Boys, let an older man tell you something about cologne.

However much you think you need, you probably don’t. If a (your preferred here) smells you from more than 6” or a foot away, it’s too much. It will not encourage attraction

Those of us with violent allergies will need to flee the immediate location of you and your douchebag friends.

FFS my eyes are stinging.

JFC “School’s Out For Summer” by Alice Cooper just came on my playlist and it’s TOO FUCKING SOON.

Ack I said countries. State schools in other STATES.

7. (Almost done, I promise). The numerous educators, administrative staff and supporting staff would flood the job market or be forced into what was still funded.

Source: Many friends and family in the education industry.

5. This will also affect state schools. The University of California system is probably the greatest public education system in the US and easily a top 10 in the world. Drastic funding cuts. California might be able to manage. But what about state schools in other countries? Their locals can’t often afford out-of-state tuition so state schools offer a good option for higher education.

3. The things they could cut in “leaving it up to the states” would likely impact the states they won most directly. Say what you will about New York or California, but they could fund stuff that Mississippi can not.

4. This will impact things like early-childhood education, disability programs, after-school education, college preparation, trade and vocational schools, school lunch programs and test preparation.

So what many people don’t understand is what the new DOGE (see my previous toot) cutting things like the department of education would do. First note: this congress puts all the weird shit I will reference into play because we live in crazyland.

1. They’re not an official department. Congress needs to create true departments. They will most likely be an advisory committee.

2. They cannot change funding for the DoE. Congress needs to do that (see my earlier note).

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They’ve named it the depart of government efficiency. Or DOGE.

I can’t with this timeline anymore.

I'm feeling really down today. Election doomerism is kicking hard. My boss is looking for us to cut costs and there's just not much more out of the services we have that I can find. I'm basically down to seeing if we can shave $20/mo off of various cloud services.

If we can't, there will be a reduction in headcount. I'll probably be fine (just no raise) but I know I'd have to drop someone on my team. Good guy. I'd have to absorb his workload.

My emotions this past week have vacillated between anger and depression and a lot in between. I try to pepper in a bit of cynical humor to try to keep my spirits as much up as I can. It's what I do.

Corey Booker is a better man than I am.

https://youtu.be/27X74asa0gk

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Bruh, #CoSo is still the best.

The movie night was fun and my wife @Leeshers signed up and got in on the action.

4 more years of Trump and the Chicago Bears are rotting wet garbage as a team.

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I’m against doxxing in general but I won’t feel too bad that this shitstain got doxxed on #Xitter

My friends who live here but are from Canada said they’d adopt us so I got that going for me which is nice.

Though my gut is fuck you, I’m not leaving, you’re the ones who suck. And I fucking like this country.

If the WH, Senate,House had gone blue we’d be drinking mimosas at brunch and talking about how great reproductive rights, healthcare, education and social safety nets are.

They win and they’re like “okay who do I rape first and how can I get my neighbor deported?”