Every little bit helps.

#dontbeadick #dontbeadickeither #everybithelps #reminders

When I was around 10 there was a furniture store around the corner.

I used to stand in front of its large windows, dreaming of all the pretty things that we would probably never own.

Until one day my parents told me I could go and have a look and make a shortlist for a new TV stand.

Overjoyed, I went in all by myself, ready to hunt for items in our price range.

Only to be confronted with "do you even have money, kid?"

Guess which store my parents never set foot in again.

#DontBeADick.

The "Gundam Effect" is when you tell a story that has significant weight and meaning to it, but you use a framing device so intrinsically appealing that the message gets lost in it. The horrors of war and how it's not an atrocity a thinking species should commit on itself, but you told us with cool robot fights so that's what we notice.

... perhaps no greater example than A Christmas Carol though.

"See, the modern way of urban thinking is fundamentally dehumanizing! Scrooge makes those around him miserable by keeping a personal austerity code and demanding no more than everyone around him adhere to it!"

"Got it! It's about buying a goose for poor people."

"No, it's about the notion that there is so much surplus wealth in this damn city, but people suffer because it's locked behind the walls of people who can't even use it. Scrooge has a room for his spare furniture! He lives alone!"

"Ah, got it. It's about how greedy bastards are the real problem."

"No! He's not greedy, he's a product of the fundamental rules of this Victorian era that have supplanted a more collectivist understanding of how to treat each other! How much better this grim and finite existence would be if we could recognize our shared experience of it and~"

"... and be well-liked so you get into heaven instead of being tossed into a hell-pit or experiencing living cremation."

"That's the movie adaptations!!!"

#Scrooge #HappyHolidays #DontBeADick

Insider threat in a single post. And why? Not because this is a bad person, but because the company is treating them like they're worthless.

Don't forget, treating people right is also a part of security. When folks are unhappy, they're much more likely to take these sorts of actions. And all the DLP in the world isn't going to prevent this. Can't copy it to a usb device? Take a picture. Phones are banned? Copy it down onto paper. There are endless ways to exfiltrate this sort of data.

#security #insiderthreat #dontbeadick
https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/115651353406288981

I have spent all morning writing a long document which can be summarised as follows:

"Don't be a dick"

I firmly believe that the majority of the world's problems stem from how those four words are interpreted and applied.

* Some people think that being a dick is actually the correct way to be.
* Some people think that those four words do not apply to them.
* Some people believe that being a dick is a privilege.
* Some people believe that they can acquire the privilege required to be a dick.
* Some people think privilege gives them the power to compel people to be dicks to others.
* Some people think they can be a dick to some people if they are not a dick to other people
* Some people believe those four words only apply to human beings.
* Some people think those four words are meaningless.

#politics #religion #philosophy #morals #ethics #DontBeADick

You are gone but not forgotten (Dick Cheney, unpunished war criminal)

Burn in #hell. There are many countries accused of #torture, but only in a few cases has it been proven.

#dontbeadick #usa #israel #waterbording #abugreib

If you save spreadsheets on page break preview mode and then send them to people…

Please. For all that is good and true in this world.

Stop.

#Excel #FreakInTheSheets #DontBeADick

"What personality trait in people raises a red flag with you?" There were plenty more possibilities I could've chosen for my response to Daily Prompts QOTD, but I chose this one...
#personalitytraits #redflags #pink #tuesdaythoughts #mindfulness #bekind #dontbeadick #writerslife #goodreads #bekind

https://rickollie.com/2025/09/09/what-personality-trait-in-people-raises-a-red-flag-with-you-2/