Josh Berkus
@fuzzychef.org
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Potter, Cook, Kubernetes geek. Mostly on Mastodon (https://m6n.io/@fuzzychef) but I use this account too.
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Anyone saying they’re not racially profiling is unserious
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Narrator: In fact, he discovered that they did serve burritos. And nothing else.
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Asking for recommendations, part XVIII:

"Can anyone recommend a Mexican restaurant that doesn't serve burritos?"

1st reply: "Have you tried Jose's Burritos?"

#Internetlife
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ylepidemiologist.bsky.social
4/ Over the weekend, about 1,300 CDC employees received an email saying they were fired.
No notice.
No time to plan.
Just deactivated badges.
The justification was a “reduction in force”—a bureaucratic term being used as a political pawn in the broader Congressional shutdown fight.
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ylepidemiologist.bsky.social
1/ Bird flu is back, and more than 4.4 million birds have been sick in the past month. The uptick has been detected among backyard flocks, commercial farms, and wild birds. Katelyn here, Your Local Epidemiologist, and here’s what you need to know about this and other #publichealth news this week 👇
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erininthemorning.com
1. Last night, John Oliver destroyed Bari Weiss and specifically called out her inaccurate and targeted coverage of transgender people.

It's the latest of several shows Oliver has done in defense of trans people.

Weiss at CBS is a disaster for trans people.

Subscribe to support our journalism.
John Oliver Destroys Bari Weiss In Defense Of Transgender People
The right-wing commentator is now the head of CBS.
www.erininthemorning.com
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New "big lie" just dropped. Add it to the list after "the payment is enroute":

"Link is in bio".
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plaguepoems.bsky.social
A word of caution:
if you try to write someone
about the Stratus variant
you may find
that autocorrect turns
“Stratus” into status,
so please keep that in mind
for Stratus is the variant
and the status
is that far too many people have it.
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carnage4life.bsky.social
GoFundMe wanted to build a service to help groups fundraise for social projects and then it became a backstop to our broken healthcare system.

It looks like they are now a backstop for our broken system when it comes to food insecurity especially given cuts and the tanking economy.
GoFundMe CEO says economy is so challenged people are raising money to buy food
GoFundThis: Some surprising items have begun to make the list for crowdfunding lately, according to this CEO.
finance.yahoo.com
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In 1503, Christopher Columbus shipwrecked on Jamaica. The native Taino received the stranded Spaniards with hospitality and supported them for nearly a year of being marooned.

In return, Columbus came back in 1504 with armed ships and enslaved them.

#ColumbusDay
Copy of a painting of islanders offering landing spaniards fruits.
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socallinuxexpo.bsky.social
🧑‍💻 Southern California Linux Expo wants to hear from you. Literally, we want you to speak. Kernel hacking, AI modeling, gov transparency, parenting with parental control routers—if it’s open, it’s in. Submit a talk to SCaLE 23x!

www.socallinuxexpo.o...
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Thanks. I wasn't brave enough to try to master being on the wrong side of the road in heavy London traffic, but maybe next time.
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astrokatie.com
My personal rankings of bike hire schemes in central London:

3. Santander. Cheapest, but hardest to pay for & dock, & no phone holder. Best lights though.

2. Lime. Most ubiquitous, very easy to use, but a bit pricey.

1. Forest. Easy to find, hire, and park. Good pricing. Apparently most “green.”
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Ah, OK, I was worried that the brakes would come on.
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I did wonder about Forest's "10 minutes free" though. What happens at the end of 10 minutes if you're on the road?
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carnage4life.bsky.social
The corporate myth is that embracing AI will get you results that are cheap, fast and good with fewer employees.

The reality is a lot of companies will find out they got things done for a lot cheaper and a lot faster but if definitely wasn’t good.
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This was entirely predictable; it's a Clayton Christensen curve. One of the main "costs" of open source web frameworks is complexity, and thus cognitive load. Thus, as they technically mature, webdevs defect for new, incomplete and simpler frameworks. Wash, rinse, repeat forever.
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Instead of a separate engagement ring, I bought us wedding rings -- which we just kept, and started wearing after the ceremony.

Married 21 years.
soozuk.bsky.social
This is on Amazon, other websites are available of course, but a 5-second search brought up this ring. It's looks like every engagement ring ever. It's not £800. Save your fckn money, get something like this, rent is expensive.
£15.99 bang average engagement ring
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Why aren't you willing to stand up for Trans people?
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nnedi.bsky.social
Paused at the Charlie Kirk memorial outside Turning Point USA headquarters last night. Not a person there. People have moved on.

For about a week after it happened, this place was packed, media all over the place, people bringing flowers, crying, etc.

All things said…it’s *all* just sad.
Charlie Kirk memorial at Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix
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I knew D'Souza in college. He was (still is) the kind of person who is continuously disappointed that his sucking up doesn't yield greater rewards.