S-573 - Smashing Wedge (SPH)

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.

Everything Kash Patel does makes me think he's the main character in a sequel to Big, the 1988 feature film starring Tom Hanks as a child in an adult body due to supernatural circumstances.

The twist for the sequel is he's the head of the FBI and also a shitty kid you don't want to root for.

Gift for @thatman23.bsky.social, Made by Anhanmee. Thank you so much for this wonderful piece of art. This is one of my favorite pieces I’ve ever had made!!!! :3

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#furry #furryart #synth

Myself in a black rubbr catsuit with a gasmask, shawl over the shoulders, corset, and thigh straps. My hair spills out from behind the mask over my shawl and shoulders, with the lights of the room glancing off the rubber. Especially the tits. Which are very rockin

feeling a bit overdressed... mind if i take this off :3?

A vali.

Just the one.

If anyone was wondering how I do cool colour lighting, the answer is:

cheap plastic coloured film that we velcroed onto the top of the soft boxes that we then just fling over the light when we need that colour.

took me like two minutes total. don’t have to talk to anybody, don’t have to make a phone call, just have to write what you can about how payment processors shouldn’t control what consumers can buy and hit send. that’s it

all hands on deck yall, this could make a huge difference

if transitioning didn’t change your sex they wouldn’t be trying to ban it

Drew a Dragonborn (Draco-kin on my setting) witch

bed addicts be like Please bro just one more minute of comfy… i just need one more honk shoo… after this mimimi im done i promise

Young anti-kink furries are the absolute worst types.

Happily placing the noose around other people’s necks at the behest of the Nazis, fully convinced that the Nazis won’t hang them right along with us.

very little in my bank account, still need to pay bills and pick up essentials from the store we had to move without, please help if you can

jc denton: my vision is augmented.

jc's personal HUD: [bonzibuddy, dominos delivery tracker, fry's electronics ad he doesn't know how to turn off]

🌈🩵🩷🤍🩵🩷🌈

thank u for the inspiration
(original is by briarhide on tumblr)

I didn't think when I wrote

"Additionally, because oil deposits inevitably run dry, we often rely on extraction efforts happening in other countries which may or may not be friendly.... and [its] cost can change quite dramatically based on supply and demand"

it would be so prescient but, well...

Would you wear a long tail like this? 🤯
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#supermotiontail #dragoncosplay #fursuittail #fursuitcommission #tkwaggertail

tapping the sign again:
no, sanitizing queer spaces of “problematic art” was never going to discourage them from censoring & criminalizing us, their goal isn’t “acceptable” queer expression, it’s none at all.

wake the fuck up & stop projecting your discomfort onto others.

Bottom line from the last 6 years of COVID research : If you’ve got blood vessels, you’d be wise to avoid additional infections.

Now is a great time to normalize wearing a respirator. Might feel awkward at first, but every person who does makes it easier for others to follow. Be a leader. 😷

Hi! I'm the asshole they hired to engineer those ziploc bags they use for frozen fruit where you can try and tear off the top but it never actually works and you have to go and find a pair of scissors like an idiot.

I made them this way on purpose because I hate all of you!

the continuing censorship of sexual content on the internet while the elite class still gets to use banks and credit cards when doing horrible things to children makes it obvious it’s about who has the money, power, and control, and not protecting anyone.

nothing like sending your buddy laser targeted horny before they go to work in order to make their life harder

and of course hypno is lumped in there as well because people in fucking 2026 don't know what hypno is

Seriously, if you say "Eww vagina" you are a terrible person.

how about they/them apples

so called mindless drones when someone mentions their special interest

Living up to my name

WOO!