Christopher Wright

A founding mother in my career field as well.

"Why does everything taste like shoe polish?"

Who grifts the grifters...

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Ted Cruz on a plane, January 20, 2026.

Snow in the forecast for Texas so the yellow bellied shiteater begins its migration.

Fled Cruz keeps running from any crisis, and dumb fucks keep re-electing this piece of shit.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

So much for low cost of living?

It has certainly caused me to rethink my plans to attend.

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder: 9798217087952 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from a “public intellectual unafraid to make bold...

Finished this book today (finally). I picked it up last summer at The Fine Print at Lakeside Chautauqua but only got about halfway through it while there. Good little read to put some perspective on today's United States. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/558051...

Debunking the Myth of the ‘Migrant Crime Wave’ Data does not support claims that the United States is experiencing a surge in crime caused by immigrants.

Politicians & some media outlets have latched onto a narrative that recent immigrants, especially undocumented, are causing spikes in crime.

Research does not support the view. In fact, immigrants might have less law enforcement contact compared to native-born Americans.

Something Trump never learned in kindergarten.

We have a few in common.

Know your rights
Stay safe!
Stay informed...

Face, meet leopard.

Supporting Sticker Mule is supporting fascism.

-hacks4pancakes- • 1d The reason the good faith seniors on here are posting that the junior / mid level market is bad (it is) is because we have watched it crash in real time and a lotta of us are dealing with serious fallout as both hiring managers or mentors. It's genuinely a good faith warning. It's not like, "don't get into the field we love". It's just that for a really long time you could get into cybersecurity with no degree and no IT experience because the demand was so high. And schools, influencers, and parents still play it off that it's like that. That people can work full time remote and make 80k entry salary. It's not. It hasn't been for a couple years. We've been hit by "professionalizing" and oversaturation of graduates. Can you still get in with a sec+, a kali box and a dream? Maybe, if you really meet the right people and get lucky. Pragmatically though, that won't be the case for 99.9% of young people now, and if we care at all we need to counter the "everything is rosy" message people are using to sell boot camps. We are getting hundreds of cybersecurity grads and laid off professionals with work rights applying for positions. How can organizations even take the time to look beyond that at hundreds more juniors with no degree, criminal convictions, a GED, needing a' v sponsor, etc?

You really need to take it seriously and make yourself a top candidate. And these days to be competitive you typically need a bachelors, certs, and some hands on IT work experience. You need a very good professional network. That's not true of every case. People will get lucky. Or they'll have a security clearance or live in the right remote place for an in person only job. It happens. Not often. The best thing we can do is try to enforce that they need to work seriously hard and have solid professional credentials. TLDR we aren't all assholes; some of us are trying to save 20yos from falling for Uncle Bob putting them in a bootcamp to make an easy six figures.

It's nice to have a place to gather together!

Good to see you here. Pay no attention to my techno-babblings!

The engineering college at UA is still great. That's the sad and hard part. People well outside the school (who probably didn't even go there) ruining the place for tens of thousands of others.

Looks like we have a bit of a reunion going on here. @jackhokie.bsky.social @cto1usn.bsky.social @jclee1021.bsky.social

It's disappointing. I loved my undergrad time there and the engineering college is a bit insulated. But I don't want people looking at my degree like I got it from Batshit Insane U.

"Fishwrap" is giving it alot.

And I was heavily considering heading back up to the hill to get a PhD. Too many bad decisions by the school and state have changed my mind, though.

We have a few here in AR that are that way. Some don't even sell beyond their own building. When I travel, though, I'm always looking out for things I can't get back home.

Glad to have you as well!

I'm a bourbon guy and I'm always looking for a good bourbon. Do you have a link to Poor Farm's website? I doubt we could find it here, but I can look while traveling.

I was talking to Chip, actually. We had a few convos on there. But it sounds like you were in the same boat as us. It got far too MAGA on there so I stopped participating. But all the same, welcome to you, my friend, as well!

I'm glad to see you again! I had to check out of RP but I know there were a few more in my same situation. I hope all is well for you.

@cto1usn.bsky.social Well, hello, my friend from Rally Point!

Americans aren't all right. Our government is gunning us down in the streets. Starving us to build Ballrooms, pricing us out of necessities to feed the greed of the oligarchs.