Notices by David August ❌👑 (davidaugust@mastodon.online)

Professional transitions may require us to grieve.

"The cost of misreading a grief response as a performance problem isn't just human. It's organizational."

https://www.hypmthr.com/blog/what-if-the-performance-problem-is-actually-a-grief-problem

#work #InstitutionalPsychology #job #mergers #JobChange #grief #grieving

@libreoffice excellent question (and excellent software evangelism). Upon reflection, your words, and looking into it, I think transitioning from OpenOffice to LibreOffice is now a task for this week (possibly later today). Thank you!

"You cannot try to 'get the job'. Just go in there, have some fun and do your version of that part. 'This is what I'm selling. If you want to buy it, that's cool. Have some adjustments for me? That's fine, I'll make some adjustments, but this is basically what I want to do.' THAT'S the attitude, sort of 'f*ck it' attitude. Not f*ck you...but, f*ck it."

—Sam Rockwell

#acting #coaching #inspiration #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actorslife

A Ukrainian MiG-29 pilot had no ammunition left, so jet wash it is. They flew dangerously close to a Russian Shahed drone, used the jet’s thurst to destabilize it and send the drone to the ground. Eat wake drone.

h/t @nickmelnick.bsky.social

#Ukraine #russia #war #drone #AirWar #FighterPlane #planes

@icedquinn I think there may be some confusion.

1) Linda McMahon the current United States Secretary of Education; this article and post are about the United States, not Germany.

2) No one is sh*tting on trade schools, the critique is on discussing them for people under the age of 11.

I hope that might clarify things a bit.

Months ago, I installed Microsoft Teams on my computer because a specific project used it. It is the only Microsoft Software I have on there (a Mac and I use OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office).

As that project winds down, is there _any_ reason not to find and remove all Microsoft stuff from my machine? It’s updater alone weirdly wants to update itself every week it seems.

Also, what’s the best way to do so?

#Microsoft #software #sovereignty

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117147286542192447

As long as the U.S. Secretary of Education is doing things like thinking AI (artificial intelligence) is A1 (steak sauce) [true story], perhaps we should not take anything they say as wise, true or anything other than damaging.

Prepubescent Plumber Plan is exactly the kind of destructive stupid Linds McMahon is capable of and eager to create.

#USpol #education

Imprison opposition, “win” elections.

“Lev Shlosberg…senior member of Russia's liberal opposition party Yabloko, was pronounced guilty of "public actions aimed at discrediting…use of the Armed Forces…Russian Federation" & sentenced to 11 years & 1 month in a penal colony…”

“‘A single person is imprisoned, yet fear seeps into the hearts of millions,’ said Shlosberg in his closing remarks.”

https://www.dw.com/en/russia-prison-for-opposition-leader-over-war-criticism/a-78403203

#russia #dictatorship #censorship #UnfreeSpeech #despotism #Ukraine #war

RE: https://www.threads.com/@newrepublic/post/DcJ4qWMmj9F

Come on everybody, stop questioning potus’ relationship with the first mistress. White House says there’s no need to doubt. 😲

“Harp’s own brother told The Daily Mail that Harp and Trump’s relationship was ‘very unhealthy,’ and in their book Regime Change, The New York Times writers Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan reported that Harp in 2023 left Trump what amounted to love letters, with one even reading, ‘You are all that matters to me.’”

#USpol

We Are All on the Decoy Plane

#USpol

"The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!"

—Ben Kingsley

#acting #coaching #inspiration #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actorslife

Flock cameras, and automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are _inherently_ unlawful, _unavoidably_ contrary to the U.S. Constitution.

Yet another expert's view: https://youtube.com/shorts/DUQGu4l4a2g

#USpol #law #CivilLiberties #CivilRights #FourthAmendment #4thAmendment

"One day, the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you."

—Johnny Depp

#acting #coaching #inspiration #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actorslife

Made this when I had insomnia last night.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/418Lqq

#art #sleepless

@catsalad why would you pronounce it like the peanut butter when the “G” stands for “Graphics?”

Reading a Star Trek TNG script, episode where a child has an “imaginary” friend that turns out to be an alien (s5e22).

In the 5th act, she says to her friend/the alien Isabella, “if Captain Picard says so, it’s true, Isabella.”

And I got a little misty eyed: for a leader to inspire such trust that the children of the people they lead know the leader can be trusted is a kind of wonderful thing.

*looks around the world today*

#scifi #leadership #trust #screenplay #script #tv #television

“The Trump administration faced embarrassment this week over the Reflecting Pool debacle and dismissal of criminal charges, with one Trump ally saying the episode made the administration ‘look like a monkey having intimate relations with a football.’”

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-admin-embarrassedmonkey?utm_campaign=davidaugust.com&utm_medium=social

#USpol

"I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself. That is the best combination."

—Judi Dench

#acting #coaching #inspiration #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actorslife

"I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is actually happening."

—Julianne Moore

#acting #coaching #inspiration #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #actorslife

RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116926257082059585

Pretty sure something exactly like this was said, with different nouns, in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.