Катяна Стуaртқызы

I love Apple Music genres. Today it has miscategorised my Tibetan hip-hop as "Afrobeats"

My dude, I have plenty of Afrobeats but this is not it lmao

Heaven
is a Korean barbecue on a busy Saturday night.
When I make it there at last
After walking a long way on roads unknown
You will take my hand and we will stand in line
together.

the people who use it as a substitute for thought and creativity see the rest of us, see our actual hard-won abilities and our disinterest in their little toy facsimile of it, and feel bone-deep rage.

like everything in politics and craft, it's driven by "you think you're better than me??"

I have such fond memories of being a fucking stupid child (affectionate): after getting off a plane in San Diego for the first time, I saw a sign for Aloha Airlines, turned to my parents with wide, delighted eyes, and asked, "Are we in Hawaii???"

Absolutely wild to listen to Céline sing and realise that they un-Québécois'd her dialect and accent to make her music more palatable to wider francophone audiences.

If you see this, post your favourite Pokémon

Image from The Simpsons. Homer Simpson is standing in a confrontational pose with his family behind him. Marge Simpson has a Canadian flag above her head and Homer has. Quebec flag above his. Bart stands to Homer’s left and has a small Alberta flag in front of him. The caption reads: “Back you Americans! Nobody threatens Canadian sovereignty but me and maybe Alberta!”

This one is my favourite.

Tariffs are a tax Canadian billboard in america (georgia)

OMG you guys—Canada took out ad space on American billboards to teach people what tariffs actually are. This one’s in Georgia.

This is just … such a fucking awesome thing that is so quintessentially Canadian, I can’t even right now.

"I would kill for you" "I would die for you" nah. I would move a 2000lb tree for you with my bare hands (and some good rope, and a few buddies)

Just found out about some MORE unhinged stuff JK Rowling did back in 2016 when writing about her wizards in the Americas. With this is mind, I think she should visit Arizona and go hang out on the rez alone at night. Talk loudly about things she has no understanding/respect for. What could go wrong?

Well lads..... I got my first job offer. Offer letter STARTED with "you're not allowed to talk about your salary with your co-workers". How's everyone else's day going

Me, staring my wife directly in the eyes as I upend the salt shaker over my burger: :)
Taylor Swift, on the speakers in this restaurant: what you've been looking for has been here the whole time
My wife: *chokes*

Them

Never going to stop being salty about commercial aviation "near misses" (near hits smh)

Oh, HELL no

Imagine this: they're coming in to land at PHX. He's got her against the window, I guess. They lock eyes with a planespotter on the Terminal 4 parking garage. Unexpected wind shear comes in and the pilot hits TOGA. They go flying because they're not wearing seatbelts. What a way to live honestly

I'm still thinking about the Fuck Plane. TVTropes calls plane sex Mile-High Club, which is fair but I would argue that unwise sex on a private plane is frequent and specific enough in media to be its own thing. And it can't be mile high club if they're 2000' up on short final. It just can't 😬

I adore Arizona's year-round standard time but let me TELL YOU, it is a bitch and a half to figure out your calendar when everyone else has "sprung forward" and you're just vibing

Join me in Arizona! 🏜️

(Downsides include: we went from 2h off Eastern Time to 3h off when the rest of you sprung forward 😭; high temperatures)

So uhhh tl;dr, let's take care of each other? Let's stop insisting the economy is great and jobs are plentiful enough for everyone? Thanks for listening (I say, screaming into the void lmao)

Please, for the love of god, can we talk about this more. I see it coming and I am terrified. I can hold out just a little longer in my apron and kitchen gloves. I can do my best to help my friends get jobs like mine.

But not everyone can.

International political uncertainty, threats (and actions) towards minority populations, unhinged actions on the part of those in power - all of that is really bad. But I think the biggest threat to the American people under this adminstration is going to be joblessness and homelessness.

People like my parents. Older, seasoned professionals of 40+ years who are struggling to find jobs after no-fault layoffs, or losing clients due to lack of ability to pay.

I don't want to scream doom, because that doesn't help anything. But it genuinely feels like nobody is seeing this.

Think about all the people who don't have the ridiculously stupid connection that I did. Think about all the people whose partners don't have jobs (shoutout to my wife for making very little but Enough Money right now 🙌), or who don't have partners at all.

So now think about all of the thousands of people who are looking for work right now. Many of them, many more than usual, are white-collar professionals desperately seeking jobs in their field, where previously they may have had federal careers that they expected to last until retirement.

I now work two days per week in a kitchen. And I like it! It's physically demanding, it's repetitive in a fun way, and it makes surprisingly good money.

And I needed networking to get it.

I came out of an impressive contract job in my field at the end of last year. Since then, I can't find any job within my usual skillset, much less my actual industry. I've been ghosted by retail.

Only with the direct influence of my last boss was I able to get any job at all.

Many companies have implemented (official or unofficial) hiring freezes in the politically uncertain environment post-election. Thousands of federal employees have been fired and are now facing a brutal job market.

I keep seeing articles about the economy being "still good" even though the stock market is falling, and it just blows my mind that these economists aren't seeing it.

I don't want to go back to LA, but like. At the same time I would give anything to