evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

Eh, pls #boost my request to #getfedihired, if you could spare two clicks? 🥺

I've been humming and hawing about posting this, it feels strange, something about generational guilt & working class shame & ... but it's either this or start putting my CV through LLMs to include every buzzword on the listing I'm applying to. I haven't been able to stomach that, even though I presume that's a lot of my competition.

I simply can't get to an interview. Historically, I've done three interviews and got the job each time, because I'm a real human being who is friendly and chatty and presents himself sincerely (or, that's my guess, anyway).

#Christmas miracles appreciated!

In #Ireland with my partner, but we've lived in different places and would move happily. I've a year experience doing an IT support role the last year, but have transitioned to this stuff later than usual.

Before I've done: bartender; bicycle courier for Deliveroo in #Berlin for two years (best job ever); private tutor for five years in #Lyon (mostly piano but also maths, Irish, English, flute, tin whistle); bookies clerk for a short period; a few other odd bits - one highlight was writing reviews for a theatre company.

Oh, very comfortably fluent in #French, pretty fluent in #Irish (my first love), and intermediate #German (which I would love to have a chance to go back speaking and learning).

Tech-wise, it's been mostly on the #Linux / #Emacs / #Lisp side of things. I would happily work on anything that is one or more of challenging, interesting, useful, or moral.

Money doesn't rule me. I want to live with a humane level of comfort, that's all.

CVs and references available, DMs open. Thanks so much for any and all help!

If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.

https://github.com/freelawproject/x-ray

Good news you might have missed: Researchers in South Korea have developed a new eco-friendly recycling process that recovers more than 95 percent of nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries with almost perfect purity. https://interestingengineering.com/energy/recycling-nickel-cobalt-ev-batteries

Friends, I have £1,000 that I want to donate to a UK trans support charity.

I've donated in the past, but I was hoping someone (with experience) could recommend a charity that they think would benefit from the donation (and helped you in some way).

It's a single donation to make a greater impact.

If you have any questions, please do ask me too (or DMs/email)

I finally bought "Return To Monkey Island" from @grumpygamer on Steam. After installation and a quick start to see if it runs properly on #Linux I had to force myself to shutdown the computer and not go on playing.
Otherwise I would have played the whole night trough. 🤣

If you choose to buy an SUV/4x4 to drive in the city, you have prioritised your own desires over the environment or the safety of others. That's fine - just ensure you fully understand what that says about you. Don't go around thinking you're a nice person.

Tom Gauld and his handy ad generator for Christmas ads for bookshop owners

@WedaleBooks
@TheEdinburghBookshop

#Cartoon #Bookstadon #Media

Happy Epstein Files Day to those who celebrate. Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "Give me Head" pin, which is how we will all feel when we see how redacted they are.
https://collabs.shop/cbc95h

@mattround one of my favourite jokes is
‘What’s your greatest weakness?’
‘Honesty.’
‘Hmm, I don’t think that’s a weakness.’
‘I don’t give a fuck what you think.’

#AmazingWorld
In #Alaska, nature sculpted this lone tree into a frozen wave at sunrise.
Relentless wind, drifting snow, and rime ice stacked layer by layer until the branches looked like feathers made of frost.
That soft golden glow is the sun catching every icy strand, turning the whole scene into a winter sculpture for a few brief moments.
Bent by the storm, but still standing. Still reaching.

Dick Van Dyke recently turned 100 years old and is no longer permitted to play with LEGOs.

It's wild to watch a live performance of the Martin Niemöller poem unfold.

"First they came for the trans people, and I did not speak out because I was not a trans person".

If you're American and not speaking out, you need to read the final verse again.

‘crazy about you’ caveat frog