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The job market is so bad I'm getting emails that say shit like "you were perfect, you did everything right, but we decided to go another direction"
WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT FROM ME AT THIS POINT? HOW CAN I DO EVERYTHING RIGHT, APPLY FOR JOBS I'M OVER QUALIFIED FOR, AND STILL NOT GET HIRED?
And these companies will still say no one wants to work
But also needs cost of living raises that are not limited by a pay cap for the position
Also newbies to the role should be paid less because of less experience. Not the same because it's the same role on paper.
I would just like to remind you all that the Take It Down Act didn’t disappear; it passed. And it WILL be implemented as soon as 2026 comes around.
”Ferguson and Commissioners Mark Meador and Melissa Holyoak said they plan to vociferously enforce the TAKE IT DOWN Act, a recently signed law that requires tech companies to remove nonconsensual sexual imagery within 48 hours of being alerted.” - Politico
If you care about LGBTQ rights and safety, contact orgs.
If you care about trans rights and safety, contact orgs.
If you care about women’s rights and free speech, contact orgs.
If you care about YOUR rights and free speech, contact orgs.
Hell, if you care about keeping the Internet open to anything at all, YOU CONTACT ORGS.
IF YOU CARE ABOUT PROTESTING AT ALL AGAINST WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OUR GOVERNMENT, FULL STOP, YOU NEED TO CONTACT ORGS.
Trump has LITERALLY SAID THAT HE PLANS ON USING THIS TO HIS OWN ADVANTAGE AND CENSOR HIS CRITICS. The language of this bill is TOO BROAD to ONLY target ai deepfakes. THAT IS INTENTIONAL. THEY WANT TO GIVE HIM MORE UNCHECKED POWER.
Where is the backlash that happened right after he signed it into law?? Where did it go? WE NEED THAT ENERGY AGAIN. WE NEED TO ALL URGE ORGS TO SUE AND TAKE THIS BILL TO COURT. IT HAS NO SAFEGUARDS IN ITS TEXT THAT SPECIFY IT TO ONLY AFFECT AI DEEPFAKES. IT WILL BE USED TO CENSOR LGBTQ COMMUNITIES AND OTHER GROUPS. IF YOU THINK YOU ARE SAFE FROM THIS, YOU. AREN’T. THIS WILL AFFECT EVERYONE.
CALL THE ELECTRIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION.
CALL THE ACLU.
TELL FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE.
IN THIS POLITICAL CLIMATE WHERE SO MANY PEOPLE ARE AT STAKE, WHERE SO MANY LIVES ARE BEING THREATENED, THE AFFECTS OF THIS BILL WILL BE DRASTIC. IT WILL ISOLATE THE VULNERABLE, IT WILL KEEP US UNINFORMED, AND IT. WILL. SILENCE. US. OUR PROTESTS, EVERYTHING.
WE ARE HALFWAY THROUGH 2025.
WE ARE HALFWAY THROUGH JULY ALREADY.
WE HAVE LESS THAN 6 MONTHS TO GET THESE POLICIES CHALLENGED AND TAKEN DOWN.
SO HELP US! PLEASE!
HERE IS A BASELINE SCRIPT TO USE WHEN EMAILING ORGS. YOU CAN EDIT IT AS NEEDED TO VOICE YOUR OWN CONCERNS.
“Hello [insert org name here], I'm emailing you to call attention to the Take it Down Act, also known as TIDA.
TIDA is intended as a way to crack down on deepfake content, which often includes generated images of non-consenting individuals. In reality, this bill can and will be used by the Trump Administration as yet another overreach of government power, and to remove any content the President doesn't like from the Internet.
I urge you to please help us by challenging this bill in court as it directly goes against our 1st amendment rights.”
Get loud.
We've opposed the Take It Down Act because it could be easily manipulated to take down lawful content that powerful people simply don't like
If Chris really wanted to be a father and be involved in Rory's life as you claim, why didn't he try harder? Sure Lorelai dumped him and didn't want to marry him but he could have tried to get split custody. When Luke wanted more custody of April, he literally took Anna to court over it. Chris comes from a wealthy family, I am sure he would have been able to afford a lawyer.
Okay, firstly, trying to compare a forty-something established and (theoretically) mature man to a sixteen-year-old kid, whose parents vehemently did not want him involved in his daughter's life is ... not great or really fair. Sure, Chris comes from a wealthy family, but do you really think that Strobe and Francine would have helped him in that regards or that the Gilmores wouldn't have fought tooth and nail to keep Rory with them/Lorelai?
Secondly, have you met Lorelai Gilmore? The woman who freaked out when Rory's father wanted to spend a single weekend with his daughter over her school break because, in Lorelai's mind, that was "her time with Rory". This, despite having Rory to herself 24/7? And you really think she would have gone for shared custody?
I've never argued that Chris couldn't have been more involved in Rory's life. Once he was an adult and out from under his parents' thumbs, he absolutely could have lived closer and seen his daughter more frequently (or, at least as much as Lorelai would have allowed).
My argument is that he is more involved than the fandom give him credit for, that we don't know what happened when he and Lorelai were younger and what the circumstances were after she rejected his marriage proposal and that, despite what she claims, Lorelai is extremely possessive over her daughter and doesn't like to share, even with Chris.
Btw, I care about raw milk so much because I see it as the key to getting people to drink real milk and not nutritionally-inferior alternatives.
A lot of people who are sensitive to milk or even have a variety of other health problems are told that avoiding dairy products is the way to go, but that robs them of the health benefits of milk and pushes them towards things that are less healthy, like fake milk made in factories and oat "milk" that requires additives like canola oil. Then some avoid it because they're told that dairy farming is cruel to animals.
Most people's problems with milk are not caused by milk per se but by their bodies not producing lactase to digest lactose, difficulty digesting the A1A2 beta-casein protein that evolved in European cows a few thousand years ago (this could be why a lot of non-white people have issues with milk), or just modern agricultural practices generally. The problems often go away by turning to organic/grassfed, A2A2 milk (either from A2A2 cows or other animals which are all A2A2) , or raw milk. Raw milk is the gold standard to me because: it is often A2A2, it is usually produced by cows that are raised on pasture, it is usually from farms that use regenerative practices that heal the land, it tastes better because it is non-homogenized and generally comes from cows that produce a higher-fat milk, and it contains the enzymes you need in order to properly digest the milk without feeling icky.
I get very frustrated that some people in politics who claim to care about agriculture are so against raw milk, when expanding access to raw milk would turn people back towards buying from local farms and away from synthetic foods. There are some who even want to ban fake meat while at the same time banning raw milk, which makes no sense. Again, people who think they can't tolerate real milk are likely to be pushed towards fake food. Raw milk is also a "gateway drug" of sorts that gets people into supporting small farms. I think the agricultural system and its defenders are shooting themselves in the foot here.
Articles about raw milk hardly ever explore all these issues, either, instead framing it as a trend for people who want to rebel against the system. For a lot of people, it's actually the only way they can drink real milk at all. And for a lot of people, it's also about supporting sustainable and ethical farming. But the article writers are all probably paid off by Big Ag and Big Food companies anyway.
Raw milk doesn't contain lactase. I know many older people who grew up on small farms with grass fed cows and developed lactose intolerance as they aged into teens and adults just because of genetics. Some have siblings who can comfortably drink milk into their 60s.
If raw milk became mainstream in stores then all big corporations with their fertilizer raised cows and power to buy small farms will ONLY offer it. They don't clean their cows well enough to sell raw milk and all of the bad bacteria will persist.
Pasteurization kills the bad bacteria and leaves the good. It's different than boiling because the boiling temperature is much higher.
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The Black Sheep Dog
Book I - In the Black
“What is to you ‘taking advantage'—is to me, merely—” Orion searched around for the correct phrase. “—Adapting to these new circumstances I find myself in, and acting as I see fit when opportunities arise that are to my…benefit.”
“That is the most fucking Slytherin justification I’ve ever heard,” Sirius growled, angrily.
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“Then why did he leave his family—truly?”
“Nothing all that exciting, I’m afraid,” he said, staring across the room, his smile grim. “Just a run-of-the-mill blood-traitor who was fed up. A political idealist. Took a different view of things than his family—the Black sheep of the Blacks.” She furrowed her brow. “You look disappointed.”
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When a job interviewer asks if you have any questions for them at the end, maybe don’t just make stuff up to impress them. (I saw this advice going around recently. I honestly don’t know why you would do that. Kudos to the person giving the advice though if it’s worked for them.) In a job interview, you are also vetting a company to see if they’re the right fit for you. Ask them relevant questions that you want to know the answer to! Don’t miss out on that opportunity to learn about red or green flags that will help you decide. (And obviously if you’re dead set on the job regardless of any red flags, this will help you anticipate what sort of job this will be.) You might want to ask things like… - Do you do annual performance reviews? - When dealing with a challenging project/customer/client, what support does someone working here have access to? - What’s your favorite benefit or perk that comes from working here? - How would you describe the company culture? - How would you say the attitude surrounding work-life balance is here? - What’s your favorite project you’ve worked on/thing you’ve done here? - What’s the hardest challenge you’ve had to solve working here? Questions like these will give you a better insight into the day to day of what working at a specific place might be like! (Not all of these apply to every type of job, so YMMV. Make up your own questions.) Some companies won’t be forthcoming about certain questions for obvious reasons (particularly ones about work-life balance), but you still might be able to catch the difference between a confident answer and a bullshit one.
GIF MEME: 14. the subject is in the light of day or the darkness of the night. Mamma Mia! (2008)
This gives is so funny because it could be so eerie but it's not
It's not your body, but it's your choice. AND THE ONLY CHOICE IS LIFE.
Be pro-life and defend life before and after birth.
Pro-life but I don't want abortions to be banned because it limits medical care in emergencies. I want a world where people will make the moral choice but still be able to get help easily everywhere. That they get to decide what chance of survival is an emergency and what is an acceptable risk for their family
Imagine, I know this is going to sound crazy but, if Omega hadn't been a massive skeleton baby who's only motivation was an apparent hunger for flesh and instead we had...fuck it...just some guy.
Would it have been considered a boring choice? Maybe. Unless that dude was an awesome actor and the writing team gave him an actual arc of his own he sought to pursue. He could have...and I'm just spit balling here, instead of eating the Rani, disagreed with her and her plot?
Our poor melodramatic king; our "First Time Lord". Gah, and this all happened after we were given the Timeless Child storyline! Where that little "fact" in lore was contested! He could have had something interesting to say on the matter. But alas...chuck it in the bin.
You're not going to convince me shooting the big skeleton baby with a time gun was their first choice. That's a level of cynicism I'm choosing to float above for the time being.
Even as I type it my certainty wanes but I have to believe that was not Plan A!
The Rani could have said that the Omega would not be sterile because he was in another dimension when the Master killed the Time Lords, but noooo,,,
DOCTOR WHO (2005) 1508 - The Reality War
you don't have to be a "tradwife" to bake your own bread.
you don't have to be a "tradwife" to enjoy cooking.
you don't have to be a "tradwife" to enjoy gardening.
you don't have to be a "tradwife" to sew your own clothes.
you don't have to be a "tradwife" to work on a farm.
you don't have to be a "tradwife" to grow your own food.
you don't have to be a "tradwife" to be outdoorsy.
you don't have to be a "tradwife" to love children.
you don't have to be a "tradwife" to dress like it's the 1950s.
I know this because all these things apply to me and I'm a raging lesbian feminist. None of these things require a man, let alone subservience to one. Don't fall for the psyop.
Doctor Who The Robot Revolution
I can't believe they just wrapped up this mystery by having the Doctor casually remember to chuck it into space
-To start with, the season should have more episodes. Many series are having this problem of not being able to develop enough with the few episodes that Disney releases. (Just look at the Marvel and Star Wars series, most of the ones considered the best have at least more than 6 episodes.)
-Second. Belinda's development was terrible. What we know about her can be summed up in one sentence:
She's a nurse and she really wants to go home.
-Third. This whole story about the world of desire between the Doctor, Belinda and Poppy was so uncomfortable (for me). I don't even know how to describe how wrong it feels.
Up until the part where it was all fake and it seemed like everything would go back to normal once the Doctor saved the day, everything was fine. Then they decided that the child was really their daughter.
-Once again, going back to Belinda's development (or lack of it), it seems extremely uncomfortable and confusing for her, but in the end she doesn't choose anything and is forced to think that it has always been this way.
(The good thing is that, from her point of view, she doesn't remember the truth and for her everything is fine. But from our point of view, it's so… questionable…)
-I think the issue of Time Lords being sterile was a cannonball in the script of the entire series.
The first episode of all literally introduces Susan Foreman, the doctor's GRANDDAUGHTER, and he has said several times that he had children in the plural.
Could he have adopted? He could, but I personally believe that if he had the habit of adopting, they would have to come up with a very good excuse for him to have stopped doing it, since we have already seen them with children, and we know that they would give a better life to all of them if they could.
-The Rani was a waste, she had so much potential. If they hadn't decided to bring in Omega (another waste) she could have been an incredible villain.
I mean, she's a Time Lord scientist with no attachment to life. That's a LOT of wasted potential.
-Omega should have been impactful, the true villain powerful above all others, just like the Doctor's entire species has always been treated (so the first of the species should have been even worse). But he wasn't.
It was so meh that I don't even have anything else to comment on.
-There was a lot of expository dialogue throughout the season.
Who is Rani, what she does, what she did, who she knows, her goals, who is Omega, why Poppy is important, among other things, there is literally an entire section where the characters explain to each other and consequently to us.
Nothing is shown, everything is explained and chewed over for you who don't know Classic Who.
I think it's okay to bring things from the classic era, but they should introduce it as if we had never seen it before instead of telling us.
I know a lot of people don't like Timeless Child, but it would have been better if they had continued developing it to maybe improve it instead of ignoring it to create something worse. (Not a worse idea, but the story overall is worse, even disrespectful. I'd rather rewatch the Timeless Child arc and the master dancing Rasputin endlessly)
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There are probably more, but the post is already very long and my brain is already burning from analyzing and translating my conclusions into English, which is not my first language.
anyway it's just my opinion and I would love to hear yours to complement or change my analysis
I think the time lords being sterile was already canon. Or did fanon make up looms? I don't understand why the Rani wouldn't want the Doctor's DNA since that's the actual source of regenerations? She doesn't need to rediscover time travel - unless she needs to regrow a TARDIS? What's a time ring?
Considering that the Rani is an extremist scientist who doesn't care about other people's lives and sees everyone as potential lab rats (or at least she should be and they failed to show it), it makes sense for her to try to recreate the Time Lords.
It's not a bad idea, just poorly used.
They could have made her somehow find out about this Timeless Child issue and try to go after the Doctor, with the curiosity of a scientist to find out what the Doctor really is/his origins and the possibility of studying him and being able to bring the Time Lords back.
And it would be even better if instead of trying to bring him back to be the great Supreme, she also had the same bittersweet relationship that the Master and the Doctor have with Gallyfrey, of "they are terrible and I hate them, but they are still my people and the planet I came from." or "I don't want them all dead and extinct, but I don't want them anywhere near it either)
That would definitely unbalance the doctor emotionally
It would be fun if done well. Too bad it's just a dream now
I definitely thought she would want the Timeless Child DNA and Poppy. Considering we last saw Omega not having a physical body and the Doctor is the source of regenerations. You're telling me the Rani knew enough to change her DNA but not why the Master was committing genocide
The only thing I would’ve changed in the newest episode of Doctor Who was to make the doctor extremely afraid of paying child support for Belinda. Like the whole reason why he didn’t wanna go back and see if Poppy was that he was scared of becoming a father- my man’s not ready to be a dad- That’s why he regenerated— that’s why the girl doctor had to go back and see him, so she could convince him to pay. 
I really thought we were going to get a joke about the Doctor still being on UNIT'S payroll
