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[jazzfish]

As noted, I bailed on Twitter because they shut down access for third-party clients, including my preferred client, Tweetbot. This act of war pushed Tapbots, the Tweetbot developer, into overdrive on their Mastodon client Ivory. It went into wide release a few days later. I tried it out and while it's certainly an early release, it's enough like Tweetbot that I'm happy with it.

So, Mastodon. I'm at jazzfish@wandering.shop grr DW still wants to make a leading @ automatically DW-username-ize things (thanks to Nicky for the invite). My feed's mostly made up of my Twitterfolk that I could easily find plus a handful of other people I keep seeing retweeted / boosted and figured I'd go ahead and follow.

It's not as polished an experience as Twitter was and in particular I miss quote-retweet. But it's fun so far. (As with Twitter I'm using it primarily to read, and secondarily to retweet.)

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Thanks to Mastodon I am following Cameron Reed (fka Raphael Carter, and once centuryplant). Cameron's novel The Fortunate Fall is probably my favourite novel that no one has heard of, and I include Mike Ford's books in that judgement. Yesterday she mentioned that "A mere 26 years after The Fortunate Fall, I am working seriously on another novel." So that's rather exciting.

In a followup she said "It's strange to have too many ideas after such a long period of creative nullity. Changing the hormone levels in my brain has been good for me." Which ... gives me some hope that I might manage to get back to writing, myself, at some point. That I might be able to rebalance my brain and my lifestyle to support that. But there's a lot to unpack there, too.

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Bah. I was more functional working four days a week, for sure, but looking for that will make jobhunting Even Worse. And it's an open question as to how I'd do with a 20% pay cut. Between the not-quite-doubled housing cost and the general increase in cost of everything, that might require some serious belt-tightening. Bah.

Comments

[reedrover]

My work offers flexible working days so the crazy people can work 4x10 and have a day off after that while still pulling a full-time paycheck. I don’t recall what you said before about that possibility…?

[jazzfish]

My general sense of myself in re 4x10s (or 9x9s with one day off every two weeks) is that I have enough trouble staying functional for an eight-hour day, and expanding that is going to make matters worse. If I end up stuck here longterm, though, I might ask to switch to that schedule.

(The wisest thing I ever heard in support of 4x10s came from a Federal worker of my acquaintance: "When I worked eight-hour days people were always asking me to stay late to help with something. Nobody asks you to stay late when you're working ten-hour days.")

[sartorias]

YAY!!!