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Ro (@Are0h) (Ubiqueros: A PV Joint)
Declaring that banning gender-affirming care is unconstitutional is a devastating blow to a major piece of conservative campaign plans as we approach election season. Keep fighting these bigots. Keep pushing. Don't give them a moment's fucking rest. Make them regret the day they came into contact with you.
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Grimm :bc: (@GrimmReality@beige.party) (beige.party)
Like a healthy percentage of dumb bigoted conservative twats who tried to stake out turf on Mastodon in days agone are basically blocked by a vast swath of the fediverse at this point cuz, y'know, it's not run by Elon Musk and therefore doesn't work actively to amplify the voices of verified sociopath assholes but they keep trying, like the intrepid sexless ubermenschen they think they are in spite of all evidence available from every social interaction they've ever had. Keep at it, guys. You are the 300 Spartans of Unloved Loserdom and, exactly like the 300 Spartans, you're fash-y dickbags and you lost.
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Mats Holberg (@Holberg@mstdn.social) (Mastodon 🐘)
Hunter Biden has actually been a very useful case study for the difference in this country between the right and the left. I’ve never heard anyone in my liberal circles suggest he shouldn’t be investigated and prosecuted if there’s evidence of wrongdoing. Joe Biden hasn’t blathered endlessly about political witch hunts, hasn’t insulted and attacked everyone involved in the process, and won’t make this a violence-inducing talking point at cultish campaign rallies. Because we’d think that’s nuts.
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I have adapted the scientific method per the latest developments in podcast science, as explicated in tweet format by Rogan, Musk, and Kennedy (2023). 
References:
Rogan, J., Musk, E., & Kennedy, R. (2023). “Debate Me Bro: Reconceptualizing science as an attention-seeking testosterone contest.” Journal of Doubt Profiteering, 1(1), 1-2.
#Science

—@rvawonk

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Once, years and years ago, the company fired a coworker of mine with 2 weeks to go before their deadline with Keller Williams, a massive realtor in the USA. (I’m pretty sure at this point it’s the largest.)

We had a multi-year, multi-million dollar deal with them.

The company fired the developer, leaving us in the lurch and came to me to save the day.

No, we couldn’t ask for more time. Sorry, two weeks was all we had, we’d made promises, and if we didn’t deliver, we were fucked.

So I killed myself for that project. Even though they’d fired my friend, I felt like saving a multi-million dollar contract would lead to some kind of reward. Like even if they dropped ten grand on me! That’s nothing in the scope of a big multi-million dollar contract, right?

So I slept in the office, worked weekends, you name it, and we made our deadline.

I’m called into the office later by my boss, who hands me an envelope and has a gleam in his eye.

“You did a great job, so we wanted to send you some appreciation.”

I opened up the envelope.

It was a $50 Target card.

I was kind of stupefied for a moment. They’d asked me to do something impossible. No one else could have possibly pulled that off, even with 80 hour work weeks and sleeping at the office, it was impossible, and I’d somehow done it.

Tens of millions of dollars annually, guaranteed for five years, and I’d saved the contract.

I looked up at my boss with the card in my hand.

The gleam was still in his eye as he said, “Don’t spend it all in one place.”

I almost committed horrible violence that day.

But that day I also aggressively began sending out resumes to other companies.

And I gained a piece of wisdom:

The company will never love you back.

Never.

Edit: Yes, I did get out of there and get a better job a couple weeks later.

—@oliphant

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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

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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