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Anybody here works at 1Password & would consider giving a referral? 🙌 There is a Rails Developer role that would be an excellent match for my experience! Please share, this could be really helpful after being laid off <3

What harm can a politically biased massive media platform do though, really?….checks US and rise of far right across Europe….oh. Crap

Living the reality of spending 1000x more time and effort researching a note taking system than I’ll ever spend actually taking notes.

It’s fine - Trump’s got a magic marker which draws the path hurricanes will follow.

The lack of critical thinking in teenagers plus the echo chamber of social media is *terrifying*. We’ve failed a whole generation.

I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario

One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh.....

As a criminal defense attorney, the vast majority of my cases were NOT immigrants. So let's stop pretending immigrants are the problem when there's a 34-count convicted felon sitting in the White House. The hypocrisy is outrageous.

Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx

#microsoftHack I’m getting login attempts every few minutes from across the globe on my Microsoft account. *please* use a password manager (bitwarden is great) and turn on 2 factor authentication.

Trump would have locked up and/or expelled your founders for dissent.

One of the best books I have ever read ! A true goldmine. Thanks a lot @mara.bsky.social marabos.nl/atomics/

#handsoff on so many things. Rise up.

Yes! And no need to put “of the 90s”. The build of the Dum dum dum de dum dum dum de dum dum bass line, then the echoey snare….chills!

UK: Brexit is the biggest act of economic self harm any country will ever perform USA: Hold my beer...

The most expensive 40 seconds of video - it cost trillions of dollars to make this. Trillions!

Who did this?

That massive thud heard around the world was the coin dropping when the MAGA crowd realised *they* paid Trump’s tariffs.

We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff

Where does all the money from tariffs go? Into the mythical “trickle down” funnel?

All of this. I *know* American’s aren’t this stupid, at least the ones I know aren’t. I just don’t get it. Genuinely. It’s like a genuine mass delusion. Speed running the destruction of America rule of law, soft, and hard power.

I’ve stopped using email as a todo list given I had 100s of unread “todo”s. I’m much more organized and now have 100s of neglected Apple Reminders. But yes, the next software I chose will solve the problem…

ETA to enter UK - Cost: £16 - Lasts: 2 years - Covers: 1 country - Introduction: non-EU citizens already, EU from April 2 - RW papers: silent or supportive ETIAS to enter EU - Cost: 7 euro - Lasts: 3 years - Covers: 27 countries - Introduction: 2026? - RW papers: beside themselves with rabid fury

I did an *amazing* “hello world” once. Elegant. Simple. No bugs. It was a one-liner: “println(“hello world”). The pinnacle of Software Engineering, the heights of which I’ll never touch again. Brings a tear to my eye just thinking about that beauty. Those were the days.

Happy Mother’s Day, with special space for those who find it particularly challenging. Be loved.

Another (well written as always!) interesting view into the chaos that is HTML and CSS :-). The days of “But it’s simple, you can just use notepad to write it” are decades past.

kindle “read anywhere” - so why when I try and read a book on my phone does it say I’ve reached the download limit and need to remove it from the kindle I’m reading it on at home? Amazon gets worse each day…

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

Somewhere along the line Apple lost the “fun” element and became bland, slow, and unfun. I miss the awesome welcomeAfterInstall screens and fun UIs of yesteryear.

And kids these days think they have it tough :-)

Has anyone seen the real @teamlabouruk.bsky.social party? Withholding winter fuel, penalising the ill, suppressing jobs, no new safe and legal routes, protecting the rich… I thought the nasty Tory Party lost the election!

Why is “no innocent Israeli nor Palestinian should suffer for their leaders” such a controversial view? Killing women and kids is wrong, full stop. “Well what should they?” No idea. Honestly. But I know they shouldn’t do this.

@nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social awesome effort on Politics Live. You kept your cool with that awful hypocrite who was the only one “one siding” the argument. October the 7th was a horrific terrorist attack. It’s not a blank piece of paper to do criminal war acts. Palestinians aren’t Hamas.

FirstWorldProblem, but I’m appalled at Amazon Prime Video’s adverts, even for paid Prime members. Watching Wheel of Time but it’s ruined by multiple really loud ads each episode, that jar you out of the vibe. Rage inducing. A real crappy move Amazon. Yet another reason to not renew Prime.

Truenas has built in backup (with iX) for $150/year for 5TB including ZFS snapshots? Sign me up!

A reminder for these times.

Seems like a pretty important detail

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

This is a bigger scandal than people realize. It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance. If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was. Putin.

Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years. Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.

I’m in shock at the snippets of Trump and Vance trying to humiliate President Zelenskyy. I just…. How is Zelenskyy keeping his cool. And the guy who asked him about not wearing a suit? I …. I’m speechless. America - how far you’ve fallen, and you voted for this :-(

Finally went to the gym with my middle child (who is a gym nut)...and fell off my bike on the way there. Sigh. I've said it before, I'll say it again: exercise is bad for you.

When I saw the disgusting "trump Gaza" video this morning, the bile rose to my throat. I won't share it. Instead, help me promote this counter narrative by Tala, from Gaza. "Gaza is not yours to take. Gaza is ours, and we are still here. This is our land." BRAVO to her strength and DEFIANCE. 🥹💪

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

TFW server's new RAM and two NVMe drives installed, existing NVMe moved to a PCIe expansion card, blown out 47kgs of dust with compressed air, turn it on......and nothing. Not even a beep or a flash. Sigh. (my fat fingers had accidentally unplugged the wire from the button to the motherboard)