somewhat belated because we’ve been really busy again but! we have a docs page up and running, we have the email situation hopefully sorted out, and stuff is flowing again generally. things are going pretty good right now on the backend for Beehaw, i’d say, and hopefully that continues as the week progresses.
when things chill out i’m hoping to get back to finishing a few books which i was reading in May–this has been a full time gig basically, so i haven’t had any real downtime. i only just got in some Stardew Valley last night.
Not going well but I am not without hope either.
My mom didn’t get approved for social assistance so I’m crunching numbers on our budget for the next month or so.
Brought out the instant pot and made some nice black beans, which I turned into black bean burgers. 😋
Switched from Pop OS to Linux Mint, liking the experience so far. Not as cute as Pop OS was, but I like the interface and the battery alerts and sound effects. So it’s not bad.
One of my tech goals is getting switched to Linux Mint. But I’ve been a slacker, so we’ll see how that goes.
The creeping despair cloud has come for me.
Hang in there ❤️. The cloud will dissipate. Change is the only constant.
I’m sorry you’re feeling down but just wanted to say that the way you worded that is very cool. Very sci-fi almost
been really enjoying contributing and connecting on Beehaw and Lemmy in general. Trying to do some reading and playing through Diablo 4!
Pretty good! Started off with a morning at playcentre, afternoon doing a shift at the toy library, and finished off by giving a presentation at the community council meeting. Got my community garden proposal through to the next phase (regional council). Got overwhelming support from my presentation at the community council meeting and feeling really good about it. First structural edit meeting for the book I’ve been working on is Thursday and I’m really happy with how that’s all going too. Early stages of getting a library of tools/community workspace organised.
Just in a really good place right now and I feel like I’m actually getting somewhere with my goals.
Thank you for your work in advocating for public services. Libraries of things are so useful for the local community.
It’s been a pretty decent week for me. I am enjoying that Beehaw is low enough traffic still that it’s quite possible to read through all the new local post titles as they come in. It’s fun watching the community grow. Reminds me a bit of early Twitter days when the entire global timeline was small.
Back in the real world, I got two days out at Lake Patoka over the weekend, and I’m off tomorrow morning for two days backpacking in the Shawnee NF. Gotta enjoy this good weather while I can!
It’s going alright! Just been relaxing since I graduated and will start my full-time gig next month, pretty excited about that. I’m also just curating my RSS feed cause I didn’t realize how much I would love them so much lol. Loving Beehaw, lemmy and the lemmyverse in general!
Congrats on graduating and landing a full-time job! 🎉
As an RSS-enjoyer perhaps you can help me. I want to get better about using RSS to stay connected and updated with the world. Right now I’m using Feeder for Android and I’ve got some feeds from a couple news publications, some Rust dev feeds, and some of my favorite podcasts, but I find that I get little value out of this. Do you have any recommendations on how to squeeze the most out of RSS? How do you decide what’s worthwhile to subscribe to?
Thank you so much! Well I am also figuring that out myself. For me I think the best thing that would bring the most value is to subscribe to those feeds who you’re genuinely interested in like for me I love to keep up on AI/ML research so I have a lot of AI/ML blogs in my RSS feed including the latest news as well. I have also added the Hacker News Daily Digest as well. Link to where I got that one
I think it takes a while to get used to it like I understand where you’re coming from when you said that you get little value out of it. I think it is the matter of who you like to read up on and is in your interests too. If you’re interested in AI/ML, Science and Tech here’s the github link to that optml and you can use Feedly to import that file if you’re interested or just choose the ones you really want to read which is fine too! Github link to those RSS feeds
Edit: I just found out that you can convert your favorite community on Lemmy into an RSS link, just link on the RSS logo right beside the the question mark inside the circle.
I celebrated Juneteenth with a friend by going to the city, visiting a cool history exhibit, getting sandwiches and boba, and walking 11k steps!
Also played in a DnD session and GMed for another one, which was fun.
It’s starting to get pretty hot where I live, gonna have to bust out the AC units soon at this rate.
I’ve had a great week, for the most part. Making progress on my mental health through very unconventional means, and feeling happier for a change. Possible job interview this coming Saturday, so we’ll see on that front. Health issues have prevented me from working for a while now, and I’m anxious about returning to the job market.
Hooray for unconventional means!
Fucking ugh. This week is just ugh. Our landlady has brain cancer (our rent is currently about half what apartments are going for in our city, they doubled during covid) and I’m not sure if she’s passed or not but her adult son has taken over the building with his wife and as of Tuesday have given us notice that at the end of the month we’ll get a letter giving us 60 days to move out (month to month lease). We just had a second child in January. They’re kicking us out with a five month old so they can renovate our apartment and charge double.
So instead of paying a ridiculous amount to rent somewhere again we’re attempting to buy a house, but the housing market up here is super tight and they’re all going way over asking price within days. I don’t know what we’re gonna do if we can’t find something suitable in the next week or two so we have time to get this all done in time to move. We do have really good credit and enough to close, but finding one that isn’t a failed flip or looks like it’s from the 70s or isn’t snatched up immediately is wearing on me.
Everything needs to line up and it’s just not right now. I haven’t cried yet so I guess that’s alright.
So sorry you’re going through this, sounds like a nightmare. Hope you find somewhere soon
I went to a second public meeting about how our small community is going to combat youth violence. This series of meetings was prompted after a recent highschool graduate was shot by police.
The first meeting was attended largely by religious leaders who also engage in violence prevention in a nearby city as well as local leaders and school administration. Most of the discussion centered around the causes of young people carrying guns, youth violence, and criminality.
The second meeting was local leaders from various groups and schools discussing strategies of keeping young people engaged and away from violent and criminal behavior as well as how they can coordinate with each other to best share their resources.
I had volunteered to give a short talk about online reselling as a form of legitimate side income to the financial literacy class for young people, however the class was postponed due to the meetings.
How are you feeling about the meetings and the connections being forged? Do you feel like there’s momentum building towards some kind of tangible progress?
Yes, the organizer is someone who has been active in the community for some time. I like the guy, he’s extremely charismatic, a bit strange, although a little too religious for my taste.
He was already expanding his organization before the death. He now has a space that he’s setting up where younger people can go to hang out or where he can have events. They are hosting midnight basketball throughout the summer just to help people stay busy I guess.
They had discussed the use of grant money to pay chaperones to ensure that they are consistently there. They had also discussed finding opportunities for young people to work. Even going so far as suggesting using grant money to pay kids while they work at local businesses.
As you can imagine there is a high amount of poverty in this town. The kid who was killed was in a car with over 6 lbs of marijuana that was packaged for sale. The driver of the car is in custody and was in possession of 2 handguns. While the one that was killed reportedly had a gun when he ran away from the traffic stop. He was on the honor roll, so it’s not like he couldn’t work a normal job. There is an abysmal lack of economic opportunity in the area unless you know people, so getting involved in criminal activity is pretty tempting, especially if you’re young.
Your last paragraph reminds me a lot of where I live in southeastern Ohio, especially that last sentence. It sounds like you all are doing great work. This was inspiring and motivating to read, thank you!
It was honestly humbling to be in that room. Here’s all these different people with these different organizations with huge amounts of experience and training, then there’s me, some guy. At the end the host asked if there was anything anybody wanted to add and one of the ladies from an org just says, “People are dying.” with a flat tone. That hit everyone pretty hard I think. The mood was already somewhat somber before that. The kid who was killed had actually been attending the financial literacy class. Many of the people in that room knew him because they work at the highschool that he went to.
First week into rTMS treatment for depression. Been struggling a lot recently but know that I’ll start feeling better in 2-3 weeks, so there’s a light at the end of the tunnel (I’ve done this treatment 2x now, and know it really helps me… But only lasts 4-5 months).
Have a driving test tomorrow that would normally be a piece of cake, but I’m so depressed it’s difficult to drive. This is the last possible test before I lose my license… I kept on putting it off (because, depression). Hoping I pass!
Halfway thru another philosophy post but a busy weekend pulled me away from it. Been thinking I might want to chill on it for a little though, with things slowing down and settling a bit nicer.
A person who is lovely and magical and moved away last year is coming down to visit, so I’ll be hosting and hopefully cuddling in just a few hours - I’m looking forward to spending what little time of theirs I’ll get when they’re around.
This last weekend I got out and danced twice, spent time with partners including one I haven’t seen in almost a month, finally got connected with the right person to discuss everything that went wrong with my 2 surgeries and care coordination, went to a show my nesting partner and her partner played, and some other stuff I probably forgot.
This week I’ll be moderating a panel speech, and then professionally speaking myself. This weekend is pride in SF, so it’s jam packed with shows and parties. I’m guessing I’ll probably be sick next week because I’ll be spending a lot of time partying and being around a lot of people in crowded spaces dancing and having fun.
What kind of music do you like dancing to??
Also sounds like you’re poly, is that the label you’d use? What’s a nesting partner? I’m really interested in it, I wish I’d discovered the concept of polyamoury before I settled into a monogamous relationship.
EDM, generally genre agnostic. I like and find myself drawn towards melodic elements in music and I enjoy it in different parts of music. Melodies can be more traditional and led by instruments like piano, guitar, etc. or they can be less traditional and come through in bass or electronic elements or through melodic break beats on the drums.
Yes, I am poly and that’s the label I use. My nesting partner is the partner that I live with. I use this term instead of anchor or primary because they are neither of these to me - the other partner (metamour) that I referenced is more akin to her primary or anchor (she doesn’t practice hierarchical polyamory but I feel like primary may in ways be more appropriate here because the two have codependency issues they’re working on).
Things are hard right now. Father’s Day is always rough. Taking summer term organic chemistry while working full-time is more than I can manage well. It doesn’t help that I sped through gen chem 2 in 6 weeks just prior to this.
I’m super burnt out and I don’t have a lot to show for the past sprint at work plus my first midterm is on Friday. This weekend was supposed to be productive but my brain has been on strike.
I did get some exercise in today and it did help a little but I’m nowhere near the capacity required.
I’m very grateful for my life and opportunities afforded to me and I really shouldn’t be complaining about relative non-issues but 🤷♂️
Damn you’re on a tear. You’re a 1%er for determination. I wouldn’t dream of holding any full time job much less SW Eng’g (?) while taking chem classes, much less actually getting in any exercise.
Ochem was nearly the death of me. Hang on, it’ll pass (or maybe you won’t like I did the first time lmao) but you’ll look back soon and it’ll be 3,000,000% irrelevant.
I’m having (or am going to have) some pretty serious personal issues, so that’s pretty bad.
But on the bright side, I had fun playing DnD on the weekend and I opened my first ever open source PR on Lemmy
