO doesn't necessarily mean it was for a vacation or anything stress reducing. I must use my PTO on sick days or if I have a family emergency. If I don't, I could go into the negatives- yes I have been in the negatives before. I had a surgery that took longer to recover than I initially anticipated.

Do you want to know how I get more PTO? It accrues. Biweekly. At a rate of 4.62 hours per every two weeks worked. So for me to get one day off of work, I have to work a little less than four weeks. AND it gets less if I didn't work the full 40 hours a week/80 hours biweekly.

The real kicker? My company furloughs us every few months for a week or two. We are expected to use PTO or something if that happens. PTO does not contribute to accruing PTO. So whether we want to or not, we have to sit on our asses not taking a vacation because we could get called in any moment to go back to work without getting paid or using up the PTO we could be using to spend time with our families or have fun or something.

I'm not sure if this is actually allowed, but when I have a sick day I just don't take PTO and choose to not get paid because I would rather not get paid and not use up my precious vacation time. Management does not like it but I haven't been officially reprimanded by it and I think they understood it would just be salt in the wound when I had negative 12 hours of PTO at the start of this year.

AND HOW MUCH PTO DOES MY HOURS ACTUALLY EQUAL IN DAYS? AND HOW MUCH TIME HAVE I SPENT USING AS VACATION? WELL. SIX. I'VE BUILT UP 6 DAYS OF PTO SINCE JANUARY AND ITS NOW JULY. AND YA WANNA KNOW THE BEST PART? I'VE USED NONE OF IT FOR VACATION.

So, Europeans. People that live in countries that give much more time off. I hope this enlightens you to the constant stress even white collar office job Americans are under. I am so tired. I don't even like GIS.

Please give us some of ur vacation time or free us or whatever. we could become so much more cultured and enjoy life and maybe some fellow americans could be less xenophobic if they actually had the time to travel and enjoy life.

From the media that brought you "Millennials are killing [insert industry here]" articles for years and years and years, now we have....

"Hey, Gen Z, we're gonna relabel vacations into something else now and tell you how you really should be wary of taking vacation because it might impact your financial future."

This is a goddamn dystopia, we know this, right?

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From the media that brought you "Millennials are killing [insert industry here]" articles for years and years and years, now we have....

"Hey, Gen Z, we're gonna relabel vacations into something else now and tell you how you really should be wary of taking vacation because it might impact your financial future."

This is a goddamn dystopia, we know this, right?

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From the media that brought you "Millennials are killing [insert industry here]" articles for years and years and years, now we have....

"Hey, Gen Z, we're gonna relabel vacations into something else now and tell you how you really should be wary of taking vacation because it might impact your financial future."

This is a goddamn dystopia, we know this, right?

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oxidized copper is such a beautiful color palette. The rich reds with the cool teals. Such a vibrant combo. No one is doing it like her.

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This is a reminder for those who handmake Christmas presents that now is not too early to start. It may in fact be a good time to start if you have a lot to make/your craft takes a long time. You should maybe start it now, whether that's brainstorming or actually doing the crafts!