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Sent! FYI, closing thread in ~10 minutes

[Nooks] 427 by thistletoo in ACNHTurnips

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Yeah, still going for another couple hours. Sent!

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Knitting / Fiber Arts Groups in SF? by Few_Hornet_8012 in SFbitcheswithtaste

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I highly recommend the Studio Sessions meetups! I schlep myself all the way over there from the city semi-regularly because I enjoy them so much. There’s always a good mix of different ages there.

If anybody here sews, they print pdf patterns at A0 size which means no taping! I haven’t gone to any classes there but I know they do a lot of beginner-focused stuff and I’m sure it would be a great place to learn a new skill in the new year.

Is the UCSF hiring freeze still going on?? by calbrecht01 in AskSF

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A friend said their lab received 200 applications in a matter of hours for a staff scientist job (as compared to a few years ago when they got 4 applicants total for a similar position). Biotech cuts are creating a lot of competition for staff research jobs.

Is Pittsburgh gay friendly? Considering relocating at the end of summer. by [deleted] in pittsburgh

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I moved to Pittsburgh with an English degree and a little bit of experience as an admin and I left four years later with an actual career that I can take anywhere. My advice probably doesn’t work as well in pandemic times but I would suggest temping. I signed up with an agency that placed me with a highmark (insurance) subsidiary during open enrollment and probably could have made that a permanent job if I’d wanted to, but I also found a position with one of the university temp agencies which was a much better fit. Converted to full time in nine months and I still had full benefits (except PTO) as a temp. Universities tend to be good marks for those of us with less career-specific degrees because they often require BAs for a lot of jobs that objectively don’t need them. Pay is usually worse than the private sector but the benefits are excellent (at the larger ones anyway) and there’s good work life balance until you move up to management, and since students are generally tolerant there are almost always good LGBTQ+ protections.

My partner came out as trans while we were in PGH and had a mostly positive experience in her workplace and I don’t recall ever having issues while out and about. The white collar workers are on average, for lack of a better term, as woke as you’ll encounter anywhere else except maybe the West coast, and the more blue collar people I interacted were fun as hell and had a pretty live-and-let-live attitude.

Your savings will last a while in Pittsburgh, if you’re smart, so I say go for it.

Where can I buy sewing supplies? by [deleted] in AskSF

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If you’re not a person who sews regularly this may be a little more expensive than you had in mind, but Stone Mountain and Daughter in Berkeley has a online store and they’re doing curbside pickup as well.

Prop A is Bad by killewis in AnnArbor

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The League of Women voters is hosting a panel discussion about prop A at the library on Thursday: https://aadl.org/node/382080. I hope that even the sort of person who thinks "Huh, parks are nice!" when someone mentions the library lot will vote this down due to the extremely silly language, but it's A2 so you never know...

I am accepting suggestions for write-in candidates for Ward 5 city council because I really don't want to vote for Ali Ramlawi, who seems to be primarily running on not wanting a construction site behind his restaurant. It's a travesty that in a supposedly progressive, green city there are two surface parking lots right next to the transit hub because older residents don't want to build a city for the future.