Sorry, the ghost of COVID present has decided to camp out here

https://xkcd.com/2346/

"I am not setting foot in your haunted plague box" is going in my lexicon now.

[insert scowling emoji here]

Shoutout to the person who made me drive fifty minutes each way for a five-minute (!!!) interview that could've been a phone screen!

(Side note: in my profession, it's common for interviewers to have job candidates do some basic tasks around the lab, because anyone can write down "expert hrapplemungler" on their resume, but demonstrating good hrapplemungler technique is harder to fake. Which is why I didn't bat an eye when the interviewer insisted I come in.)

I'm proud of this one

Gatekeeping in the queer community.

Gaytekeeping.

TREES

The thing a lot of ex-Soviets miss most when emigrating is the forests.

They're pining for the firs.