tbf, this really is something that Magas would crap their pants over.

Oh no, totally got what you meant. It’s all so exhausting though.

Hey, we’re doing our jobs (at least those of us allowed to work), without pay and under threat of not getting paid at all. We’re upholding our end of the social contract here.

Yeah not really loving where things are. And we’re better off than most people.

Day two of working during a lapse of appropriations: I just filed for temporary free/reduced lunch approval for my kids at school, since our family income is zero until appropriations are enacted.

Day one of working during a lapse of appropriations: sent out financial aid and food pantry info to all my staff.

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

Democrats are allergic to winning and keep pushing septegenarian establishment candidates.

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I had to correct this review because I thought “ah!-matized” was a play on “traumatized” when it’s actually a play on “dickmatized,” which is itself a play on “hypnotized.” I now hate this song. Zero stars to Taylor Swift. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

That “raid” in Chicago is a dark story.

It’s a lot to process.

Pancho’s cheese dip. It’s not carbon-based, and it is exquisite…ly terrible.

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

Keep it fucking weird, Portland 👏✊

I actually hollered

BREAKING: we, AFGE, AFSCME & our other great partners have just filed for a TRO in our litigation to stop Trump & co. from using the shutdown to illegally fire gov employees

Our coalition has secured many of the most important court victories of the past months & we are heading to court again!

Was curious about JFK’s health so I asked google. TIL he was pregnant in 1960 but only put on 15-20lbs

So is USAA in the Sky? I need to have A Word with someone in corporate after being sent on 90+ minutes of automated call routing, when I needed to get authorization for a rental car following on someone trying to steal our car.

“They asked for a sword, and we said, ‘Well, we do have swords, but we can’t give them away because they’re museum artifacts,’” said Todd Arrington, forced to resign as head of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.”

Scoop by the - wait for it - Minnesota Star Tribune: "Anthony Salisbury, a deputy to White House top policy adviser Stephen Miller, sent the texts over the private messaging app Signal while traveling in Minnesota and in clear view of others." www.startribune.com/trump-offici...

Day three of furlough: had lunch with the Hubs and did a backlog of paperwork over beers. Ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in years. Went to a happy hour for new State hires hosted by my union and recruited some new union members.

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

"This is what love looks like. This is what acceptance of everybody looks like."

People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku.

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