Amanda Unvarnished

Wherever I look I can see news about a few very rich individuals being stranded on a submarine that was supposed to take them on a tour of the Titanic. The effort put in place to rescue them appears huge in scope.

Last week over six hundred people died in a #shripweck off the coasts of #Greece and nobody cared. Nobody even bothered to start a rescue operation until it was too late.

Stop pretending people are equal, I hate this hypocrisy.

—@gabrielesvelto

If I have one piece of advice for anyone with a diasbility at work who happens to have an understanding manager it’s to get your accommodations formalised _now_. It’s tempting to sit back and relax if your manager is kind and understanding and accommodates you willingly, but they might leave one day and you could end up with someone who absolutely won’t listen to you. Better to take advantage of your luck and get things in writing immediately.

—@kirsty

Spouse: I have “Karma Chameleon” stuck in my head.

Me: Is it really stuck, or does it come and go?

Spouse: You. Are. An. Asshole.

—@disappearinjon

JetBrains is making a new IDE called Fleet, and, according to a blog post they just released, they’re using a completely custom GUI framework that doesn’t use native OS / Swing controls and just draws to the screen. This is an accessibility disaster in the making.

—@miki

Managers are rarely mocked in professional introductions. Many pros in ethical roles (accessibility, diversity, hr, etc.) are. Our jobs aren’t jokes, and we aren’t trying to be hardasses. We’re trying to educate about the importance of our work, often to those uninterested.

—@mothdust

“How do y’all like it when Hunter Biden receives justice???? HUH??”

Like I seriously don’t care and if he broke the law send him to jail, lock him up with Hillary Clinton there are no sacred cows, omg, none of you “both-siders” understand this at all.

Back when I spent time arguing with right-wingers, I used to absolutely baffle them with this position. The idea that I really didn’t care if you sent someone on “my side” to prison for a wrongdoing was just incomprehensible to them.

But some libs are irrationally pulled into this trap. “Oh yeah? Well Hillary Clinton never did anything wrong, that was all a setup and–“

If you’re explaining, you’re losing.

Just quip back, “Yeah, you should lock her up. If only she’d been charged with any kind of crime at all.”

Just concede that maybe she deserves to get under criminal investigation, have the investigation already, or shut up.

Oh, finally Hunter Biden sees a courtroom? Pleads guilty?

GREAT.

“How do you libs feel about that, huh?”

Don’t take that bait. That would be silly.

Instead reply, “I feel great that you’re finally getting the investigation you wanted. Good for you. If he’s guilty, I hope they lock him up and throw away the key.”

And then move on to the topic they were trying to distract you away from with Hunter Biden.

Or just…don’t talk to them at all. These are likely not serious people. But if you must, just concede the gulag and move on to the real point you want to make.

—@oliphant