When I finish my spiritually toxic explaining work today and then unwreck part of my kitchen-exploded house I want a whole stack of Pope Leo Explainers to read, please send me your *very finest pope reads only* (theology welcome)
Preorder books when you can, always but especially now. Or ask your library to do it. It's a tiny but meaningful way to keep the art & artists who sustain us alive.
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In better news, our kitchen—which has looked like a set from Outbreak (1995) since we tried to install a new dishwasher two weeks ago and discovered a Situation—is now DRY. It's missing most of its flooring, some wall, and the sink and appliances, but the industrial fans are off!! I celebrate.
The deal here, btw, is that there was a Day One 90-day hiring freeze with carve-outs for immigration enforcement, etc., which just got re-upped through mid-July, and an *indefinite* hiring freeze at the IRS. *After* the big layoffs, it's going to be 1 hire in for every 4 feds leaving their jobs.
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*Without looking anything up*, what do you know about the federal hiring freeze and what happens with hiring afterward? (Did you know there was a freeze?)
No feds or fed-adjacents, please, you'll blow the curve.
I would just like to note that “your domain is only a year old so we put it on our spam list the moment we saw it and we’ll take it off if and when we feel like it” is objectively wild but apparently the norm for spam filtering.
Large pieces tightly joined etc.
