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Accidental sideblog reblog when I wanted it on my main :P

PHEN-228

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hello, I am OBSESSED with this lil drawing of PHEN-228. I think it about it occasionally during the day and I make a little noise like it looks like he's making like he's some kind of horrible gremlin and it makes me smile. He's so ugly cute and it looks like he's been put in the boiling pot as a time out for being a naughty little fellow.

I want to stick this drawing on the wall above my computer and look at it all day while I'm at work so if this li'l doodle ever becomes a sticker or a print or something that would be awesome.

PHEN-228

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Reblog if its ok to spam you with boops

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this post has the same energy as when I turned mercy beaucoup into Marcy Books.

bro doesnt even have the jennies (certain je ne sais quois)

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Just overheard my parents downstairs through the bathroom vent, and they said:

Dad: "Why aren't you in the office?"

Mom: "... It's Wednesday?"

Dad: "Oh, right, it's Wednesday."

And I'm trying not to laugh because my first thought was, "Of course they don't know it's Wednesday if they don't have a fat flat frog to tell them!"

How do older generations even know it's Wednesday without this dude, or Thursday without the Lucky Star girls dancing to Hall & Oates, or Tuesday without the sweet fat of the hog?

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reblog if you're against antisemitism.

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And he's still a-shovelin'.

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I just found out how DIRECT my boss is

So. I work for this small company. We have a product in the accounting field that's highly specific and specialized but has the potential to revolutionize a specific type of audit. My job is to check the outputs before sending them to clients to make sure our software is working correctly.

My job is work-from-home. As in, by necessity. The company is based in Nebraska and there are no offices. It's perfect for me to just roll out of bed and get to work, but sometimes I admit I do tend to get distracted and dawdle. I'm working on it and so far it hasn't caused monetary harm to the company.

But the other day, I was dawdling. No clients were using our software so I had nothing to review, and nobody had any special projects for me to work on. In my downtime I'm trying to learn Python, but instead I got distracted by the books on my shelf by the desk. Over in Nebraska, the tech team was working hard to get the new version of our app up and online.

Then, out of the blue, my boss messaged me: "Is the V1 app so slow you cannot do your job?"

I nearly had a heart attack. I mean, read that and tell me it doesn't feel like the most passive-agressive thing you've ever read. Like she caught me dawdling somehow 1.1k miles away and was trying to light a fire under me. I panicked, but there was nothing waiting for me to do, no messages I hadn't read. I messaged apologetically something like, "I'm sorry, am I missing something in the queue?"

She replied, "No, we're just having trouble with the V1 and I wanted to know if it was affecting you."

Y'all. She just. Asked a question with no hidden meaning and wanted a straightforward answer. I don't know why that's so rare in my life but when I realized I'd completely misread the tone, I laughed. I've never been happier in a job before. I'll admit, working at Disney World had better benefits, but working here hardly feels like work at all.

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Wait, am I misunderstanding this or are you the one who designed the Krawk? Because that little creature has been living rent free in my head since 2002.

OH DANG they're bringin' back the old UC art over on Neopets!🙌🏼🎉

My last summer working at Neopets was 2007, which was riiiight on the eve of the big conversion—I rarely kept track of my more basic paintbrushes (purple, rainbow, checkered, etc), but I sure as heck kept track of all the PBs I designed that required full redraws:

I do not think I realized until this moment how many ixis I drew, apologies to all other pet species 😔🙏

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Girls in suits

Reblog if you agree

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My cat, wallowing in misery after I didn't let her chew her tail wound to the point of bleeding. She's being so brave about it.

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Helping a friend.

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My cat had to go to the vet because of a tail injury and she was being so brave about it.

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Duo, rentres chez toi, tu es ivre.

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My mom works from home but has today off, so my cat Emma is filling in for her.

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I'm gonna read the crap outta this

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