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jazzfish posting in

Slow Internet Day
by Kory Heath

Nobody texts you;
Email’s a chore;
Tinder rejects you;
And Discord’s a bore.
Poker’s not lawful;
Twitter’s a jerk;
Facebook’s awful;
You might as well work.

(with apologies to Dorothy Parker)

kaberett

Today in birds: choughs, stonechats, the flock of goldfinches, cormorants, and infinite gulls and jackdaws and crows.
Nerve glides continue to sound like bullshit but they are also actually and immediately helping with the mistake that is the sciatic nerve, so that's cheering.
Finished the current puzzle! Less the one missing piece. Absolute nonsense, would almost certainly happily do again. The thing about it, right, is that it has lots of textures and internal edges, so it was often very easy to put a big patch together and very hard to work out where it actually went. (Shocking nobody, I was much less into the landscapes and figures in the middle of the big platters...)
Made it down to the beach multiple times, both at approximately low tide and approximately high tide. Spent some quality time watching the waves. V good.
Sleepy pile with A remains extremely good. <3

iserlohna posting in

fan_flashworks

Title: Don't Care
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Rating: G
Length: 633
Author notes: spontaneously written in an hour after seeing the prompt
Summary: Cloud gets a job - an he's not taking it because he cares at all.

( Story )

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https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/35336

Our releases in March included a slew of collection, bookmark, and history bug fixes, as well as several improvements for site admins.

Special thanks to first-time contributors charliewhiskee, Dobe, goose, Lubczi, Marianna, mellowmarsach, Nathan Cunningham, nghz, Oyon Ganguli (0ce10tsgit), and Xiang Rassul Li!

Credits

Coders: Bilka, Brian Austin, calm, charliewhiskee, Cubostar, Daniel Haven, Danaël / Rever, Dobe, EchoEkhi, FlyingFalcon, goose, Lubczi, Mae Light, Marianna, mellowmarsach, Nathan Cunningham, nghz, ömer faruk, Oyon Ganguli (0ce10tsgit), Richard Hajek, sarken, Scott Venkataraman, varram, Yi Fang, Xiang Rassul Li
Code reviewers: Bilka, Daniel Haven, marcus8448, redsummernight, sarken, Scott Venkataraman, slavalamp
Testers: Berix, Bilka, Brian Austin, calamario, choux, EchoEkhi, hvalrann, Lute, lydia-theda, marcus8448, pk2317, therealmorticia, Ven, wichard

Details

0.9.462

On March 2, we deployed a patch for the gem we use to manage authentication (to address a performance issue related to the March 2026 Downtime).

[AO3-7306] - Devise patch to prevent an excessive amount of strain on the database.

0.9.463

Our March 6 deploy included a few gem updates.

[AO3-6916] - Migrated from Gitpod/Ona to devcontainers for our development needs, as Gitpod was no longer suitable.
[AO3-7271] - Updated which data is included when comments are sent to our spam checker for evaluation.
[AO3-7305] - We updated the internationalization of some emails based on feedback from translators.
[AO3-7227], [AO3-7304], [AO3-7308] - Code cleanup and gem updates.

0.9.464

On March 12, we released a whole bunch of bug fixes.

[AO3-6359] - In some rare cases it was possible to delete the pseud that corresponds with your username. We fixed this edge case.
[AO3-6688] - In order to prevent tragic accidents, we've made it harder to delete your entire History. Instead of a small "Are you sure?" popup, you are now directed to a confirmation page that requires another button click.
[AO3-7214], [AO3-7215] - On a page with several bookmarks, closing and opening the "Edit" or "Save" functions on several bookmarks would get the popup form all confused which bookmark you wanted to edit or save. Or, in some cases, the buttons would just disappear on you! We've now sorted out the underlying JavaScript to let you save, or indeed edit, the bookmark you clicked on last.
[AO3-7273] - When an account is banned for posting spam, we now also automatically delete all its profile contents, including any icons and alt text.
[AO3-7285] - The user ID was missing from a page accessible to Policy & Abuse volunteers; we've added it now.
[AO3-7290] - When you access AO3 without being logged in, you might be able to scroll down the page a bit, but then a popup will inevitably ask you to agree to our Terms of Service before you can continue. We now take you back to your scroll position once you click the button.
[AO3-7314] - We've fixed the draft deletion to make sure it adheres to the correct deletion dates even for drafts created in the short month of February.
[AO3-5683] - We fixed some security warnings pointed out by the helpful Brakeman tool.
[AO3-7302] - We changed the code for displaying work meta-information so it accesses the work in one unified way.

0.9.465

On March 18, we released a bunch of bookmark, admin, and accessibility fixes.

[AO3-5937] - On some pages, the "Save" button on bookmarks was visible to logged-out users, not that clicking it would do anything. Now it's only there when you're logged into your account.
[AO3-6203] - On tag pages, we display a list of tags associated with the one you're browsing, e.g. the characters or relationships for a fandom (with a limit of 300 tags per type). For large fandoms, for example, that would put a considerable strain on the database. We have now moved to getting this data from our search engine, so retrieving the associated tags doesn't hammer the database servers anymore.
[AO3-7030] - When we introduced Archive skins, we envisioned a system where users could create custom CSS to change the appearance of AO3, and then apply to make the code available to other users with a button click. This was never a sustainable idea, so we've been working on phasing it out. Now only official accounts, e.g. those belonging to the AO3 development team, can apply to have their skin reviewed for general usage. (All users can still create skins for themselves and make the code available in other ways, e.g. on GitHub or Tumblr or as a fanwork on AO3.)
[AO3-7131] - The text used by screen readers to announce a help link was confusing, reading out the question mark we use to indicate the availability of the help popup. We've cleaned up the way we generate the text, which should be easier to follow now.
[AO3-7256] - We've added a limit to how many times a specific bookmark can be submitted to the Policy & Abuse team for review.
[AO3-7272] - When accessing a comment via the "Reply to this comment" link, some buttons would be gone for site admins or logged-out users that they'd normally be able to use, e.g. if viewing a single comment thread. Now the buttons are always there!
[AO3-7303] - On your Statistics page, the tool-tip you get when hovering over a graph would flicker if it popped up right under your cursor. That's fixed now, so it should be easier to read.
[AO3-7317], [AO3-7318] - We removed an incorrect ARIA attribute from some HTML.
[AO3-7319] - If a site admin bans an account for posting spam, they are now redirected to the admin dashboard for that account (after the successful deletion of all the spam).
[AO3-7335] - We fixed that running all the tests in one sitting would leave extra files and models behind.

0.9.466

We upgraded to Rails 8.1 on March 20.

[AO3-7328] - We updated Rails, the framework the AO3 runs on, to the next major version.
[AO3-7346] - Updated a gem used by our search engine to address a security issue.

0.9.467

For our penultimate March release, we deployed several display fixes and small site improvements on March 25.

[AO3-5866] - The links to work creators in our RSS feeds were broken; now they're fixed!
[AO3-6138] - Leaving kudos on a work with JavaScript disabled would previously knock you back to the top of the page. You can now see the success message (or the friendly hint that you've already left kudos) without having to scroll down to it.
[AO3-6385] - On the page displaying all prompts in a prompt meme, or all requests in a gift exchange, the page content would overlap the sorting buttons at the top if viewed on a small screen. Now everything looks tidy.
[AO3-6498] - To assist in abuse cases involving our gifting feature, members of the Policy & Abuse team can now access a user's refused gifts page.
[AO3-7059] - We will now display a warning message if the password you're using to log into AO3 was found in a data breach documented on HaveIBeenPwned.
[AO3-7255] - We've added a limit to how many times a specific series can be submitted to the Policy & Abuse team for review.
[AO3-7268] - If you try to navigate to the inbox for a nonexistent user, you will now get an Error 404, since, like the user, the inbox does not exist.
[AO3-7280] - Creating a multi-chapter draft and then hitting "Post" on the first chapter would indeed post that chapter, but treat the work as a whole still as a draft. It now publishes the work, with the first chapter, leaving any other chapters alone so you can post them later.
[AO3-7315] - Members of the Policy & Abuse team can now edit and save a work's tags, e.g. to change the selected language, even if it has more than 75 tags. (As a regular user, you'd be prompted to remove tags from your work until you're below the limit.)
[AO3-7323] - We updated the introductory text on our homepage.
[AO3-7352] - Our previous fix making help text links more accessible for screen readers unfortunately prevented some content in work blurbs (e.g. warnings and ratings) from being read out loud. This has now been fixed!
[AO3-7329], [AO3-7330] - Your History page and the page listing your blocked users now have your username in the browser's page title, as they always should have.
[AO3-6906] - Updating the autocomplete for users and pseuds no longer depends on an unmaintained library!
[AO3-7120] - In the rare case that the admin search results for a user are outdated, admins can now manually mark the search to be updated.
[AO3-7338] - We recently changed how we cache bylines, and now all that new code is organized neatly in its own file.
[AO3-7354] - We updated Rails to 8.1.2.1 for some security fixes.

0.9.468

On March 31, we deployed another batch of miscellaneous fixes and performance improvements.

[AO3-6998] - Trying to search all signups in a gift exchange by pseud would cause an Error 500; now it returns the signup you were looking for!
[AO3-7062] - AO3 site admins can now view all work blurbs on a user's "Works in Collections" page.
[AO3-7223] - We prepared the help pop-ups on the Preferences page for translation.
[AO3-7284] - When we rebuild our Elasticsearch indexes, we batch multiple objects together into one reindexing operation. We can now easily configure how large those batches are.
[AO3-7292] - On the page for managing wranglers assigned to fandoms, the button to remove a wrangler only had a small clickable area around the X. Now the whole button does what it's supposed to do.
[AO3-7311] - When a collection's settings were changed, e.g. from moderated to unmoderated, that information wasn't fully reflected everywhere. Now we make sure that listings and search results are updated immediately.
[AO3-7321] - If you subscribe to a work that is then added to an unrevealed collection, we now display a "Mystery Work" placeholder on your subscriptions page until and unless the work is revealed again.
[AO3-7332] - The page listing your muted users now has your username in the browser's page title!
[AO3-7341] - If old jobs are still running on the development environment when a coder pushes changes to their branch of the Archive software, those jobs will now be stopped to save resources.
[AO3-7347] - We cleaned up an unused method related to prompts.
[AO3-7350] - We improved the performance of the History page by reducing the number of queries required to show each page.

https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/35336

mercury7650 posting in

fan_flashworks

Title: Abyss
Fandom: Due South
Rating: G
Length: 486
Content notes: Mild violence
Author notes: Written for Challenge 515 - Avalanche
Spoilers/Setting: Mountie on the Bounty Part 1
Summary: The aftermath of that moment on the lakeshore.

( READ: Abyss )

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Location: UK

ysabetwordsmith

Scientists hatch live chicks from artificial eggs, achieving another huge milestone in their de-extinction program

Colossal Biosciences, known for its ambitious de-extinction projects involving species like the woolly mammoth and thylacine, has announced that it successfully hatched healthy chicks using a completely artificial egg system.

The chicks developed without a biological shell at any stage. Instead, they grew inside an engineered structure designed to imitate and improve on nature’s design.

The achievement could reshape conservation biology, bird reproduction research, and even pharmaceutical manufacturing.

O_O Holy crap that's hard! You might think that faking an egg is easier than faking a uterus. It is not. A uterus is inside a body, so you can fake the casing and input. An egg is inside a membrane or shell outside a body. That shell has a bunch of jobs to do. To fake it, you either have to make something that can do all those jobs, or make a casing with holes for input/output which is not what that embryo expects. I am impressed.

... and of course it's Colossal. Those geeks are busting ass on de-extinction.

( Read more... )

Current Mood: impressed

katiedid717 posting in

agonyaunt

I have been sober for one year after many decades of heavy drinking. By now, I am somewhat comfortable being around others when they drink. I also enjoy entertaining friends in my apartment, but I no longer maintain a well-stocked bar, nor do I wish to. So, what should I do about dinner parties? I want to be a gracious host, but I don’t want to offer a full range of alcoholic beverages to my guests. Should I ask them in advance what they want to drink and stock it? (That seems a bit intense.) Should I buy a bottle each of red and white wine and hope that suffices? (That seems stingy.) Or should I tell my guests that dinner is a “bring your own bottle” occasion? (That seems ungenerous.) Help!

SOBER

First, let me commend you on your sobriety. Making meaningful and positive change after decades of habitual behavior is a big achievement. Well done! So, making note of your phrase (you write that you are “somewhat comfortable” being around drinking), and keeping the relative stakes in mind — protecting your sobriety versus giving a dinner party — I suggest that you hold off serving booze for now. Your sobriety is still relatively new, and it is more important to safeguard it than it is to serve alcohol to friends.

You don’t mention whether you attend a support group for people in recovery. But dropping into a meeting to speak with others who have lived through experiences similar to yours would probably be helpful. They can’t make this decision for you, but hearing their suggestions may help you make a better decision for yourself. I have watched friends in recovery struggle with alcohol that is left over at the end of the evening — as well as with the temptation to join guests in drinking during dinner.

I also suggest that you rethink what makes a good host. For many decades, that probably entailed serving alcohol to your guests. But really, the act of welcoming friends into your home for a meal — and perhaps a nonalcoholic beer or cocktail — is more than enough. No one needs to drink at every meal, and your friends don’t need you to serve them alcohol to feel valued by you.

nomelon

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ysabetwordsmith

Today is cloudy, humid, and hot. It rained most of yesterday.

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 5/19/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I've seen a starling at the hopper feeder.

EDIT 5/19/26 -- I trimmed brush around where I want to plant the vernal witch hazel. The name means "spring" but they typically bloom in late winter.

A cool breeze is blowing from the west. It feels like a downdraft. No storm is visible on the horizon but rain is predicted, so I'm keeping an eye on things.

EDIT 5/19/26 -- I planted the vernal witch hazel at the north edge of the forest yard, near a previous one that has survived so far. :D

EDIT 5/19/26 -- I planted 20 gladioli in the north notch of the prairie garden. Surprisingly, at least a couple survived from last year and are putting up leaves.

Already I can see tiny seedlings sprouting from recent sowing of seeds. Clover is among the fastest; I mix that with grass seed for the walking paths. Some others are wildflowers. \o/

Also I uncovered the remaining water jugs that had seedlings in them. I got 3 milkweed seedlings in that jug. 3 out of the 4 native grasses have several seedlings in each -- little bluestem, northern sea oats, and side-oats grama; only the switch grass didn't sprout there. So on the whole, mixed results, but for the ones that did work, worth repeating.

EDIT 5/19/26 -- I tallied what pots I have available and what I need. I forgot to list the tomatoes that I already have though; still need to go back and do that.

I picked and ate the first couple of pea pods. :D I love being able to wander around the yard, pick things, and put them in my mouth.

EDIT 5/19/26 -- I sowed a bunch of 'Sugar Ann' snap peas and 'Avalanche' snow peas in pots that didn't already have any. So far 'Sugar Ann' seems to be growing better and producing earlier than 'Avalanche' but there are flowers and pea pods on both.

I wrote down what tomatoes I have already: chocolate cherry, 'Mr. Stripey' slicer, 'Old German' slicer, yellow pear, 'Santa' grape, and 'Cherokee Purple' slicer. I got a 4-pack of the chocolate cherries but they aren't doing great and one has already died. I could use a red or pink slicer, and I'm still looking for fancy striped cherries.

.

Current Mood: busy

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Posted by Ask a Manager

https://www.askamanager.org/2026/05/how-much-can-i-decorate-my-planner-at-work-without-looking-like-a-kid.html

https://www.askamanager.org/?p=38107

A reader writes:

I have one of those intensely low-stakes questions that I would love to get your and the commentariat’s opinion on.

I like using paper planners. I like decorating them. I recently started a new job.

My question is twofold:

1. How much can I decorate my planner without people starting to look at me as an overgrown eight-year-old?

2. How much decorating can I do while physically at work? Some planning on paper feels fine to do while in the office but fiddling with stickers and different colored pens, maybe not? Where does one draw the line, so to speak?

I’ve attached two different types of planner spreads (they are not confidential and most likely not even understandable to outsiders so it would be fine to publish these).

Hmmm. I bet there’s going to be a wide range of opinions on this, in part because different things will fly in different offices, but to give you a very general rule, I’d say that what the first photo shows (different color inks and highlighting) is 100% fine and won’t even get a second glance, but the planner in the second photo would be A Lot for many offices.

One decorative sticker? Unremarkable. Multiple decorative stickers? Starts to look more like a craft project and younger/fluffier than what typically aligns with “professional” presentation. (I’m specifying “decorative” stickers here because I’m talking about the flowers, cloud, apple, and affirmations; the colored dots to set some items off are completely fine.) It’s also true that the more decoration there is, the more it starts to look like your focus is in the wrong place for work.

As for how much decorating you can do while physically at work; different color pens are fine; a lot of people use different colors of ink or colored labels to help organize their work, and it’s likely to come across as that (assuming you’re not sitting at your desk with a 100-color pen set, painstakingly using each of them). Slapping a single sticker or a handful of dots on a page, no big deal. More than that will come across oddly in enough offices that I wouldn’t do it.

This all goes triple when you’ve just started a new job and are still making an impression. You don’t want your early impression to be that you’re the sticker person; you want to be known for your work.

The post how much can I decorate my planner at work without looking like a kid? appeared first on Ask a Manager.

https://www.askamanager.org/2026/05/how-much-can-i-decorate-my-planner-at-work-without-looking-like-a-kid.html

https://www.askamanager.org/?p=38107

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Posted by Inés Soubrie

https://cheezburger.com/45405957/when-in-doubt-meow-it-out-these-25-unhinged-cats-represent-every-emotion-us-hoomans-feel-during-a

Fur your information. Not everything needs to be explained by hoomans! Cats do it better.

Let's be honest, is there really something better than a cute furry friend to comfort us after a long day at work? I'd say whoever disagrees has never been loved by the most perfect creature on earth. If that's you, let me introduce you to a handful of perfect cats to make you smwile.

https://cheezburger.com/45405957/when-in-doubt-meow-it-out-these-25-unhinged-cats-represent-every-emotion-us-hoomans-feel-during-a

sweettartheart posting in

100words

This week's prompt is in vain.

Your response should be exactly 100 words long. You do not have to include the prompt in your response -- it is meant as inspiration only.

Please use the tag "prompt: #495 - in vain" with your response.

Please put your drabble under a cut tag if it contains potential triggers, mature or explicit content, or spoilers for media released in the last month.

If you would like a template for the header information you may use this:

Subject: Original - Title (or) Fandom - Title

Post:
Title:
Original (or) Fandom:
Rating:
Notes:

If you are a member of AO3 there is a 100 Words Collection!

badly_knitted posting in

get_knitted

Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.

This Week's Question: What do you wish you could get right first time, every time?

If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

ysabetwordsmith

The Novella Question, or, Wow, Marketing is Expensive in Late Stage Capitalism

Many of us are looking at the novella short lists for the popular awards (Hugos, Locus, Nebula) and going, “Ah, another Tor sweep!” When I first got into the Hugo Awards, the short fiction finalists were the magazines: Asimov’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Analog. It also included pieces from short fiction collections from when publishers still let editors put those together, with a smattering of other, lesser known (to me) outlets. I remember the Tordotcom announcement, too! We were excited and we’ve come a long way. Now I get the pleasure of paying almost $30 for a hardcover novella, which I’m not excited about. I'm not made of money, Macmillan!

( Read more... )

Current Mood: busy

calimac

I saw a favorable review for Legends, and it was on Netflix, so I could get it. If you like British cop shows, and I know a lot of people do, this is a good one. It's a 6-episode mini-series, so it functions as a really long movie. The heroes of this one are Customs agents, not previously trained at undercover investigations, so they are perhaps a little easier to identify with than the typical pro hacks.

The story is that it's 1990, and Margaret Thatcher has decided to crack down on heroin importations. That's Customs' department, so they set up a training and filtering program to test and train volunteer agents who want something a little more exciting than riffling through suitcases. After a three-week program, they're down to four agents who look qualified to do the work.

"Legends" is Customs' term for cover identities, but only one of the four is destined to go deep undercover. He's maneuvering himself into the position of being the drug dealers' transport guy, who moves the heroin from Pakistan to the UK. Of the other three, one becomes the computer whiz backroom girl, and the remaining two spend most of their time watching over the other batch of drug dealers than the ones the transport guy is working on.

Most of the show jumps back and forth among the agents and their handler, who is played by Steve Coogan in a serious role, though there are flashes of humor in the show here and there. The undercover guy is married with a small daughter - unusual for undercover agents, who are usually unattached - so he has to balance work and family, and being two different guys at once, in an odd and stressful way.

It's a highly dramatic show, and well directed and acted, and I recommend it for those inclined to such drama.

flamingsword

So! Secular paganism: Have you ever been taught to ground into other elements than Earth? You can ground into any or all of them, depending on your needs. Here’s how I do it, though YMMV.

Earth -
• align yourself with the gravity that pulls you down toward the solid surface you reside on.
• feel the strength of the force holding you to the world we live in.
• ground your energy into that stability.

Air -
• align yourself with entropy that disorders, but also connects all things, without which no life is possible: the air you breathe and that touches your skin with gentle barometric pressure, the fluctuation that produces randomness and therefore motion and stirs everything it touches.
• feel the breath of the world on your skin.
• ground your energy into variability.

Fire -
• align yourself with light, with the electromagnetic vibrations that bathe everything on and inside of the planet we reside on. The neutrinos sleeting past us, the hum of electricity as it courses through the wires around us, the WiFi that you are probably using to read this right now.
• feel the heartbeat of your body, mediated by electrical signals, which echoes the heartbeat of the world in its long, slow vibration of changing magnetic poles.
• ground your energy into vibration.

Water
• align yourself with the push and pull of decay and synthesis, with fission and fusion, with the weak nuclear force that splits things and the strong nuclear force that binds them. The dance of separation and unification is the oldest dance there is, predating matter itself.
• feel the diurnal cycles of day and night, sleep and wake, being and unbeing.
• ground your energy into the dance of opposites.

Spirit -
• align yourself with consciousness, the as-yet-unexplained emergent property of these forces, with the unknown and incommunicable existence of the mind.
• feel yourself existing.
• ground your energy into awareness.

marycatelli posting in

books

What You Are Looking for Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama

A short-story cycle, with delicate threads weaving it together past the main connection, which is that, in every story, someone comes to the library while troubled at heart.

The librarian gives recommendations for books, one of which is off-the-wall, and also a felted object such as a plane. In each story, the character finds this cryptic, but reads the book.

yourlibrarian posting in

tv_talk

Laptop-TV combo with DVDs on top and smartphone on the desk

Podcasts have officially overtaken AM/FM talk radio as the more popular medium for spoken-word audio in the United States. "Netflix is inking deals with iHeartMedia and Barstool Sports to bring podcasts to the streaming service as a more trendy version of the daytime talk show."

YouTube has said that viewers watched 700 million hours of podcasts each month in 2025 on living room devices, like TVs, up from 400 million the previous year.

Would you be interested in seeing more podcasts on offer at streaming services? Any particular kind?

askamanager_feed

Posted by Ask a Manager

https://www.askamanager.org/2026/05/i-dont-want-my-new-hire-working-extra-hours.html

https://www.askamanager.org/?p=37959

A reader writes:

I manage a fully remote team. It can be difficult to draw a line between work and life when you work from home, so I try to emphasize the importance of work-life balance within my group. I don’t send emails outside of traditional work hours, I’m flexible about appointments, and I encourage my team to use all their vacation time before year-end.

I have a new employee, Jolene. Day 3 of her first week, Jolene said she would work on something “later tonight, after dinner.” I reminded her then that I don’t expect her to work on this project at night – if she ever needs more time on something, she can let me know.

Today is the start of her second week, and she just told me how much time she spent reviewing her notes over the weekend. How can I make it clear that she is not responsible for working on these (not-high-priority) projects outside of traditional work hours? (And working nights and weekends does not impress me.) I’m worried that she will start telling other people on my team about her late hours, and they’ll think the expectation is changing for them. I also don’t want her to get burned out, right as she’s getting up to speed.

For context, Jolene has freelanced for a while, and this is her first full-time job in about five years. I wonder if she is still suffering from the old “Cult of Busy.”

I answer this question — and two others — over at Inc. today, where I’m revisiting letters that have been buried in the archives here from years ago (and sometimes updating/expanding my answers to them). You can read it here.

Other questions I’m answering there today include:

My colleague apologizes constantly for missing work
Interviewing when there’s already a candidate who’s “acting” in the role

The post I don’t want my new hire working extra hours appeared first on Ask a Manager.

https://www.askamanager.org/2026/05/i-dont-want-my-new-hire-working-extra-hours.html

https://www.askamanager.org/?p=37959

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Posted by therealmorticia

https://www.transformativeworks.org/ao3-releases-0-9-462-0-9-468-change-log/

https://www.transformativeworks.org/?p=284751

Our releases in March included a slew of collection, bookmark, and history bug fixes, as well as several improvements for site admins.

Special thanks to first-time contributors charliewhiskee, Dobe, goose, Lubczi, Marianna, mellowmarsach, Nathan Cunningham, nghz, Oyon Ganguli (0ce10tsgit), and Xiang Rassul Li!

Credits

Coders: Bilka, Brian Austin, calm, charliewhiskee, Cubostar, Daniel Haven, Danaël / Rever, Dobe, EchoEkhi, FlyingFalcon, goose, Lubczi, Mae Light, Marianna, mellowmarsach, Nathan Cunningham, nghz, ömer faruk, Oyon Ganguli (0ce10tsgit), Richard Hajek, sarken, Scott Venkataraman, varram, Yi Fang, Xiang Rassul Li
Code reviewers: Bilka, Daniel Haven, marcus8448, redsummernight, sarken, Scott Venkataraman, slavalamp
Testers: Berix, Bilka, Brian Austin, calamario, choux, EchoEkhi, hvalrann, Lute, lydia-theda, marcus8448, pk2317, therealmorticia, Ven, wichard

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0.9.462

On March 2, we deployed a patch for the gem we use to manage authentication (to address a performance issue related to the March 2026 Downtime).

[AO3-7306] – Devise patch to prevent an excessive amount of strain on the database.

0.9.463

Our March 6 deploy included a few gem updates.

[AO3-6916] – Migrated from Gitpod/Ona to devcontainers for our development needs, as Gitpod was no longer suitable.
[AO3-7271] – Updated which data is included when comments are sent to our spam checker for evaluation.
[AO3-7305] – We updated the internationalization of some emails based on feedback from translators.
[AO3-7227], [AO3-7304], [AO3-7308] – Code cleanup and gem updates.

0.9.464

On March 12, we released a whole bunch of bug fixes.

[AO3-6359] – In some rare cases it was possible to delete the pseud that corresponds with your username. We fixed this edge case.
[AO3-6688] – In order to prevent tragic accidents, we’ve made it harder to delete your entire History. Instead of a small “Are you sure?” popup, you are now directed to a confirmation page that requires another button click.
[AO3-7214], [AO3-7215] – On a page with several bookmarks, closing and opening the “Edit” or “Save” functions on several bookmarks would get the popup form all confused which bookmark you wanted to edit or save. Or, in some cases, the buttons would just disappear on you! We’ve now sorted out the underlying JavaScript to let you save, or indeed edit, the bookmark you clicked on last.
[AO3-7273] – When an account is banned for posting spam, we now also automatically delete all its profile contents, including any icons and alt text.
[AO3-7285] – The user ID was missing from a page accessible to Policy & Abuse volunteers; we’ve added it now.
[AO3-7290] – When you access AO3 without being logged in, you might be able to scroll down the page a bit, but then a popup will inevitably ask you to agree to our Terms of Service before you can continue. We now take you back to your scroll position once you click the button.
[AO3-7314] – We’ve fixed the draft deletion to make sure it adheres to the correct deletion dates even for drafts created in the short month of February.
[AO3-5683] – We fixed some security warnings pointed out by the helpful Brakeman tool.
[AO3-7302] – We changed the code for displaying work meta-information so it accesses the work in one unified way.

0.9.465

On March 18, we released a bunch of bookmark, admin, and accessibility fixes.

[AO3-5937] – On some pages, the “Save” button on bookmarks was visible to logged-out users, not that clicking it would do anything. Now it’s only there when you’re logged into your account.
[AO3-6203] – On tag pages, we display a list of tags associated with the one you’re browsing, e.g. the characters or relationships for a fandom (with a limit of 300 tags per type). For large fandoms, for example, that would put a considerable strain on the database. We have now moved to getting this data from our search engine, so retrieving the associated tags doesn’t hammer the database servers anymore.
[AO3-7030] – When we introduced Archive skins, we envisioned a system where users could create custom CSS to change the appearance of AO3, and then apply to make the code available to other users with a button click. This was never a sustainable idea, so we’ve been working on phasing it out. Now only official accounts, e.g. those belonging to the AO3 development team, can apply to have their skin reviewed for general usage. (All users can still create skins for themselves and make the code available in other ways, e.g. on GitHub or Tumblr or as a fanwork on AO3.)
[AO3-7131] – The text used by screen readers to announce a help link was confusing, reading out the question mark we use to indicate the availability of the help popup. We’ve cleaned up the way we generate the text, which should be easier to follow now.
[AO3-7256] – We’ve added a limit to how many times a specific bookmark can be submitted to the Policy & Abuse team for review.
[AO3-7272] – When accessing a comment via the “Reply to this comment” link, some buttons would be gone for site admins or logged-out users that they’d normally be able to use, e.g. if viewing a single comment thread. Now the buttons are always there!
[AO3-7303] – On your Statistics page, the tool-tip you get when hovering over a graph would flicker if it popped up right under your cursor. That’s fixed now, so it should be easier to read.
[AO3-7317], [AO3-7318] – We removed an incorrect ARIA attribute from some HTML.
[AO3-7319] – If a site admin bans an account for posting spam, they are now redirected to the admin dashboard for that account (after the successful deletion of all the spam).
[AO3-7335] – We fixed that running all the tests in one sitting would leave extra files and models behind.

0.9.466

We upgraded to Rails 8.1 on March 20.

[AO3-7328] – We updated Rails, the framework the AO3 runs on, to the next major version.
[AO3-7346] – Updated a gem used by our search engine to address a security issue.

0.9.467

For our penultimate March release, we deployed several display fixes and small site improvements on March 25.

[AO3-5866] – The links to work creators in our RSS feeds were broken; now they’re fixed!
[AO3-6138] – Leaving kudos on a work with JavaScript disabled would previously knock you back to the top of the page. You can now see the success message (or the friendly hint that you’ve already left kudos) without having to scroll down to it.
[AO3-6385] – On the page displaying all prompts in a prompt meme, or all requests in a gift exchange, the page content would overlap the sorting buttons at the top if viewed on a small screen. Now everything looks tidy.
[AO3-6498] – To assist in abuse cases involving our gifting feature, members of the Policy & Abuse team can now access a user’s refused gifts page.
[AO3-7059] – We will now display a warning message if the password you’re using to log into AO3 was found in a data breach documented on HaveIBeenPwned.
[AO3-7255] – We’ve added a limit to how many times a specific series can be submitted to the Policy & Abuse team for review.
[AO3-7268] – If you try to navigate to the inbox for a nonexistent user, you will now get an Error 404, since, like the user, the inbox does not exist.
[AO3-7280] – Creating a multi-chapter draft and then hitting “Post” on the first chapter would indeed post that chapter, but treat the work as a whole still as a draft. It now publishes the work, with the first chapter, leaving any other chapters alone so you can post them later.
[AO3-7315] – Members of the Policy & Abuse team can now edit and save a work’s tags, e.g. to change the selected language, even if it has more than 75 tags. (As a regular user, you’d be prompted to remove tags from your work until you’re below the limit.)
[AO3-7323] – We updated the introductory text on our homepage.
[AO3-7352] – Our previous fix making help text links more accessible for screen readers unfortunately prevented some content in work blurbs (e.g. warnings and ratings) from being read out loud. This has now been fixed!
[AO3-7329], [AO3-7330] – Your History page and the page listing your blocked users now have your username in the browser’s page title, as they always should have.
[AO3-6906] – Updating the autocomplete for users and pseuds no longer depends on an unmaintained library!
[AO3-7120] – In the rare case that the admin search results for a user are outdated, admins can now manually mark the search to be updated.
[AO3-7338] – We recently changed how we cache bylines, and now all that new code is organized neatly in its own file.
[AO3-7354] – We updated Rails to 8.1.2.1 for some security fixes.

0.9.468

On March 31, we deployed another batch of miscellaneous fixes and performance improvements.

[AO3-6998] – Trying to search all signups in a gift exchange by pseud would cause an Error 500; now it returns the signup you were looking for!
[AO3-7062] – AO3 site admins can now view all work blurbs on a user’s “Works in Collections” page.
[AO3-7223] – We prepared the help pop-ups on the Preferences page for translation.
[AO3-7284] – When we rebuild our Elasticsearch indexes, we batch multiple objects together into one reindexing operation. We can now easily configure how large those batches are.
[AO3-7292] – On the page for managing wranglers assigned to fandoms, the button to remove a wrangler only had a small clickable area around the X. Now the whole button does what it’s supposed to do.
[AO3-7311] – When a collection’s settings were changed, e.g. from moderated to unmoderated, that information wasn’t fully reflected everywhere. Now we make sure that listings and search results are updated immediately.
[AO3-7321] – If you subscribe to a work that is then added to an unrevealed collection, we now display a “Mystery Work” placeholder on your subscriptions page until and unless the work is revealed again.
[AO3-7332] – The page listing your muted users now has your username in the browser’s page title!
[AO3-7341] – If old jobs are still running on the development environment when a coder pushes changes to their branch of the Archive software, those jobs will now be stopped to save resources.
[AO3-7347] – We cleaned up an unused method related to prompts.
[AO3-7350] – We improved the performance of the History page by reducing the number of queries required to show each page.

https://www.transformativeworks.org/ao3-releases-0-9-462-0-9-468-change-log/

https://www.transformativeworks.org/?p=284751

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