You should say nothing. If he still works at the place you used to work at I think its technically illegal for him to badmouth you when they call to verify employment.

Usually companies have an HR dept that will only say “Yes, Mr. Propaganda worked here between <date> and <date>” for this very reason. I’m not sure entirely what recourse you have for this but there’s some liability involved on his part if this is the case.

If he doesn’t work there and these aren’t verification calls but you’re instead listing him as a reference, leave this manager off your reference list since it sounds like its going more harm than good. Get a friend to pose as a manager to call.

I am so sorry, losing a pet is awful. Your posts of Mr. Softie always made me smile when I’d see them.

Pecan pie is straight up revolting, the filling is 90% just corn syrup and then some pecans on top

teehee another cute lil pandemic for us

Yeah I refuse to buy clothes made from non natural fabrics these days, slowly phasing my plastic shit out

For the first time ever I’m in golden handcuffs and multiple times a day I think to myself “I should quit”.

but so far the long term reward promise has beaten the immediate gratification seeking part of my brain.

tbf, I’m not complaining, it is a good problem to have

I really hope not but so far it’s been pretty prescient

We should probably execute them in Central Park via guillotine IMO.

Local pigs already have that down pat

Oh yes. Its cringe and weird af

They call each other cracker and tell eachother to go back to Europe and shit, it feels like they’re getting the satisfaction of being racist but without the shame of an unacceptable target

Lol I ran to the comments to post this

That is good! I might have read some FUD that someone posted about that then trying to stir up drama re: the instance stuff. I edited my comment & I appreciate the response.

James’s ass is scarier than any enemy in the game

That’s social media though. Are you around a lot of black people irl? Nobody I know was excited for Kamala.

And sure that’s anecdotal but all social media is asttoturfed to shit by every three letter agency and lib think tank.

Probably not best to make generalizations

Aww not on f-droid

Iirc there is a mastodon instance specifically for black people so I think something like that for Lemmy could definitely work!

I don’t use Twitter or its clones because I prefer message board style formats so I’d enjoy that

Every single day I am reminded that literally everything in america goes back to white people being racist if you go back far enough