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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.
"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.
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.
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.
This weekend I found the ideal hazel coppice for my first #WildCamping trip. I waited until my 51st year to realise the childhood dream sleeping in my own den in the woods.
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:
First Concert:
Bryan Adams (1987)
Last Concert:
Beans On Toast
Best Concert:
Stornoway (2013, Oxford Town Hall)
Worst Concert:
Vaccines, Oxford O2 Academy
Loudest Concert:
Kiss
Seen the Most:
Bluetones probably
Most Surprising:
One of my own. I don't know we were opening for Ronnie Scott. We were shit.
Next Concert: Stornoway
Wish I Could have seen: Led Zeppelin
Please don't drink raw milk. Spinal tuberculosis does not sound fun.
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.
I have moved to https://mountains.social/@countingquoll