As some folks know, I am back on the job market.

26 year PHP Veteran, extensive Open Source and community experience. Specializing in modernization, training up teams, technical leadership, and long-term thinking. Some Kotlin experience as well, but not a ton.

Currently looking for Staff/Principal or Director/CTO level roles. Size of company flexible. Full time remote, US Central Time.

More details on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larry-garfield/

Boosts welcome, etc.

#PHP #FediHire #Kotlin

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Billionaires want medical debt. It forces millions to give up homes & savings in fire sales.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/25/nx-s1-5552684/medical-debt-credit-report-state-laws

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/12/financing-groups-rural-hospitals-us

https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/medical-debt/

Billionaires use health insurance to chain people to their jobs. Private health care is an albatross around the neck of the US economy
https://fortune.com/2025/10/22/us-healthcare-premium-outlook-rising-costs-workers-employers-expiring-subsidies/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/07/03/business/economy/healthcare-jobs.html

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/12/nx-s1-5534416/health-care-costs-soaring-blame-your-employer

Billionaires want immiseration & desperation
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-health-care-plans-fake-jobs/

https://www.epi.org/blog/house-budget-bill-would-kick-15-million-people-off-health-insurance-and-damage-local-economies/

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/fact-check-thune-health-insurance-workplace-job-employers/

#natuur #Biesbosch #natuurfotografie #vogelfotografie #vogels #nederland #dutch #netherlands #naturephotography #nature #wildlife #birds #birdsphotography #sonyalpha #sonyalpha7rv #DXO #birdwatching

Biesbosch
Zwarthalszwaan (ontsnapt)
Black-necked swan (escape)

very looking forward to this keynote by @cwebber!

Social Media: We Can Change the Defaults
> Building Networks of Consent and Spaces of Joy in the Ruins of Social Media

Thursday, November 27 at 20:00 UTC+1

SPUI25, #Amsterdam (or streamed online!)

https://spui25.nl/programma/we-can-change-the-defaults-building-networks-of-consent-and-spaces-of-joy-in-the-ruins-of-social-media

45 years ago, today, I won the National Atari 2600 Space Invaders Championship #atari

Israel arrest warrants: Turkiye charges Netanyahu and top officials with warrants

Turkiye has issued Israel arrest warrants for 37 senior officials. They are all accused of genocide and crimes against humanity. This comes in response to the Israeli occupation’s military operation in Gaza.

Senior Israeli occupation officials have no place to hide

Only five of the officials have been named. They are war criminal Netanyahu, far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Defence Minister Israel Katz, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) Border and Security Minister Eyal Zamir, and Naval Forces Commander David Salama.

The charges stem from allegations that the IOF has waged “systematic violence against civilians in Gaza”. Infrastructure has been intentionally destroyed, and humanitarian aid has been blocked, while medical assistance has been denied.

Turkish prosecutors cited specific targeted attacks in Gaza, between October 2023 and March 2025. These included the devastating attack on the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital on October 17, 2023, in which more than 470 people were massacred and 340 injured, from an explosion in the hospital car park. The Israeli regime blamed the incident on a failed rocket launch by Hamas, and continues to do so today. But according to analysis by Forensic Architecture there was a campaign of disinformation from the Israeli occupation forces about the incident.

More here!

https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-news/2025/11/09/israel-arrest-warrants-turkiye-charges/

Wanted to send my congratulations to the @bonfire team for Bonfire Social 1.0!

The Bonfire folks are currently #crowdfunding to help build out more features. If you'd like to help #bonfire become more successful, please support them via #IndieGoGo here:

https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=UScVLqSJJkKpZWg_Lnsg7w

#Support #Fedizens #developers #fediverse

Building for communities, not profits! 💪

Pumped about the launch of @bonfire , a new microblogging platform that is fully interoperable and modular so people can pick and choose the features that work best for their community.

https://bonfirenetworks.org/

7 years ago this week we went to the pet shelter and picked her. Or she picked us. One of those.

Mila is 19 years old. She loves: screaming, eating chicken, killing mouse toys, looking for crumbs.

#Cts #CatsOfMastodon #Torties

Brain, brain go away,
Come again another day.

John Mastodon sez:
Friends don't let friends post links on the Fediverse without any context.

Ich habe den Laptop einer Freundin von Win10 auf #Linux Mint umgestellt und bekomme jetzt lauter nette Signal Nachrichten.😇

Das Arbeiten mit dem Computer mache ihr jetzt wieder mehr Spaß! Bislang dachte sie, Linux sei nur ein "billiger Abklatsch" von Windows, aber Pustekuchen: Der Laptop ist jetzt viel leiser, schneller und wird nicht mehr so heiß: "Der bleibt ja saukalt!"

Und das System ist "megaklug, es lässt sich so einfach bedienen, wie mein Handy."

🐧 🥰

#LinuxMint #foss #endof10

Just a middle aged woman getting her first pair of progressive lenses. I’ve been slightly nearsighted since I was a kid but in recent years it’s been getting more difficult to read up close. I would have just grabbed a pair of drugstore magnifiers but my eyes are very different from each other. My right eye is much more farsighted than my left. Everyone in the office congratulated me on my first pair of progressives like it was a big deal? lol idk