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Just like… figuring it out. Slowly. Former Sysadmin, Ops, DevOps, SRE, sometimes manager thereof. Opinions generally questionable, & not those of my employer. They/Them
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These are very bad times. But there are a lot of good people here. We must continue to take care of one another and fight for one another. That's always been the work, that's always the work.

I need axe-throwing Gritty as a playable character in a 16-bit action platformer, stat

I once had an assignment to write a poem in a unique, non-traditional format. Forgot about it. Morning before class I chugged a Rockstar and wrote a paragraph's worth of 1s and 0s. Said I wrote it in binary. Was asked for the translation, said it would ruin the piece. A+. Bullshitting is VITAL.

"First responders" needs to be abolished from style guides because its purpose is to smuggle cops into a category that includes EMTs and firefighters. The phrase is deliberate copaganda that allows abusers to borrow an aura of respectability from other groups.

Abolish Palantir. Palantir Technologies is not a data analytics company. It is, as its own CEO and founder has stated, a “digital kill chain.”

A friend just asked me what I do to stay hopeful and I told him one of my favorite strategies…I stay hopeful by remembering that no one has any idea what the fuck is going to happen, so as long as we don’t know, we gotta do what we can.

Jesus no, my opinion of myself is so much worse than my words or actions.

Everyone saw Grand Park's hot pink benches being stacked into a barricade on Sunday. What an exceptional statement from RIOS, the benches' designers instagram.com/rios.imagines "These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect"

We feed you. They hunt us.

"Team building exercise".

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

I remain convinced that the real reason every single spellchecker became dogshit at the same time is simple: model collapse from the companies training on raw typo-filled user input harvested without consent. They're *training* on your typos while stealing everything you write.

Felt cute at Franklin Pride today. Felt sick watching clips of LA today. Felt excited about helping a friend move, and having them closer. Snuggled with my kids and watched a show. This fucking world is terrifying and beautiful and I refuse to let fear blind me to the joy.

This is awesome. Full stop. _But_ she shouldn’t have had to deal with anything but the competition itself.

This morning I sent an email to this publisher, asking them to pay the people who have worked on the book I pledged to. I encourage other pledgers to do the same.

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done: - music store guy - pro audio sales - hair salon receptionist - qa tech - field engineer - sysadmin / IT guy - IT guy - dj - devops engineer (non-ironic) - devops engineer (ironic) - manager, platform engineering - cloud solutions architect

Just saw a NYPost headline complaining scornfully that Gen Z adults are taking classes in basic life skills and I mean--of course they are? You didn't prepare them for anything because no child left behind gutted their schooling and eradicated classes like home ec in favor of standardized testing?

What if I hit all three?

The worry that I destroyed my most important relationships because I felt like I couldn’t be wholly myself in them. Now I’m too sad and tired to even try and explore who that is. I miss loving & feeling loved. I miss the safety of those relationships, the support, even if it wasn’t perfect.

in retrospect it totally tracks that a racist country would have the immigration cops become its secret police

The entire modern internet has been built on platforms that don’t believe in asking for consent. What if we started demanding a culture of consent online? www.anildash.com//2025/05/27/...

Dorley status. Chapter 29. The way this has swung from building excitement about big things happening, to caring moments that break me.

Folks need to accept that we're in for years of battling & nothing is going to save us from that, but supporting one another, protecting one another, & building both community & coalitions will save millions & make all of it easier Self-examine Mask in Public Check on your neighbors Scare your reps

godzilla except it’s helena bonham carter: thread

Some days I am the biter, some days I am the bitee.

attachment style: secure w/ chunks ripped off

taking care of it 🔨 (2023)

Fuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuu. CK.

hell of a time to be promoting a book about being trans, the damage done to the body/spirit in the decades spent fighting it, and how you can’t fight city hall (Big Transgender) but here we are. utpress.utexas.edu/978147733148...

Uuugh, so pretty!

It continues to feel really weird to be single. Somehow so much worse than being gender confused or the late queer awakening. There’s not someone to hold hands with and be brave together through the personal and global upheaval.

sometimes I think about how much money has been invested into AI companies and Facebook's version of Second Life instead of stuff like women's health or greater access to public transit in the US and I get really sad

Again: Option A: Let's make more original movies from a diverse set of creative people!🤑 Option B: Let's not do that, and complain about superhero fatigue, insult movie goers for not watching bad movies, decry the loss of mid-budget films, blame streaming apps, go anti-woke, and cry about Atlanta.

you ever think about how it would be counterproductive to refer to "horny jail" by its initials?

This is the vibe.

Delia Derbyshire was a legendary pioneer of electronic music. Here's a cool video: youtu.be/qsRuhCflRyg?...

I feel like if you have to say “don’t worry the product we’re making money off won’t reflect its creators craven dark heart” you’re never seeing heaven.

No amount of criminal allegations or even successful charges warrants putting someone in a death camp. They will always start the death camps with people who you think deserve it.

Stop refering to Signal as an ‘insecure messaging app.’ Signal is secure. It does not meet the US Governments audit-ability requirements. Thus it is not an approved messaging platform for US government usage. That has nothing to do with the security of the app or protocol.

I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.