fun news! I was laid off from Twilio. going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week. if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along! reposts from tech folks appreciated <3

I posted about the CDC Vaccine Assessment tool being taken down. It's unclear how long it's been down for, but I don't believe it was within the hour since RFK Jr. was confirmed. Trying to get more clarity. In the meantime, this page has the suggested adult immunization schedule:

i picked a very very weird time to buy a house but OMG I BOUGHT A HOUSE

BRB, have to find all the people who said we were being hyperbolic when we said they were going to build concentration camps....

We fucking told you.

mask the fuck up yall 😑😷

anyway, here’s my dog. i hope his incredible puppy eyes help you get through the day 💕

The American healthcare system is broken. I have a chronic health condition and even with *good* insurance, I still spent the equivalent of a years worth of groceries on my healthcare costs this year. And this summary is just for the hospital where I see my specialist and get treatment.

This is a great article but doesn’t include solutions so here’s one: build your community by engaging in activities that help people experience joy. It’s hard to feel nothing when you see someone else’s eyes light up with happiness. For me this is nature education work. What is it for you?

In some good news, Japanese researchers develop peptide preventing COVID-19 infections. I am constantly stressed about my kids catching covid again. Glad to see some progress. archive.md/2025.01.23-0...

PROTECT TRANS KIDS

hi i still exist but im sleepy

TikTok’s ads for Trump appeared immediately to every user. Not even Twitter has done this. This makes them the largest Trump supporter by action at least. So, since people believe TikTok suppresses words like kill, what will they suppress now that they’re right wing?

tfw your therapist is like “i need you to know that literally everything you just described feeling/thinking/doing is because you have ptsd” 🥲

i spent most of my medical leave knitting and i thought bluesky might like this gay little scarf

Truth.

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the most important update i have is: The Boy continues to be cute

omg hi i’m back what did i miss!?

treating my mental illness with rosy cheeks and silly shirts

i guess i’m a minecraft youtuber now? honestly this is a really fun way to spend my medical leave and is super accessible from a content creation perspective (no voice over, no face cam, and i can take extended breaks from editing) youtu.be/4xFRLk0wF3c

It feels like time to start reminding people that if you get COVID ~Thanksgiving-New Year’s, you should NOT jump into January workouts. Block out the ‘wellness’ industry. If infected, extreme REST is still one of the best things you can do to minimize odds of long COVID. Rest as much as you can.

would anyone be down for a cozy minecraft stream tomorrow night? youtu.be/sozfZvJ0nB0?...

I wish all the andrew tate listening little zoomer/gen alpha fuck boys would just listen to The Basement Yard and become respectable members of society

OH, ALSO! I can like, fully headband with these on? and they don't move?? but they're also super comfy!? I'm not sure how it's possible, and I think it might be a miracle of modern science...

I’ve been using the Bose Open Ear earbuds for the past couple days, after a friend showed them to me, and they’re honestly kind of life changing? I can just have nonsense playing in my ears all the time and still hear and acknowledge everything around me…

STEP IN TIME!

reminder: hot people wear N95s

i’ve had to block just an absolutely astronomical number of grifters and fake accounts on here so far 😬

this skeet slapped me in the face

i once again implore you to read project 2025. please understand what the plan is so you can prepare accordingly.

As a disabled web accessibility practitioner. This pisses me off. Extremely. GENERATIVE AI DOES NOT AND CANNOT EVER REPRESENT DISABLED PEOPLE. Just fucking hire disabled people like me who know what they're doing. Believing AI over disabled people is ABLEISM and DEHUMANIZING. For fucks sake.

i feel like i’m the only person on bluesky who hasn’t had a pecan pie today. p.s. it’s obviously pronounced “pecan”

AI generated profile pics get blocked by default, sorry not sorry 😬

i did the math and if i want to work full time on a masters degree for 2 years, in order to cover all of my expenses (including tuition, rent and my incredibly expensive healthcare costs) i would need to have >$100K 🥲

TIL i’ve been pronouncing “samoyed” wrong my whole life

not me recording for like 30 mins after OBS had already crashed due to lack of storage space because i was exporting to the wrong drive 🥲🥲🥲

I'm begging you, begging you to remember that "signup" and "sign up" are different things "catchup" and "catch up" are different things "setup" and "set up" are different things

I’m not fucking kidding when I say you should be making any and all major purchases now.

being disabled and chronically ill is weird cause what you see in this picture is me, my sweet tiddies, my sweet puppy, and a fun training session at the park. what you don’t see is the part where i almost passed out and threw up from fatigue and high heart rate as soon as we got home 🥲

One of the best parts about being gay is creating a secret world. One of the worst parts about being gay is being forced to live in that secret world.

i’m about to purge my closet and am once again tired of hiding behind all-black-everything as a security blanket rather than a fashion choice. i see lots of lime green and bubblegum pink in my future 💚💖

what if I just like...got a CS Masters' degree? what if I just *did* that? that could be cool.

Social media is in desperate need of innovation. Meta is only letting you have a slice of control over what you see because Bluesky is here building for you.

Bumping for friends in the US

Yeah so the biggest infosec and opsec tip I can give as a professional is never tell a government employee your infosec and opsec tips

just casually thinking about the quality of computer science education and instructional content in an era of reliance on AI as an encyclopedic source of truth. just thinkiiing 😬

I’ve been on medical leave for <5 business days and I’m already feeling creative energy and desire to *make stuff* returning to my brain. Burnout is real, and sometimes you don’t even realize you have it 🥲

My 11 yr old is doing geography homework & kept asking Alexa for facts. I gave him a lecture about AI & media literacy & evaluating sources & the way young men who never learned how helped elect Trump. As example we asked Alexa if ivermectin cures Covid. “Hmm,” “she” said, “I don’t know.”