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evilrooster.bsky.social
Dual US/UK techie living in the Netherlands. Technical writer and contagious documentarian by day, bookbinder by night. My opinions are my own, and do not reflect those of anyone who employs, hangs out with, or is in any other way stuck with me.
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My Atlas joke has held up pretty well.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Current conversation on @mrjamesob.bsky.social (and the rest of the UK press) is the declining fertility rate however when you drill down into the data (on the ONS data) what you find is most of that decline is due to a huge decline in teenage pregnancies.

submitted 166 days ago • 2 comments

I used to think of my American citizenship as a shareholding in a dream. Now I find that many of my fellow shareholders have voted to sell out our dream to venture capitalists.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

So many of us cannot wait for so many of you you meet our emotional support terrifyingly-competent-yet-anxiety-ridden security construct

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Renewed my driver's license here in NL. Total process: 1. 15-minute cycle to a place with special equipment to do the photo thing. Photo and signature sent electronically to the driving license authority here, compared to my existing deets. Email with acceptance received before I got home.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

A bunch of folks showed up to the Bothell City Council tonight to speak against a potential resolution affirming Bothell as a welcoming place for LGBTQIA+ people. Here was Bothell Mayor Mason Thompson's response.

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

Uh, wow

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

This is high art

submitted 7 days ago • 534 comments

Hey, don’t forget shilling EVs to MAGAts!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Bush was many bad things, but he wasn’t a fragile narcissist wanting to be loved.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

The world is on fire but all my brain wants to talk about with me is this idea for building an inkle loom out of a plate rack and a spice rack, and damn it, I guess I'm going to IKEA this weekend.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Yes, this. I thought I understood what it was to lose the homeland of my heart with the post-9/11 madness. I was wrong; this is so much worse.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments