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Comrade Clippy, helping workers navigate the bastard software, Microsoft Word

Speaking of which...if you're in NYC and looking for tech bootcamps, avoid Pursuit.

They market themselves as being for marginalized people, but their ISA is exploitative, and they heavily pushed for Amazon to come to LIC, despite the community outcry.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/ViewLift-Reviews-E1024413.htm

If you're in NYC and working in tech, please don't interview at ViewLift. They have comically awful reviews on GlassDoor, but recently published a flurry of fake 4 and 5 star reviews.

You can tell they're fake because they were all made in the past week or two, and even with all this astroturfing, the overall rating for the company is still only 1.9 stars.

Rage-donating to a trans fundraiser everybody kept sharing without actually giving money to

Tumblr is basically a buffet full of tubs and tubs of "I Can't Believe It's Not TERF Ideology!"

People who claim to hate TERFs but agree with them on most points

The time on Tumblr where a TERF who was somehow following me expressed confusion that I didn't want to be defined by my uterus, and sarcastically asked if me insisting that it was dehumanizing was performance art.

Love 2b defined by reproductive body parts I don't want other people touching or seeing in the first place

Protecting women and girls (with vaginas (but only the RIGHT KIND of vaginas (in a totally not misogynstic way)))

Becoming an irony shitposter one degree removed from 4chan, as a bit

"Who can Italian-Americans look up to if not Columbus?"

Michelangelo, literally raised high on a scaffold sixty feet in the air: Ah, c'mon!

I mean I'm sorry Leonardo and all the other ones they named turtles after are all gay, but that's not enough for you?

Italian-Americans don't need Columbus when they have...uh...the most celebrated European visual artists in the Western canon idk but I can understand, when they also have Giuliani