Last night before going to bed I heard all this rumbling and didn't know if we were about to have an earthquake or the heater was about to blow. I went to the window and here's this huge earth mover breaking off chunks of ice and piling it in the middle of the street. Took a look this morning and it's all gone. #Yourtaxdollarsatwork

Today, I

- realized in class that I'd prepared the wrong paper (I'm supposedly the instructor)
- learned that, in addition to the twenty-seven (27) *&%& documents for my Academic Program Review, I have to write a twenty-eighth document "study welcome/overview".

Good thing I have office hours right now (and no visitors).
#academicchatter #yourtaxdollarsatwork

#YourTaxDollarsAtWork

The #NarcissistInChief has commissioned the building of an ENTIRELY NEW class of #Battleship that will be NAMED AFTER HIM.

I'd like to point out WE DON'T MAKE BATTLESHIPS ANYMORE FOR A GOOD REASON:

Like their new namesake, they are SLOW, INEFFICIENT, and easy targets (so I guess it's entirely appropriate to name them after #PizzaTheHut.)

The "big guns" of the high seas in the modern age are Aircraft Carriers, not battleships.

#YourTaxDollarsAtWork : #California state prison site in #KernCounty is being converted into the state’s largest #immigration #detention center under a new contract between #ICE and #PrivatePrison operator #CoreCivic. 2,560-bed facility expands ICE carceral capacity in immigrant heavy state by 36%.

Since being shuttered by #GovNewsom as a state penal facility in 2024, remote #CaliforniaCity officials had bemoaned losing the jobs and $1 million per year in revenues from #sewage and water services.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/california-city-largest-migrant-detention-center-20386228.php?hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL2NhbGlmb3JuaWEvYXJ0aWNsZS9jYWxpZm9ybmlhLWNpdHktbGFyZ2VzdC1taWdyYW50LWRldGVudGlvbi1jZW50ZXItMjAzODYyMjgucGhw

Tom Nichols: "Staying laser-focused on lethality and warfighting, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered a makeup studio installed at Pentagon":
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-orders-makeup-studio-installed-pentagon/
#YourTaxDollarsAtWork #YoureSoVain #NationalSecurity #politics
Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has not given any press briefings in the briefing room but has used the room as a backdrop for TV hits with Fox News.

Thumbs down to old mate and his pumper truck on the bike path. Two hours so far, 75-80dB according to the noise app on my phone. HiVis, but no hearing protection! They are endlessly sucking on a vape as they pump the drains. #yourtaxdollarsatwork
Rob (@robj1971.bsky.social)

The only way this could be funnier (and by funnier I mean more insane and insulting and horrible) would have been if numbnutz the orange shit clown bought a swasticar and it caught fire in the white house driveway. That would have been more ridiculous, but only a little bit. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Bluesky Social

Well that was 7+ hours that should’ve been an email.

What’s worse is that the only meaningful thing to come out of the meeting was that it probably was a superspreader event. 100 people from across the state, many coughing, and only two of us wearing masks.

#California
#yourtaxdollarsatwork
#CovidIsNotOver