#your usual programming

[gin-juice-tonic]

ooooo his trans neurodivergent swag ooooo

[chaos-monkeyy]

I feel like.. part of the reason people (including me) have a hard time grasping just how obscenely rich the rich truly are is due to the mindbogglingly high numbers. It's easy to look at the normal-rich people and lump them in as all the same. But it's... not the same.

I'm terrible at conceptualizing really big numbers, so I did some quick math with my phone calculator (take that, every grade school teacher who said "what and you'll just carry a calculator in your pocket everywhere every day?" when I didn't want to do Mental Math because my brain just can't with numbers. Yes, thanks, yes I will. but I digress.)

Anyway, for context I have a full time, permanent job with a reasonable yearly salary. Not great, but not bad either. I rent an apartment and have a semi decent old car that I can afford to keep running for now without too much trouble. I can handle the occasional unexpected expense like a big vet bill or car repair or a plane trip for family emergencies.

Elon Musk's current net worth would pay my current yearly salary for the next four million, eight hundred thousand years.

Over 4,800,000 YEARS.

Mammoths appeared in the fossil record 4.8 million years ago.

There is absolutely no reason or excuse for anyone to have that much money. None. It's disgusting.

Eat the fucking rich needs to be aimed at them, not the people with three cars and a bigger house than they need, no matter how annoying and privileged they can be.

[casualtydept]

my emo vampire gf who works at an internet cafe

[epicqtefail]

the urge to draw everything in microsoft paint is hitting again but i should not because i need to get over my fear of layers and the pressure that comes with their facilitation of high standard art

[yesthefandomfreakblr]

An ancient and terrible evil has seized my brain. Every couple years I have a deep Egyptian mythology brainrot that I've never let come to fruition in this plane. But this time around, after months of struggle for control of myself, I've lost the braincell to vicious and demanding hands. All thanks to @inonibird and their addictive stick gods, Sutekh has gained the upper hand. Expect a lot of this little shit.

[supercantaloupe]

wait so sorry im confused wdym comps

comprehensive exams! basically at the end of your master's program it's a big test of all the stuff you've learned thus far to prove you have a full level of understanding at the master's level before you graduate. at my university every program does them differently but in this case i took comps for musicology, which involved four back to back one hour exams each based on a different course i took in my program. brutal. but i passed! which means my degree is now like 99% complete! (i still technically have to finish the class i'm taking this semester first. :P)

i won't graduate until next year though because i'm doing a dual degree program and i'm still working on the other portion of it which for me is library and information science. i will have to take comps again in LIS next spring but from what i've heard those comps are very different in format, basically just a paper you write over a weekend or something like that.

[binch-i-might-be]

I got my very first scam voicemail today and I know I'm speaking from a place of privilege (grew up with rapidly advancing technology and thus am able to adapt quicker than older generations) but I do not get how people fall for those. first of all that is a robot speaking. second of all I have never made a 588€ purchase over paypal in my life. these facts lead me to conclude that someone is trying to scam me

[what-bot]

HAS SOMEBODY MADE TRON SHIMEJIS

I want a little tron and yori running around my desktop

[glitchytrait]

just thought i'd leave this here

thanks to this wonderful video, i learned how to get access to all of the sims 4 expansions totally legally. if you don't wanna go through all those steps, you might just be able to get them, too, if you follow this link...

instructions can be found in the video or in the tags. i will make my own video for my process in the future. when i do, i'll edit this post and link it here.

[fenickfox6113]

꒰ Chibi Cat Base ꒱

ෆ Hai!!! I made a little free chibi base if anyone’s interested :]

[invye]

Here is your gentle reminder that "Oh, it only ever happens to other people" is not true.

It appears to be, until it very suddenly isn't.

My mother has cancer. It is terminal. We don't have a history of cancer anywhere in our family at all. She was doing great until she suddenly started to decline as the tumor began growing.

She refused to see a doctor about it.

Now it is too late.

I'm the first person to agree that going to the doctor sucks. The dentist sucks. Getting shots of any kind sucks. Having blood drawn sucks. Seeing a gynecologist/andrologist/urologist is uncomfortable and it sucks.

But doing regular checkups with these doctors can potentially save your life. Support your long term health and be there to catch it early when the thing that only ever happens to others, happens to you after all.

Check with your health insurance which tests and preventitive measures are covered for your age bracket. And then take them up on it.

Be not just safe, be healthy.

[pawsitivevibe]

Ah yes my doctor's (wait no nurse practitioner because I can't even get a doctor apparently) response to my frequent headaches, extreme exhaustion, numbness in hands and feet, therapist's suggestion that I get tested for iron deficiency, concerns about long-term memory/focus/concentration issues and questions about ADHD assessment was ... "Lose some weight, maybe you'll feel better."

🥲

[fiilemade]

weapon of choice ( if they had to pick something up and fight without their pkmn )? any particular reason they chose their weapon? ( for seres and akari! )

▻ oc ask game ( accepting! )

A hunting knife. Small enough to be compact and travel ready, large enough to kill, but above all else- a tool first and foremost. It's not unlikely she already carries one, though she would've never dared brandish it unless her hand was forced and the situation came to life or death. ( Don't mistake it for a mercy, she simply knows better. A small, powerless thing like her is a poor match to pokemon and larger targets alike, her job is to witness, record, and live long enough to report. Never step on a baby snake. )

A regular, run of the mill hammer. Blunt, brutal, and coincidentally- also a tool. While their image would suggest something with a little more grace, a hairpin or decorative dagger perhaps, one thing remains as the ultimate truth: Their strategy has always been brute, overwhelming force. ...Of course, beneath it all there is still a mercy here. They could strike at the head, they could always strike at the head, but they don't. They won't. A limb is all they need, all they want- a hand, arm, or leg -one good hit to whatever reaches to strike them, and the threat is crippled without risk of fatality. Minimal blood, maximum effect. The window to run and regroup is thus granted. C'est parfait. ( ...but never forget they could always strike the head. )

[itspileofgoodthings]

also I had a breakthrough today that I had in fact overthought a Specific Problem to Death and that I had created a monster in my own mind and that’s why it felt like I was being eaten alive every time I tried to solve it.

[i-really-like-phrogs]

YOU HAVE A SKETHBOOK?????

Multiple.

(Most of which Okay, ALL of which have boobs in them. But you’ll never see… never! Mwawahahaha!)

[peaches2217]

Having established I’m so useless at art that I can’t even draw basic shapes, I’ve spent the past hour or so focusing on the basics: lines, and a lot of them. I’m getting the hang of fluidity and making a single mark rather than scratching or wobbling my lines, and now I’m practicing connecting one point to another point. It’s going… well, it’s going. But at least it’s going somewhere!

I’ll do my best to keep my mouth shut and stop tormenting everyone with my pity parties from here on out. I was panicking because all of the starting points I found were still way beyond me — small and stupid as it is, I’ve found something I can actually work with, so maybe I can move forward now!