Mastodon works like email. You pick a provider (server) or run your own (don’t). It has the benefits of email: if a single server goes down, it doesn’t take down the system. And all the downsides: server roulette with regards to mods, privacy, uptime etc.
can't stop thinking about the part in the Two Towers where Treebeard says the ents "lost" the entwives and can't find them, like, they clearly left you and you need to come to terms with that, this is a textbook lesbian tree commune situation
Not loving your job shouldn't carry a penalty.
Data: seeing work as a job—not a calling—limits raises & promotions. Managers misjudge you as unproductive and uncommitted.
Performance requires professionalism, not passion. What counts is how people contribute, not how they feel.
America’s cities are crime-ridden hellscapes. I’m sitting in a coffee shop’s courtyard in Queens and a pushy sparrow is trying to swipe the remainder of my breakfast burrito. How do people live like this?