I walked by that PO yesterday
Dec. 30th, 2025 07:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwThe woman who is easily distracted was going to write a somber piece about the potential terrible results from the move to change postmark dates, but then I found this article and was pulled in by the image.
I didn't know that there is an organization of tax professionals, but of course there is. The worries I have seen on social media have mostly been about the implications for vote by mail, but it's nice to have the POV from people with a different primary focus
https://nstp.org/article/usps-announces-changes-postmark-date-system
Also distracting - I was awakened (probably by my bladder) from a dream in which I was wondering why the fall of the Qing dynasty and the beginning of the last (thus far) Japanese occupation of Korea were so close to the start of WWI. Then I (not quite randomly) started wondering what benefit the Ottoman Empire thought came from being allied to Germany. I have other stuff to do today, so maybe trying to make sense of the world from say 1910 through 1920 will have to wait. Although I was interested to learn yesterday that Frances Perkins was a witness to people jumping/falling from the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire in 1911, which was an underlying factor in her eventual position as Secretary of Labor (her first experience observing factories was when she was a student at Mount Holyoke years before).
I didn't know that there is an organization of tax professionals, but of course there is. The worries I have seen on social media have mostly been about the implications for vote by mail, but it's nice to have the POV from people with a different primary focus
https://nstp.org/article/usps-announces-changes-postmark-date-system
Also distracting - I was awakened (probably by my bladder) from a dream in which I was wondering why the fall of the Qing dynasty and the beginning of the last (thus far) Japanese occupation of Korea were so close to the start of WWI. Then I (not quite randomly) started wondering what benefit the Ottoman Empire thought came from being allied to Germany. I have other stuff to do today, so maybe trying to make sense of the world from say 1910 through 1920 will have to wait. Although I was interested to learn yesterday that Frances Perkins was a witness to people jumping/falling from the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire in 1911, which was an underlying factor in her eventual position as Secretary of Labor (her first experience observing factories was when she was a student at Mount Holyoke years before).
