See the common conception of boat owners is that they’re rich. And they certainly might start out that way. But a boat is a hole in the ocean into which money is thrown, and thus boat owners quickly become not rich

“own a sailboat and have no money” that’s a redundant statement :]

• games I don’t play but which tend to clutter All by being highly posted/active (Hololive, Honkaistarrail, etc.)

• “stop drinking” related comms because they were too frequent in the feed, I already stopped drinking because I’m too old and cranky to deal with hangovers, and a lot of them were giving me creepy cult vibes tbh

• “witchesvspatriarchy” and related because I find that kind of humor snobby and grating

• a few other women/feminism related comms. I’m a lesbian who struggles with internalized misogyny, I’ll fully admit that. But some of these posts are unhinged misandry and a lot of them are just depressing to read and probably not good for my mental health

Dropped my phone in a train station and a guy took it to his business and emailed me (protip: recovery email on lock screen). Glad I was lucky and a good dude found it as I was a very broke student lol

A woman saw me struggling to carry my heavy, unwieldy duffel bag (the shoulder strap had broken). She gave me a ride to the train station. I might have missed the train had she not helped!

lol it’ll just be Philly surrounded by the Fascist Republic of Pennsyltucky, landlocked West Berlin style

(though I suppose Philly does at least have ocean access via the Delaware)

plastic can be oversimplified into “usually biologically inert molecule chains” (polymers) held together by “usually NOT biologically inert accessory molecules” (plasticizers, fillers, etc.)

BPA is a pretty well-known “fucks you up” plasticizer, hence it being banned for some applications and “BPA-free” marketing taking off (fun fact we’re still figuring out how badly BPA replacements, most being very similar molecules, are fucking us up and to what extent)

I’m vaguely qualified (biochem degree) to say it’s probably possible

that being said there’s just a lot of stuff in nature easier to eat than plastic so if some kind of plasticphagic microbe starts causing issues it’ll likely be somewhere otherwise very inhospitable, like near the poles or in space, where there’s not much else in the way of metabolizable carbon sources

which, lol. imagine going on an Antarctic or space mission and your fucking PPE starts fermenting lmao good luck

or the ocean might become so horribly poisinous that everything dies and after microbes eat all the dead biomass and then each other, then they start eating the plastic 😬

hell yeah congrats on the masters!!

devil’s advocate: “[thing] is” has become internet shorthand for “a common attribute of [thing]” likely due to microblog character limits

that being said I do get a “it’s ALWAYS like this for ALL OF US” vibe from a lot of these types of posts that is uhhhh not great

you got this! i am a huge dumbass but still managed to graduate college so if i can do it, I believe in you :]

don’t forget to bribe your brain with music/junk food/drugs/whatever it takes lol

fuck those are some good rocks

raft?

lack of user control in devices and software generally

I wish I could tell my dishwasher what sequence and length of rinse, wash, and dry cycles to do and how long to do each but instead i gotta pick between “heavy, regular, light, eco” and just fucking guess which is best for my needs. if I’m lucky the manual will have sequence descriptions

programming
not even once

“like what nuns wear?”

as someone who has spent time living in Philly what were they THINKING lmfao

Man gobbles at turkeys, turkeys gobble back

“This is the voice of God. I am giving you a divine order to go seek mental health treatment at an intensive inpatient care facility immediately.”

(/s, obvs. don’t do that lol)

[Ferb, in posh English accent] “Ageism is a distraction from class war.”