I'm sure this has been posted a bunch of times but while I like the post visibility tiers in Mastodon, I wish we had the Twitter default option for REPLIES: follower-set-intersect-visible (or "mutual followers").
In other words: followers that you & the account you are replying-to SHARE will see the post, but followers of yours that don't ALSO follow the other account you are replying to do not. Less noisy, more relevant. Ideally also remains discoverable when other users explore the thread.
To make my point crystal clear: I’m saying that there is a gigantic opportunity here for politicians and the building trades to massively enrich themselves at public expense, and we would all be better off if they would take it
For today's #Caturday I'm going to go with an action shot I took when Loki and Theo were around 4 months old.
I set up a camera on a tripod and was teasing them to get them to jump from a cat tree to the top of a small cabinet. On one occasion, however, both were on different platforms on the tree and decided to jump at the same time resulting in this shot...
#BengalCat #AbyssinianCat #CatsOfMastodon #CatPhoto #Kittens #PetPhoto #photography
Random thought: large corporations have spent billions of dollars producing pop culture where the villain is an evil soul-eating corporation.
The overall effect has been to turn "evil, soul-eating corporation" into a cliche and a kind of stock villain on the same level as Smaug the Dragon, rather than something that exists and is a real-world problem.
In other words, money well spent?
I'm having like, an ongoing panic attack as I'm collating and compiling Brain & COVID research articles together.
Like chemobrain in some ways,
Like HIV associated neurocognitive decline in some ways,
Like Parkinson's in some ways,
Like Alzheimer's in some ways,
Like accelerated aging in some ways,
Like stroke in many ways,
AVOID.
COVID.
FOR FUCKS SAKE.
i was laid-off twice early in my career in very large reorgs / cost-cutting.
the thing that wld have been helpful for me to hear then was 'this is not abt you. you were a number on someone's spreadsheet. they wanted that number to go down by 1000 or 2000 or 10,000'.
so, to anyone who needs to hear that today:
it's not abt you. you did nothing wrong.
How is it that companies will have $10 billion sitting around to invest but need to lay off 10,000 workers to save money?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-talks-invest-10-bln-chatgpt-owner-semafor-2023-01-10/
Thanks to #TheIncomparable for reminding me to go read The Golden Enclaves (third book in Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series). Novik does an amazing job of writing a transparent metaphor that instead of being eye-rolling is eye-opening. Not sure how the book’s solutions to the metaphorical threat can apply to our capitalist, racist, patriarchal real-world issues, but it’s definitely food for thought.
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