Friday morning
Last night I chose hot tub, even though I can hot tub while T is here, instead of either last-minute downstairs XBOX or toys. It's great weather for it. I love October! I listened to history podcast episodes about the Yalta summit in 1945.
Although I woke at 4am I was able to fall back asleep and had sexy dreams about guys I follow on Twitter, but now I must get up and prep the house and myself for the termite inspector, who is expected between 8-10am. Then I'll have breakfast. Then I'll start my work day.
Should be a mostly quiet telework day until I pick up T this evening. I expect to spend much of the weekend with T and B, but we'll see how it goes. Monday will be a Maids/Commute day, hopefully one of the other days I'll get my car fixed. With my sister here and then the Sunday game day it will be a lot of Social Bug.
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I was recently seeing multiple instances of people critical of Israel in the US losing their jobs. I found a group on Twitter who are devoted to this task -- searching for anti-Israeli social media posts, doxxing the posters, complaining to their employers, etc. You never know when unwanted publicity will strike your public posts on the Internet.
Generally as a federal employee you can't be fired for any opinions you have while you're off duty, but I saw a story about a fed who has been put on administrative leave due to her anti-Israeli posts on Instagram.
It's one of the worst features of life in the US today, that people will go after your livelihood if you do or say something they disagree with, even if what you've done or said is totally legal. During the peak of the MeToo movement lots of men lost their jobs for the non-crime of being assholes on their dates, often based purely on the unverifiable complaints of one woman. Especially if these men worked in a media industry.
Now we're having a sort of IsraelToo movement, if you say something the pro-Israeli mob doesn't like, you might be collecting unemployment checks.
Could be worse -- during WW1 the US threw people in jail for speaking against US involvement in the war. We're not quite that far yet.
Although I woke at 4am I was able to fall back asleep and had sexy dreams about guys I follow on Twitter, but now I must get up and prep the house and myself for the termite inspector, who is expected between 8-10am. Then I'll have breakfast. Then I'll start my work day.
Should be a mostly quiet telework day until I pick up T this evening. I expect to spend much of the weekend with T and B, but we'll see how it goes. Monday will be a Maids/Commute day, hopefully one of the other days I'll get my car fixed. With my sister here and then the Sunday game day it will be a lot of Social Bug.
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I was recently seeing multiple instances of people critical of Israel in the US losing their jobs. I found a group on Twitter who are devoted to this task -- searching for anti-Israeli social media posts, doxxing the posters, complaining to their employers, etc. You never know when unwanted publicity will strike your public posts on the Internet.
Generally as a federal employee you can't be fired for any opinions you have while you're off duty, but I saw a story about a fed who has been put on administrative leave due to her anti-Israeli posts on Instagram.
It's one of the worst features of life in the US today, that people will go after your livelihood if you do or say something they disagree with, even if what you've done or said is totally legal. During the peak of the MeToo movement lots of men lost their jobs for the non-crime of being assholes on their dates, often based purely on the unverifiable complaints of one woman. Especially if these men worked in a media industry.
Now we're having a sort of IsraelToo movement, if you say something the pro-Israeli mob doesn't like, you might be collecting unemployment checks.
Could be worse -- during WW1 the US threw people in jail for speaking against US involvement in the war. We're not quite that far yet.