the mortifying ordeal of committing to the bit

I don’t disagree with you, particularly about the pay (public service is a highly skilled job and the pay should reflect that!) but I also think people underestimate how many opportunities for experience exist. I was reading this morning that in my state (Mass), 59% of state house and senate races this year are uncontested. I can’t tell you how many times I go to vote and every race lower than president, governor, or senate is uncontested or worse, will tell me to pick three from a list of two. Library, school, town, and city boards and committees are begging people to show up and participate, and most of the time it’s the same tiny group of people over and over again and then everyone wonders why nothing ever changes.

reading in bed. painting by marta astrain.

I think I'm going to remember this phrase every time I cook for the next five years

HOW’S THAT HOUSE THAT RAISED YOU? - Lev St. Valentine

Ahhhh i needed to hear this

even before googling the source, i knew it was askpolly

The engineers who develop fault trees, I am told, often imagine new ways for their precious spacecraft to die (new branches on the fault trees) either while in the shower or lying awake at 3am, because human