How have you been? I’m out of the loop since I deleted IG & FB

Tonsil stones are wild! And super gross. And they have a real online following…

I had recurrent strep and, by December, it was coming back within 2-3 days of finishing 10 day courses of antibiotics. Probably 9-10 rounds of antibiotics for strep within 8 months or so.

#Tonsillectomy recovery day seven - scabs are coming out, no active bleeding, ears hurt so much (“referred pain”) but feels so nice to not be on antibiotics. Chewable/dissolvable OTC meds are the best during the day but still need Roxy at night. And those lidocaine lollipops… genius.

Dear Manager,

1. I drank a whiskey drink.
2. I drank a vodka drink.
3. I drank a lager drink.
4. I drank a cider drink.
5. I sang the songs that remind me of the good times; I sang the songs that remind me of the better times.

MY ACCOMPLISHMENTS THIS WEEK

1. Consciousness
2. Respiration
3. I petted several cats
4. Consumed pizza
5. Strategic AND tactical napping

DID YOU KNOW: We had fewer federal workers in 2024 than we had in 1970?

The White House asking every federal employee to send an email summarizing what they did last week is something that FOIA lawyers dream about

Front page of today’s NY Post

He nails it.

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

Sending an email to employees asking them to list five things they did that week is a classic move from a manager who has no idea how to manage

It’s like no one remembers the plot of Live Free or Die Hard.

The brain-drain has started. Many exceptional people are leaving federal government, across sectors. In some cases there will be an empty desk where someone is sorely needed. In others, there will be an incompetent partisan hack gumming up the works.

Have you been asked, as a federal worker, to do something you don't want to do? But they won't put it in writing?

DON'T DO IT.

If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT.

Document, document, document.

Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document

FYI:

Thank you! A federal judge blocked U.S. DOGE employees from altering any records of payments at the Treasury Department while she weighs a request by public interest groups for a broader injunction against their activity. Thank you, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly’s! 🙏

This is not a U.S. Marshal, Federal Protective Service, or any other federal law enforcement officer. This is a private security guard from Triple Canopy. He has no authority to block members of Congress who have oversight of the EPA from entering the building.

The fuck????

Day Five of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: Not “Read Only” access anymore If you are a current or former career Bureau of the Fiscal Service Employee, especially if you’re a legacy IT programmer with years of experience and especially if you are a COBOL programmer currently...

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These systems are built on the bones of databases we no longer use but require and with a language more foreign now than Latin. The people who built these systems are dead and those who maintain them are literally just trying to “do no harm.” Go home tech-bro.