Notices by Michela (michela@mastodon.club), page 7

@ink_slinger A totally subjective anecdote: I dress "business casual" at work, even though I am not required to do so. I definitely feel that dressing this way helps prompt others to listen to me and take me seriously. Of course, that's in addition to my knowledge, experience, integrity, methods, and work ethic.

Dressing reasonably well is an easy, relatively inexpensive (a lot of my clothes come from thrift stores) thing to do, and I'm happy to do it to help me be effective at work.

@ink_slinger I don't think professionalism is an all or nothing thing. Surely, one can be professional amd dressed casually, while the same person dressed smartly looks a lot more professional.

How we present ourselves does indeed have an influence on how we are perceived by others, and even over how we feel about ourselves. I don't have it handy, but remember seeing research on this.

@hhardy01 Tony Soprano was actually a much nicer person than the failed steak salesman who currently lives at the White House.

@gargron The cookies with sausage is gross! 🤢

@sibolivar @bobjonkman Thanks for that! I think I am going to start playing with #Diaspora first and see how that goes. It seems very nice.

@bobjonkman Ya. That's my understanding too. 🙂

@bobjonkman #Friendica and #hubzilla look interesting, though I should mention that I'm looking for an alternative to FB, not Diaspora. :)

@bobjonkman lol! I was wondering what was going on. 😄 Thank you for the suggestion! I will check them out.

@kepstin @thurloat Ah. Bummer. I actually don't even know anything about the bookmarks feature. Perhaps other people do, and losing it might be a problem for them.

It is probably most important to be on a recent version of the software, however, for security and stability (that's generally true anyway).

"Kids show how easily elections could be sabotaged" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/22/us-elections-hacking-voting-machines-def-con

@thurloat, I hope this doesn't offend anyone: can Moostodon have a theme like the one on @gargron 's instance? It's clean and, honestly, so much prettier. 😶

@wilw Hah. That's actually pretty cool.

While we're at it, I wonder if we can train crows to not be such jerks.

@Modern_Industrial Thanks! I will let you know once it's up and running. 🚀

@fla Thanks for the reply! I think I'm going to try setting up a node. 🙂