Stuff I saw on the internet last week: "i hope this email doesn’t find you ❤️ be free"
Happy Monday, cool people! I had a good week off of the newsletter, and now I’m back to round up the internet things I’ve seen lately that you should see, too.
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TWEETS!
REDDIT!
Such a scruffy lil’ dude:
I love these parents who supported their edgy teen:
This isn’t “picking your husband over other people,” it’s “disrespecting other people’s time”:
there have been times I cancelled on Amelia because my husband and I wanted to have a sudden date night or such. she's been pretty cool about it. she just say we'll reschedule.
I don't know why but today was different. 2 weeks ago we decided to pick a date to go to a haunted attraction, which ended up being tonight. I saved up some money for it. then yesterday my husband announced he had the day off and said lets have a whole day as a date. I said we could use the money I had saved up for the attraction and just reschedule with amelia.
I told her this morning and instead of her okay cool message, she told me she was hating being second choice and she was really excited for this night. I told her my husband will always come first, he'll always come before her or any friend.
This stepdad MASSIVELY overstepped boundaries here:
Last Saturday morning my mom said Tim had a surprise day for us and guess what it was? Yup Tim rented the cabin only he didn’t wanna tell me until we were close because I recognized where we were.
I started to get really mad and felt my stomach twisting. I didn’t wanna be there. I kept telling Tim I knew where he was taking me but he kept playing dumb til we got to the cabin, By then I was too mad didn’t wanna get out the car.
He kept telling me to come in and promises it’ll be a lot of fun but I said to take me home.
It was 15 mins of him trying to get me out the car until I told him he’s not my dad and my dad is the only person I wanna be there with. He gave up and drove us home. The whole ride he was silent and serious.
I appreciate recursive humour:
Yeah, you’re a fucking asshole:
I’m attempting to comfort her but I’m honestly rather resentful because I also really wanted to have grandchildren.
I had told her in her twenties and early thirties that if she and her husband wanted to have children ( which they both said they did) they should do it now and she could then continue her career uninterrupted or even work part time since her husband and herself could afford it.
Her ex husband agreed with me and was begging her to consider trying. However she refused until her late thirties which I feared because I myself was unable to conceive when I was 39.
While my daughter expects me to coddle her I’m also silently suffering at the fact I’ll never have grandkids.
Yesterday I finally had enough and asked my daughter what she expected when she was trying to conceive so close to peri menopause. And that I hated to compare her to others but if she was trying at 23-30 I highly doubt this would have happened.
I can’t stop watching this video of a tool made to turn pants inside out.
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And lastly, this professor really needs to take the day off.
ARTICLES!
What Passes For Live Entertainment During A Pandemic? The Raccoon Show, Gothamist
your job application was rejected by a human, not a computer, Ask A Manager
Going Undercover on a Racist Dating Site, The Nation
The Inside Story of MacKenzie Scott, the Mysterious 60-Billion-Dollar Woman, Marker
How “Am I the Asshole?” Created a Medium Place on the Internet, The Ringer
That’s all for me today, gorgeous! Talk to you soon.
Love,
Kat
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