if you think I'm exaggerating my 'touched by as a few people as possible' strategy I now have a window of time pre-flight where I do not shower, because if my hair is wet, it will trigger the scanner and TSA will want to give me a scalp massage

I travel by airplane, mostly alone, and for work

My entire plan is to be touched by as few people as possible, and to look mildly grumpy so no dudes try to hit on me

I really do not care if folks find my unaesthetically pleasing

and I get a lot fewer pat downs from TSA when I wear yoga pants, versus jeans/real pants

so yah, I now wear slip on shoes, yoga pants and a hoodie that is baggy enough I can easily remove it, while also taking out my computer/food/etc, as to be a 'good TSA line citizen' and not hold things up

The only thing I will say is that you think the best one is the one you saw when you were a kid and the worst one is probably the one you saw as an adult before you realized these are all children’s movies

looks great! As someone who very much needs more book cases in my home, putting the IN the bedroom wall is an....exciting idea!

what the heeeellllllllllllll

that is good to know.

I share those concerns about any repair material and what it might leach into my food :/ hmm

what an excellent rail!

@gilbert-lab.bsky.social has been working on some of these ideas!

My hope is after chatting they will understand that they are their needs are valuable

and that they are working in a very broken professional world where if they want to do some things, they may have to work unpaid

and that, sucks, and isn't fair, but its where we are right now

I also tell them that their labor has value, even if they need training, we all need training,

I tell them that it is ok to need to make money, it doesn't make them less passionate, less qualified, or less in any other way

and if that carrot is real, then the organization should be able to show the person people they have hired into paid positions over the past several years, not just like on person 15 years ago

and I make sure that they understand that a lot of places that offer unpaid/very low pay internships, hang the carrot of 'well if you do this you'll get a full time job with us' and that that carrot, very rarely actually exists when the internship ends