The_Tim

The_Tim, 9 months ago to random

Personally I'm tired of billionaires.

The_Tim, 1 month ago to random

Who could have possibly foreseen it. 😒 #layoffs https://fortune.com/europe/2024/04/23/spotify-earnings-q1-ceo-daniel-eklaying-off-1500-spotify-employees-negatively-affected-streaming-giants-operations/

The_Tim, 8 months ago to random

Translation: "We refuse to pay our delivery drivers a decent wage and we expect our customers to make up for our shortcomings."

The_Tim, 6 months ago to photography

Frosty fall leaves in my yard this morning. #fall #photography #Everett

RickiTarr, 14 days ago to random

So, what's the thing, what's the big thing no one can help you with? How do you cope with it?

The_Tim, 6 months ago to tableau

About a year ago I was laid off from a job I loved at a company I thought I would work for until I retired. I found a new job but shortly after I started they changed the role, leaving neither of us happy, so now I'm on the hunt again.

If you have any leads on remote senior data analysis or data product manager roles, drop me a line. I have loads of #SQL experience & over a decade of building #visualizations in #Tableau. Portfolio: https://ellis.fyi/tim-portfolio/

#fedihire #fedihired #getfedihired

The_Tim, 16 days ago to Palestine

"WELL ACTUALLY, the indiscriminate murder of civilians, including literal infants and children is OK because of the history of the area" is quite the take. 😬 #palestine #israel #hillaryclinton

The_Tim, 10 months ago to twitter

I will not call #Twitter "#X."

I will not call #Facebook "#Meta."

I will call both of them stupid and evil, though.

The_Tim, 7 months ago to random

I can hardly believe this is real, but my brother and his wife's house had a major fire today. It looks like it will be a total loss. Thankfully they are both uninjured, and all their pets are OK as well.

A GoFundMe has been set up to help them recover financially if anyone here can help out it would be much appreciated.

Please boost for visibility. Thank you!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/ellis-family-recovery-fund-for-house-fire-losses

https://www.kptv.com/2023/10/04/crews-battling-house-fire-newberg/

The_Tim, 4 months ago to random

There is a big debate on Reddit about whether "it's slowed down the traffic on our road" in this Calvin & Hobbes strip means cars are slowing down to gawk or there are fewer cars on the road because they're avoiding the street. https://old.reddit.com/r/ExplainTheJoke/comments/197luhq/im_perplexed/

Am I going crazy here or does only the first one make any sense? Nobody would say "slowed down the traffic" to mean fewer cars on a residential street, right? It's obviously that cars are slowing down… right?

The_Tim, 2 months ago to random

@notjustbikes I was inspired by the latest episode of The Urbanist Agenda to pull out my small collection of vintage Wired magazines from 1993/1994 and no joke, this comic was in the back of the very first issue. 🤦🏻

[it was a single page, but I split it into two here so the full alt text would fit.]

Photo of the bottom half of a full-page comic strip from the 1993 premiere issue of Wired magazine. Panel 6: Man stands in train station, speaking to passers-by. "'Scuse me folks… would you trade me an old, crinkly dollar for this fresh new one?" Passers-by: "Yeah, right. I've heard about that scam!" Panel 7: Man is beginning to look frantic. "These credit cards won't do me any good! Hey! There's my A.T.M.!!" Panel 8: Man has a crazed look on his face as he hastily withdraws cash from the ATM. "I'll just keep withdrawing cash until I get something that @*%# machine will accept!" Panel 9: Man stands slouched over in front of ATM, dejected again. "I withdrew so much money, the A.T.M. can't process any more transactions." A pair of scary-looking men approach the man, presumably with criminal intent. Panel 10: Man is beaten up, with torn clothes, hitchhiking next to a busy freeway packed with cars. "Next time I'll do my part… to BOOST NEW AUTOMOBILE SALES!"

The_Tim, 4 months ago to random

#Layoffs are such BS. If things are going so badly at a company that they truly need to eliminate hundreds of jobs, then the VERY FIRST person that should get the axe 🪓 is the CEO that got the company into that situation.

But the CEO almost never gets fired in a layoff, even when they've been so bad at their job that the company has multiple rounds of layoffs.

The_Tim, 9 months ago to random

I couldn't help making some variations with Midjourney. #TrumpMugshot

An AI-generated variation of Donald Trump's mugshot. In this one he is a super-wrinkled figure with green-tinted skin, wearing a cracked green suit.
An AI-generated variation of Donald Trump's mugshot. In this one he is a cartoonish villain with glowing red eyes.

The_Tim, 2 months ago to random

We have had this farm animals baby toy set since our now-12-year-old daughter was a baby and it's only just now, getting it back out for our 8-month-old son to play with, that I realized that all of these farm animals…

• are about the same height as the farmer
• are standing upright
• are holding their front legs up like arms

Those aren't animals. They're people in animal costumes. My kids have been playing with a toy set full of farm-themed furries.

The_Tim, 3 months ago to ai

In case anyone else wants to know how to disable the dumb #AI #Copilot that #Microsoft enabled by default to live down in your taskbar in the latest #Windows11 update, here's how.

1. Right-click an empty space on the taskbar and click "Taskbar settings."

2. In the "Personalization > Taskbar" window that comes up, toggle the "Copilot (preview) switch from "on" to "off."

You're welcome.

screenshot of a Windows 11 settings screen showing how to turn off the Copilot preview

The_Tim, 3 months ago to random

LOL no I will not upload a video telling you why I want this job. #jobsearch

The_Tim, 3 months ago to ai

I asked the #AI to make some images of a corporate #layoffs celebration.

Great work, computer. No notes.

AI-generated image: Two men in business suits high-five across a conference room table. They are the only two people in the room. On the screen behind them is a graphic that says "layoffss" (sic) and has a smiling man in front of some downtown towers.
AI-generated image: A long corridor with many doors on each side, looks like a hospital, completely devoid of people. Two red balloons can be seen on the left side, one near, one far. Some chairs line the left wall. Small signs hanging from the ceiling read "lay offs"
AI-generated image: A group of skeletons in suits toast at a boisterous party, with balloons and colorful drinks. One of the balloons reads "layoffiss"

The_Tim, 1 day ago to ai

"Drunk Clippy" is my new name for all LLM features like Google's "AI Overview" and OpenAI's ChatGPT. #AI #LLM #Google #OpenAI https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11gzejgz4o

The_Tim, 2 months ago to random

Five months into #unemployment I still have no job despite having applied to over 500 roles, often with internal referrals from my network. If anyone on here has any connections that are hiring data roles I'd love an intro. Here's my LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thetim/ #jobsearch

In the meantime, with unemployment benefits set to run out soon, I've started a #GoFundMe to hopefully raise enough money to keep paying our bills while I continue my job search and side projects. https://www.gofundme.com/f/ellis-family-unemployment-fund

Mrfunkedude, 10 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to random

Anyone else hate the feeling of putting socks on when your feet are still drying from the shower? Like, they aren't wet, but they aren't exactly dry either?

The_Tim, 2 months ago to random

Onion saga on /r/Seattle today was mildly amusing.

Mrfunkedude, 3 months ago to random

A few times a year this happens and I end up having to take care of it. I’ve gotten quite good at it.

A video where I show the windows in my kitchen, and how a small hummingbird is flying into the glass trying to escape into the outside. In the next scene, I show myself with the hummingbird in a towel as I safely release it back into the wild.

RickiTarr, 1 month ago to random

Sometimes you realize what a dirty gossip you are, I saw this pop up on YouTube, and thought, "Yeah baby, tell me that Filthy Yarn Scandal."

Y'all I don't knit, I'm not involved in this, but now I kind of want to be. Please everyone guess what the drama is!

RickiTarr, 2 months ago to random

People, stop saying I need more self-discipline, I punish myself enough already.