Second interview went well, I think. It was entirely โcompetencyโ questions( like explaining an exceptional customer service experience and describing how you handled a change at work. I didnโt fumble around for words, I stayed on the question, andโฆI boasted a little about having to politely decline tips.
The other candidate in the interview is a law student who wants to work for corporate. He was late, he said, because of wi-fi problems, but that felt kind ofโฆodd. Like, he didnโt think to do the video call on his phone, so he would rather be late? I was sitting there burning through cellular dataโฆ
Iโm hoping that I was able to demonstrate what I can do. Got to talk about being unpaid tech support, training people, and understanding customer service.
The interviewer said we should look to being contacted next week, but last week I got emailed the day after, so who knows?
Gutfeld is right. I remember the proper respect, obeisance, and deference his party of rage trolls paid to Obama (and Biden) when they were president, by sheer virtue of the office. Right? Right?
For example, in 2015 Tom Cotton and other asshat Republicans would have NEVER undermined a sitting president and drafted an open letter to Iran publicly dismissing a carefully curated nuclear deal, endangering American foreign policy and fragile negotiations in the process. The very thought! But go ahead, Gutfeld! Clutch your pearls while you tell us about Americans abroad talking righteously correct shit about our deluded, dumbass, dangerous president. The nerve of them! Will no one think of the children?!
When I worked in radio there were 3 stations in the one building. One was right wing talk radio and that was the studio I used for production. Sometimes I would hear the shit that Rush Limpig would say before I turned the sound down. This was when Bush 2 was president and Limpig was saying you have to show respect to the office of president no matter who is in the office. Now let's see who came after Bush 2 and how did Limpig show respect for the office? Nope, can't remember that at all.
It had already occurred to me, seemed obvious in fact, that this type of gambling would be easy for people in the know to manipulate. And today I learned that Donald Trump Jr. is an "advisor" for the two top companies offering this "trading," Kalshi and Polymarket.
It would be so funny if some enterprising and wily journalist who can get the opportunity to ask Mad Lord Yam:
"Mr. President, sir, you have named USAID, (+ name others he's blahed about)as frauds and scams. You've told us how much money these scams have costs the US tax payer. Would you, sir, say that you are THE UTMOST EXPERT on frauds and scams that hurt the American people?"
Sit back and watch him riff on 4-ever about how he is the world's greatest Know Everything about frauds and scams and get all tangled up in it and perhaps blurt out something incredibly stupid and damning. Like mixing up US taxpayers and his personal banking.
Oh...maybe someone could rig this and make it a bet on Polymarket!!!
Advisor to Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf says Trumpโs ceasefire extension โmakes no sense,โ calling it an attempt to buy time for a surprise attack and claiming Iran โcurrently holds the initiativeโ as tensions escalate.
And that statement could not be any more Republican! The opposition party used to actually work with the party in power to achieve good things for the country. There used to be compromise and the party in power would get most of what they wanted and the opposition party would get something for not acting like petulant children.
But Newt came along while Clinton was president and changed all that. The opposition party became the party of obstruction and destruction. And now we're stuck in a spiral where literally EVERY issue gets politicized in order to set up a binary where we can simply oppose one another.
I was going through some boxes last night, looking for shit to sell on Etsy, and I found this. Iโd forgotten about it completely; it seems like another century.
There used to be a weekly alternative rag here called the โTwin Cities Reader.โ It was the slightly snootier alternative to the slightly grittier (I mean: Minnesota, cโmon) City Pages.
The Reader voted me one of the ten best dressed men in the Twin Cities; maybe 1984/85, somewhere around then.
I was the only one of ten not photographed wearing a suit, except a photographer who wore suspenders and bow ties religiously. I still have the cardigan in my attic somewhere. I wish I had the shirt; it was Inwear/Matinique and I wore it until it disintegrated. I loved the asymmetrical hem, had it in black, too.
Hell, the Chicks (nee Dixie) lost millions for criticizing W.
It's only bad when it's a Republican president.
Fucking 5th Circuit, man...
๐ฑ๐๐ต ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ผ๐๐ ๐ง๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐พ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ง๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฐ๐น๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ผ๐บ๐
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ต๐ด ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐น๐ข๐ด ๐ญ๐ข๐ธ ๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ต๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ค๐ฉ๐ถ๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฆ.
https://wapo.st/4tZhz4u
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Is there any thing hayseed fundies won't fucking wreck?
Okay, I'm done fucking around: When does WWIII start? I have lines of credit that need maxing out.
Yeah, let's see the repo man take shit back now!
Iโm waiting for the hyperinflation when weโll need a wheelbarrow of cash to get a loaf of bread and a hunk of cheese.
Zimbabwe and Germany on line 1...
The world DID NOT need a disco cover of โDonโt Let Me Down.โ
Since I'm a huge ELO fan, I was very, very confused for a moment, since that's my default song by that name.
Blinks.
glitches.
Please tell me I didn't just read that.
It gets worse. *Larry Carlton* played guitar for the session. Must have been a big check.
Ah, Ah, Ah, Don't Let Me Down.
I'm outta here.
Ernest Wilson - Why oh why
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M670ZhHiKQE
Link to see the vote counting on the Virginia Redistricting Referendum
https://www.vpap.org/electionresults/20260421/
The day is done, and Iโm on my way home.
Second interview went well, I think. It was entirely โcompetencyโ questions( like explaining an exceptional customer service experience and describing how you handled a change at work. I didnโt fumble around for words, I stayed on the question, andโฆI boasted a little about having to politely decline tips.
The other candidate in the interview is a law student who wants to work for corporate. He was late, he said, because of wi-fi problems, but that felt kind ofโฆodd. Like, he didnโt think to do the video call on his phone, so he would rather be late? I was sitting there burning through cellular dataโฆ
Iโm hoping that I was able to demonstrate what I can do. Got to talk about being unpaid tech support, training people, and understanding customer service.
The interviewer said we should look to being contacted next week, but last week I got emailed the day after, so who knows?
๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค
Ya got this, I think.
Gutfeld is right. I remember the proper respect, obeisance, and deference his party of rage trolls paid to Obama (and Biden) when they were president, by sheer virtue of the office. Right? Right?
For example, in 2015 Tom Cotton and other asshat Republicans would have NEVER undermined a sitting president and drafted an open letter to Iran publicly dismissing a carefully curated nuclear deal, endangering American foreign policy and fragile negotiations in the process. The very thought! But go ahead, Gutfeld! Clutch your pearls while you tell us about Americans abroad talking righteously correct shit about our deluded, dumbass, dangerous president. The nerve of them! Will no one think of the children?!
When I worked in radio there were 3 stations in the one building. One was right wing talk radio and that was the studio I used for production. Sometimes I would hear the shit that Rush Limpig would say before I turned the sound down. This was when Bush 2 was president and Limpig was saying you have to show respect to the office of president no matter who is in the office. Now let's see who came after Bush 2 and how did Limpig show respect for the office? Nope, can't remember that at all.
John Oliver on prediction markets:
https://youtu.be/ZN4njIQcSR4?si=W4OfvtdOU834F0fW
It had already occurred to me, seemed obvious in fact, that this type of gambling would be easy for people in the know to manipulate. And today I learned that Donald Trump Jr. is an "advisor" for the two top companies offering this "trading," Kalshi and Polymarket.
The world is going to hell on a bobsled.
๐ง๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ $๐ญ๐ฏ๐ป ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐น๐ ๐๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ. ๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ด๐ผ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ผ๐ป?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/18/iran-war-bets-ethics-concerns
Iโm shocked, shocked to find out that gambling is going on here.
https://youtu.be/vxnpY0owPkA?si=-J8S3QVLoJ7JN1Yl
What is going on?
Insider trading, that's what
But think of the fortunes that will be made on the way down.
Hi.
I had a shitty day.
That is all.
I hear you, Random
Hugs.
Do you have any ice cream? Ice cream always helps.
Nope.
๐ . Sunset means the sun will rise with a new day, soon. Glad you're here.
Oh, no!
It would be so funny if some enterprising and wily journalist who can get the opportunity to ask Mad Lord Yam:
"Mr. President, sir, you have named USAID, (+ name others he's blahed about)as frauds and scams. You've told us how much money these scams have costs the US tax payer. Would you, sir, say that you are THE UTMOST EXPERT on frauds and scams that hurt the American people?"
Sit back and watch him riff on 4-ever about how he is the world's greatest Know Everything about frauds and scams and get all tangled up in it and perhaps blurt out something incredibly stupid and damning. Like mixing up US taxpayers and his personal banking.
Oh...maybe someone could rig this and make it a bet on Polymarket!!!
The world really has gone mad.
Meanwhile his failsons run a gigantic crypto scam ...
I hear Jr has a seat on the Polymarket board as well as that drone company
:-/
It's hard to count the felonies
Nx10?
enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV4dnRjhXqc
Pretty much
Failsons reply โI learned by watching you!โ
https://youtu.be/KUXb7do9C-w?si=R5ttDB1sfvM8z7LJ
๐๐ข๐ญ ๐๐๐๐ค ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ญ๐๐ก ๐ก๐ข๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐-๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ก๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐'๐ฌ ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐๐ญ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ข๐ง ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ญ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ข๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ .
Well, that would be most ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ day.
If you want to hear his "strategy" - here's another banger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV4dnRjhXqc
"makes no sense"
Thanks, Iranian Advisor guy, we're well aware of this concept on a daily basis.
MeidasTouchโฌ
โช@meidastouch.comโฌ
ยท 2h
Advisor to Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf says Trumpโs ceasefire extension โmakes no sense,โ calling it an attempt to buy time for a surprise attack and claiming Iran โcurrently holds the initiativeโ as tensions escalate.
"Now I will defend Democrats because they are the opposition party, and you really only have one role: opposition."
Fuck off Greg, the Democratic Party doesn't need defending. I see you, you're pretending to defend them to convince people that they need defending.
The rules he's saying the Democratic Party is breaking by the way is Murc's law.
Except trump has broken those rules more times than I can count.
He's a republican. It's impossible for them to break Murc's law.
And that statement could not be any more Republican! The opposition party used to actually work with the party in power to achieve good things for the country. There used to be compromise and the party in power would get most of what they wanted and the opposition party would get something for not acting like petulant children.
But Newt came along while Clinton was president and changed all that. The opposition party became the party of obstruction and destruction. And now we're stuck in a spiral where literally EVERY issue gets politicized in order to set up a binary where we can simply oppose one another.
I was going through some boxes last night, looking for shit to sell on Etsy, and I found this. Iโd forgotten about it completely; it seems like another century.
There used to be a weekly alternative rag here called the โTwin Cities Reader.โ It was the slightly snootier alternative to the slightly grittier (I mean: Minnesota, cโmon) City Pages.
The Reader voted me one of the ten best dressed men in the Twin Cities; maybe 1984/85, somewhere around then.
I was the only one of ten not photographed wearing a suit, except a photographer who wore suspenders and bow ties religiously. I still have the cardigan in my attic somewhere. I wish I had the shirt; it was Inwear/Matinique and I wore it until it disintegrated. I loved the asymmetrical hem, had it in black, too.
https://substack.com/@oppositeofoligarch/note/c-247132876?r=1y1t5s&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
Aren't you cute!
What a cutie!!
So "maverick-y" to wear high pants then!
You were ahead of your time!
pot simmering.
it smells divine.
(this is the worst part for me, having to just sit here and wait for the good smells to turn into dinner)
Just don't let it burn. Like last time.
I'm finally getting to terms with the cooking gear and the stove now- so far so good.
An Elon Musk company being a bad actor? Bring me my fainting couch.
โชRon Filipkowskiโฌ
โช@ronfilipkowski.bsky.socialโฌ
ยท 6m
Iโm shocked. www.texastribune.org/2026/04/21/t...
https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3mk24mm2hvk23
guessing tesla again.
i was technically correct, but it weren't a rogue robotaxi gone kill crazy like i thought.
From the Legos No Lies Detected Division
The Oil Shock Is Coming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZbBjmDwHJQ
Donald's Attempted but Failed Iranian Uranium Heist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3wuhAxJYGs