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Team Away Day.

I applied for a job last week, and the ad said interviews would be on the 13th (this Friday). It's the 10th, and I haven't even had confirmation that they've received my application. Is it worth asking if they've actually received it, or should I wait another day or two?

Yes.

It has taken me an unreasonable amount of time to get my hands on this - Forbidden Planet is several books behind current releases, and Waterstones doesn't stock any JR at all.

Sometimes opening up social media feels like self-harm.

Although I am not currently too stressed about being made redundant in 2 months, I am stressed about a whole load of other work stuff, and the increasing possibility that I won't lose my job and will have to stay on at a place I no longer want to work. I'm sad and lonely and the world is on fire.

Finally giving in to yesterday's urge to go back to bed and cry over fanfiction.

The Moor Market is the only place in Sheffield I've seen so far with any sign that it's Pride Month.

Well, I tried. But I'd got the dates mixed up for the first demo, which is actually next weekend 😓 and the second one had evidently not been well promoted because there was no one there besides the organisers 😬

There are a couple of demos in town today that I really should be at, but I am tired and sad and just want to mope.

Dan DaDan Evil Eye premier! And I remembered my Loops this time (because the sound levels were PAINFUL last time)!

Slightly concerned about how many of my colleagues are convinced that they are being marginalised for being straight, white, cisgender, able-bodied, neurotypical and British.

Super fast delivery for these fab stickers from @boredmaud.co.uk !!

Look, I am 100% a barefoot shoe advocate, but Xero Shoes trying to tell me that a white rubber-soled fabric upper with a pull-tab is a "dress shoe"? No. Stop it. Words used to mean things.

"Europeans don't compliment strangers" skill issue. Today a stranger told me, "You are everything I aspire to be."

Trans stickers to slap everywhere (especially toilets!!) boredmaud.co.uk/product/tran...

Ready to indulge in all the sins this Pride Month.

Just saw a comedian say "If vaccines caused autism then America would have trains" and I almost spit out my drink.

Two more for the Old (Salary)Man Yaoi collection.

This is beautful. And so simple. Queer people are scared. This is all you have to do as a cis het person to help take some of that fear away.

When I first got into anime and manga in university, I had no idea that my favourite genre would turn out to be 'pathetic middle-aged salarymen', but here we are. (Bonus points if one of them is voiced by Sugita Tomokazu.)

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Still figuring out how the ADHD meds are affecting me - I have zero appetite for most of the day, until about 7pm when they wear off and suddenly I am ravenous. Which makes it hard to gauge whether I'm eating too much - if I'm hungry, I should eat, but I can't work out when I've eaten too much.

I can’t get over my cousin’s graduation cake.

Do I watch the new Wes Anderson film, or do I leave it alone if Ayoade is involved? I'm assuming it was filmed before Ayoade expressed sympathy for Linnehan, or maybe WA is too far removed from terf island to know, but I'm still uncertain.

Another great piece on the artsy billboard near my flat.

過去に描いたふたりのファーストバイト絵、実は巨大プリンも描いていた…んですよ! ジオードケーキもプリンもほぼ見えなくなったし見える部分も全体にぼかしてしまったので供養(最後にぼかすと決めていたのであまり細部まで描いていないけど)

Is Bluesky's translate function not working for anyone else? It opens up Google translate but doesn't actually copy over the text to translate, and now I can't even select text in Bsky to copy and paste into the app.

Love it when my job requires me to list every transphobic dog-whistle I can think of. </sarcasm>

One recurring dream I have that doesn't align with my usual recurring stress dreams, is finding myself searching for Osomatsu-san figures. Always specifically Osomatsu-san, no other anime. And I always wake up sad that I don't actually have them.