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the weirdly vengeful and petty tones aborted babies take in pro-life propaganda images are so funny like this passive aggressive "was it worth it mommy?" and "it's a shame you can't join me in heaven mommy 😔" like do you ever wonder if you were aborted for a reason you little bitch ass baby

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We aren’t breaking up babe, we are on a break

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I’m just going to leave this here

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the term Average Joe implies the existence of the strange Abnormal Joe and this, i think, is the proper identification for joe hills of nashville tennessee

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every day of my life i'm grateful that the same people who assign strict top/bottom and/or dom/sub dynamics to characters haven't gotten their hands on sadomasochism, at least within my purview, because Can you fucking imagine

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tire pressure light came on while i was driving home last night, which is bullshit bc i topped them off pretty recently (came on a week ago bc of the cold) and they're still perfectly taut.

turns out when the light comes on and blinks a bunch before settling it indicates a problem with the sensor. learned this from google and had a shounen anime-style flashback ("when did--no, it can't be--!") to when i went over a particularly unpleasant manhole cover fifteen minutes earlier and Felt It.

then had another flashback, but distinctly more faded out and echoe-y, like from a multi-season mystery series where they remind you of some seemingly trivial detail from the first episode, of That One Relevant Tumblr Post, You Know The One

anyway the next morning i deliberately hit a small patch of uneven road on the way to work and voilà. no more light.

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oh.! hey Grian!!

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I’d like to live through a week that’s not a whole new verse of “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”

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shoutout to whoever stole my amazon package containing nothing but a single pair of shoelaces.

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He’s so….

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you just never quite know what you'll get when you open my inbox

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I'm trying to train my colleague to feel more confident in Excel

(I am, and I'm not tooting my own horn here, extremely advanced at Excel. my formulae often run through 20+ clauses and autocalculate the entire sheet from one manually entered item. I knew this would be a challenge for me to calibrate because I have a tendency to assume everything I can do well is easy because I have low self esteem, so I was ready to start at the basics - maybe a quick single-clause IF function or a SUMIF if we were feeling fancy)

so I sat down with her yesterday too work through a model sheet I built her, and quickly found she didn't know:

what an = was for

that you could do a basic addition function (=A1+B1), and this delighted and impressed her

that you could click and drag or copy a cell and the formula will recalculate based on its relative position (I started to explain that you can stop it doing that if you want by using a $ in the cell reference and she said no, please stop I think that's too much for me)

and I'm not saying this to shame her because she's not stupid or unwilling to learn, it just threw me because I don't remember ever not having a knowledge of the basics of Excel. Like over the last 8 years I've learnt a LOT and I was very much doing basic mathematical functions on it when I started office work, I know I learnt a lot (and also that I have an instinctive aptitude for the specific logic that Excel uses), but I've always known what Excel is for.

anyway we were talking today and come to find out that she just. did not cover Excel at all in IT at school (we're the same age, btw, this isn't a generational thing)

then I was talking to Sam and it slowly dawned that actually I did an additional short-course GCSE (Business And Communications Studies, which was basically IT for administrators) that was mandatory in my school, so I assumed it was a national core subject like Maths or English or Science. Turns out no, my school were just stuffing their GCSEs (I did 16 GCSEs)

and now I'm reeling cause I'm like OH. OH FUCK. IS THAT WHY EVERYONE'S MICROSOFT SKILLS ARE SO UNBELIEVABLY BASIC????? because I truly did think that everyone my kind of age did at least a few years of Microsoft Office type ICT training in high school.

let me know in the tags how old you are and what country you went to school

(also substitute Numbers/Google Sheets if you don't use Microsoft, we're just talking about any spreadsheet programme)

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for requests! witch shelby with the forest or wisteria colour scheme?

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every day of my life i'm grateful that the same people who assign strict top/bottom and/or dom/sub dynamics to characters haven't gotten their hands on sadomasochism, at least within my purview, because Can you fucking imagine

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