It's fair to say that we suck at #gardening, but over the last few years our front lawn has been gradually taken over in spring by these little purple flowers (Anemones, I think), and they're lovely just now :)
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Since it's the deadline for #HugoAwards voting, I thought I'd share how I've voted. Not space here for detailed reviews, they're on my DW.
Best Novel:
1. A Drop of Corruption
2. The Everlasting
3. The incandescent
4. The Raven Scholar
5. Death of the Author
🧵 1/5
Remembered to take a photo out cycling yesterday, failed to post 🤦
Anyhow, we had lunch at the Red Cow in Chrishall, past Audley End (see photo), back via Linton etc. 55 miles or so, in nice warm but not too hot weather. #biketooter
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@fn0rd we've an Engineering Manager role open (amongst others): https://wikimediafoundation.org/jobs/#section-8
I'm appreciating the honesty from BT about the quality of their service that I'm migrating away from...
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FWIW, these are all things that I've seen claimed or counter-claimed, and I'd like to see some evidence one way or the other.
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer Happy to answer any questions you have about the roles (if I can), though I think most ads have a contact address in.
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@solar_chase@mastodon.green we do, but we are a geographically-dispersed organisation of the sort that puts "daylight confusion time" in everyone's calendars twice a year when Europe and North America are differently out of sync than usual.
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@kamila@pleroma.anduin.net the oncall working group used https://framaforms.org/abc/en/ for forms, sign-up is free (though I have sent them some money given how much use we've made of them).
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@thezerobit@anticapitalist.party we have some software engineering roles open ATM - https://wikimediafoundation.org/jobs/#section-8
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@cmccullough dunno what affordable means for you, but @beasts have web-hosting starting from 2.5 GBP/month, and have solid customer service.
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@fell@ma.fellr.net I use fvwm as my window manager, and an assortment of apps on top (though, to be honest, mostly emacs and firefox :) )
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@vanamerongen@phpc.social FWIW, my employer have a bunch of tech / tech mgmt roles open atm - https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/jobs/
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@pndc@social.treehouse.systems we have some SRE and SWE openings currently, don't know if any of them might suit - https://wikimediafoundation.org/jobs/