Saw on the local news the other day how #SalvationArmy was struggling for donations during the pandemic and all I said was “Good.”
#Reminder this upcoming holiday season to not give any money to the Salvation Army, but don’t harass the collectors because they’re often people who are desperate, receiving help from SA, and their next meal/place to sleep depends on them ringing the damn bells and asking for donations.
Idk about you but I’ll never forgive them for denying homeless trans women shelter in winter, leaving them out in the bitter cold. This is before I knew anything else about them.
/rant on
Why, oh, why, does #Thunderbird still implement focus-stealing task/date #reminders on #macos ? When I'm typing #emails and am in my flow, it is immensely frustrating to have the cursor taken away from the mail editing window to focus on the #reminder. Is there any way to turn this behavior off, other than not using the reminder system at all ? It has got to be my number 1 bugbear for #Thunderbird. Not surprising why people move to webmail clients instead.
/rant off
Workers: DO NOT OVERWORK YOURSELF to avoid getting laid off.
You’re damaging your life and health.
Your employer doesn’t actually notice (no, really, they don’t.)
Your behavior enables future mismanagement of resources.
When layoffs come, you’re gonna get laid off anyway.
Remember that a company’s job is to extract maximum work from you for minimum pay, so your job is to extract maximum pay for minimum work. Somewhere in the middle, both parties find an equilibrium that they agree on. Do not voluntarily modify your side of the bargain to your detriment.
"Your regular #reminder that #people who love law and order (not precisely the show, though we could have some discussions about that too) are monsters."
#Reminder that you don’t need a reason to mute or block an account. You don’t even have to explain it to anyone or announce it.
You can even mute entire servers.
You can filter words.
You can follow hashtags and make lists.
You can setup notifications for your favorite people, so when they post, you get notified.
Maybe what drives people from the #Fediverse isn’t the Tone Police, CW Culture Warriors, Reply Guys, server implosions, or trolls; maybe it’s the personal responsibility of the Choose Your Own Adventure aspect?
Maybe, like using #Windows instead of #Linux, a lot of people just don’t want to be given the reins?
"Periodic #reminder that unless a #person specifically and clearly tells you it is okay to tell others they are trans or queer, you should err on the side of caution and assume they do not want you to tell #people (especially random people!) about their transness or queerness.
You have no idea, generally, why somebody doesn't talk openly about their trans or queer status, and you have no idea, truly, how somebody might react to that information. The most progressive person out there is still capable of harbouring incredibly negative thoughts about somebody's queer status."
#Reminder#FediTips
Backup your follow lists NOW because it will soon be a shit show of cross-defederation, and some admins like @stux don't even give a warning before hand.
You can download a CSV of your follows from your account preferences (Import and export > Data export), or (not in CSV form, though) using command line told like @ihabunek's toot https://github.com/ihabunek/toot
The hardest part for me to remember while taking ADHD meds is that they don't change who I am and my symptoms outside my medicated hours. They don't "make me better" They just help me get through the day working on things I need to.