Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Stressed about holiday shopping?

Consider this: You can just... not.

About a decade ago my wife and I agreed to simply stop giving gifts to each other or family/friends on predefined calendar dates. All the stress of shopping for the perfect gift in time for an anniversary, birthday, or holiday just stopped.

If we happen to see something someone would really enjoy, we buy it for them and give it to them the next time we see them. That's it.

Don't let capitalism culture run your life.

- Russians very rarely understand Ukrainian, which makes language a key way to detect when someone is an impostor
- Even the Russians that do understand Ukrainian cannot pronounce many Ukrainian words for shit, which makes it very easy to detect impostors again

Stop translating stuff into Russian when trying to communicate with Ukrainians abroad.

1. There aren't any Ukrainians that don't understand Ukrainian. Not a thing.
2. For a lot of Ukrainians, Russian is a trigger.
3. Yes, most Ukrainians understand it. It's beside the point.

"My wife worked in commerce. At that time we were growing and selling flowers. We had a small flower business that had just started to develop. The whole of Trostyanets knew her. She also worked in the hardware store for a long time," Ihor said. 8/11

FYI about half the comments/reactions to this LinkedIn post of mine are useful to identify people/orgs you should be wary of working with or for:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joe-slowik_infosec-natsec-education-activity-7010364494820372480--xuP

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@jonn yeah. im sorry you've lost content. :(

but check it just in case! it might have captured it!

ALSO! you can just upload stuff to the archive, without even using the wayback machine. you can just archive things, as long as you're OK with them being public

also also, use github

there are so many options

@jonn yes it does, you just have to explicitly request it. it tries to archive everything it can, but it might not *find* stuff, which means you have to explicitly tell it to archive it

@jonn yeah, exactly. it's completely fucked up abuse of the defederation mechanism

Free winter tires for people choosing bikes over cars in #Sweden—public transport agency will give away studded tires for winter bicycle users.

https://t.co/isL9jAk7hA

Oh it’s nice on Mastodon, isn’t it? Like an irritating background noise has stopped.

Hey everyone. Just a reminder that you don't have to put up with bullying, shaming or guilt-tripping, just because it is Christmas.

If you don't want to see those relatives, you don't have to.

If you don't want to cook a huge dinner you don't have to.

If you don't feel like celebrating, you don't have to.

And don't let Christmas adverts bully you into being anxious. They just want your money, they don't care about your wellbeing.

Christmas is just one day. Be true to yourselves and put your mental and physical health first.

#christmas #mentalhealth