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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2025-06-18 12:52 am

"Is there anything you'd like to tell us about yourself?"

No, but I'd like to tell you that you urgently need a proofreader. Are you aware that you just made me answer the same question about my desired salary three different ways? Once was plenty enough! Also, why are you asking what currency I want it in, and since you are asking, why is one time US dollar at the top of the drop down and the other two times it's alphabetical under "United States"? Did you even look at this before posting, and once again afterwards?

(These people really urgently need help with this, but unless this is a Secret Test I guess telling them wouldn't help me much.)

Alternative answer to the question: "Yes, I'd like to tell you that I really need money, please give me some, with or without hiring me first."

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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-06-13 09:04 am

A Rebel’s History of Mars by Nadia Afifi



The embittered Martian aerialist and the nonconformist live a thousand-plus years apart, in different solar systems. What, then, connects them?

A Rebel’s History of Mars by Nadia Afifi
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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2025-06-16 04:30 pm

"I think the protagonist had hay fever or maybe yellow fever, I'm not sure which"

Well, that kinda covers the gamut of illness there, so maybe figure it out?

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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2025-06-15 12:37 pm
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-06-12 10:41 am
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On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams ([personal profile] dewline) wrote2025-06-12 09:48 am

Bots and AO3

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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-06-12 09:35 am

So, there's an employee I dread managing

Very nice and punctual but they've basically learned nothing in the year they've worked at the theatre. Not where to stand, not which row is which, or the general location of a given seat. The last two really matter during reserved seating shows. Whatever side that usher is on is going to have lines, and people may end up in the wrong seats.

So I was discussing the situation with my boss and I said my current approach was that each shift would be to pick one thing that usher does not know, and do my best to ensure they know it by the end of the shift. Last shift was "where to stand", for example. My reward is, I think, that usher is now _my_ special project who I will be working with whenever I HM.

I did assure my boss I do remember a previous HM who grilled ushers on seat location and would ding them a quarter hour for minor uniform infractions and that I wasn't going to use them as a model. Well, I do, but only in the sense of asking myself if the way I want to handle something is how that person would, and if it is, I do something else.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-06-12 08:59 am
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The Transitive Properties of Cheese by Ann LeBlanc



An artisanal cheesemaker's attempt to save her precious cheese cave lands her in the middle of an interplanetary crisis.

The Transitive Properties of Cheese by Ann LeBlanc
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-06-11 11:31 pm

People who say they like golden retrievers

Have never worked a show run by human golden retrievers...
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-06-11 10:08 am
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Five SFF Books About Oddballs Resisting Conformity



Tales of dissidents, dissenters, and iconoclasts taking on the status quo...

Five SFF Books About Oddballs Resisting Conformity
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-06-11 08:54 am
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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2025-06-14 03:24 am

Oooh! Prodigy has a Mirror Universe episode!

As always, Evil!Janeway is hot, though less so than the Living Witness version. It's the eyes - our main characters all have huge eyes, so the somewhat more realistically animated adult human characters look slightly uncanny valley, even though their eyes ought to make sense.

Also, damn, Chakotay has got some arms! Is this true IRL? I don't remember ever seeing the live actor ever without sleeves....

Also also, I honestly love every time Gwen gets a moment of happiness, no matter how small. She really has had a miserable life. Every second chasing replicated pie over the ship, or squirting whipped cream into her mouth, or, one hopes, finally spending some time playing goofy holodeck games, is a second worth living. And so, I will say, I appreciate that the animators took the time to let her smirk a little when Evil!Chakotay proposed starting his torture session with "the cute one", aka Murf the Indestructible. You gotta find those moments of joy when you can, sweetie!

(Question: Are mirror tribbles... nice? What about their new team pet, Bribble? Would Bribble have a goatee and be evil in the mirror verse? How sapient is that thing, anyway?)

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