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Château des Milandes, France (by Michel)

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[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'At least two Capitol Rioters rejected Trump's pardon.' to Cas' 'I love you'. /End ID]

"Trump can shove his pardon up his ass,"

said Jason Riddle, who had been sentenced to 90 days in prison for two misdemeanor offences. Pamela Hemphill, a 71-year old woman, also refused her pardon with the words "The message is, if I took a pardon that what I did was OK. They were criminals. They broke the law. I broke the law. Pay the price." - source link

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Acrylic "Portal" painting, by Steven Novak

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Hallstatt, Austria (by Nathalie)

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UK Trip April 2025 (Part 15)

We visit Castell Coch near Cardiff!

Something I like about this place is there's so many little details on the walls. The audio guide we borrowed mentioned how some of Aesop's fables were illustrated on the walls in this room.

Look carefully for the carved animals above the fireplace

This one room in the castle displayed stained glass pictures of saints and other figures, including Saint David. But this time I want to bring attention to another Welsh saint, pictured here: Saint Dubricius

I'm rather fond of this room. There were notes on the walls explaining the symbolism of all the flowers and animals that were drawn, reflecting the artists' love of nature and each other.

There was a bird whose call I kept hearing during our excursions but couldn't see, and after a bit of research, I learned that it was the call of a chiffchaff! It's cute!

The next day, we journeyed back to London. On our way, we made a brief stop by the Severn river. It's rather mystical in the misty morning.

This little bird almost appeared to be leading us on the trail ahead

We then paid a short visit to the Cotswalds again (in particular, there was a cheese we bought last time that I wanted to try but never got the chance despite the rest of the group eating it. It's called Yarg cheese, a fun name!)

We stopped by a shop real quick to pick up some snacks for the road back to London. While waiting in line, I hear a cartoony boing boing sound behind me. I turned to look, and I see a distinguished older gentleman pull out his phone.

We then have our lunch (pretty much sandwiches and crisps) which attracted some curious birds.

We arrive in London in the next post!

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i tried the “ask your mom what she would do if you were a bug” trend

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Hey kid you want a job?

Great get online and go to a job board. Indeed, Linkedin whatever. Now you're gonna search for a role that's in your city, fits your qualifications, and doesn't seem like a bad time.

See that easy apply button? Don't hit it they just throw those in the trash. Now you're gonna want to go to the company's website and check their careers page.

Oh? That job doesn't exist anymore. Cool go back to the job board and find another one.

Great you found another job, you're on the company's career page and the job exists!! So you're going to need to make an account on the career page website. They're using Workday, the same site as the last job you applied for? Who cares? You need to make another account for THIS job's workday page.

Now you're going to upload your resume. That'll autopopulate about 15 boxes with everything on your resume, except formatted wrong and with tons of errors. So just go through and painstakingly check the dates on all of that and rewrite everything you already laid out in an aesthetically pleasing format on your resume.

Ok time for the cover letter, explain why this specific job and company are deeply important to you. You love their mission statement and wouldn't even laugh if their ceo was gunned down in the street. You'll really want to reiterate the things you just spent the last 20 minutes filling out on the resume section

(Remember to include language from the job description, people who work in HR are lower than dogs and they need patterns or they get confused.) Write about a page, but hey don't sound too desperate or robotic this is where they judge your character!

Maybe add your portfolio site at the end here, who knows if that helps no one has ever clicked mine haha.

Anywayyy time to hit apply! Congrats! You'll see that confirmation email come in and you should be getting the rejection letter in about 2 weeks. Unfortunately your resume didn't have the right buzzwords and the AI auto rejected you :(

Time to start again and try not to kill yourself!

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UK Trip April 2025 (Part 14)

We're in St. Fagan's outdoor museum, and we head over to the castle next (actually a manor house)

We take a lunch break. I'm feeling a little more eager to eat again, but wasn't adventurous to try something new, so I had their leek soup with a side of chips, which was very comforting for my still sick self.

Now we made our way to visit the manor house.

Let's dedicate a moment to the servants, waitstaff, footmen, cooks, etc. for the thankless task of keeping the place tidy and everyone fed, their duties lasting from around 6 AM to 11 PM every day.

I thought I took more photos of the interior than these, oh well!

Each of us grabs an ice cream, and then we move on to the next stop: a proper castle: [link]

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the world is running out of glassblowers and yet you want to become a fucking doctor

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UK Trip April 2025 (Part 13)

We do some sightseeing near Cardiff today!

Our first stop for the day is St Fagan's outdoor museum. And where there's nature, there's lots of photos.

This little robin posed very nicely for us!

I like the charisma of this cow

Eventually we arrive to a mini village on display, and looked inside the cottages.

I've had my fair share of experiences with steep stairs, but this is ridiculous

A child I overheard: Why is the bathroom in the kitchen!?

We go visit the castle in the next post: [link]

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so my brother was telling me about this human resources certification he attended a while ago. in a panel, the panelist asked a bunch of people in attendance, “who here knows if an applicant for a job is right for it in under 60 seconds?”

hands shot up around the room, people smug about their ability to “weed out the riff-raff” when it came to hiring for their fortune 500.

“you should all be fired and probably in jail,” they said, waiting for the whole room to get uncomfortable, then continued, “because the only things you can really learn about a human being in under 60 seconds are all things that are fueled by prejudices and biases covered by american law. so now, i will teach you how to stop being racist, sexist, judgmental assholes and hire people that will better your company of employ.”

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burning food is an inherited trait

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Matt McCreary

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Cernunnos, sculpture en bronze de Christophe CHARBONNEL

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Early Bird

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