Notices by Jonobie (jonobie@social.coop), page 2

@mdm

And in Washington, we all - without doing a thing - get ballots mailed to us. Every election. With a guide. And it’s free to mail back. Boggles my mind that this isn’t everywhere in the US. I get to vote over my morning coffee (or several mornings!) while arguing positions with a partner, and it’s fantastic.

@karabaic @mekkaokereke

Medical people are always taking my blood pressure and being like, “Wow, go you, it’s so low.” As if it’s a moral credit to me that the numbers are what they are.

Every time I sigh a bit - BP isn’t a moral stance, y’all - and say, “Yea, my migraine medication (propanolol) lowers BP.”

It’s a weird thing to be congratulatory about, is all I’m saying.

@liztai Me too. I think because it’s about bringing order to disorder, and that’s very soothing.

Ding, dong, noncompetes are dead: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/04/23/ftc-noncompete-agreements/

@mekkaokereke I used to follow Adam’s blog ~20 years ago and eventually got disgusted at his attitude towards women and stopped. Turns out that thing about racism, misogyny and other isms going together is true!

Also, he acts like 2k is this tiny amount as a “graduation gift” akin to a $100 stuck in a graduation card. (Likely also graduated with minimal or no loans). That would be worth about $9,060 today; not a princely sum but also not nothing.

I’m in my bedroom by myself, lunch is a little gurgly, so I pass gas.

In response, my Conway air filter loudly turns on.

RUDE.

Nowhere can you hear, so viscerally, the demonstration that humans are all on their own journey of joy or pain, as in a busy sports bar during game time.

Here, people wear their emotions on their vocal cords. #NFL

Me, except for the daily ten minute core workout. #aaptiv

Mild Gripe: When a newbie asks something, maybe don’t tell them to Google it? In the year of our lord 2023, most of us are probably aware of that tool. If we’re asking an “easily googleable” question, it’s likely because there’s something obvious to more experienced people that we just don’t know yet and maybe don’t even know we don’t know. That’s why we’re asking a person instead of a machine.

@mekkaokereke @being @iyalei “Everyone gets the same access to present to senior leadership. No one gets talked over.” When I was junior, I had a chance to present to a VP. Exciting! I was one of two women in the room! Partway through, a senior man cut me off and talked over me. The VP turned directly back to me and said three words that nearly made me cry in gratitude: “Were you done?” I was a fan of his ever after. It’s not hard to do, but people gotta NOTICE.