Rick Scott 🇨🇦
@shadowspar.bsky.social
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Travel nerd, language nerd, software nerd, systems nerd. Trying to make the world a better place. Available for hire! Looking for a remote devops, backend dev, or software testing role.
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shadowspar.bsky.social
omgggg 😊
patriciajaydee.bsky.social
The rikishi are taking-in the town and doing what we all do when in London.
Seeing the sights, admiring the parks, shopping on High Street, taking tea at Fortnum's, using the olde phonebox, eating Chinese, and having a terrific time.
shadowspar.bsky.social
I still remember when all the ST devs rushed to update to some new OS X release and promptly lost all VOIP functionality as a result, while none of the QA team did.

I took a valuable lesson from all that 😅
chrismcmahon.bsky.social
Boring tech is best tech.
troutgirl.bsky.social
Love to wake up and immediately have to update my whole stack.
shadowspar.bsky.social
little known fact: that's how imitation maple syrup is made, by tapping telephone poles. 😅
shadowspar.bsky.social
truest thing. back when I was in the military, I was (pleasantly) surprised to find that the training materials for the junior leadership course listed "a genuine concern for humanity" amongst the required attributes of a good leader. you really cannot preserve your own humanity without it.
shadowspar.bsky.social
sure seems headed in that direction. it would be interesting to look back on fall water temperatures vs max ice extent for the season 🤔
shadowspar.bsky.social
the numbers on wine are even more over the top. never in my life thought Canada would have a trade *surplus* with the USA on wine
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paleofuture.bsky.social
“U.S. wine exports to Canada dropped 96% in the second quarter—from nearly $111 million last year to under $4 million this year—and the U.S. wine trade surplus with Canada has flipped to a deficit for the first time ever.”
California’s Wine Industry Is in Crisis
Changing drinking habits, falling prices, tariffs and the weather are forcing winemakers to do the unthinkable: rip up the vines.
www.wsj.com
shadowspar.bsky.social
les voies du Seigneur sont impénétrables 😊
kiyanicoll.bsky.social
I have to say I am looking at the world and going, "Okay, who knew in advance that we were gonna need a Chicago Pope to handle this shit."
shadowspar.bsky.social
DA POPE absolutely has me in stitches, but for me it also serves the the exact same purpose, lol
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richraho.bsky.social
Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
shadowspar.bsky.social
fwiw, you're far from alone in this regard. the tension between "The Catholic Church has horrible problems" and "some people within it are doing amazing things" has been a recurring theme in my life. 😅
shadowspar.bsky.social
rahaeli.bsky.social
like seriously team, I know y'all are working on both improving Discover and on better reply sentiment filtering and all, but it's going to take a while to tune it properly and a "never show my post on Discover" setting would be a 10 minute fix that would get 65% of why people want private accounts
leahmcelrath.bsky.social
I had a post reach the Discover feed today and was once again reminded of how many people on this site are not house trained.
shadowspar.bsky.social
if you wonder why many larger accounts restrict replies to followers only: this kind of thing is why. ⤵️
leahmcelrath.bsky.social
I had a post reach the Discover feed today and was once again reminded of how many people on this site are not house trained.
Reposted by Rick Scott 🇨🇦
erinbiba.bsky.social
Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.
erinbiba.bsky.social
One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.
shadowspar.bsky.social
extremely tangentially related, I've been very tempted to be like HEY RAH HEY RAH every time Leo does something Woke and pisses off certain right wing religious factions 😅
shadowspar.bsky.social
years ago, some right wing clown said that Antifa was flying planeloads of protestors somewhere, and that kicked off some amazing threads about what flying Air Antifa might look like

catering by Food Not Bombs, FAs are all Black Bloc, etc 😂
shadowspar.bsky.social
“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
Black & white photo of a ~50yo woman. She has short-ish wavy blonde hair, intense eyes, and smiles slightly towards the camera. She is Carla Capponi, one of the more prominent women in the Italian resistance during WWII. 
A comrade in the struggle described her as "this young blonde woman who went out at night to shoot Germans... with arms in hand, first among the first, she participated in dozens of actions, distinguishing herself in a superb way."
shadowspar.bsky.social
two options I've seen recommended are raindrop.io and zotero.org. I don't think either one is a direct parallel to Pocket but possibly one will work for you
shadowspar.bsky.social
Sault Ste Marie 😂
merriam-webster.com
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
shadowspar.bsky.social
it only gets worse when one imagines the kinds of "social media" that DW would supposedly steamroll and absorb:
• some random blog about K-drama/C-drama crossovers
• a chatboard about Nepali yarn spinning (total membership: 4)
• a dozen phpBB instances devoted to arcane RPGs nobody has ever heard of
shadowspar.bsky.social
this still makes me lolsob in the worst way any time I see it. like...the contrast between DW being portrayed as some angry, snarling Katamari of social media, vs our practically active disinterest in promoting the site to new users writ large 😅