large_goblin [he/him, comrade/them]

Hey I used to do this job !!!

It is hard, it’s a industry with almost no fault tolerance in the process of stripping itself down to be run by less and less people.

I was able to use the experience to transfer to other fields requiring constant uptime and content delivery without being as much of a pressure cooker.

If you’ve been there for a few years already I would start looking at building all the very in-demand skills involved in near-instantaneous content delivery + data tracking into your resume or begin to specialize in one of the “cookie replacement” technologies that are worth 400 trillion dollars.

Especially in the current job market of “no one wants to train juniors” these are invaluable. Your job might even offer courses / cover training in whatever you are missing.

For your own mental wellbeing being able to focus on something related to but not the job itself might help? Sorry I know it’s hard being the breadwinner making slacking off / “quiet quitting” a risk. Best of luck and hope your situation improves.

Many such cases!

The join code would be posted on hexbear and everyone was encouraged to obscure their identity as much as reasonably possible when joining.

This is kind of what the webfishing meetup was working as before and I’d be happy to keep that going while ReadFanon is taking a break. It can be other games as well.

Im going through a very heavy period of burnout myself so I’m not super down to organise something big but I’d be happy to copy the format and rules and put the server up at the right time.

My three go to easy tofu recipes:

Mapo tofu

Matar “paneer”

Tofu scramble (can also become imitation scrambled eggs)

I do them all vegan. You’ll find plenty of recipes for each one and I can also share my own.

Crested partridge aka Rollulus rouloul

These are very sociable birds too I love them so much

Can’t believe I’ve been practicing for interviews by ensuring I can demonstrate my knowledge of the subject material and am capable of meeting the requirements of the role instead of focusing on maintaining eye contact and improving my posture

Appreciate your posting and community organising. Hope to see you back when you feel able to.

I’ve only ever played the game on a sober run, Harry seemed to spend most of the game suffering from the cumulative hangover of five back to back benders and I couldn’t imagine wanting to make that worse .

Not mentioned - Getting a medical diagnosis can be a multi-year process where you will be passed around different departments and waitlists with no guarantee of getting what you need at the end.

Even when self-diagnosed or your condition is clearly apparent to other people, it doesn’t help. It reminds me of when my boss told me I was autistic at an old workplace where I was constantly in a cycle of being told I had huge potential for the role but was underperforming.

Thank you

Hey can you share the name of this account ?

They are talking entirely about aesthetics, Elon Musk could definitely have remained a liberal media darling and “real life Iron Man” to all the reddit nerds if he just kept his mouth shut and presented the public image of being the man behind Tesla and SpaceX.

No-one here thinks he ever gave a shit about environmentalism or sustainability beyond using them to grift billions in government subsidies.

This similar comment is 10 months ago - https://hexbear.net/comment/4656602

If it’s a troll they are showing committent. I tried to give the benefit of the doubt even with all the alarm bells going off.

There are many things people do to make themselves “feel better about stationary running on a wheel” - being able to express their gender identity is not one of them. To me this reads that you are framing people’s right to self-expression as a coping mechanism.

If you geek out on political and philosophical matters as much as you state I would take the time here to sit down and read what our comrades have to say. There are years of posts containing resources and discussions relating to identity politics.
The first step is removing yourself of the liberal brainworms that lead you to believe a sizeable % of online posters are Russian Agents. It is not true. Trust what marginalized people have to say.

I’m also concerned about your conflation of openly expressing your pronouns with privilege, that you seem to believe mental illness does not exist in a warzone (there are numerous charities dedicated to psychological trauma in Gaza for example), and that you made this post as a “gut reaction” while labelling yourself as a seeker of knowledge. These are beliefs packed full of contradictions that I suggest you take the time to unpack and try to understand why they are contradictory and what lead you to internalize them in the first place.

Yeah it’s exactly that. I used to use shaving foam but I think the lather from soap is better and easier to continuously apply, plus canned foam is very wasteful.

To add to this, once you are good with a double edged safety razor it’s better for your skin as well. Took me 4-5 shaves to get used to it and then I had zero cuts or redness post shave.

Also get a nice synthetic shaving brush and a block of vegan shaving soap and you’ll save a fortune, good shaving soap lasts a long time.

Finally get a alum block for post-shave skincare and if climate appropriate one for using as an anti-perspirant too.

And then congrats! You have a zero-waste daily skincare / hygiene routine.

Death to PayPal. They’ve stolen my money before because I logged in from a new location and refused to unlock my account. I have a complicated financial situation legally so I’m aware they can and will close my new account without warning but sometimes it’s the only way to get money to people who need it (no cashapp or venmo etc here).

I hope the suggestions other people have given you work and you can have control over your own identity soon. Best of luck.

I quit nicotine after a layoff while stuck at home, realizing nicotine was a way of coping with work and/or quitting would have made me go through a phase of being weird and unbearable by office standards.

Amazing how not having a tolerate an office means I no longer develop harmful addictions.