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Thu, 06/06/2024 - 23:00

Convenience stores are not known for luxury. They replicate our base desires, stocking shelves with only the most essential food groups: salt, sugar, and alcohol. But what kind of person would look at a 7-Eleven and say, “You know what this place needs? A brunch item.”

Apparently, I am that kind of person. Ever since the internet has made a cult following out of the egg salad sandwich from Japan’s 7-Eleven, I have been dreaming about such a sandwich coming to America. Photos show perfect cross-sections of cut sandwiches, pearlescent whites peeking out from bright yellow egg salad, thick and rich between two slices of fluffy milk bread.

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Thu, 06/06/2024 - 23:00
We’re still fighting fascism June 6 is my parents’ anniversary. As a Boomer, I remember the date first for that. My father was too young for WWII. But my late father-in-law was not. He arrived in Europe after the D-Day invasion, but fighting as an infantryman and a scout for the 100th Infantry Division marked him for life. His shelves were filled with books on the war, on Hitler and the Nazis. As a young man, how could the rest of his life compare with that experience? But he rarely discussed the fighting.   Post by @ajsandyman View on Threads   Post by @therickwilson View on Threads In his things after he died, we found a Bronze Star Ken never mentioned. I discovered the Pentagon gave them out like party favors to soldiers who’d been in theater a decade or so after the war. So it was not something he’d brag about. He valued another medal more. We brought him to a Democratic fundraiser dinner once where Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia was the featured speaker. (You remember him. He lost three limbs in Vietnam.) They’d invited veterans. Our table was full of men Ken’s age.
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Thu, 06/06/2024 - 22:00

Dear Members of the Search Committee:

Well, here we are again. I am sitting in my sunroom, listening to the robins, crows, and jays, and I’m trying to type out a list of all my achievements so that you will like me enough to invite me for a Zoom interview and possibly a campus visit.

I already have a teaching job at a small college in South Georgia. You may not know this, but the reason that I can’t leave the South is because I live in Florida (about thirty-five miles from the school where I have taught for the last fifteen years) and Florida is a “men’s rights” state, which meant that after I got a PhD and left my abusive ex, I wasn’t able to move anywhere without giving up custody of my children, which I would never do.

My job isn’t terrible, but I’m underpaid, and I’m looking for better opportunities. You may be wondering why I’m even applying for jobs if I can’t really leave the state of Florida. Good question. I’m applying because maybe my ex will die.

Just kidding.

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Thu, 06/06/2024 - 20:28

Monday was a U.S. holiday, which meant I was able to go full-steam ahead on the storage MR for Experience Builder (XB) that I started the prior week. On Tuesday, I continued that work, and spun off a second MR that allows changing the source type and source value … for which I shared a 2.5-minute screencast in #experience-builder late on Tuesday.

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Thu, 06/06/2024 - 20:19

‘We feel taken advantage of,’ says Katarzyna Krzysztofik, a healthcare assistant (HCA) at the University of Leicester NHS Trust. ‘We feel like we’ve been used for a very long time, and now we are angry, disappointed, and sad.’ Krzysztofik has worked at the trust since 2018 and, for all six years, has been carrying out […]

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Thu, 06/06/2024 - 15:45
On June 4, 2024, Australia’s minimum wage setting authority – the Fair Work Commission (FWC) issued their decision in the – Annual Wage Review 2023-24 – which provides for wage increases for the lowest-paid workers – around 0.7 per cent of employees (around 79.2 thousand) in Australia. In turn, around 20.7 per cent of all…
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Thu, 06/06/2024 - 15:19
Australian ABC TV journalist Alison Horne was attacked  and she and her crew were verbally abused by Israelis participating in the Jerusalem Day march in what is the Muslim quarter, chanting “death to Arabs and singing songs about burning Arab villages down.” Muslims were cleared from the area for the march which took place under the Continue reading »