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Thomas Kula

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · Jun 18

Reaching out to my network here, I've had a good run at my current job but I think it's time to move along. I'm pretty good at infrastructure and systems engineering, been successful at being a sales engineer and architect, and have been doing a lot of internal enablement the past couple years.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 1d

I often say I’m not a smart engineer, I just have a very good memory of exactly where every bite mark on my ass came from.

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deadshock @debbshock.blue · 2d

we are the sons of the hamburgers you could not help

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 2d

This is one of my favorite software engineering anecdotes.

David Crawshaw @crawshaw.io · 2d

Old-school memory management technique.

Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 2d

I sincerely and earnestly believe Terry Pratchett to be the finest political and social commentator of the 20th century.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 2d

This is a specific instance of someone I say all the time, “we don’t need this now but at least we can not fuck ourselves in the future.”

Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 2d

Just fake localize your game.
This is the least interesting "no shit" tip I will ever give, but cool programmers know that "I could simply NOT do the hard part, and it would be good enough for now" is an intuition you have to be reminded of from time to time

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Samperson @samperson.bsky.social · 2d

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 2d

The lady across the aisle ordered a Jack and *tonic* and the poor guy asked her three times to confirm.

Ma'am, I'm glad I haven't seen what you've seen, with that kind of drink order.

Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 2d

I'm currently en-route to Detroit via ATL (🤢) after my direct flight had mechanical issues, and this diva of a flight attendant just looked at me and asked "Santa, what would you like?"

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 3d

Deploy directly to prod.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 4d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 5d

“Nothing you are about to read

… ever happened.”

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 6d

I would vote without question for anyone with the fucking stones to do this while refusing to 1) throw trans people under the bus and 2) fund Israel's genocide

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 6d

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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New York Transit Museum @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social · 6d

“Working the A Train” (1981) took a behind-the-scenes look at the #NYCsubway system and showcased the work involved in running the city’s longest train line. At one time, the film played in the gallery of the New York State Museum, accompanying the exhibit of its R9 subway car #1801.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 6d

No longer live there, but Houston St.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Gravy Crockett @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 7d

The logic of "Democrats shouldn't stand up for trans rights because it will hurt them in elections" makes no sense. There are NO voters who are ready to vote for Democrats but decide not to because they just can't get on board with support for trans rights. Those people are Republicans.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 8d

"Study finds inhalers cause 0.03% of the pollution of cars" doesn't sell ads though.

Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 8d

Does it make sense to try to find alternatives? Sure, as long as they are effective. But headlines like this make it seem like the very people who are likely highly affected by pollution are the problem.

They aren't.

Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 8d

Which they note.

At the very end.

In the grand scheme of things, Feldman noted, inhalers are a relatively small cause of climate change compared to the bigger culprits like traffic, agriculture, and power generation. But as a doctor who regularly treats people who can't breathe because of it, he said, every little effort helps.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 8d

It's a great example of the chronic issue of "big numbers with no context." You tell me to think about half a million cars I go yeah, that's a lot of cars.

But not compared to 1.5 billion.

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 8d

Looking around, it appears that there's in the neighborhood of 1.5 billion cars on Earth.

This would be 0.03% of that.

CNN @cnn.com · 9d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 8d

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Thomas Kula @kula.tproa.net · 8d

About every three years I get a craving that can only be satisfied by putting a pile of cottage cheese on a dinner plate and surrounding it with a moat of Hamburger Helper bacon cheeseburger

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 9d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 8d

Yooooooooooooooooo.

Gonna do a book.

Journalist, podcast creator, and Punk Planet founder Dan Sinker's I HATE THOSE MASKED BASTARDS!: Terror, Truth, and the Editor Who Took on the Klan, a narrative account of crusading journalist George Dale, who faced off against a powerful, ascendant Klan movement in 1920s Indiana, and who serves as a model of journalistic integrity and defiance in the face of fascism, to Eric Kerl and Katy O'Donnell at Haymarket, at auction, by David Patterson at Stuart Krichevsky Agency (NA).

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