"Tourist Family" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34915705) is a movie that's well-worth watching — humours, heart-warming, and full of heart.

I started watching it due to the Sri Lanka connection and didn't expect much but it easily exceeded my expectations.

#Movies #Tamil

Watching "Jaat" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32223398) at the moment.

All the hallmarks of Indian movies these days — harkening to mythology, disregard for facts, Sri Lankans with Sinhala names with Tamil mothers and non-Sinhalese named brothers etc.

Some of the characters who are supposedly Tamil can barely speak Tamil. The lone Sinhalese-named guy apparently has no idea where he really comes from ... except from a place where they chew the scenery up 😛

His wife strips women and sneers at their plight as if she has no clue that she's a woman as well.

It's a movie with logic and emotional holes that jsut drips with useless patriotism. I do have to wonder if India is heading the same way as America ...

#Movies #Hindi #HodgePodge

Boosts appreciated.

My 23 yr old son is moving to Vancouver end of Sept and needs a job. Just graduating in Bio Med (masters) but has worked in our local hospital implementing projects since he was 17 - and, though I say it myself - he’s excellent. Ran the programme to buy and install the new mammogram machines for eg. Did the upgrade and reissue of security access cards for all staff.

And he needs a job and / or pointers from friendly locals. Thanks!

#Vancouver #Canada

I'm looking for a web or full stack developer to join my awesome team. This would be a part time (~20 hours a week) independent contractor position for a fully remote team working on a website primarily for the Jewish community.

We're using Django, htmx, and Tailwinds, along with other smatterings of technology, and so familiarity with some or all those platforms/frameworks would be a plus. Devops experience, or at least strong familiarity with container based deployments are a plus.

If you have any questions, feel free/encouraged to ask and I'll clarify or specify anything I can!

If you're interested, please DM me with some information about you and we'll go from there.

#GetFediHired

Hello mastodon. I could use some help. #fedihire

TL;DR: I was laid off a while ago, and the traditional "go scour job sites and apply" is currently broken. So - let's try social media. Please boost if you are willing, or pass this along if you know someone who needs what I can offer.

I'll be brief: I'm a very experienced System Reliability Engineer, with a track record of dependability and scalability. I take people's problems - stability, uptime, scale, cost, durability, speed, security and attack resistance - and fix them. I have the dubious honor of generally costing less to employ than I save my employer. If everything is perfect - you don't need me. But if you do, you may need me badly.

I'm available. Drop me a note.

I am located in Ventura, California, and strongly prefer remote work. I don't require visas or special accommodation to work in the US.

Here's a resume: https://www.bortels.us/TBortels_Resume_2025_public.pdf

I’m urgently looking for work 🚨
Engineering manager or staff programmer

20 years ruby/rails
30 years of web dev/design
5+ years of eng mgmt

I’m based in Portland, Oregon
Open to local or remote work

#GetFediHired

https://linkedin.com/in/veganstraightedge

Been busy getting ready to move, but we managed to get another video done about how to greet people in Sri Lanka in the local languages 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTrRY_n-7Uc

#SriLanka #YouTube #MultiLanguage #Travel

Whelp. Just got let go. They actually disabled my account while I was in the exit interview. Corporate IT is _cold_.

Anyway, I guess I'm looking for a new position maybe even be #FediHired ?

I have to live in Cove, AR with my disabled family, so it will probably need to be 100% remote.

I'd prefer to keep doing #Haskell or try out #PureScript in production, or even something more exotic like #Agda or #Idris

Ever wondered how you open up a coconut to get at the flesh inside for making coconut milk?

Wonder no more 🙂 We did a video explaining how we do it in #SriLanka:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clxnEHRxKGk

#YouTube #Coconuts #CoconutMilk

We're really missing Sri Lankan food. So, as one does, watching a lot of YouTube travel videos.

This led to us discovering some funny mistakes made by vloggers very often 😛

We started our own YouTube channel to (possibly) help prevent them:
https://www.youtube.com/@TravelTalesLF

If you have any questions about Sri Lanka, or travel in general, happy to answer them 🙂

#LKA #SriLanka

Well, my wife got laid off of work today.

She specializes in cryptanalysis and penetration testing. She's looking for remote jobs in Europe at the moment. #getfedihired

I've seen lots of posts about European countries offering jobs/positions in the physical sciences for Americans looking to leave, but nothing about the social sciences or humanities. Anything?

#getFediHired

please boost to help my job search!!!

i'm looking for something remote or local to the seattle area in the realms of social media, web design, video editing, writing, and/or fashion design

i'm vanta rainbow black: known fediverse poster, longtime writer, seasoned video editor, skilled audio/image editor, designer of websites, DIY fashion designer, and all-around creative person :3

here's my portfolio! https://vanta.work

tysm ^_^

#GetFediHired #FediHired #seattle

My team at Internet Archive has 3 open roles: a senior product manager (we build web and digital preservation services for mission-aligned memory and cultural heritage institutions), a senior AI engineer (exploring how we might use AI/ML to better surface human-authored content to humans), and a (non-senior) backend software engineer.

If you want to help keep this ember glowing and growing, and are up for some unique challenges, please apply!

https://archive.org/about/jobs

"Nilavukku En Mel Ennadi Kobam" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30590474) is different, young, fresh, funny.

First third was great. Then melodrama. Then better. Then complicated. Then melodrama again.

The songs in the movie were totally on point!

Also, written and directed by Dhanush.

#Movies #Tamil

I've seen Libgen mentioned a lot yesterday. Libgen has had copies of my books for over 10 years.

Stewing about it, or saying "They are taking money from me!" will not help me.

So I consider Libgen a place where others can find my books. LIke a library. And I continue to write.

#Writing #Piracy

Where's all the lgbtqia+ people on here? Could y'all boost to help me find them
#trans #nonbinary #queer #lgbt #lgbtqia #transgender

Hey there #fediverse, I’m looking to hire a senior engineer to work with some awesome folks on #Netflix’s build tools & test infrastructure. If you are interested please apply online! (see link in Toot)

My DMs are open if you have any questions about the role or if you want to let me know that you applied.

#Java #JVM #Gradle

https://explore.jobs.netflix.net/careers/job/790301668836?utm_source=LinkedIn&domain=netflix.com

What's wrong with scammers these days? They are so low-effort. You call them out on their scam and then they never speak to you.

Back in the day, they would have spent half an hour trying to convince you that they are not scammers 😛

#Scams

"Naadaniyaan" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30422937) had a boring start, trying way too hard to be American. Despite the lack of acting talents of the leads, the story got a little interesting after a bit.

But then it got just very annoying.

One who wants to be an adult forgets a major event totally because of a "crisis" and then "suddenly" remembers about it after a day.

Another says "stand up to bullies" and forgets that himself.

The leads weren't true to character, and the movie lost me at that point.

The ending picked things up a bit again despite the leads not being able to emote. All I got from them was wooden expressions and monotonous delivery.

All the heavy lifting was done by the supporting cast.

#Movies #Hindi #Netflix