I don't understand a lot about this conflict but surely there can be no justification for this. Those poor people

Better than last week in that I feel almost back to normal. Never had a chest infection before (that wasn't Covid) but it was like being hit by a truck, wonder if having had Covid twice makes me more susceptible to these things now. Or maybe I'm just getting older.

I will know if I have a future at my work by the end of the week which is slightly nerve wracking. My job is safe but due to the restructure my salary is protected only until April, when it decreases by a fair bit. I am handing my notice in after Christmas if management don't agree to keep my salary at the same level as I've worked too long and hard there to be treated like shit salary wise. Hoping it won't come to that but we'll see. Meeting management this week and making my case as it's budget time.

That must be incredibly frustrating, but it's also good to see the anaesthetists take their job so seriously. Hope you don't have to wait too long

Congratulations! Hope it all goes smoothly

Is it weird to reply to my own thread? Ah well.

This week has been suspiciously good so far. Getting things done, people have largely been nice, spent the weekend with my sister's cat which was lovely. I'm just waiting for something bad to happen (super healthy I know).

Things are ok more or less. Went with my mum to a secure dog field yesterday so her dog could run, she loved every second of it. Still mentally blah but being able to work from home over the last few days has helped. Did another crochet workshop on the weekend and I think I'm gradually starting to understand the basics.

Got a meeting with one of the exec directors on Thursday which I'm a bit terrified about. Catsitting for my sister over the weekend which will be nice though.

In the UK college generally means the period between 16-18 where you do your final university entrance qualifications (A levels). People also do those at sixth forms but those tend to be attached to secondary schools, whereas colleges are separate institutions. Universities are where you get a degree.

Some universities here have colleges (in the sense that it's a small community within the university) but it's not hugely common outside of Oxford and Cambridge.

You also used to have the word 'college' attached to schools as a branding thing (to make them seem more academically rigorous) but the ones I know that have had that became academies

We have the phrase 'every Tom, Dick and Harry' which is like that (UK)

If we're talking about a generic person it's usually Mr/s Smith or Mr/s Jones (near Wales)

While people have made some interesting comments on the downsides of megathreads, I'm glad we have a way of containing the Musk stuff. It gets a bit much.

To people who do have concerns though, if you're tech minded maybe look at contributing to a way of improving the functionality of Lemmy. It's in our gift to improve this place so if we can do something about it then we should, rather than passively complain when things aren't how we want them to be.

This will have an impact on journalists who use Twitter to get tips for reporting. Seen some who were concerned this would happen

More folk than you'd think! We had an influx of Reddit folk recently (wasn't expecting them to be embraced as much as they have been, nice to see)

The main thing I was concerned about is then getting rid of the reverse chronological sorting and they've backtracked on that, so hopefully it won't be completely awful. It did just seem like a weird business memo that the staff were told to put on Tumblr rather than anything user-friendly. Just sounded way too corporate.