Allie from the 'burbs

If y’all can’t be arse paying a human to write it, I’m not gonna waste my one precious life reading it.

Me: [Be normal online, be normal online, be normal online]

Every time I see “Arkansas” on the timeline: “The existence of Kansas, and Arkansas, implies the existence of Ur-Kansas.”

Me: “Why can’t I function today?”

Also me, eventually: “What time do you start work, and what time do you take your ADHD meds?”

“9am, 8:30am, so they have time to kick in”

“And what were you doing at 8:30am today?”

“Sleeping… ohhhh”

I speak about three words of French, and yet I could read that like I was born in Paris!

My favorite little detail is that his tattoo is the skull in the "are the the baddies" sketch

I'm gonna go ahead and assume that was *too much* fibre to consume in my post nap binge.

I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.

I really need to get that Bazzite install set up.

Gives a whole new meaning to “If you don’t like it, you can change the channel.”

How I arrived on Bluesky.

Oh, I absolutely don’t give the time away. Another reason my boss is good. “You get a call AH, you book the time against the client.”

It’s useful for offsets when I *do* have a bad day.

Yeah, same.

I do not exactly know, but it makes perfect sense.

This photo is just so... white?

Nah, I respect all of my colleagues. We're a really good team. I won't dump on them publicly or privately.

I know I can be too open about stuff, it's just almost never clear where the line is.

"...where they will be edited to make them 'less woke', and to line up with President Trump's agenda."

Public Service Announcement: When the price of gasoline jumps this week, remember it was refined from oil (mostly Canadian) produced weeks ago, only 2% of which comes from the Middle East. It's a policy choice, not 'market forces', that explains why you'll pay more (and oil profits will soar). /2

Oh, and I *always* either work to make up the time, or request it as leave.

Apparently, one of my colleagues, many of whom will call me in the evening in my timezone to ask for support assistance, which I invariably and helpfully provide, have mentioned to my boss that they have issues with my sleep issues.

My boss is cool, he gets it.

They were on the Trump stolen files case because Trump stole files about Iran. The answer is actually even more damning than the insinuation!

Ahahahaha. This was literally "You're sharing too much information with the rest of the team. Don't mention your sleep disorder, just that you're off for the afternoon."

There are two groups of people: those who have experienced sciatica, and those who haven't.

It's interesting seeing someone move from the "haven't" to "have" group, and seeing them explaining to the "haven't" group for the first time.

Anyway, I sent them a link to the Piriformis stretch.

Me: [Received a small, but valid, gently delivered criticism after our team meeting today] "Yeah, I get that. Not a problem."

My RSD: "Everyone on the team hates me, and I'm going to get fired."

Normalise "Kernel Sanders"

I was a very effeminate little kid and absolutely nobody tried to get me to transition, they just tried to get me to be More Manly. It's an entirely imaginary problem created from whole cloth by bigots.

Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS Reports suggest that Microsoft may be gearing up to launch Windows 12 this year, which will be a modular and AI-focused OS.

Everything about this sounds terrible 😬

"and the award for the most gratuitous use of the word 'fuck' in a broadway musical goes to..."

I can absolutely see how for them they'd see it as "denying Christ", and worrying that it might send them to hell.

Which is bitterly ironic.

Two DCs had issues.

VCs

Yeah, me too… two AWS instances were down.