I coincidentally walked past on my way to an appointment at 4p and honestly the way the place was crawling with emergency cycles made me think there was a shooting or something. Haven’t seen this kind of police presence in NYC since the BLM protests in 2020.

Here’s mine!

Smart launcher and crayon icons

In terms of money and business, my fav is how Xerox didn’t know how to market/capitalize on what was effectively the first personal computer before personal computers were even a concept, which is estimated to be a $1.4 trillion mistake.

What launcher and icon pack is this?

What launcher is this?

I’m in marketing haha, I joke that I’m my parent’s IT person, but that’s just about as technical as I get

I pinched a nerve in my back late last week and today was the first morning I woke up without any immediate pain, so that’s progress at least

I’m ace/homoromantic.

Thankfully I live in a pretty queer friendly area. I never technically came out, I just brought my GF with me to Thanksgiving one year. I absolutely gave my parents a heads up, but my personal philosophy is that if I wouldn’t have to come out if I was straight, I shouldn’t have to come out just because I’m gay. Thankfully my parents stopped inviting the problematic parts of my family years ago, so everything went super well. I’m effectively out to everyone generally in my day to day life.

My being ace though is nobody’s business except for my GF and tends to not come up in conversation lol

My partner and I got a beach house for a long weekend so we’re planning on doing a whole lotta nothing!

Idk but I find this incredibly funny. But also my dad is super into electronics and always tells me whenever he gets a new dyke (diagonal cutter) and I’m just like no you’re not allowed to replace me

We make it so that donations can go towards specific things (eg. a major food chain donated last year towards new custom percussion equipment in preparation for Macy’s) which makes for a very exciting internal announcement. Unexpectedly, I don’t think I’ve seen anything official from companies other than super vague announcements that you need to be searching for specifically.

I’m part of a non-profit queer marching/symphonic band that does year round performances, so I’m exposed a little differently than most, but there are a number of corporations that do large donations/sponsorships that aren’t exactly promoted out into the world. It might be insignificant to some, but these donations are what allow us to basically continue existing year after year so that we can continue supporting the local community.

While I do live in a predominantly lgbtq-friendly area, the extent to which our performances are televised makes a difference in terms of visibility all across the US. We were the first queer band to ever perform at the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade last year and the amount of messages we got from watchers from all around the country for the following few months was truly amazing.