@hollowearthterf It's amazing how men are so solipsistic/narcissistic to forget that basic-adulting for 99% of ppl, man, woman, single, married, is "work job get money". They act like them doing basic-adulting is making some noble sacrifice for family while women doing so is selfish girlbossing
6. Your face
Pain Scale 7/10
Puppies are warm and soft and holding one makes you think life is going to be ok.
That puppy may whip around and bite your face giving you a nasty gash to remind you the world is cruel and unforgiving.
It hurts and your face bleeds a ton.
I think a lot of the shock about Alice Munro right now is people not realizing that for a certain generation of women (especially), the family was a company that you worked in PR for. Your main concern was to protect the reputation of the family.
If God didn't want me to use the em dash, why did he enshrine it in nature? In the horizon line—the lightning-harrowed bough—the canyon's pink striation—the pupil of the goat
tech evangelists would make me so much more interested in AI if they kept posting videos of like massive spreadsheets and datasets getting sorted with remarkable speed rather than the grossest 4 second gifs of bad cgi art you can imagine
Does anyone have that post about how humans are basically the Fae to other creatures? Terrifying, may kill you for breaking rules you don't and can't possibly comprehend, but may also save your life or do the impossible for you if you ask politely.
Modern living is getting increasingly impossible for every class
It's just too stressful, too fractious, and too humiliating on a daily basis
The मत्स्य न्याय society we've constructed on the ashes of the old, cannot survive another century
having a sister in the medical field is so funny. she’s like “today i delivered a baby and assisted in a surgery that will fundamentally improve someone’s quality of life” and i’m like “i made a spreadsheet worse than how i found it”