Can confirm you're in excellent hands here. BwP is my local comics shop here in Portland; it's owned & run by caring, fantastic people. They excel at questions like these. I talk them up every chance I get.
@esmerel.bsky.social needs to know about this, IMO.
I respond to meaningful queries on LI when time and energy permit. The conversations are often 50% industry-specific and 50% offerings of kindness and empathy. It feels important to not look away. It's been my turn before and it'll be my turn again, someday.
I heard the totals for when my team posted new technical writing positions recently, and they made my heart hurt on a near-cellular level.
It feels like a strange reversal to tag @ironspike.bsky.social about a book like "Demimonde", instead of learning about it FROM her, but 🤷♀️
If you want to turn off LinkedIn using your info as AI training data, here you go. www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
9/ @noahbrand.bsky.social helpfully reminded me that it's traditional to get dysentery on the way to Oregon. Perhaps I'm just an early adopter.
8/ Realization: I am literally shitposting