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slubbert.bsky.social
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Work harder peasants!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Ok here's one for the real haters: C is virtually impossible to make memory-safe, but C++ genuinely isn't, and the STL is sufficiently badly designed that it makes that transition /harder/ rather than easier

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Boss: Why was your train late? Me: You're never going to believe me. #cats #kittens #caturday #kaiju

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

Let’s not mince words on exactly what the MAGA movement is.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

This is so important it hurts. This is the tiny area of a massive sprawling city that Trump is attacking and the entire propaganda machine is churning to make us believe more is happening. Don’t fall for the lies.

submitted 7 days ago • 43 comments

I was skiing in Tahoe during a Linux kernel event of some sort, and I took the shuttle with Linus Thorvalds and his wife. I let them be, as I figured he was regularly accosted by Nerds. I assumed being Nordic myself, he too weren't that interested in small talk on the bus.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Tony Gilroy has really done America a huge service by cleverly reminding audiences how fascism slowly constricts freedom through what appear inevitable consequences.

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

The question for those opposed to 20mph speed limits in urban areas is very simple: why do you want to kill children?

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

The SSCLE conference panel is "Tweets, Skeets, and Truths: Epistolary Chronicles of the 21st Century American Holy War?"

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I say this a lot but we are all so lucky this generation of fascists came of age on message boards and not stabbing people to death at close range in a trench while the world detonates endlessly around them

submitted 15 days ago • 60 comments

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 15 days ago • 126 comments

IMAGINE HAVING TO EXPLAIN THIS SKEET ABOUT A TWEET TO AN ACADEMIC CONFERENCE.

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

it's like a feud between two drakes, not a kendrick in sight

submitted 15 days ago • 28 comments

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

submitted 15 days ago • 251 comments

Mulling over the mental gymnastics required to argue: 1) universities teach nothing 2) professors are radicalized left-wing lunatics AND 3) it’s a national security risk that international students come to US universities to “steal technical knowledge” and “expensive research and development”

submitted 15 days ago • 26 comments

The New York Times insists on treating Christopher Rufo not as a far-right activist who has been successfully pushing an ideologically defined rightwing agenda, but as a respectable conservative voice and a serious interlocutor on key political issues. That is an active, deliberate choice.

submitted 15 days ago • 33 comments

"Historical" - my choice of movies in my youth has been vindicated.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Josh Hawley *furious* that the fire department spends a disproportionate amount of time on burning buildings compared to non-burning ones

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments