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Beloved banjo player of the people. Co-owner and CTO of an apparel ERP company. In former lives: open source, Perl, O'Reilly Media, new technology. Bereavement is sadder and weirder than you can imagine.
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Still undecided whether getting out of bed today was a good move. Maybe a wiser plan would have been to acknowledge feeling blobby instead of trying to smother it with “should”s. Next time …

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“Reveals more about his values than any vigil ever could.”

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I feel like it's no longer a "cover" if it becomes the reference version. Like, Tony Rice's "Church Street Blues" is a cover of Norman Blake's song ... but it's Tony's. Every subsequent version is compared to Tony's not Norman's. Too bluegrassy? Here are some now-canonical covers ...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

50ish lady on a video call outside the antique shop. “Ben’s dress? I said, WHAT? The one he wore to the wedding? I don’t THINK so!” Glimpses of people leading more spectacular lives than one’s own …

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best unicode character is "ꙮ" without a doubt. used one time in a single 15th century manuscript to emphasise "many-eyed seraphim" and unicode thought it was really important that we can type that whenever we want

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

I think we should tell Gen Z that Head Cleaner's "Play Both Sides" was the 🔥 album of 1986

submitted 6 days ago • 35 comments

Go @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social 💪❤️ #interesting2025

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Please enjoy this stock photo the local CBS affiliate chose for a story about traffic this summer

submitted 6 days ago • 515 comments

Sending love to everyone whose experience of Motherhood doesn't all line up with greeting cards, brunches, cakes, and good cheer. Some of us miss our mums. Some miss our kids. Some missed out on being mums. There are many possible experiences of motherhood, and they're all valid. Arohanui.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

⚠️ Claim: Pakistan hackers caused nationwide power cuts 🔍 Status: No solid technical evidence so far 🛰️ Context: Info-war + propaganda = high noise level 🚩 Red flags: Big impact, zero IOCs, single shaky source 🤔 Tip: Wait for independent forensics/CERT statements before believing the hype. lol

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Handy guide for progressives on the 'Govt books are a mess' nonsense. The facts are readily available. Sunday 🧵 Here's NZ Central Govt net financial position. Govt financial liabilities (grey) have gone up, but the increase is easily offset by Govt having more cash in the bank & share values [1/n]

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Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis. It's surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.

submitted 10 days ago • 41 comments

Andrea Vance going so hard

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Spiritual beliefs at scale seem primarily to be awful-enabling technology. The afterlife justifies messing up this life. Organised religion seems mainly organised around things other than kindness to others. 🧵 (thinking out loud)

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