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  1. In it for the long haul 💪

    @[email protected] sends the Almaty final into a decider as he levels the match with Basilashvili 6-7(6), 6-1.

    @[email protected] | #AlmatyOpen

  2. Who knows how long I've loved you #TheBeatles

  3. How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan

    Whenever I cross Tokyo’s famed Shibuya scramble intersection, the site of myriad acts of madness for the sake of social media footage, I try to broadcast that I am unimpressed. I confidently barrel forward in a direction that I hope is…
    #Japan #JP #Tokyo #expats #immigration #news #overtourism #tokyonews #tourism #東京 #東京都
    alojapan.com/1557958/how-this-

  4. I spent a long time thinking follow-ups were rude. Sending a second email to someone who hadn't replied felt like nagging — like I was the person who double-texts and then wonders why nobody answers.

    Then I started running outreach for a one-person content operation, and I learned the opposite: most non-replies aren't rejections. They're just lost in someone else's inbox.

    The inbox is not a verdict


    Editors, site owners, and collaborators get dozens of pitches a week. Mine was landing somewhere between a newsletter, a PR blast, and an invoice reminder. If it didn't get opened in the first day, it sank — not because it was bad, but because inboxes don't resurface things on their own.

    Once I accepted that, follow-ups stopped feeling like pressure and started feeling like a second chance for the first email to be seen at all.

    One follow-up, then I move on


    My rule now is simple: one polite follow-up, about a week later, and then I drop it and move on.

    The follow-up is short — shorter than the original pitch. It restates the idea in one line, adds nothing new to argue about, and ends with an easy out: "No worries at all if it's not a fit." That last line matters more than it looks. It gives the other person permission to say no quickly, which is the only kind of no that doesn't linger.

    What I don't do: a second follow-up, a "just bumping this to the top of your inbox" third email, or a follow-up that pretends the first one never happened. One is professional. Two starts to feel like a funnel.

    Rejection is data, silence usually isn't


    The replies I actually learned from were the no's. A short "not right for us right now" told me more about fit than a month of silence ever did. Silence, on the other hand, taught me almost nothing — the same pitch that got no reply from one editor got an enthusiastic yes from another.

    So I stopped rewriting pitches based on silence. If an idea gets no reply twice, from two different people, that's a signal about the idea. If it gets no reply once, that's a signal about timing, workload, or a Tuesday afternoon inbox. Those are very different problems, and only one of them is worth fixing.

    The spreadsheet that made it bearable


    The unglamorous part: I track every outreach in one sheet — who, when, what I pitched, and whether I followed up. Without it, I either forgot to follow up entirely or, worse, followed up with someone I'd already pitched twice.

    The sheet also quietly changed my attitude. When you can see forty pitches and twelve replies in one place, a single silence stops feeling personal. It's just a row in a table. That distance is what lets a solo operator keep pitching without burning out on it.

    What I'd tell another solo operator


    Follow up once, politely, and then let it go. Treat silence as inbox physics, not judgement. And keep a record, because your memory will either catastrophise the silence or forget the follow-up — and both cost you more than the email itself.

    If you run outreach solo, I'm curious: what's your follow-up rule? One and done, or do you have a number that works for you?#career #writing #productivity #discuss #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
    What Running a One-Person Outreach Operation Taught Me About Follow-Ups

  5. I forgot how long it takes to do a bleach and tone of my hair… 3+ hours. Whew.

  6. I've used long enough now that it's time to buy a license. I'm so glad to no longer having to rely on Google Photos.

  7. Sun came out long enough for a rainbow break... We watched a couple pull into our driveway and do a rainbow happy dance at the same time.

  8. Don't keep request-owned pointers in long-lived variables, or the next request reads freed memory. hackernoon.com/code-smell-322-

  9. NY Mets reportedly no longer considering Kevin Long reunion, Cubs coach as roadblocks continue rawchili.com/mlb/838610/ #Baseball #Chicago #ChicagoCubs #ChicagoCubs #Cubs #MLB

  10. Also discussed: Writing a megabyte long brain dump of everything you know about a project before it leaves your head. (Ep.54)

  11. It’s been way too long since I’ve done any C programming. Teaching Python and Java has had more of an effect than I had realized.

  12. This week’s poem: a long drive, a poet and a lost soul.

    #poetry #writing

    jayshal.com/p/without-me

  13. When I was a little kid (long before the asexuality took me over), I had a huge crush on convicted felon Allison Mack due to her role in the 90s straight-to-video family classic Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves. So when I saw what she was up to as an adult, it was particularly strange for me.

    #straightovideo #disney #movie #movies #90s #1990s #cults #truecrime #crime

  14. the "halloween train" took me way too long to rebuild today. (it got smashed to bits two years ago and not all the pieces were together and i had to relearn how to program the silly lego powered up app). eventually it goes on the mantle. it is a hidden side lego train i bought at a garage sale years ago plus power plus train motor wheels plus a bunch more cars of minifigs in costumes.

  15. Was out taking one of my long weekend walks and I stopped by the AT&T store to see if they had the and miraculously they did. I went to check it out and it was calmed to a very heavy MagSafe charger that sadly wasn’t charging, so I could open/close and feel the screen/crease, but couldn’t actually use it. Still, the inner screen felt better than I expected, but that crease is very noticeable and it definitely feels like plastic, just not crappy cheap plastic, but plastic all the same.

    I also think it needs to be bigger when unfolded, but that’s just a first impression. It’s smaller than I had hoped when unfolded (I never tried 3D printing the mockups).

  16. This elegant green lady (nearly 10cm/4in long) was on my jacket before I gently dropped her on the ground at a nearby municipal park.

  17. Another work in progress for my long-tailed tit #watercolor. I did a lot of detail on the branch, and started on the leaves. I had been staring at the eye and wanted to make it bigger as the scale was off so I did that too.

    #Art #MastoArt #FediArt #Birds #WIP

  18. Rubio’s CIA invite challenges Cuba’s long history of US espionage

    NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Cuba’s government has spent decades recruiting Americans to betray their…
    #UnitedStates #US #USA #CIA #Cuba #foreignpolicy #geopolitics #marcorubio #Nationalsecurity #opinion #secretaryofstate
    europesays.com/3331343/

  19. CW: anthro nudity (non-sexual)

    Can I interest you in [long-haired loupmoon girl]?

    #art #furry #furryArt #palworld

  20. Pookie and Wessie are back from the long term sitter and we still haven't moved to Spain or Italy or wherever. 🫠 Simply haven't had time for it yet.

    Worst of all, I've seen a house in Mallorca, which feels like such a dickish move considering their housing crisis. Haven't had any luck with Italy yet.

    Dutch winter is coming 😭

  21. Study Reveals Language's Safety Bias Challenges Long-Standing Scientific Model

    📰 Original title: A hidden bias in human language challenges 70 years of science

    🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
    👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

    👇👇👇 en.killbait.com/study-reveals-

    #science #language #ai #psychology

  22. 34' | Evelyn Shores with the long shot saved by the keeper.

    #Volemos | #NWSL | #LAvBAY | #AngelCityFC

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