Zenith, 🌿🌊🐉 @leafnoodle@awoo.space
An ace leafy seadragon tooting about.
Retoots lots of dumb stuff.
Interactions welcome.
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🔞💦🐉: @lewdnoodle
Joined Jun 2017
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Remember a month ago? That was two and a half years ago.
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i should probably not laugh as much at this as i do, but the "skillfully combined with a number of other ingredients" on the One Night Cough Syrup gets me every single time y'all
cw for drugs on account of old-timey patent medicines being fucking bonkers
It's quite an upgrade from the "default apache directory listing" look I was going by for the past....2.5 years.
In the truest manner of coder-furry, I had to reinvent the wheels and bake my own art gallery from scratch.
But now it's done, and I think it looks really nice!
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RT @InertialObservr@twitter.com
Illusion of The Year 2019 Winner
It's based on a simple Lissajous curve, but uses clever shading/highlighting to create a 'double-axis' illusion
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/InertialObservr/status/1206066397454852098
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why be a person when you can be lizard
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If you see another non-binary person with an even better haircut than yours, would you say you're feeling... enbious?
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anyways my point is i feel like furry convention badges should be mandatory at any and all events larger than six people
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it's a four lane mobius interchange now. I don't know why I'm doing this, or why I'm enjoying it so much. The chaos is beautiful
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brb becoming a furry because apparently those are the only people active on here 🤣
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so historically ninjas were just like, black ops samurai. guys who specialized in surveillance, spying, and assassinations. they'd either wear samurai armor or commoner clothes to blend in and carry out their actions. (there's even evidence of them doing things like sharpening coins into shuriken for assassinations). but after the fact (as in decades--centuries) in japanese theatre in kabuki in particular there were ninja characters who'd appear. what they did was have the ninjas in all black--the uniform of japanese stagehands. the audiences are trained to just completely ignore the stagehands even if they were like actively moving scenery during a scene. so for the ninjas to appear in all black and then start talking, would have been as if they materialized out of thin air and been a very powerful special effect. this continued on into japanese film with the costumes
strike terminology
I don’t know where the recent convention of “we’re boycotting this website, don’t go there or you’re a scab” came from, but it annoys the heck out of me.
Scabs are *hired workers*. A *customer* is not a scab, they’re just unhelpful.
work
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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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.
An ace leafy seadragon tooting about.
Retoots lots of dumb stuff.
Interactions welcome.
Pronouns: they/he.
🔞💦🐉: @lewdnoodle
Joined Jun 2017
