Mastodawn

Filling in a job application, the second in as many days, and the second that was apparently hacked together on a Friday afternoon while they were halfway out the door. "Natur of Business" is particularly egregious, but we also have "job title, telephone, responsible to" in seemingly random order, so they have the premises number not my direct report.

Should I get this job, my first question will be "can I fix your terrible application form?". 🙂

doombunny 1d ago

Today's mishap was falling over my own feet and scraping one shin against the edge of a footstool, leaving a 6cm or so narrow wound. Glad it's been cool enough that I'm wearing jeans or that could have been a lot worse.

doombunny 1d ago

Charlie Stross 1d ago

Wearing a red baseball cap in public these days, REGARDLESS of any text, is like wandering around Berlin in 1933 wearing a red armband with some sort of black symbol in a white circle. Either you're a Fucking Nazi, or you're happy to be mistaken for a Fucking Nazi.
https://wandering.shop/@zip/114862496494921166

zip (@zip@wandering.shop)

A red hat is a fucking red hat. I don't care if it says something clever because I probably won't see it. You're just using their branding and you look like one of them.

The Wandering Shop

doombunny 2d ago

A second GP appointment today, supposedly to check out the ongoing swallowing issues and ongoing loss of feeling in my toes. I got poked in the neck and a thyroid scan booked (I think), but the toe issue "can't be related" and I'd need to book another appointment as they only have 10 minutes per patient (I'd been there ~5). I wonder if the word 'neurology' would have jogged their memory? Now to wait for the neck scan. 🙄

doombunny 2d ago

Another episode of BGP doing something wonky? I know what it's supposed to attend for, but perhaps 'big glaring problem' would be more accurate.

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doombunny 3d ago

@aegir Ugh, one (very large) hospital I worked at managed to send a message to all staff instead of all managers at some fairly senior level. The sheer number of absolute muppets who hit reply all to type "why am I in this list?" was very worrying from an institutional security perspective. The IT department had to send out a mailshot to tell them to stop and we still got the odd one or two, who I'd like to think were launched out of a catapult into the sea.

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doombunny 5d ago

@purplepadma I can only assume that black cats are too cool and goth to consider being more comfortable in this heat.

I'll stick an ice cube in the water fountain to see if that entices him to at least drink a bit more. The absolute wally that he is.

doombunny 5d ago

I swear that cat was assigned a ginger cat's brain by mistake. I put a cooling mat out for him as it's still horribly warm, so does he use it? Sort of. He's lying on the carpet *next* to it and resting his tail on it. He's almost entirely black so he *must* be feeling the temperature!

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doombunny 5d ago

@theplaguedoc Happy birthday, and I hope the day is a gentle one given you're working through it!

doombunny 6d ago

AngharadHafod 6d ago

This UK gov petition has less than a month to go. With over 80K signatures, it's close.

"Petition:
Legally enshrine the right of adults to physically transition using NHS services"

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/704793

Petition: Legally enshrine the right of adults to physically transition using NHS services

Introduce a law to legally protect the right of those aged 18 and over to transition using NHS services. This should specifically cover physical transition, including hormone treatment and surgery, as otherwise I believe it could potentially be interpreted as including conversion therapy.

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

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