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Takoma Park, MD, previously Chicago and Brooklyn. NY Times Staff Software Engineer for Editorial Workflow.
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5. use a huge drill on the bank vault door 4. getting the team back together 3. something is wrong underwater 2. dark secrets on the haunted space station 1. you can kill ghosts with guns

they fired the guy who said it would be a bad idea

Look here, you calcareous asshole, who asked you anyway?

I wrote this in 2019 and it remains the truth.

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fuck it, I'm pitching an op-ed. "I'm a reliability expert who has championed testing in production for a decade. here's why I'm raising alarm bells about DOGE's meddling with DFS"

On a local note I am…concerned about my local economy if thousands of federal workers lose their jobs

The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.

Advocate for library *workers*!

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I only note this for the irony, not because I think it matters, but air traffic controllers are 75% white and 84% male. www.faa.gov/about/office...

Wanna feel old? The person posting this was born in 2045 in a world where the machines have taken over and the leader of the resistance has sent me back to save and bang his mom and also they don’t make Kudos bars anymore and hello, what the fuck!?

The Chicago Reader being gutted again is so depressing. Wishing the best for those laid off and those in the union still fighting for more protections

Did anyone else get the Penzeys Resist box and start crying?

frank miller is just alan moore’s wario

getting mad that a tab I’ve had open for six months didn’t actually turn out to be as interesting as I thought

Montgomery County schools really getting my heart rate up with multiple messages sounding the "Everything's OK!" alarm www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vIj...

Never having the correct size kids' stuff for the once every two year snow storm should radicalize more parents about climate change

I wish debuggers had an Oh, Damn, No! Step Back. Step Back! button

Firaxis—the studio behind the Civilization series—is hiring a historian. An *actual* historian. And note, when they ask for "4+ years as a Writer, Narrative Designer, or other position with commensurate duties," that includes teaching, writing, and research—i.e. your Ph.D. in History.

every tech company in 2025

The cybertruck is on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides And a dark wind blows

Pretty much.

Is a tapcon the world's most annoying fastener?

and the wealthiest person of all? one phineas gage

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Having a traditional Midwestern Christmas break, switching between drinking high ABV beers and large scale extremely messy home improvement projects

i feel like to believe this you have to not actually know any smart people?? the smartest people i know are also dumb as rocks and will happily do evil in exchange for money and fun little puzzles

People also say young men have no role models anymore, but here is a young man under indictment in New York with the mayor, who has also been indicted in New York, in a country about to be led by a new president, who has also been indicted in New York

describing what I want to do to in this go module to copilot and it's just holding its head in its hands and staring in disbelief

the spotify web app must be designed in such a way to actively punish you into using the app right? How can it be so slow and buggy

if there is a single thing I am patriotic about it is that the Americano is the best way to drink good coffee

"When the night seems dark, we can still make it darker and profit from darkness arbitrage markets."

a decades old take by now I think but it is nice how often GoLang rewards my usual instinct to "well, let's just do this in the dumbest way possible"