fussybritches @fussybritches@social.targaryen.house
Welcome to mastodon. Here's your courses on French and Japanese, a "THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS" bumpersticker, and a fresh pineapple for some reason.
A client sent me creative for a store cooler with the project name "Coolio" and I'm fairly certain their swift demise would fall into the "justifiable homicide" classification.
I'm not panicking about the Cubs, but I haven't liked a lot of what I've seen these few weeks.
Bonne Nuit, Bonne Nuit To You All.
Outside counsel and I just spent 15 minutes talking about an emoji app that my client is working on and then spent 45 minutes sending each other random and increasingly hilarious emoji chains. I hope he billed me for the entire hour. It's been ages since I've laughed that much at work.
I shouldn't have to tell my marketing client why they can't offer something free to everyone and also give it away as a prize in a promotion...and yet I do. It's a clear promotion law violation but even if it was legal, it would be maniacally stupid on the brand's behalf. Where is the common sense?!
Temba, his arms open: #introductions
Rai and Jiri at Lungha. Rai of Lowani. Lowani under two moons. Jiri of Ubaya. Ubaya of crossroads, at Lungha. Lungha, her sky gray!
The beast at Tanagra; Zima at Anzo. Zima and Bakor. Sokath, his eyes opened! Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra; Kira at Bashi: Gilgamesh and Enkidu at Uruk.
Kailash, when it rises; Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel.
I sometimes picture mastodon as those Haven cities in zombie films.
"I heard it's safe! They got food, clean water, and the brands ain't got up there yet!"
I'm already seeing articles about the one year anniversary of Prince's death and I'm just not ready for this yet.
I'm in the middle of making up posters for the March for Science in Chicago this weekend. My parents are coming in from Michigan (my mom is a retired chem professor) and my brother, his wife and their two girls are coming from Indy. It's a whole family protest! I always consider my brother a scientist even though he's actually a mathematician.
Aaaannnd Lackey gave the run right back. I swear this guy is either brilliant or a train wreck. There is no middle ground with him. #Cubs
Okay, DON'T give it right back, Lackey. #Cubs
My partner is more amused than he should be that my birthday this year falls on Dyngus Day.
I grew up as a lonely cishet geek dude, so I get it — it sucks to be made not welcome.
But as much as it sucks to be excluded from spaces, it also sucks to be threatened so often by gendered violence that you can't be sure if someone of that demographic is decent or a danger.
Living on low-level or even high-level alert is exhausting. Wanting that space to breathe is understandable.
I spend an inordinate amount of time measuring font at my job. I'm basically a glorified ruler.
I want to put glitter on my face and body because I need something sparkly and shiny in my life
because i read with my own two eyes an op-ed saying that the first couple waves of mastodon users were people who "couldn't handle opposing viewpoints" let me break it down for those who haven't figured it out yet:
it's not that we can't handle opposing viewpoints, it's that all of y'all keep treating being an asshole like some sort of ironic coolguy thing to do and we all find you insufferable and none of us can stand being around you
Happy Zombie Jesus Day! Eat chocolate.
An early Spurs match (these 6:30 matches are tough), a quick run after getting back, and then back to the north side of the city to help my group put together the apartment for the refugee family we're sponsoring. I've got a party in an hour and a half and I'm EXHAUSTED.
yo so, a word about something I saw the other day
if you want to talk about behaviour you think is exploitative, self-serving, self-aggrandising, please use those terms. PLEASE don't call people "professional victims" - at best it's overly reductive and dismissive of everything they do
but more importantly, it's a catchphrase literal neonazis use to delegitimise their victims. we can't take up their rhetoric in earnest because it poisons any legitimate discussion.
