This month has felt like 5 years, if we’re being honest.

Actual mood:
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I thought I hit publish on a post about taxes yesterday, but I did not! Enjoy my thoughts about taxes and other things I’ve seen online lately:
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And if taxes are going to stay so complicated, why not teach us more about doing it in school? No, let’s learn more about a tool for white supremacy instead.
Me: how do I do my taxes
Public School: shut the fuck up and square dance
— ♥mark magark♥ (@markedly) June 25, 2019
The creative team at work has gone from 8 people to 4 in about a month; here are my thoughts about work in general right now.

(The Turner Classic Memes account is a good one.)

(This isn’t just happening in Texas–read this thread, contact your legislators.)
(If you want Twitter updates, Anne Helen Petersen recommend following Jane Lytvynenko for accurate info; she linked to this site to help Ukrainian orgs.)
Work has felt like the movie Groundhog Day (everything is bad, nothing is changing) and while I know there’s the Austin Kleon approach to that, I’m taking the “meme-ing my feelings” approach instead.
A big mood from artist Roger Peet: 
Another one from Clotheshorse Podcast: 
Accurate (from Cheerful Nihilism)

And this, from Fiorenza Art. We’re all trying so hard.

SUCH a vibe (source):

Anxious? Me? (source)

Please? (source)

So true (source):

Also true; I think we’re all feeling all the things (new-to-me artist Sunlight After Dark)

The Utah news this morning reported that there aren’t enough covid tests, school bus drivers, teachers/substitutes, or healthcare workers and we’re hitting over 10,000 (reported) cases a day…but everything is fine! Continue to go about your business! God forbid we let anything interrupt the wheels of capitalism:
As does this:
This was a good moment of perspective, but I might be jealous of everyone in 1870 and not now:

I want this juice. PLEASE.