accurate but unhelpful [commissions open]

A post from Mike LaPorte, a head of talent acquisition on LinkedIn: "I owe job seekers an apology. Not for anything I did intentionally. But for what the industry I've spent my career in has normalized. We normalized ghosting candidates after interviews. Just never responding. Like the 3 hours they spent preparing and the PTO they burned to come in didn't matter. We normalized job descriptions that are 40% aspirational fiction. Listing 15 "required" qualifications when we'd happily hire someone with 8 of them. We normalized 6 round interview processes for mid level roles. Panel interviews where half the people in the room haven't read the resume. We normalized asking candidates to show all their cards, current comp, competing offers, career goals, while giving them almost nothing in return. We normalized treating candidates like a pipeline metric instead of people making one of the most consequential decisions of their lives. I'm not saying every recruiter does this. I know a lot of great ones who fight these patterns every day. But as an industry we've built a system that asks candidates to invest enormous time, energy, and emotional labor into a process that gives them almost nothing back unless they get the offer. That's broken. And a lot of it has nothing to do with technology. It's choices we stopped questioning. But I do think we can build better systems and smarter tools to start fixing it. What would you change first? Genuinely asking."

Then let us begin normalizing the acknowledgment and understanding of this grim reality so many have found themselves ensnared in. A large number simply don't know because they're not currently affected by it. The existence of this post alone is a wonderful beginning move.

post your favorite lord of the rings character. wrong answers only.

Huntr/x Demon Days

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i feel like they'll probably reno if they can, since it's a 2 story and i can't imagine tearing down that would be cheap or easy. there's a couple of those small one story shotgun houses in nearby neighborhoods that were completely demolished recently and rebuilt.

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i wouldn't be surprised if it got demo'd but it's hard to tell without seeing inside. i know that house was not sealed against the elements for many years (vines pray much ripped through the roof and ac window units)

The scene depicts an avian creature crouching astride a man, talons pinning him in-place on the snow ladened ground. Surrounded by the corpses of birds. A rifle can be seen on the floor in the forground. A narrative digital piece as part of the comicbook Parliament of Rooks.

A Murder

ok, drove past it, and that house is getting gutted right now (dumpster, piles of furniture on the curb)

what's preventing words like thistle from being pronounced like "this"tle

tree fall beast

doin some art of this guy and couldn't remember if I posted this here. Still really like this piece.

Painted Portrait for inariokami

Flat busts so far this year
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idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet

I hate to ask but would anyone I know in the Bay Area be willing to foster a few cats for a month or so?

They are sweethearts but their humans are having a bit of a family emergency and need to rehome them for a short while. (Month-ish?)

We need to find them someplace to be by Wednesday.

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ultrasound didn't show anything, so mystery abdominal pain adventure continues.

like legit he looks like what they'd design an adorable nondescript canine familiar around.

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I promise I'm still working on the Reign-themed rat project.

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Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

A photo of a watercolor/pen anthro mice wearing Tang dynasty clothes

A bit more of the Tang mice :3

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the house behind us has been vacant and in disrepair since we moved into this house. it's in BAD shape and we speculate something untoward happened in there. but earlier today i saw some people examine the exterior and now some of the lights are on.

SOMEONE'S IN THE HAUNTED HOUSE.

this is turning out AMAZING

it's summer in south central texas already, unfortunately 😑

i keep thinking raindrops are hitting my window, but actually it's junebugs