🌼 laurel 🌼

@nyxcritter @billybrizzle420 The warning is that she was moving out. Lmfao

@billybrizzle420 bro its fucked up to empty the entire kitchen without warning yall are horrible people

I just moved in with my best friend into a house he bought. I brought with me 3 couches , a plasma screen tv, and an air fryer When I leave I’m taking with me: 3 couches, a plasma screen tv, and an air fryer. Because they’re mine

@gracecamille_ Well you looked incredible

lol went to event i was very excited for w a 6 mg Zyn in my mouth. promptly overdosed on nicotine. Spent 20 minutes standing alone drenched in a cold sweat, trying not to throw up and watching the condensation my hands left on the horrible glass table (pictured)

@GazOD1986 was this Pirates? I accidentally downloaded the PG-13 cut of it once, and ended up watching the whole thing just because it was so fun lmao

@IceQuebe_ I once watched a porno that was a porn movie based around Pirates of The Caribbean. It was so good I ended up getting into it for the story. I put it away without finishing and even paused it to make a drink. Ironically the porn scenes ruined it for me in the end lol

Fast-forwarding through the head part of a porno >>>

no shade but personally after riding through the entire desert i would’ve given the horse a name

@zoeycyberkitty Girl what the fuck lol. Mean AND wrong that’s crazy

@latkedelrey idk but you all over dramatize mono so much. most of the lingering symptoms are usually just people not taking care of their basic health and blaming a virus they had years ago. if u actually slept and ate right, you wouldn't be getting flare ups every other week

in college i got mono because i made out with my gay best friend before he knew he had it and to this day whenever i’m sleep deprived my tongue swells up and i get a low grade fever

@makeitharderr Lol mashallah

having my baby in japan is amazing. i brought him to the mecca of cuteness. everyone keeps looking at him and getting all giddy and saying “kawaii!”

@Bubba38768681 Life or death issues would be acute care, that’s not sustainable after a few weeks nor covered after being discharged. And a dental program that has income criteria to be covered is not fully covered, is it? I love Canada but there’s no need to misrepresent the healthcare

@laureljan Mental health is absolutely covered. You have to be referred for it but life and death issues are covered. And We began a national dental program just over a year ago for those below certain income levels and without insurance. You are wrong.

assisted suicide is one of those things where i very strongly agree in theory but in practice seeing people be told “well no we won’t cover this treatment for your disease but you CAN kill yourself” is absolutely fucking heinous

@Khaleeq313 Yes but people make mistakes. Do you think if a doctor starts reading from the wrong file the computer self-destructs or something? What if the notes from one file were mistakenly recorded on another?

@Melmoo80 Bullshit didn’t happen - a little thing called privacy and confidentiality - doctors aren’t-allowed to discuss other patients conditions without prior written authorisation .

Phone appointment with specialist. She asks about my FIL's cancer. He doesn't have cancer. I've never mentioned him to a doctor. I immediately get her to confirm she's got the right file, then ask how such a massive error could be made. She insists that it was recorded bc it was

@Bubba38768681 There are lots of things the Canadian public health system doesn’t cover, especially mental health or dentistry. I’ve lived both US & Canada as a dual citizen and the Canadian system is much kinder, but there are absolutely things they won’t cover

@thintechgodhead It is Canada, they don't get turned down for treatment because we have free healthcare. You are thinking the U.S.

@Romy_Holland They are lonely and trying to connect with you. Not even always specifically you, but you’re available. And they’re trying to connect in the ways they know how

okay so i think the boomer conversational trait at the root of many problems is a total failure to even attempt to model whether the people around them care about what they’re saying. they tell the same old stories 100x and deep down they definitely know you’ve heard it, but it just feels so good to be talking that they go for it. in the absence of the thought process “would this person enjoy hearing this story?” the only factor that matters is how it feels for them to talk. same thing for the constant narration of everything that’s happening and the constant questions about tiny stuff and the random pieces of mundane information about ppl you don’t know. toddlers do the same thing before they develop complete theory of mind. idk if this is the consequence of some sort of old age cognitive regression or if boomers were just socialized really poorly.

@CuriosityonX If you walk without rhythm, you won’t attract the worm

🚨: Eight Marines outsmarted a DARPA AI meant to spot people. Two somersaulted 300 meters, two snuck under a cardboard box, and one pretended to be a tree—and the AI missed them all, because it was trained to catch people walking.

@Romy_Holland It’s very intentional, been to a few places like this. Reduces time in the changing room, allows employees to proactively offer assistance/soft sales, people waiting in line or also trying on clothes see a different item being tried on and desired. And I fucking hate it lol

whose idea was it to put no mirrors in the individual changing rooms at aritzia and instead make you walk into a large communal space to see how clothes look? today i left without even trying on my final 2 items bc i just wasn’t in the mood for the back and forth. obviously bad business design? ideally there is no friction between the shopper and the decision to purchase.

@chipilonita They’re an important part of a healthy ecosystem

crazy alcoholic guy across the street is flashing a strobe light at a police helicopter and yelling “get outta my airspace you fucking pigs” and i do in fact have to give it to him this time

@Romy_Holland I’ve talked to people like this at parties and they are so irritating. They’ve usually had some self-actualizing realization (or think they have, or decided they have) and apply them condescendingly to everyone. If you disagree, you just haven’t had the right realizations yet

a few months ago I had a podcast reach out to interview me about aella's birthday gangbang. it was a serious podcast, not one of the jokey ones. I liked the host a lot, though we clearly had pretty different personalities. we spoke for a couple hours and toward the end, it felt like she began to feel frustrated that after all of this talking she still couldn't understand why I'd do the things that I've done. she started saying things like "oh okay so this was post-divorce for you, that explains it." and I was like "...well no, I've had this exact sexuality since I was a teenager." it felt annoying to have someone trying to cram an entire facet of my being into a reductive and kind of belittling explanation. at another point she took on *serious voice* and was like "now Romy, how did you *feel* after the gangbang was over?" I was like "oh pretty stoked as I remember it. we all went back to our Airbnb together and ordered food and I was really exhilarated and happy it had gone well." she looked disappointed and kept going "no but when you laid down to go to sleep, how did your *body* feel?" I felt sad when she asked this, like this wasn't actually an attempt for her to understand, instead she needed it to be true that gangbangs are a thing that leave people feeling bad. but the thing is, I didn't feel bad that night, I think I was too excited to sleep even though it was late. I wasn't even physically sore, the event involved fewer minutes of actual sex than a really good night with my fiancé does. I explained this to her but she just seemed annoyed that I wasn't giving her the answer she wanted, the one that would have allowed her to maintain her existing view. it's strange to ostensibly be running a story about a person's experience while imposing framing designed to warp the way the experience can even be discussed. this is something journalists are especially guilty of, but I see it all the time in how people relate to each other. it's scary to accept that someone's mind might differ so dramatically from your own that you cannot understand their behavior well enough to predict it.

@Jacquelinexu3 He knows that, he’s just mad women won’t fuck him or have his children lol

let us acknowledge that 1) women work now and that bell isn't going to be unrung, but also 2) being a dual working parent family with small kids is an extremely stressful and unpleasant lifestyle, and a major barrier to people having >2 kids. I don't know what the solution is. Surely it has to involve normalizing women taking extended breaks from the workforce during the small kid years. I would have loved to do that but was frankly terrified of never getting another job, and I simply don't have the temperament to be a long term SAHM.

@CygnusNYC Wrong, humans are social creatures and rape is antisocial. It’s maladaptive to injure and traumatize the females of your species when the child-rearing of your offspring is such a long and involved process

@HPluckrose Until about 200 years ago, practically every human born on this planet was the product of rape.

I exist because just over a century ago, an Italian diplomat raped his 14-year-old maid & then dumped her in an East London Catholic home for unmarried mothers. She had no option of abortion. She was abused & blamed, gave birth & fled. Her son grew up there where he was abused 1/

@7Diamondes This is exactly what I did and it was still great. It just becomes a different movie, you read everyone’s behaviour differently

@punishedgummies so its not pointless if i watch it, knowing the plot twist?

Rewatching Shutter Island for the first time since theaters and it genuinely does become kind of a black comedy when you know the twist because everyone around Leo is constantly on edge because they all know this guy is a total freakmobile

@billybrizzle420 If someone started talking to you like that at a bar you would probably avoid them the rest of the night or go to a different bar. Same thing

I just ghosted this person I was talking to on hinge because we haven’t even met yet we’ve been talking for like 5 days and she started saying stuff like “it’s either gonna be you or nobody. I’m sure you’re the one, if this doesn’t work I give up” And I’m like “you don’t know that, this is suppose to fun, we haven’t event met yet” I was getting heart palpitations Anyway I just want validation that this is a normal thing to do and I’m not an evil horrible man

@lymanstoneky Yeah. My plan is to take my husband’s name so I no longer have to deal with the apostrophe in mine unless I really don’t like it. My mom chose to keep her name because she’s a scientist with her name on hundreds of papers, so the admin trade-off wasn’t worth it. It’s whatever

I think what this position misses is: 1) Kids are gonna have a surname 2) Having the whole household share a surname really is useful for a whole lot of purposes and parents who don't share surnames with their kids often face administrative challenges 3) Making up a new surname for the whole household breaks ties with *both* sides of the family and also most people see it as kinda cringe 4) So it's either his or hers or hyphens 5) Hyphens are fine, many countries do that, but they do make it literally impossible to write your full surname on many documents for many name combos, so you're back at having a name that creates recurrent administrative problems 6) So the lowest-friction solution really is his or hers 7) There's no fundamental reason it has to be his, but either way somebody is gonna give. You can argue it should be the man, but the only argument for that is matriarchy, which is no more compelling than patriarchy. 8) On the other hand the argument for "this is just the convention, don't sweat it too much" is fairly strong