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olane.bsky.social
Software Engineer, UK
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It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.

submitted 14 hours ago • 51 comments

A study of six years of longitudinal data across 14,011 blocks in 28 U.S. cities shows - again! - if you build protected bike infrastructure people will ride bikes.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Don't threaten us with a good time

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Every office bathroom should by law have a little shelf outside to leave your coffee mug on while you pee I will not be taking questions

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Nearly half the tree of life disappearing in one human lifetime... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

literally Palantir

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

“Fixing climate change is too expensive.” Um no. What’s really expensive is doing nothing. Climate disasters cost billions—and those costs are rising fast. Climate solutions save money and lives, as well as building a better world for us all 🌏💚

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submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey? guard: [looking away] fine wife: did something happen? guard: [tearing up] no wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

submitted 31 days ago • 73 comments

@hazelweakly.me on the latest O11ycast episode: “you probably only need one 9, it just needs to be in the right place.” That one’s going to be rattling around my head for a while 👌

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submitted 41 days ago • 7 comments

“Whenever code awaits an awaitable whose awaiter says it’s not yet complete (i.e. the awaiter’s IsCompleted returns false), the method needs to suspend, and it’ll resume via a continuation off of the awaiter.” The sort of sentence that glides off my brain like water off a duck’s back. Beautiful.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments