2aspirin.bsky.social
I š democracy w/3 branches! Spouse does too, served at high levels of gov. Shook up my life to make room for art & my voice after 24/7 career in life sci tech mgt & seed capital for non-profits. I have been through some shit. Art: @harttstudio.bsky.social
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Excellent film
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Exactly #sobersky
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š Blue compassion, traditional media on left. Thanks for your activity on bsky so #bluecrew can find each other.
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You could see him try to keep from saying his maga followers in Maine are a threat to her. He was frothing at the mouth. He wanted to threaten her life, not just political career. He was so mad. He IS THE LAW. No extra laws needed. Fall in line or Iāll sic my people on you.
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Yes, the treatment of the appointments as illegitimate was a huge red flag. Anyone of any liberal or conservative policy leaning should have been freaked out if they were not ready to trash the democracy to destroy people. They do want to destroy people.
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Yes. Yes it is. And he ~is~ the law. š No extra laws needed, just his executive orders. So he thinks he could just execute people in batches all day long, with a swipe of his Sharpie pen.
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Today, when talking with a start up, founder touted that his governance included having an independent non-mgt, non-investor on his board as executive chair. āHeās just my longtime friend.ā
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And tried to honor fallen civil rights hero on said visionfucking glass cooler screens - all while we just went to the store to have some tangibility and see things in 3D.
I took this picture because I like to document small hellish tech life things.
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Good for them. And hopefully they donāt just think it is to prevent stock price issues like that of Target. Maintaining diverse teams is an evidence-based approach to performance.
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Heād probably try to staff it with low cost at-will carriers. No regard for what that looks like when carriers have low stakes long term: when we churned through temps delivering mail, waaaay too much went missing, mistakes were daily. One day I got 17 pieces of other peoplesā mail.
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There was a lot of fear mongering around here but even some now-grown Haddonfield kids I know and who are in grad school or out of law school want places exactly like this. Likewise, we have an aunt and uncle in NC who asked about availability like this, to move up near us.
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We do still also have some good memes tho š
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If they bridge their way to that, it will be by painting the entirety of the opposition, even the most milquetoast of it, as a terroristic danger. The possibility is so real.
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Hell, theyād probably try to preserve or wait on a molar pregnancy that has spread to the lung and brain. š
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WTF indeed
But this seems on-brand
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They donāt. They sauntered in acting like they had all the inside info needed to be precise and focused in cutting things. They are agents of chaos. All performance.
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At this point, there is a part of me that wants the form of malicious compliance where we let and enable every bit of this to play out and reveal this shitshow that results if it saves us from decades of hell to come IF it spurs reversing course. But the near term human suffering + econ fallout? Ugh
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Itās so unfunny that they donāt think of any of this in the same way. Immigration law is purely to bar the undesirable to them. If they could pass people through a phenotype scanner to let them in or not, they would. Law treated as institutionally valuable and separate from them is pedantry to them.
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I hear he even outsourced it to an advisor.
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Well, thanks!
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Yep! I am back to sketching hands. š
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Is that wordplay? No, the only things that caught my interest was another gen-xer and the reference to cobol. But that should be clear. The rest of this is a dime a dozen and I usually never engage like this because I have stuff to do. Like right now, I need to draw hands. āš¼
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It could be which is why it is important to not chew on all the logical fallacies. š¬
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People like my mother were expert in it. She worked at MITās Lincoln Lab and was on the team of 10 people who wrote the internationally adopted air traffic control landing navigation. But she died at 47. She taught me C+ etc as a kid. It gave me a head start when using programs in physics, math etc
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This is definitely getting funny. Lol
Sometimes we get glimpses into othersā minds and how many neurons they can rub together (or not), though. Humans are fascinating. If only we could keep it merely funny.
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And humans do have a penchant for the model benevolent monarch or fierce protector. We have been around trying to be organized for tens of thousands of years. I prefer my cheering on of this archetype and my bloodthirst via watching Vikings and The Last Kingdom instead of electing them.
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ā¦and while we all want this place to thrive, our everloving minds are so soaked w/ heuristics that we do have differences of perception about what is a threat. Personally I think it a benefit not threat that institutions outlast elected top-down executive office but others think it all ādeep state.ā
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I get that a lot of people do think like you: vesting power in top-down leadership that <gestures vaguely> uses subjective measures of whatās in the US citizensā best interests but many of us hold to the stabilizing features of checks and balances and having good judgment codified in institutionsā¦
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The way he makes it sound like they have any precision at all when they are flapping their arms around and just whacking all of the new fed hires and recently promoted people out. Definitely call out the facts. āAre you trying to look precise, maga?ā If you had precise info, why not share it? Zero.
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These people are always revealing how their own moral compass works. Like the way they think someone would want to live in ramshackle conditions on govāt disability assistance if it means they donāt have to go work for someone. They can NEVER imagine being anyone but themselves, really.
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ā¦I mention this because it is important to know that while this legal status stands, workers, not just shareholders have rights. Companies also abuse 1099 status incl having staff report to a 1099-paid person acting as if employee, which would in fact make that manager a statutory employee.
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And corps are āpeopleā only in a certain legal responsibility sense per USSC in 1800s (and no, they did not opine on equal protection). This means they can be sued and officers and boards held liable, even criminally - and serve time. And if payroll missed, you can go after board members own $! š
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Followed you back! Just looked at bio. My husband used to volunteer to drive doctors to airport in NY from Philly for Doctors Without Borders when he was in government. I credit him for being able to do that before dawn. š„²
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Good morning to you, too!
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Hi! š I love āon this day!ā In honor of the Bartholdiās Statue of Liberty and mourning what it represents, hereās a painting I did end of election week. [I have an art acct here too. See bio for it. I guess I should update my bio for more than my time in non-profit econ dev vc seed investing tho!]
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Itās hegemony on steroids.
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Yep. Was it the Denial stage of grief or something? Or did Dems believe Trump when he claimed to know nothing of this far right radical Project 2025? Did Dems also think Trump himself could not be used by those more nefarious? Malignant narcissists can always be played like a puppet for supply.