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@hacks4pancakes @evacide @dean @mystique I cross an international border every day to get to work. Am I no longer family while commuting? 🤔

Netflix's ideas about what constitutes a family are similar to Google and Facebook's ideas about what constitutes a "real name" and it's about to turn into exactly the same kind of shitshow.

#BBC [In] International Garden Photographer of the Year competition 2023 w.st/HcRtx

So much so that the benefits outweigh the loss of centralised control, even for commercial companies. Making software is creative and collaborative!

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One of the reasons the twitter situation is so depressing in the developer world is that public APIs are a place where it becomes clear that communities have a vastly superior capacity for invention and discovery than a single organisation can have.

I just found the following line in my scratchpad:

The word “expat” is white people for “economic migrant”.

#BBC [World] Republicans oust Ilhan Omar from powerful House committee w.st/O50iX

When anyone doesn't have a basic necessity because they can't afford it, then we, as a society, have failed; not any individual.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Random quotes from Shakespeare every hour. Medieval manuscript illustrations out of context. I saw glitched television frames as abstract art poignant with commentary on the futility of life. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own design.
animating this is going to be very tricky.

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lots of new followers today, what did elon fuck up now

@cstross @funranium oh man, I am on the code of conduct team for a large open source project. And the speeds by which "I'm concerned about freedom of speech" turns into "actually I literally just want to tell LGBTQ+ people that I think they are gross and you're not letting me" in the space of two or three emails is STAGGERING.

Today I discovered there is an academic at the university where I work called Professor Slippers, and I am unable to imagine him as anything other than an elderly and contented tabby cat.

"I don't understand job interviewers who don't like seeing tattoos on candidates. Being able to sit still for hours on end while having needles jammed into your skin seems like great preparation for meetings".

@cstross Putin's people react in exactly the same way when people point out Putin had a guy murdered in London with his polonium tea and murdered two more people trying to murder Yulia Skripal and her father.

Thats when rapey men who were sacked from the positions they are using to establish their authority for sexual harassment start pretending they are world class experts in neurotoxins.

@cstross When the government withholds information, it is our right as human beings to hypothesize as to wtf the government has withheld, or why. Racist murder is low-hanging fruit for hypotheses in America. Particularly by cops.

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