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She laughed out loud at the joke, and all saw her fangs.
"Are you some kind of monster?" another pupil said, smiling widely. "I thought I was the only one!"
One by one, the kids revealed hidden horns, tails, claws, and fangs. All but one.
"Are you normal?"
"No, I think you are."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

When you look and sound so bad in a zoom call your boss and team members are like "Fuck, go back to bed and get some rest." Day 2 of Covid Vaccine. D:

Stage 1 of Covid Vaccine completed (Pzifer).

It has been an hour and some change.. and my body is already getting unhappy. All my usual unhappy joint and tendon spots are already getting achy and fucking hell fatigue D:

Exhausted after 4 hours of back to back meetings because I don't know... people are assholes...

Then every single thing I needed to do today requires logging into Azure.. Azure Auth Services have been down for 2 hours....

Maybe I'll just take a fucking nap.

@fluxom_alt @kat I've just realized how much I need like _one_ episode of some anime with a wasted mecha slurring words while trying to pick a fight with a kaiju

Work grumbling 

So for those you that don't know, my team fell apart, everyone left but me and the same thing happened to the other major k8s project team, leaving 1 contractor and 1 junior SRE from a team of 8 (vs my team of 4).

So we hired a new Senior SRE.. h2b'ed of course, don't have an opinion of him yet beyond he really loves spending a lot of time trying to find ways to track work completed when we have a bunch of other problems.. namely trying to glue together the remains of two Ops teams (I mean.. me and 1 other guy who respectively don't know anything about the other project) while having a quarter the staffing (12 people down to 4 for the two super critical products to the future of the company.

So.. now I'm the odd person out because I'm on the west coast. They are all on the east coast.

I'm not a morning person and I never have been. When I got assigned to this team's manager I made it very clear that I basically don't function before 9am and generally my best work happens after 1pm.

Aka after they have all gone home.

So we kept my old team's standup times and that spared me having to get up super early aside from Mondays for a meeting with engineering in the UK.

Now they would like me to try being available earlier... and not so jokingly suggest I should pick up my shit and move to Ann Arbor.. because well.. 2 other SREs on different teams did that! Moved from CA to MI.

As if uh that was like a thing I would -ever- want to do. Then jokingly mentioned, well we have an office in ATL... like fuck guys I left GA for fucking reason!

As much as I HATE ON AZURE and I do a lot.. I know it pretty well and this our only Azure team (in fact we are now team AzureOps because none of them have any fucking creativity at all).

My boss offered to transition me to a West Coast team when the merge started but both West Coast SRE teams are not -product- teams they are service teams, once is all physical hardware (NOPE) and the other is our logging and metrics team which an ELK stack thing in AWS and like I haven't done shit in AWS for.. uhhhhh.. 20 months.

I barely scratched learning it before being assigned to k8s in Azure Project..

Anyway.. I kinda lost the point of this beyond.. WHY SO DIFFICULT.. work stuff.

Shark lady looking at a holographic depiction of a synth version of herself 

@fluxom_art
"look at yourself.
now back to your better self.
now back at yourself.
now back to your better self.

sadly you aren't them, but if you stopped dragging your feet and scheduled that consultation you've been thinking about, you could be."

why do I feel like it's inescapable that future ads will resurrect that meme

When she came of age, she got the usual gifts. Good shoes, to take her anywhere.
Threads and needles, to mend what was torn.
A sword, to defend and punish.
Then the last thing, which wasn't a gift.
"What will you do?" they asked.
"What I want," she said.
The last thing was taken.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Would like to turn off some body functions today.. plz.

Like fuck. Feel like I've been chasing basic needs all day and it sucks.

stonks pol 

I appreciate how much this is REALLY tearing the mask off Rich Fuckers, who are now more or less forced to either Put Up With This or admit that they want The Poors to shut up and pay them.
and we've how effective it can be to tear the masks off those with power. The clearer the evil is, the easier it will be for folks far less aware than I to Get It.

Damn, the fat vulture rich are full mask off today.
WAAAAH HOW DARE THE POORS TAKE BACK THEIR MONEYS VIA STONKS! ONLY WE ARE SUPPOSED TO PROFIT FROM STONKS!

But if they get tax payer bailouts for this shit fuckery heads better fucking roll.

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Watching a bunch of Hedge Funds get fucked for over-leveraging shorts and some redditors catching them in a squeeze soothes my soul.

systemic racism thought debris 

You probably have an unexamined, or at least underexamined, belief that there exists a correlation between a person’s appearance and their life experience and skills so strong that you can and should make predictions from it.

In one sense, it seems reasonable to conclude that the tall white man in a suit and the short, obese Black woman in a T-shirt have different lives. But in another, it’s a window for very pervasive racial bias - among every other form of bias you can fuel with visual observation (age bias, body-intactness bias, economic class bias...). Your brain isn’t good at ignoring information right in front of it when it’s learning patterns (false beliefs about learning patterns and getting better results as you learn are exactly why slot machines are addictive), so no matter how racist you think you aren’t, you almost certainly have racist beliefs when you make assumptions about people from their appearance.

To a limited extent, people choose how they want to present themselves from their attire choices. But the choices available, and the way they look on their body, are out of their control. Noticing what people want to say about themselves is important; doing so without reifying implicit racist beliefs is also important and also profoundly difficult.

"Get me the manager! I demand to know why I am in Hell!" the soul shouted.
The fallen angel sighed. "We rebelled against God."
"That's no reason to punish me!"
"You do not understand. You were not sent here to be punished by us. You were sent here as punishment to us."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

There ought to be more draconic librarians.

Knowledge is power, after all.

hot take, the positioning of Dungeons and Dragons as the "default" tabletop roleplaying system/modality is immensely limiting to the hobby.

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