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Matthew Vernon @demoographics@wikis.world

· 2mo ago

Since it's the deadline for #HugoAwards voting, I thought I'd share how I've voted. Not space here for detailed reviews, they're on my DW.

Best Novel:
1. A Drop of Corruption
2. The Everlasting
3. The incandescent
4. The Raven Scholar
5. Death of the Author

🧵 1/5

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Matthew Vernon @demoographics@wikis.world

· 6mo ago

It's fair to say that we suck at #gardening, but over the last few years our front lawn has been gradually taken over in spring by these little purple flowers (Anemones, I think), and they're lovely just now :)

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Matthew Vernon @demoographics@wikis.world

· 2mo ago

Remembered to take a photo out cycling yesterday, failed to post 🤦 Anyhow, we had lunch at the Red Cow in Chrishall, past Audley End (see photo), back via Linton etc. 55 miles or so, in nice warm but not too hot weather. #biketooter

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Matthew Vernon @demoographics@wikis.world

· 7mo ago

I figured we needed a #Debian version of #XKCD2501 :-)

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Matthew Vernon @demoographics@wikis.world

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@patcharcana@furry.engineer we have some SRE openings right now - https://wikimediafoundation.org/jobs/

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Matthew Vernon @demoographics@wikis.world

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@fn0rd we've an Engineering Manager role open (amongst others): https://wikimediafoundation.org/jobs/#section-8

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Matthew Vernon @demoographics@wikis.world

· 2mo ago

Replying to

FWIW, these are all things that I've seen claimed or counter-claimed, and I'd like to see some evidence one way or the other.

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Matthew Vernon @demoographics@wikis.world

· 5mo ago

I'm appreciating the honesty from BT about the quality of their service that I'm migrating away from...

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Matthew Vernon @demoographics@wikis.world

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@theresnotime you bassoon, you 😜

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Matthew Vernon @demoographics@wikis.world

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@patcharcana@furry.engineer Happy to answer any questions you have about the roles (if I can), though I think most ads have a contact address in.

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Matthew Vernon @demoographics@wikis.world

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@solar_chase@mastodon.green we do, but we are a geographically-dispersed organisation of the sort that puts "daylight confusion time" in everyone's calendars twice a year when Europe and North America are differently out of sync than usual.

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Matthew Vernon @demoographics@wikis.world

· 6mo ago

This is bleak :(

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog

theguardian.com

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Matthew Vernon @demoographics@wikis.world

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@kamila@pleroma.anduin.net the oncall working group used https://framaforms.org/abc/en/ for forms, sign-up is free (though I have sent them some money given how much use we've made of them).

Framaforms - Create and distribute your forms easily…

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Framaforms - Create and distribute your forms easily…

Create and distribute your forms easily…

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Matthew Vernon @demoographics@wikis.world

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@girlonthenet impressive!

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Matthew Vernon @demoographics@wikis.world

· 8mo ago

@dwm @JuliaRez we have an SRE opening ATM - https://wikimediafoundation.org/jobs/#section-8

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Matthew Vernon @demoographics@wikis.world

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jon @zergar if life were a lengthy game of Ticket To Ride, I have done all of that in stages. I think Spain/Portugal this year was perhaps the worst for disruption, alas :-/

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