Shrymf - What The Scallop?

what the hell

A lil Drawtectives dunmesh thing I didn't finish 😪

(staring down at a litter of puppies) i want the dark haunted one, with a tragic past that is shrouded in mystery

"people who stay up at night are either insomniac or In love" people who stay up at night read gay fanfiction on AO3 what are you on about?

Little guy line up :D

A friend of mine has made a proposal.

MASTER WHISKERS

A kitten the Master got from out of a tree and now is teaching it to be evil.

"I EAT PEOPLE"

"darling u are cuddling a kitten"

"😡😤"

"This kitten is also evil!"

The kitten: *claws up 14s shoe string*

Sax: Aha!! Yes my fellow brotheren!! Commit evil crimes! Do evil things and make the world fear you! Together we shall rule!-

The kitten: *scratches saxons shoe strings*

Saxon: GAASSPP NO!!!! No, my brother! You are not supposed to betray me! How could you!?

I had kebabs and now it's can't stop thinking about sax sneaking bits or chicken and meat to his cat brother.

"there u go"

"I LITERALLY SPENT SIXTY QUID ON PREMIUM CAT FOOD"

"master whiskers deserves the best😤✨"

Donna: What the fuck is going on

Sax: This is Master Whiskers. If anything happened to him I would kill everyone on this planet and then myself

14: ... He found a kitten and is convinced its evil because it hates me..

Sax: Hehe yeah watch *puts Master Whiskers up to the doctor*

Master whiskers: Mmmmrroow!

Sax: Yes my dear brother, Tell him how pathetic he is!

Master whiskers: HISSS

14: Ouch :( my feelings

Sax: SUCCESS! *Holds him up like the lion king* All hail my greatest pupil Master Whiskers!! We shall rule this puney planet and rid the seas of all the tuna! Mwahahah!!

Donna:.... Hes off his meds aint he?

14: Yup.

I've said that organizational dysfunction should be a villain more often, mostly because of my belief that we need stories that give us information about how to deal with the biggest actual problems we, as a society, face. It's just very hard to write a story about organizational dysfunction that includes actually beating the organizational dysfunction.

But there's one place where organizational dysfunction does have an opportunity to show its villainous nature: videogames. Specifically, management videogames, where making decisions about organizational goals and who to hire is already central to gameplay.

Now, the average "management" game is not really about management per se. Everything is hyper abstract, you have a god's eye view, and you have ultimate authority over everything that you do. You are still looking for weak links and problems to correct, but a lot of that is pathing issues (if the game has that) or restructuring physical space.

So a management game that's about organizational dysfunction would be one where you're the new boss, looking to right the ship, and it would need to be an opaque organization, one where you can't just look inside someone's mind and see the "takes credit for others' work" trait.

I guess when I put it like that, I'm imagining something that's more like a detective game, as you do interviews and comb through piles of documents. And it's not as simple as "fire the bad people", because often those people are pulling a lot of weight, that's one of the reasons they've stuck around for so long, and replacing them is genuinely a hit to the company's ability to do ... whatever it's trying to do.

(Definitely also possible to do this same thing set in a government agency, a non-profit, or any other organization, though the actual problems will look at least somewhere different.)

I've been keeping it off my face as much as I can on video, but I'm livid about the TikTok ban.

I have about 100,000 followers on that app. I joined during the pandemic. I was lucky to find a community full of incredible people, many of whom I now consider lifelong friends. Because of the community I found on that app, I found space to experiment with my gender presentation. I was able to come out as nonbinary (to feel SAFE ENOUGH to come out as nonbinary) because of that app.

I've seen a few Tumblr posts in which people gloat they never got into TikTok. Good for you. You won't suffer emotionally, and that makes you feel superior. But if you have no concept of what that app has meant for more than 170,000,000 Americans (that's half of all Americans!), many of whom do not have access to community in physical spaces, kindly sit down.

The ban constitutes the largest mass layoff in American history. We will lose billions of dollars in our domestic economy. Over 7 million small businesses are shuttering because of the ban. You will feel the effect of that whether or not you were on the app. If you can't grasp the significance of that, again: kindly sit down.

The language of the TikTok ban has set a dangerous precedent for the American government to shutter any tech platforms they deem "dangerous" for arbitrary, undisclosed, nebulous reasons. This will affect Americans' ability to organize, spread information, and protest. They have effectively banned our right to assembly in digital spaces. This is the greatest infringement of free speech that has ever occurred in the United States. If you can't grasp the significance of that, either: kindly sit down.

This is bigger than "never falling for the TikTok craze." This is an enormous governmental overreach sanctioned by our own Supreme Court. It's bigger than teens doing silly dances you can sneer at from your smug high horse.

And if you can't grasp that: Kindly. Sit. Down.

nobody tell him

please god stop talking about diets and weight loss in front of kids. especially if those kids are girls. and especially if you’re someone those kids look up to. but really just stop talking about about diets and weight loss when children are in earshot at all. I promise you you’re doing far more harm than good.