Notices by Weird Socks (ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us)

I had coffee with a former intern.
I told them I will continue to look for positions that seem like a good match for their career.
I also told them I think they should put effort into moving their career out of the US. It was the bumpiest part of the conversation. I'm hoping to get better at it.

Rally against #ICEabduction tomorrow evening 5:30 PM
NW Detention Center in Tacoma
#ICE #resist #DirectAction #Rally

Please boost!

@blogdiva
Honestly, I just assumed you knew.
You know everything 😀!!
I'm so glad you've also discovered Myrna Loy. ("What's that man doing in my drawers?")

My brother said The Thin Man is the only movie that got him drunk just watching it.

@blogdiva
My professor said all the drinking was a reaction to the Hays Code.
Hollywood was trying to figure out how to still make things spicy after having just lost most of the tricks in the bag.

The #REI #union is asking members to vote in the board election that opened up today. They are asking members to vote to withhold.

Please boost! I have this guess that REI members are a fair slice of who is here on Mastodon.

https://vote.escvote.com/REI/

(Edited to fix link)
#unions

@zakalwe @flexghost @Lana

I'm at my parents'.
They receive a paper copy of the New York Times.
I could not possibly know, reading what's here, that the US' federal agencies are being deliberately destroyed, that the VP is catering to Putin, or any of the things that are actually important right now.

@alissaazar
The organizers seemed really new and like they were learning on the fly very quickly. I'm waiting to hear how Olympia went.
I hope the success today means there are now some newly minted organizers ready to move to the next thing (and with maybe more communication explaining things like, e.g., here's what you do when somebody in the crowd starts hurling rocks or when the Brown Shirts attack.)

@Andres4NY @seabikeblog
Nope. That prize goes to Dianne Freaking Feinstein. Now and then and forever.

@mekkaokereke
Just in case you don't know about the Black WW2 combat pilots Mekka is referring to:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Airmen ...

@mekkaokereke
Indeed! You mentioned that before and if caught my attention.
I'm curious how much (miles, minutes per day or week).

I'm leaning into more walking going forward.

@mekkaokereke
I've been meaning to ask.
How much walking do you do as your cardio routine?

@Meron @ZekuZelalem
I apologize if I'm intruding.
Just so I'm sure I'm not misunderstanding, you all are talking about a third person who is not associated with this article, right?

@ZekuZelalem

@Meron looks awesome but the account hasn't posted anything since 2023...

@ditol @ZekuZelalem @Meron
Thank you. I keep forgetting to do that.

@jonah
Also, I'm now glad I chose Fastmail. I'm sure their executives are just as awful but their work force is in a #union.

@inthehands @mattmcirvin @futurebird @graymiller
Fricking Nostradumus going on right here...
As soon as I read it, it's obvious that's what's going to happen.

@EricFielding
Awesome! Well, if Kyle Macdonald still works there, tell him an anonymous hydrologic modeling grad student from 20 years ago said hi.
I thought back then about changing my whole life just so I could work there.
I'm glad JPL made it through the fire.

@EricFielding
Do you work there?

@EricFielding
I ask because I briefly worked with somebody there 20 years ago.

@ErickaSimone
I've been trying to tell if the fire got to JPL. I see it's in the evacuation zone but it looked like the fire was pretty far west and was moving south not west.

I didn't know about Octavia Butler's house. I live in the #seattle area so I mainly know about her life up here.