Late 40s, highly skilled, trans, unemployed for 2+ years.

I’ve been down to the final candidate selection a few times now and still haven’t been selected yet.

I’ve hired plenty of people. In general, final candidates are usually all fully capable of doing the job they’re applying for. In the end, the hiring manager just gets to pick the one they want to work with most.

I feel like when hiring managers look at me, all they see are problems and risks. Time consuming HR meetings, extra effort making sure people use the right pronouns, judgements from executive leaders who might see a middle manager not doing a good job at leaning into where the winds are headed.

I wonder, even if I spend 3 more years on a secondary degree, whether I’ll find myself right back in same situation (talented and surrounded by cowards unwilling to hire me), but now with $200k in new student loan debt.

Cursed timeline…

Back when usb was first appearing on boards, some cases had their usb port cables broken out into individual pins that you needed to place in the correct order.

For fuck’s sake people…

Here’s the ad: https://www.adforum.com/creative-work/ad/player/34728882/its-the-most-terrible-time-of-the-year/mcdonalds

Watchmen (2009)

me receiving all those guys nudes

Let me be as clear as I can be.

Trump, a figure visibly and egregiously unfit for the role of leading the nation, was elected by Americans, twice, fair and square by the rules we’ve set for ourselves. But he’s just a figurehead.

Press “freedom” has been hacked by monied interests to capture the minds of a vast margin of the American voting public and brainwash them into distrusting any media but their own, which has taught them to believe lies, parrot talking points and armed them with thought-collapsing rhetoric to disrupt anyone who might help unfuck their poisoned brains. All this has been going on for decades, but the internet really just helped tie it all together, providing the perfect echo chamber that no one ever has to leave.

The net result is a captured government focused on destroying their greatest weakness: agents and sources of truth. Massive media consolidation destroys the national news-gathering apparatus and controls the entertainment diet to restrict subversive content, and the implosion of the department of education ensures more and more future adults will grow up never having had the benefit of a robust education.

So are we fucked? Maybe. But bumping off politicians isn’t the answer.

They are “certificates of authenticity”, a joke on the NFT ownership craze of a while back.

I couldn’t find any photos of them tho.

So’s the haircut.

Ain’t no rule!

Ok, emails mostly. I have received a few letters though! Public service employers can be old fashioned that way.

I think he can write whatever unenforceable executive orders he wants. Enforcing them could be illegal, which would make them unenforceable executive orders.

Nothing quite crushes the soul like customizing a resume and cover letter for a job at a company, getting turned down via form letter, then see that same job listing posted a week or two later.

Except having every company in town do it to you.

For over two years.

If I ever have to sit thru another debate over what a monad is, it will be too soon.

This is precisely what the fascists want. They want people rioting so they can take pictures of cities on fire and use it as justification to escalate.

Mass action: yes. But people need to be smart about it.

General strike. Hunger strike.

Hell yeah!

Quick reminder:

Dipavali (aka Diwali) is the Hindu “festival of lights”, a 5-day celebration symbolizing the spiritual victory of Dharma over Adharma; basically light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance.

🧐 Hmm.

Ages and ages ago, I was looking for free stencils of a fist for a screen printing project and found this one in the commons:

I swear I’ve seen it everywhere for the last 15 years.

Skeets & toots ahoy!

Revision draft:

“The only boots worth licking are your dommy-mommy’s.”