Stuff I saw on the internet last week:
It’s Monday! It’s Monday. Preamble preamble preamble, okay time for internet stuff.
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TWEETS!
REDDIT!
It’s not babysitting when it’s YOUR OWN KID:
Our usual babysitter had canceled and my wife refused to just hire someone off the Thumbtack freelancing app for the few hours we’d be gone, saying she couldn’t leave her son with just anyone because he was special needs.
She had tried to strong arm me into missing the event to babysit my son instead but I had told her just because my daughter said she needed her mom in the bleachers for emotional support doesn’t mean they could just exclude me from my child’s event.
Yeah, I wouldn’t feel much sympathy, either:
My friend was complaining that he needs to sell his drones as well as he needs to get a full time job or else they'll lose the house. I asked him why his wife, who has a good paying job, didn't have any money saved and his answer was that they thought they wouldn't need to save money as they would end up with her parents inheritance anyway and in the meanwhile they were fine with the money her family was lending her. He got mad at me for not being as upset as he was but I explained to him that I found it hard to sympathize with him as they created all these problems for themselves and they should have had some kind of safety net.
Cut this dude off, like, yesterday:
he started freaking out at me saying why didn’t I consider him a close friend enough to tell him and why this guy what is it that I like about him so much bc him and mark are the same age and look similar etc. I told mark that I didn’t want to continue this conversation and I love him as a friend but that I didn’t owe him any explanation for who I choose to date and that he knows that we will only ever be friends. Mark then starts blowing up my phone saying he’s having a panic attack over this and I’m interpreting him wrong and he knows I don’t owe him anything and i stopped responding and he started calling me non stop so I turned off my phone for the night.
Please don’t teach your kids they have to stay in shitty situations:
At around 10, she called me crying that she wanted to be picked up. She was feeling left out and barely knew anyone since her friend is in another class. That she was being excluded from their conversations.
We were able to pick her up, her friend's house is about 10 minutes away from ours. But I was watching a movie with my husband and it was rare quality time we got together. I knew she was well taken care of there so I told her no and I will pick her up in the morning. I used it as an opportunity to teach her to ride out her decisions. She ended the call by telling me she hated me.
Apparently pink is only for the youths:
So I asked her if she really thought the colors were age appropriate because I know that she’s gone to bridal showers that looked like for her friends, but that was quite a while ago and I haven’t seen pink near her for like years.
She was very mad at me and said that she always imagined her “ bridal shower” to have a lot of pink because it is still her favorite color and “ royal” purple is my brother’s fiancée’s.
She then railed against me saying that she could not believe I was punishing her for not being a 27 or even thirty something bride. I tried to defend myself by saying that but the reality is is that she’ll be 41 at the party and my future SIL 24.
TUMBLR!
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TIKTOKS!
“Did we get a haircut or not?”
If you wanna do a favour for a pregnant lady.
Who the hell likes eggplant this much?
“Smudgy, you must be pretty hungry.”
Gen Z asking what your sexuality is.
“Playing bops that my boomer parents have never heard.”
How to accommodate an introvert at a restaurant.
“A bit of playful banter we caught during a recent ceremony.”
“Got a new type of cat litter, here is how it went.”
ARTICLES!
The Boredom Economy, New York Times
NASA Sent a Secret Message to Mars. Meet the People Who Decoded It., New York Times
Spilling the secrets of the canceled Curse of Monkey Island movie, Polygon
TikTok Admits It Suppressed Videos by Disabled, Queer, and Fat Creators, Slate
Britney Spears Was Never in Control, The Cut
My Year of Grief and Cancellation, New York Times
That’s all for me today, gorgeous! Talk to you soon.
Love,
Kat
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