the cost of being disabled is fucking expensive. it costs me 40 dollars just for transportation across town because public transit doesn't run often enough.

I'm looking for a new chair to replace my secret lab one which has done a pretty good job for five years. Does anyone have any recommendations for a max budget of $1200 Canadian? I have bad back issues, so the more comfortable and supportive the better.

i expect a complimentary sleeping mask, noise cancelling headphones, and a year audible subscription to be in the mail after this @awscloud.bsky.social! i'm tired.

good opportunity for all of us waiting for issues to be resolved with us-east-1 to make note of failure points during an outage like this and prioritize work to make things more resilient.

I was talking to friends last night about white liberals. They truly believe that showing up in an orderly fashion and expressing their displeasure is sufficient to make oppressors change course. No matter how many times you tell them it's not enough.

all it takes is for me to publicly complain about the Canucks and they start playing like the west coast express line is back and the comeback is complete lol

the people responsible for fucking up the Sonos software over the years should be charged criminally.

life as a Vancouver Canucks fan:

When 34-year-old Mitch Garver hits a triple

All the gambling and prescription medication advertisements totally turn me off from watching hockey. It's brutal on all the broadcasts.

Play by play is insufferable for this game.. I don't see regular canucks PBP guys on any feeds??

Why is this piece of shit Chris Pronger doing intermission for the Canucks game? Are they trying to make people forgot what an asshole he is lol

the cost of denying another's humanity is paid with one's own

Oh i see we're at the "people can be multidimensional" part of carrying water for an whose C-level funds right wing disinformation in Canada. Shopify can fuck off, and the people who defend their behaviour with them.

One particularly popular move among people with the political alignment of DHH &co is something called Accusation in a Mirror (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusat...) tl;dr: the exact same thing that they were, in fact, doing, and continue to do, is what they will accuse completely innocent people of.

ruby central is malicious, incompetent, and maliciously incompetent.

Canucks season starts tonight, rejoice Vancouver fans! Bring on the pain and suffering. 🤣

The reason people are targeting disabled people with prosthetics with the ‘clanker’ epithet on social media is because of ableism—not because of AI hate. Disabled people get slurs, targeted harassment, epileptics get flashing gifs sent to them; I think it’s interesting how some people suddenly care.

We're so very excited to have André Arko (@indirect.io) with us today presenting what makes and keeps an app production-ready. ... and I hear he'll be back on the stage for lightning talks too!

Liberal idea of "meeting in the middle" is throwing marginalized folks under the bus in exchange for power, ever. single. time. In Canada the BC NDP have done it, federal Liberals, and federal NDP. Neoliberals are as much of a danger to our rights and progress as the right.

The team formerly behind RubyGems has come together to launch a new gem server for the Ruby community! gem.coop I am *super* excited about this!

If the "left wing" were in fact "well-funded and organized" it would be far more effective in fighting fascism

There's this ableist push by doctors to push people with chronic pain to go do things or exercise without proper supports, medications, and pain management and it's so frustrating - someone who just showered and feels like they ran a marathon, can barely move, and is very tired of this.

I wish more people in the world realized that me doing 4 hours of work while rested and having my other worries and needs taken care of is exponentially more productive than me forcing myself to try to work for 8-10 hours. Grinding is counterproductive.

Is The Substance worth watching? I need new movies or TV shows.

Depression hitting very hard today 🙃

I’ve been offered a ton of money to do a comedy set aboard the Borg Cube

Recovering from incident/page last night and dealing with the start of a pain/nerve flareup. Ugh. I would like a new nervous system please.

a C shanty is what you sing while you wait for a gem with native exensions to compile, right

respect to the people at Vercel who are resigning, and hugs to those who would like too but can't due to capitalism.

Me ten minutes into Ghost of Yotei

shocking i never got a reply to this 🙄

centrists, like libertarians, don't actually exist. there are only embarrassed rightwingers.

it's officially heating pad season for the void baby -- its also breathing problem season for her as well, unfortunately. :(

My team at Plane is hiring experienced full stack engineers. We use Rails, Postgres, Phlex, Vite, TypeScript and Svelte. I don’t have a full job description yet, but drop me a DM if you want to know more.

Me joining stand-up on October 1st

Being kind includes telling people who did wrong to fuck off

What are people using for password management other than 1Password?

I'm beginning to think the Ruby community would be a lot fucking better off without Rails and a lot of the people it's brought into the community.

Having a really bad grief night from people and pets lost. 😢

Trying to buy used furniture as a disabled person who can't drive is fucking impossible 😭

It's been around six months since Cinder passed, and i still think about him every day. 😭

Open Twitter.. conservative tech bros arguing with each other about people that have burnout just have lives that are too easy. Close Twitter.. Jesus fucking christ - i feel like i'm in the twilight zone.

i would love to be able to go back to war torn Portland at some point in my life and see all my friends there.

of course I get the plague from my 15yo right when a four day long weekend starts. so much for getting stuff done on side projects. just woke up from a 6 hour fever nap.

WHAT DID WE DO TO GET TO DESERVE A SECOND?!? 🥹

It's easy to do this when his political opinions don't affect you or your friends. It's hard to just ignore when they do cause an impact. I'm glad I didn't get into Rails. If I did, I'd be finding a new framework.

todays music to start the day, first song on random playlist is very appropriate: woody guthrie - all you fascists bound to lose