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Today in The Medium Newsletter, featured stories include:

• Funerals for disappearing #glaciers, by @ritu

#Solastalgia, a form of eco-anxiety, by @clnichols

• The meaningful nonsense of nonce words, by Matthew Veras Barros

• Affordable #sustainability under #capitalism, by Raz Godelnik

• A meeting with one’s younger self, by Dana Lyn

• A backyard full of #wildlife, by Adam Fritz

medium.com/blog/would-you-atte

I just realised that I had never made an intro post, so here it is:

As you'll see on my profile, I'm a bit of a professional chimera. I studied an engineering field back in the day, but switched gears to clinical psychology when the stars aligned for such a big change.

I'm interested in very many things, and one day, I would like to either work in child-and-youth psychiatry, psychotherapy, or psychological counselling for minorities. Currently, I'm nearing the end of my studies, and I earn my bread as a Linux system administrator.

Language can be a difficult thing. I'm fighting with a supplier over software fixes on a project. The contract says that updates are included in the warranty but doesn't define the word. The supplier is calling bug fixes upgrades and want money for them!

In my book an update is something which fixes problems and may be a minor or major software release. An upgrade is where we get additional features/capacity.

And, yes. We desperately need bug fixes!

Sigh