bedtime

Younger folks at work occasionally find themselves awkwardly quiet because they had been fairly sure That I Would Not Say That

39: Sometimes when passing as normal is not feasible, it can be safer to pass as *intentionally* weird.

2026...

SURELY someone smarter than me has already noted that every horrific action causing the US govt to say #Venezuela is an unsafe country to travel to, the US government is also doing RIGHT NOW within the US, when acting using #ICE or #CBP, against US citizens as well as other people?

She's a 10 but Excel thinks she's October.

I don't consider TERF to be hate speech, but it is speech and to be clear, I do hate you

Oh WOW this is like discovering Long Long Man. m.youtube.com/watch?v=6-1U...

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim. We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

I will never haunt a man after I die because there's no way I'm continuing to do excessive unpaid emotional labor in the afterlife

sorry just had to complete this thought so i could stop thinking it

2025...

Fell asleep and woke up to the sound of the rain. I don't think there's anything more peaceful.

I remember when i first saw this aeons ago and I lost my absolute shit every time I thought about it so I saved them

Maybe this is why I am depressed.

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i think about this one often <3

Just bros being bros

10/ History won’t forgive the denial. Every infection seeds long-term damage. Clean air is the seatbelt of this century. If you’re not demanding it, you’re complicit.

We filtered smoke. We filtered asbestos. We filter water. Why the hell wouldn’t we filter the air we breathe every day? DONT BE AN IDIOT! Covid is still here and it’s still a biohazard and it’s still screwing with your immune system, heart and brain!!!

More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.

One of my favorite books (and video games) of all time

Still my favorite explanation of the difference between INT and WIS: int is knowing that Frankenstein is the name of the doctor. Wis is knowing that Frankenstein was, in fact, the monster

Oh my gosh, getting in touch with the BBB WORKED. PayPal is restoring my account and I should have access to my money again. If you are in the US or deal with the US PayPal and your account is randomly, without warning, and without explanation closed down, file a complaint with the BBB!

I got arrested yesterday! (real drop off from being a corporate law firm associate five months ago. or upgrade.) I was blocking vehicles leaving from ICE’s Broadview, IL, staging ground and de facto detention center at 1930 Beach St. full statement (for now) below.

My cats every morning

If $74k is the "perfect salary," then with a $20k universal basic income ($1,667/mo), $54k is the perfect salary. That corresponds to a $26/hr FT job. That would be the minimum wage if the minimum wage had grown with productivity for the past 60 years. So let's go ahead and do both of those things.

There is no such thing as "the cloud," there are only computers owned by other people. Act accordingly.

When women are lonely it is their own fault. When men are lonely it is also women’s fault.

It's not that hard to get

Necessary tools from the bad old days (or: the smallest taste of why marriage equality matters.)

"No word contains all the vowels in order", I said facetiously.

"The sign said 'shepherd wanted'?" "Yeah, but I must tell you we've had trouble with wolves..." The farmer looked up. And up. "Er. You're a dragon?" "Is that a problem?" "You won't eat the flock?" "I wouldn't eat a hoard." The farmer nodded. "That's the right attitude. But no sleeping on them!"

"are you going to be ok?" no i am going to be weird, just like yesterday

How can the fact that this ever EVER happens, allow anyone to ever trust ANYTHING a LLM creates? This is the perfect illustration of why it's a predictive text machine, not an "intelligence".

Uber drivers sexually assault passengers, DoorDashers steal peoples' food, Instacart shoppers don't get what you requested, BetterHealth therapists don't have to be certified. It's almost like not having any sort of vetting process is a bad idea.