The @TetraLogical team has gathered (online) for a day of retrospectives, updates, and opportunities to continue innovating what we do and the services we offer, plus a Christmas quiz to wrap it all up.

There might also be a selection of Christmas hats on display, and there's a rumour going around that my hat might not be black! 😊

RE: mastodon.social/@dansup/115758…

The people who dislike The Algorithm™ are either consumers who basically just want an RSS feed reader (nothing wrong with that) or people who brought audiences over from other platforms.

If you’re trying to create something and find an audience for it on the #Fediverse, you need some sort of recommendation algorithm. Otherwise, you’re just posting into the void.

#ActivityPub #Mastodon

I pass through the Solstice gate
And I am changed.
I squeeze and slip
Through the narrow place,
The thin place,
Where all our years are seen,
And worlds stack like sheets of glass.
I pass through the Solstice gate
And I am changed.
I leave behind what cannot fit,
Shedding self like snakeskin,
Discarded as old, ill-fitting clothes.
In the no-time, no-place, nothing,
I lose myself, to find it all.
I pass through the Solstice gate,
The threshold, one of three,
And I am changed.

#poetry #witchcraft #solstice #transformation

TL:DR Mat is a corporate slave, is really tired, and is getting fucked over

Now I don't need to tell you all capitalism is shit but it's wearing me down right now. A whole year with no more than 6 days in a row off, I'm set for 2 full weeks holiday over Christmas, starting last Friday.

Yeah, so some fucker makes comments in a meeting with the fucking CEO of the company, trying to deflect from a shit job they did, risking tens of millions of dollars, and put it on me and my team because I wasn't there to defend us, despite us being the only group to actually do a good job and not fuck up.

So yeah, worked the first 3 days of my Christmas "holiday", including a conference call in the middle of a family celebration meal. Tomorrow I have to find a quiet place for a call with the CEO and all the global Executive leadership to defend my team, who have done an amazing job cleaning up other people's shit, during a day out with friends visiting an exhibition, having a meal and going to football match.

This was my reward for the year, some carefree time, and it's just been laced with anxiety and, frankly, unpaid labour.

Apologies, I'm ranting.

Please don't reply with "fuck them, don't do it" or, "get a different job man" or whatever. It's really not that simple. I've been in this game 25 years but the timing is particularly bad this time.

New Year, new digital life: it's time to #deGoogle! 🎉 ❤️

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In der Vorweihnachtszeit haben sie es besonders eilig: die Paketboten. Sie klingeln, rufen Namen, balancieren Kartons und verschwinden so schnell wieder, wie sie gekommen sind. Vor allem in Stadtteilen wie dem Wedding, wo Häuser selten nur ein Vorderhaus haben, sondern auch Seitenflügel, Quergebäude und Hinterhöfe, ist ihre Arbeit eine kleine logistische Meisterleistung.

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weddingweiser.de/vom-paketbote…

Vom Paketboten, dem Hinterhof und der leisen Kunst des Wichtelns

^{Weddingweiser}

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"Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung has signed Decision No. 2736/QD-TTg, approving the plan to implement the master plan for the development and application of nuclear energy through 2030, with a vision to 2050."

en.nhandan.vn/nuclear-energy-a…

Nuclear energy applications in everyday life

^{Nhan Dan Online}

Wer kommt denn bitte auf die Idee, Badezimmerwände aus Glas zu bauen.

Habe kurz überlegt, ob ich es sexy finde, dem Liebsten beim Duschen zuzusenden. Und meine Antwort lautet nein.

Aber vielleicht hat auch gefehlt, dass er mir eine "Duschshow" bietet. 😂