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   Partisan Night Slut :pns: (pns@noauthority.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Jan-2026 18:06:43 JST Partisan Night Slut :pns:

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   @Metalglasses

   You can only get away with it in youth, when everyone else is dumb as a post too.

   It's sad to watch past 30. People don't know their name, all of a sudden.

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   zenkat (zenkat@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Nov-2025 00:28:47 JST zenkat

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   @grimalkina Great thread, but I especially want to +1 this point.

   A lot of my success in running software teams comes from being very mindful about keeping people's psychological defense systems from kicking in.

   As soon as people get on the defensive, they are no longer working together to find the objectively best engineering solution -- you are fighting over semantic territory. We're hard-wired for it, when egos are threatened they will fight to win.

   But threatened minds are not open or curious. They aren't taking in new data, they are defending what they already know. Listening stops, synthesis stops, creativity stops. And team dynamics go to shit, too.

   It's not easy to get folks to engage and debate without feeling threatened, but it can be done. Takes a good amount of finesse at first, but if you can get it established as a cultural norm it can make magic happen.

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   Sara Joy :happy_pepper: (sarajw@front-end.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 01:39:42 JST Sara Joy :happy_pepper:

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   @Gargron @Bright5park @Mastodon so very very many times I've been disappointed by things shopping to US only. Vice versa happens too.

   It's sort of nice to see an EU-based somethingorother get popular enough stateside that they get sad when they can't get the merch delivered.

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   Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴 (ginaintheburg@mastodon.world)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Oct-2025 01:28:32 JST Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴

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   @deborahh @bmacDonald94 @timwilliamsart

   Thank you. It makes me feel sick - and helpless - too.

   It just hit me - that's what all this Trumpian schmuckiness is about. Making us all feel helpless while he trashes everything this country has accomplished, all our most cherished ideals, values, symbols, the progress we've made while he & his culties figuratively shit on us all.

   He just made that disgustingly clear.

   He is pathetic.

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   Ricki Yasha Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 10-Oct-2025 01:15:28 JST Ricki Yasha Tarr

   I'm an Optimist, not because I don't live in reality, and refuse to see the bad things in the world. I'm an Optimist, because I do see those things, but I also believe that the only way to start changing them is the belief that they can be changed.

   I'm an Optimist, because I study history. I'm an Optimist, because of my own history, and the history of other's I've met along the way. I've seen the worst happen to people, and they mourn and grieve, but somehow get up again. Not just get up, but determine to break the trauma for the next generation.

   I'm an Optimist, not because I don't get overwhelmed and depressed, but because the reason I do, is I hate suffering, because I have empathy for people. I can keep being an Optimist, because I know so many of you do too.

   It's easy to say the world is bad, and will always be bad, and there is truth in that, the bad will always be there, but that ignores that there is good, has been good, and will continue to be good, and having a vision that it can be better makes you a part of that good. I am an Optimist, because it is the only way things change, because excepting darkness as the only option, isn't an option for me.

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   HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 04:14:54 JST HebrideanHecate

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   @KeepTakingTheSoma Getting rid of the Matrons for these over paid buffoons of mangers was a bad idea, so was making nursing a degree. This carry on in all sectors, not just health, of parachuting generic managers into things, people who have no clue, did not work their way up, don't know the first thing about whichever job it is needs to stop too.

   It's the piss taking that has been going on, same with the benefits system too, wrecked the joint to the detriment of genuine need.

   Blair's cramming the unis was another load of nonsense, need more people doing apprenticeships for proper jobs, not pissing around with Mickey mouse degrees in farting trannies of the world and their effect upon climate change, everybody is spicy neuro and incapable of finding their own arse with a map without having a breakdown about it.