this week's reading is Filterworld
Still haven't found a new job. Many more "sorry we loved your vibe but we found someone more experienced" to add to my resume tho.
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it's rough out there, I'm sorry you're going through that π« I've been job hunting too since finishing grad school. hoping for some good news for us soon!
Best of luck to you!
Enjoy that problem while you can! Soon enough, it'll be "we loved your vibe, but you have too much experience, and we only have the budget for entry-level."
The only difference between weeks is whether my batteries hold up. It's overall an ongoing shitshow with every offer of work and temporary housing ending up in ghosting.
A thing (well, a set of things, it's something like 2 dozen SKUs) I designed just got a UL listing for the first time, so that's exciting. Not my first time working with UL, but first time something that I've taken all the way from concept to a manufacturable product has been UL listed.
I'm back! Sort of. I spend way too much time on bsky these days, although it's not looking so rosy anymore. Also, I'm trans and kobold now and it fucking rocks!
I recently got out of bsky. It's just not fun anymore.
I was a beta tester for Bluesky so I've been using it for a long time. I have ZERO problems. As far as I can tell users have 100% control over their feed. What exactly is making your experience 'not fun'?
Too many people. Too much scrolling. Endless content, none of it with any meaning. 300 character chicklets of... Of what? And does it make my life better or make me any more informed? I just get instant updates on all clownshow as the world burns.
And even better... I get the opportunity to shout into a void as if it makes any difference to anything that's going on. At least if I do that here, I might find a single serving friend and a short conversation.
I understand. Different strokes for different folks. I mainly use it to read about things I'm interested in like scientific fields such as space exploration.
I'd suggest using Bluesky in ways that most people wouldn't think about.
For example, you could use it to keep up to date about local events in your geographic area. Another example would be to follow a very unique subject such as macrophotography.
scientific fields such as space exploration
I'm having a weird experience with Google's "Discovery" feed. Apparently, I've blocked enough keywords and sources (~100), that all it shows now, is science, tech, and space. Makes me... want to check it from time to time? π
Googleβs βDiscoveryβ feed
Did you mean Bluesky's?
I haven't had a lot of success with the discovery feed. You could try a third party app such as Skeets.
No... Google's π
This is what I get:
Yeah. Admittedly, having not carefully curated my feed is part of the problem. I feel like I need to create a new user and start over. I'm having difficulty being asked to give it the time of day at this point.
Thanks for the recommendation! I may do that later.
I feel like I need to create a new user and start over.
That may be easier for you and you're welcome.
Itd be nice if they had a factory reset button in the account....
They may add that later.
Ooo maybe I can ask a question then. How am I supposed to use it? Lol. I follow accounts, but what am I supposed to do exactly?
Like...some threads I see engagement but other threads I see nobody replying or posting. I think I'm just not understanding how I'm supposed to use it. For what it's worth I never understood Twitter either lol
Like Twitter and Mastodon, it's a micro-blogging platform. You could use it like I do which is just to read specific subjects. If you want to use it in more of a social way, then I couldn't advise you on that since I don't use it in that way.
However, it may just take time getting used to how it's laid out as opposed to a link aggregator such as Beehaw.
I discovered beehaw (bee-y'all?) this week while learning about some lefty DIY group alternatives to big tech, howdy! migrating away from Microsoft and Google - using Fedora on my computer now which is also what I used back in high school - and it's been a pretty enriching time sink as I continue job searching and seeking new community. looking forward to spending some time here πΆ
Welcome to Beehaw! 
still riding out my burnout but otherwise good. i'm going to a birthday party for a friend shortly, starting off my week by reading Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez.
my week is all about planning to start a local Working Families Party group and preparing a series of campus teach-ins as a protest against new policy re: gender in the classroom. fueled by dense bean salad. lots of dense bean salad.
Well, my salary just went in, so I started paying my bills. Just now, I renewed my monthly public transit pass, and I am pretty much debt free - until next month, that is.
The depression hasn't come back yet.
It's a relief!
A bunch of small wins at work, so that's nice. A bunch of anti-human behavior from the disgusting ghouls who run things, so that sucks.
Not so nice: Yesterday I had my first really bad headache from muscle tenseness in the neck. It felt like I would fall unconscious if I stood up. And according to my wife, that's the kind of headache she has every couple of weeks, which is very...unfortunate.
More nice: I am making more progress in Dyson Sphere Program than I ever did before and currently I still have the motivation to stick with that game until I turned most of the cluster of solar systems into factories.
Nice with an asterisk: In two weeks I will start my new job at a very nice company with great conditions. The asterisk is because it means I will have less free time, naturally.