Zenith, 🌿🌊🐉 @leafnoodle@awoo.space
An ace leafy seadragon tooting about.
Retoots lots of dumb stuff.
Interactions welcome.
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Joined Jun 2017
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spent my morning extensively & unsuccessfully arguing with coworkers that resizing an image is a lossy operation.
how’s your day going
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Regular PSA on IT/Eng/Ops burnout (long)
Apropos of nothing: regular reminder, especially for people in IT/Eng: you don't make it anywhere by working 80 hours a week and being available 24/7.
Your org will thank you for your dedication, expect it from everyone else on your team, and call it "normal" from then on, not reward you. Not in any real tangible way anyway. I've seen it a dozen times in my so many years in the industry.
Overworking like this leads to the org expecting your co-workers do the same, and masks understaffing issues that lead to not having proof you need to demand additional hires to shoulder the load. You're doing yourself no favor and harming everyone else.
If you can't get your workload done in a normal work week that is a management problem. Make it a management problem as much as you can.
You are entitled to, and absolutely should, unplug when you go home for the day. If your org discourages this, that is a problem.
Demand security of your own personal time. If your job requires on-call, demand a clear on-call procedure and clear escalation policy that outlines WHEN and WHY you can be contacted off-hours. Push back on its necessity if you can and finally enforce it if it's comfortable.
If your org uses Slack or similar, set your quiet hours. If you have a separate work device or software, shut it off off the clock.
I can't stress any of this enough.
PS: Unionize, damnit!
Your org will thank you for your dedication, expect it from everyone else on your team, and call it "normal" from then on, not reward you. Not in any real tangible way anyway. I've seen it a dozen times in my so many years in the industry.
Overworking like this leads to the org expecting your co-workers do the same, and masks understaffing issues that lead to not having proof you need to demand additional hires to shoulder the load. You're doing yourself no favor and harming everyone else.
If you can't get your workload done in a normal work week that is a management problem. Make it a management problem as much as you can.
You are entitled to, and absolutely should, unplug when you go home for the day. If your org discourages this, that is a problem.
Demand security of your own personal time. If your job requires on-call, demand a clear on-call procedure and clear escalation policy that outlines WHEN and WHY you can be contacted off-hours. Push back on its necessity if you can and finally enforce it if it's comfortable.
If your org uses Slack or similar, set your quiet hours. If you have a separate work device or software, shut it off off the clock.
I can't stress any of this enough.
PS: Unionize, damnit!
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@Naux lookin’ good!
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Friendsgiving is this weekend for our little chapter of sonoma-marin queers, co-run by myself and @leafnoodle! You know what that means - it's time for..... A COOKING THREAD! 
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It's about that time of year when people start wondering things like "hey, why isn't DECEMber the tenth month of the year?"
So it's time for my little lecture on Romans, calendars, and our friend Gaius Julius Caesar.
I'll be posting it as a tootchain replying to this one, but if you're impatient, here's the whole thing: https://gist.github.com/joyeusenoelle/3754e00a37fe81aa43aad3eb9543f3ce
So: “Why isn’t the new year on winter solstice?”
The answer, honestly, is that the Romans had no fucking idea how to run a calendar.
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fun fact: the german article “die” is read by most english trained algorithms as "die"
this legitimately means you can get a 12 hour ban for talking about "the boomers" auf deutsch on birdsite
@Naux it’s so fun!
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pokemon snark
the genre must stay completely unchanged and backwards compatible to 1996, the same way that we all still play Quake 1, Diablo 1, and Daggerfall.
pokemon snark
In 1996, newly-founded Game Freak signed a deal with Satan to ensure the success of their new franchise.
As part of the deal, they are demonically bound to ensure any player can “catch ‘em all”, without interruption, in perpetuity.
To think they would try to break that pact after a mere 23 years! madness!
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look i know ive been yelling about this for 2 days but its so good
RT @pup_hime@twitter.com
look at this bomb-ass art of Yura by https://www.furaffinity.net/user/xicheo/ !!!!!!
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also brought to you by reading this 3.5 Monster Manual III is tonight's "words you can sing in place of My Little Pony"
"Skullcrusher ogre"
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I was an average happy kid; I liked sparkles, jumping around, stickers, hugs, sunflowers, tractors and making friends.
But because the skull of my father's dead horse followed me everywhere I went, whispering ancient songs, people assumed I was cursed and destined for a life of Goth poems, corsets and eye-liner.
It didn't even glow in the dark! It wasn't even on fire!
The day mom added giant googly-eyes drastically improved reactions.
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I feel called out by today's Nancy https://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2019/10/22
@NicoleTheLizard@queer.af that’s really good!
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jokemon (jean pokemon)
I’ll never forgive ios for its forced auto-arrange on app icons. it’s vastly less usable than the worst windows95 desktop ever was.
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My housemates are convinced our house is haunted.
I've lived here for 274 years and not noticed anything strange.
FF4:FE
@Goldkin Meltan! It was pretty great.
An ace leafy seadragon tooting about.
Retoots lots of dumb stuff.
Interactions welcome.
Pronouns: they/he.
Joined Jun 2017
