Colin Rafferty

Colin Rafferty

@colin.rafferty.net

Early Gen X. Retired senior programmer, preferring C++ and Emacs Lisp. Married with two kids. Member of the all-powerful bike lobby. he/him https://colin.rafferty.net/ email: firstname at lastname dot net @colin@rafferty.net on mastodon

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This is indistinguishable from a carjacking.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.

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Bezos humiliates himself. What is vast wealth good for if you have to keep licking boots every day?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BAIER: The president says 'SI.' Are you into SI or AI? BEZOS: I do like SI, because 'artificial' is not a very flattering thing. Like, nobody wants an artificial sweetener, artificial flavoring.

I was in Arizona last week driving around, and I forgot just how many people will tailgate you for driving the speed limit. And the speed limit is always too high! 35mph in a residential neighborhood is too slow?

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Anyway, if you're tailgating me for going the speed limit in a residential neighborhood, I'm slowing down. I'm not an aggressive driver, but a passive-aggressive driver.

Is there anyone in Rome who has not slept with my daughter!?!

Dr Craig Barker@drcraigb.bsky.social

Apparently episode one was first broadcast on the BBC 50 years ago today. Still one of the most remarkable television dramas ever. I Claudius

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Replying to @emiphemera.bsky.social

I don't care what your abstract thoughts are about abortion, what you think you're accomplishing or who you think you're saving. If you're against it, on demand and as a choice between provider and patient, you wish me dead and you wish that my daughter was never born. Fuck you.

We’re only looking for singing Hitlers.

CineCalendar@cinecalendar.bsky.social

Sep 6th 1967 - Casting begins for the role of Hitler, in the Bialystock & Bloom production of "Springtime for Hitler". 📽️📅 The Producers (1968)

The best thing about working the polls is how many happy voters there are. Everyone voting is having a good time.

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social

If you're worried about the elections- There's actually a lot we can do keep them on track? One of the best things you can do is sign up to be a poll worker! They train you, AND it's paid work! powerthepolls.org/creator-sarahtaber

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Replying to @whstancil.bsky.social

The nature of politics is talking to people and having relationships with them. If you don’t want to do that, find another career. If you don’t want to do that with the real-world humans you represent… well, you’ll have a lot of company at the Capitol I fear, but you fundamentally suck at your job.

Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you’ve seen live, and one has to match something in the quote tweet. Queen Pat Benatar Cheap Trick The Police The Go Gos Billy Joel Midnight Oil (outside Exxon headquarters) Violent Femmes Lisa Loeb Amy Mann

𝖂𝖎𝖑𝖑 🎬 🎃@wor-will.bsky.social

Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you've seen Live David Bowie REM Guns n Roses Prince Faith No More The Pixies L7 Soundgarden Midnight Oil Babes in Toyland

As a native New Yorker, I refuse to believe in Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge. Clearly his wikipedia entry is fake.

Nominative determinism came up during breakfast, and I will never not think of the very best case, the guy who was absolutely going to wind up working for an agency whose mandate spanned waterways and whose job was to connect goods and services to people. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugeniu...

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Helmets are often misinterpreted as the solution to safety. Put simply, they aren't. Helmets protect your head from an uncontrolled fall. Proper infrastructure is what protects you from multi-ton vehicles. Don't conflate the two, they are worlds apart.

I'm listening, I'm learning. Safety first, NYC.

In 1989 I stretched my ACL to spaghetti and tore my MCL and the orthopedist told me I'd be in a hip to toe cast for 6-9 months. The most important bet of my lifetime was choosing the 6 weeks in an immobilizer + PT. I'll eventually need the surgery, but will be walking out of the recovery room.

the laparoscope is possibly the single most important mechanical invention of the 21st century

Having read and loved The End of Everything, I didn’t bother to wait before preordering How to Build a Universe.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com

I am absolutely thrilled to present to you: How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking) available for pre-order now, wherever you buy your books! www.simonandschuster.ca/books/How-to...

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“We should return to an older and more accurate name for the Civil War: the Slaveholders’ Rebellion. If a country unquestioningly adopts language that obscures its bloodiest crimes to absolve their worst perpetrators, how can we expect successive generations to remember the new assaults on democracy

nytimes.comOpinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)To face our own history, we must be honest about it.