This is yet another reason to NOT be on the cloud…

Congressional staffers were left struggling to conduct business only days into the lame-duck session amid widespread Microsoft outages on Thursday, with staffers expressing frustration to POLITICO over the ongoing situation.

The global outage impacted the Microsoft 365 suite, which includes Outlook email accounts, used widely in Washington federal offices. Microsoft posted on X Thursday that users “in any region” may have been affected by the outage, which was due to “a number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable.” The company later wrote it was “opening all available pathways to restore service, as our actions taken thus far have not provided the anticipated relief.”

Full article, HERE from Politico h/t Steve

This ‘may’ just be the tip of the iceberg, if you think about it…

Hackers are hitting major companies, infrastructure, etc. (like the chiller/freezer issues in Europe), and we know they don’t have anything approaching good security.

And Microcrap is known for its ‘buggy’ software, using the end users as the beta testers for years. And when you put a ‘suite’ in the cloud, and that ‘cloud’ goes down, guess what…

You’re SOL. While the article talks about the congresscritter’s issues, what about those little folks with the one or two person shops? What about those folks? A lost day of billing, or invoicing, or order taking might be the difference between profit and loss.

In other news, also h/t to Steve, we have this BS…

Link, HERE…

To me, this is more about the beta male ideal the left/feminists want, neutered males, only to ‘service’ the feminists at their leisure.

Raconteur Press, HERE, among others, is publishing books aimed at the YA boys market, and frankly are being pretty damned successful at it, IMHO.

They have a number of selections and authors specifically for boys, from a number of different authors. I’ll just call out one of them, by Dave Freer.

This book won the First Special Prometheus Award for Young Adult Fiction 2026! HERE is the Amazon link for the book.

And this is just one example. There are a number of others, plus the majority of the anthologies are also readable for YA audiences, IMHO.