(He's ok, absence type, doesn't even lose consciousness, just second hospital visit in less than a week and it fucking sucks)

And y'know what, if our company would just let us take our fucking laptops home I could probably glare at the screen through my headache and write about collections policies I just need proximity to an always available bathroom and low lighting, can't have those though best we can do is free seltzer

We learned nothing from COVID, we had a couple years of treating illness as something worth taking seriously and now it's "power through bro, and do it in the office, can't have those desks empty"

The CBA on staying home should never involve "will this make me look bad to HR" but it always does

Awesome that I'm sick in bed miserable yet resenting myself for not working on training dev anyway bc it's "only viral" & my son has an EEG next week & I need to take off for that. Great that I worry about "looking bad" professionally & am relieved when my symptoms worsen so self care is "justified"

Sure was some nice PTO I had

i’m used to Republicans fucking over the country/just generally being assholes, but doing so quietly. the level of open pettiness they engage in these days, the bitchy shit bros whine about in country club locker rooms but had the decency to shut the fuck up about in public, is new and maddening

Here in the States, I have heard "reform" used to describe something other than cuts exactly once in my life, it was Obamacare, and we've been trying to "reform" it out of existence ever since

There's no good faith use of the term when dealing with people whose position is "this shouldn't exist"

Just take an improv class, FFS, you can't even form a coherent sentence pitching your Weirdo Machine

Trashed her only chance for peace with a literal dragon queen, yeeted that queen's confidante off a tower

Bet all her chips on a dickhead pirate king with no allies

And on and on. GoT was full of spiteful morons making bad decisions, she's up there

Cersei, such a master of politics that she empowered a militant cult that eventually marched her naked through the streets

Broke alliances bc she hated the thought of losing control of the only nice kid she had left (& drove him to suicide)

Let her shitty son push the realm into a five way war

What the Christing fuck does this rat shit Nepo baby heir know about getting a fucking job in the first place

Oh! He rings a gong. Gong-er. Can't believe it took me this long to realize it.

Man I was worried they sped it through the Senate because cleaning teams had successfully purged any mentions of Trump or conservatives but I guess there are just too many skeletons in there to make it a Dem Thing