"Men are leaders" says Charlie Kirk, noted small face tosser.
I kinda want to just ignore that, because we've all known women in strong positions.
Quite honestly, I prefer women in exec roles. That's personal preference though. Although I've known godawful exec women. Well what a surprise. Humans are human.
Now I'm going to write a thing about leadership. I've been good at this. I've watched people try it, too.
When I do it, I have to be the best at whatever I'm doing. That's just what it is. That's not fucking enough. I have to teach everyone else what I know so they get to my level. I'm not scared of people learning. I want them to be as good as me. Shit bosses are fearful of it. I want to teach.
Another thing of leadership is that it's not telling people what to do. People ask you what to do. And you give the best answer you can. There's a lot of ambiguity in the world.
There's a politician out there who learned from me. Zie says "I learned from [fukui] that once you hit a certain point of expertise that there is no right or wrong answer. You have to work it out yourself and it's very difficult."
That I taught that? I'm pleased. Because that is how it fucking works.
"Men are leaders". My ass. Give me a Babe Paley or Let Me Sum Up any day.
People don't like to pay that much and I'm in my 50s and so I'm an old man so companies think "well you're nearly dead anyway and what the fuck do you know?" and I get rejected.
I was just thinking that I should invoke a news blackout for the day. It’s all so horribly bleak, and I have other stressful things going on right now.
...The survey captured the state of the race in early September at a moment of unusual flux. The day after polling began, The New York Times reported that President Trump and powerful figures in New York City were endeavoring to create a one-on-one contest between Mr. Cuomo, 67, and Mr. Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman and democratic socialist.
The extraordinary effort has included negotiations about Mr. Adams potentially suspending his campaign and accepting a nomination to be ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Presidential advisers have also discussed strategies to try to push Mr. Sliwa out of the race.
The Times/Siena College poll underscored the potential impact of shrinking the field. Doing so, it suggested, could meaningfully erode Mr. Mamdani’s lead, but only if both Mr. Adams and Mr. Sliwa — who have vowed to keep running — suspended their campaigns...
When I was at One Medical and later Amazon I was making more money than is sane to earn.
It wasn't finance company but I'd be getting a$75K bonus here and a $125K bonus there and another bonus and my base salary was $295K
It was a lot of money. Too much, really. I wasted a lot of it. I gave a lot to wonkette and people here. A lot to charity. One of the charities was Black Girls Code.
That's the charity I give my time to now. I do this because it tends to be young women from badly educationally served areas. Race is just ... well, race is what it is. These kids don't get proper education.
BGC is amazeballs with the level of education it gives to people. It's what the Fed education system should be like. I do it. I meet people from Google and Apple and all kinds. These are people who want underserved kids to win.
I cannot say how much I love this. I tell my friends about it and tell them to do it. Sometimes it's nuts because one of my friends says "Oh they use Scratch? I worked on that at MIT!" because I work with awesome people.
Give back. Just give back. I do this. Give back, friends.
So he's going to invade a sovereign nation that hasn't attacked us in any way, shape, or form, while at the same time, he's invading our cities. This should go well, especially since they have taken "the woke" out of the military, which means that many experts have been fired. Oh, I hear that recruitment is down across the board for the armed services.
Delusions of grandeur. stupidity, arrogance, and racism all wrapped in once ugly package!
Venezuela looks to be an easy target. It's like the biggest bully on the schoolyard taking the candy from a baby and kicking over it's pram and then stomping on it. All while pining for a Nobel Prize.
I think we might need different terms to describe French politics in English. This isn't great, obviously, but from what I'm able to understand of the French system it's kind of built for this. American and even British press, or at least their headlines, make it seem like the country's on the verge of anarchy.
The one good thing that tr*mp did in his first term was to enable Operation Warp Speed to develop Covid vaccines, but now, he has turned many Americans against the Covid vaccines. I spoke to an acquaintance yesterday, who isn't stupid, but has fallen for the "Covid vaccines are dangerous" nonsense. He's getting the flu shot, and any others recommended by his doctor, except the Covid vaccine. Sigh.
I got mine on Sunday, flu and covid. I heard the tech talking to another customer, saying she refuses to be vaccinated. Any of them. Said she trusts her immune system, sunshine, and echinacea to keep her healthy. The pharmacist jumped down her throat, politely.
The US (and the world) would be a much better place if there was a strain of COVID that was 100% lethal but with a vaccine that was 100% effective, readily available to anyone who wanted it.
I rejoice that more stooopitt Americans will croak while at the same time despair at all of the collateral damage that will be done to innocent Americans. The net result is that I'm still pissed off. You just can't win in this shithole anymore.
You've accidentally described the difference between teaching a group of people who, at least to some degree, want to be there and want to learn a thing, and your average public school classroom where the kids have already been convinced that there's nothing of value going on.
I think it's a societal problem. Our culture doesn't value education, generally, and so kids are told in hundreds of ways, some more subtle than others, that school isn't really worth the effort. By the time they get to me, they've been hearing that for fifteen years or more, and that's a huge wall of apathy to overcome. Also, because school is mandatory, kids are forced to be there, it's not their choice to do it. And I don't know that it should be, but it doesn't help many of them feel like it's something worth taking seriously.
All this reads like the first chapter of MAGA fan slash-fiction. Bessent/Pulte. First they fight then they f
My niece could slap the shit out of Bessent 🤣
Good, they're thinning the herd.
"Men are leaders" says Charlie Kirk, noted small face tosser.
I kinda want to just ignore that, because we've all known women in strong positions.
Quite honestly, I prefer women in exec roles. That's personal preference though. Although I've known godawful exec women. Well what a surprise. Humans are human.
Now I'm going to write a thing about leadership. I've been good at this. I've watched people try it, too.
When I do it, I have to be the best at whatever I'm doing. That's just what it is. That's not fucking enough. I have to teach everyone else what I know so they get to my level. I'm not scared of people learning. I want them to be as good as me. Shit bosses are fearful of it. I want to teach.
Another thing of leadership is that it's not telling people what to do. People ask you what to do. And you give the best answer you can. There's a lot of ambiguity in the world.
There's a politician out there who learned from me. Zie says "I learned from [fukui] that once you hit a certain point of expertise that there is no right or wrong answer. You have to work it out yourself and it's very difficult."
That I taught that? I'm pleased. Because that is how it fucking works.
"Men are leaders". My ass. Give me a Babe Paley or Let Me Sum Up any day.
Even Redneckistan knows what he's doing.
I'm an asshole. My lower limit for jerbs is really $250K but really fucking hell I want nearer $750K.
Because I'm an asshole.
There's a fun one though. It uses my Oxford degree. They don't want to pay $200K.
I'd ... I'd take $150K to do this. Machine learning for radiological scans? Yes. Give me equity. I would like to do this you c*nt. Yes.
You know what you're worth, that's not being an asshole.
People don't like to pay that much and I'm in my 50s and so I'm an old man so companies think "well you're nearly dead anyway and what the fuck do you know?" and I get rejected.
You can teach their younger people and they won’t have to pay you for more than a few years until you retire!
So the guy accusing everyone else of Mortgage Fraud!!!! Is himself doing Mortgage Fraud?
My shocked face
Every accusation is a confession.
When you point your finger at someone.
Simba's shocked face.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4y7O!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fmedia_upload%2Fcomment%2Ff7bcc120-1c64-4f22-851b-fc4682f4a3fd%2F35859823-12db-45c0-bcc9-cbfa26016f97.jpeg
Simba can look fancy all he likes, and he's been to the White House, but he cannot beat Li'l Feller boater
https://substack.com/@fukuisanyesota/note/c-153587699?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knplb
LF rarely removes that hat now. He was doing a Bing Crosby song and dance, cane and all a few hours ago but stopped when I grabbed the camera.
Simba is wondering when all of the stooopitt will stop.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Oy_K!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fmedia_upload%2Fcomment%2F3a0c2ba6-58e0-4957-a935-4f508cc51938%2Fb6580ada-860a-422f-851a-ae1e7e4c18ef.jpeg
I was just thinking that I should invoke a news blackout for the day. It’s all so horribly bleak, and I have other stressful things going on right now.
𝗠𝗮𝗺𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗶 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗱𝘀 𝗛𝘂𝗴𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗼𝗿’𝘀 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗲, 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀/𝗦𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀
https://substack.com/profile/157455618-wobbly/note/c-153975279?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2lqtj6
...The survey captured the state of the race in early September at a moment of unusual flux. The day after polling began, The New York Times reported that President Trump and powerful figures in New York City were endeavoring to create a one-on-one contest between Mr. Cuomo, 67, and Mr. Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman and democratic socialist.
The extraordinary effort has included negotiations about Mr. Adams potentially suspending his campaign and accepting a nomination to be ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Presidential advisers have also discussed strategies to try to push Mr. Sliwa out of the race.
The Times/Siena College poll underscored the potential impact of shrinking the field. Doing so, it suggested, could meaningfully erode Mr. Mamdani’s lead, but only if both Mr. Adams and Mr. Sliwa — who have vowed to keep running — suspended their campaigns...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/nyregion/mayor-poll-mamdani-cuomo.html
Nothing says Democratic representative like being backed by the Republican President.
Lol, look Trump offering Adams the Ambassadorship of Saudi Arabia to drop out XD
Did they seriously think Adams voters would break for Trump ... er I mean ... no that's what I mean.
The antiDotard.
I'm going to write a thing.
When I was at One Medical and later Amazon I was making more money than is sane to earn.
It wasn't finance company but I'd be getting a$75K bonus here and a $125K bonus there and another bonus and my base salary was $295K
It was a lot of money. Too much, really. I wasted a lot of it. I gave a lot to wonkette and people here. A lot to charity. One of the charities was Black Girls Code.
That's the charity I give my time to now. I do this because it tends to be young women from badly educationally served areas. Race is just ... well, race is what it is. These kids don't get proper education.
BGC is amazeballs with the level of education it gives to people. It's what the Fed education system should be like. I do it. I meet people from Google and Apple and all kinds. These are people who want underserved kids to win.
I cannot say how much I love this. I tell my friends about it and tell them to do it. Sometimes it's nuts because one of my friends says "Oh they use Scratch? I worked on that at MIT!" because I work with awesome people.
Give back. Just give back. I do this. Give back, friends.
Props to Daniel who gives back in Italy.
Nobel Peace Prize seeking Moron In Chief is prepping for a ground war in Venezuela.
Idiocracy was a tepid Hallmark romance compared to our current shitshow.
How can you create peace if there's no war to stop?
I don't think one receives peace prizes for blowing random boats out of international waters.
Or stabbing innocent fishermen in the lungs so that they sink
But this was the first he heard of that, so it doesn't count!
Not just Venezuela. I truly believe he's itching to start another world war.
With us as the bad guys this time.
I did not have “watching the world disintegrate” on my old-age Bingo card.
So he's going to invade a sovereign nation that hasn't attacked us in any way, shape, or form, while at the same time, he's invading our cities. This should go well, especially since they have taken "the woke" out of the military, which means that many experts have been fired. Oh, I hear that recruitment is down across the board for the armed services.
Delusions of grandeur. stupidity, arrogance, and racism all wrapped in once ugly package!
That Nobel Peace Prize is IN THE FUCKING BAG!
Waiting for the garbage man to collect it.
Or to toss the bag in the bathtub and drown it.
Venezuela looks to be an easy target. It's like the biggest bully on the schoolyard taking the candy from a baby and kicking over it's pram and then stomping on it. All while pining for a Nobel Prize.
𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘧𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 - 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵'𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮.
𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗣𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2dnxxekyezo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
I think we might need different terms to describe French politics in English. This isn't great, obviously, but from what I'm able to understand of the French system it's kind of built for this. American and even British press, or at least their headlines, make it seem like the country's on the verge of anarchy.
That's what my eldest was saying last night. The government in Paris collapsed!!! He said.
I said...no it didn't. It's France. That is how they roll
Everybody's going on strike tomorrow, too.
Too bad the Bastille was torn down. France needs it more than ever.
The one good thing that tr*mp did in his first term was to enable Operation Warp Speed to develop Covid vaccines, but now, he has turned many Americans against the Covid vaccines. I spoke to an acquaintance yesterday, who isn't stupid, but has fallen for the "Covid vaccines are dangerous" nonsense. He's getting the flu shot, and any others recommended by his doctor, except the Covid vaccine. Sigh.
I got mine on Sunday, flu and covid. I heard the tech talking to another customer, saying she refuses to be vaccinated. Any of them. Said she trusts her immune system, sunshine, and echinacea to keep her healthy. The pharmacist jumped down her throat, politely.
The US (and the world) would be a much better place if there was a strain of COVID that was 100% lethal but with a vaccine that was 100% effective, readily available to anyone who wanted it.
I rejoice that more stooopitt Americans will croak while at the same time despair at all of the collateral damage that will be done to innocent Americans. The net result is that I'm still pissed off. You just can't win in this shithole anymore.
Well, we still have tacos. So there's that.
Until RFKJ proclaims that tacos cause autism.
That would probably *increase* sales ... RFKook is the best advertisement for vaccination.
There will be an autism truck on every street corner!!111```
Well, somebody needs an ass beating.
Start with the magachuds who voted for Trump.
A bunch of somebodies - everyone in the maladministration, but we can start with that smug asshole, Bessent.
Oh ... I vote for Miller and Vought to be first in line.
Yes, Miller #1
You think teachers are crap?
Listen, bitches.
I just got given this.
https://www.prodigygame.com/main-en/blog/active-learning-strategies-examples
and I'm just a volunteer. Not a proper teacher.
Will that be on the test?
Fuck yeah.
There are things I take more seriously than others. I'll do SOC 2 meetings wearing a dress and a fucking unicorn tiara.
When I'm teaching young women, I take that far more seriously than even SEC meetings.
I probably have that backwards, but that's how I treat it.
I'm not joking about this. When you teach young kids, every single word you say is ingested. You are the "person who knows"
Fuck, doing Sarbanes Oxley with PwC, who fucking cares. Just get it done.
Teaching kids how to code. That is important.
You've accidentally described the difference between teaching a group of people who, at least to some degree, want to be there and want to learn a thing, and your average public school classroom where the kids have already been convinced that there's nothing of value going on.
That's not just kids. That's leadership.
I think it's a societal problem. Our culture doesn't value education, generally, and so kids are told in hundreds of ways, some more subtle than others, that school isn't really worth the effort. By the time they get to me, they've been hearing that for fifteen years or more, and that's a huge wall of apathy to overcome. Also, because school is mandatory, kids are forced to be there, it's not their choice to do it. And I don't know that it should be, but it doesn't help many of them feel like it's something worth taking seriously.
Well, time to really get back into routine. So, walkies.
Just a repost because it's too funny ...
https://bsky.app/profile/zohrankmamdani.bsky.social/post/3lyech7chqs2q
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
Dear husband Meccalopolis played that for me last night. We were both amused and pleased.