Tiny updates for tiny people

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It has been a while since I have posted almost anywhere, I’ve received a notification on LinkedIn 🤮 that kind of really tells me why - it has been one year since I joined the cooperative.

I’ve gone from post-startup workplace harassment by two of the most idioic psychopaths I’ve ever had the displeasure to deal with, to endless applications without responses, to being gaslighted through interviews for the final response to be an inexplicable 🤷, to getting pissed off and just making my own job before accidentally getting full time work in the process.

Since then I went from endlessly watching shit on YouTube to remain functional while starving to working non-stop and gaining weight. Shit has been wild and considering how things are going at the moment it could be only a matter of time before everything resets and we’re back to square one again. So I’m riding this day by day.

In between that the concequences of all of this shot my blood pressure through the roof over that 14 month period. Not only was I kind of fighting through capitalism but also my own body. Things kind of got real bad when I started to get the hard physical effects of that being back pain, difficulty breathing, pounding headaches, and fatigue.

200€ and two doctors later I ended up just being put on a medication that effectively resolves all of that but makes me piss a lot. It is what it is. At least it is just high blood pressure for the sake of high blood pressure, nothing heart related or anything like that.

That’s kind of the global update here, the same old capitalist nonsense - having time to do your own thing comes at a high financial and physical cost and having financial security comes at an impossible balance to have time for yourself.

Anyways, all that aside, yesterday I really took a treat yo self day

Just disconnecting from literally everything and getting lost in a game, ironically the same game that fucked me over earlier this month. It was great, cats outside, me inside.

Today I got to get back to that grindset mindset and go over a couple things that are work related but I am an independant worker so at least my cooperative and I are the end benefactors of all of this.

Until then though I’ve been checking on the toxic waste ground that is deadinternet.fr to see how much shit our AI friends have been chewing through, and it has been pretty good. Things dipped a little but as soon as I post the shortened link to this article it will pop up again.

99,99% of these visitors are just the dregs of internet bots. The modern internet remains bullshit.

On that note I have to say I’ve been working with some of the team at deflect to adapt some of their rules to start working better with the more brute force anti-bot tactics to accept working with the fediverse better. Still some work to happen but so far a really good improvement.

They’re very open to working with a site owner to make things better, there are still a lot of creative bots out there but they’ve managed to kick the majority out.

Voilà voilà you’re mostly up to date.