I've been a union organizer since 2021. I was the lead organizer for my union. I've confronted bosses, stood up to billionaires, organized strikes, planned workplace actions, faced retaliation, and helped grow class consciousness within the working class. We won union recognition in March 2024, and I was illegally fired in December 2024. The case to get my job back is still ongoing. I have stories, knowledge, strategy, and more, so ask me anything!

Howdy, fellas! This is Maya! I wanted to come over here and make a little introduction on Lemmy!

As you can see, I'm a small little apple. I'm going to dig into my lawn so I can finally grow into a tree!

But I'm too small and I haven't sweetened yet :/ If I dig myself in right now, I might not germinate before the fall :/

So, I thought why not wait it out and mingle with all of you?

Ask Maya Anything!

I am a UK-based self-employed Art Technician, who travels around my local region to different galleries and museums to install art exhibitions.

Sometimes I handle famous and expensive artworks or priceless artifacts, but most of the time it's probably artworks you've not heard of. This includes 2D work like paintings, 3D work like sculptures, video projections, screens, sound systems, computers, and room-filling installations. Sometimes we work directly with living artists to help produce their work.

Happy to talk about technical stuff i.e. how artworks are transported, packed, fixed to the wall, what sort of fittings are used, how an exhibition is spaced out, hung, arranged etc; or to talk about working in galleries, or any questions from artists about how to prepare works for exhibition etc

I'm also a practicing artist, and historically both a filmmaker and gallery curator - so happy to answer things relating to that sort of thing too.

Because it's a pretty niche job I may have to keep some details vague for privacy etc.

I'm doing a public talk fairly soon on "what I do", and I need to know what sort of things people are potentially interested in, so I can focus more on those in the talk - so any relevant questions would be really helpful to me, thank you.

Any curiosity about life in Italy? How it is really like to live in the northern part of the boot shaped peninsula?

So, I am a father, I love and have cats and dogs, live in a small town in northern Italy, and and I work full time in a field related to software, technology and loosely transportation. I also lived in Rome, one of the biggest northern italy metropolies, and in smaller places like Pisa.

In a previous life I traveled around lots of the world and in my current life I am training for an Ironman.

All of this, while living in the above mentioned country.

Specially for US lemmiers, but also people from other parts of the world, anything you want me to explain, clarify or just answer about all of the above?

burner account for privacy

Until the age of about 13, when I met some queer folks (I was straight at the time) and some people with undocumented parents, I wore my grandpa’s red hat at school. I was proudly against undocumented immigration and didn’t care much about the environment, though I was friendly with my peers and left-wingers, I just kept my beliefs and they kept theirs.

Well, that eventually changed. My grandpa became more right-wing, I became more leftist and now I am a proud leftist

I'll admit, doing a bit of self-reflection, I don't actively bully others but it would kinda make sense to have covert narcissism because my dad is kind of narcissistic, he is said to be like that by many people. My mom is said to have signs of BPD but of course, she wouldn't realize or think she has it, so she would not get diagnosed. Also, she can change emotions on a whim.

I actually never liked this field, I'm just into coding, but somehow I ended up here. I know people hate on AI, and justifiably so. Just wanted to clear some things out for those interested in whats, hows and whys of it, as best as I can.

protest was in a deep red area that consistently goes to republicans in elections

I worked as a stripper from 19 to 21, ask me anything.

At work I'm a Software Architect, I still code a little bit but mostly I do architectural work and developers code the things I come up with. I've always been writing small tools for myself like a RSS Reader because I couldn't find one I liked, or a tool which formats JSON when you paste it into it's window, or a OSX Timer app and many many more. It was always a painful process which took a lot of time and many of the projects I started I had to stop because of lack of knowledge or time.

Some time ago I started using AI to code those tools. About two years ago started just asking ChatGPT to give me parts of the code and was still coding mostly myself, but now I found this tool OpenCode which gives me Agents which can do planning, research, coding and testing after I write down what exactly I need.

They still need a lot of hand holding but I'm learning how to work with them more and more effectively and for example yesterday within a couple of hours I vibe coded Email Forwarder which takes emails from one Email Provider and with help of the IMAP protocol copies them over to a different provider and is useful for synchronizing emails between two providers. My dad has been using this one free provider for a long time but they delete all emails after 6 months, we always struggle to find important older emails, but not anymore because this script synchronizes them with a different provider which doesn't delete emails.

I also vibe coded this recoder application which recodes videos from my Sony camera and my Samsung and iPhone phones into a format which can be used by Davinci Resolve. That took me quite a long time.

Anyway if you're curious, Ask Me Anything!

i find his story pretty interesting from what i picked up, so u can ama.

A fictionkin is: "those who identify as something that is considered fictional, typically (a) fictional character(s) or species". They identify as a fictional character or species rather than with them.

The alternate universe involves everyone becoming their "true forms", which for fictionkins are the fictional character or member of the fictional species they identify as.

Ask if you wanna be curious, don't judge or call me "delusional" or something.

I don't have any idea behind that, I'm just criminally bored atm.

Stood outside of the Pensacola Christmas drag show with a 🏳️‍🌈 flag.

Im surprised there isn't a c/AMA

I am a 25 year old woman was diagnosed with ASPD at age 20, ask me anything

I have been a prison guard for two years now, ask me anything

I have been to an international school in egypt (british) North coast, and I live in a gated community.

Basically you would I guess see me as that privileged person in egypt which yea you are not wrong Well I would I think be privileged compared to the average egyptian living in egypt which would be like where you go to a national school and that you live in a normal area (Basically no gated communities) so yeah

And yes I'm 17 years old right now so yeah that too

I wanted to see if anyone has any questions about my hobby and to also kill time.

[RP POST] i live in the alps and get consistently harassed by aliens. ama

#AMA @askmeanything

Here goes nothing

Edit: I didn't like it :(

I don't know if I ate wrong or what but this just tastes super weird. No idea why it's so popular

Edit 2: I just remembered I loved peanuts dipped in honey as a kid. That's kinda similar. I wonder why I didn't like this then.

Wanna see if I can reveal some hidden memories. Usually, direct questions trigger those memories to come back.

I won't say too much because that's for you to ask but I got diagnosed with asthma at the age of 15, when my family decided to finally take me to the doctor to ask her about.

Thread open till I forget it exists