Things are a bit better than last week, thankfully.

Oof, it’s been a while. Not surprising, as this has been the most stressful couple of months I’ve had in a long time.

Apologies for the LinkedIn Posting, but I’ve had an observation rattling around in my brain for weeks that I just have to get out. What else is a blog for, huh?

Continuing my pattern of writing “week"notes every fortnight. It’s not intentional, I swear, it’s just working out that way!

Depending on how you look at it, I just finished up either the worst or the best snowboarding season of my life so far.

A day or so ago, news broke that engineers at Twitter - newly-owned by Phony Stark - were being asked to “print out their last 30 to 60 days of code, so they could show it to Elon Musk himself”. We saw evidence of this from Twitter employees themselves:

[Content Warning - politics, abortion, human rights]

Last Friday, SCOTUS officially handed down a previously-leaked decision overturning Roe vs. Wade, a legal decision ruling that the U.S. Constitution generally protects a pregnant person’s liberty to choose to have an abortion. Without this federal-level decision, the legality of abortion is decided on a state-by-state basis. Many Conservative states had “trigger” laws to ban abortion which immediately went into effect upon this decision; others are debating their response.