Another benefit of RSS readers is you don’t have to put your contact info on someone else’s list to get notified.

I’d like to think this isn’t relevant, but.

@octothorpe 19x26 inches (48x66 cm for non-heathens) at what I believe is 400 stitches per square inch. So not a million stitches, but a great many.

Roughly three years and a million or so stitches later, my partner H has finished Waterhouse’s Lady of Shalott. She’s been cross stitching on the theme of women sewing for a while, but this is her biggest piece yet.

Haven't seen anyone in my timeline complaining about Monday, not even the Captain meme.

Guess we're feeling like it's all Mondays for the next while.

@octothorpe Each relationship is different. My partner and I trust each other, so we don’t need each other’s passwords.

On the other hand, the kid and his girlfriend have each other’s passwords as a sign of trust.

@octothorpe Under the circumstances I’m not sure it’s wise for her to hand over her unlocked phone.

Also: This is a new feature? My phone makes slide shows all the time without me asking.

Also also: Did they not see the scathing article going around about the person who got an AI-generated greeting from a “friend”?

Do not ever expect that someone will risk their job or risk jail for you. They won't, regardless of how unjust it is. They might bend, but they will not break.

When our son had his top surgery scheduled (after 5 years and as many recommending doctors) and the state law changed to prohibit it, no one stood up and said, "We got you." They just cancelled the surgery and didn't even let him know.

@octothorpe I think it's a lingering part of my Twitter brain.

They keep things forever For Reasons. Those reasons don't exist here.

I already think its suspicious when someone boosts or likes a post more than a few days old.

In other words, yeah.

Setting my automatic post deletion from a year to 6 months.

Feel like I could set it to a week and nothing would seem to be missing.

If you would like to get into a mindfulness practice, I'll share the Healthy Minds app.

It's a non-scammy, non-spammy, ad-free, science-based mindfulness guide.

It's one of the most honest "Does what it says on the tin" apps I've found in a creepy class of apps.

https://hminnovations.org/meditation-app

@octothorpe Not only has she built her career on her own terms, but she's brought so many people along with her. I'm more of a fan of her than her music, but I go to her shows when I can because they're full of good energy.

@octothorpe I’d have committed crimes to see those two on stage together.

Folks in the US, if you are having a mental health crisis, call 988.

I’ve used them.

I would like to install Linux for general use on my old Intel Macs which range from 2011-ish to 2014 models.

What #Linux should I look at for general use on old machines without a lot of faffing about in 2024?

@octothorpe Oops! All Monday

(Hope you have brownies left over.)

@octothorpe Goodness, I miss working for very small businesses. I won't say they were all good, but they were the places that would treat me like a person. Wish I knew where they went. Maybe bigger companies sucked all of their air away? Most of those that I worked with are now at A Very Big Corp. I suspect one cannot even find small companies to apply to because the big ones have gamed they system too effectively.

@octothorpe Yeah, acknowledge and stay of the way fits well into how I think. Thoughtful management could plan around known common holidays. They're already in the calendar. But give folks time off when they need it, be supportive of that.

Ideally I want a company that lets the employees turn off the company brain when they go home, and not try to make the company more homey. If the company has worthwhile goals and treats folks like humans, we'll do the work without tricks.

@octothorpe Thanks for providing a second opinion on that. I know I am obnoxiously negative about corporate behavior, but I want to make sure I'm not completely making things up.

It was part of a corporate recognition of Diwali, the Hindu festival that symbolizes the spiritual victory of light over darkness.

:
- Diwali
- Victory of light over darkness.

:
- Corporation borrowing spiritual traditions to reframe them as management practices.

Is my reaction just me being Very American again?

Song played at the opening of the all-hands meeting about "transformative fire" "The theme is one of purification through suffering"

Neat.