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if anyone's looking for a part-time freelance SRE/devops expert with about 15+ years of experience, hit me up! i've been working quite a bit with kubernetes and GCP, but i've also got a ton of AWS experience as well as some on-prem experience from earlier in my career. i've done app dev as well!

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also what is this about dems cheering on the idea of canada being “the 51st state” because they might vote democrat? are these people alright

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might have to look a bit more into getting into freelance work and try to get back into europe, maybe lisbon or something. seeing everything happening and stripping us of any sort of autonomy while the opposition party is doing absolutely nothing to stop it is wildly demoralizing to say the least

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Kill. Me. Now.

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"Excuse me, poors, but technically you have a part time delivery gig so actually the economy is great!"

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

not sure how you can see this and not immediately call for @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social to step down from any leadership positions. he is absolutely useless

submitted 12 days ago • 154 comments

Fox Bleeps Out Entire Kendrick Lamar Performance

submitted 12 days ago • 237 comments

is the ritz-carlton trashed yet

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HSI spotted on Woodbine and Woodward around 11:30am. Driving silver Chevy in the photo.

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I still don’t understand what they need

submitted 17 days ago • 107 comments

Just want to tell the story of @ifnotnowmovement.org’s actual approach to the election. Not the bogus “You drove voters to Jill Stein” or “You ignored the danger of Trump” or “You demonized Harris” stories, but the real one; We BEGGED her to do what was necessary to beat Trump. She refused.

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The Palestinians and their supporters didn't create our current predicament. It's a convenient, counterproductive deflection to lay the blame at their feet, and given the degree of destruction and suffering they've endured, it's also sadistic.

submitted 17 days ago • 247 comments

with all the shit happening rn, part of me feels like i should’ve sucked it up and stayed on the other side of the world, at least try for maybe spain or something OTOH idk how i’d survive any of this without my community here in NYC

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Incredible to see a political party so addicted to losing and fucking over their base

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If Elon Musk's goons are downloading all this data (including non-public, protected data) that they are deleting from federal websites -- which is likely the case!!! -- then we are actually witnessing a heist job in broad daylight

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So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.

submitted 22 days ago • 476 comments

this does not inspire confidence in our air traffic control systems going forward www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/b...

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statement from nancy pelosi from 2018 mentions wanting to implement a “smart border policy” instead: pelosi.house.gov/news/press-r... - i also distinctly remember them talking about using drones and shit instead of a wall, and i thought i was losing my mind

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The first transgender people in the USA are reporting not being able to get a passport, regardless of them accepting any gender or name on it. A trans woman from LA posted about it yesterday, after she was threatened with arrest if she continued to as question about why. vm.tiktok.com/ZNeEEHUex/

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i don't really post on my blog much, and i had sworn off of writing about tech-related stuff for a while now, but i ran into a weird issue in my job and didn't see much in the way of other people having the same set of issues, so why not write about it: redbluemagenta.com/2025/01/29/a... #gke #aws

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LMFAO WHAT A FUCKIN WEASEL

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BREAKING: Illinois is currently shut out of Medicaid. Gov. JB Pritzker’s office reports that the Trump funding freeze has shut the state out of the federal health care program. Medicaid covers nearly 4 million people in Illinois. chicago.suntimes.com/politics/don...

submitted 25 days ago • 64 comments

i can’t stress enough how cooked an entire segment of an industry is if one open source project tanks the economy. i don’t think i’ve ever seen that happen, ever

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

if in theory you wanted to create a pandemic organically, there literally isn't a better way than to cram thousands of animals on top of each other in putrid conditions, then force people to constantly interact with their blood and feces and meat feels insane to point out how inevitable this is

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There’s a particularly evil strain of liberal/progressivism that is rooting for things to get worse in Gaza simply so they can do an “I told you so.” At any point in time Biden could’ve actually flexed US muscle and said knock it the fuck off but he just kept adding fuel to the fire. Own it.

submitted 26 days ago • 103 comments

i just want a cheap-ish GPU that runs games well, man. AI and crypto fucked the hobby up big time

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Use 12ft.io/ and the article web address in full to read the article at no cost.

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

the world they want is one where you're either unemployed or work an almost no wage job, you have almost no political input or self determination and you’re happy about it because you can get a t-shirt off temu for a $1

submitted 27 days ago • 783 comments

the genocide (along with the failure to protect Roe) was one of the things that generated total fucking apathy across the board, combined with the single-minded determinism that literally the only people whose votes should be pursued were retired generals in the virginia suburbs

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

anyone else have a friend who should meet someone else and know they’d get along but they keep missing each other, and each person roasts you by saying the other person is imaginary

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male coded dinner: steak and gladiators

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just deleted my FB account. end of an era, had it since it was university-only and invite-only. but glad to be rid of it finally, thanks zuck for being a piece of shit like always

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

100% agreed. though, the democrats save their finger wagging toward those who chose not to vote at all/voted third party rather than toward overt fascists, which is really why democrats will always lose (they lost voters, the republicans did not)

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post inauguration i'm seeing a fresh wave of liberals blaming the election outcome on any marginalized community they can imagine and all i can say is that shit is evil, evil lives inside your heart

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????! That's so small!!!!! Oh my god

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i have to say, the times it’s been real annoying to play any sort of team game online is when it’s with americans, because (1) they’re probably “edgy” and (2) they’re gonna drop the N bomb. basically had to report my entire team on deadlock

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A lot of people shocked that there's not consensus over the salute must not know that this is what racism usually feels like

submitted 32 days ago • 47 comments

loud sucking noises

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Portrait of ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social: jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...

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