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Photosynthetic software developer & dog enthusiast from Pittsburgh 🌱 I post flowers photos from walks with my dog Macy 🐕 Also post about Judaism, Pittsburgh, heavy metal and sometimes computer he/ him 🌱 https://Josh412.com 🌵side project: @skygram.app 🌲
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Crystalis for NES. One of my favorite video games ever. Possibly my favorite. We had the first Zelda for Nintendo and I played it a bunch, but I was such a Crystalis fan.

People will tell you that they view property destruction as equivalent to violence against a person, but that's not true. They think property destruction is worse

This is a great thread from Simon. I'd add here that coding genes don't even necessarily specify protein sequence, but a set of possible sequences, some of which are picked out in a contextual, cell-type specific manner by alternative splicing. And...

Teachings I learned about parsha Beha’alotcha. This is one where God is completely over the Israelites' complaining. God smites some of the complainers with fire.

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They’re trying to stop you from showing up. They want you to stay home. If your state says it’s safe to go, you should protest. Meet people, march, make posters, organize, have fun, be seen. Don’t let the bastards win.

"There has been a comfort in watching Wilson withstand the eras, knowing he might still pop up on concert stages or give strange squirrely interviews, proving by mere existence that some of us are immortal." Brian Wilson’s Symphony of Life:

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UX Designers: having problems in your role? Learn JavaScript. It will make your old problems seem like no big deal.

Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol techcrunch.com/2025/...

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arguing about Dem messaging is largely beside the point when the right can win with an agenda like this. the info environment is the problem

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

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🙏 evolve.reconstructingjudaism.org/on-finding-o...

Software that tells the user what user is most likely to want to be told. What's the worst that could happen?

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Teachings I learned about Parsha Naso. This parsha includes the priestly blessing. www.sefaria.org/Numbers.6.24...

Listening to a bunch of Black Sabbath because of the whole Ozzy retirement thing. I always forget how much I love this band and also how they might be one of the most Jesus-y bands I listen to, which remains hilarious AF to me Ozzy *wears cross*: Heaven is real, you must be saved! All: He is SATAN!

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When non-citizens reside with you in your land, you shall not wrong them. Rather, the non-citizens who reside with you shall be to you as your citizens; you shall love each one as yourself, for you were non-citizens in the land of Egypt: I God am your God. Leviticus 19:33-34

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Timely reminder that the treatment for chemical weapons like tear gas and pepper spray is: 1) remove from active contamination (get them out of the cloud of teargas, remove outer layers of clothing if possible) 2) flush eyes with ONLY clean water. Wash skin and hair with water and soap.

Another interview with my wife, and her co-founder about Thousand Bridges Opera and the pride month opera tonight.

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