He had me at ‘squad_up()’

I just ordered a 3D printer. What’s your most interesting/fun/valuable use of a 3D printer?

The accuracy of this targeted marketing on Insta is off the hook. I do. And I have.

so if I set the "off listening mode" to "on" is my listening mode "on" or "off" ?

Forgive the Revolutionary War symbolism. Today, NJ & VA were at a pivotal moment — just like during 2 defining periods of the Revolution. This time, two strong women stood against the pull of authoritarianism. NJ & VA became beacons of victory & democratic strength for a nation needing it.

Hilarious.

women to the rescue

For when your old windows machine catches fire?

where are we watching election results? what media sources have the best coverage these days?

This is fine.

I'm really surprised how many enterprise software sales folks have absolute shit internet service. It's weird to have 10 folks in a demo call and the audio coming and going randomly.

as an insurance CTO my job is 35% helping folks understand that SOC and SOX are different things. It's a hard job, but it's honest work.

Well it’s Monday. Get out there and make those hard substitutions, yall.

I’m recall us doing this with 3D charts when Excel added them in the 90s. We’ll grow out of it. Eventually.

$81 a week. $81. A week.

One thing I’ve learned in the last month is I don’t ever want to piss off the knitting/textile nerds. They are ready to rumble and ain’t takin no shit. I now love them as the righteous nerds they are. Long before we argued about frameworks and computers these beautiful nerds were training for battle

i've been the monkey anxiety bitch for TEN YEARS

I feel judged

Turn down service at this hotel left me candies and a haiku poem that ends “spa life namaste”. I will now, in the course of daily verbal discourse, replace the phrase “look you sumbich” with “spa life namaste”

I gotta be honest I would’ve expected these guys to have watched Fight Club more than once

I worked in a machine shop while in college. Every new student worker had the same name for the first year of work. That name was “Dick”. I shit you not. “Hey Dick, don’t forget your safety squints” “hey Dick, of it takes you more that 2 minutes to chuck your bit, you’re just playing with it”

Python Software Foundation put their money where their mouth is. Bravo. It’s easy to be inclusive when it’s popular, but PSF chose valuing people over $1.5m in gov money.

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

I grumbled about something and a colleague sighed and said, "well that's why we get paid the medium bucks" and I think that's my new catchphrase.

why is freaking People mag the only only news source with clear eyed headlines explaining the Mad King's obvious confusion?

remember when MSFT did the store constant screenshot thing. And it was a security shit show. Now it's OpenAI's turn to just store copies of everything secret but without security. I have sympathy for mistakes but both MSFT and ChatGPT screw ups here were completely predictable and easy to anticipate

doing one of those strength finder things at work. after half an hour I finally found something I feel strongly describes me.

Something rare is happening. We're opening up a position in the @storybook.js.org team! Not only that, but it's fully remote, in Central European Time! If you want to maintain OSS, love the JS ecosystem and enjoys tinkering with the details that makes it all work behind the scenes, check it out!

Sparky was a very good boy at camp while we were away. He’ll bite some stranger’s ass at home, but when away from the house he’s much more chill with better “petiquette”

After following lots of economists on social media for the last 10+ years I think agricultural economists should rebrand as “less upity economists” or “economists without pretenses” or possibly “literally bean counters”

“It is well for us to recollect that even in our own law-abiding, not to say virtuous cases, the only barrier between us and anarchy is the last nine meals we’ve had. It may be taken as axiomatic that a starving man is never a good citizen.” - Alfred Henry Lewis 1896

Who thought it was a good idea to hang over the tub this painting of my grandfather disapproving of me?

I had breakfast with former coworkers and we all discussed work for an hour. The things we are frustrated with and spend time discussing are 90% organizational and human issues. Not technical tooling. All conferences are the inverse. I wish there was a tech conf focused less on tooling.

I’d settle for a plumber or carpenter, tbh

REAGAN: “When someone says let’s impose tariffs, it may look like they’re doing the patriotic thing… but over the long run trade barriers hurt every 🇺🇸 worker.” 🇨🇦 Ontario just ran this👇🏽powerful ad using Reagan’s voice against Trump’s trade war during game 7 of the ALCS ⚾️

Every engineer at AWS who doesn't have permissions to change DNS entries:

This is cool. Ian’s work with ADBC is really important for the data ecosystem.

It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle. And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.

This week I was telling a colleague from New York about two colleagues I had who used to fight endlessly and I describe them as being like “two tomcats with tails tied together and thrown over a clothesline” After he recovered I realized this may not be a common idiom in all areas.

Getting drunk and listening to Lefty Frizzel is my birthright.

I’m protesting the king by rebuilding my pellet smoker using cheap Chinese parts.

welp, feeder cattle limit down today on Trump's promise to "do something about high beef prices". I guess this is "something"

I went to a party and they only had old ass wine. I’ll introduce them to Boone’s Farm at some point. They don’t even know…

With the emergence of frog costume protests in the US, it feels like the stars are aligned for an inflatable Cthulhu costume.

This bug in Teams cracks me up every time. It’s been there a year. Just leave it. #ActEmpBtnTtl

LLMs are the new overeager neurodivergent colleague.

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