Happy #caturday
Bug is the sweetest little old man.
Also: Halli Thorleifsson could have asked for cash up front when he sold to Twitter.
He chose to take the money as wages instead, because that would mean paying more income tax, which would help support Iceland's social welfare infrastructure.
Most recent Musk drama has a delightful twist ending.
Recap ICYMI:
🔹Twitter employee tweets Elon to ask if he's been fired
🔹Elon decides to humiliate him
🔹Employee mentions he's disabled
🔹Elon accuses him of faking his disability
🔹Employee gets officially fired
🔹Turns out, employee is a founder who got bought out by Twitter. His job is part of purchase agreement. If fired, Twitter has to pay the full acquisition fee in cash: $100 million
#OnThisDay, 4 Mar 1933, Frances Perkins is sworn in as Secretary of Labor: the first woman to hold a cabinet post in the USA.
She was a workers-rights activist and key builder of the New Deal. She was in FDR's cabinet for all four terms of his Presidency.
#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #AmericanHistory #Histodons