marchingatmidnight.bsky.social
Rooke, lesbian, scientist, writer, biggest Angels fan in the PNW. I’m posting to make my wife laugh.
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BEEN THERE. One time they took fourteen vials. FOURTEEN. Afterwards I was like. Yeah no I’m gonna need to sit here for a bit.
My favorite part is that some of the things they tested for were blood disorders. And I was like, well, now I have “not enough blood” disorder.
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I feel like the National Parks had a queer history in the US compilation that someone archived that had information on it. I’ll look for it tonight.
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1 and 4 feel the most water-like, but I love the aesthetics of 2 and 3!
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Yeah we got one of those
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Can we also do the moon landing?
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So not only is it way less than they expected, even that number is probably an overestimate of the program.
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Anecdotally, people on r/fednews have said that even replying to the emails with questions — or having an out of office automatic reply — landed them on the list as having accepted offer. More people accepted the offer, and were told afterwards that they’re not eligible.
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They said they were expecting it to be 5-10%, and that they wanted it to be higher. This is a whopping 3.2%. Less than is lost for retirement every year.
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for decades the federal govt has bent over backwards to limit spending even on totally sensible things like office coffee, all so they can say your tax dollars aren't going to pay for coffee. and it was all for nothing bc elon is tweeting out conspiracy theories about non-existent fraud.
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It took a stroke, a triple bypass, and two different kinds of terminal cancer to kill that man. And even then, a few weeks before he died he was still making plans to come skiing near my college.
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Grandma (70, also cripplingly anxious). No, that man put his heart and soul into that like he was born to Pom Pom.
And of course, we were “randomly” selected and got the chest for free.
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The person at the register, for some reason, handed them to my 75 year old grandfather. And that man, with all of the enthusiasm of a cheerleader for a big ten school, jumped up and down and danced and cheered with those pom poms. He didn’t foist it off on me (8, cripplingly anxious) or my (Cont)
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Randomly select a cash register number out of a hat and whoever was currently checking out got whatever it was for free. Well, it’s our turn, and sure enough it’s time for the game. Now, during the flashing lights and music, they gave the person at the register pom poms to wave around.
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An IKEA opened up near my grandparent’s house right as my mom, my brother and I moved in with them. We were pretty well outfitted, but needed a chest of drawers so off to the new ikea we go. Well, as a promotion, every hour or something, they would play flashing lights and music and they’d (cont)
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Oh Lordy!
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Um friend???? How????