He likely practices at home on his family

This is why I stayed « close to the keyboard «  when I went into Cybersecurity from DevOps. 6 years later, they like getting the whole package of sec eng, compliance expert, app sec and soft skills but they still look put out when I ask for deploy documentation. Insane.

Welp. Got my airline tickets for Vegas (from Amsterdam) in early August. DefCon here I come!

www.reuters.com/world/us/mus.... Imagine needing threat models to assume anything associated with the federal government could be hostile to other western democracies. Encrypt everything, esp. if you are a gov't worker. Harddrives, emails, attachments, everything.

Of all the evil things I imagined, I forgot to put cutting off health care to Americans and Medicaid payments to hospitals on the list. The ensuring "only people with money have access to education" was on the list though. I wonder what will happen when all the Trump people find Medicare is next?

We now know UnitedHealth—under Brian Thompson—illegally overcharged cancer patients for meds by more than 1000%.

What we don't know is how many cancer patients died or were financially ruined as a result?

What we demand to know is why that act isn't deemed corporate murder & where are the arrests?

And here I’ve been using ‘htop’ all these years.

New Yorker cover from November 2016 showing a guy on the subway reading a newspaper with the headlines "oh, sweet Jesus please God, no "and "anything but that" and "come on."

♻️

I mean…yeah. Don’t know what could have been done differently though

Wow. Well written and a real, fucking gut punch. I read this in an Irish bar in Utrecht, NL as they madly rung the bell for last call.

Congratulations to America on our new co-founding father!

As much as I love watching the MAGA crowd tearing each other down, it's obviously not good to bring more H1B's into the mix right now. Again, people are struggling to find jobs. Musk likely just wants to bring spies and unpaid laborers in because let's run the USA like a corrupt business.

Folk Show: Episode 89 (A Winter Mix) The latest Folk Show has a fair sprinkling of winter throughout with other music that just seemed to suit the mood. It features Dick Gaughan, Stephanie Hladowski (who guests on the track by A Hawk and...

I found this mix somewhere. It's helping all the dark weather warm interior Dutch split pea ham bone soup simmering with introspective walks and writing things down and being with a loved one and digging deep one feels this time of year while living on a canal.....

www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...

Make New Utrecht more like old Utrecht

“I haven’t written a single poem in months. I’ve lived humbly, reading the paper, pondering the riddle of power and the reasons for obedience. I’ve watched sunsets (crimson, anxious), I’ve heard the birds grow quiet and night’s muteness.” Adam Zagajewski [Tr Clare Cavanagh] #poetry

“I haven’t written a single poem
in months.
I’ve lived humbly, reading the paper,
pondering the riddle of power
and the reasons for obedience.
I’ve watched sunsets
(crimson, anxious),
I’ve heard the birds grow quiet
and night’s muteness.”
Adam Zagajewski

[Tr Clare Cavanagh]
#poetry

Finding a job now is harder than any time since the pandemic. Is it a bad omen? Americans say it’s the toughest time to find a job in at least three years. When will it get better?

I've got a number of friends struggling with the US job market right now and I know exactly how that feels. We seem to be getting worse and worse with every downturn, and I've survived a few of them just barely. www.marketwatch.com/story/findin...

Oh, sorry I misread. Excellent work. I shared it!

Your radicalization moment I used to believe everyone thought of themselves on the righteous side of things, that people were just wrong about the world, not intentionally wicked. Oh how wrong I was.

Coming in early for #smallpoemsunday from @tomsnarsky.bsky.social, but every time I read the little poems he posts, they make me want to write one.

This is the second poem of his I’ve stumbled across!

I'm finally doing the winter time nerdy thing...like building a home lab to study for two security certs I want by spring. I got a tiny Beelink Mini PC and plan on virtualizing all the things. It takes my mind off impending doom as the Dutch keep worrying aloud about an impending Russian invasion.

Luigi Mangione Wrote Online About a Spine Disorder. Other Patients Say It's Hell Luigie Mangione, charged with murder of health insurance executive, evidently suffers from spondylolisthesis, which is painful and hard to treat.

I had an ex-husband who was flatly denied for any treatment for his Stage 4 Melanoma (Kaiser) because they wanted to take a “wait and see” approach. He’s still alive thanks to getting into the right experimental trial. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

If you ask me, this would have been a much better choice for Time’s Person of the Year.

And another new collage. It’s making the long nights a bit shorter when painting and doing collages.

Dark at 4:30 in the afternoon. Rain and cold. Good for staying in on a Saturday and starting a new collage while listening to an audio book. Hygge!

New poems from Ana Doina, a friend from an online literary salon and list serve (Cafe Blue) that has limped along sine the mid 90s. It spawned some excellent writers…

www.odyssey.pm/contributors...?

“But now he came up to himself slowly again—it was like rising through heavy water—and he was warmed by one of the great consolations: nothing very terrible lasts for very long.”

― Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

Fjord of Killary

One of the benefits of living in Ireland for a few years, was getting more exposure to writers like Kevin Barry. If you are unfamiliar, www.newyorker.com/magazine/201....

That’s gorgeous!

Present! It feels like the poet blogosphere from 2003 all over again. Or something like that.