I feel this so much. 💕

Yup. I might have to just put myself right back where my mental health suffers most but I’m not sure I have much of a choice.

And even then, it’s not guaranteed I’ll find something.

As someone currently looking for work after losing my 10 year long retail job to reduced hours (not enough for full time seasonal)… I feel this so frickin hard.

Finding a job I can actually do that doesn’t force me right back into retail (which I’m burned out on) has been fruitless.

I hate how Idiocracy now feels more like a cautionary tale and less like the dumbass comedy it should be.

It was absolutely news to me as well.

I can now see how the “joke” could be told/taken both ways but had it not been pointed out to me I’d have not even considered it.

The Internet via Google seems to be divided on this but the fact that the “joke” has any other meaning blew my mind too.

-abstract/metaphorical/figurative thinking takes actual effort. I never think in these ways first, literal is always the default.

A useful reminder indeed! I feel like I now need a study done on this specific topic to see just how many people never looked beyond the literal meaning.

I’m a very literal thinker. That doesn’t mean I can’t think other ways, it just means means that while literal thinking is automatic for me-

I think the reason I posted about it being a red flag for autism was that I never once considered the joke could have any other meaning than the literal anti-joke punchline of getting to the other side of the road.

This isn’t a measure of diagnosis, just a random thought about literal thinking.

A quick Google search shows me both answers (and arguments why either is the right or wrong way to interpret the joke), and either way I still don’t find it funny.

🤷

“To get to the other side” is apparently a death joke.

a man wearing a blue sweater is sitting in front of a window . Alt: a man sighing and covering his face and then mouth exasperatedly with his hand.

I’ll take “things that should have been a red flag for autism” for $200, Alex,

How have I gone my nearly 39 years of life without understanding that the chicken crossing the road “joke” (that I never really found funny) was in fact not about a chicken crossing an actual road…?

Not as quickly as I’d like but I’m feeling better now.

Hello morning vertigo. I did not miss you. Please don’t visit me again.

… and fuck our healthcare system for not covering supplies I literally NEED for a surgery I DIDN’T ASK FOR.

Going to lose hundreds of dollars to this and they don’t seem to fucking care. 🫠

Been fighting with my husbands insurance company (through him, and he has to go through his work) for almost 2 months now over the fact that I was supposed to be on his benefits from the very beginning but for some reason I have no coverage.

They have yet to fix this.

Fuck insurance companies…

I am proud of you too friend. I know we’ve not met but you are so often a ray of sunshine on my feed 🫶

Right now the only thing I seem to have energy for is holding together the little corner I live in, and some days even that’s a struggle. I do try my best though, and I guess that just has to be enough.

More days than not lately I end up feeling exactly the same vibes this GIF conveys. This news just contributes to that feeling.

I just… I just want to have my morning shower. I know I know, first world problems right?

Been living in this apartment building for 10+ years, and before the last couple of months I could count on one hand the number of times I’d had an issue with no hot water. Less than 5 times in 10 years is extraordinary.

It’s happened at least three times in the last couple of months.

gonna start recycling all my old flopped posts now that i’m rich and famous, like a washed up band does when they remaster old albums.

This feels like a repeat of that winter where they couldn’t keep up with the snow. 0/10 do not want.

hey anyone who watched the video and is feeling sick go play some tetris, for real. helps your brain process and get through traumatic emotions, they’ve studied it, no lie

Letters are affixed to a wall in a coffeehouse next to the bathroom They read: SOMETHING FRESH IS ALWAYS BREWING The picture is tagged with “Strange place to put this sign”.

😁🤣

Terrible restaurant could close unless people enthusiastically embrace bad food, complains chef.

Tonight’s fancy soda is a Fallout themed Jones Berry Lemonade!

Scene from Futurama with the line "Happy New Year, naked weirdo!"

Scrolling the bluesky timeline be like