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Boss: Why is your work only 80% complete?

Me: Oh, yes! There’s a very good explanation for that.

In my last performance review, you noted that I was exceeding all expectations, but that you were only giving me a 4 out of 5 because you “never give 5s” because “there’s always room for improvement.”

As a result, I’ve taken the initiative to deliver at 4/5 capacity to ensure I’m performing according to your expectations.

As we’ve already established, I’m easily capable of performing at and above 100%, so please let me know once you’ve adjusted my performance rating to a 5 and I will adjust my performance accordingly.

—@Alice

People were getting justifiably pissed off about what felt like a complete “whim” decision to defederate mastodon.social.

Not realizing that no one was announcing defederation, but a Silence. (Also known as a “Limit”)

Silence is infinitely less destructive, and doesn’t break follow relationships, and still allows you to follow people on the other server, it just puts the server in a more ‘restricted’ mode so that randos from that server don’t have the same privileges (to your eyeballs) that non-silenced servers do.

Suspend is what you do when you’re done with that server. When you’ve given up, and when you’ve informed users on your server that you’re defederating a server that has existing follow relationships you’re about to break.

Most of the time that is not a decision that is made lightly especially when there are already existing follow relationships between the two servers.

(This is another reason mastodon.social has little to fear from defederation, but I digress.)

—@oliphant

For those #mastoadmin who have to clean up the mess, this query helped a bunch – obviously replace Infosec.exchange with your domain. You can select all accounts and suspend at once, then jump to the end and you’ll see two accounts that are inadvertently swept up – just manually unsuspend those.

https://infosec.exchange/admin/accounts?origin=remote&status=&role_ids=&order=recent&username=&by_domain=mastodon.social&display_name=doge&email=&ip=

—@jerry

The size of mastodon.social is breaking the moderation story of the #Fediverse.

Moderation on fedi relies on:

1. instance admins and moderators being able to manage bad actors on their own instance;

2. instance admins being able to defederate from insufficiently moderated instances.

Mastodon.social’s size and the speed new accounts are set up there means that 1. is unworkable. The size of m.s. and the clout of some of its users means 2. is a hard decision.

—@rysiek

I like to think of brunch as the purest form of anarchy. Want a burger between 2 waffles? Go for it. Scrambled eggs on a brownie? Heck yeah! Toss some onion rings in those Froot Loops, you are ungovernable. For 90 glorious minutes, all rules of polite society have been suspended.

—@UncleDuke1969

This Mother’s Day, get her what she’s always wanted; a cloak of protection from dark fairies, a little cabin that roams through the wildlands on giant chicken legs, and an enchanted dagger to call her own.

—@Edmonds_Scanner

ah yes, well it is that i remember the Good Samaritan story. after the Levite and the Pharisee left the injured man on the road, the Samaritan came and put him in a chokehold for nine minutes and killed him.

Jesus the Nazarene tells this story in the book of Money, as a parable to illustrate the virtues of strength and supremacy.

—@dgold

you know how you can hear the ocean when you put a shell to your ear? Well, I learned that if you make a list of chores to complete and put it next to a full bottle of tequila, you can make the tequila chuckle.

—@michellepostoncombs

I know I’m always on about this when cops or other folks kill some agitated person, but for real y’all — we in the ER see people who are angry, threatening, violent, and scary EVERY shift, and we kill zero of them. We don’t shoot them. We don’t choke them to death. Most of the time we talk them down and that’s it. Sometimes we restrain them, but we do it safely.

I have very scary people blow up at me. Often I literally pull up a chair and we talk it out. Please, we can be better.

—@mcnado

Happy Mother’s Day to the only rich country in the world that offers no paid leave, no parental leave, little-to-no child care while forcing birth and leaving tens of millions with no health insurance all because one of of major parties exists to put women in their place.

—@lolgop