- DWP orders man to work without pay for company that let him go | Society | The Guardian – A man who was let go at the end of a temporary job has been ordered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to work for the same firm for six months without pay.
- Dear Griff Rhys Jones: if you don’t like tax, why not move to the Central African Republic? – Fleet Street Fox – Mirror Online – You’d have to be a complete idiot to leave a country where many of the citizens give you lots of cash and you live in great comfort, writes Fleet Street Fox
- shapeless, I’ve had a lot of people ask why I’m retracing… –
- Miles Davis Albums From Worst To Best – Stereogum – Ranking a catalog the size of Miles Davis’ is an impossible task. There are so many lavish boxed sets, live releases, compilations issued during his hermit period, etc., that in order to make this article at all manageable, major cuts had to be made before it could even be begun. So here’s how this is going to work: I chose studio albums only. But to truly understand Davis’ catalog, there are a bunch of essential live releases, including Live-Evil, In Concert: Live At Philharmonic Hall, Dark Magus, Agharta, Pangaea, and The Bootleg Series Vol. 1: Live In Europe 1967. So consider the 30 albums below a starting point. There’s so much more.
- A Report on Damage Done by One Individual Under Several Names | Laura J. Mixon – Friends, the tl;dr of this very long, comprehensive, analytical report is that up-and-coming John W. Campbell nominee Benjanun Sriduangkaew (who is also rage-blogger Requires Hate, who is also several other internet personalities including Winterfox, pyrofennec, acrackedmoon, and others) (oh yes, the list goes on), is VERY BAD NEWS.
- Cat Trap – Trends Addict – it's a cat trap Billy — and you're already caught!
- Women Rise in Sci Fi (Again) – The Atlantic – Like the fighters she wrote about, Hurley says that female science-fiction writers are often forgotten. “It’s always Asimov and Hineline,” she says. “You don’t hear about Russ or LeGuin. And there are very particular ways that people talk about it. One of those is by saying ‘well she did it, but it wasn’t really science fiction,’ or ‘her husband has a big impact.’”
- 179 RR Accountability and Diversity with Meagan Waller – DevChat.tv – a treasure trove of insights and info about unconscious biases , diversity, employment, culture, tech, and more.
Articles with the Tag cats
Charley
Now that’s a cat that reminds me of myself, as I don’t have the world’s best motoric skills either, if nothing on the level of Charley.
Basket case
Since it’s Monday, have a kitten in a basket. That’sa Sophie, the youngest of our three. She’s also called “princess paddy-paws”, “little madam” or “that bitch cat” by Sandra, depending on how annoying she’s behaving this time. Though I’m loath to ascribe human behaviour or motivations to an animal, I have to admit she’s a very girly cat, the kind of cat that would wear sparkly makeup if she could. She’s also the only cat I’ve ever seen who likes to play damsel in distress, deliberately hiding
herself behind the television table in the corner of the living room and then making out like she can’t get out again…
Our other two cats are both male and somewhat less bright. Heckie is amiable but dim in that sort of rugby playing, Giles Wemmbley-Hogg way. Very sweet though, with not a hint of a mean streak in him.
Monty, our eldest on the other hand was a stray cat my parents took in when he came begging for food in their garden and which we took over a few years ago, He’s not so much smart as streetwise; that is, he knows which street he lives on.