news to me

[brainwane]

I am on Bluesky and sometimes I go look at denise 's feed there.

I remembered that a few years ago she had noticed that Tumblr had a particular job opening, and had speculated about what a person in that role might want to do with the platform.

https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3libfgunrhc2q

https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3libfqau4rk2q

I had not realized that she had applied for that job, and that she had done so partly because she is "very bored."

This feels like information other people who use Dreamwidth might like to know. I had not previously understood that the chief executive of this platform is bored with her current job, and that provides me with a perspective I'm a little uncomfortable with.

EDITED 17 FEB TO SAY (as I said below in a comment): I screwed up here. Yeah. I’ll write about my screw-up at more length later, but I want to at least note here that yeah, I really didn't go about this in a way that foregrounded "I have concerns but I want to share them in a way that is overall supportive of the site".

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[synecdochic]

I'll repeat what I said to Sumana privately: I didn't realize that an idle post of "I'm bored and cranky after having been doing the exact same thing for 22 years and getting paid less than minimum wage for it so I applied for a job (that I didn't get) on the off chance of maybe getting to have a retirement eventually" is worth a full post trying to rally people into abandoning the site. Nice.

[synecdochic]

Allow me to be explicit, since blocking you on Dreamwidth and Bluesky and blocking your number from texting me apparently didn't work:

I do not want or need your advice. I do not remain friends with people who take wild misinterpretations of things I have said and use them to publicly shiv me in the back. I hope airing your over-privileged self-aggrandizing "concerns" were worth burning a friendship for, because you have. Do not attempt to contact me again.