One time a therapist was like “give yourself a reward for completing a task” and I was like “or I could just give myself the reward anyway and not do the annoying boring daunting task” and she was like… oh.
A customer at the library asked me a question I wasn't prepared for.
Customer: Excuse me.
Customer: Why does this machine require flesh?
Me: ...what?
Customer: This machine.
Customer: I am touching it, but it does not work.
Customer: Is because... flesh?
At this point I was trying very hard to figure out whether I had accidentally wandered into a horror movie.
Then she held up her hands.
She was wearing gloves.
Me: Oh!
Me: The touchscreen.
Me: Right.
Me: Yeah, it probably can't detect your fingers through the gloves.
Customer: Ah.
Customer: Okay.
Customer: Sorry to bother.
Me: No, no.
Me: That's the best thing I've heard all week.
She laughed.
The machine worked.
And I thought that was the end of it.
It was not.
Now whenever one of our library computers stops working, someone inevitably says:
Staff: It requires flesh.
Staff: The machine must be fed.
Another staff member: Who's volunteering?
So thanks to one perfectly innocent question, our library now sounds like a cult every time the self-checkout freezes.
How much of Backrooms’ compelling atmosphere is the anxiety of growing up in an empire past its peak?
I don’t know, but the movie felt familiar. For context, a building I worked in for two years:
Ubisoft CEO is today having an "invitation-only" meeting with the European Commission, hosted by VGE, 2 weeks before the EC planned answer to our ECI.
SKG was not invited.
Thus, we publish an Open Letter, that we invite everyone of you to read it and share it for visibility.
I'm 39. I'm gay. I hid it inside my whole life. I came out to my conservative parents last year. I alienated my dad and my mom pretends like nothing happened. But it did. I am finally free, I am myself. I have a boyfriend I love.
I am happy.
Have a great pride month 🏳️🌈 💙🧡
still forever thinking abt zac oyama reaching deep into his soul for a single australia reference in a make some noise episode and quoting “i’ll say sorry but im not taking off my glasses”