Dressing up for fun even though I was about to put on a choir robe!

What if employers had to list salaries as a percentage of average rent in their geographic area?

I simply don’t believe that if people did an honest, thorough search for the best candidates, they would end up hiring white men in positions of power over and over again.

Why not both?

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Read, reread, reread. It will hit differently again today, and next week, and next month.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

However, anything is possible. The world seems to be shifting very rapidly these days.

It has to be disentangled from the Chinese government first, which is not so straightforward since corporations over there don’t control all of their own operations.

I’m ready to fight. I will not stand by idly and watch our civil rights melt away.

Roe v Wade was canceled because things were supposed to be left up to the states. But now, the flurry of executive orders and trying to create a federal policy on gender. Deep hypocrisy. The saddest part of these cultural wars is the real and devastating effects on trans people and migrants.

Ancient Japanese has a huge number of words related to rain and seasonal changes, but very few words to describe celestial bodies (words for planets like “kinsei” were imported from China). Subaru, the Japanese word for the constellation “Pleiades,” is a rare exception.

Why don’t we have height-based categories in sports? For the majority of sports, I feel it would make more sense to have different categories for taller and shorter people instead of men’s and women’s.

TIL: Even a total vacuum has energy. The energy of a cubic cm of empty space is called the “cosmological constant.” It is precisely the same everywhere in the universe even as spacetime expands or warps. It may be the closest thing to objective truth in our world where nearly everything is relative.

For now, I’m enjoying this. It’s interesting to try to come up with thoughtful short-form content. I dropped Twitter shortly before M**k acquired it and certainly wasn’t about to join X. But I had missed it (a little).

As of today, the president-elect cannot legally possess a firearm, yet he will soon become commander-in-chief of one of the world’s most powerful militaries.

Honestly, it feels very good to use a social media platform not owned by Zuckerberg. Why didn’t we do this years ago?

Dreamt that I was teaching a small child whose vocabulary was greater than his pronunciation. After considering something I was saying, he proclaimed “It’s conweivable.”

This is so bad

Butch achievement unlocked: a guy asked me to show him how to use the weight machines at the gym