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PNW software engineer, but still a Chicagoan. Pronouns, she/her. 40-something in tech. I like knitting, enjoy dogs and have a happy teenager.
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I can't figure out whether the owls in our neighborhood are angry with one another or friends, but at least three different ones spend hours each night talking or yelling at each other.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm wondering what the heck happened weatherwise at my house ... I have some little individual servings of ground coffee in little sealed bags. I have a bunch of those little bags stored in a ziplock back on my counter.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

I feel kind of slow for just realizing this but... "Deep State" is just been a euphemism for "checks and balances."

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Right wingers do not care that Elon abuses his kids and their moms. To them, that's a perk of power, one they want for themselves and pursue through their politics.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

i just typed in yellow jacket (local bar) to the parish (local venue) in on google, because i wanted to know how far apart those two places are, and instead google decided that was an aphorism and gave me an entirely fake definition of it i actually felt secondhand embarrassment for the computer

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

What the literal fuck?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

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submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

One of those rules of software development I sometimes forget: when you're told to port something, confirm that it's actually WORKING before you port it. I spent today debugging code that had probably never worked.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Was part of a conversation today which lead me to the question: who has liability when a underlying government entity is told they must distribute factually incorrect information and they do so?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Anyone who doesn't know what the judge knows at this point, is actively refusing to learn.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

If I "saved money" by not paying my heat bill during this -40 C cold snap, how much do you think it would actually cost once the pipes burst? That's what Elon is doing.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

What’s funny is that there are still people (including here) saying “Walt was just a guy with no other options because of the health care system,” when the show explicitly had him admit that this was a lie, that he did it because he enjoyed it. If you missed that part, you missed the point.

submitted 4 days ago • 50 comments

Another word for "regulation" is... "consumer protection" "environmental protection" "Regulation" means your milk is safe. "Regulation" means toys that harm your babies are removed from the shelves. "Regulation" means chemical companies can't dump waste in your river.

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 4 days ago • 846 comments

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

submitted 5 days ago • 272 comments

Compliments of 🟠. Geauga County, Ohio, YMCA….

submitted 5 days ago • 372 comments

I'm on a roll of getting the little shit nobody else does done today, I should probably go do a propane trade.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I was looking for a screwdriver ... And found the house key which has been missing for at least 6 years.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

It's the COBOL version of:

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments