"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

@rakontisto For me, the trouble is that I'm often accused of trying to emulate Adams when I'm actually trying to emulate Pratchett 🙂

@davemark Umm ... wouldn't a molecule of water only have two Hydrogen atoms in it? 🙂

Never mind, I instinctively read that as "entire universe" rather than solar system ... 😛

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

@gaveen I know who you mean (the Synology person). I've known him a long time, I think like the late 80s ... 🙂

@gaveen It was all fine till you said "It's hot and humid here" 😛Looking at coming back for a long(ish) stay and that kind of fills me with (mild) dread ...

But I guess if you want to live in paradise, you gotta put up with the heat? 😀

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

@AngelaPreston This sounds really interesting. Bookmarking for later so that we (the wife and I) can try it out 🙂 Thanks, Angela!

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

@neil My books are DRM free, sci-fi and (hopefully) funny. You can find them here:

https://books.farook.org

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

@Rayne_Hall_Author My books have no AI at all — in fact, some might claim that they have no intelligence of any kind 😛

They are science fiction but with helping of my brand of humour ... which might not appeal to everybody.

If you'd like to find more info, you can find them here:
https://books.farook.org