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Programmer (mostly Scala), Pianist, Composer of Baroque Musick
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There is an account that has posted once, but is currently looking for “5 things I did last week” posts and is replying to them like a rabid Trumpish stooge.

submitted 8 minutes ago • 0 comments

5 things I did last week: 1) Corrected the parsing of an HTTP query parameter 2) Extracted a class from another to allow testing in isolation 3) Extracted some utility functions to reduce duplication and allow testing in isolation 4) Discussed with my team about missing data 5) Wrote some docs

submitted 25 minutes ago • 1 comment

I have made an attempt at Brahms’s Intermezzo in A Major, Op.118, No.2. I’ve wanted to learn this piece since I was about 15. I thought it was about time to get on with it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOGG...

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

One thing that social media is responsible for is the spreading of a great many methods of arguing disingenuously. Tip of the list must Faulty (or Hasty) Generalisation, Motte and Bailey, and worse, the coupling of those two. Annoying stuff. M

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1457 comments

France's National Rally has withdrawn from CPAC because it is too far right for their... far right party. Liz Truss still spoke, though.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

What a mad, stupid bastard www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I mean, James Bond has been bollocks for ages now. 🤷‍♂️

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

WAT?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

submitted 3 days ago • 556 comments

www.linkedin.com/posts/swissd... via @perevillega.com

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

European Parliament member 👇🏽

submitted 4 days ago • 924 comments

How long ago did we know that Musk was a Nazi?

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

If you wonder how countries slip into dictatorship, it’s like this. Amidst another flurry of news, an official adds at the end that Trump has signed an Executive Order saying that “only the President or Attorney General can speak for the US…as to what the law is.” What?! 👀

submitted 4 days ago • 136 comments

I recall a news story from the 1990s in which a man came home whilst two burglars were in his house. He tried to stop then. They pinned him down inflicted life changing damage to him, saying “you shouldn’t have interfered”. That’s what Trump is saying to Ukraine.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Trump just blamed Ukraine outright for Russia’s invasion. ‘You shoulda never started it,’ he said. What a lie, a Russian lie—from the President of the US.

submitted 4 days ago • 171 comments

"Britain’s overcrowded road network is stressful to drive and offers very little infrastructure for truckers. You’ll struggle to find a safe place to park, a clean shower or a place to eat decent food – and wherever you go, you’ll be expected to pay a fortune for it."

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

Reform’s solution to the energy crisis and rising bills is... add taxes to renewable energy companies... add taxes to farmers who put up solar farms; ban battery energy storage systems which help make bills more affordable... force new grid infrastructure to be buried underground Ho ho! #r4today

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

It seems to me that if Musk has proof that millions of social security checks have gone out illegally to dead people, he should be presenting that evidence in front of a grand jury under oath tomorrow instead of shitposting it on social media. When can we do this under oath?

submitted 5 days ago • 695 comments