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jonobie

@jonobie@social.coop

One masters in Counseling and another in CS. I love talking #Technology and #MentalHealth.

Tech geek and advocate of minorities in tech. Previously a longtime Microsoftie. Coach and mentor at SelfWitte, DefCon SOC Goon, and #BurningMan regional Ranger at Critical Northwest. Lives near #Seattle in the lovely PNW. #Polyamorous (#polyamory)

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carnage4life, to random
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I’ve had mixed feelings about manager readme. On one hand I do a verbal version in my first meeting with new collaborators to let them know I communicate directly but mean well.

OTOH, the power dynamic as a manager can read as a list of flaws your team has to put up with.

jonobie,
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What @shanselman said, absolutely.

@carnage4life

paparatti, to random
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Went thrifting again, still obsessed with finding leather bags. Today's bag haul: one purple Fossil bag with a damaged front flap for $7 (I am pretty sure I can repair this) and two She + Lo crossover bags for $13 and $6 respectively. That grey one is a weird little guy, the studs are flat like Lego studs.

jonobie,
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@paparatti Yes, so true.

jonobie, to random
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More boggling at the .

One of the sample tests I just took was like "which of these is a defense mechanism" [a psychoanalytic thing]. I answered and got it wrong.

So I read my writeup about it to see why I missed it. It wasn't there. ...Huh, did I just forget to add it?

Turns out stuff online sometimes shows as few as 5 defense mechanisms or as many as 32. Which one is the canonical list? Who knows.

THIS IS RIDICULOUS.

jonobie,
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@lextenebris I'm not a psychoanalyst, so definitely not my chosen area. I'm mostly a common factors person and have read enough to believe all theories are equivalent (and even if not, they have tiny effect sizes when testing client outcomes). And to know how rarely theories are actually tested head-to-head.

I'm horrified by how little that knowledge has percolated onto the required licensing test. That IS upsetting. It feels like a "guess what I'm thinking" test to be able to get licensed.

jonobie, to random
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I've had very few teachers in my life that I felt moved to write thank you notes to.

... I'm currently writing basically everyone in the Saybrook counseling department and a fair number of the adjuncts too.

Just to say, yanno, thanks for the minor act of helping me change my life.

jonobie,
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@NotesintheMargin Oh, that's awesome! What department for you?

jonobie,
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@NotesintheMargin Nice! I went to a few psych items at the residential conferences, and enjoyed those.

jonobie, to random
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Thoughts as I'm attempting to memorize the two types of interval schedules and the two types of ratio schedules for reinforcements.

  1. I wonder if the NCE plans to do ANY of the work that the social work test did, in showing that it's terribly racially biased. (https://www.psychotherapynotes.com/social-work-exam-data-shows-major-racial-disparities/)

  2. I'm pretty damn sure that other than the notion of "reinforcing a behavior consistently helps form it and sporadically helps lock it in," I will NEVER use any of these words in my actual work.

jonobie,
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Also, does your need to know the words homoscedasticity and heteroscedasticity? Probably not unless they're planning on being a spelling champion. I've read a bazillion research papers these past few years and have never seen them.

For those who aren't familiar, in the US, the Social Work Test and the basically cover the same material (lots of YouTube study guides cover both in one). So I suspect they have similar flaws too.

gavi, to random

The cutest animals always have names after food

jonobie,
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@gavi This is the way.

stefan, to science
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"In 1912, Oskar von Miller, an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, had an idea: Could you project an artificial starry sky onto a dome, as a way of demonstrating astronomical principles to the public?"

https://spectrum.ieee.org/planetarium-history

jonobie,
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@stefan This is honestly a bit later than I imagined them to be created!

jonobie,
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@stefan I have no idea why, but I’d pegged them as something from the 1800s. They’re still one of my favorite places in a science museum to go-so magical! 🤩

jonobie, to random
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I’ve been using reusable period options since I was 24. I’ve used sea sponges, the Keeper cup, Glad Rags, New Moon Pads, and a stay-at-home mom’s variety of cloth pads. I was so freaking excited to see period underwear make it into a Wirecutter review - feels big time! And, I gotta say, of things I’ve tried, the Goat Union Overnight underwear Wirecutter recommended is by far the most secure thing I’ve worn. I wore it through “red Niagara” today and nary a leak.

jonobie,
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I suspect that either sea sponges or The Keeper - both of which were hard to clean and are internal - were responsible for PID I had in my late 20s that hospitalized me. But I’ve had good luck with cloth pads. And have consistently used them, only switching out to disposables on heavy days. And I think 1-2 of these period underwear may cover those times now. Also, they’re all just more comfortable and less prone to basically giving me diaper rash 🙄 than plastic disposables.

jonobie, to FiberArts
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I’m a bit stressed putting together my new Kromanski; it has text about voided warranty if the front and back are flipped. It doesn’t have nearly as clear instructions as the SampleIt did. Also, my right side heddle blocks’ little wooden nubs is not really going in. :-(

Can anyone tell if there’s anything obviously wrong so far? Also, on the Kromskis, is the logo generally on the front side or the back side? That might help me orient a bit.

@weaving

jonobie,
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@weaving I'm starting to think the right heddle block is somehow off -- that's where I'm getting stuck, where the little wooden nub is not going into the small hole there, so I can't actually screw it all on.

jonobie,
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@BillySmith Yep - I'm pretty sure I have the correct parts, I think what's happening is either I'm doing something wrong with the heddle blocks, or the right heddle block is a bit mis-machined. Not sure.

jonobie,
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@KnittingMittens Thank you!

jonobie, to random
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Apparently in the question of “am I having my period today” does not have a deterministic answer. Sweet. 🙄

jonobie,
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@marisa Yeah... these past few months have been Very Weird. Am I having a period now? Yes! Next day: No? Maybe? Several days later: Yes! Well, maybe?

It's deeply unsettling, even as someone who wasn't super regular before - but, like, once I started, it was a discrete THING for 3-5 days. Now it's just sort of like 🤷‍♀️ 🤷‍♀️ 🤷‍♀️

jonobie,
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@OnionBudgie Lol, yessssss, exactly.

jonobie,
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@consumablejoy @marisa OMG same here on appreciating having a community of people talking about it being a big help.

Also yes, fuck these cramps. 😖

jonobie, to pnw
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I love the summer in the so much. Flowers! Sun! Lots of light!

…and also I have VERY mixed feelings about waking up earlier and earlier each day.

jordinn, to random
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Last week I agreed to interview for a contract ministry gig, during which the interviewer shared 'We're talking with three other people, but we think you're the one. Prove it to us!' Me: lol. lmao.

I asked to be taken off their consideration list (I have already had that kind of job and it's not what I have time for this year) but I'm still marveling, a bit. They are either WAY out of touch or the ministry job market is turning around. As obnoxious as that was, I sincerely hope it's the latter.

jonobie,
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@jordinn Huh, I’m realizing I have no idea how I’d interview a potential religious leader. I guess I’d read their writings or speeches for how they communicate, and maybe talk to current congregants (assuming that’s okay). And then figure out how I thought they’d do at the administrative side, which I assume also is a big part? (Not part of an organized religion here.)

What sorts of interviews have you seen that seemed like they were really good and weren’t reducing the role to some cog?

jonobie,
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@jordinn That makes sense, thanks for sharing that. It gives me some things to think about.

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