Happy Ostara, all you pagans.

I’m in the middle of my own job search, and I’m beginning to think I’m the only person who has read anyone’s resume ever.
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stonebutchcowboy:

A line cook isn’t a slacker or synonymous for someone who gave up. It’s incredibly skilled labor that is hard on your body and mind and a lot of us struggle with addiction and mental illness. Your food doesn’t just magically appear at your table. It takes long hours of training and discipline. Peoples hands made your food, from the raw ingredients to the fry cook who just moved out of the dish pit and have their eyes on sauté. Have some respect for your food and the people who make it possible.
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serpentinesheldonserpentine:

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-Banish “someone probably already said this” from your vocabulary.
-Give “I’m no expert” the bum’s rush.

I might need some negative reinforcement to achieve this. Do you include a service where you stand behind someone and kick them in the ass when they slip up? @serpentinesheldonserpentine
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whats-her-name-virginia-plain: Honestly the fact no one even considered inviting me to the eighties pisses me off majorly.

genegualtieri: In the eighties, I felt just this way about the sixties.
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ndiecity: Quarantine feels like that episode of the twilight zone where the last man alive finally has all the time in the world to read but breaks his glasses but instead of glasses it’s just my whole brain
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femaleprofiles:
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aspiringwarriorlibrarian:

I’ve seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going around, but to really appreciate it you have to know the context.

The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it’s time to make a standard “thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah” speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. All is well.

Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead in the eye, and says “Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.”

She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something “more profitable”. She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”

Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the most powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly “Your empire will fall. And I will help it along.”
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dailyhangover:
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saintophelia: i wish i was alive in the 70s. no cellphones. just vibing off the lead in the air from the gasoline in my muscle car that does not have seatbelts

genegualtieri: My little sister and I rode standing in the foot wells in the rear of my family’s Pontiac Catalina, chins resting on the window ledges.
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benchleyfan: These insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words. Insults then, had some class!

1. “I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; Bring a friend, if you have one.”

    - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill. 
   

   “Cannot possibly attend first night, I will attend the second…If there is one.”

    - Winston Churchill, in response. 
   

2. A member of Parliament to Disraeli: “Sir, you will either die on the gallows, or of some unspeakable disease.”

   Disraeli: “That depends, Sir, “whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”

3. “He had delusions of adequacy.”

    - Walter Kerr 
   

4. “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”

    - Clarence Darrow
   

5. “He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”

    - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway). 
   

6. “Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.”

    - Moses Hadas
   

7. “I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”

    - Mark Twain
   

8. “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends..”

    - Oscar Wilde 
   

9. “I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.”

    - Stephen Bishop
   

10. “He is a self-made man and worships his creator.”

    - John Bright
    

11. “I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.”

    - Irvin S. Cobb 
    

12. “He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.”

    - Samuel Johnson 
    

13. “He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”

    - Paul Keating
    

14. “In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.”

    - Charles, Count Talleyrand
    

15. “He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.”

    - Forrest Tucker 
    

16. “Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”

    - Mark Twain 
    

17. “His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”

    - Mae West
    

18. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”

    - Oscar Wilde
    

19. “He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts… For support rather than illumination.”

    - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
    

20. “He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”

    - Billy Wilder
    

21. “I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.”

    - Groucho Marx
    

22. “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”

    - Winston Churchill
    

I met Murder on the way –

He had a mask like Castlereagh –

Very smooth he looked, yet grim;

Seven bloodhounds followed him

All were fat; and well they might

Be in admirable plight,

For one by one, and two by two,

He tossed them human hearts to chew

Which from his wide cloak he drew.

The Masque of Anarchy - Wikipedia
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The Inevitable Whitelash Against Racial Justice Has Started | The Nation

As Black people fight for our lives, white supremacists reach for their guns—and white allies go soft.

— Read on www.thenation.com/article/activism/blake-white-people-backlash/

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by Raymond Carver

So early it’s still almost dark out. I’m near the window with coffee, and the usual early morning stuff that passes for thought. When I see the boy and his friend walking up the road to deliver the newspaper. They wear caps and sweaters, and one boy has a bag over his shoulder. They are so happy they aren’t saying anything, these boys. I think if they could, they would take each other’s arm. It’s early in the morning, and they are doing this thing together. They come on, slowly. The sky is taking on light, though the moon still hangs pale over the water. Such beauty that for a minute death and ambition, even love, doesn’t enter into this. Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.

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