Autumn the Red Sage, Past & Future Pope

At senior levels, your own company doesn’t even have to be sexist to “benefit” from sexism - hiring a sr level employee means hiring someone who has had many previous jobs. Women get sidelined or stalled or burnt out due to bad workplaces so of course there are fewer sr level qualified resumes.

this is like

the thesis statement of our times

One of the party organizers just spent a minute telling us all about security and that consent matters and touching people without consent isn’t ok because “we don’t do that at this party” and I fucking adore them for this. And now it’s back to the music. ❤️❤️❤️

Lake Merritt at night showing a glowing double horizon line of city lights.

Enjoying an excellent community dance party by the lake & loving my city. #Oakland #TimelineCleanse

8chan owner Jim Watkins says Epik, the site's domain registrar & web hosting company, has suspended Watkins' sites (including 8chan) from using Epik for violating its rules on animal cruelty content.

A bit of a tangent, but now I need someone to write a book about a chthonic entomologist who encounters a “horror beyond dimensions” and realizes it’s basically a giant pillbug while everyone else is freaking out about demons.

Donald Trump is a child rapist

It's not hard to write good talking points and put them on a website and say them in interviews for an election cycle, but what someone actually believes is demonstrated over years. And someone who could live with wearing a known Nazi tattoo for decades has dangerously bad judgement AT BEST.

Come on, Erin, we should make it a fair contest - BOTH parties should be allowed to bite the other's head off!

Is your state so desperately hard up for Dem candidates that having had a Nazi tattoo for decades somehow *isn't* a dealbreaker? Do you have absolutely no PTA parents or social workers or progressive faith leaders or nonprofit marketing managers or leftish lawyers willing to run?

To expand on this point ... the thing is, bad actors LIE. Nazis LIE. My understanding is that his policies sound pretty good to a lot of folks, and that's great but - will he have your back? Will he really actually support immigrants against ICE? Is he honest? Does he have integrity?

Yeah, it would make sense if that's what's going on here. I can just see a bunch of GOP men being like "what can we do for the ladies??" and congratulating each other on a new plan after disclosing how often their wives get mad about their porn habits.

Hey remember when Proton’s CEO said Republicans are better than Democrats when it comes to regulating Big Tech and standing for “the little guys”?

The US and Iran have obviously not been at war for 47 years, as regime propagandists tell us. What has been going on for 47 years is the Saudi-Iranian regional proxy war. So the propaganda defines us as a Saudi proxy state.

So it turns out Ryan Grim got all of the "Platner's wife is Jewish, still think he's a nazi?" schtick from VDARE, a neo-nazi website, and now not only am I more convinced that Platner is a nazi, I'm also convinced Grim is.

2025 limited tone fantasy commission a child leans against the body of a large cat, raising his bugcatching net reflexively as he glimpses a lady bug in a foggy wood.

adventurer and familiar portrait (2025)

A dear friend's cat is dealing with anemia and needs blood transfusions, and I am so worried for her, but wanted to pause and remind folks that cats and dogs can be blood donors. If you have a healthy animal between 1-6 years of age, look for a program near you. Save some lives.

What an interestingly complex brain! That sounds like a LOT of trial and tribulation all wrapped up together.

oh god that's too many moons

If this company would be willing to accept pre-IPO stock options as payment, I sense a business opportunity....

I work with email professionally. Spammers are using AI to uplevel all their schemes, everything from sketchy quasi legal businesses to outright scams and crimes. They might want him as target or bait or to lend legitimacy or all kinds of unsavory plans.

One of my regular sayings at work is “spammers ruin everything.” Sorry to hear you’re dealing with that.

if you're feeling a cryptic unease about days and dates, this might be why:

right now, the days of the week match up with the dates they matched in 2020, and right now is roughly when covid awareness in the u.s. began to lead to shutdowns and the (not-really-locked-down) lockdowns.

More reason for renewables in the modern age... grim reasons but still.

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

So (1) if you *do* get this reference, do not miss the replies.

(2) I almost didn't believe this was real and there was *no* fucking way I was going to do a search while sitting on a plane with kids sitting behind me

(3) if you don't get the reference CONSIDER YOURSELF LUCKY.

It’s a short train ride into the city from the airport, but getting luggage stored and getting in and out might eat up most of that time.

Yeahhhh there’s stuff we can debate and then there’s facts. There is a LOT of pretty objective data out there showing that antisemitism (and related hate crimes) are dramatically on the rise. Someone denying that is very suspect.

a whole lot of businesspeople learning in real time that a predictable and stable regulatory state - even if you don’t like some of the regulations - is vastly preferable to “boss man doesn’t like you so you’re fucked now”

you don't get the benefit of the doubt on quote-posting a Nazi account when you had a totenkopf tattoo

this guy is bad, actually