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Hiring manager: What is it about this specific role that makes you want it?
Me: Well, Susan, since the job spec is almost certainly a work of fiction, I took a punt and chucked in an application. I haven’t actually decided whether I do want the job. I’m interviewing you every bit as much as you’re interviewing me.

#JobSpecs #JobInterview

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Itsy bitsy teeny weeny…

"If we can't fill the offices, commercial real estate will CRASH!"

So I have to commute just to line real estate investors' pockets?

"But a commercial real estate crash could TANK the whole economy!"

I shouldn't have to spend an hour of unpaid time in my car every day to "save" the economy.

"But downtown coffee shops and bistros and dry cleaners in the are closing!"

That's more sympathetic than the real estate moguls, but again: NOT. MY. RESPONSIBILITY.

#RemoteWork #ReturnToOffice

if you die at burning man you die in real life

When I talk to comic book artists I always emphasize the importance of clearly separating their planes of depth. This rule is only for comics and does not apply to Turkish photographer Sami Uçan.

People on here are smart I get it but you don't need to critically dissect everything other people say.

I did forums. We rolled our eyes at the people who did that there. Don't do it here. It's not fun. Don't be the people no one hangs out with at parties.

Just let fun exist.

I am WHEEZING.

In the years to come, all Londoners are going to be proud that it led the way on low-emissions policies and reducing lethal air pollution. We will look back on the argument about the newly extended Ultra-Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) like we do on past rule changes to outlaw child labour, betting on animal fights & defecation in public places.

Of course highly polluting vehicles have to go. You can argue about the mechanisms for managing it, but not the principle behind it all.

#cars #ULEZ #London

*me going to walk on ULEZ day knowing some right wing petrol head is crying into his cornflakes this morning*
#London #ULEZ

GAZE UPON THE NUMBER OF MARSHMALLOWS I CAN FIT IN MY MOUTH, YE MORTALS, AND DESPAIR.

Oh myyy, this is too good not to share!

planto: I plant a seedling or cutting
Minimus has set a little fragum (strawberry) plant into his new olla perforata (planting pot with holes). He filled the pot with terra (earth) and watered the planta (sprout). Next year there may be sucosi (juicy) fruit!
#LatinVerbs

Today, a very niche tip for RSS fans

As well as Mastodon's built-in hashtag following system, you can also follow hashtags through RSS instead:

1. Search for a hashtag on a Mastodon server's website
2. Add .rss to the end of the URL
3. Use this URL as the feed address for that tag

For example to subscribe to #Dinosaurs on mstdn.social you would use this address in your feed reader:

https://mstdn.social/tags/dinosaur.rss

#RSS #FediTips #Mastodon #MastoTips

'Go to bed, you'll feel better in the morning' is the human version of 'Did you turn it off and turn it back on again?'

Normally when we post patents, they're late 19th/early 20th century objects for interfacing with vaginas.

This is neither, but we're going to tell you about it anyway.

This is the Apparatus For Facilitating The Birth Of A Child By Centrifugal Force, patented in 1965.

Discussing the British Press, and I'm reminded of the time when I had a moderate amount of celebrity in the UK LGBT community, and the press tried to do a hit piece on me.

Now here's the thing. There's a cheat code, and I'm going to explain what it is:

They will contact you for comment.

If you say nothing, they will publish the piece and say you were offered the chance to comment.

If you tell them to fuck off, they will publish the price and say your response was foul and unprintable.

I did neither of these things. I told them that this piece wasn't journalism. It was ridiculous tittle tattle and represented everything that was wrong with a failing and dying industry more obsessed with clickbait than proper reporting. I asked them if they didn't have proper news to report, and said that they should be ashamed of themselves.

They're basically screwed at that point. "We contacted Ms Brown for comment and she said that this was ridiculous tittle tattle and that the reporter should be ashamed of herself."

They're not gonna say that.

I'm struck by something one of my history teachers once said about medieval castles. They weren't meant to be impregnable. They were meant to be annoying enough that an invading army would decide to investigate other priorities instead.

The piece never ran.

If you're a trans person in the crosshairs of the British press, make yourself an annoying target. They're on a deadline, and if you make them conclude that life is too short, they will leave you the fuck alone.