🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@qoto.org

I have my #Halloween costume ready, and you?

#AcademicChatter @academicchatter

For anyone knowledgeable in recruitment, referrals, or even you know a place/person hiring in the IT industry for a System Administrator, IT Support, Helpdesk, or any entry level role feel free to reach out.

Primarily seeking fully remote, locally based in Michigan, Washington state, or If any anyone is knowledgeable of potential companies residing in an EU Union country (Germany, Nordic, Dutch, Ireland, Finland, etc) that is offering sponsorships for talent please feel free to reach out. 🙏🙏

As well for any locals of MI reading, this post includes ANY full-time position as I am currently unemployed in job search hell.

Reposts are appreciated and thanks in advance for any assistance. ❤️ 🙏

#FediHire #GetFediHired #Laidoff #Layoff #Jobs #Employment

@antoniahamilton

The key about conferences are the disintermediated moments that online events cannot replicate.

I’ve made lifelong friends bumping into random folks in the corridors of events. That doesn’t translate online.

Additionally, there are the convos that are spontaneous and ephemeral, where there isn’t the potential of a persistent record somewhere or where one needs not perfectly curate one’s words to present an image of self.

And this morning there are witches!

Big friends make for good pillows
#SilentSunday

#SilentSunday

Happy #WorldAnimalDay! This is a detail from Dog Beneath Bamboo, an ink and colour on silk painting by Qizong Zhang (c. 1931)🐶
https://collections.ashmolean.org/object/361843

i now have in my possession, tangara with 100% production parts number one

Last night, I dreamed I had a friend called Orson Wales, and every time I talked about them, people corrected me. It was very annoying.

you walk down stairs, i roll down them. we are not the same.

#Caturday

When I was 19, I impulse-bought Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters. It proceeded to languish on my shelf until I was 34 and suddenly decided to get serious about Chinese. I am now 36 and as of this morning know all 800 characters taught by this book and about 400 more besides. The final character is "win".

why are you always late for work??

#Caturday

I found where they make all the tech products

Unique, twisting dust lanes are prominent in this Hubble image—an edge-on view of lenticular galaxy NGC 4753. That dust likely was pulled in during a merger with a dwarf galaxy more than 1 billion years ago. Credit: NASA, ESA, and L. Kelsey.

I don't know who needs to hear this (yes I do), but if the "slick" UI thing you want to do creates a frustrating experience for assistive tech users, it's not slick. It's just clunky and weird, and probably creates other weird issues you haven't considered. Users don't want weird clunky new interactions you've dreamed up. Do the boring thing.

I spend so much of my time trying to stop people from doing weird things in our UI. That's like 50% of my job at this point.

New blog post: Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres

Many PA systems emit a continuous high-frequency tone for troubleshooting purposes. It gets modulated in interesting ways by the urban bustle.

https://www.windytan.com/2024/06/ultrasonic-investigations-in-shopping.html