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yall the utter CONTEMPT!!!!!!!!!!! that i have for my county's public school system knows no bounds! the list of absurdly incompetent and blatantly disrespectful bullshit they've done to the detriment of its students and its lowest ranking faculty members is like 200 million lightyears long.

ok no its actually only like eleven bullet points long lmfao but still.

and that's only if i count things that were done specifically to me! if i count other people's stories its probably like 42 bullet points long.

like, i had a classmate whose mom didn't speak much english. and one day, she got in trouble for a ~uniform violation~ (idk, maybe her polo shirt was the wrong shade of black or something) and so she was sent to the office and they made her call her mom.

so obviously she's speaking to her mom in the language that her mom speaks!

and the vice principal snaps at her to speak english?????????

and she's like

"??????????????????????????????????? my mother does not speak english."

i mean jeez like!

the request could have been reasonable if it just hadn't been spoken so rudely. the answer of course would have still been "i can't because my mom doesn't speak english," but at least the vice principal wouldnt have been a disrespectful piece of shit about it.

but i fucking swear to god, being a disrespectful piece of shit must be on the job description requirements, because the ENTIRE admin staff in the whole county, and a great deal of the teachers, were pieces of shit for my entire time as a student in the school system, continued to be pieces of shit when i worked in the school system for a few short years (i am never going back), and are STILL pieces of shit according to people i know who still work there. it's amazing.

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#i would love for this story to be untrue obviously bc wow thats barbaric even for a public school #and i legit hope that this is just one of those tumblr stories somebody made up to sound cool bc id rather someome be fibbing #than to have actually experienced this #but if it is true #then i soooo hope this person felt badass while being escorted through the halls #by firemen with an axe lololol

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i'm on my 3rd cycle of using disposable menstrual discs lmao and uhhhhhhhhhhh

HOWWWWWWW DID I MANAGE TO SHOVE TWO OF THOSE THINGS UP THERE AT THE SAME TIME WITHOUT REALIZING IT LMAO JEEEEEEEZ

so, aaaaaallllll day yesterday, i was only getting like an hour or two of use out of one disc before it started to leak! and leak BADLY! Like, i'd hurry to the bathroom and sit on the toilet and it was literally just blood PEEING out of me! in a steady stream! i'm like! what the fuck! i know my flow is grotesquely heavy to begin with, but it's never just POURED out of me like this!

so i reach in and start to pull the disc out, and as soon as i give it a lil tug, more blood just BURSTS out omg! like that shit SPLATTERED all over my hand and splashed into the toilet! it was so fucking bizarre!

anyway, i pull the disc out, rinse it, dispose of it, then go put another one in, obviously.

and then the saaaaaaaame thing kept happening all day!

and then FINALLY i started noticing that it was a little harder to insert them than usual? and harder to get them properly situated once they were inside? and slightly more uncomfortable to insert as well, though there was no discomfort once i got it in. but i was still concerned about the fact that the ~topography~, if you will, of my vajayjay seemed so drastically different than usual! i'm like, wtf is going on here??? do i have a tumor or something??? is something swollen down there? wtf?

and just now, after another rush to the bathroom, when i reached in to pull it out, i felt TWO rims! wtf!

and so my first assumption was that for some reason, the disc hadn't ~opened up~ when i inserted it, which would explain why it was leaking so quickly, but wtf would cause it to not open up, anyway? like, what's in the way???

so i pulled it out, and then sooooomething just told me to stick my finger back in there and see if there was anything else in there, AND THEN I FEEL A WHOLE EXTRA DISC IN THERE omgggg!

i have no recollection of forgetting that i'd already put one in! wtf! lmfao! yikes!

sooo i guess that's another "con" i can add to my short list of things that are not-so-great about disposable menstrual discs lmaoooo. there's no external indicator, like with a tampon, that tells you you already have one in there! so if you forget that you've already put one in, nothing's gonna stop you from shoving another one up there. (although i DID once accidentally put two tampons in lmfao.)

i still prefer discs to tampons and cups at this point, tho!

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i dont know neeeearly enough about breed-specific legislation to warrant going out of my way to advocate for or against it in any legit capacity,

but what i do know is that today i saw some fuckin idiot walking their pitbull in public in an area with a lot of foot traffic... WITHOUT A FUCKING LEASH!!!!

and pitbulls aren't even legal here!!!

so not only was this lady already demonstrating hella irresponsibility by having a dog she's not supposed to have, but then she ALSO fails to even put it on a damn leash??? and then if/when her dog goes and rips apart somebody's chihuahua or mauls a small child, she's gonna act sooooooooooo shocked and try to blame it on everything but herself and her dog.

also???????????

last winter there was a "pitbull type dog" (i think an American Bully? but i'm not sure) that got loose and wandered the neighborhood for MONTHS!

MONTHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

or idk maybe it wasn't months lmfao but i saw it on several different occasions over the course of at least a few weeks.

and throughout my life in this neighborhood, the only dogs i've ever seen get loose have been pitbulls, a rottweiler, and a german shepherd, the latter of which CHASED ME DOWN THE STREET WHEN I WAS ON MY BIKE when i was like 10 years old.

and im like, is this a coincidence????

is it a coincidence that the only dogs that have ever been allowed to pose a threat in my neighborhood, to my knowledge, have all been dogs that have had reputations for being more dangerous than other dogs???

like, nobody's golden retriever is breaking out of their outdoor kennel and chasing the neighborhood kids around. nobody is strutting through the park with their unleashed jack russle terrier.

are irresponsible people just drawn to dogs that have dangerous reputations???

bc it really seeeeeeeeeeeeems, just from my casual observations, that a lot of pitbull owners are brazenly irresponsible and negligent! And when i see shit like that, it makes it really easy for me to sympathize with the idea that maybe it really is best that people just aren't allowed to have those kinds of dogs in the first place!

#jeez like #i can't see myself ever wanting a bully breed unless i lived in the middle of nowhere! #if i have lots of neighbors or if kids live near me #i wouldnt want a large dog AT ALL let alone one that is strong enough to be more dangerous than other #similarly sized dogs #bc like #obviously i dont want anyone to be hurt by my hypothetical dog #but i ALSO dont want the legal ramifications of such a thing!! like jeez it would be bad enough #if my dog bit off some lil kid's hand #but i'm also legally responsible for it??? No Thank You!

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my first bug id request of the season this year comes frommmm my mommy! 😊

the 'big mean red bumble bee looking thing' that started chasing her when she tried to pull the cover off of the patio table is of course none other than a european hornet <3 a non-native and relatively aggressive species that Must Die.

#i almost neverrrrrrrrrrrr approve of killing bugs but european hornets are an exception #both bc theyre non native and because they will fuck you up on purpose if they think you're too close #this one seemed like it was considering building a nest by the patio table and thats a no no

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lmao remember tv antennas????

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FACTS.

I straight up just choose not to become close with people who need/enjoy frequent texting as a means of connection and showing care. Not because there’s anything wrong with them, but because we’re just not compatible in that way. I LOVE not being in constant electronic communication with people. I love forgetting where my phone is. I love that I can go days without looking at it if I don’t need to. It brings me a lot of peace, and I have no interest in changing that.

I’m of the belief that a lot of folks could really benefit from going a little more out of their way to find friends who actually share their values and preferences when it comes to the method/frequency of connecting with each other, rather than feeling hurt and passing judgement on people who just have a different set of values.

who tf forgets to text someone they're genuinely interested in??????? no one

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STORMY SEASON STORMY SEASON STORMY SEASON STORMY SEASON STORMY SEASON

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i really wish i had also jotted down the context for this because i have NOOOOOOOOO IDEA what the fuck this is supposed to be about now lmfaoooooooooooooo

just jotting some shit down out of context for a thing to reference later

lion? wolf? dragon? tiger? hawk? falcon? eagle? leopard? jaguar? wolverine? honey badger? python? cobra? shark?

mouse? robin? sparrow? rabbit? squirrel? vole? lemming? pika? meerkat?

trimmed down with an artisan's care and attention, snipped away, tweezed, plucked, thinned, a bonsai redwood, a mockery of its own majesty, a practical joke, a spectacle, an ornament,

blah blah blah.

what happens to a bonsai tree if you stop trimming it?

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like omg a few years ago, some starlings made a nest in the attic right over my mom's bathroom???

AND THE WHOOOOOOOOOOOLE BATHROOM BECAME COVERED IN MITES!!!!

They fell through the vent in the ceiling and literallyyyy like every surface of the bathroom had near-microscopic mites crawling on it! the sink counter! The sink basin! the faucet! the mirror! the lights! the toilet seat! the toilet lid! the laundry hamper! the floor!

they were EVERYWHERE! it was disgusting omfg! and also kinda fascinating lmao but mostly disgusting!

so we taped a sheet of paper onto the vent to cover it, and that solved the problem until the birds left but omgggggggggggggggggggggg it was so disturbing lmao.

LMAO WTF A BIRD JUST FLEW INTO MY ROOOOOOM!!!!

i have a bigass hole in my window screen and i plug it by just shoving a blanket in it, but it wasn't fully plugging the hole just now.

i'd been watching a carolina wren that was perched on the umbrella on the deck underneath my window, and i had my face pressed like right up to the screen,

and then!

the wren flies right up to it! lands on the blanket! and then hops right into my room! and i just! stared at it in sheer awe! it was literally like 2 inches from my face!

and didn't want it to come fully into my room and start flying around and panicking, so i just looked at it and said!

"get out of here!"

and it flew away!

omg!

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!!!!! i have an adult violin student, and today she brought her lil daughter with her! and when she arrived she was all apologetic like, "i'm sorry, unfortunately i had to bring my daughter today, is it okay if she stays in the room with us?"

and im like!!!!!!!

OF COURSE!!!!! oh my god! yes! duh! why on earth would i not allow a lil itty bitty kid to be in the room with their mommy??

and it just! made me kinda sad to think about how ~stigmatized~ it is for people to bring their kids to places! and that's just so fucking insane to me! nobody should feel like they have to apologize for the fact that their child is with them! my god! you are a parent! you are taking care of your child! of course they're with you! just because it might sometimes be inconvenient or disruptive to other grownups doesn't mean you shouldn't do it! it just means that other grownups need to, ironically, grow the fuck up and accept the fact that their comfort or their ability to focus or their ability to enjoy theirself is not more important than a child's need to be with their parent!

anyway, the lil girl sat quietly on the floor and drew a picture, and everything was cool!

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!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'M GONNA START TRYING TO BEFRIEND THE BIRDS AND BECOME A CRAZY BIRD LADY!!!!!

I'm gonna start putting bird food on the roof right outside my window! and imma try to get the birds used to seeing me in the window while they eat! and then imma start putting bird food in my hand!

it probably will not work! but if it does! itll be so exciting!

and also a health hazard lmaoooo bird flu, anyone????

and mites and numerous other parasites and pathogens, i'm sure! gross!

LMAO WTF A BIRD JUST FLEW INTO MY ROOOOOOM!!!!

i have a bigass hole in my window screen and i plug it by just shoving a blanket in it, but it wasn't fully plugging the hole just now.

i'd been watching a carolina wren that was perched on the umbrella on the deck underneath my window, and i had my face pressed like right up to the screen,

and then!

the wren flies right up to it! lands on the blanket! and then hops right into my room! and i just! stared at it in sheer awe! it was literally like 2 inches from my face!

and didn't want it to come fully into my room and start flying around and panicking, so i just looked at it and said!

"get out of here!"

and it flew away!

omg!

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LMAO WTF A BIRD JUST FLEW INTO MY ROOOOOOM!!!!

i have a bigass hole in my window screen and i plug it by just shoving a blanket in it, but it wasn't fully plugging the hole just now.

i'd been watching a carolina wren that was perched on the umbrella on the deck underneath my window, and i had my face pressed like right up to the screen,

and then!

the wren flies right up to it! lands on the blanket! and then hops right into my room! and i just! stared at it in sheer awe! it was literally like 2 inches from my face!

and didn't want it to come fully into my room and start flying around and panicking, so i just looked at it and said!

"get out of here!"

and it flew away!

omg!

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the ~you're not entitled to anything~ attitude that so many employers seem to have toward their employees is TRULY mind boggling!!!!

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i was truly meant to be one of those wealthy but eccentric geniuses who lives in an embarrassingly messy mansion and scurries around the house all day in a bath robe in the constant pursuit of brilliant creative goals which i'm only able to complete because i have an overworked but willingly devoted personal assistant who follows behind me all day and manages my schedule and makes sure i eat and exercise and handles the logistics of breaking my goals down into individual steps and then sitting my ass down and forcing me to complete them and then he accidentally falls in love with me and happily spends the rest of his life at the beck-and-call of his wacky soul mate 🥲

#honestly like #if i had a manager/personal assistant #to handle all the non-creative responsibilities behind my aspirations #i would be fucking unstoppable :(

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i saw the total eclipse with my own two lil eyeballs 🥺

now i understand why ~the ancients~ lost their fucking minds over this shit oh my GOD!!!!!

ill write something pretty and poetic about it tomorrow omgggggg.

#to see a fucking pitch black circle in the sky in the middle of the day??????????????? #it feels so Forbidden