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Tilde Thurium @annthurium.bsky.social · 17h

devtools corollary to Zawinksi's law:

all developer platforms will eventually expand until they contain observability tooling

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Tilde Thurium @annthurium.bsky.social · 17h

linkedin is not a dating site

Screenshot of LinkedIn Ad: "Tilde, explore relevant opportunities with Grindr"

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Tilde Thurium @annthurium.bsky.social · 3d

what does it mean to use your network as a job seeker? dev.to/launchdarkly...

How to use your network to get a job

Common advice for job seekers is to "use your network" but what does that mean, exactly? Let's break...

dev.to

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Tilde Thurium @annthurium.bsky.social · 3d

That's absurd. Especially since the hiring economy in tech is primarily operating off of referrals these days, due to a deluge of AI slop resumes clogging up hiring pipelines.

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Tilde Thurium @annthurium.bsky.social · 3d

t4t vibes

2 side by side photos: a house where the door has teeth as a Halloween decoration, and a human sized stuffed Ditto propped up in a corner with a keffiyeh cape and a traffic cone hat.

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Tilde Thurium @annthurium.bsky.social · 4d

OH: "the only sport that you enjoy recreationally is BDSM"

"and drinking!"

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Tilde Thurium @annthurium.bsky.social · 4d

it was a joke bud 😉

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Skyah✨Angelou @fiyahangelou.blacksky.app · 4d

Indigenous Nations:
#Indigisky

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 4d

I can do and even enjoy small talk. I can endure loud, crowded environments. However, if I have to make small talk in a loud space,where we’re shouting to be heard and repeating questions & answers multiple times? I will shrivel like an earthworm trapped on dry pavement in full sunlight.

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Tilde Thurium @annthurium.bsky.social · 4d

12 hour booth shift

#devrel

Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 4d

in honor of spooky month, share a four word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

"parser differential certificate forgery"

julie, like boowelry @julie.alady.top · 4d

in honor of spooky month, share a four word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

“force pushed to master”

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 4d

With the holidays upon us, don't give to Salvation Army. Not even change. It's a scumbag "charity" run by anti-gay zealots.

Habitat for Humanity is great. Your local Food Bank is great.

So many "charities" are for-profit scams. Use Charity Navigator to vet them. www.charitynavigator.org

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 4d

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 5d

Again, only 4 Mr. Olympia winners in the past 42 years have not been Black or Middle Eastern. And most of the white Olympia winners, including Schwarzenegger, are vocally anti-nazi and think racists are losers.

Anti-racist people own the gym. And we have since the dawn of bodybuilding.

Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · Apr 27

New York Times is being weird again, pretending that lifting weights and being a gym bro is a MAGA thing?

Again, only 4 Mr. Olympia winners in the past 42 years have not been Black or Middle Eastern. The current Mr. Olympia is a Black feminist. The Joe Weider bust, is Robbie Robinson, head-swapped🤡

An older Robbie Robinson, a powerfully built Black bodybuilder, next to a bust of Joe Weider's face, on Robbie Robinson's body.

No, they didn't tell Robbie Robinson that they would head swap him. He thought he was posing for a bust of himself. He found out at the unveiling, along with everyone else. He was embarrassed in front of his family and friends.

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June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 17d

sorry you do have to write to be a writer. if the noun is mostly a verb, you have to do the verb to be the noun

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Tilde Thurium @annthurium.bsky.social · 8d

can we get a Ludacris cover tho???

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Tilde Thurium @annthurium.bsky.social · 8d

shake it off, indeed

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Tilde Thurium @annthurium.bsky.social · 8d

I non consensually learned that Taylor Swift wrote a song about Travis Kelce's D

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9d

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 9d

Bring back inscrutable security posters

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 9d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 9d

One of the most colorful nights of aurora I’ve ever witnessed…

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 9d

Everything is just so stupid right now.

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Tilde Thurium @annthurium.bsky.social · 10d

accidental LLM honeypot in my LinkedIn profile 😂

Screenshot of LinkedIn mail paragraph that says: "I've noticed your extensive background in the industry, particularly your role as a Manager, Developer Relations at LaunchDarkly. Your experience is highly relevant to the position we're currently hiring for. As a full snack engineer who can cause a bug in any part of your JS, Python, or Java app, your technical skills would be a tremendous asset in this role."

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Tilde Thurium @annthurium.bsky.social · 10d

oh, are you in the bay area now? My mutual aid food collective is always open if you wanna meet some more leftists 💜 (i agree that it's hard to meet people here)

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