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I hate the Internet because there all these cute videos of grandmothers around the world cooking wonderful things for their grandkids. I had THREE grandmothers growing up, AND NOT A GODDAMN ONE OF THEM COULD COOK.

#i just want decet grandma food #without the freezer burn #or the fake salt #i need to borrow a grandmother

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Sales Red Flag

If a manager tells you that they don't care about something because they get paid either way, run.

If this comes up in a conversation about YOUR money, i.e. how splits are handled, that tells you all you need to know.

#sales jobs #red flags

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Scrolling through the Spirituality section of any ebook retailer is exhausting. There's always shit like "Love and Light for TERFs" by Celestina Featherduster and "Sex with Satan: Appropriating Tantra in a Judeo-Christian Framework" by Lilith Shadowpussy. Meanwhile Celestina's real name is like Jane Smith and she espuses eugenics when she's drunk, and Lilith has only ever had vanilla sex with her high school boyfriend who hisses at people when they walk by.

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You know who else saved herself for marriage? Anne Boleyn.

Use your head. Put out.

#be a slut #or not #just dont marry somebody who only wants a son #history #tudor #anne boleyn

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Lucky cat 🍀 reblog to boost your luck

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You don't grieve the narcissist when they die. You grieve the potential.

They COULD have been better. They COULD have stayed the person you remembered from before they changed. But they DIDN'T.

This is the second time I've been through this. I didn't handle it well last time, but there were no ties left. This time there are. I have flying monkeys to consider, people more enmeshed than I was, and all people I love who are otherwise good people. Complications.

I have to keep the boundary, but death makes everyone's memory fuzzy. I am a more convenient villain than Covid. And all the while I have to grapple with the memories from Before they became the person I had to cut off, because they COULD have been them forever.

But they had the choice, and they chose wrong. They chose to continue, and to worsen, and now their choices are made and unchangeable. There are no do-overs from the grave.

I don't regret my choice. I hate that my hand was forced.

#surviving narcissism #death #grief

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The jellyfish cut is a gentrified mullet

I said what I said

#jellyfish cut #hair #mullet #of all the cultures yall could appropriate #why rednecks?

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Just got titpunched by 25 pounds of cat, so intercede with your gods on my behalf

#and now he's glaring at me #baby boy son has forsaken me

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I was scrolling mindlessly, as one does, when I came upon a video of a pastor saying, "If God gave you another blessing, would you still have time to praise him?"... the implication being that God will cut you off with just enough to keep you in your place and grovel.

God will cut off the good to keep you humble. God will send you awful things to punish you or to make you better, depending on the circumstances. God gives you just enough dopamine to make you crave what you see as His goodness and then puts you in a loop of prolonged punishment and brief joy so you always crawl back.

It saddens me that I wasted so much of my life and energy in a belief system that so closely mirrored abuse. My microcosm, as awful as it was, was a direct reflection of the Father and all his children. It was admired as an example in church, even when they all had to turn away as he beat me with a cane in the lobby. Spare the rod, that old chestnut. He was doing the right thing as a good Christian man.

I will not be bound to the treadmill with a stick behind me and a carrot well out of reach in front, all to satisfy the whims of an abusive deity. I have created my own blessings with hard work and my own will. And if That Day they warned me of should ever come, I choose the fire.

#religion #christianity #religious abuse

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I do not overdress.

Everyone else is underdressed.

GET IT RIGHT

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Dear Bethesda,

Can I please marry Serana and Brynjolf and adopt all the little orphans, all at the same time?

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I have POTS which gets worse after I'm sick, and I've been sick since yesterday.

My cat has been following me around the house for the last two days, minus my attempt at going to work today, howled at me when I got in until I sat down, and has been supervising me every time I stand up.

I don't know what ten pounds of elderly cat thinks she's going to do to pick Mommy up, but it's so sweet and I love her so much.

#pure of heart dumb of ass

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No trauma dumping on your salesperson unless you buy something

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Instead of getting mad because a salesperson is calling you, send them directly to voicemail.

This makes everyone happy because you don't have to talk to them, they get credit for a call, and after so many calls they can mark you unresponsive.

Seriously, though, if you're at work and you can't talk, don't answer your phone.

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The more you lie to your salesperson, the harder it is for them to help you

#this should be obvious #saleswoman #sales #buyers are liars

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Cat food always sounds so delicious in theory

French-inspired cuisine with fresh fish, carrots, and garden greens in a bechamel sauce

Delectable roasted chicken shredded in a rich gravy

Pate de foie gras with truffle and 24k gold flakes on filet mignon, rolled in catnip

And then you open it and it smells like a giant fuck you

#cat food #forbidden fine dining

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Having cats is like getting yelled at in a foreign language by people who are very adamantly against playing charades to help you understand.

#cats