Notices by John Wilker 👨🏽‍💻 (jwilker@wandering.shop)

#ScribesAndMakers June 11. How much do you worry about what others think of your creative work?

About 3% :D

I rarely look at reviews or rankings. If someone doesn't like my work, that's their thing. I dislike lots of things.

On the other hand, when I see something positive. I screen grab if for my "Writing motivation" folder.

Cherish the good. Ignore the rest.

#writers

Good!

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

The more nonprofits and hell, for profits that leave the nazi bar, the better.

Twitter needs to fade into the dusts of time with Gowalla, Foursquare, and others Sadly with fewer fond memories, but it needs to go.

404 media doing the actual journalism…. as always.

https://www.404media.co/ai-job-loss-research-ignores-how-ai-is-utterly-destroying-the-internet/

#AI #jobs

Title came in the mail. Car is officially paid off.

LOL. So Discord put out a survey on what users thought of AI…

It was up for a couple hours at most, then closed.

Assume the meeting on Monday will go like this.

“None of this is what we wanted to hear.”

“We’ll just delete the responses and say people want AI tools”

#AI #discord

Dang, snuck up on me. Thought my pen was just crapping out, but turns out, it was empty. I didn’t think it’d been enough time, but realized this was my 3rd notebook.

New refills ordered direct from maker.

#EDC
#NotAmazon

He did this himself. Got under, didn’t like it, bucked around a bit while twisting in the air. Did that again and then, satisfaction.

#dogs

The only reason we work 5 days a week, 40 hours. Is capitalism. The more they can wring out of employees the better. If they could go back to 6 days, they would.

Studies support 4 day work weeks.
We were close to it in the (IIRC*) 70s or 80s but the idea got squashed, never to be seriously considered again.

* I think I read it in “Utopia for Realists”
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/utopia-for-realists-1

#uspol #capitalism https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/115745449678762699

Not replying to reply guy because don't feed trolls, BUT.

"The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not define full-time employment or part-time employment. This is a matter generally to be determined by the employer. Whether an employee is considered full-time or part-time does not change the application of the FLSA. "

"The Affordable Care Act (ACA) defines a full-time employee as someone working an average of at least 30 hours per week or 130 hours per month.”

Always confidently wrong.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html

I hate everything!

I guess I should drop $800-1000 a year on a device that adds nothing new but a better camera (maybe?) to keep the economy going.

Maybe your new AI employee can buy a phone?

Speaking of climate. Our poor peach tree is hella confused. Lots of new limb growth and it’s covered in leaf buds.

just watered the trees because it's almost 60 degrees... In November. A week before Thanksgiving.

Still no snow in Denver.

#climate #weather #denver

Trying my hand at drying some of our basil.

#plants #gardening @gardening@tagpush.app @gardening@fedigroups.social

Is anyone making a list of companies that have fired people for quoting Charlie Kirk’s views?

Seems like a list of companies that support fascism and free speech only when it’s in support of fascism should be well known to all.

#uspol

god I hate Phillips Hue shit so much

NPR Talking to some NewsMax twat, I missed his name, about Charlie Kirk and homeboy wanted nothing but to lionize Kirk and blame democrats while ignoring the murders in Minnisota and got so flustered at being called out on his nonsense he hung up, LOL.

These people aren't looking for serious discourse.
They hate.
They spread hate.
They profit (Mightily) from hate.
They're not serious people with serious issues.

#uspol

Oh no. Arkansas voters getting exactly what they voted for. "But the leopard was supposed to eat someone else's face, not mine!”

Elections have repercussions, Arkansas. Hope this is a learning experience, but I doubt it.

#USPOL

Good on ya, Charlie Kirk. Taking one for the team.

#gunviolence

Wow.

Anthropic to pay 1.5b in piracy case settlement with Authors.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-05/anthropic-to-pay-1-5-billion-to-settle-author-copyright-claims

#writersofmastodon #creativeculture #creativeeconomy

Started looking at pet rescues around town. One has 3 adorable littles; Wanda (15), Ty and Cal (2).

Not sure I can do another senior. I still get a bit (Ok a lot) teary when I look at pics of Muppet, but Wanda is an adorable little cutie of an old lady.

There’s an adoption event for this rescue tomorrow so we may go pop in.

#dogs #dogstodon