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I blame cell phones

I’m down in fidi and popped into dead rabbit for a happy hour beer, and in the last ten minutes the bartender had to explain what a dry martini is and make a tequila sprite

We’ve failed the children, no one knows how to drink anymore

That’s deeply a bummer

🧵

They've gone beyond cruelty into pure, punitive evil for the fun of it. This was always how it was going to go 7 kudos to you if you've seen it since day one.

Social media is collective memory. Back in the day you could just claim you always fought against it, but now, we'll know who you were.

I don’t want to know but I know I need to, and that hurts my damn soul

Dang, genetics really said copy-paste on the Tankus look

How dare you snub Paddington 2 this way

It’s so odd because error can so often be a matter of perspective? Like history is all things that happened as filtered by whoever is telling the story (ie: battle v ambush, resistance v terrorist, stable monarchy v oppressive hereditary government)

no but really I'm about to run to the art store and just splash some paint on a big canvas (paint over it later I guess @roseopossum.bsky.social? )

my god I need to get some art up in that conference room

This is why I’m ranking him #2

lost a wheel on my knock-off hulken in the half-block between the store and the office 🤷‍♀️

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Thank you, everyone, for your warm wishes on my LinkedIn update last week!… | SE Harburg-Petrich, MS Thank you, everyone, for your warm wishes on my LinkedIn update last week! Let’s not bury the lead: I’m officially consulting (and building up my client list--want to work with me? DMs are open)! ...

Oh dang, I wrote up a scrappy draft of my consulting pitch on LinkedIn:

www.linkedin.com/posts/seharb...

and for those of us who are here for the food, check out the spread and flowers that I put together (ignore the tablecloth wrinkles, I had to improv tablecloths on the fly)

yooooooo

thanks, boss! we're so close :D

PS I'm practicing self-promotion: do you need an operational consultant with a strategic mindset and precise attention to your org narrative? My DMs are open

We don't yet have grass, but we do have an orchid and some succulents. You can touch them. And when you're ready, the coffee machine is on and there's clean mugs in the dishwasher.

(5/5)

risk attached. Casual connections, community gathering, and reliable care for the physical body (clean bathrooms, cold water, hot coffee, et al) sustains that work. Environment matters. Being present and grounded in your body and mind matter.

This place can be the anti-terminally online (4/)

require being in the same place. Most of the RTO initiatives in the places like the tech industry are founded on vibes, not data, and have nothing to do with the actual work.

This is not that. This is a third place for people working to make things better at a large scale, sometimes with real (3/)

keep things moving at lightspeed.

We're building this ship while we're flying it, and, candidly, it could be a total nightmare. But org energy comes from the top, so the office feels like the start of something new, and something good.

I have an ops background, and rarely do information jobs (2/)

Nathan is the first person I've worked with who has big ideas they can actually back up.

Also the office is still in extreme progress; not shown are the efforts of folks like @alexandermaxfine.bsky.social and @evancook.audio who come in to paint (and paint, and paint), crack jokes, and (1/)

rfk to firemen: drop dead

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL LABOR DAY! Breaking news: brought cupcakes to the office in celebration

a pleasure, boss

BREAKING NEWS: the coffee maker is here, tested, and brewing. Journalism runs on coffee [and booze](according to the classic 1940 film His Girl Friday]