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What are the early warning signs of open source maintainer burnout?

I've drafted a checklist/questionnaire here: https://governingopen.com/resources/signs-of-burnout-checklist.html

Would love suggestions/additions! This is a list I brainstormed just now, in order to create something to iterate on - I suspect it's missing quite a lot.

#femoralsketch 18 for @opossumwhoisvivian, in which a creature who is vivian is possibly also trying to look smart #mastoart #nonsense

femoralsketch 17, for _MintTea. WHAT could be going on down there?

American Megatrans

This is your irregular reminder #Adobe are fucking dicks:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3xk3p/adobe-tells-users-they-can-get-sued-for-using-old-versions-of-photoshop

> Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop

We need #FLOSS tools to get to the point where they can replace Adobe tools. Open alternatives are great, but they are sadly not there yet to replace Adobe tools for professionals.

And won't be unless projects like @inkscape get enough funding to develop to a point of being viable alternatives.

Yes, it is in no small part about the money.

Morning sketch-stream results!

Happy #MerMay !

#Art #Mastoart #Catgirl #Sharkgirl #Mermaid #LGBTQ

oh FUCK OFF

When it comes to content warnings, they're more of a liberation than a censorship. They allow you to say things into a crowd that would be difficult to say normally without a pre-warning

“People who criticize new technologies are sometimes called Luddites, but it’s helpful to clarify what the Luddites actually wanted. The main thing they were protesting was the fact that their wages were falling at the same time that factory owners’ profits were increasing, along with food prices. They were also protesting unsafe working conditions, the use of child labor, and the sale of shoddy goods that discredited the entire textile industry. The Luddites did not indiscriminately destroy machines; if a machine’s owner paid his workers well, they left it alone. The Luddites were not anti-technology; what they wanted was economic justice. They destroyed machinery as a way to get factory owners’ attention. The fact that the word #Luddite is now used as an insult, a way of calling someone irrational and ignorant, is a result of a smear campaign by the forces of capital.”

Ted Chiang in the New Yorker.

kids these days will never get to experience the expectant excitement of this screen ever in their life. not the tense sound as it reads your disk or the clicky sounds of your harddrive as the game is installed, or the celebratory drive opening as you finish... soulless downloads is all we have left. pour one out for....

I have robots on my mind.
"she may feel cold to the touch. but snuggling against her metal frame sparks me with joy"
,🔌⚡

Vacay in the Lands Between. #EldenRing

Why is it always dog?

I have had to continue my studies, sign up for a new school year, which has also meant a whole new visa process and paying for paperwork to be filed.

Also, my accommodation is not as stable as I initially thought & now have to leave in two weeks.

I still need help as I have not been able to keep up with the mounting bills.

Thank you so much for sharing and boosting, all the help is greatly appreciated!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-marcia-get-stable

#GFM #mutualaid

I cannot be stopped apparently.

asset pack on:
ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/s/dc23860808
itch.io: https://misnina.itch.io/25-pixel-mushrooms

#PixelArt #MastoArt #GameAssets #Mushrooms

stolen bc of no alt text

Managed to get it all set up where I can display a level with sprites!

Now I can do something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spVwBD6NOVI
But I'm sure there's lots of other cool things I could do with it! Like have some sort of character displayed on the mode 7 layer who rotates and zooms as they interact with you throughout the level?

I like that this is a fancy special kind of level that doesn't require extra overhead everywhere because the game logic has no reason to know or care that the level is being rendered differently.

femoral sketch 15, for moonbutters, featuring a creature called Summer Selene who seems to have claimed this spot