do u ever wake up feeling like ur the most hideous and broken looking person, i feel ew :-( but as lady gaga says u were born this way baby so thou shalt love thyself i should be more #positive
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Arija Arčenytė's Microblog
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We think you are! Contact me if you're human :) (forward me your user agent:mozilla/5.0 applewebkit/537.36 (khtml, like gecko; compatible; claudebot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com))Welcome to my microblog of 643 microposts where I microdump my microthoughts. Feel free to follow my train of thought on my microblog RSS feed! This microblog was visited 141640 times :D
every opinion is inherently a bias from a neutral basis, bias is what makes humans people, individuals -- not just beings that Exist
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⚠️ URGENT ANNOUCEMENT: The talk this week that was supposed to happen October 8th (this Thursday), 17:00 my time, has to be moved to October 14th, 17:00 my time due to an unexpected schedule change. I apologise for any inconvenience!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzxlZG1sVyg
they not only illegalised LGBT individuals, they also took the I (which can be observed at birth) and A (so if you dont have sex youre a criminal)
thats wild
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today during a technical task / interview i had to use a mac and it was genuinely the worst laptop experience ever, how do people use macs
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This Thursday, October 8th, 17:00 my time I will be giving a 3 hour talk online on Mathematics for Programming basics: logical expressions + operations, problem solving, dynamic problem solving, algebra & notation/terminology, functions
Anyone is welcome to join. Feel free to follow this microblog, or contact me if you want to be personally updated.
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found an "alt" fashion store all oversold mass-produced garbage very alt of them
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As a Vegan, I think I've finally perfected my dinner: what I eat everyday
A simple, budget-friendly, and protein-packed vegan dinner perfected for dorm life. Enjoy a savory buckwheat-lentil porridge topped with toasted seeds, paired with spiced TVP, sautéed veggies, and a fresh side of apples and cucumbers-no fancy kitchen tools required!
https://blog.ari.lt/b/as-vegan-think-ive-finally-perfected-dinner-eat-everyday/
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Recently, I found myself considering a job opportunity at a company whose values and some of whose decisions I strongly disagree with.
That raised an uncomfortable question for me: how much should our personal principles influence where we are willing to work?
There are companies whose products, business models, political positions, workplace practices, internal behaviour, or approach to employees may conflict with things we personally believe in. And yet, when you are looking for a job and need an income, the question is rarely as simple as "Do I agree with this company?"
Sometimes the reality is that you can disagree with how an organisation operates and still have to consider working there.
I don't think that necessarily means abandoning your principles, although it does mean acknowledging that acting on those principles can become much harder when economic security is involved.
That seems like one of the more uncomfortable realities of working life: we don't always get to choose between working somewhere we completely believe in and simply refusing to participate.
That conflict exists because we're forced to operate in a system that wasn't built for people.
Companies should be built around people rather than treating people as another variable to optimise for profit. Professionalism shouldn't require removing the human element from work, and company culture shouldn't exist only as a polished statement separate from how people are actually treated.
Maybe the more interesting question isn't whether we can find organisations that perfectly align with all of our values. It's what we do when they don't.
I suspect a lot more people encounter that tension than we usually admit.
#WorkplaceCulture #FutureOfWork #CareerReflections #Professionalism
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re. to prev. - i genuinely get called ai at least twice a day like its pissing me off, every time i open my mouth, write, or communicate in any other way i am attributed to ai, i just ugh xD is this a new slur for people who communicate in a way that people w closed minds cannot interpret, like thats ur skill issue so work on it, i aint at fault 🥴
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i hate that LLMs are accessible to everyone now, so people who have a more formal or less colloquial style of communication are immediately attributed to clanker :')
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i made myself a sandbox FREEDOM sandbox like A TRUE american 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
i have never stepped foot in america sorry my american side sometimes slips out like the horse side
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In the context of the modern web, social media gave us unprecedented reach, but it came with a trade-off: uniformity.
Every portfolio, thought piece, project, and achievement is now squeezed into the exact same cookie-cutter UI, scrolling by in the exact same feed.
If you want to stand out in a crowded market, you need a space that actually looks and feels like you.
That is what's driving the resurgence of the IndieWeb -- a movement of creators, developers, and professionals shifting their focus back to personal websites.
Creating your own site gives you the freedom to fully express your creativity, test your technical rigour, create YOUR brand, build YOUR aesthetic, manage the user & recruiter experience.
It takes a great deal of effort, but this shows that you actually care.
Social feeds are designed for amnesia and bury your best work after 48 hours. A personal site acts as a curated library of your experience. Every piece you add compounds its value, creating a permanent archive of your career.
The social web is brilliant for mingling, but your best ideas deserve a home of their own.
Take control of how you network and share what you know.
🌐 Drop a link to your personal site below -- I'd love to see what you've built!
Shall I start? https://ari.lt/ :)
#IndieWeb #PersonalBranding #WebDesign #CreatorEconomy #DigitalIdentity
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October 03, Vilnius, 13:30 -- anti-racist contraprotest against a racist protest
https://facebook.com/events/s/kontrprotestas-demonstracija-p/1381084350881916/
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https://fsfe.org/activities/ilovefs/ this seems awesome ... i wonder if kaunas makerspace is still a thing maybe theyd organise something, tho idk im not a member :(
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ill give u all my ecstasy while ur breathing next to me pozri sa mi do očí and tell me what u rly see
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recently my website had a bug for 24 hours wherein had you searched "rizz" youd be met with a http/500 error
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say what you want but my dinner is superior, i eat this nearly daily :
- buckwheat porridge, cooked in low-calorie veg broth
- roasted sunflower, hemp, and pumpkin seeds -- mixed into the buckwheat during plating of buckwheat
- 1 jonagold apple ( sliced )
- 1 lithuanian cucumber ( sliced )
- 1 cup of tea ( usually melissa )
- sometimes a small snack like idk 2 small oat cookies in todays case with tea
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ei penktoj eilėj -- merlin monroe šeštoj eilėj -- sofi loren ir holivudo švyturiai juodai baltaiiii
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