Trump held a wide-ranging press conference today, and he used the occasion to state he would "dismiss" federal workers who don't return to the office. He also stated he would sue to revoke union contracts that provide for telework (although he's clearly not an authority on labor law, even the President is bound by a union contract that has been ( Read more... )

Only five more business days as a supervisor, wow. I won't move offices immediately, we'll need to schedule a big office swap as I'm not the only person moving internally. Two non-supervisor managers are becoming supervisors of different workgrous, and one non-supervisor manager is moving to a different workgroup, just as I will move to a ( Read more... )

I've paid zero attention to the NaNoWriMo organization, and didn't think anybody had to. The idea is enough -- write 1,667 words per day for a month, and, poof you've written a novel ( Read more... )

At least 36,017 people have died in the current phase of the long-running conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, since October 7, 2023. Over 95% of the confirmed dead are Palestinians. I suspect the official number of Palestinian deaths is an undercount, and I expect many more to die from the unfolding famine in Gaza (even if they can ( Read more... )

So many people showed up on the relationship subreddits to cry, literally crying, about how they were either single and sad to be alone on Valentine's Day, or their partner dumped them the day before Valentine's Day, or their partner ignored them on Valentine's Day, or their partner pissed them off on Valentine's Day, or ( Read more... )

Yesterday I saw this same statement on two different social media services, written by two very different people of different races and genders ( Read more... )

The sale of U.S. Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel Corp. has triggered a bipartisan uproar in Congress.At one time, U.S. Steel was the largest steel producer and most valuable corporation in the world. It is now ranked #1478 in market capitalization, because raw materials like steel are not nearly as important anymore. Nowadays computer software is ( Read more... )

Was feeling sorta lonely last night after I ate my soup alone in my bedroom, so I was interacting with strangers online, which is usually annoying LOL. One more day of negotiated isolation within my own house ( Read more... )

I didn't feel a lot of transition anxiety today, probably because I had no plans for the rest of the day and so was in absolutely no rush to get home. I ate leftover pizza and birthday cake for breakfast :-) And I'm fasting for the rest of the day or until I'm finished playing with toys ( Read more... )

Once again I'm seeing a bunch of younger gays mourning online the cryptic loss of one of their own. Most of them don't even mention who he was. Those who say who he was won't say one word in public about how he died ( Read more... )