@JessTheUnstill the next morning and we picked up all the broken glass together before any children turned up. And I never got in trouble for the drinking. And that's how it should be

@JessTheUnstill one of the best things my parents ever did for me was when I was an underage drinker, we were drinking in a children's playground and someone dropped a bottle and smashed it. And I said we should pick up the pieces in case a child cut themselves, and my "friends" started laughing […]

Parents, an important thing my to communicate clearly and explicitly to your kids:

Any time for any reason, if they need out of something, they can blame you, call you for a ride, whatever, and you'll deal with whatever fallout might come of it. Teacher being a bully? Principal yelling at you? […]

Poll's over. https://beige.party/@mayintoronto/115333436396003954

Highlights:
- I never want to hear about how Fedi people are unsocial. 86% of you went outside at least once to meet another human being.

- Someone actually got a kidney from a fedi-friend :blobcatlove […]

I have hilariously screwed up my day by getting a time conversion wrong. But hey, check out these cool pinhole rising-sun images projected on the wall this morning by the natural pinholes created by trees outside! You can actually see the half-circle shape of […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

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**I'm looking for work!**

I'm a **high-level infra and devops engineer** and **team lead.**

I've previously **run my own team** , and previously worked at **Mozilla** and **Facebook**. I'm looking for **infra/devops lead** or **senior infra/devops engineer** positions.

I'm not looking for […]

If you’re a pound shop politician desperately angling for populist clout by claiming you’ve seen no white faces in some place you visited then I have some advice: If that’s truly what you’ve observed then it’s not evidence that BME migrants don’t “integrate”. It’s evidence that the whites won’t […]

Another benefit of Brexit ... the UK has returned to its traditional role as the dirty man of Europe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@pete unfortunately it's a beauty thing that started in South Korea putting snail extract in skincare stuff so yeah it's real snail 😢

The weird and honestly slightly upsetting thing about having pet #GiantAfricanLandSnails is you get a reputation at work as "the person who likes snails" and then people give you things like soap or facemasks made out of snails? Like people wouldn't do that with any other pet, you know?

One of the early challenges I experienced when unionizing is that people don't want to talk to those who sit close to them, they want to talk to people who are ideologically aligned.

That includes me, it's something I had to get over.

What I found, and many others found, was that ideological […]

Your annual reminder that modern physics is done in diverse teams of anything between 1 and 1000 people, by people of all backgrounds imaginable.

Breakthroughs are not made single-handedly by at most 3 white men. Arguably they never were.

Hey there! I'm one of the blind folks who read alt text on here. I'd like to say thank you for adding that so that I can also enjoy images of cartoon animals. A little effort from you means a world of difference for people like me
#accessibility #alttext #blind

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I wish that when someone who had been struggling with depression for a long time dies, we would say "She died from depression" similar to how we say "He died from cancer" or "They died from AIDS".

Sure, the depression itself didn't stop the heart beating, but it was the reason that […]

By purchasing these treats we have now accidentally trained the cats to go feral and try to climb us every time we make gravy.

(Also Tesco's Free From beef gravy granules are vegan, as if the world wasn't weird enough already)

Can anyone recommend a very basic, non-data harvesting Android app that would allow me to track time worked on different projects? I don't need any billing or anything, just pick a project, start the clock when I start working, stop the clock when i finish. Happy to pay if reasonable. TIA

#askfedi

I’m a scientist who studies how climate change impacts our lives and the places we love.

Most of us are worried, but many feel stuck on what to do. If that's the way you feel, check out this list below!

We can’t fix it alone, but I know we can together. 💚

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.

Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.

We can’t afford to NOT do it.

Good morning my friends,

I'm still alive. Despite of everything, I'm trying to be positive. When my mother asks me about the news, I tell her only the positive news (if there is any). She is always depressed (you know the responsibilities of the mothers in our situation 😢😢).

We are trying to […]

We even had 3 hours on Saturday when Belgian consumption was entirely covered by renewables.

Great thread by @jolaveyne.bsky.social

Protest the billionaires profiting from Home Office refugee housing contracts, not the refugees. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9r5m74de8o

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid - I absolutely love this for him. Good job my dude

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/07/nobel-committee-unable-to-reach-medicine-prize-winner-hiking-off-grid