Rejecting the premise here. "AI" is not coming for your job. Companies are dumping people because they are putting more money into AI investment, not because there is labor replacement via productivity. Even in the Amazon announcement, Jassy backed away from the framing that AI took those 14k jobs.

Next election I think we should swap the town candidates with the children's museum candidates

Pub trivia night is going to be much easier for casual baseball fans after this. Any time a question describes something insane you know the answer will be the 2025 World Series

Coffee out the nose reading this one

A fellow furloughed coworker posted this. Laugh so you don’t cry.

It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.

The @thebugle.bsky.social 18th birthday show looks good with our Halloween/World Series decorations

I truly believe the best thing you can do right now to support opposition is to give money to a food bank or mutual aid

That’s incomplete, he only got 2 of his 3 feet down inbounds

[hot chocolate “you sexy thing” voice]

I really think we need to reconceptualize this shutdown as the last stand for the rule of law and Art I. Bring it to default if that’s what it takes. If Congress can’t assert the power of the purse, we are in “move to Portugal” territory of screwed.

Hi I'm Johnny Knoxville, and this is continuing to go to my email job during These Times.

In the last 70 years, federal jobs fell from 4.5% of all employment to below 2%. Civil servants aren't what's driving government debt, and firing them won't address it.

I like watching Seattle but it gets much harder to pretend the 90s just happened whenever they show Dan Wilson or Edgar Martinez

YOLO - you oughta love oatmeal

I get why publicly worrying about military service members getting paid is politically expedient, but in an age of DOGE when the CDC is taking gunfire, I wish the concern about missed paychecks was expressed more broadly. (Also a high percentage of federal workers are US veterans.)

Ortiz was absolutely loving this sitting between AROD and Jeter

Rewatching the Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock and the least believable thing of the whole first season is how quickly they can find useful results when they type anything into a search engine. As anachronistic today as the horse drawn carriages of the original were when the show first aired in 2010

Like, am I getting anymore seasons of broody British detectives? Is it curtains for quirky period piece dramas with anachronistic female leads?? WHAT ABOUT THE PASTORAL COZY MYSTERIES?!

Same, Murderbot...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Maybe if I scroll a few more times it will all start to make sense

This finally connected the dots for me. I'm in govt, so what does my management care about potential marginal savings/gains in productivity if we adopt LLMs? No, they think we ARE LLMs and gee wouldn't the savings be huge if you replaced a whole office with a model that doesn't bitch about unions

even the hurricanes don't want to come here anymore

No.

One policy solution to Young Men we should be considering is Universal Basic Electric Guitar (UBEG). I'm not joking, by the way. Kids of any gender should get a low-cost starter kit for some hobby of their choosing once they turn 13. A camera, paints, a cheap sampler, etc.

Funniest possible person to say nothing bad happened when he was a kid as a result of everyone having guns

Have we tried doing Less with More? Maybe just once give it a go that way?

Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.

So sick of these centrist impurity tests. Not everyone can meet your standards of being a huge piece of shit, sometimes you have to just grit your teeth and vote for someone good even if that goes against your principles

Adding "at scale" to an utterance is the tech equivalent of adding "in bed" to a fortune from a fortune cookie. It means about as much.

One of the things that has pretty annoying is that if you have any kind of bullshit meter, if you have anything inside of yourself that doesn’t enjoy being lied to, the last couple of years of almost every area of public life have been driving you up a fucking wall

One way to reduce stress is to meditate. Another way is to not live under a fascist government. This has been wellness tips!

This wasn't a pep talk for me, but it's also not NOT a pep talk for me as I run from one mess to another in my federal job

Sick of everything being Orwellian or Kafkaesque. I demand more Scarrylous situations, where animals drive vehicles and run small businesses.

I've seen a lot of coverage of the chainsaw Trump is taking to the government framed around how important the work that's being ended is. This is true. But not enough focus is on the economic crises that is coming from all these people being out of work with no where to go.

"nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" is making the rounds again. what skinny feels like is the first bit of A Physical Education, and i gotta say, skinny feels like total garbage. can't form thoughts, cold all the time, literally doors are too heavy. plenty of things taste better than garbage

Watching The Brain Center at Whipple's and man, the Twilight Zone got this right on the nose. How much efficiency can we cram into a process and who cares who we hurt along the way? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bra...

I got to take a look, it was pretty cool (if depressing)

Sir, this is a Wendy’s

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Tell the story of the career federal worker who was the best at what they do & worked hard every day, and is now worried about how to pay the mortgage. The NIH scientists who had to walk away from potential health breakthroughs. The fired NOAA weather forecasters. Check in on them, & how they feel.

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Study begun pre-COVID finds remote work increased sleep by 1/2 hr/night, decreased commute by 4.5 hr/week replaced with work, family & leisure and led to healthier eating. Remote and hybrid employees report higher job satisfaction and well-being. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...

None of the people who make ai are trying to make ai that does their jobs or takes their salaries. Try to bear that in mind

The whole point of switching to a fed career for a lot of my friends was the chance to make a positive change in the world while still having a life outside their jobs. We knew we wouldn't get rich doing our work, but the tradeoff was worth it to be able to spend nights and weekends home with family

Question: Why would anyone come watch the World Cup or the Olympics here, when we have made it clear so many are not welcome?

I will return to the workplace but only if we do it like the TNT halftime show where if anyone gets into an argument they have to turn around and race to touch the big wall behind them