One of my other feeds recently surfaced an interesting article making the case that healthcare would benefit from more autistic practitioners. Many of the same arguments, I think, apply in other professional (and not-quite-yet-professional...) fields... www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

An update: a petition was started to try and address this issue of FEMA trying to start their own University. Please sign if you, like me, are horrified by the damage this will do to both the discipline and practice.

www.change.org/p/oppose-fem...

Some days, I feel like this exemplifies FEMA emergency management doctrine when applied at the local level.

Bad idea of the night from the intersection of job and hobbies:

A tabletop-RPG-slash-tabletop-exercise-engine based on the Powered by the Apocalypse rules set, in which each "player character" is an agency or organization.

Ahem @disasterqueer.bsky.social... seen this yet?

Had an interesting discussion last week about the demands of building a healthy and functional organizational culture. This prompted a thought:

What is a practical span of culture?

TIL that my new employer has a Meat Center.

I will have to compare this against my previous employer's Meat Lab.

I am so excited to learn that my new workplace has a research team looking at accessibility tools for gaming.

This also prompted a line of thought about accessibility and DEI, or lack thereof, in public safety exercise design. I'm interested to see if any of this group's work is applicable there.

I am useless without a dry-erase board in my office.

Look, I'm just saying: if you need to expand and improve your exercise program, hire more gamers. TTXes are basically just Dungeons & Dragons for fire chiefs.

Substitute "facilities" or "physical plant" for "IT" and this is probably every university campus on the planet.

A previous workplace literally had Bob, and Bob retired last year.

I want to apply for grant funding to hire an artist to illustrate emergency management tarot because cartomancy will probably be just as effective as any other method we currently have for generating FEMA-approved hazard mitigation plans.

I have not yet begun to waste time on this platform.