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Robert Dresden

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Hi I'm Robert( they/them). Fire Spinning, Dabblings in OpenGL , Mathematics and Chemistry and stuff I find interesting. ⚗️🎥🔥🌈

Robert Dresden 5h ago

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Die Bürger in Athen durften damals einmal im Jahr bei einem "Scherbengericht" einen Politiker wählen, der ihrer Ansicht nach dem Volk schadet. Der Meistgenannte wurde dann für zehn Jahre verbannt. Tja und jetzt frag ich mich sehnsüchtig, wer bei uns als erstes gewinnen würde.

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Kevin Beaumont 20h ago

if anybody knows anybody at the UN Umoja (the UN's shared services), get them to patch these boxes for CitrixBleed2 and reset all sessions (including AAA) - there's somebody from Chinese state logged into them going brrr for the past three weeks.

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Blog post about lossless float image compression (EXR, HTJ2K, JPEG-XL, mesh optimizer): https://aras-p.info/blog/2025/07/08/Lossless-Float-Image-Compression/

Lossless Float Image Compression · Aras' website

Aras' website

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This is what a human hand looks like under a microscope.

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Riker Googling Jun 23

my little droney assimilation is magic

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You Can't Spell Jun 26

You can't spell Star Trek without taser

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Warum heißt es Revolution und nicht Fallbeilspiele?

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The 'Bluesky Is Over' party is beginning over on the platform.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/07-10-2025-age-assurance

#Bluesky #ukpol

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Are the Americans OK?

I’m in Sweden. About ⅔ of the office is micro-retired for the next month or so. (The consensus-minded Swedes do like taking July and/or the first half of August off.) I’m not, but I did a 1½-week micro-retirement in March, and have a shorter one coming up later this summer. Last year, I took most of a month (so, a mini-retirement) to go to Australia.

Framing a week every 1-2 years as a “micro-retirement” sounds like giving the Overton window a further push to normalising servitude.

Malcolm Herbert 5d ago

@acb that was my thinking also - you should not be expected to _return_to_work_ after retiring ...

Christof Damian 💙💛5d ago

@acb France and Spain are usually retired in August.

@ NovaNaturalist🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦🇲🇽🇱🇸🇳🇫🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 #FBPE 5d ago

@cdamian @acb The French also micro-retire for 2 hours every lunch time.

Simon Lepuissant 5d ago

@NovaNaturalist @cdamian @acb we call it nano retirement

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@simon_lepuissant @cdamian @acb I read your toot during a pico-retirement.

Juan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉5d ago

@NovaNaturalist @simon_lepuissant @cdamian @acb I like to take one breath in my femtoretirements.

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@dacig @simon_lepuissant @cdamian @acb that's good. I close my eyes during my atto-retirements but at the end they are open again ready to work.

MattChippytea 4d ago

@cdamian @acb @simon_lepuissant @NovaNaturalist @dacig taking a demi-semi retirement for a coffee

Esme Ciredutemps 4d ago

Qp meilleur fil du jour (au dessus)

⠠⠵ avuko 3d ago

@Wifiwits @cdamian @acb @simon_lepuissant @NovaNaturalist @dacig what scale do we use for those of us who work 32 or 36 hour weeks?

Christof Damian 💙💛3d ago

@avuko @Wifiwits @acb @simon_lepuissant @NovaNaturalist @dacig no need to measure, that's basically part-time retirement.

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@avuko @Wifiwits @cdamian @acb @simon_lepuissant @dacig

Not sure about scale, but I'm a big proponent of working thirty six hour-weeks in a year. I think if you are working one hour every week, you will need sixteen weeks micro-retirement a year.

This 16 weeks should include any public micro-retirements. To have those days in addition would be ridiculous.

toadjaune 3d ago

@NovaNaturalist @simon_lepuissant @cdamian @acb I'm assuming that's like, a bathroom break ?

F4GRX SÃ©bastien 4d ago

@simon_lepuissant @NovaNaturalist @cdamian @acb nah it's a shorter micro. the goal is to completely disconnect from work, as deeply as if it was a real micro retirement.

Mario Guerra 4d ago

@NovaNaturalist @cdamian @acb Spaniards too. And, if I'm not wrong, Czechs.

Christof Damian 💙💛4d ago

@mguerra
Your really arrived in Spain if your lunch retirement goes into your dinner retirement.
@NovaNaturalist @acb

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@cdamian @mguerra @acb But do the Spaniards and Czechs get abducted by aliens every lunchtime? I mean, walk anywhere around France at 1pm and it will be eerily deserted.

@NovaNaturalist @cdamian @acb We nano-retire regularly for 5 - 10 Minutes to the toilet

Julien W.4d ago

@NovaNaturalist
This saves us from burning out very much indeed

@NovaNaturalist @cdamian @acb That's a nano-retirement ☕

@cdamian @acb based on this, Germany has 3-9 retirements in the time period. Does this mean the Americans have to work longer and start official retirement after death?

Edelruth In The Wrong Timeline 4d ago

@Okuna @cdamian @acb

I believe that is the Trump-Kennedy plan, yes.

@Edelruth @cdamian @acb but doesnt it hit mostly their own voters?

@Okuna @Edelruth @cdamian @acb well, "plan" was a bit overstated, it's more like the idea of a plan

candy in the wind 3d ago

@fanf42 @Okuna @Edelruth @cdamian @acb the concept of the idea of a hinch of a thought of a plan?

@kjempeslu @Okuna @Edelruth @cdamian @acb "thought", no, I'm sure it wasn't that, but the vibe is here

Edelruth In The Wrong Timeline 3d ago

@kjempeslu @fanf42 @Okuna @cdamian @acb

😎

Edelruth In The Wrong Timeline 3d ago

@fanf42 @Okuna @cdamian @acb

😁

Edelruth In The Wrong Timeline 3d ago

@Okuna @cdamian @acb

They don't need voters anymore.

F4GRX SÃ©bastien 4d ago

@cdamian @acb It globally started early july this year lol

Jacobo Da Riva Muñoz 🇪🇺5d ago

@acb in Europe this micro-retirements are payed by the company/employer

Dave Sanderson 🇨🇦🍁5d ago

Before taking full time retirement, my collective agreement gave me six week micro-retirements every year. That started at 25 years of employment with the same organisation. In my first year I only had three weeks a year.

@ NovaNaturalist🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦🇲🇽🇱🇸🇳🇫🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 #FBPE 5d ago

@Sanderde @acb this is yet another reason why Canada needs to get closer ties with Europe, and fewer ties with the US. 3 weeks micro-retirement a year is not enough to prevent burnout. I don't know of any country in Europe - not even the UK - with such paltry annual micro-retirement. This how the fascist state to our south poisons Canada.

Dave Sanderson 🇨🇦🍁5d ago

@NovaNaturalist

And the three weeks to start was through the union, which also provided 15 days per year paid sick leave and two days additional paid Personal and Volunteer leave.

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@Sanderde @acb Yes - all across the world, our employment rights were achieved through unionised efforts, against concerted opposition from the powerful and wealthy gangsters.

@Sanderde @NovaNaturalist @acb I've never been entitled to more than two weeks vacation in my entire life. I've never actually taken more than a week in twenty years. In that time I've never taken time off where I haven't been on call. Articles like that are for maybe 15 percent of the workforce. The rest of us don't get that kind of flexibility and never will.

Dave Sanderson 🇨🇦🍁5d ago

It’s no surprise that many European countries top the lists of the happiest places in the world.

It shouldn’t take unions to ensure proper holiday breaks for workers.

@NovaNaturalist @acb

@Sanderde @NovaNaturalist @acb Agreed! I just hate articles like that, it comes from a very entitled place.

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@mike @Sanderde @acb Sorry if I have misunderstood you, but there is nothing "entitled" about recharging your batteries. What is entitled is the expectation from some employers that they can work you without recharging your batteries.

Getting sufficient vacation, like securing the 40 hour / 5 day week is a key success of the labour movement, but there is more work to be done. Canadians are entitled to use Europe as our model and not the US.

@NovaNaturalist @Sanderde @acb I think you're misunderstanding where I'm coming from. I completely agree 100 percent, people should get sufficient vacation time. The entitlement I'm speaking to is that the author doesn't seem to understand that this option is simply not available for most people. So to describe micro-retirement as a generational phenomenon is coming from an entitled head space.

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@mike @Sanderde @acb I'm with you now! Sorry for being slow

Badgardener 4d ago

@NovaNaturalist @mike @Sanderde @acb

Quite so: thinking that ridiculously small holiday entitlement is somehow a hard fact of life is pure Stockholm syndrome.

(Lest I'm given the hair shirt of entitlement to wear in shame, I worked in just such a field for years, where the dial for assistants was set firmly at Masochist. About halfway through, I went freelance and took mahoosive holidays - up to six months - until I decided to stop being on call altogether and switched jobs. I have a low opinion of the argument that it's a necessary reality to do this. Horseshit.)

J. Blake 4d ago

@mike @Sanderde @NovaNaturalist @acb This article feels made up.

@jblake @mike @Sanderde @NovaNaturalist @acb

I think we are feeding the AI monster with micro-retirement vibe. Its called a vacation.
Although I get a chuckle out the micro, nano, pico series of replays:-) well done.

Dave Sanderson 🇨🇦🍁4d ago

“Micro-retirements offer an opportunity to recharge. Gabrielle Siegel, a wealth management advisor at Northwestern Mutual, notes that this is valuable. ‘It’s taking time to focus on what’s bringing you the most happiness, recharging, mentally avoiding burnout, and realigning with your personal goals. Gen Z is looking at the workplace a bit differently, and happiness is an important factor,’ she says.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/91357784/what-is-a-micro-retirement-inside-the-latest-gen-z-trend

Seems legit.

@mike @NovaNaturalist @acb

What is a micro-retirement? Inside the latest Gen Z trend

Burned out and ladened with debt Gen-Z is getting a jump on retirement by going on short unpaid breaks from work: "micro-retirements."

Fast Company

Zark Muckerburg 3d ago

@mike @Sanderde @NovaNaturalist @acb It’s what I call boomer-goating. They find something maybe a few people are doing or are say they are doing and getting older people mad about it. Before it was Millennials...

schrotthaufen 4d ago

@Sanderde @NovaNaturalist @acb Food for thought for your union: In Germany, we have six weeks of fully compensated sick leave payed by the employer, and then the insurance takes over at 60% salary. (If you get declared permanently unfit for work you’re basically screwed, though.) The minimum days for PTO are 24 working days, and you _have_ to take two consecutive weeks off at least once per year. (This is law.)

Dave Sanderson 🇨🇦🍁4d ago

With my union, unused annual sick days were carried over (I retired with 275). If used up, insurance paid 70% if you’re unable to work or be reassigned, with medical certification.

In Canada the federal government sets the working standards for federally regulated companies, ie banks. The provinces are responsible for their own regulations.

One fairly recent addition is shared paid maternity/paternity leave for one year, or 18 months on reduced pay.

@NovaNaturalist @acb

schrotthaufen 4d ago

@Sanderde Damn, your union must have some real knives out negotiators! @NovaNaturalist @acb

Dave Sanderson 🇨🇦🍁4d ago

Federal government, with dozens of bargaining units. Usually when one negotiates a nice benefit, the rest tag along on their next contracts.

One useful benefit was converting overtime into time off in lieu which I used a lot (they can’t tax time off). That had to be used up each year or paid out, but the regular vacation leave could be carried over year after year.

schrotthaufen 4d ago

@Sanderde Converting overtime into time off is possible in many German companies, too. Very handy, since overtime pay is usually taxed in the highest bracket. PTO carries over, but has to be used in Q1 or you lose it, unfortunately :(

Dave Sanderson 🇨🇦🍁4d ago

Some companies require the PTO must be used or it’s lost. The Executives in the federal government had that where it had to be used by the end of the fiscal year (Q4) which resulted in many taking it just as the next year’s budgets were being drawn up. 🤦🏻‍♂️

The German way of making it in Q1 makes much more sense, like so many things do.

gnaddrig 2d ago

@schrotthaufen
"and you _have_ to take two consecutive weeks off at least once per year. (This is law.)" - I don't think this is the case. Emplooyees don't have to take two consecutive weeks off once a year, but employers have to give them the opportunity to do that, so it's a right for the employees and an obligation for the employers.

@Sanderde @NovaNaturalist @acb

schrotthaufen 2d ago

@gnaddrig Nope. You have to take off two consecutive weeks once a year. If you don’t, your employer opens themselves up to legal charges, so they make you take that PTO. § 7 (2) https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/burlg/__7.html (no official English translation available) @Sanderde @NovaNaturalist @acb

§ 7 BUrlG - Einzelnorm

gnaddrig 2d ago

@schrotthaufen @Sanderde @NovaNaturalist @acb
Then that must have changed at some time in the last 10 or 15 years. At one time, my previous company (in Germany) made a big deal of changing their policy so you couldn't keep vacation days indefinitely like before. Didn't concern me because I never had any left by X-mas anyway. But there were plenty who had amassed literally hundreds of vacation days and noone remembered them ever taking even one day off before that change.

gnaddrig 2d ago

@schrotthaufen @Sanderde @NovaNaturalist @acb

"Then that must have changed at some time in the last 10 or 15 years." - hm, the law became effective in 1963, and §7 (2) BUrlG was not changed, as far as I can find out. Anyway, maybe they hadn't paid much attention and then someone reminded their legal or HR department of §7 (2) and they adapted in a hurry.

@NovaNaturalist @Sanderde @acb
UK allowance is a minimum of 5.6 weeks paid holiday. It applies to all workers including people on zero-hours contracts, with the paid holiday based on the average hours they work per week.

Haelwenn /элвэн/

@acb micro-retirement to me should sound more like "Oh yeah, I'm taking 6 months / a year off from career stuff"