Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet. They make sure we have clean water. They protect us from financial fraud. They provide healthcare to our communities. They make our government actually work for people. Do not forget this.

This is your daily reminder that Republicans are planning to gut Medicaid, Medicare and SNAP to hand tax breaks to billionaires. Don’t get distracted. Help me spread the word.

I guess I am "who the hell is Sabrina Carpenter" years old. 🤷🏽

There is not enough popcorn on this planet.

Join us this Saturday, April 19, at Waterfront Park at 10AM for a day of conversation, community and resistance! Around noon we will march to the Gaslamp District for a flyering action to raise awareness and foster community conversation. #sandiego #fdt #protest #resistance #mobilize #SD

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

By @katherinejwu.com "The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,” The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:

For all of my fellow feds: I know you are exhausted, anxious, scared, confused, stressed and sad. Remember that you are the rock stars that keep our country running. All of this BA is by design & we CANNOT let them win. Hold the line. Step away when needed, but stay the course. 💗💗

Nearly 10000 American citizens and veterans fired today. www.reuters.com/world/us/tho...

Direct File is live and processing tax returns! One of the most rewarding things I have delivered. And some incredible updates this year - half the states in the nation are eligible, and we support some data import of information IRS already has!

you can also try 5calls, which will get you your reps information and also provide you with information you can use to talk to them 5calls.org

Firefighters from Mexico just arrived at LAX. They'll be joining 14,000+ personnel already battling the #PalisadesFire. California is immensely grateful to our neighbors' support in the fight against the wildfires in Los Angeles.

The stupidest thing about the "h1bs depress tech salaries" debate is that most h1bs go to tech jobs so if h1bs depress salaries, why are tech jobs the highest paid, most coveted jobs out there that everyone has been salivating to get into for the last decade?

Sunset cliffs #sandiego #photography #drone #travelphotography

Sunset cliffs, San Diego #sandiego #photography #travelphotography

I thought the "young people love 2000s point and shoots" was fake news but I actually ran into a twenty something who pulled out a Kodak pixpro to shoot her friend!

Sunset cliffs, San Diego #sandiego #photography #travelphotography #m43 #panasonic

The old playbook is open again.

A relative of mine told me who has her second ex-husband's name told me she didn't like it but was waiting to marry again to change it to her next husband's name. 🤯 All these husbands ditched all the kids with their names while she raised them. Why are women's own names not important?

Instagram is the worst except for my algo, which somehow consistently serves me incredible gems like this dog eating ramen.

My fave thing is takoyaki balls from the Korean store. I buy them so excited to enjoy them all week long and then eat all of them on the drive home like an ogre and get takoyaki dust all over my new car.

My husband bought a series of clothes that aren't my size as a Christmas gift and now I look like Mary Kate and Ashley circa their hobo chic years.

Merry Christmas from San Diego. #photography #travelphotography #sandiego #pacificbeach

I find it funny that the p&s camera I recommended on my blog sometime in 2018 is the viral camera the kids are trying to buy these days...

Lol received this email today. Wtf.

It baffles me that there are still people that try to do inbox zero. Literally anyone in the world can send you thousands of little tasks to use up your time. Why would you let them?! I'm at inbox 30,625... probably.

Sweets in a Turkish shop #istanbul #turkey #photography #travelphotography

Turkish coffee, Istanbul

Whoever invents an app that can listen to all my voicemail messages and auto delete all the blank 5 second vms like I just did for 75 messages, can have all my money. There was ONE real message.

They tried a little too hard to replace all the characters in Dexter with younger versions and now it just feels like budget Dexter. Not everyone at the workplace has to be mini-mes of the og characters.

Anyone catch up on the doomscroll these days and just feel like it's drilling a hole in your soul? Anyone? Just me? Kk cool cool.

Where is the setting to stop Google from harassing/tricking me to backup my photos to their cloud. I DO NOT WANT TO. Every fucking time...

We don't get much winter in San Diego. So here's a little dew on a fall leaf. #photography

I use pre ground bustelo in a travel cup drip coffee maker. 😱 I press one button and have a cup in 2 minutes.

Nothing better than getting a breakfast burrito the size of a baby on a lazy Sunday morning, than having a breakfast burrito size of half a baby for lunch the next day.

Feeling really good about my blue spatula, since it's been made clear only black spatulas will kill me.

Ocean meets the land. Encinitas, CA #photography #travel #travelphotography

Wait there are 2 god accounts on here now? I have to pick one? Catholic school nightmares all over again. Pretty sure "there can be only one" is one of the commandments.

The main thing that sucks about child free life is the general lack of cake. Like I imagine people with kids are around cake a lot, but as an adult with no kids, I have to make my own cake happen if I want regular cake. I have to plan for cake.

They found the killer! So relieved. My only question is why were these photos not sent to me direct by sms like an emergency alert...

So weird watching everyone discuss how lazy remote federal workers are, as I sit here exhausted from working harder than I have in my life at my new fed job, and considering putting a few more hours in today.

When you call 911, they ask “police, fire, or EMS?” Only one of those costs money: the ambulance. That’s unacceptable. Imagine if your house was on fire and you were presented with a bill after it was put out. That would be outrageous. So why do we tolerate it with healthcare?

God I can't believe the time I've been wasting learning, testing, securing and debugging the codebase. Hell do they even realize how much time I spend talking to other people about what to code?!

Leaf covered walkway, Capri, Italy #travel #photography #m43 #italy #travelphotography

Currently trying to fix my mom's banking app on a tablet from 8,000 miles away.

Boats at Positano, Italy #travel #travelphotography #photography #m43

Absolutely concur. I've been able to use ai to get me started on a small greenfield tool. But the daily bugs and enhancements on a large codebase, where you need to know dependencies across the system? No. Even explaining all those nuances to the ai would be more work than coding it myself.

I'm thinking tariffs is going to be my reason to pull the trigger on my "should I?" shopping list this Christmas 😂