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Cormorant enthusiast and software tester. You can call me Veerle (pronounced 'fearless' without the ss). Alt txt: profile pic me giving the horns on a white unicorn statue. Banner a cormorant with its wings spread in the sun.
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Would you cut this? 🌿 A future alive with buzzing hedgerows, singing Skylarks, and rich, healthy soil or one of silent fields, struggling farms, and nature in freefall? The UK Government has a choice. Tell them - Nature can’t afford a pay cut: action.rspb.org.uk/page/156168/... 📢

The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

from $400/share to $300/share

"The Black mentor class is being fired, not just on television but throughout America." And that's why it will never be enough to "express sympathies" and send "thoughts and prayers". If you want to make a difference, hire, platform, support, and put on Black folks. Anything less is cheap talk.

NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...

Dear Manager, this week: 1. made a deal with God 2. Gott Him to swap our places 3. Be runnin' up that road 4. Be runnin' up that hill 5. Be runnin' up that building

Dear manager, this week: 1. I rolled a boulder up a hill 2. I rolled a boulder up a hill 3. I rolled a boulder up a hill 4. I rolled a boulder up a hill 5. I rolled a boulder up a hill Sincerely, Sisyphus

@volkskrant.nl 'gebaar dat verdacht veel lijkt op een Hitlergroet' Hou nou op de Hitlergroet te normaliseren door te doen alsof dit alleen 'lijkt op' een Hitlergroet. Rechterarm schuin omhoog is niet ambigu, het is niet vaag. Dit is een kraakheldere boodschap. Noem het gewoon een Hitlergroet.

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

100% and I need everyone to understand right now that there is only one solution: people need to start getting their asses kicked in public again

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

Reskeeting to warn my followers so that they do not accidentally do a vandalism

There was literally a glow in the dark Rabbit in Sherlock and I'm now convinced that's where they got the idea, why else would you come up with this Like, who the fuck wants this, why would you go for glow in the dark animals first and then for hypoallergenic cats? Wtaf

I guess I just thought politics were so fucking subtle and now literally they're just Stealing All The Money and Breaking All The Things seemingly for the hell of it It's like the fucking Gangrene Gang got elected, wtf is even happening

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I never wanted to work in Excel I never wanted to work in Teams Now I'm being forced to work in an excel sheet that I have to open in Teams, the 'open in excel' button is hidden so far away Enshittification is real and it's ruining lives

Same energy (love it)

Here’s the latest ep of my iHeartRadio/Cool Zone Media show Better Offline. I walk you through how the growth-at-all-costs Rot Economy has used software to poison so many parts of our lives - and how the tech media can fight back. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... linktr.ee/betteroffline

Me in my next life if I score enough brownie points in this one

From 3,200 years ago ~ drawing on limestone fragment of a cat with bag over his shoulder, wielding a shepherd's crook as he watches over a nest of eggs, and six geese. It’s possibly based on a fable or folktale (Deir el-Medina, Egypt)

An inspiration (I feel like there's no way to say this that people aren't gonna think I'm being ironic but I'm 100% serious)

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

Absolute world premiere! 🎉🏆 For the first time ever, the #agileTD beer club is submitting a session to Agile Testing Days, and we're absolutely thrilled about it! 🥳👏🤩 @agentaj.bsky.social, @tamarajosten.bsky.social, @tg2g.bsky.social, @witchofthetest.bsky.social

If someone makes art, or food, or crafts, or whatever that you really like and that brings you comfort and happiness these days, _tell them_. They're probably wondering if it's worth doing at all.

Added alt text and a link to where you can actually find an overview of events, as the url on the poster is only the first step in a treasure hunt that should lead you to the following uaworldmap.ukrainianworldcongress.org

Me two months ago: I better put all my tools, paltry as they are, in one central place where I'll be able to find them with much greater ease than scattered around the house as they are currently. I'm sure I won't forget this extremely memorable place! Me today: where the fuck are my spanners

I’ve been screaming this since 2016. Trump will back down in the face of resistance. He has every time. And Musk - who is going to fall out with Trump sooner rather than later - is going to have to get back to Tesla soon or face a shareholder revolt. We can win if we fight back. And we will win.

Among everything else, what a shitty fate, to have national systems of support dismantled by two men who have never once changed a diaper.

Launching! 🚀 Today I'm launching a new service for landowners in Ireland who want to rewild their land. I hope this will be the start of a network that will promote rewilding in this country - the time is right! New social 🙋‍♂️ @rewildyourland.bsky.social take a look 👇 www.rewildyourland.ie

Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵

Here is frankly the best thing I have seen on this app since joining, jfc RSPB is on fucking FIRE 😂💕

Diversity Hurts No One

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246 years ago today, the people of Hawai’i said “Live, Love, Land Back” by executing Captain James Cook for his crimes. Mahalo i ke kānaka maoli! Happy Captain Cooked Day 🥰💕

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

when i rented my first apartment in new york the landlord wanted like 60 times rent or something crazy so I photoshopped a photo of a bank account that said I had like 500k (I had 5k) and he rented us the spot no problem. landlords aren't the government its fine to lie to them, defraud them, etc