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ShaulaEvans

@ShaulaEvans@zirk.us

audiobook narrator/voice actor + writer/editor/script dev/filmmaker + much more. artist & friend of artists. human & friend of humans. thinker. feeler.

Support: https://ko-fi.com/shaula

https://justmytoots.com/@ShaulaEvans@Zirk.us

My posts are licensed CC-BY-NC-ND - see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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ShaulaEvans, to random
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I've been spending a lot of time lately talking to a 20-something friend whose lungs and heart were badly messed up by covid, on top of an existing complicated medical situation. If he gets covid again, he's dead. He doesn't currently expect to live to 30 (which is a fair assessment).

Today he informed me that my isolation life terrifies him & stresses him out. So he's cutting off contact for his mental health.

(continued)

ShaulaEvans, to random
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A friend of mine with small children is trying to get out of an abusive relationship.

I would like to point her at good resources about digital security in her situation.

If anyone has expertise in this field who can give me solid recommendations, I would appreciate it very much.

*Yes, I'm aware of Widows 11 / Recall.

*I do not need uninformed opinions or speculation from anyone and especially not from men. Thank you for your reading comprehension.

ShaulaEvans, to random
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If you are an informed, intelligent, compassionate, in-any-way-science-literate person, how are you coping with living through these times? What's helping?

No snark, please. I'm interested in sincere, practical answers.

ShaulaEvans,
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@Pagan_Animist I read this and exhaled a breath it feels like I've been holding since the dawn of time.

Thank you. xo

ShaulaEvans,
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@Pagan_Animist Best wishes on connecting with a new therapist that's great for you!

ShaulaEvans,
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@thepoliticalcat Me? Coping?? In this economy???

ShaulaEvans,
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@thepoliticalcat Okay, now for the useful reply:

The Internet feels like a miracle in this time. I think, often, about how if this was 1918 I'd be having these conversations by airmail letter.

My media diet is really intentionally filtered: I can't take upsetting movies, either.

ShaulaEvans, to random
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When you ask a stranger to explain something to you or to educate you, you are asking for their time, attention and expertise. On social media, you're probably not offering to pay for these resources.

  • Respect other people
  • Look it up before you ask.
  • Look for an answer in the comments before you ask.
  • Are you asking for an explanation of a joke? Don't.
  • If you must ask, phrase your question as a request, not a demand.
  • Recognize that not all posts are for you. You can move on, it's okay.
ShaulaEvans, to random
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Every once in a while it occurs to me that people post such wonderfully random things on the Fediverse that any one of you could be functionally running a numbers station or beaming out activation codes and we'd never guess.

ShaulaEvans, to random
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"I know you're working for the CIA
They wouldn't have you in the Mafi-A"

War, Why Can't We Be Friends

ShaulaEvans,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHmmjnEdtx8

ShaulaEvans, to random
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I was just in a work meeting for a distributed team & everyone is (rightly) concerned about how many collaborative tools that the team relies on to work together across distance are now scraping the team's proprietary data & stuffing it into AI training sets.

I would love recommendations for collaborative tools (doc editing, email, video calls, anything/everything) that A) you use and like, & that B) has strong (reliable) position on user data privacy. (Edit: Self-hosting is not an option.)

ShaulaEvans,
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Related: I would love to nudge this team into not running the organizational email through Gmail.

Again, if anyone can make a recommendation of a business email option for a low tech team with a strong technical administrator, let me know. (Self-hosting is not an option at this time.)

ShaulaEvans,
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I'm seeing lots of recs for ProtonMail. I'm a fan of ProtonMail personally. Has anyone ever used it for an organization, and is it set up for branded business email? I've never dealt with that.

Given how much info this team keeps in their email, my big concern would be people getting locked out of accounts and losing institutional knowledge.

(Low tech, underpaid, overworked team: no, they are not going to change their work styles for the sake of a new email system.)

ShaulaEvans,
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Also related: Can anyone recommend a good, reliable password manager a remote team could use for shared logins?

(I have had bad experiences with password managers that other people chose in the past. I'm not a fan. But it's a solution that might solve a problem in this particular situation.)

ShaulaEvans, to random
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Life Skills We Don't Teach People That We Need Right Now:

The ability to sit with someone else in suffering or hardship in solidarity, without erasing, minimizing, or smearing Toxic Positivity all over their pain; also, without centering ourselves.

Are there societies, culture or subcultures that are good at this?

ShaulaEvans, to random
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Really craving a T-shirt that says: "Semmelweis was right".

ShaulaEvans, to random
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I'm seeing a lot of people report that they're feeling sick on my TL.

If an audiobook in a soothing voice might make you feel a little better, I'm happy to offer a free copy of any of my fiction audiobooks to people in hard times. You can find them listed here:

https://adaraastin.ck.page/223e08bb72

Let me know if you'd like a US or UK Audible version (the only free copies I have, alas), and which title.

It's that easy. A gift, no catches.

I hope you get well soon. xo

ShaulaEvans, to linguistics
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Who else is on Duolingo?

It's always nice to cheer for people I know there. If you'd like to connect, here's my invitation link. Just let me know here that you're a Masto friend and I will follow you back.

https://invite.duolingo.com/BDHTZTB5CWWKTEPRNQXJY7XND4

Note: this is not an invitation to rant about why you hate Duolingo. Don't be boorish please, I'm far too tired for it. xo

#Duolingo #Language #LanguageStudy

ShaulaEvans, to poetry
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I had a lovely conversation recently with a dear friend about poetry, so I have poetry on my mind.

I'd love to know one poem you love (just one), and why you love it or why it sticks with you. Can be a line, fragement (go Sappho!) or verse, whatever stays in your heart.

ShaulaEvans, to random
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It feels almost euphoric at this point to encounter someone who lives in a shared reality that is in fact based on reality and science.

ShaulaEvans, to random
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It is always good to pause and ask yourself if you are holding the laser pointer or if you are the cat.

ShaulaEvans, to audiobooks
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Reminder that if you want to hear me perform the voice of a 6'5" mountain man, I do that in "Scar" by Kelsie Calloway. In real life I'm a tiny woman! But I also have opera training, and that makes all the difference when I'm voicing burly men. 💪

You can hear him make his first appearance a the end of the attached sample.

SCAR: High Heat BBW Mountain Man Instalove

Get it now! https://geni.us/scarh

#Audiobook #Audiobooks #Romance @audiobooks @bookstodon @romancelandia

A kindle displays the cover for Scar, by Kelsie Calloway, Narrated by Eden Cavell. The female protagonist, Marilyn, describes her arrival in Alaska. She hears a rumbling in the distance, when an angry, burly mountain man interrupts her with "Jesus H. Christ." The audiobook is also available through Amazon as an ebook, at the same link.

ShaulaEvans, to random
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If you've ever made or read a great pitch deck, what was the title for the testimonials slide?

I'm giving notes on a pitch deck for a friend's project and I'd like to give them some good examples to work with.

ShaulaEvans, to filmmaking
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Well done match cuts bring me great joy.

Match cut: in film, a cut from one shot to another in which the composition of the two shots are matched by the action or subject and subject matter.

By well done I mean at both a technical and conceptual level, in a way that serves the story.

#Filmmaking #Screenwriting @film

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