phenolology 🐢 @susannah@octodon.social

If you're #unemployed it's not because there isn't any #work.
#latestagecapitalism

PSA: if a user habitually boosts stuff you don't want to see, you can turn off boosts just for them without unfollowing them

view their profile in the regular masto UI and you'll see a "Hide boosts from X" in the hamburger menu

this can make the whole experience a lot less annoying, but it's not well-known!

Ontario got screwed over by its terrible electoral system. Clear centre-left majority in the votes: clear Conservative majority in the seats. Utterly ridiculous and utterly tragic (and it's the Canadian liberals that most need to get their act together on this one - Trudeau's failure to implement a better voting system is a disgrace to liberalism internationally).

"If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making [it] difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it — some fear they’re working through, some need not being met, a lack of self-esteem being expressed."

https://medium.com/@dr_eprice/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01

Are you in Ontario (Canada)?

Vote tomorrow.

And please re-toot / boost this picture.

If you are visually impaired, try this website instead: https://www.elections.on.ca/en/voting-in-ontario/id-requirements-for-voting.html

So today in a meeting I watched my colleague, a quiet lawyer, graciously refuse food that was passed round the table. Each latecomer had another go at offering the plate of cake to him. All the thoughts were kind.

I saw in that moment, and in his grace, what it means to him to fast, to be the solitary Muslim in our not-Muslim workplace, to have no one ever remember what time of year it is, to not remember who he is.

I think we can do better.

#smallstories