Allison Wood

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

A Gen Z joined the team.

Week one.

During onboarding, the manager said,
“We sometimes stay late during peak periods.”

Gen Z nodded.

Then asked,
“Is that paid… or just expected?”

The room went quiet.

- No attitude.
- No rebellion.
- Just a question.

Later that day, HR mentioned “growth opportunities.”

Gen Z replied,
“Does growth include raises, or just more responsibility?”

Again, silence.
- No laziness.
- No entitlement.
- Just clarity.

That’s when the team realized something.

When people say
“Gen Z is lazy,”
what they really mean is:

Gen Z watched old generation
- skip meals,
- miss birthdays,
- work weekends,
- and burn out

only to be told
“budgets are tight”
and “be grateful you have a job.”

So Gen Z chose differently.

- They don’t romanticize overwork.
- They don’t confuse suffering with ambition.
- They don’t trade health for praise.

They still work hard.
They just refuse to work for nothing.

It’s not laziness.
It’s pattern recognition.

And honestly,
after everything old generation went through…

Can you really blame them?

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

My father once told me the secret to a happy marriage.

“Stay out of the kitchen. Let her handle the holidays.”

I was 19. He was in his recliner.

My mother was cooking for 14 people.

She’d been up since 5 AM.

He’d been up since the football pregame.

I didn’t think anything of it.

That’s just how it was.

Fast forward 20 years.

I’m in the recliner.

My wife is in the kitchen.

She’s been up since 5 AM.

I’ve been up since the pregame.

My daughter walks by and I see her watching.

Not the TV.

Her mother.

Then me.

Then her mother again.

That’s when it hit me:

She’s taking notes.

My father taught me that holidays were for men to rest and women to work.

He didn’t say it.

He showed it.

Every Thanksgiving.
Every Christmas.
Every Easter.

The recliner passed from him to me like an inheritance I never asked for.

This morning I woke up at 4 AM.

Not for content.

For the turkey.

My wife found me in the kitchen at 6.

She didn’t say anything.

She just stood there.

Then she cried.

Your kids are taking notes.

Not on what you say.

On where you sit.

The recliner is an inheritance.

Be the generation that stands up.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

“Nazi” isn’t a slur. It’s a word that describes real people who earnestly believe in their ideas. Their ideas are disgusting and hateful, but of course they often do not realize it.

I keep running into racists who think that it’s not white supremacist to think that white people are inherently superior to other races. No…that’s the whole definition!! The fact that they believe it earnestly and don’t think it’s an idiotic, hateful belief doesn’t mean it’s not an idiotic, hateful belief.

Nazi isn’t a word that means “bad evil boogeyman” it means “someone who believes in their own racial superiority, extreme protectionist nativism, the purifying of society by eliminating undesirables, expansionism, active suppression of dissent, and total state power held in the hands of a very small group.”

Make sure the people you’re cheering for don’t believe these things because otherwise…

[Cheyenne Stone @cheyenneagram]

people on Facebook cheering for the FDA to be abolished as if they aren’t the folks who enforce there being no “reasonable amount” of human or rat in the meat you get at the grocery store. go read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair please.

[Allison Wood @alli00013]

@cheyenneagram I feel like I need an email newsletter about your trip like you used to do when you were in Wyoming.

[Nathalie Vincent @awlilnatty]

The only perspective on AI that matters

[John Green @sportswithjohn]

Being mentally ill is such a full-time job it's so annoying.

[cowboy like jeeb 🤠 | percy jackson tv show! @ohgreekgod]

OF COURSE i've read the classics

[ashia🕯️ @AshiaMonet]

Discovering your fave fanfic author has over 10+ fics for your ship is as close as we will ever get to experiencing the loving mercy of god in this era

[⚡️Baylee Pope🦦 @bayleefork]

This is terrifying. I don’t know many people who thought about how overturning Roe would effect people who are on infertility journeys.

[💜love that for you 🇵🇸🇨🇩 @messybutfun_]

My parents seeing their 23yr old daughter cry out of nowhere: “what’s wrong?”

Me: “SO THERE ISIS YOUTUBE CHANNEL CALLED SMOSH THAT WAS REALLY POPULAR WHEN I WAS YOUNGER AND IVE BEEN A FAN SINCE 2010 AND ONE DAY THEIR PARENT COMPANY WENT BANKRUPT AND ONE OF THE FOUNDERS LEFT-”

[Allison Wood @alli00013]

Anthony is back!!!!

[Smosh @smosh]

WE BOUGHT SMOSH

[Allison Wood @alli00013]

@hankgreen Frank (black) & Apollo (white)

[Allison Wood @alli00013]

@goodreads The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik. So far it’s a 10/10

[Allison Wood @alli00013]

@hankgreen As much as I hate to admit it… my favorite word is “fuck”

[introvert @introvertsmemes]

😅

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