Well, playing it creepy and rapey doesn't seem to be working out well for Andy.
JAGMEET AND THE NDP HAVE DONE IT!
Jagmeet won progressive commitments when Trudeau needed support for his minority government, and Jagmeet and the NDP won a promise for FULL DENTAL CARE for Canadians. Today Liberal partners delivered on that promise.
Congratulations to Jagmeet! And The NDP!
Zoom is the introverts' revenge. They can't suck our life force through TCP/IP.
Once again, I'm writing a #limerick using a haiku prompt:
When his company's website was hacked,
Its CISO summarily packed.
They'd ignored his advice,
Not just two times, but thrice.
He was blamed (no surprise) and then sacked.
#575Prompt #Hacking @aethelshane
#Limericks #Poetry #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Technology #Computers #Business #Employment
re: work requiring personal devices for all employees
Work: We want you to carry this phone we've provided, so we can contact you any time, anywhere.
Me: Are you going to pay me for 24/7 work hours?
Work: Of course not, you're salary.
Me: I'm salary based on 40 hours per week, when I'm in the office.
Work:...
Me: Yeah, I'm leaving that phone on my desk when I leave at night.
The internet is just a fad. Give it a century or two, and it'll pass away, like platform shoes and bell bottom jeans.
It's funny that some people still say "Mastodon is the new Google+" and predict that this "too" will die eventually. They are just forgetting that Google+ was hosted by Google and killed by Google. Mastodon is hosted by no one in particular so it really can't be killed unless all the thousands of servers are killed.
No one is saying that "Internet will die eventually". The same pricinples apply for Mastodon, because to permantently be wiped out would mean an extinction level event. Ironically enough, mammoths died of extinction but Mastodon will prosper. #Mastodon #SocialMedia
Tennessee congressman Andy Ogles, who represents the district in which the Covenant School mass shooting occurred yesterday, sent thoughts and prayers to the families of those who died in the shooting. Have a look at the Christmas card he and his family sent to friends last year, a photo of which is included in this article.
#guns #MassShooting #Tennessee #AR15 #AmericanExceptionalism
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/andy-ogles-covenant-school-christmas-card
Yesterday, the last of our littermate, sister cats passed away.
In 2005, we adopted two of the cutest, sweetest kittens *ever* from the county animal shelter. It took almost a month before Lucy and Ethel were trusting enough to let us pet them but after that, they knew they were "home". They never fought or raised a claw to each other or to us. Not once! Lucy passed in November. Ethel followed yesterday. We'll miss them dearly! โฅ๏ธ โฅ๏ธ
Just read a story about a food company successfully growing "mammoth meatballs" from mammoth meat lab grown from mammoth DNA.
Have we learned nothing?
You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit in the wind
You don't open the mummy sarcophagus
and you don't grow mammoth meat.
This is how zombies happen, people.
@ScottSoCal @Pepper @TonyStark As is true with all of the right's dearest "freedoms"
They only ever extend to people they like doing things they like.
re: Twitter makes millions as anti-LGBTQ+ โgroomingโ narrative jumps 119% under Elon Musk
He might be making millions, but he's losing billions. His pathetic profits don't compensate for hemorrhaging cash. It's not even a band-aid on the wound.
And I'm perfectly all right with that.
Twitter makes millions as anti-LGBTQ+ โgroomingโ narrative jumps 119% under Elon Musk
Tweets mentioning the hateful anti-LGBTQ+ โgroomingโ narrative have jumped 119% since Elon Musk took over the platform
Just five accounts driving the โgroomingโ narrative generate up to $6.4m per year for Twitter in advertising revenue
One of these accounts, James Lindsay, was reinstated by Musk after previously receiving a permanent suspension before the takeover
Tweets mentioning the hateful anti-LGBTQ+ โgroomingโ narrative have jumped 119% since Elon Musk took over the platform, new analysis by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has found.
So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.