Emmanuele Bassi
@bassi.io
He/him. Geek, husband, lover, software developer, Londoner. Not necessarily in that order. Proud GTK and GNOME dev. "One of the people responsible for the failure of the Linux desktop" according to a random YouTube user.
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this is the closest we're ever going to get to "I can't believe the leopards ate my face" in the wild
Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...
January 20, 2026 at 9:01 PM
this is the closest we're ever going to get to "I can't believe the leopards ate my face" in the wild
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post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers
January 15, 2026 at 12:21 AM
post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers
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“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death - Charlotte_Stant - The Lottery - Shirley Jackson [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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January 13, 2026 at 4:55 AM
“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
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Trying to live my life so that when I die it’s a “pour one out for a real one” scenario over a “rest in piss” situation
January 13, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Trying to live my life so that when I die it’s a “pour one out for a real one” scenario over a “rest in piss” situation
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There is always an XKCD
January 12, 2026 at 8:58 AM
There is always an XKCD
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you ever see an OSS project where it feels like they started the whole thing just so they could give it the name they did www.reddit.com/r/rust/comme...
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January 2, 2026 at 5:41 AM
you ever see an OSS project where it feels like they started the whole thing just so they could give it the name they did www.reddit.com/r/rust/comme...
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"brexiteers"? oh you mean eurodivergent people
September 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
"brexiteers"? oh you mean eurodivergent people
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Thames Water boss addressing shareholders on its half year profits of £400 million
December 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Thames Water boss addressing shareholders on its half year profits of £400 million
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November 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
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October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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Lee Pace in The Fall is the result of a decades-long experiment to see what happens if all the hotness for an entire generation is concentrated in the body of a single man
October 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Lee Pace in The Fall is the result of a decades-long experiment to see what happens if all the hotness for an entire generation is concentrated in the body of a single man
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The problem with this discourse is that it reveals something that nobody with a stake in their own academic or professional discipline wants to own up to, which is there is no particular educational paradigm that automatically makes you a good person
Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.
October 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The problem with this discourse is that it reveals something that nobody with a stake in their own academic or professional discipline wants to own up to, which is there is no particular educational paradigm that automatically makes you a good person
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Sakurai at the head of the table like he's introducing his shonen evil organization assembly of generals
Masahiro Sakurai shared a photo of a Game Director dinner meeting he had for Tokyo Gameshow!
Participants:
- Hideki Kamiya
- Toby Fox
- Yoko Taro
- Jiro Ishii
- Kazutaka Kodaka
- Keiichiro Toyama
Participants:
- Hideki Kamiya
- Toby Fox
- Yoko Taro
- Jiro Ishii
- Kazutaka Kodaka
- Keiichiro Toyama
October 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Sakurai at the head of the table like he's introducing his shonen evil organization assembly of generals
The second day of All Systems Go is about to start. Today, my colleague Alberto Garcia is going to present his work on Dirlock, a tool to manage encrypted file systems: cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-systems-...
#allsystemsgo #igalia
#allsystemsgo #igalia
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The second day of All Systems Go is about to start. Today, my colleague Alberto Garcia is going to present his work on Dirlock, a tool to manage encrypted file systems: cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-systems-...
#allsystemsgo #igalia
#allsystemsgo #igalia
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the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky
September 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky
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