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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 1d

My house is going to be the it house for Halloween this year.

A screenshot from a grocery app with the heading Halloween Candy 2025 and items listed that include cold medicine, immune support pills, lip ointment, and taco seasoning.

Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 3d

We can do that when we've decided we're done reinventing release engineering.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like its not necessarily that we forgot the user, but that those of us that cared about and advocated for the user (yourself coming to mind) got drowned out by people who did not.

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Ashe Dryden @ashedryden.bsky.social · 3d

Any remote (US) volunteer/part-time paid opportunities in criminal justice reform/transformative justice? Particularly interested in counteracting the use of police surveillance tools. My background is in sociology, computer science, and public interest technology. #JobSearch #NonProfitJobs

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 3d

The last 5-10 years of devops have just been people reinventing what was done in the prior 10 years of tech but without having an understanding for the actual underlying context or design decisions that were made, and still thinking that they know and have done better.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 3d

I AM REPURPOSING AND SYNTHESIZING NEW CONTENT INTO THE GENERAL TOPIC LIKE A GOOD DEVOP

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 3d

MY NEXT CONFERENCE TALK WILL BE TITLED "DEVOPS ISN'T DEAD, I'M JUST SO TIRED OF HAVING THIS CONVERSATION WITH YOU, YOU AREN'T LISTENING"

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 3d

SOME OF THEM THINKS IT MEANS CI INSTEAD OF TERRAFORM. WHICH IS EXTRA DISTRESSING TO ME SINCE CI PREDATES DEVOPS BY QUITE A BIT.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 4d

Once there are fewer holes in the fence, you can also maybe put a lip on the exterior that will make it more difficult to climb over (depending on fence material).

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, I go back and forth on that. It often feels like if we dont use at least similar language, people will go out of their way to pretend its not at least a similar problem or has echoes of lessons of things we already know.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 7d

"We've learned and acknowledged that we have a lack of understanding of Black history and that racism has been structurally built into our society and belief system, but that couldn't possibly also be the case for this other group that's been oppressed for ~2k years."

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah. Kinda frustrated with having bought my laptop from them now. Was really excited about the mission to make laptops more easily repairable and upgradable.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 10d

Can't say I was a fan.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 12d

Alternatively, I like the idea of a tattoo of your headshot with you holding the diet coke can.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 12d

Do you have a tattoo of a diet coke can on you yet?

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 12d

Them: But you can control how you feel about a situation.

Me: Sure, if I get a lobotomy.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 12d

I stopped using it after people told me to die because I didn't want to follow a hashtag to find new people. I really don't want to go back.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 16d

I mean, I'm willing to believe in the role of CEO being something that should be considered an architect of a system (or at least part of a system), but its certainly not the system she thinks it is.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 16d

Never have I ever seen people more in need of hearing the term
"sociotechnical system".

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 16d

Well of course you realize, this means war.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 16d

It turns out when you make the rules, you can just make the rules so that it protects your community and if you don't, your community will correctly interpret it as you being unwilling to protect them from people threatening and harassing them.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 16d

He never showed up. If we had waited for him to violate the CoC, we never would have had a chance to remove him due to that. But he did not need to, the speaker correctly identified what he was doing as the threat that he intended it to be.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 16d

When I began organizing tech events in Madison, I was aware of a man in the community had a history of harassing and stalking women and femme presenting people in the tech community. Sure enough, the first time we had a woman scheduled to give a talk, he joined our meetup group and rsvp'd.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 16d

When a person has a history of harassment, their presence, or simply the threat of their presence is intended as and received as harassment by their victims. Abusers and harassers understand and weaponize this.

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Joshua Zimmerman @thejewberwocky.bsky.social · 21d

Unfortunately, for biologics, the process to create biosimilars often is harder than making other generic drugs and skyrizi is too new for that to have happened. But, you'll be happy to know that none of my many doctors have even considered suggesting skyrizi for my psoriatic arthritis.

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