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I got PTSD from this as a journalist and likely again from seeing crime scene and autopsy photos while serving as a juror recently.

You don’t need to see it.

Press needs to stop repeating govt euphemism of “clearing homeless camps.” I’ve witnessed it in other cities: massive destruction of personal property. Not just bedrolls & tents; family photos, Bibles, meds. Times I’ve seen it people weren’t even given option to move their things.

You don’t have medical debt because you did something wrong. You have medical debt because we don’t have free health care like almost every other country in the world.

The answer is: Hell yes, trans kids should be able to participate in sports according to how they identify.

The emotional damage done by rejecting a kid’s identity is the real concern here. Not the bigotry of a busybody parent trying to bully that one kid.

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

Ex-farm worker here.

We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.

Not true AT ALL.

Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.

The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.

At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

A) people recoil in horror when I tell them the amount of reviewing I do in a year

B) sometimes I do service because, if I didn't, a person with less power would be harmed (e.g., tenure)

C) women are treated very differently when we say no to these types of requests

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Thinking today about how rich conservatives throw their money at 500 different people doing whatever they want and if 10 payoff they consider it money well spent while rich liberals will make you complete a 35 page proposal to hope to get $15k for certain prescribed activities.

A graphic that reads: GBH: 1 in 3 families in Massachusetts don't have enough to eat, according to new study

The Greater Boston Food Bank & Mass General Brigham's new report is damning: 1 in 3 adults in MA is food insecure.

But instead of investing in ending hunger, Trump and Republicans' Big, Ugly Bill would rip food away from millions of families.

We'll keep fighting to stop this shameful bill.

Okay. Deep breaths. Elbows up.

We *will* survive this. If you need help today, if you're a trans kid, if you're struggling with suicidal thoughts, reach for community. Take action. Don't let them force you into learned helplessness.

YOU MUST LIVE.

It would be great if America’s pundits would pause this entire genre. “Burning down my house means I don’t need to take out the trash!” Your cleverness is not winning the day right now.

recently applied for two different jobs with a mid-sized software company, had a personal referral for both, didn't even get a cursory screening interview, the two people i know who work for the company both say they've never been able to get anyone through

Google is killing software support for early Nest Thermostats No more controlling these “smart” thermostats from a phone.

The Internet of Things ended up being the internet of unsupported products.

Google is ending support for 1st & 2nd generation Nests and completely pulling out of Europe.

Imagine having to replace the thermostats in your home because of a reorg at some big tech meant it was no longer a priority.

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This one worked for me!

A decade or so ago, one of my mom's bosses retired.

She and her husband had this whole plan for retirement, living out their golden years.

They began their retirement with a weeklong cruise, the husband died halfway through the cruise.

VERY important PSA. This includes all kinds of lilies, including those orange daylilies that grow everywhere. Don’t put them in your house if you have a cat, even out of reach— the pollen itself is very poisonous to them.

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill.

They vote in the morning.
☎️: (202) 224-4451

We have that one now and I love it!!

hey if you aren't american i'd strongly reconsider traveling to the US for any sort of convention

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

Trump and Musk are eliminating any part of government that works well, because that undermines their thesis that government doesn’t work.

GSA (which houses 18F) turns a profit as an agency. Naturally it has to be destroyed. 18F’s healthy revenue stream also means it must go.

Friendly reminder that Joann Fabrics isn’t closing because it’s a bad business. It’s closing bc it was bought by a private equity firm. This is also what is happening to Hooters and what happened to US Toys R Us and Red Lobster. These companies are being dismantled intentionally.

A movie poster for the movie Multiplicity starring Michael Keaton and Andie MacDowell in which Michael Keaton’s character, a busy contractor, clones himself to deal with life stress to comical effect.

Hear me out…

Pretty sure it’s camp (complimentary)