the spaghetti doesn't stick

a bunch of archives of incredibly important government datasets like maternal mortality statistics are about to be deleted forever. in a regime where they're known to fudge numbers, we can't trust a lot of the data coming from them to not be altered. open source backups like those found on data.world are vital to being able to verify that the data coming from our government is still intact and not altered. and they're about to delete all of it.

i don't know if we need to start a petition or what. nobody seems to fucking care. there are millions of users on data.world and yet nobody is raising the alarm bells and it makes me feel like I'm going insane. somebody needs to do something. i don't know what to do. it feels like more and more of this world is being destroyed and dismantled. it's not only US centric data, either! it's all sorts of countries from around the world! and they're about to fucking delete everything.

the only things that won't be deleted are private companies who happen to use the paid version of their platform (which isn't accessible data to the open source community; some people have just been using their service to host their own data on privately)

and the kicker? this announcement was made... via an AI generated blog post. so not even any sort of human touch. just a generic, soulless announcement made by a soulless human about to take a wrecking ball to one of the more important websites that exists on the internet.

an example of some of the things that will be deleted on July 11th:

https://www.re3data.org

There are over 3500 respectable data repositories on one respectable global registry; to a researcher there’s no point in data existing if not findable; if you’re trying to find a new home for your dataset, start there

He goes down, ends up in a coma or brain dead, on life support, genuinely never coming back and even if part of him did he would be in agony from his cpr injuries. The best thing is to let him go.

But its not convenient to. His own *wife* runs away to China so they can't *make* her do the right thing and allow him to pass. She doesn't love him enough to override the political posturing. His own family is letting his abused half alive carcass get played with like a political doll while he's trapped in purgatory, as close to undead as one can be.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

I'm becoming more aware that I do NOT like business casual clothing, in general.

Like... I don't...... hate? these clothes but I don't like them and generally wouldn't choose to wear them if I didn't work in an office?

It's just not me at all.

I like the cut and fit of the sweater and the way it feels, but checkers aren't a pattern I tend to wear.

So like... I don't hate any of the items I'm ordering, but I don't like them, either.

It's just not ME.

I don't know what my personal style is, but I know it's not this.

I got a talking-to by the store manager. "Excuse me, but my mother bought me this dress as a gift to wear to church on Easter," I replied. The response was that it showed too much cleavage. "I know that you like costumes," said the manager, "You should treat this job like a costume opportunity."

Girl. I already do. Since then, though, I've shifted my Work Drag into a gender presentation that I call "Grandma."

Grandma is kind of the way I'm going, too. I'm old enough to BE a grandma and getting that typical body-shape so it works.

The workplace is actually very lax about dress code. "Business Casual, jeans are ok" is the official statement but people are running around in tshirts, pajama pants, open-toed sandals, sleeveless dresses, sun dresses with cleavage, men in soft workout shorts, while some people do commit to true business casual.

Since my job is more physical than the other office workers I have the go-ahead to wear sneakers and cargo pants as I want. My manager tends to wear soft-waisted skirts, short sleeved light sweaters, and either sandals or ballet flats. Makeup and doing hair up nice isn't required for anyone.

No one wears leggings, though. I guess they draw a line at leggings. Yoga pants that look nice are allowed as long as they have a flare at the bottom.

No one walks fast, no one's in a hurry, no hustle and bustle in the cubicles, just in the warehouse...

If it weren't so right-leaning or if they added some color to the grey areas, it would be a really comfortable environment overall if you can ignore lots of dead animals staring at you from every corner....

Honestly I'm surprised they didn't do the thing with like, putting sky view panels in the flourescent lights or the ceiling panels, or make the "this represents waves on the lakes" ceiling art installation panels shades of a dull blue instead of all roughly the same grey, or at least change up the colors of ceiling tile here and there just to break it up a bit. It's so bleak in there.

There are no taxidermied animals in my office thank goodness.

I'm honestly pretty happy that the mail room is small, a little run down, and less crispy-corporate than the rest of the office spaces because I'm more comfortable in a softer, less perfect place.

...

Well someone went off on a ramble.

I will be downloading everything I purchased from Bandcamp and keeping an eye on it.

Damn has my webcomic been fun to draw lately