Douglas Moran
@dougom
Unpublished author; technical writer; web site finagler; auto-didact: computer nerd; Lindy Hopper; D&D player. Full-on progressive. Jewish (despite surname). Pop culture references for all occasions.
Off topic but: I use Linus as my icon in a lot of places, including at work:
Humana made a *profit* of $1.18 *billion* in 2025. This is for a senior role. Don’t tell me companies are deliberately depressing salaries; they could easily pay more for a senior position.
@digby56.bsky.social I am often reminded of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince. He had to watch out for baobab saplings or his asteroid could be destroyed. Pelosi refused to begin impeachment proceedings against the sapling that was Bush II. Trump is the full-grown baobab.
@briankarem.bsky.social This will be, what, the 13th election in a row for which that is true? I’m pretty tired, Brian.
And what has 26 years of limp, Rockefeller-Republican incrementalism bought us? We lost all three branches of government, Michelle. Harris is a former prosecutor. Booker defended VCs during the 2012 elections. It’s easy to view their support for progressives as expedient. Enough already.
@andizeisler.bsky.social That sound you hear is 65 million GenXers rolling their eyes.
I’m looking forward to a time when doctors wave salt shaker-like objects over your body while you lay comfortably on a diagnostic table à la Star Trek, but not secretly while I’m soaking in a hot tub, thanks.
To review: Use AI to write your resume, then use AI to find jobs & submit your AI-written resume to companies for AI filtering for a job creating AI models. Soon your department is laid off except for one 20-something programmer who has only ever vibe-coded using AI. Did I get that right?
My cat sleep with me. Eats with me. Demands attention while I work. Demands to be held like a baby in the evenings when I’m watching TV or films. *Goes to the bathroom when I do*. I have a neurotic cat.
❤️🖖 T’Lyn is, no kidding, my favorite Vulcan since Nimoy’s Spock. Gabrielle Ruiz really nails the voice. (Tho I do quite like both Mark Lenard and Ben Cross’ Sarek.)
What I find simultaneously hilarious and frightening about this is: It’s *the rich*, the 1%, the people who *already* hold power, who are and have been “me first” for the last 45 years. They have been sucking the country (& the world) dry, and they don’t want to stop.
@andizeisler.bsky.social This is what I’ve always wondered about religious proselytizing.
It looks like something out of Subconscious Comics by Tim Eagan. www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...
This reminds me so much of the Soviet Union and Kremlinology in the late 1980s.
“Normal” and “cat” do not belong in a sentence together. Every day, Alfred climbs on my shoulder and demands to be held like a baby and stroked. He also won’t eat until I do.
@andrewohehir.bsky.social I called the Irish immigration office to ask if my dad’s dual citizenship gave me a leg up. (It doesn’t.) I also researched the Canadian immigration & naturalization laws & spoke to a Canadian immigration officer. My bff (since we were 9) emigrated to London.
They want to put AI in charge of everything and it can't handle a simple "how do I track my job application?" requisition. Indeed, it contradicts itself. Well done, Google! So much for "doing no evil"! This was the exact sequence. So much for "be careful of your inputs". 🙄
What a whiny little bitch. And further proof that if you punch back at a bully, he folds.