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whenever i find a good world heritage post i do my best to carefully remove unnecessary "why is this so funny!!" or "i cant believe i found the original" reblog comments. sometimes it takes a bit of work digging back through the reblog graph to accomplish this but fine art restoration is tedious but important work

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found out one of my oldest friends moved away without telling me, without saying a word. i’ve been trying to not stress about her quiet lately bc life is life and there’s no reason she’d be purposefully not talking to me but damn that stings.

#madeleine parle #i don’t mean to only come on here when i need to vent #but yknow old habits 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Fred Prinze Jr's Fred walked so Ryan Gosling's Ken could run

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so quick recap j was fired a couple weeks ago. everyone’s thrilled and now we’re all back focused on the other communication issues with management and yknow not being paid enough for the work we do.. i don’t want to undermine the importance of j being fired and our statements being taken seriously, it just turns out firing j didn’t solve everything.

but importantly did it solve me feeling very comfortable just existing at work? yes it did.

do i also want management to do more to help us? also yes.

#madeleine parle #retail life

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happy may 1st!!

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Burnout is honestly such a mild word for what people use it to mean. I'm not experiencing "burnout", which sounds so casual and routine that some face masks and a little rest is going to fix it.

My body and mind and even nervous system are stretched to the point that it's going to take a lot more than just a "break" or a few self care tips to recover, and even then, my recovery is just so that I can reenter the spaces that contributed to me being this way in the first place. I'm a little bit more than just burnt out by this.

Workplaces and educational institutions aggressively overwork us, expose us to all kinds of discrimination, which they overlook and gaslight us out of acknowledging, and then constantly ask us to ignore our mental, emotional, and physical needs so that we don't inconvenience them.

We're not burnt out. We're borderline traumatized. Burnout is always talked about like something transient and mild that a little rest and relaxation will fix.

But we're exhausted. We need deep rest and healing. We need new systems. We need new ways of being. The language around burnout just seems like a way of upholding these current violent systems and downplaying their impacts.

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the met gala is on monday so I’m reintroducing the idea that the crowd should get to decide whether or not a celebrity followed the theme & if the popular vote is no they get a bucket of nickelodeon green slime poured over their head

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forget fast fashion in 2023 the only viral trend i wanna see is workers unionizing

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this was a great read. “Laziness Does Not Exist” by Devon Price

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Signs and their months on an alignment chart

#sad smartass #too spot on imo

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the doctor emotionally monologuing at the daleks and then it cutting to shots like this is one of my favorite parts of dw

#doctor who

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what movie do y’all know front to back like it doesn’t even have to necessarily be Good,, it’s just something you’ve seen so many times that the dialogue is printed into the very core of your being

#asterix et obelix mission cleopatre

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How I'm feeling rn. I want Ron to loose :)

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favorite thing ab chatgpt is that if it doesn’t know something it’ll just start fucking lying. like blatantly fucking lying.

my dad teaches english classes and he just got a final paper with this sentence: “In terms of style, both poets are known for their use of imagery, but O'Hara's tends to be more straightforward and concrete, while Stevens' is often more abstract and metaphorical — for example, in O'Hara's poem "The French / Window," he writes: "A cat walks along the garden wall / and the tree waves its branches / The French / windows are blah" (lines 1-4).”

the thing about “The French / Window” is that it is not a poem that exists. at all. like, it was literally just written by chatgpt then inexplicably named as a famous frank o’hara poem. and it’s so. fucking. funny. sooo basically heads up for finals season — those of you who use chatgpt, be warned, because you will quite literally be citing nonexistent texts and your professors will show it to their daughters and together they will laugh at you endlessly and you will deserve it

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the infinite gay joy of boygenius