In a very good mood, get your bets in early about how this is gonna all go wrong.

Happy Friday! Lots of folks in tech are looking for work right now, so here's a thread of some tech for good (or at least, hopefully not explicitly evil) roles I found around the web.

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Collecting books with a specific goal of confusing the hell out of whoever has to clear out my library after I die.

Sobbing with laughter at the reviews with photos in this Hannibal Lecter mask for cats set primdog.co.uk/p/cat-...

May I please have roughly $1000, I need it for something very useful and normal I promise.

I have just learned that lunariums (early technology to map the motions of the earth and moon and the phases of the moon) exist and I am briefly regretting not having solid out for big tech money while I could. www.the-saleroom.com...

While those RTO sickos who tried to pretend commutes were a feature remain wrong and bad, I do love a train + book afternoon.

Oh, found a new DuckDuckGo setting I quite like duckduckgo.com/duckd...

I went to grab my hoodie off the couch, but it's been claimed already.

Giving up trying to go back to sleep and I am instead starting my day early, burdened with more resentfulness than a human should carry across their whole lifetime.

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I use a really weird spreadsheet system to semi-automate the research for my not-evil tech job threads and make the process a quick weekly chore. Would me writing up a tutorial on my weird system be useful for anyone jobhunting right now?

Everything is stressful and bad and weird so here's another thread of tech jobs I've found where you make the world better (or at least hopefully not make it worse) I've started cross-posting these to my blog to make them easier to find, including some jobs not listed in the thread

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Part time tech for good UK job klaxon: I would apply myself if there wasn't a conflict of interest*, so I am sharing these roles with you all, instead! *I'm dating someone on the team and working there would be weird

A tiny pink kitten who is always trying to climb into your sweater to sleep next to your heart sounds precious until he's trying to pull down your shirt down on a client call.

Taking a few Italian lessons for normal reasons (70s horror movies)

Feel like shit, I just want her* back *the fruit markets of Dushanbe

I have found a new way to scale up research for those tech for good job threads I post and I am so excited to spam y'all with a whole heckton of things I've found.

Cataloging my books and trying to work out if it's more dignified to learn to read/write in Perso-Arabic or to just trust OCR to give me the right title and author information...

Just accidentally discovered Vivaldi's ability to drag and drop tabs to tile them together and am VERY annoyed I did not know about this earlier.

Dating someone who genuinely loves my excitement has been so good for me. Cutie will hear the weird sharp intake of breath sound that warns I've discovered a new niche interest and rush over to ask me about it. I am so lucky.

Thankful that crypto and metaverse bubbles ran back to back before the AI hype one, because otherwise I would be going mad second guessing myself as legit looking people keep posting the shoddiest slop yoked with breathless declarations about this being the future.

All my retirement goals are just to get the time to slowly transform into the guy who reads Tolkien and smokes pipes on Youtube but the world does not look pointed in a direction to let me do this, huh?

This is a great idea, because until now Ai uptake has been limited only to the most discerning and well-informed.

Want to recommend Open Syllabus' explorer for anyone interested in self directed learning. Being able to find the most assigned textbooks for your area of interest is a huge time saver in jumping right into a new hyperfocus.

This used bookstore is the Platonic ideal of the perfect webshop. I love it. She's perfect.

as someone who is really good at being creatively and impressively very wrong all on my own, I'm starting to get worried about AI stealing this job from me

Been starting to learn bookbinding and this post is an early warning to everyone who knows me to expect to receive many poorly but earnestly made little notebooks from me.

The “I” in ISBN is a goddamn lie. Yes, I am still working on my library management tasks. No, I don’t want to talk about it.

I'm bringing extra paper to my bookbinding class today, just in case someone else forgot theirs or had theirs ruined by the rain. Purely altruistic and not at all an excuse to buy more pretty paper.

Sometimes when I'm researching not-evil tech jobs I find cool as hell not tech jobs, like this WELSH LANGUAGE BAT CHARITY role www.bats.org.uk/the-trust/jo...

Hello again, everything is still scary and hard and the tech job market is wild right now, so here's my semi-regular thread of open jobs I've found where your work could make the world better (or at least, not make it worse)

I've found myself staring every message to someone I haven't spoken to recently with "I'm fine and there is no emergency, I'm just messaging because" which feels like a Twitter era defensive posting style but for living in the present.

SOAS's food studies centre (which runs the anthropology of food masters I fantasise about) publish videos of their incredibly interesting seminars. Live cheese regulations! War economics and hunger! More incredibly specific nerdy food talks!

I have just learned there are conferences for folks who mess with shipwrecks* and I have never been more tempted to go to a incredibly boring trade show. www.salvageandwreck.... *marine salvage industry, apparently

Trying to keep a straight face while rearranging my budget to include this silver lobster inkwell (bottle of wine either included for scale or the lobster requires regular offerings?) www.the-saleroom.com...

Guess who has to pick a lock this week to get into a secondhand cabinet she bought. Gonna have a very chill, normal time with it.

I keep hitting new cursed library management knowledge and I need to pass things like this on to y'all, like a digitally transmitted cursed object. en.wikipedia.org/wik... vs en.wikipedia.org/wik... for where the shelve Mc- and Mac author names

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I *love* when folks make the little, weird projects they made for personal use available to play with. I always want to see people's impossibly specific weird little projects.

It's my first bookbinding class later today and I am unreasonably excited.

Hello internet friends, it's rough out there so I found y'all some tech jobs that have positive (or at least, less evil) impacts on the world. Here's a thread of what I've found for you this week ⬇️

Having a dedicated office has been amazing for being able to think. Been thinking a lot about platforms, the value of discoverability and offramps into federated/creator directed/owned online spaces. Y'all been reading/listening/watching anything you recommend in this space?

I wrote a book and I have written the bookselling platform I'm selling it from. soon I'm hoping to open that up to self-pub authors and small presses interested in selling DRM-free AI-free books in digital and physical formats. turnanother.page/book/the-red...

I have moved all* of my books into my liftless upper floor studio/office and if I am ever called upon to move them again I will instead simply will myself dead like a fancy houseplant.

Please enjoy this ongoing thread of my free (bad) ideas. Please steal them.

Having to manually carry all of my books to my new upper floor studio is almost enough to make me an ebook convert. I am in a hell of my own making.