California fires
So, uh. The two fires closest to where I live have consumed nearly 9,500 acres of land together.
If you can spare any cash and want to help, I urge you to donate to charities in the affected areas: Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino counties. I personally can vouch for the Redwood Credit Union Community Fund, as it's run by the credit union I've been a member of since I was a teenager and they have never once tried skeezy banker bullshit on me. https://rcu-community-fund.squarespace.com/donate/
Venting about work (3)
Today I found out that the company blocks access to Microsoft Teams -- which was the suggested alternative to Slack when my request to unblock Slack was denied.
Also I found out when talking to the helpdesk that they don't use the company provided tools for security reasons(!!!) and guess what they use?
That's right! Slack!
I almost literally cried in frustration today. I started tearing up and got up and made tea and watched stupid shit on YouTube for a while instead
https://cybre.space/media/rPEsza81c8MPbQQ10hU
Dragoneir escaped again today and is now in gay baby jail (a smaller enclosure with a locking lid) for the next couple hours while I clean so I can transfer them to my older appropriately sized enclosure with locking lid + extra locks 🙄🙄🙄
Re: venting about work
https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/sof/d/mid-senior-lamp-stack/6331422736.html
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
@vahnj I think your message may have had a mild attack of Autocorrect, but it also became the GREATEST DRAWING PROMPT I'VE EVER SEEN? https://awoo.space/media/0Tx8VUJViyGXPjBfB6U https://awoo.space/media/Nfe4fL6VK7nGphqFh-I
Venting about work (2)
On top of this, they're replatforming to a system based in Java.
I don't know Java. They're offering to teach me which is cool, but... I dunno. Python? Awesome. Ruby? I'm there. ...but Java? ...In 2017??
I mean, all that plus the parent company is heavily invested in the military industrial complex... And so they keep cutting budgets to make up for their losses in sales in that sector and...
I'm not sure I'll ever really be happy at this company, and that sucks. 😞
Venting about work
I think it might be time to look for a new job.
They're going to cut off my team from accessing:
• Slack
• Skype
• Dropbox
• Google Drive
• Google Docs
• Gmail
• Telegram
• Trello
• Assembla (our ticketing system and wiki)
and others
They insist they provide everything we need with:
• MS Teams (bad UI & fewer features)
• Skype for Business (company policy doesn't allow chat history or external contacts)
• MS OneDrive (Eh.)
• Company Email
• ServiceNow (…)
• MS Sharepoint
Economic thoughts from a plush mawr and a sleepy @kelseyhusky:
Vermin Supreme's pony based economy stimulus would result in a lot more pregnant horses... Which means a more readily available source for estrogen... Which means:
Vermin Supreme would cause the price of HRT to drop.
Just sayin'.
For indigenous people's day: tool for north americans to find out whose land they're living on, with links.
This seemed much too Mastodon not to repost here.
Dragony plush thing! Friendly, non-binary, anarcho-syndicalist, ace.
Check out @mawr for my public account.