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Helped start Ann Arbor's OG Coworking community, couponed at Groupon, usually working to get some startup acquired. Ember.js core emeritus. Paul Irish once called me a hero. ❤️ Ruby and JavaScript. 🏳️‍🌈. 📍Chicago.
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It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.

Captain, Dr. Crusher has ordered me to inform you that I am too sick to work today. I have now completed the task she has assigned me. I will be at my post as usual. Worf

I would note that this message is full of (a) kitchen table issues and (b) both rhetorical and material moderation and people love it because it is clear, mobilizing and oppositional this is what the national Dems just don't get

Chris is 100% right here

I AM FORTY FUCKING FOUR I HAVE BEEN AN ADULT FOR DECADES DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT A MILLENNIAL IS

Let's just be clear about this--Reagan was not in any way a good president. And without him, we wouldn't be in this whole mess right now. 🧵1/

Somehow this situation is only getting stupider

so according to antibody tests i have immunity to measles but not mumps or rubella (that's the girl version of the ruben)-- just booked an mmr booster at cvs so i live through the next 4 years

Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

It’s Chicago’s 188th birthday, pączki day, tariffs days, all in one

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

Hey maybe you want to read something nice instead of terrible news. melsumner.github.io/axecon-feedb... Felt pretty good to have nice feedback.

An underrated part of this video is you can watch the Dow go down in real time in the bottom right

About 22 million pounds of plastic end up in Great Lakes every year. Plastic is in all my fish, mammals and humans. And the beer you humans drink! Please do something. End plastic pollution NOW 🌊🌊

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Five things I did last week … 1. Wake up 2. Brush my teeth 3. Sign autographs 4. Your mom 5. Donate my Elon Sux-mobile to NPR

Good morning

It's finally here! ✨ Vue.js support for Nuxt UI Pro is now available with the beta version! Check out the demo with @vuejs.org + @vite.dev: vue-dashboard-template.nuxt.dev

I really want to like StoryGraph but I have been clicking around the web app for 15 minutes and can't find where to add a book I just read. Did a button get deleted or something?

I can't stop laughing at this man I'm sorry. This is the kind of shit the biggest loser in the world would say to their girlfriend about buying her flowers on Valentine's Day once, and he's doing so in an argument that started because he called her a bitch

every cereal mascot evolution

REMEMBER KIDS when flooding a snitch form, DON’T use obvious troll responses that can be filtered out with a query Use PLAUSIBLE FAKE data that will take TIME and EFFORT to run down. This poisons the entire data pool and makes it useless

github.com/mozilla/bedr...

The National Weather Service is THE ONLY source of weather data in the US. Every weather app, local broadcaster, and weather forecast map is based on NWS data from NOAA. This is a ridiculously stupid own goal for the US that will disrupt all kinds of social and economic activity, and endanger lives.

We'd like to remind our audience that their kids are worth about forty grand and anything above that price is just not reasonable

The sunrise this morning in #Chicago was bonkers! The shallow opening between the clouds and the horizon, plus the fog, created some amazing color and sun beams. I was running around trying to get as many cameras going as I could. This is a timelapse from one phone.

When it comes to boycotting, just a thought. It’s okay if you can’t quit a company cold turkey. In Master Gardeners, when we encourage people to switch to native plants, the goal is 70% native, not 100%. If you were shopping at a store 80% of the time and cut it back to 60%, that 20% still hurts.

Strong "Manager and Assistant *to* the manager" vibes.

⚛️⚡️ Over the last 24 hours, enough nuclear energy was available to supply 95% of overall electricity demand in northern Illinois. ⏰ Nuclear plants could meet all electricity demand 23% of the last 24 hours.

k, bye.

For those who haven’t seen this MASTERPIECE in person yet, it is meant to be viewed from 3 angles: From below: map of CTA network From side: picture of bus From front: picture of train