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Cake day: December 27th, 2025

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  • “Exceeds expectations”

    “Exceeds expectations”

    “Exceeds expectations”

    “Exceeds expectations”

    ‘Well, nanner, you got one write up, which is lower than 95% of the company, so looks like you’ll only be getting 1.5% instead of the 3% for average, and I don’t personally give out the 6% raise I’m allowed to.’ - my fucking supervisor, while other supervisors hand out everything like candy (not really, they just shower their favorite)












  • If you’re going to tell people to look into the lens of romantic*/companionate (and all the other ones you didn’t mention: nonlove/liking/infatuation/empty love/fatuous love/consummate love) you should at least give them some starting points.

    • Triangle theory of love: Robert Sternberg (1987, 2006)
    • Brain regions; attachment/commitment vs sexual desire: Diamond (2004), Aron et al. (2005), Xu e al. (2011)
    • Lust/attraction/attachment, dopamine/serotonin influences: Helen Fisher (2006), Aron et al. (2008),
    • More influence of dopamine/serotonin: Ackerman (1994, p. 165)
    • Critiques of simplifying love: Fehr (2006)
    • Some more neurotransmitters and hormones: Macdonald & Macdonald (2010), Hill et al. (2009), Gouin et al. (2010), Ditzen et al. (2009), Theodoridou et al. (2009)
    • Loves sternberg didn’t consider: Berscheid (2010), John alan lee (1988),
    • Decreases in romantic love: sprecher & regan (1998), Tucker & aron (1993), Gupta & Singh (1982) and the followup D. Myers (1993), Walster & Walster (1978), Abhmetoglu et al (2010), Call et al. (1995), Klussman (2002)
    • Non-decreases in love: Acevedo et al. (2011),

    Personally, I would really, really recommend the textbook Intimate Relationships by Rowland S. Miller to anyone who is curious about the subject. I had to go pull my edition off of the bookshelf to quickly throw out all the references above.

    *because passionate love isn’t the category. The proposed idea was the triangle theory of intimacy, passion, and commitment, which led to the eight above categories----



  • That’s good. It should really be getting you cold and clammy, with just the hint of the tang of a nearby sheep in the air. Soft wool sliding down skin as a cold breeze brings salt to your nose, wiping away the sheep’s scent as quickly as your grandmum wiped away the last grime from your gaffer’s stick. Slowly, she leaned over, taping the muff in place so the sound was properly focused on the scene below.




  • I thought that was the most realistic part of the books. How many hundreds of years of people crying out against slavery did it take for chattel slavery to be abolished? Sure, it would also have been realistic for there to have been more people opposing slavery, but as an initial reaction? Society would absolutely shit on her out of inertia.


  • The battle lines, if people are convinced that there really is a ‘fight’ going on, will be between individual houses and apartments. I know that there are those among my neighbors who tracked what political signs were where… and they have no problem making their position known. We are too ‘integrated’ as a society to keep even a semblance of separation between conservatives, liberals, progressives, fascists, ‘antifascists,’ democrats, republicans…

    and we have a lot more trigger happy yokels armed to the teeth (in civilian terms). It’s going to suck. We can all hold out hope for the midterms, but fuck…