szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Due to the economy, had to tell one of the kids I have to let them go. They're packing up their stuff while security waits to escort them out.

I used to work in a fancy tech office in downtown San Francisco, but my company switched to remote work at the beginning of the pandemic and what was only supposed to be about two weeks turned into two months and then over two years.

A little over two years in, we were told that we needed to go to the office to take home anything we’d left at our desks that we wanted to keep.

I wanted to get it over with so I selected the first time slot on the sign-up sheet and showed up at that time, but the man at the front desk said I wasn’t on the list and I couldn’t go in.

I had made a special trip to the office for the only time that worked and I just wanted to be done with everything and the man was being very rude and unhelpful.

I showed him my ID and badge for both the building and my office, but he said they weren’t proof that I worked there. I then showed him the email from my office manager confirming my time slot AND forwarded the email to him FROM my company email address to show that I still work there.

Another security guard could see how rude the other man was being and offered to walk me up to my office so I could show him that my desk was mine and grab my stuff, but the man at the desk held firm on his power trip and said there was no way of knowing if I actually worked for the company and cited that he had never seen me or anyone else from my company before (because we’d all been working remote for the past two years).

As a last resort, I asked him to contact our office manager to confirm that I was allowed in the office. Meanwhile, I sat off to the side and broke down crying out of frustration.

After a lot of back-and-forth, it was found that I was on the list and he was probably just misspelling my last name, so I was FINALLY allowed to go up to my office.

Even so, he seemed completely unwilling to acknowledge his mistake and actually treated me as if he was doing me a favor.

When I got to my desk, I grabbed some random desk items and a company award I had won along with my company-branded jacket that was hanging on the back of my chair and I proceeded to leave for the last time.

When I got to the lobby, I turned to the man at the front desk to “thank” him for being so “helpful” and asked if he’d pose in a photo with me to commemorate my “last day at the office” and he agreed.

As a result, I now have a lovely photo of the rude man at the front desk with his mask hanging off his face and me standing in the foreground with my mascara running down my face as a result of crying due to his poor treatment.

I also made it a point to wear my jacket and hold my award, both obnoxiously branded with the name of the company he tried to imply I didn’t actually work for—because I can be a petty little brat when pushed hard enough.

You know the writers of a US TV show have never been to the UK, even tho they've set a story arch here when:

"I'll be at Heathrow in an hour"

No dear, you won't. You really won't.

Google is now asking "How clean was your toilet today?"

Internet search sucks now.

Making a classic "search engine" requires obscene amounts of money and resources, so creating direct competition is not a realistic option.

But what if we had a way to each take our own personal bookmarks and link collections, and share them, using a federated protocol?

My fifty sites, your sixty-five links, some friends and their contributions... All hand-selected and vetted, manually tagged and organized by real people... Hosted on small, volunteer-run servers...

What if web search results were organized not by "how many ad dollars did this site generate for the search company" but rather something like "someone you know directly tagged this site, and someone twice-removed tagged this other site so it's lower priority"?

#DisabilityDrivenDevelopment

This is probably the best thing I ever posted on Twitter. The memory is pretty dear to me; I'm sharing it here so it still exists somewhere if that place collapses.

In December of 2013, 59 years after his death and 61 years after his chemical torture by the state, Alan Turing received a royal pardon for a something that should never have been a crime in the first place.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-25495315

Republican extremism continues to eat away at our society.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/entertainment/television/2023/06/21/kcci-meteorologist-chris-gloninger-leaving-tv-station-death-threat-ptsd-diagnosis-climate-change/70343855007/

SiliconGraphics ONYX users know the answer to this..

This guy right here 💯 #titanic #titansubmersible

The problem with a capitalist health system: saving lives isn’t always profitable.

This is why we need universal healthcare. https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/drugmakers-are-abandoning-cheap-generics-and-now-us-cancer-patients-cant-get-meds/

@WecanbeGyros I have been amazed at how freely the neonazis have been able to travel around, terrorize people, and then travel around some more.
I got arrested (for the first time) as a 12 year old when I chained myself to the gates of the factory that made nuke triggers. That was 40 years ago, and I still get hassled if I show up anywhere near a big protest.
Yet neonazis can wave around tiki torches, run people over, make death threats, carry long rifles, and the cops don't even see them. Deliberately do not even see them.

Follow me for more pro cooking tips...

Kids bubble machines are pretty good

pronouncing 'W' as double u is way too long and doesn't even make sense since it's more double v than u

we should just refer to W as wa from now on

when talking about the world wide web you won't have to spend an eternity on saying double you double you double you out loud but instead just say wawawa dot domain dot TLD

“I didn’t make up the problems. All I did was look around at the problems we’re neglecting now and give them about 30 years to grow into full-fledged disasters.“
— Octavia E. Butler, who would've been 76 today, on not being a prophet

#OctaviaButler
#SpeculativeFiction
#ScienceFiction
#OnThisDay
#Quote

Almost every human disease involves inflammation in some form or another, so being able to detect inflammation biomarkers in sweat would make it easier to monitor a person's health.

And now we can.

It's my latest for work:

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/wearable-sweat-sensor-detects-molecular-hallmark-of-inflammation

Today, an estimated 5.3 billion people, or 66% of the world’s population, use the internet.

However, in Africa, the average is just 40% of the population, making it the least connected region. https://globaldigitalinclusion.org/2023/05/18/transform-africa-summit-meaningful-connectivity-is-key-to-unlocking-africas-potential/

20 years jail for rescuing 1000 low income migrants who were forced to put their lives at risk.

Expanded search for rescuing a few billionaires who chose to put their lives at risk.

Criminalizing poverty and excusing oppulance.

Smh. We don’t have to live like this.