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Taylor Barnett-Torabi

@taylorbar.net

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I really just want to touch grass. 🏳️‍🌈 y’all means all. wears many hats, literally and figuratively at developer-focused startups. sometimes I write code. Tu lucha es mi lucha. all my own opinions. 👩‍💻 Product @netlify.com 📍Austin, TX 🌐 https://taylorbar.net

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Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 1h

wow, the first thing you have to do is get your bag back after it was stolen 😂

Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 1h

watching my spouse play Pokemon Legends Z-A and it has a train right from the start, big day for train stans

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Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 4h

but then my winter garden would miss me.

Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 4h

oof. everyone loves to talk about their cities weather and not about if it is how east or west it is located within a time zone. (5:42 pm on nov 3rd here)

Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 5h

pour one out for the last 7pm+ sunset this year 😭

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 6h

the baby caught a glimpse of microsoft teams on her dad’s phone. you hope to shelter them from things like this until they’re older. naturally she’s inconsolable

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Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 7h

never have I felt more like a "vendor engineer" than in the last few weeks. gluing shit together hoping it is strong enough glue.

Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 13h

I honestly don't know what to do about this.

My 94 year old grandmother has a machine that is basically now insecure because of the lack of security updates on Windows 10 and can't be upgraded to next version. And I also don't want to change her computer on her at this point. msft is so shitty.

404 Media @404media.co · 13h

The end of free Windows 10 support this Wednesday could be an environmental disaster, cutting off 400 million PCs from security updates and dooming millions of still usable computers.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-end-of-w...

The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making

In an example of egregious planned obsolescence, as many as 400 million computers will soon hit the waste stream.

www.404media.co

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 14h

your paycheck is a gift from the divine king, this is the american way and we love our wise and benevolent king and to insist otherwise is unamerican and possibly material support for terrorism

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 1d

if I am going to keep up multiple days a week of clay stuff, I gotta figure out how to center clay without hurting my wrists 😭

Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 1d

please send to your friendly vegan protein powder haver in your life

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

nearly all the plant-based products we tested had elevated lead levels: vegan powders had 9x as much lead as dairy and 2x as much as beef

though dairy-based powders had the lowest levels, half were still too contaminated for safe daily use

you may be asking: how could this be? well...

Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 1d

just get some from me

9 out of 12 months of the year I have so much fresh basil to share

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d

State Rep Gene Wu: Texas is on fire...farmers have nowhere to sell their products, harvest their goods. The state is on the age of a recession. The governor...is talking about one sidewalk, one intersection, in one city.

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Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 1d

plz don't remind me. grandmother called me last week worried her computer wouldn't work after today since MSFT is so bad at communication.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 2d

been eyeing a macro laowa MFT lens lately, the price is too good

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 2d

From Darcie @littlebadger.bsky.social in 2024: We were often one disaster or unpaid bill away from displacement. We just had to struggle. We still do. In the eyes of the government, we are breathing ghosts.

Return to Kíłááhíí: An Elder Is Restored to the Lipan Apache People—750 Years Later

"I imagine this Elder’s life alongside the arroyo, where water flows in the desert and prickly pears grow in fountains of green paddles and red fruit."

www.texasobserver.org

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jen rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 2d

you probably haven't heard much about the major federal hearing that just ended on the TX redistricting map, but it's important. my full recap:

in a federal courtroom in TX, republicans were desperate to keep details of their gerrymander under wraps

www.democracydocket.com/analysis/in-...

In a Federal Courtroom in Texas, Republicans Were Desperate to Keep Details of their Gerrymander Under Wraps

Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

www.democracydocket.com

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 2d

Attending a "No Kings" protest Saturday? The Xylom's @alexip718.com and Strength in Numbers' @gelliottmorris.com are joining forces to conduct a nationwide, unofficial, crowdsourced attendance estimate.

We need your help to be our eyes and ears across 2,100+ locations and on the Internet.

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Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 2d

if you want any native milkweed in the Austin area, the Natural Gardner still had a bunch yesterday

at a plant nursery with a bunch of milkweed plants of a few different varieties

Taylor Barnett-Torabi @taylorbar.net · 2d

having to deal with the consequences of my actions (buying too many plants that I now have to plant) on very hot indigenous peoples’ day

Several small plants on concrete, including blooming white daisies with yellow centers and green leafy stems.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 2d

And I mean X has become a Palantir from LotR, not the company. X shows you things, but only the things that will get you to do what its owner wants.

So I caution heavily against making business decisions based on X these days. You could be playing into the next transfer of wealth

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 2d

X is owned by a person whose net worth depends on the success of many investments in this space. It's quite possible for that person to manipulate their own algorithms to encourage continued investment in the space. Like owning your own PR firm and newspaper. I consider X more a Palantir these days

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R "Nearest" Nabors @nearestnabors.com · 2d

It's also a little frustrating to me when I talk with founders and VC who are super excited when something takes off on X. X they often attribute this as a signal that they are on the right track. But if you check other networks or outside experts, they paint a different picture

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