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RickiTarr, 12 days ago to random

What is your dream road trip? Where would you start? Where would you end up? What stops would you make along the way? It can be short or long, whatever interests you!

suzka, 23 days ago to random

@acdha @jobs This announcement is closed

daj, 3 months ago to random

That feeling when you wonder if it's time to stop following @lisamelton now that you have built up a good Timeline and think you don't need her boosts to help you find interesting followers -- well, that.

I'm scared. I can't do it. 😉

matdevdug, 4 months ago to tech

The thing about #tech #layoffs that people who haven’t been through it often don’t understand is that morale never recovers. The employees who remain will never have the same relationship with that company, bosses or peers.

Watching people you respect pack their stuff and crying on the phone with their spouses is something that never goes away. When I survived a layoff in my 20s I became a “do exactly what the ticket says” person. I stopped suggesting ideas, providing feedback, believing anything a manager told me.

If you are a company considering layoffs, especially a profitable company, you should approach it as “this department will have 100% turnover”. The second I got another job offer I left that company and six months later nobody who had been there at the time of layoffs remained.

I’ve seen that pattern play out multiple times.

stux, 4 months ago to random

At the start of last month my gf and me got a massive bill to repay a part of taxes over 2021, unfort because of a calc error 😟 :sad_cat:

It's in total over 2400 euros and we're trying to get a payment plan cause it's huge..

I hate to ask but would anyone be able to help us a little with this? ❤️

https://paypal.me/stuxOS
https://patreon.com/mstdn
https://ko-fi.com/mstdn
https://liberapay.com/mstdn
https://opencollective.com/mstdn
https://bunq.me/stuxhost

Any bit would be appreciated a wbole lot :cathug:

stux, 4 months ago to random

I'm still struggling to find a fitting name for the medieval RPG I'm working on.. 🤔

So much is taken and I don't wanna step on any (studio) balls

Even tried AI but that only gives me stuff that exists already so back to the brainboard :blobcatgiggle:

Something short, one- maybe two words, with a medieval, grim, dark theme that people can remember and is still available in Steam (domain can be worked around)

MHowell, 4 months ago to Seattle

Cory Doctorow at Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, Mon 2/26 at 7pm

The Bezzle: A Martin Hench Novel

A seething rebuke of the privatized prison system that delves deeply into the arcane and baroque financial chicanery involved in the 2008 financial crash, The Bezzle is a sizzling follow-up to Red Team Blues.

Cory Doctorow returns to Third Place Books for the next book in his Martin Hench series, a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s prisons are traded like stock shares. This event is free and open to the public.

"Cory Doctorow is one of our most important science fiction authors."
—Kim Stanley Robinson

"Cory Doctorow doesn't just write about the future—I think he lives there!"
—Kelly Link

RSVP here
https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/cory-doctorow

#LakeForestPark #Kenmore #Seattle #CoryDoctorow #Enshittification
@pluralistic

Cat_LeFey, 4 months ago to paganism

I might be an odd teacher of #Paganism because I encourage people to not do it if they're not feeling it. I think of it like sex, which is another intimate experience: if you don't want it, if you're not having a good time, then you shouldn't be doing it. Your practice should be enjoyable. If you're not looking forward to performing a ritual or celebrating a holiday, then put it aside until the inspiration strikes again.

If there is one thing I teach you, let it be that you should never, ever feel guilty about not practicing your craft enough. Let go of that capitalist “always growing” mindset, let go of the Catholic-inspired fear of retribution. There is no ‘missing out.’ The cyclical nature of paganism means that you can pick it up at any point in time.

#Pagan

erictopol, 6 months ago to random

The superior, durable immune response for a mucosal (nasal or nebulizer) Covid booster compared with bivalent shot in non-human primates vs XBB.1.16 variant infections
http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.11.06.565765

nikunashi, 7 months ago to scifi

Utopian climate sci-fi/spec fiction??

Sign me up.

@pluralistic has a kickstarter going for his upcoming book:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-lost-cause-a-novel-of-climate-and-hope

#CoryDoctorow #SciFi #SpeculativeFiction #Climate #UtopianFiction #NoDRM #AudioBooks

Alice, 8 months ago to random

Found some graffiti with my name so of course I took some dorky photos (with bonus photo of me taking my dorky photos).

Photo of an awkward woman with brown hair and sunglasses taking a selfie while posing next to graffiti in red paint on plywood that says ALICE^2

stux, 8 months ago to random

Omnomnom

Little beaver or something like that is eating foodies in front of a camera

bedirthan, 8 months ago to random

It's a weekend in #seatte to discover new music.
My discovery is Cumulus, out of Bellingham.
They'd fit right in the Friends soundtrack. Perfect GenX folk rock angst with a two member band

bedirthan, 9 months ago to DnD

tl;dr - I've become a horse-race style observer of the #DnD movie because I see the numbers as a proxy for acceptance of a hobby that remains just on the edge of pop culture.

http://fullmoonstorytelling.com/2023/08/20/why-am-i-so-concerned-with-the-popularity-of-dungeons-dragons-honor-among-thieves/

rodhilton, 9 months ago to random

Right now if you search for "country in Africa that starts with the letter K":

• DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.

• Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.

This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:

"There are no countries in Africa that start with K."
"What about Kenya?"
"Kenya suck deez nuts?"

Google Search is over.

Google country in africa that starts with the letter k X & @& Q Images South africa Maps News Shopping Books Videos Flights. Finance About 318,000,000 results (0.55 seconds) While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter "K". B Emersent Mind The closest is Kenya, which starts with a "K" Did you know that there s no countey in . e wen fca e st withche ler 7 sound, but is actually spelled with a "K" sound. & : 1 It's always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this. & Emergent Mind https://www.emergentmind.com » posts » did-youknow-.. i Did you know that there is no country in Africa that starts with ... @ Aboutfeatured snippets - J Feedback

suzka, 10 months ago to random

Had the best time driving through the Asian Lanterns experience at the Cleveland Zoo tonight. Highly recommend! 10/10 would go again

Venus fly trap in lights of green and orange at the Asian Lanterns exhibit at the Cleveland Zoo
Photo of Peking Ducks in multicolor lights floating among the lighted lily pads in the water
Photo of a massive light display of a fire breathing dragon boat

mcc, 10 months ago to random

… thanks, Google. I guess

appleinsider, 10 months ago to random

Threads hasn't been alive for a day, and Twitter is already threatening to sue
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/07/06/threads-hasnt-been-alive-for-a-day-and-twitter-is-already-threatening-to-sue?utm_medium=rss

bedirthan, 10 months ago to random

From my rewatch of The Magicians I am convinced that there is no better set of musical episodes in any other American tv show.

Cat_LeFey, 10 months ago to crochet

It took me the whole moon to finish this beaded lace crochet runner. I'm going to put it on the bookshelf which holds all of my astrology books.

#FullMoonArt #FiberArt #Crochet #Astrology

briankrebs, 10 months ago to random

Google search is drunk. I cannot search for what I want rn (something beginning with an "A") because its predictive text or AI whatever keeps filling in the name of the actor Alan Arkin, who just died (RIP, great actor).

elejia, 11 months ago to random

Well friends, I am currently looking for work. I can do manager-y things pretty darn well, but I miss code. Especially low level code... That being said, my "general" background is in dev'ing the ops, release engineering, and managering.

I also like mainframes and other things that most people think are weird... Boosts and any opportunities are appreciated! If any opps don't fit me, I have a network of others and I'll pass it on ❤️

Here's my linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-hain/

macrumors, 11 months ago to random

Lionel Messi May Receive Cut of Apple TV's MLS Season Pass Revenue https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/07/lionel-messi-mls-season-pass-terms/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon