https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/12/sharing-seth-abramson-not-once-not-ever.html

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-grifters-are-coming-laura-loomer-louise-mensch-sheriff-david-clarke-all-shopping-new-books/

Statistically he would have died of natural causes or heart disease or something by then, right? He’s old as fuck and eats like shit.

Uh well that’s….something, I guess. Not great.

While I agree with the premise of the book, everyone who has met/worked with/knows Seth Abramson all day what a piece of shit grifter hack he is, so I don’t know how much confidence I have in the book overall.

I do not doubt that evidence to support this assertion exists, but Abramson is always chasing the next big thing and bitches about how no one likes him on bsky like an angsty teenager. He’s just cringe.

But I don’t. I have never played golf. I have no desire to play golf. I never played golf while working remotely…I never even thought about it.

This is insulting - not because he’s saying I’m lazy and don’t do my work, but because he thinks I would play golf.

If I wanted to be lazy and not do work while being remote, I would play video games like other civilized people. I have some self respect.

omg that is just heart wrenching. Poor little girl….I am so sorry for you and your family. <3

This is so fucked up on so many levels.

This is so awful - and the rhetoric of the Trump admin enables it.

They’ll be competing to see who can scream it louder.

I’m so sorry - that’s awful.

Thank you!

Is there a good podcast that’s kinda like the keeptrack sub that walks you through the events of the day before, what it means, what the implications are, if this has happened before somewhere else, what the outcome was, what our options going forward, and on a scale of 1 to fascist, how fucking close are we?

This is a great resource, and I hope it helps a lot of people.

My agency, and my job specifically, must be done right or people could get hurt. So things like renaming files or purposefully scheduling meeting conflicts aren’t options. I need to find specific bits of technical information to ensure a design is safe. I need to have meetings for safety reviews and make sure there isn’t anything that my group missed that could end up hurting someone.

I’m not saying these won’t be helpful to us in the future, if my agency’s current mission were to change in some way, but right now it’s the same as it was during the last administration. I will keep it in my back pocket though for when I feel it’s necessary.

Thank you!

NASA’s budget is less than 1% of the entire federal budget. We can do both.

Right? That’s like #273,836 on the list of shit to scrutinize.

Of course that fucker is from Texas.

To add more context - I’m a federal employee who has received these Fork emails -

They always come out at night, usually ~ 8-9 pm Eastern. One came out on a Sunday night. So you show up for work the next morning and that’s what’s waiting for you. I’m convinced this is done on purpose, to fuck with us.

As Vought (perfect Bond villain name, right?) said:

“Put Them In Trauma”

They literally want to traumatize us. They hate us because for decades we’ve been the only ones to tell them no. No, Elon, you can’t fuck all kinds of shit up when you launch a spaceship. No, Elon, you can’t make the stock market go haywire because you were high and tweeted something stupid. No, Elon, you can’t make a deal with the Pentagon and then run to Putin and do something completely different.

Elon does not like to be told no, but Elon can’t go 5 minutes without acting like the entitled dipshit that he is, so here we are.

And so, ~ 2.5 million civil servants - scientists, healthcare researchers, USAID, engineers, doctors, etc etc, will feel his wrath because he can’t be told no.

I took a big pay cut for this job because I valued job security over money after growing up in a household where jobs were not guaranteed and my parents struggled. Finally I got there after trying for years, and now Elon has to throw a shit fit.

But it’s not about me - I’ll be ok, but many others won’t. And we won’t get it back without a lot of work, work that I’m not sure that we, as a country, are going to be willing to do. The brain drain and decades of knowledge capture will be lost forever. And that’s by design - now we can all go work for contractors with fewer benefits and no job security and help Elon to make even more money.

One of the Fork emails taunted us by saying that we should be happy to leave our low productivity jobs in government so that we could go work high productivity jobs in the private sector. (So funny!) I know that’s bullshit, but also I’m old enough to not let 4chan incels trigger me that easily.

I do worry about my younger/newer coworkers though, whose heads are spinning. So, I try to help them. I’m educating them about the union and hopefully giving them the tools to get through this and deal with what comes after in the best way possible, whatever that may be.

So the next time you have to go to some annoying government place with a long line and you’re tired and hungry and frustrated, please try to remember that whoever you end up coming face to face with may have just gotten another email trolling them and telling them what a piece of shit they are and they should resign from their jobs. Just give them some grace. Be kind.

Right-wing commentators Eric Daugherty and Benny Johnson took their criticism to the extreme, describing the performance as “Black nationalist" and calling Lamar a “mumbling pagan Satanic cultist”.

This would only make me want to see it if I hadn’t already lol

Very true and annoyed at myself for forgetting. Thanks for reminding me.

Truly is a great word. Need to use it more.