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Here's a fun story of malicious compliance to brighten your day:

Until recently, a few people in my office had these desk shades to combat the obnoxious fluorescent lights, which is very helpful for people (like me) with migraines or other light-sensitivity issues.

A few days ago, everyone who has them was told to take them down. Different people were given different reasons - It violates fire code (it doesn't) / It blocks line of sight (sort of?). Since this goes against the existing status quo, the union reps (my beloved) jumped on it. Someone jokingly suggested using umbrella hats instead, since hats are allowed in the dress code. Today, the union reps are passing out these ridiculous things in protest:

If the rules are absurd, the resistance should match.

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idgaf if my parents are disappointed in me I'm not impressed by them either

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I think the best most human thing in the world is strangers doing a silly thing together

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The fact that DOGE's Brightest Minds have been exposed just going in there typing "gay" "trans" and "black" in the search bars and deleting whatever comes up el em ay oh

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you have to outlive donald trump

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So, in the area of the US where I grew up, when a cat kneads at you, we say it’s “making biscuits”.

I was curious what this motion was called in the UK and other Anglophone countries where “biscuits” refers to what Americans call cookies - that is, something where the dough doesn’t need to be kneaded the way it does for US-style biscuits.  So a while back, I asked a bunch of my friends about it.

The general consensus was that the cat is just “kneading”, but my South African friend L. sternly informed me that “what the cat is baking is the cat’s business” and sometimes I just like to think about that. :D

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I don’t know why that affected me so strongly, but I’m watching a youtube video on disasters on Lake Huron, and the first one involves a coal freighter that was lost in the White Hurricane of 1913 called the SS Argus. Everyone on the ship was lost. But it’s mentioned that the captain’s body washed up later, and was found without a life jacket. So they thought, based partly on testimony of another ship that thought they saw them go down, that it just happened too fast for him to have time to get his jacket. But then another body was found, that of the second cook, and she was found wearing the life jacket marked ‘captain’. And that’s …

It didn’t work. It didn’t save her. But it’s so very possible that he spent his last moments alive trying to save someone else, one of his crew, and they probably both knew that it wouldn’t work, that there wasn’t a lot of hope in a blizzard on the lakes in November, but he tried … he tried anyway. Even if it did nothing but maybe make her body easier for her family to find.

You know that Mr Rogers thing of ‘look for the helpers’? How many times has someone, facing the end, done something tiny and fragile and maybe hopeless just to try and help someone else? Whether it works or not. How many people went to their graves at least trying?

That has to say something about us. As a people. As monstrous as we sometimes (perhaps often) are, so many times we were also …

Whoever saves one life, saves the whole world.

And sometimes you can’t save one life, sometimes it doesn’t work, sometimes there’s no getting out of this for anyone, but … try anyway. Because it matters anyway.

And maybe no one will ever know. But maybe also some day more than a century down the line, maybe some idiot will be crying into her coffee because of what you died trying.

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'Trans men aren't mentioned in these oppressive laws.'- Yeah cause they aren't acknowledged to exist. That doesn't mean that the people making laws don't KNOW they exist. Just that they won't say it.

The laws against abortion don't mention trans men.

But that doesn't mean the people making them didn't think of that. They just can't verbally acknowledge trans men to be real. They're still going to force them to give birth. They're still going to deny them medical care. They're still going to leave them bleeding out to die in a car park over a fetus.

Isn't it just beautiful? You can beat them, violate them, dehumanise them, rape them, kill them. And then after all that, they'll still be people- activists even- going

'they didn't mean to target them'

they didn't mean to target them. No. You're right, they're stupid. They just didn't realise how these laws would target trans men. An oopsie. An oversight.

But at the end of the day. They're still going to die. And you'll be left, standing over their bodies. Crying that the men who killed them...

didn't mean it.

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I genuinely think there was no greater insight into the modern Christian mindset than when the Pope said he very much hoped Hell was empty and he was absolutely hounded by both Catholics and Protestants outraged at the idea of a man who wanted a place of infinite suffering to have nobody in it.

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“we need more weird queers!” you guys can barely handle a hairy woman

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So on the 27th DeepSeek R1 dropped (a chinese version of ChatGPT that is open source, free and beats GPT's 200 dollar subscription, using less resources and less money) and the tech market just had a loss of $1,2 Trillion.

Source

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pt. 17

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Cardinal Farms (Harvey / Witch Farmer) Part 11

Yay! Maru side plot time!

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Small little life update but my iPad screen shattered this week ☹️. Thankfully it is still usable so part updates will continue to be consistent! But I do have a Ko-fi and if y’all would like to donate so I can have the screen fixed it would be greatly appreciated!

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cleaning along desire paths