https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1958575046
My first time streaming on Twitch where I played Kind Words, which is about helping people instead of slaying them. Curious ? Please 🙏🏻 watch. Though I felt a bit like an online agony aunt, I would like to continue streaming!
#helping #agonyaunt #gaming #streaming #twitch #gamification #socialwork
slitherin_granny went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Games + Demos VOD now.
I think we need an agony aunt column for readers.
I was talking to a friend about Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale when I realised I couldn't recall fairly large chunks of it - so here's my question to any future literary agony aunt:
'Should I reread Atwood's book - and could I even stand doing so, while so many politicians (& media & voters) seem to see the book not as a work of dystopian fiction but a travel guide?'
#MargaretAtwood
#Handmaid
#AgonyAunt
#DystopianFiction
#Bookstodon
In our latest episode our #conservation agony aunt gives us some advice around pitching for more time for collections care to higher-ups and how to speak their lingo when you need to:
https://thecword.show/2023/04/05/s13e02-accreditation-part-1/
#DearJane #TheCWordPodcast #AgonyAunt #podcasts #CollectionsCare #conservators #museums
C is for: Competent We have a chat amongst ourselves about the process of becoming an accredited conservator, as seen by two mid-career people staring at the application form in fear and distress. This episode contains snippets of both Jenny’s and Kloe’s thoughts on the very early stages of getting ready to even apply, being on the Pathway (PACR), and some of the notable barriers. Kloe also interviews Heather Doyle about how accreditation works and how it will be changing, and Dear Jane handles a question about how to pitch for more hours of work. 00:00:33 Jenny’s long road on the Pathway 00:05:38 Kloe’s speed-run 00:11:26 The murky history of accreditation 00:16:01 Evidence is everything 00:21:27 Reasons to go for it 00:23:41 Specialisms are made up 00:29:50 Jenny frets about things after a workshop 00:32:36 Kloe’s commitment 00:37:17 Kloe’s anxiety about specialisms and forms 00:40:49 Kloe’s confused about mentors 00:42:08 Kloe discovers the Pathway 00:43:35 Kloe’s funding issues 00:45:20 Interview with Heather Doyle 01:12:56 Postscript (sort of) 01:16:18 Dear Jane 01:23:59 Patreon shout out and appeal Show Notes: - All about Icon accreditation: https://www.icon.org.uk/accreditation.html - The Conservation Register: https://www.conservationregister.com/ Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/thecword Hosted by Jenny Mathiasson and Kloe Rumsey. Intro and outro music by DDmyzik, used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. A Wooden Dice production, 2023.
TLDR; Value your time, and don't use helium balloons. Confused? Yeah, so were we… Find out why this is the ultimate advice of our columnists Hannah and Isabella in this week’s edition of “Ask Anything”.
Read it here to find out what on earth they’re talking about: https://outloudmagazine.com/lifestyle/value-your-time-and-helium-balloons/