@AngryGirlK I'm currently reading Boyd's "Sweet Caress". Very enjoyable, it's another long life, this time of a female photographer told in first person.

#SilentSunday

@tvaziri Tales of the City I believe.

🚨The Lever is hiring🚨

Our newsroom won the 2025 National Press Club Award - and now we are expanding.

Please see the job listing here - and please pass it on to anyone you know who might be interested in applying.

https://www.levernews.com/now-hiring-senior-investigative-reporter-2026/

The colors and shapes in nature is at all times astounding.

I apologize in advance for no alt texts. I don't see any way to describe these flowers and I don't know their names.

So the book stood out in a noticeable way. And I should send the title, cover and link. Often after these, I'll get a "I was wondering if you had the time to consider..."

This is one of the dumbest email "offers" for book promo I've seen. I think it's even too dumb to be AI-generated. And I got two of them from identical from gmail but to two addresses of mine.

#books #book #scam #spam

@johnnywilliams VoIP Users Conference which became Visions Under Construction. It was a weekly interactive conference podcast, that is, people called in first on phones and then when we got video it became a video conference. It ran for 12 years, monetized by sponsors. No ads, just a thank you at the beginning. Many people all over the world met at international conferences in Berlin and in the United States several cities.

Fediverse friends, can you help me out?

I've been an independent contractor for a long time. Now that my salesperson is retiring, I'm looking for work, and open to contract work or regular employment (i.e. "get a real job") in or near Sunnyvale, CA.

I have degrees in computer science and management, usually develop systems of electronic circuits and software, and have been the principal engineer for a startup that grew to about 170, and a project's principal hardware engineer within a company of about 130,000.

Lately I've been getting highly motivated to find work, and open to nearly anything that offers at least a living wage.

I think that I might be doing something wrong with my resume.

If you are so inclined, would you please have a look at my resume (here in HTML, with contact info redacted) and perhaps offer a critique? Please feel free to message privately.

Thanks

https://www.syncopate.us/resumes/carlsen

#FediHire

Here's the VUC meetup

https://meet.google.com/epe-qskt-quy

An unforgettable moment in Internet history when France's then president Jacques Chrac was shown a computer and told to use the mouse and he says, "What do you mean by mouse?"
(Qu'est-ce que vous entendez par 'souris'?)

When you wake up at 4 AM and can't get back to sleep, do you really need a watch to tell you about your night? When I went out on a long walk, my leg muscles told me more than a watch could.

Do you have any questions about how to use Mastodon or the wider Fediverse? Feel free to ask in the replies, or DM me if you want to ask in private.

No question is stupid or silly, I'm especially trying to help new people 🙂

(If you prefer to look stuff up without asking, there is lots of help for new people on the website at https://fedi.tips )

#Mastodon #Fediverse

@paul_ipv6 @ai6yr 😂

"If you are caught in the hallway during a 'passing period' without a specific physical object or a signed slip of paper, what is that object commonly called, and who is the person likely to stop you?"

Question generated by Gemini when I asked for something you'd have to be an American 16 or older to know. Not really excellent.

If your music isn't getting the attention it deserves, remember that The Beatles were passed up by at least one major label. We laughed at Bob Dylan, when it first came out, too.

Just write it and record. Do it for yourself. If there's an audience, fine. If not, that's something you've achieved.

@lminiero For a show over 20 years old, you have to admit, it's amazing!

Have you seen the TV series "Homeland"?
There are things in it that will amaze you as pre-echoes of today.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1796960/

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