Sometimes when I have to answer a call from an unknown number, I’ll pick up but won’t say anything. A human will say something when they hear it stop ringing, but most bots listen for voice activity before they start their recording so they’ll just stay silent as long as you do.

Pumping room? You mean the closet with the free yummy milk?

Hanging around the chive flowers in my garden this morning and loving watching all the little bitty bugs! There was a honeybee, sure, but also lots and lots of sweat bees and parasitic wasps and butterflies and ants too.

Everything HR does is for the benefit of the company. They do not do anything to genuinely help employees. You are a replaceable cog and the moment they decide you’re not useful, you will be tossed out. Never trust them or the structures they put in place.

I was taught assembler in my second year at school

It’s kind of like construction work

With a toothpick, for a tool

~ The Eternal Flame, by Bob Kanefsky

When I was a teenager, my parents signed a permission slip to change my card from a child’s card to an unrestricted adult card because I was there so much and didn’t much care if I read “inappropriate” books. The modern persecution of libraries and censoring of content is absolutely ridiculous. It’s hard enough to get kids to look away from their phones. Now they’re not even allowed to check out a book without their parents.

They are ghosts. You just won’t find out until they return to their bodies after they’re unfrozen.

He ain’t wrong though.

I don’t have kids and I know it. When I was a kid, my parents would make us banana smoothies as a treat. It’s just banana, milk, ice, and honey. They mentioned a few times that they were excited for us to turn a year old so we could have them because of the honey.