Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

VFX workers at Marvel are unionizing: https://www.vulture.com/2023/08/vfx-workers-vote-to-unionize-at-marvel-for-the-first-time.html

Ohio! If you haven’t voted yet, tomorrow is the big day. The GOP is trying to rig the system with Issue 1. Vote it down.

A broken clock fixed by taping a working clock over it is a metaphor for every codebase you’ll encounter in your professional career as a software developer.

Internet Archive is having a power/network issue at one of its datacenters, so we're taking a big ol' nap. People are on it.

This is HUGE.

"The National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that employers can no longer demand laid-off employees avoid publicly disparaging the company as part of their severance agreements, nor can they stop affected employees from disclosing the terms of their exit packages. Doing so, the federal agency determined, would be a violation of the laid-off employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7a7x/companies-cant-ask-you-to-shut-up-to-receive-severance-nlrb-rules

It's science, not Santa Claus.

we weren't meant to have to go to work. life is meant to be spent with the bestie

Me: *sees the time is 3:14* hey, it's Pi-o'clock

🤔 wait, 14 minutes isn't 0.14159 of an hour 🤔
*goes to fetch Soviet-era circular slide rule because why not*

Me: ok so 3:08 would actually be Pi-o'clock, time to post this to the one server on the internet where people might care

Seriously, call your Senators now. This needs to be stopped before it goes any further. They want to drive LGBTQIA+ off the internet entirely, and Democrats are on board.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/25/influencers-starting-to-realize-how-the-kids-online-safety-act-kosa-will-do-real-damage/

If you tell me you’re an alpha I’m going to assume you mean like the radiation: incredibly weak, struggles to achieve penetration, but when it does it causes incredible amounts of long term damage.

Looking for an #LGBTQ friendly salon in #MetroDetroit. Does anyone have any suggestions?

#StarTrek

ASMR, named after the late, great actor Ed ASMR,

Apropos of nothing, here's a video that always cheers me up

https://youtu.be/geJDGYv0duo