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Out of work tech worker jaded by the industry. I mostly lurk, except for when I don't. Leftist; Progressive⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️; Father to late teen and twenty-somethings; Cat 😻 and Dog 🐕‍🦺 lover; Pittie ❤️ ; Musician 🎹🎸; Author📖. DMs disabled
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Where is our humanity?

submitted 6 days ago • 1839 comments

This is what I see when I try to use IRS Direct File. I can't even login to begin the process after confirming eligibility. I've been trying for three days. Three hours on the phone and still no human that can help... #DOGEruinedIT #IRS #DirectFile

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Drumph's "light" 1st amendment violations successfully intimidated a law firm into letting him choose their clients, among other stupid capitulations from people who should know better.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Both of the largest for-profit prison systems (CoreCivic and GEO Group) were howling with glee as the felon in chief took the popular vote. The previous admin had been winding down their use, but 45 is all about cruelty and redirecting public funds into private pockets, so here we are.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Its a good thing we can all fall back on Social Security if our 401k loses all value. Right? RIGHT?!? #noMore401k #linegodown

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Usually quick sand physics -- the more you flail about, the deeper you sink -- affects the one flailing, but now we have effects being felt by everyone but. #noMore401k

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 38 days ago • 1571 comments

Maybe I'm late in wondering, but what if alienating our neighbors (who happen to supply a lot of fossil fuel to us) is a strategic move to open up pristine preserves for extraction? "We have to! Look at fuel prices!"

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

As I sit down to file my taxes for free, and it occurs to me that this is another program that benefits the public, so likely to be removed in favor of for-profit companies continually complicating the US tax code and forcing everyone to pay to meet a legal obligation. Prove me wrong, King Trump.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

With all this uncertainty and constant shocking news, it's nice to see that not everyone is depressed. Find happiness where you can. #catsofBluesky #lapcat #simplepleasures

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Is it defeating to think, "just add the environment to the bonfire they're burning"?

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

This is so stupidly offensive. It's not just the obvious wink wink nod nod of renaming forts after *literal traitors*, it's the pretending he's not doing that, while knowing everyone knows he is. Thinks he's being clever, but is too stupid to know he just looks like a dipshit.

submitted 40 days ago • 65 comments

Yep.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Just... Woah. I know I shouldn't be surprised that even units dedicated to improving efficiency are being gutted by the :checksnotes: Dept of Gov't Efficiency. Damn this timeline.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

America is not the greatest country in the world. 12+ years old and still completely apropos (minus the statistical drift, of course).

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Watch Kevin O'Leary get schooled. He's just another Trump/Musk talking head. He's lost all credibility.

submitted 45 days ago • 16 comments

Trump jokingly posted “long live the king”—the king being himself. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social doesn’t think he’s kidding. “Trump’s view of his presidential power is pretty much indistinguishable from absolute monarchy...” www.prospectmagazine...

submitted 45 days ago • 11 comments

I've been taking a much-needed break from social media and the news to gave my anxiety time to decrease, but wanred to share after I found this apropos bit of history:

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Returned after leaving the USA for a few years, and this is inescapable. Employers want you to worship them and secure mite to then than your family gets.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

"What we're seeing from the Trump administration is they are moving so fast, and they're trying to do so much with so little reasoning, and they're trying to disrupt as much as possible, as fast as possible, that these actions are inherently arbitrary and capricious"

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 58 days ago • 423 comments

#Noaa imposes limits on scientists, sparking concerns over global forecasts - www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... "‘Crackdown on climate’ predicted as oversight enacted over agency staffers’ email and meetings with foreign nationals" absurd and reckless

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office." www.ap.org/the-definiti...

submitted 60 days ago • 417 comments

@timcushing.bsky.social Not sure what to think, here. As a former gov't employee, I was told my employer could regulate my speech on the job and not run afoul of the 1st amendment. Was my union wrong?

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments