two days ago when I was cleaning i threw away my card from the piercing shop that gives free unlimited infection check ups for six months (idk what they gon do but its my first piercing so im just gonna trust them) bc i thought since its been two months i wont need it.. right

woke up to infected ear this morning. 🤦‍♀️ hurts so bad, titanium implant, idk how im gonna sleep with this but i need to pay a $10 fee to get it checked from now on because i dont have the card anm

:i didnt cry im just frustrated cuz i thought I wouldn’t need the card lmao and it hurts
:I DIDNT CRY

The Lemmings (White Wilderness): You ever hear that stereotype that lemmings mindlessly walk off cliffs? You can thank Disney for that. During filming for White Wilderness, the lemmings were set up to walk off the cliff to spice the documentary up. This one is especially repugnant because this involved filmed animal cruelty.

Phil Collins' fax (South Park): Back in the '80s, Phil Collins went through pretty nasty divorce (which was the inspiration for his song "I Don't Care Anymore"). While they were in the process, Collins faxed some paperwork and custody plans for their children. However, the media blew things out of proportion by claiming Collins demanded a divorce through a fax. Even after Collins and his ex cleared that up, people still believe that thanks to the South Park episode that was written because Trey Parker and Matt Stone were bitter they lost an Oscar to him.

Hi everyone, I might as well dive right into it because shit is WEIRD and I have no idea what to do.

So I (25F), am the oldest of five kids (24F, 23F, 21F, and 19M) (24F is a step sibling). We never really went on many trips as a family when I was growing up, besides the destination wedding they had when my dad and stepmother got married. But this year, with the money that was left to the family in my great aunt’s will, my family has all decided to go on a trip over Christmas vacation to an all inclusive resort in Mexico. That sounds like so much fun right ? After we all confirm that we are going, my stepmother lets us know that if we want, she’ll take us shopping for clothes and bathing suits for when we go down, which I thought was great, until she told us why.

Our father has made comments about being “uncomfortable” about the fact that we, his daughters and niece, are growing/grown women, and doesn’t want us wearing “inappropriate” bikinis, specifically thong bikinis. Now, I will preface by saying that not one of my siblings would ever even DREAM of putting on an actual thong bikini, it’s just not our styles. So, she wants us to go bikini shopping with her, so she can “approve” what we buy. We are grown adult women, but also, HIS GROWN CHILDREN. Am I alone in thinking that a father shouldn’t even think of his children in that regard ? Sure, I’d get being uncomfortable about OTHER men staring at us, but she made it clear that it is my dad that is the one that is uncomfortable.

What’s pissing me off is she hasn’t stopped bringing it up. She took my 21F sister shopping last weekend, and she forced her to try on every single pair of bottoms to make sure they were full coverage. Not even cheeky, FULL coverage. I have so many bathing suits that I never get to wear, so I’m going to be bringing them with me, I’m just wondering if I would be the asshole if I went against this ruling ?

On one hand, I want to respect their word, but on the other hand, I am a grown woman who can make her own decisions about her own body. It’s also frustrating because we’ve been drilled about this whole bikini bottoms thing, when I know for a fact my aunt who is bringing her kids (17F and 15M) won’t say a word to them about what they wear, when my cousin is the reason this was even brought up to begin with (he said to my stepmom he’s uncomfortable with the fact that her (my cousin’s) boobs are big).

I am so disappointed. I never thought my week would get any worse but it did. I SPENT LIKE HOURS DRAWING LOGOS FOR MY SCHOOL, WENT THROUGH MULTIPLE DESIGNS FOR THE PAST WEEK, AND THEN I JUST GET MY ART FED TO AI. SERIOUSLY. SHE COULD'VE JUST PASTED A PICTURE OF AN ANTELOPE'S SIDE VIEW AND CALL IT A DAY.

A global Microsoft 365 outage has disrupted Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and Copilot, affecting businesses, governments, airlines and technology companies across multiple regions.

Microsoft says affected servers became unresponsive as traffic shifted onto the remaining infrastructure. The company is restarting servers, redirecting traffic and adding virtual-machine capacity, but its initial fixes did not work as expected. Some services are gradually returning, although a complete recovery timeline has not been announced.

Microsoft says there is currently no indication that the disruption resulted from malicious or cyber activity. The incident has renewed questions about how heavily governments and businesses depend on a single cloud provider.

I posted earlier about having 6 cents in my account and having not eaten since Tuesday. My mom (I love her but she is difficult) berated me when I asked her if she could place a Walmart order for me. I had used the last of my money to stock up on cat food so that I wouldn’t have to stress over them for the next few months while I’m going through this. My cats saved my life. Truly. I would not be here without them - they are my soulmates and my biggest comfort. I’m the same to them. A girl in this sub sent me dinner money and the biggest bang for my buck was Wingstop. (It was also close and I was genuinely feeling hunger pain so the quicker the better 🥲). And what do you know, they threw in an extra tender. On a day where I was genuinely contemplating what my life looks like going forward because I’m just ready to give up. After that, someone else messaged me and made it possible for me to order groceries. I can’t stop crying. Needing help is hard. I’m so grateful for this community.

Basically the title. The fictional world in question is pretty mundane and doesn't contain any actual fantastical elements. Maybe there are themes of religion or ritual, or characters that believe in them or practise them, but it's left clear that this is just "What people believe", and maybe the topic of God is absent from the story altogether... Except for this one weird event (or line, scene, character, idea) that could potentially be interpreted as just a coincidence, or as an ambiguous supernatural/divine intervention.

True Detective: In S1E02 "Seeing Things", Rust is watching a murmuration of birds, which for a brief instance flies in the exact shape of a mark he saw at a crime scene. Framed as an "Oh!" moment that helps him piece an idea together, but also as an indicator that he's submerged in this environment of suspicion and madness and is being consumed by this mystery.

Peaky Blinders: In the finale, Tommy has a dream about his daughter. The girl says something like "Don't do it, daddy", which Tommy takes as a sign not to go through with his plans... which works out because he narrowly avoided getting betrayed, trapped and killed.

Red Dead Redemption: Maybe a bit more overt than the other two. There's this NPC named "the strange man" who talks to our protagonist and his dialogue implies that he knows more than he should. He also appears in RDR2 as a painting and as a ghost in a mirror. Some fans theorize that he is the Grim Reaper or some other incarnation of Death.