My partner's mama wants to come visit us soon 🙂

She's an old lady with lots of mental health issues and a whole slew of ignorant prejudices around race and sexuality 😶

She apparently doesn't know I'm trans 😬

thinking about curry

I wrote a whole diatribe about toilet seat etiquette as a reply to a comment in /c/askchapo but the thread got deleted so I guess I'll dump it here.

If you go to sit down but someone's left the seat up and you don't notice, you can straight-up fall into the toilet. Never happened to me but I'd be lying if I said I'd never had a close call in the middle of the night. Also, even assuming equal sit-pissers and stand-pissers in a household, since both will need to poo sitting down, seat down is going to be the most used configuration. I opt for the more radical lid-down option--less splash when flushing, more aesthetically pleasing, and less risk of accidentally dropping something in the toilet.

Tbh even though I'm a penis-haver I've been a sit-pisser since I was a teen--don't have to worry about aim, split streams, or backsplash, and the toilet stays clean. No matter how good a stand-pisser's aim is, there will always be spatter on the lip of the bowl and it gets especially gross by the hinges; on the rare occasion that I stand-piss, I actually wipe the lip of the bowl down, but I've got to be in a vanishingly small minority. If I could enact a petty dictatorial rule it would be to make everyone sit-piss when using standard toilets.

Protip: take turns spiraling so you can be there for each other

Tired of everything, I dont want to work anymore just practice and play music. Like I love music and practicing but doing both full time has to be affecting me somehow.

I have a decent full time job and i feel like im always struggling to keep things together. I hate this country so much. A regular person should be able to get by fine here, its that everything is subject to greedy assholes and enshittification. Can we just do what makes sense?

It must of felt so god damn good as a regular person to strip the Romanovs of everything. In what world can you be comfortable with your child receiving all the things they could possibly need to succeed while others freeze and fucking starve.

Also fuck cars, did you guys know they let any idiot drive a death machine? And you are also are subject to whatever tantrum they have no matter how dangerous or stupid it is.

My friend will sometimes complain about stuff male engineers say to her and it's definitely stuff that I've said before on occasion but I don't get defensive.

The gesture was allegedly performed by Jacob Hersant, who had just walked from a County Court room after being spared further jail time over an attack on six hikers in regional Victoria in 2021.

Mr Hersant stood in front of news cameras outside the Victorian County Court on October 27 and said "heil Hitler" and raised his right arm about a 90-degree angle from his shoulder, before taking it down swiftly.

"Oh, nearly did it, it's illegal now isn't it," Mr Hersant said.

As he walked away with fellow far-right extremist Thomas Sewell, Mr Hersant called out: "Australia for the white man, heil Hitler."

Victoria Police said a 24-year-old Point Cook man was interviewed yesterday and is expected to be charged on summons.

It is the first time a Nazi salute has been reported to police since new legislation banning the gesture came into effect on October 21.

The judge wished them luck and said they had "good chances" at rehabilitation just moments before. Lol lmao

vibing to the washing machine

Took a day off to catch up on org work + rest and I'm in the office to focus better and for the free snacks/drinks

Somebody fucking called security on me cause I guess chilling on the fancy sofas and loveseats for a few hours with a phone is suspicious and a threat to their walled garden

what're some alternatives to calling someone a good girl so that the phrase doesn't get stale

Just wondering it's for a project don't ask what the project is

when I take breaks from drinking I just find other shitty ways to self medicate, like playing fighting games all night. I'm kinda starting to think no one actually raw dogs reality, even if their drug isn't directly an actual drug.

I threw up last night for an unknown reason but otherwise I feel fine. I can't sleep and my legs ache now. I have to wait 45 minutes for the grocery store to open so I can go get some diet ginger ale and/or some ginger tea. One of the bad things about COVID (although it was certainly good for workers) is that it destroyed most of the 24-hour stores where I am.

Hmm doing strike for 30 hours in 1920s. Little did they know the workers would still work 50 hours hundred years later.

You faint in one lobby and suddenly you're the guy who faints in lobbies smdh

Cool minor internet interaction 1: My friend hosted a three person Survivor watch party with me and her friend. Both younger trans girls. At the end of it my friend's friend said "hey draggo you seem like a good person" and then nervously stuttered that she supports Palestine too (because my Discord status is pro-Palestine rn). I found this really cute and also heartening because it sorta indicates that the default position among young people who arent politically plugged in that much is support of Palestine.

fuck landlords
fuck cars

new citations needed drop

they're explicitly talking about class conflict. it's in the fucking title of the episode

Iron Man 2 is currently playing on my TV. I'm not really watching it (it's muted), but occasionally I look up at it.

Over and over in this movie one of the smart characters just walks up to a computer and starts hacking it with no preparation or special tools whatsoever. The first time is when Tony hacks all of the TV screens in the Senate to do his "I've privatized world piece" BS, which you could argue could be something he prepped ahead of time - but then later the villain does the same thing to a computer from its own login screen. Every time they do it, as soon as their fingers start clacking the keys (which they do constantly throughout the process, never stopping to wait for something to load or anything like that) a terminal window pops up with their name on it and says something really obvious like "access granted Mr Stark :)" so that the viewer understands what's happening (even though I'm sure the dialogue and context also makes it abundantly clear what's happening).

Is this how people who don't really "get" computers think about people who do? That we just have techno superpowers? Because that's basically what it is.

Maybe consider defederating from lemmy.zip?

.zip domains should not exist due to the giant security flaws they introduce, and we should offer them no legitimacy.

It is what it is and it is sucktastic.

FWIIII ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^ ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^ ^Huh!^ ^Hooh!^

Im really on the edge here, i cant stand this planet why do we fucking live like this

Got hit up by a recrooter for the first time ever today, doesn't seem like too bad of an opportunity especially given how desperate I am. Plus it's remote which is pog.

How does a recruiter typically affect your odds of getting the jobert?

I've become the kinda person who takes selfies and posts them fishing for compliments. What can I say, being called cute is keeping me alive

The three historians I cite in this thing I'm working on have the first names Robert, Robin, and Roger. Obvs I'm using their last name but I get them confused in my mind all the time because I think of their full name, for some reason

Doesn't help that Roger's book is called "the nature of fascism" and Robert's book is called "the anatomy of fascism"

I went on a date and it was nice and fun and we wanted to go out again, but I am so very mentally ill that I do not think I have the capacity to see them very much :'(

I have a very hard time all day every day and when I talk to this person they're like "what's up with you how's your day? :)" and the true answer is "I am fighting for my life surrounded by utter darkness" but like I just don't think that's hot so I think I should just spare this person the trouble and worry only about myself for a while

I'm reading The Hierarchies I don't know anything about the author. So far it's quite good! It's about a sex robot. The trans allegory is very very clear- at one point the main character delights in "passing" (as a human woman)

Why does Biden's press secretary sound like Biden doing an Obama impression. Just dithering old man rambling with "uhh let me be clear" peppered in. If this is how Dems talk for the rest of time it might be the only thing worse than their foreign policy

Gonna give my kid a slavic name they'll never be able to pronounce correctly. Other kids will ask them how to pronounce it and they'll cry

I'm at the hospital accompanying a close relative who just had bariatric surgery. Two observations:

• It's a modern building and you need a special key to open the windows. People could fall out if the windows were open and sick people doesn't need fresh air anyways.
• The plastic bedpan they use to collect pee from the toilet is called a "Texas hat" due to it being shaped somewhat like a cowboy hat

Lol mgs master collection looks worse than x360/ps3 versions because they used worse AA

According to recent IDF report, the IDF says that you, the reader, are hiding a Hamas base inside of you