The company announced that the new performance evaluation scale will include *only* factors from the past year, and not over time, which is a great way of minimizing the value of institutional knowledge that becomes absolutely critical when you need it most.

Trying to make a “tiny cow” joke about Bovino but tiny cows are adorable. A dilemma has presented itself.

Soft launching my career as a fashion consultant tonight

Sometimes I wonder if @writermollyringle.bsky.social had any idea about what a conversation regarding British plumbing 20 years ago would lead to

Admittedly my first thought at seeing this was "isn't that how it's supposed to work"

The NYT actually put “lying” in the headline! (Shareable gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...

We blew a 480V 3 phase fuse at one of our factories and they refuse to implement my "put a wad of aluminum foil in it" solution. People these days have no work ethic. It's like they don't even want the spice to flow.

All other problems with the paper aside, WaPo has the clearest, most incontrovertible video and photographic analysis I've seen yet that Pretti's pistol was removed by ICE and his hand wasn't anywhere near it when he was murdered.

I enjoy the Dresden Files books as comfort reads. But I've just realized that the author's short, punchy, declarative sentences are EXACTLY like how everyone has been writing their fake stories on Twitter and LinkedIn the past few years. Now I can't unsee it.

Person: I want to buy your old motorcycle seat. Me: Looks like it costs between $80-$90 to ship to your house, here's some screenshots from UPS/FedEx/USPS/etc. Person: Why are you charging to much? Me: That's literally what they charge Person: Amazon doesn't charge that much, explain THAT Me: ...

It's brisk at home

Now we have people wondering why they can't find anyplace that will sell them snow tires today

Why are people asking what the weather forecast for Rochester is on the subreddit instead of just looking at a weather forecast?

nice

Knitters! Humble Bundle has 17 books for $18! www.humblebundle.com/books/knit-h...

I can't imagine why my Canadian coworker pointed out that they changed the rules last month so that if you have ANY direct Canadian ancestors, you can get citizenship too.

One moment you're DMing a Canadian coworker who is trying to get access to a Blue Jays pre-sale ticket queue on behalf of one of your fellow Americans, and ten minutes later she's excitedly asking her mom if she knows about Sock Madness.

Europeans could do the funniest thing right now

Imagine what it must be like to have a leader who uses phrases like "This aphorism of Thucydides..." and not only pronounces it correctly, but probably also didn't need a speechwriter to come up with the reference.

Me : The Cheeto's letter to the PM of Norway cannot possibly be real. Not even his most insane advisors would let that go out. Oh man, it's real.

If you're like me, you can't remember the details from one novel in a series by the time you pick up the next one. Which is why I did my utmost to make all the Eidolonia books stand-alone! Start wherever you like. Urban fantasy, LGBTQ+, fae, witches, fictional country, no bigotry. 🌈📚💙🪐📚

Shocking how the conservatives aren't telling the Iranian protesters that they should just comply. Just the opposite, in fact. I wonder what the difference is when they talk about protests in the US.

Oh that's awful. 0/10. Never following the directions again.

Bravely getting out of my comfort zone and putting the spice packet into my ramen BEFORE the boiling step is complete

One day you're discussing raising babies with your new online friend and before you know it it's 20 years later and you're discussing bifocals.

All I ask is that the Monroe County Water Authority do a permanent fix for the water line in our neighborhood that blows out multiple times a year in the same spot.

Looks like fun from 100 feet away

What day is it? Why, it's the day in which our collapsing tree gets cut down.

I'm an avid podcast listener who'd like to be featured on some! If you have a podcast and want me as a free guest, let me know. Relevant topics I could chat about: writing editing LGBTQIA books fae witches/paganism romance/romantic fantasy Drop your podcast link for us all too! 🌈📚💙📚🪐 #romantasy

OH COME ON

Every /rochester post about a snow day is legally required to have at least one boomer who comments "Back in my day..." unironically.

Working in IT means that you might be looking forward to a federal holiday but then a few days before it a manager decides "Hey, that's the perfect time to do a massive systems upgrade!"

Not Max Headroom saying in 1985 that intentionally getting people addicted to their screens was too immoral for even a massive media conglomerate.

That face when you get the daily Post Office email and see this

I assume "public assistance" includes anyone who's gotten a tax break or been able to file bankruptcy six times.

Now that I know this account exists, you can't tell me that Bluesky isn't a valid replacement for old Twitter.

Also, from article: "for many, the real romantasy is not sex and romance with dragons and fairies, but sex and romance without misogyny and gendered hierarchy." Y'know, some of us include fae and dragons AND a society without misogyny and gendered hierarchy. 😉 🌈📚🪐📚💙

"Do you think I'm neurodivergent?" "You work in a library. Then you go home and rearrange your home library constantly. You calculate the space you need to leave between shelf sections to account for how much you expect each section to grow over time." "That's just planning ahead. Also, shut up."

How is this not an Onion headline? smh.

We've decided that if either of us actually finishes House of Leaves, they immediately win for the year.

Random driving through snow squalls in the Finger Lakes, then food. "You should get glasses frames like mine. Six sided." "What happens when I show up at your house and we're wearing the same Cure shirt and matching glasses?" "Then people will know we have great taste."

Went out for a motorcycle ride this morning for a couple hours and was shocked to see that nobody else wanted to enjoy the 35f weather. ( @kayteeem.bsky.social gave me heated pants and booties for Christmas so I guess that helped )

My m/m book Sage and King is at an INSANELY good price right now (50 cents!). Cozy magical royal queer love, based fairly noticeably on #Merthur. Enjoy! 🌈📚💙📚🪐 www.amazon.com/dp/B08KFHPXM...

I'm not saying my buddy is competitive, but there might be signs

Grant me the confidence of the loud, brash new developer on his first project call who was kind enough to inform me that he knows some great APIs I can use to extract metadata from PDF and jpeg files. And if I need any help, he's there for me. Reader, guess what I've been doing for 30 years.

SOON

*Opens /rochester* *Closes /rochester* Welp, that's enough for today

I have written things in my past that later made me cringe, but I must say I am so incredibly glad, now more than ever, that I‘ve never written a billionaire as a romance hero. #booksky 📚💙

Being an American feels like getting on a school bus and then your bus driver decides to do a drive by