Microsoft’s stock price is close to an all time high and it makes billions each quarter but no raises for employees this year due to “the economy”.

Instead the CMO says employees should figure out ways to make the stock price go up instead. But I thought they already did that? 📈

https://fortune.com/2023/05/17/microsoft-cmo-tells-employees-stock-price-most-important-lever-pay-raise/

I guess I should write something to commemorate the day Europe became civilized?

So: the Holocaust was not a singular event. The history of Western culture is a series of genocides from the Rhineland Massacres to Treblinka. When people talk about retvrning to tradition, this is what they mean. The EU, human rights courts, and other postwar regime elements that populists hate exist in rejection of that millennium of savagery. And what they hate the most is, this new regime has been successful.

"It is with real chutzpah…that Roberts has claimed judicial independence in order to circumvent an investigation into judicial independence… [O]ur Supreme Court does not exist in the constitutional order as much as it looms over it, a robed tribunal of self-styled philosopher-kings, accountable to no one but themselves." @jbouie https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/opinion/john-roberts-clarence-thomas-supreme-court.html

#SupremeCourt

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/24/sandy-stone-olivia-records-trans-rights-los-angeles/

“A society which cannot tolerate genderbending or cross- dressing ultimately will not tolerate homosexuality, bisexuality, or any other deviance from sexual or gender norms, no matter how closeted or assimilated.”

- Dagger: On Butch Women, 1994 by #LilyBurana & #RoxxieLinneaDue

https://archive.org/details/dagger-on-butch-women/mode/2up

#Butch #Lesbian #Queer #Gay #GayHistory