Show some respect! The Burger King has reigned for over 70 years (founded in 1954).

Students smoking where they shouldn’t is a PITA to me, a librarian, because it can set off some fire alarms.

I do not appreciate needing to help a less mobile coworker down the stairs to evacuate the building. I don’t like spending in the rain while we wait for the fire department to declare the “all clear”.

We don’t use spy pucks to tattle on students, though: we know what alarm was triggered and we know who checked out that study room. Or we know who came out of the single seat bathroom.

Edit: and generally students have been contrite when they return the study room key after the building was evacuated. Very “I didn’t do it but I’ll let my friends who were studying with me know…” and we’ve not had repeat offenders. Tbh, they’re [young] adults so as long as no one is hurt and I don’t hear about it I’m cool with it.

I’m with you on this one.

Nah, it’s fine to ask for help. I’ve helped several folks move, mostly trans discord acquaintances moving to less hostile states. I’m happy to help crowd fund a move. I’ll even help pack or clean the old place if needed. I just won’t carry heavy stuff up and down stairs.

My physical therapist tells me it’s not that my muscles are weak, it’s that my ligaments are made of boiled noodles that refuse to keep my joints in their proper place. I have a lifetime of unrecognized hypermobility to contend with. That damage to joints is cumulative. I’m not risking popping a joint out of place just to help someone move.

Snow boots that change color in the cold. I had those as a toddler and they were the coolest things ever.

I’ve looked up what to put on cards before, or read what other people wrote on the card as it’s passed around. Signing cards can be awkward.

Yeah, I heard about that from a podcast the other day. 😞

Can confirm. I play Rimworld. (Though, tbh, my worst habit is accumulating way too many animals. Like, pages worth of named or trained dogs and wolves, plus quail.)

I put on my robe and wizard hat

I want an AI in my smart fridge that looks like my dead grandma but acts nicer and suggests I buy certain branded ingredients to make her famous corn bread casserole pie, which she never actually made IRL /s

We used to have a sandwich shop at my office that would do lox and veggies on a bagel for maybe $6. They also had an avocado bagel for $4. They were replaced by a Starbucks in a different building on campus and it’s not as good and more expensive.

Same. Sometimes I’ll add in a bagel with cream cheese and tomato.

Some libraries also have access to Consumer Reports online, accessible via the library’s network (or maybe also via a library card + link from the library site? I dunno, it’s been a while since I worked in a public library.)

Sandwich maker! We had one growing up and it was awesome.

Leftover macaroni and cheese makes a mean grilled cheese sandwich filling, then you dip it in tomato soup.

The cabin of a semi-truck

So (if I read you right) the violence isn’t done by those that try to pass to avoid negative consequences, but by those that 1. enforce those negative consequences and those that 2. force IDs to fit into their artificial binary.

That makes sense. Thank you for clarifying.

Anecdote that helps me relate to the concept you described: A friend of mine has an extra pinky finger and it used to bother me–like, why hadn’t she had a surgical intervention so her hands more closely matched my concept of normal? Then I realized I should be happy that she didn’t feel the need to cut off a part of herself to fit in. Like my friend’s pinky, trans folk existing isn’t hurting anyone.

My mom had all sorts of books on mental health and disability. I remember one on abnormal childhood development (it had neat examples of pictures kids might draw) and multiple with now-outdated but then-clinical terms in their titles. These were textbooks from her attempt at an MS in social work in the 1980s. Didn’t keep the neighborhood kids from teasing me that they were my mom’s way of coping with having me.

How do you feel about one large pancake melded with two smaller pancakes, to make some sort of cartoonish mouse head shape?