Marc O’Morain

My job title should be Principal Edgecaselord

The year is 2035. I meet President AOC in the Oval Office. "You've done well," she says. "By telling men to dress gay, you've lowered the population rate by 90%, thereby reducing carbon emissions." She slides me a manilla envelope. I can now afford a home in a walkable neighborhood

Other Elon Musk lies (not complete list) Water for Flint, submarine rescue Thailand, Autopilot FSD, never need another raise, Solar City bailout, $420 funding secured, pedoguy, boring tunnels/bricks, $35k TM3, neuralink, Bipap, ventilator prod, engineer degree, Mars 2021, Tesla founder etc. $TSLAQ

"At JP Morgan Chase, we view password security through a lens from 1992."

“Free Speech!” I cry, going from table to table taking handfuls of other people’s cereal from their bowls and horsing them into my gob. “Fghwee fpeeeeech!” I roar, through chomps

every single one of these guys is an incel loser who thought that being rich would make them popular and well-liked and when it didn't happen they lost their minds even further

From the press release by Automattic: “We remain hopeful that WP Engine will reconsider this legal attack” Automattic right now:

in the article of former North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry:

Biggest success of last Gov was getting people to stop talking about the evictions ban. There's an easily implemented "stop people becoming homeless with this one cool trick" lever they can pull, but they managed to sell the idea it would make homelessness worse in the medium/long term

This one is very good and goes for way more than dollars. A great way to get a little more intuitive about large numbers.

After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers. Science works, y'all. www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...

Once you start noticing how this stuff is presented, you can never unsee it. 'Four people were involved in a collision with a car'????

Yes, this has been driving me batshit for months. *Any* good faith observer should be able to identify Israel’s actions in Gaza as a gross injustice.

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It's the time of the year when "Do They Know it's Christmas?" randomly pops up on the spotify holiday playlist and I'm shocked *once again* at how utterly tone deaf and condescending it is. I know I'm not breaking any new ground but MY GOD.

We don’t talk enough about how straight up creepy Elon is to women. Like, if you saw him in a bar you’d reflexively put your hand over your drink.

the feds: stop trying to turn this guy into some cool antihero with a badass public image also the feds: *treat him like they’ve captured the joker*

So its less of a tarriff and more of a shakedown.

The last estimate was that more than Ireland’s annual GDP passes almost completely untaxed through the IFSC every week, but today we have Revenue marching through Henry St in case Seasonal Workers aren’t playing 100% by the tax rules.

during the 2023 presidential primary, the legal team for a major GOP candidate threatened to sue me if i wrote critically about the candidate's wardrobe

Imagine being the person who cancels Sesame Street and just living your life after that

imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio

People with homes are so rarely cold at night that I just don’t think homes are necessary anymore.

“Quick burg at the hospital before we take grandpa off life support” is one of those phrases I know is going to stick with me the rest of my life (From r/burgers)

They’re all doing it. Shameful.

UnitedHealth officials are pointing to their CEO's murder as a reason they cannot comment on an unrelated @propublica.org investigation into the company's practice of strategically limiting access to critical treatment for kids with autism. "We are in mourning," a spokesperson wrote.

"Take the courage to attack wathever code the team fear the most" is hands down the most underappriciated skill to have as a software engineer. Thanks @kentbeck.bsky.social yet one time again for this amazing book.

Friday reminder: Complexity is your enemy. Anyone can make something complicated. It’s hard to keep things simple, but it’s absolutely necessary.

Designers: Looking for an inclusive, welcoming team? We have many new roles open. Join our team of 80+ as we work on a new FPS and a new IP. Great benefits and a great team.

People: What productivity software do you use? Me:

It is kind of funny to see Ireland executing this unbelievably intricate and transparent electoral system and to switch over and see that the American president has pardoned his son for gun and tax crimes

Now that the election is over we must come together and heal the wounds that this columnist spent the last few months opening | latest by me in today’s Irish Independent

I hope that these two posts aren’t both from @gavreilly.com

This was my tenth(!) year building 25 days of puzzles for #AdventOfCode. You can solve them all for free! Most people write code to solve them, but you can solve them however you like. I hope they help people become better programmers. 🌟 The first puzzle comes out in two hours: adventofcode.com

People's right to exist should never be determined by their economic value and the incoming administration doesn't actually care about tanking the economy for ideological reasons but I don't think anyone outside the tech industry understands just how much the tech economy relies on trans people

Starting a campaign to invest enough in media companies to turn them woke so Elon Musk has to buy them to make them unwoke and eventually he runs out of money

Happy Gavan Riley Day to all who celebrate @gavreilly.com 🥳🥳🥳