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✨ I’ve got a couple of extra General Admission tickets to @renderatl.com and I’d love to give them to folks who might not otherwise get a chance to go. If you’re from an underrepresented group in tech and want to be in the room or know someone who should be DM me!

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CUT MY LIST IN TWO PIECES THAT’S HOW YOU START QUICKSORT

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Every so often this banger surfaces and I every. single. time. I read it all the way to the end. Incredible storytelling.

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Why should we protect trans folks? Because every human deserves dignity and respect and the right to live their lives unbothered and free, fullstop.

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Maybe confirmation bias but looking at these PRs I feel pretty satisfied with my prior belief that producing lines of code is just not the hard part of software engineering www.reddit.com/r/Experience...

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Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

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it would be cool if some members of the mainstream media cared as much about this administration lying about who's running the agency dismantling the federal government as they do about the former president’s age

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But like, can we fast forward to the part where we do 86 47?

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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

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also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think anybody could predict for where this ad goes

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problem: you've used regex

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I've run my messaging past tech bros, VC bros, private equity bros, and even real estate bros. Why aren't I polling higher? by Gavin Newsom

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Astronomers will keep pointing out to folks that the Roman telescope is already built and is being prepped for launch next year and I know we live in a stupid timeline but cancelling Roman at this point would be SO STUPID.

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Your occasional reminder, if you needed one, that RFK Jr can fuck himself gently with a cetacean-laden chainsaw

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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

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ChatGPT is like the British Museum of the internet.

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de Sitter xkcd.com/3077

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Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, in fact, a criminal

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Since the Trump admin continues to claim Mr. Abrego Garcia is a gang member, I thought I'd take the time to put together a timeline, based on all the documents filed in court, which lays out all the "evidence" the government has ever offered. As you'll find out, there's very little "there" there!

submitted 51 days ago • 114 comments

Nobody wants to install your stupid app. Have a functional website instead.

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"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson

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Welp, got an answer to this question: Apparently the answer is no tariffs are being collected. Trump broke the system www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...

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BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway… LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨

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GATTACA WAS A DYSTOPIA JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, PEOPLE

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james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

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Gavin Newsom's like hmmm should I hold a 24-hour podcast séance with Hitler's ghost

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“I’m not going to let my inability to do everything get in the way of doing something.” @booker.senate.gov quoting or paraphrasing his parents, eloquently. We should all remember this mantra.

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There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am. We are. We will.