I'm not sure what it says about my circumstances that I'm on track to earn more money this year than last when I spent two months unemployed. Only by about $2700, but still.

One thing I remember from my job at the steel plant was when my coworkers would complain about their appliances breaking down after just a few years. It was something I could not understand. I've had the same stove, microwave, and fridge since I moved in. They came with the apartment, so, y'know...

I've seen several people calling for a national strike over the renovation of the White House. Where's that type of energy when I promote a general strike for women's healthcare?

If you're wondering why I reheated a bunch of skeets, it's because I was looking for something specific.

I saw him in the news today, griping about losing a space contract.

There was a Cybertruck on my street last month. Ew.

"Purchasing isn't a highly cerebral position." A) I've eaten those words. This kind of manufacturing has crazy amounts of details that need to be tracked. B) AI still can't do my job, because all of my work is decision-making and tracking details. I don't trust it not to fuck up my spreadsheets.

This thread about technical writing? Yeah, it came up again today. I was specifically hired because I had at least some passing familiarity with building spreadsheets for purchasing/sales purposes. Not exactly "technical writing," but definitely a related skill.

“My LLM has a failure rate of 50-80% on the first pass, so I make a second pass to fix the errors.” DAWG, if your LLM fails 50-80% of the time on the first pass, what makes you believe it is failing at less than 50-80% on the second pass? What the fuck.

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I've said it before, but I'll say it again: "EVERY SCIENTIST FIRED FROM FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT THIS YEAR NEEDS TO RUN FOR STATE/FEDERAL OFFICE NEXT YEAR." We cannot keep letting the willfully ignorant and the reality deniers control the course of this country.

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Oh, man... *urp* That milkshake went RIGHT through me.

@jenniebreeden.thedevilspanties.com Continuing my archive crawl to catch up on all your comics, I came across a hiccup. November, 3-4, 2014, are the same comic. The kiddo doesn't want to wear a jacket for Halloween, then changes her mind when she steps outside.

SOMETHING has been irritating my right nostril for about 6 hours. If it wasn't early autumn, I'd swear it was an allergy attack.

Looks like immigrants who are truckers are going to start facing obstacles to getting permanent CDLs. I'm sure that's not going to affect the trucking industry AT ALL. Supposedly this won't apply to Canadian or Mexican drivers, because their licenses are recognized by the federal government. 🙄

[insert copious amounts of disgusted vomiting here]

Original joke from my friend Larissa R.: Why did the words bleed through the paper? The sentence had a period.

I was flipping through my music and discovered the opening bars to Back Off Bitch by Guns n Roses are almost identical to the opening to Changing Times by Nazareth. Anyone else ever notice that?

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

I no longer feel that nagging Catholic guilt about using Jesus' "name" as a swear, since it's not his name. "Yeshua," on the other hand? Probably best not to press the issue.

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There's something refreshing about having multiple extended farts in the hour after a massive bowel movement. Well, maybe not "refreshing," exactly...

My hope is that Tylenol sues Trump and RFKJR so hard, they actually manage to bring down this administration. Kinda weird to hope capitalism wins over fascism, but this has been an unusual year.

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In 2023, I went from a $40k/year job to a $50k/year job after telling the hiring manager I wrote an 80-page training manual for my position. 1/🧵

My mother gave me this watch in 2014, after I finally pulled myself out of homelessness. It's a wind-up, not battery-powered. It wound down on July 11 - the day after I got laid off. I'm sitting in an IHOP, having breakfast before I start at my new job.

Reskeet if you think all the scientists who have lost their funding due to the current administration's actions should run for political office and drive the bums out. ✊🏾

12 minutes. I do believe that's the fastest a meal has ever gone through me. I know it was my dinner that just exited, because I haven't eaten anything else today since that breakfast sandwich 12 hours ago, and this was far too much mass for that.

My mother is dating again, ten years after her wife died of cancer. Her description of the new woman? "She's kind of annoying and sometimes asks me dumb questions." 😆

No wonder I've been struggling with my blood sugar all week. I forgot to load my metformin in my dispenser with the rest of my meds!

I went to the hospital in February. My insurance covered most of it, but when I spoke to the billing department there that night, they said my insurance should cover ALL of it. I keep getting bills and calling to find out why, and I can't get a straight answer from anyone. It seems to me...

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@ivyvine009.bsky.social Saw this; thought of you. www.vxtiktok.com/t/ZP8S2xYqX/

I'm watching the first episode of Lexx, and I gotta say... This is fucking weird.

No. @ivyvine009.bsky.social captured my essence perfectly. 10/10 no notes. Although I do have a goatee now.

There's HEEEEEERE artologica.etsy.com Original watercolors that reject AI. One of each, unique.

How nice of the local PD to wait until 6 am to execute a search warrant at my apartment complex.

I hate talking about this but here we go My father will die in the next month or two. My car broke down and I live pretty far from his hospital, and I'm still paying my hearing aids. I'm just- idk. I'm tired. I hate hate hate asking for help, but I can't do anything atm. ko-fi.com/heliasanto/g...

I expect it to be bad tomorrow, whatever it is, but I think that's as certain as we can get. Do I need to draw a Watto? Would it help?

I've been working on getting a Project Management certificate from Google this month while I wait for my start date at my new job. The last module is "Accelerate Your Job Search with AI." It's unclear if this is a required module for the final certificate or not.

Maybe he's going to announce that he's been dead this whole time (But it's probably an invasion of Chicago or martial law or revoking vaccine access or something terrible IDK)

More schools need to partner with prisons to provide education in all forms. You want to reduce recidivism? Give people tools to build their lives.