This picture was taken about twenty minutes after meeting this noisyfaced fuzzball. He had already run a bunch of laps around the little play area.

For the record: I'm working from home today, on one of San Francisco's many hills. I did not feel either earthquake, and if the tsunami gets me then you will definitely hear about it on every news source.

Wait, am I a Bluesky elder?

Two years ago today, I woke up to a BCC'd email saying my employment at Twitter had been terminated. No official explanation, no severance.

I miss my team there (TCC!), and the work we did, and the other SREs, and the office food, but I don't miss working for that petulant manchild in any respect.

Not having the greatest day, so I'm going to revive an old, pre-birdsite, practice.

Today, I'm grateful for people who listen; for a warm, dry, safe place to sleep; and for the confidence boost I got yesterday at the gym. (I'm also grateful for other things, but those three are top of mind rn.)

I've been working on migrating follows from That Site. I don't always remember why I'd followed people in the first place, and I may wind up quietly unfollowing a few, but I figured this was a good way to bootstrap over here.

Still hoping to find SREsky, though. Y'all were great Over There.

Here's what's in my head today. Apparently I have to revisit it every year around this time. youtu.be/_ul7X5js1vE?...

Restarting over here, now that we're beginning to get critical mass post-birdsite.

Hi! I'm Jim. Good to see all y'all here. Don't feed the trolls, and try to be kind to each other; if you make an effort for both of those things then this place can stay useful. (Old school netiquette FTW.)

Uh, hi. Guess I'll try this place out.