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mention of religion/politics 

The annual “waaah Starbucks isn’t pushing my religion because clearly 2 millennia of genocidal hegemony isn’t enough.”

I always thought the simplest Starbucks holiday cup design would be making it a Santa as shown at left.

At right is my proposed design to mollify conservatives.
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work vent, late capitalism 

"Morale is a low because we're not winning [financially]."

No, morale is low because you keep laying people off, we're on our 3rd CEO in a year, you cancelled our budgets for active projects without offering alternate options, cut benefits for domestic partners, and banned travel for remote employees.

That's why morale is low. You could have absorbed the financial losses without hurting your workforce so much, but you didn't. That's on you, not "the market." 🖕

"Drone #0391: Your front facing cranial display is exhibiting what appears to be numerous artifacts. Are you overheating?"

"Your concern is valued but misplaced, Drone #2093. I am functioning within parameters. I simply have 'Resting Glitch Face'."

A friend of mine just asked how my day was going, and my response was

"Like a clown car on fire barreling out of control towards a fireworks factory"

That mental image has just dramatically improved my day. XD

*honk-a honk-a AWOOGA*

SPECIAL DELIVERY!!!

Transphobia, deadnaming, emergency, 

HEY! If anyone has /any/ LGBTQ legal contacts in California PLEASE MESSAGE ME. A trans woman is about to be cremated in a suit, under her dead name, contrary to her own wishes. Three hours, best thing we can get is an injunction. PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST

#meta #tea: Remember, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, that machine that "invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea"?

Only decades after reading that, in an office in another country, did I first meet an older British "tea" machine. It could, in theory, produce chocolate, coffee, or tea; but invariably delivered a cupful of brown liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike any of them.

And I said, "Oh THAT'S what he meant."

Fascism in the Workplace 

My company's InfoSec group just put this MOTD in place for all users SSHing into our private internal dev server.

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What possible benefit could result from this blatant fascist scare tactic? I just can't understand why companies so frequently treat their employees like criminals.

These sorts of messages are effectively microaggressions against those most negatively affected by late stage capitalism. They hurt the soul in a similar way.

Anarchists: So most of the work force fucked off to fight WWII and we still fed and clothed everyone and made bombs and boats and planes... Then they came back and we still think 8 hours is necessary?

Me: *mind blown*

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