Not an invitation to cocoon yourself in a self-care bubble for four years, but a reminder to the 24/7 worriers that you can literally write “To Do on Monday: Worry about ________” on a post-it note and stop worrying about it for one day while you recharge.
Another point: Both your mental health and your ability to resist will be improved by finding a community. A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved. And apes together strong.
A White House official says Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency, after the White House struggled to answer who is technically at the top of the organizational chart.
Gleason declined to comment on her appoint as acting DOGE administrator. Gleason’s LinkedIn lists her as a U.S. Digital Services senior adviser, and she has a background in consulting and the medical field.
When CBS News spoke to Gleason Tuesday morning ahead of her announcement as DOGE acting administrator, she said she was in Mexico and declined to comment further.
I keep seeing the leather/pleather vs denim jacket poll over and over again with all different sorts of discourse about how there is no plastic-free pleather and like, that’s TRUE, there isn’t, but honestly I DO think people who don’t want to use animal products* also deserve to look cool
and so my suggestion is that y’all google “waxed cotton jacket” or “waxed canvas jacket” plus like, “motorcycle” or whatever style you think is cool, because there’s a plastic free leather-look material that is strong and durable and waterproof and doesn’t use animal products** AND is plastic free already out there and some of the clothes that you can get made out of it look sick as hell.
*ignoring the fact that most leather is meat by-product that would be going to waste anyway
**except beeswax but if you’re going to object to that then honestly there’s no helping you
waxed cotton looks so good and wears-in to a gorgeous patina and when it loses its finish you can re-wax it and that just makes it look even better and more patinaed instead of flaking off in horrible bits of microplastic leaving you with a ruined piece of clothing
I’ve just gotten an email from a new “self-publishing platform” called Written (written.app), which is making suspiciously extravagant promises about the benefits they offer to authors.
After further research, this is just “upload your book with us and we’ll make it an NFT :)”
There is a “thesis” that you can read right on their website if you’re interested in looking for yourself at the business model of their grift, but if you’d like to save yourself the trouble, I’ve pulled out some of the highlights of the receipts over on Bluesky.
TLDR: I would not touch this platform with a ten-foot-pole. This is not a book-selling platform, this is a Coincidentally Book-Themed NFT Platform.
Oh hey, it’s this shit again. It feels like every few months there’s a new app promising better royalties to indies and it turns out to be some king of NFT grift.
Also that thesis is bonkers. The hell are they dragging Ao3 into it for?
An actual “doge” was an oligarchic ruler of medieval Venice — appointed FOR LIFE by a cabal of insiders, totally unaccountable to the people or anyone but a tiny group of fellow super-wealthy elites.
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