“And in the whiteness, of the whiteness, flowering in the tattered water, their bodies arching with the streaked marble hollows of the waves, their manes and tails and the fragile beards of the males burning in the sunlight, their eyes as dark and jeweled as the deep sea—and the shining of the horns, the seashell shining of the horns! The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.”
(a scene from The Last Unicorn, and also a custom request from last year’s Kickstarter!)
one time I used the ben affleck smoking reaction image in the family group chat and my mom replied with the funniest possible response which was: “mommy doesn’t know who the guy is???” and that phrase has not left my brain since. I’ll see blorbos on my dash that I don’t recognize and I’ll be like well it seems mommy doesn’t know who the guy is.
A couple job interview hacks from someone who has to give a job interview every single goddamn day: (disclaimer: this goes for my process and my company’s process, other companies and industries might be different)
1. There are a few things I check and a few questions I ask literally just to figure out if you can play the game and get along with others in a professional setting. Part of the job I interview for is talking to people, and we work in teams. So if you can’t “play the game” a tiny bit, it’s not going to work. Playing the game includes:
- Why do you want to work here? (just prove that you googled the company, tell me like 1 thing about us, I just want to know that you did SOME kind of preparation for this interview)
- Are you wearing professional clothing? I don’t need a suit just don’t show up in a ratty t-shirt and sweatpants.
- Are you able to speak respectfully and without dropping f-bombs all the time? Not because I’m offended but because I don’t want to be reported to HR if you wind up on my team.
- Can you follow simple directions in an interview?
2. Stop telling me protected information. I don’t want to know about what drugs or medications you’re on, I don’t want to know about you being sick, I don’t want to know if you’re planning to have children soon, I don’t want to know anything about your personal life other than “can you do the job?”
3. When we ask, “What questions do you have for me?” here are my favorites I’ve heard: - What does the day-to-day look like for a member of your team?
- If one of your team members was not performing up to his usual standard, what steps would you take to correct that?
- What can I start doing now to accelerate my learning process in this job?
- What are some reservations you have about me as a candidate? (be ready for this emotionally….it will REALLY help you in the future, and I’ve had people save themselves from a No after this, but can be hard to hear)
- In your opinion, what skills and qualities does the ideal candidate for this job possess?
- What advice would you give to a new hire in this position/someone who wanted to break into this industry, as someone who has worked here for a while?
Those are just my tips off-the-cuff. I work in sales in marketing/SAAS, so these can be very different depending on the industry, but I wish the people I interview could read this before they show up.
Yes STOP TELLING PEOPLE PROTECTED INFORMATION IN INTERVIEWS. do not volunteer anything including “I’m currently pregnant.”
Conspiracy theorists got what they wanted - a conspiracy-friendly government that will release all the Secret documents. But then whenever they release the secret documents, they’re just files that were already released, or contain equivalent information to what we know. But a beautiful part of their psychology prevents them from ever going “huh, if they keep re-releasing the same information, maybe there aren’t any secret documents explaining everything in perfect detail”. Like a cult that gathers back on the mountain top excitedly awaiting the Rapture bc their leader got the date wrong yet again, they’re trapped in an endless cycle of harassing some judge into releasing “the real documents”, whipping themselves into a frenzy over how, like, the whole game’s gonna be busted open, man, and then when it turns out to be more of what they already had, going “wow, why did they hide it from us again???” & starting from square one
Trump is both their biggest ally and the clearest sign these docs didn’t exist. If there was a secret document containing definitive proof that everyone he hates did The Bad Things, that doc would be on Truth Social without a first thought. Followers of a strongman leader who promise to Release All The Secrets unable to come up with a single plausible explanation why he hasn’t done that despite being President twice, more at eleven
This is how any corporation functions. First, increasing profits is done by attracting more customers. Then, once they have all the customers they’re going to get, increasing profits is done by increasing prices or cutting costs.
conservatives have fully lost the plot its actually extremely normal for little kids to pretend to be animals. it’s a pretty essential part of their mental development and helps them practice creative skills actually. if a kid comes up to you and says “I’m a kitty cat” you don’t need to reality check them. it’s fine actually. the correct response is to say “are you? have you caught any mice today? what kind of kitty cat? do you have orange stripes? should we have tuna salad for lunch?”
I mean it’s entirely possible that they’ll take one bite of your tuna salad and say “hmm. I don’t want to be a cat anymore i think”
"There is a girl in New York City /
Who calls herself the human trampoline /
And sometimes when I’m falling, flying /
Or tumbling in turmoil I say /
Whoa, so this is what she means"
--Paul Simon, "Graceland"
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Theatre, queerness, and cute animals. Have a great day!
"There is a girl in New York City / 