I've got a job interview in 11 hours and I fighting tooth and nail to not puke my guts out from nerves. What a horrible stress response.

Today is a day of extra gumption. I am doing things I've been putting off for however long. Task 1: replace furnace filter. Time to complete: 2 minutes Time I procrastinated: 3 months.

Okay, so I just took my first online coding assessment ever for a prospective job and totally biffed it. I do not like this process, I do not like failing, and now I need to figure out how to get better at this thing which I am least suited to doing.

Now that Thanksgiving is past, I now reluctantly (but silently) begin the xmas festivities. This one is a pleasure: Home Alone orchestrated live by the local Phil.

Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds

Having survived this year, these fellows are getting a little bit cocky. #thanksgiving

It's probably a waste of my time, but every time i get a google survey and they ask me how satisfied I am with the amount of ads i try (with the space allowed) to explain that cannot report satisfaction, because I do not get satisfaction from ads. Sorry to whomever has to parse this stuff.

Jacob Bernoulli asserted that probabilistic events are memoryless and that prior results do not impact the odds of subsequent events. He said this because he never saw my dice when playing D&D.

Cuz I'm a soul man I'm a soul man I'm a soul man (whoa) I'm a soul man That ain't all (look)

What the absolute fuck happened today? Papal Raves? MTG is going away? I had a good job interview? Trump is nicer to Mamdani than Schumer? Fuck it. I'm buying a lottery ticket because someone gave the abstract concept of probability a dose of ketamine.

Let chaos reign! The Mighty Nein is here (or at least the first episodes are).

Removing four screws from the lint trap in my dryer gave me access to remove this much lint from the dryer body. (The canister was emptied just before). No wonder these things cause fires.

@mayannaberrin.bsky.social I have deeply enjoyed Dispatch. I kept Coupe on my team. I liked her so much and she's STEALING TOILET PAPER FROM THE OFFICE? The betrayal. Okay, have a great day and thank you.

Fun rounding for our penniless future.

I have taken the plastic panel off the lint trap assembly on the dryer and holy hell, now I understand why there are so many fires in the world.

🚨HAPPY EXPLODING WHALE DAY🚨 1/n www.oregonlive.com/travel/2024/...

Air Bud: Golden Receiver Ferris Bueller's Day Off The Postman John Wick

Well, ZipRecruiter just sent me an email telling me I'd be an excellent candidate for my last job. ... Thanks, man. Probably a waste of time, though.

always a good time to review this @katebeaton.bsky.social comic, gloriously entitled, “Every Lady Scientist Who Ever Did Anything (until recently)” 🧪

With a rye smile, the head juror denied Sandwich Guy a club fed.

The question nobody is asking is, "Was that sub toasted?" If it was, then there's going to be a TON of shrapnel when it exploded against the cop.

It's sad that no one has stopped to consider how this will impact the future women Cuomo will harass! Were he in office, they sue for the state's huge allocation for his harassment payouts. Now those damages will come from his much smaller personal wealth. So callous!

Respond with the same actor as hero and villain.

Whelp. That phone screen lady was very nice. Her job is to have nerds ramble nerdily at her and with me she really earned her pay. And now that that's over, I will diminish and go into the West (to nap).

How stupid is it that irresistible sleepiness is a stress response? I have many suggestions for design improvements when we get human bodies 2.0

I have a phone screen for a job this morning, and it kind of sucks that it's mid-morning, because afterwards I'm going to immediately go comatose for several hours which means I'll get absolutely nothing done and wreck my sleep schedule. (such as it is)

You know how it's hard to invent a way of making electricity that isn't just water or steam moving a turbine? I've finally cracked it. And a way to make Cyclops the most useful he can be -- fighting climate change. (Let Storm lead the X-men!)

Dear Mr Baseball, Please don't take us to 18 innings again. Daylight savings is ending and that's already enough. Thanks.

I applaud these experiments, but the really sad thing is they never, ever launch with user controls. No opt in/out. No override. They know they won't get it right first time which is why there will also be no corrective mechanism. Things get worse? Sorry, nothing anyone can or will do about it.

Jeez. First callback from a job prospect and they are incredibly skittish about me not having a college degree. They mentioned they had 800 applications for this job. On to a phone screen next week. (100:1 I will not go further.)

A lot of you don't have imposter syndrome and that's a shame.

I'm glad to see preschool has got little man into the spooky spirit.

It's really easy to see that every hobby and fandom is predominantly male when your specific friend group is exclusively male and you assume there's nothing wrong with that.

Been a while since I felt the need to make a GIF, but I thought this was necessary. @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social #criticalRole #CriticalRoleSpoilers

@adampatrickmurray.bsky.social @willsmith.fun A small heads up, it seems the Discord invite link in the show notes of the latest Dual Boot Diaries has expired.

@probablymonty.bsky.social Sir, could you please pass along birthday wishes to those appropriate for this day?

"You can't prove any of this is allegory!" -- @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social But... what if we don't believe him? #CriticalRole

I do not know what has happened to trigger this change (if anything) but solidly 1 in 3 youtube ads is for ED medication now. I don't know if this is better or worse than the maga doomsday prepper MRE's that depend on a source of potable water to make they used to be.

Tough call, but maybe Joe Cocker's "Come Together" by the Beatles?

Ah, great. The internet's consesus is that this company is not hiring and this is only job application theater. *Sigh*

Played my first session of Gloomhaven today. It was interesting. I was the Tinker. Made a couple mistakes. We died. Not quite sure if I had fun or where the fun is in the game. I'll be thinking about that.

*screams in the first non-rejection in 4 months*

I met some of the biggest, most painful mistakes in my life on social media.

When the tech nihilism sets in, it’s time for bed. Just a reminder, you can build tech for good and to do good.

This is the worst part of applying for jobs.

Anyway, maybe I'm feeling fighty today?

I've lived through hundreds of phpbb/subreddit/fb groups/discord mods enraged and flailing about in response to a perceived lack of respect, often then razing the community All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again Welcome to a long & ignoble tradition, @jay.bsky.team

Well, i think I offended my mother. We have family time on Sundays and it's always exhausting for me because it's a lot of people being a lot. Anyway, they started talk about putting up a Christmas tree. I said after Thanksgiving, but everyone decided that 81 days of ...

I know a lot of people really really do not want to have to care about the Jay Madness Discourse. But it is actually a really bad thing that the CEO of the platform we all decamped to because Elon got transphobic mod madness... ...is now doing transphobic mod madness.