The Old Tech Writer

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Long ago

So I misgendered a worker at a local gardening store. I didn't know about it until I saw something related online. When I went back for another Hosta, I apologized and asked their preferred address. I feel like an ass, but they thanked me and appreciated my actions.

I've read that a human makes the decision and many systems are set to send out rejections three days after a decision. I don't believe that, having received rejections within twenty minutes. "We were impressed with your qualifications and experience. However..."

If you get a job rejection email on a Saturday I think it’s safe to assume no human being saw your application.

I will say it again.

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Oh where did you get that??

Fancy dress ball?

a man wearing a suit and tie is standing in a field of yellow flowers ALT: a man wearing a suit and tie is standing in a field of yellow flowers

Waiting, waiting....

Come to Vermont!

Sworn AT, more likely!

I didn't like not finding out who is in and who is out until the following episode. And while I like Christian, I miss Tim Gunn. And Michael "she's pooping fabric!" Kors, too.

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

Zelensky says Ukraine will ‘not give up land,’ ahead of Trump-Putin summit | CNN Follow for live news updates.

As he shouldn't. Trump will turn this into a personal triumph and distraction from Epstein and the failing economy. And Putin wants it all. #ukraine
www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

#ICE Agents Tear Down Cameras And Break Doors And Windows At Restaurant in Burbank

Only criminals would need to do this. They know they're breaking the law, and they're destroying anything that can give evidence.

#Nuremburg style trials can't come fast enough.

Get a room!

Meanwhile on Planet Taco ...

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson Huge Economic Problems Coming for Republicans and the U.S. | Explainer

youtu.be/OHZ0hiZUydA?...

A hickory tussock moth caterpillar visited our screen door. They're venomous and touching them can cause a rash such as that from poison ivy.

Are we sure she is still dead?

This Is Not a Drill: When the FBI Hunts Lawmakers for Political Resistance...You’re in a Coup The coup isn’t coming. It’s underway. And unless we treat it like a five-alarm fire, we lose everything.

They’re not arresting criminals. They’re arresting resistance. And if that doesn’t shake you, read this twice.👇

www.jackhopkinsnow.com

I think we've found the last good Republican.

Zoey has such a tough life...

Why Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland—a Disappointment When It Was Published—is the Novel We Need Right Now 2025 is shaping up to be the year of the Pynch. After 12 years of silence since Bleeding Edge, the 87-year-old author will publish Shadow Ticket on October 7th, 2025. The new novel concerns Milwauk…

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers"
lithub.com/why-thomas-p...

And sometimes #microsoftword doesn't even tell you what it does.

Since when does the FBI cover their faces?

TRUTH

Brown University is ‘functionally inaccessible’ to transgender students after Trump settlement “Everyone I talked to thought it only applied to sports. But it applies to everything," one transgender student told The Advocate.

I learned early never give in to bullies because the never stop.

www.advocate.com/news/transge...

Tennessee executes inmate by lethal injection without deactivating his implanted defibrillator Witnesses say Black told a spiritual advisor in the room that he was hurting so badly shortly after the lethal injection started.

Shame. Shame.
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...