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My two weekly shows right now are AJLT which I watch as a form of self-torture and The Gilded Age which I watch as a form of self-care… keeping balance in my life.

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Should I get really into running again

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I saw a post recently that basically said, “People over 50 always tell you to walk into places with your resume to get a job.” And… do they? In 2025?

This seems like one of those things that just isn’t happening as much as people posting online would indicate. Like, there was a time when this was a thing and I remember it. The big shift towards applying online and all sorts of other evils like taking 75 question personality exams to work as a cashier at Target was in the 2000s. In the early-mid 2000s I do think there was a disconnect between experienced professionals who had been at the same company for 10+ years and new grads entering the office job market in particular. However, I don’t think the disconnect was THAT big and I think that era passed, but this became a kind of truism in certain circles that older people give this outdated guidance to “walk up to reception with your resume” - like, that piece of advice specifically and no other - but no one is really saying this anymore.

Especially someone who’s only 50? I know there are exceptionally sheltered industries and I guess I can conjure the image of someone who got a job in 1995 and hasn’t updated their mental model of the job market since but I feel like that kind of person must be exceedingly rare. (Or I guess someone who entered and exited the job market in the 90s and hasn’t been working since). Otherwise, someone turning 50 this year has been working through the dot com bubble, the financial crisis, the social media revolution, the ZIRP era - if they’re in an office environment they have likely managed people. And they’re still working today in the post-COVID era! I think someone who is in their 50s and even 60s is way more dialed in than this.

Maybe when someone says “over 50” they just mean “old person” and they’re 20 so they don’t really know where the cutoff is for this kind of thing for a casual rant post. I get that for sure. But I feel like the only people I can imagine saying this in earnest would be closer to 80 years old, and super old people fire off weird comments based on the past all the time.

Maybe I’m wrong though and overly informed by being in the corporate world? Maybe people are still saying this? If your experience differs from mine then let me know for sure.

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Daniel Abraham just does not miss. Most underrated SF/Fantasy author out there

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One word in my and my husband’s couple lexicon is “shapmoo” because of a misprint on a bottle of shampoo we bought

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Yellow-breasted or Indochinese Green Magpie (Cissa hypoleuca), BATH TIME!!!, family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Viet Nam

photographs by Leo Ngo

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I really have no words for how beautiful this country is. Brb going back in time and slapping my great grandfather for leaving this place to move to Wisconsin, one of planet Earth’s most accursed places

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there's no such thing as a medicaid freeloader. everyone needs healthcare. it does not matter if you don't believe someone has a valid reason to not be working or in school- they are still a human being and human beings need healthcare. even if someone IS this strawman ""just lazy"" unemployed person, they deserve healthcare. sorry but i do not believe that the right to medical treatment without financial ruin is predicated on someone's "usefulness" to society. it's depressing that this is apparently too radical a belief.

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Here we go with me not getting paid for the final month of my contract. Last year it took two fucking months to resolve this so I’m about to get real mean real fast. PAY ME YOU ASSHOLES!!!

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I hate Republicans

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Stayed in a tiny hotel room that had a very awkwardly placed chair that I banged into about 6 times and Jesus Christ this is wild

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Oh the Project Hail Mary trailer looks so so good!!!

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A potentially interesting way to do the first season of a LotR TV show would be to start at the Council of Elrond and flashback to how all the characters ended up there. Season finale on creating the Fellowship.

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I am typically reluctant to tie economic performance to the President whether they’re a Republican or a Democrat but now I’m like oh the economy shrank? Trump directly did that. He did that explicitly.

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Loving Andy Serkis’ LotR narration, it’s so good