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Entering the third hour of tense negotiations with my printer, sweat dripping down my furrowed brow, pleading with it to put ink on paper or at least acknowledge my laptop.

Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer

short little thoughtpiece on why frontend engineering is really hard macwright.com/2025/02/06/t...

When you're trying to get people to notice that your country is being taken over by techno-oligarchs

From people in tech not caring about politics, to Elon musk doing a nazi salute at Donald Trump's inauguration. We cannot bury our head in the sand. What we do for a living, the tools we use to the products we develop, how we use tech and who it benefits, it's all intertwined with politics

Living in a 15 minute city is great; I walk a mile in any direction and find myself back at my apartment, with only minor changes. Sure, the noises from the dog park get deeper. After the tenth iteration or so I can't read the signs anymore. But the stranger in my apartment welcomes me every time.

Would recommend, strongly:

My fave thing is at the end when Claudia is like “you idiots, you fuckheads”

New PUP song out today so I’ll be listening to that repeatedly until it stops meaning anything.

This is ten percent luck Twenty percent skill Fifteen percent concentrated power of will… 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It took until series 3 but they finally linked the mission rules to the traitors mechanic in #TheTraitors!

every new restaurant in every major city is either called Thistle+Thorn and thinks adding turmeric to brussel sprouts makes them worth $30 or is called Burger Bitch and has a neon sign in the window that says “im gonna fuck a hamburger”

Yesterday I searched for “mambo” and the screen was filled with AI guff about manbo. Gotta scroll to get the actual results for the term.

Re-learning the rules of Root ready for teaching some friends this weekend. It’s like learning four games.

Started watching A Man on the Inside tonight, it is cosy af

the look on his face says it all

Friday was Master & Commander. Saturday was Mission: Impossible. What should today's blockbuster be?

y’all know what time it is

"Microsoft Word is underlining text when it has a suggestion" yeah I wish it wasn't I'm writing meeting notes not the Great American Novel

Need sound on.

I had 4 days off and by the end of that time I was thinking about creative pursuits, maybe even getting involved in my community. Thank god that's over now

Moleplaying Games

put my cat on the cover of CRIME Magazine, where he belongs #art

starting a new religion where the judge of the afterlife weighs your soul against whether or not you worked as a developer for microsoft teams

DWARF CONTRACTOR: *on the phone* alright so tell me this, BEFORE hand, how greedily were you digging.. uh huh... and how deeply? okay, I don't even need to come out, I can tell ya right now you gotta balrog. I'm gonna be honest with ya, does this mine hold any sentimental value

reposting something old, checking in like this continues to be useful #comic #ritual