Very important Olympic update

BREAKING: 30 more Starbucks locations are joining the strike.

Starbucks workers in 25 cities are jumping into the week-long strike.

Now @sbworkersunited.org members at 95 stores in 65 cities have walked off the job.

Never had the slightest interest in GenAI. Once I learned about its environmental impact, my disinterest became outright rage at its existence.
Honestly, why would you want to use the water-guzzling, planet-destroying plagiarism machine, when it's incapable of an original idea, & lies its head off?

Love it when a coworker, who had been sick all week but has still come in and coughed all over everyone, decides to take a sick day the day they have a desk shift.

Nope. I’m done. I’m cancelling today. Almost hit 3 times coming into work. The back staff entrance door wouldn’t open for me. I just spilled water all over my desk including on my system switch notes and I have a headache. Fuck this day. I’m tapping out

A reusable cup with cat design glowing in the dark

A reusable cup with a cat design

My new cup glows in the dark.

!!!

Oh yeah. A super windy day. Yanno what will help? A leaf blower.

sherman, for the love of god!

Oh no!! Hugs

A plastic statuette similar to an Oscar with a sticker saying “first annual library service award for outstanding achievement in the field of excellence”

Work husband gave me this today.

Yes. I deserve it. No. I’m not thanking anybody. 🤣

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Hardcover edition of Queen Demon by Martha Wells

Apparently I’m supposed to work now. 

Advertisement from 1977 for a Star Wars t-shirt

Did I spent time today looking up the address to see if the business still exists? Yes. Did I find it, not really. It’s an office building so hard to tell.
Am I seriously considering sending $6 for a vintage Star Wars t-shirt? Yes.

😭

IG newberlinlibrary

Pro: I work late tomorrow so I get to pick up @marthawells.com Queen Demon before work. 🥳
Con: I have to work 1-8pm tomorrow afternoon. 😫
Woke: I’m totally going to be reading at the circulation desk tomorrow 🤫

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

20 books by Indigenous authors in honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: www.cbc.ca/books/20-boo...

Buddies in sickness! 🤧

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

Stanford researchers found that AI-generated "workslop" is actually making people less productive, in part because workers have to correct errors or decode the useful information/intent buried in a flood of auto-generated garbage:

A tortoiseshell cat curled up on a turquoise blanket

You might be sick, Mum, but my comfort comes first. 🤣

Well shit. I have a cold. Not surprising really considering my work load over the past few months which isn’t going to get any easier. Also my boss was absolutely patient zero and people have been dropping all week. Lucky it’s the weekend and I’m wfh Monday. Tuesday is a holiday as well. 🤧

Imagine being so ludicrously hot, that moustache works on you.

(God that's a good film.

Redford, refusing to jump off a cliff: "I can't swim!"
Newman: "Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill you!")

Artwork in black on blue with stylisrd birds surrounding a golden sun eminating golden light on the nearest creatures to it

Tapestry with design by Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt

I’ve lost important messages because the email conversation was condensed/collapsed.

At one point in my life I had the Cinderella poem by Roald Dahl (which was found in Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes) memorized.

The microplastics in me see the microplastics in you