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Today’s victory: turning a missed work-from-home opportunity into a productive day in an almost empty office.

Like stumbling into The Backrooms, but with WiFi and no lines for the bathroom.

And the whole “being able to find the exits” thing.

Employer: Let’s block all YouTube access on our network! You should only be using your unit for non-fun work tasks!

…waits 5 minutes…

Employer: Now take this training (which is a link that bring up YT hosted videos that no one can watch)

Added you too!

The honeybees on the hummingbird feeder. A moment to pause, reflect, and selfie.

You can tell who the older fur-sibling is 🤣

I am a drunk right now. And I’m outwork a friend, and I’m simonnew I’m
Deelml aoomnd Kenzie one way

Let's give it up for my favorite summer hair stylist - pool water! The chlorine really enhances my curls 😁
#wethairdontcare #style #pool

I appreciate your opinion, Diana. And you are quite right, it is a perfect representation of misogyny in movies. The abuser gains power and the victim dies and the children are "lost to the system."
That's the best part about art - it makes you think and draw parallels to real world circumstances.

And this is the part where we as the rest of the American citizenry tell Ogles to fuck off with his xenophobic bullshit. This wasn't an issue until a bunch of rich, white dudes decided a brown man "shouldn't" have the power they want after a free and clear NOMINATION. He isn't even elected yet.

...to bring her children into this world safely. She literally gave birth to the hope of the galaxy after an immense period suffering. And then she could rest. Not because her duty was over, but because one person, even a queen, can only endure so much.

...I've grown older and experience more, just as the young queen of a paradise planet and a young slave boy from a harsh desert planet, the world grows more complicated. She didn't just die from childbirth, she survived long enough through her own pain caused by the one she thought she loved...

I think this is part of the beauty of the series. The original trilogy holds true because, at its core, it represents hope. But as we age, and we learn more about the past and where we came from, hope seems to be further out of reach.
Everyone hates on the prequels, as I did for a time, but as...

Random hikes with ominous stone stacking and sunglasses selfie.
Am I doing nature right?

I feel personally attacked by this comic 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
#writerproblems

It's a lunchtime selfie kind of Monday.

Ignore the beard rash 🧔🤣

It's so fucking hard, but you are doing the right thing for you.

Good for you 💜

There is no war in Ba Sing Se...

LGBTQIA+ mutants and mutant-adjacent characters

Happy Pride Month!

While the mutant metaphor as a whole has it's flaws, there are plenty of LGBTQIA+ mutants, and here are a bunch!

Art by X-Men are a family on IG

Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Be gay do crow stuff

#pridemonth #pridecrows

Stereotypical bathroom selfie

Happy Pride! May all your wishes come true and all your rainbows never truly end.

I didn't realize all the dystopian young adult fiction I read as a teen were instructional devices for the future.

Keep reading.

I'll just leave this right here.

Thanks for the recommendations and awesome newsletter! If you're taking submissions for your NHP list, I have a few I could suggest 😁

So proud! Hurray for your 5-show momentum!

These were so frickin' cool to listen to! Thank you for sharing, and thank you for the new educational hyperfixation!

Awww, you guys are so cute! 😍

Today sucks. Please send adorable animal memes.

Thank you.

"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

I love the routine name!