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git committer by day, finger painter by night
My daily stress level is usually proportionate to the number of drinks on my desk. Anyway today's going great
February 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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We are calling for impeachment—America has no kings.
February 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.
February 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:

www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
www.404media.co
February 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off
February 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I'd like it to be known that my legacy at GitHub is getting the word "furry" removed from these auto generated options (RIP furry-fortnight you served me well)
Getting fancy with my coffee today in my custom @github.com Codespaces mug
February 13, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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on my deathbed: a website you could go to that played a bad song. cute hamsters danced around.
KIDS: Alright you can disconnect him now
February 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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February 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
debating crocheting a contribution graph snake (like a temperature snake but github contributions). yeah i know i'm a month late
February 9, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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One of the best hand-drawn protest signs I've seen in a while.
February 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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ICYMI: Linux arm64 hosted runners are available in preview in public repositories 🙌 Build, test, and deploy entirely within arm64 architecture.

github.blog/changelog/20...
Linux arm64 hosted runners now available for free in public repositories (Public Preview) · GitHub Changelog
Linux arm64 hosted runners now available for free in public repositories (Public Preview)
github.blog
February 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...
‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government
404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves ...
www.404media.co
February 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
my favorite coworker
January 31, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
January 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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The president can veto or support legislation. He can make recommendations to Congress. But he doesn't have the unilateral right to change laws.

Trump has very little respect for the rule of law & our Constitution. He is moving us toward authoritarianism.

We must stop him.
January 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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logging on
January 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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i found a pulsing crystal in the woods behind my house and traded it for three Mike’s Hard Cranberry tall boys
January 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Boy it would be horrible if that email address got overwhelmed
The acting director of the Office of Personnel Management (the feds' H.R. department) is telling federal employees to rat out their DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility) colleagues by emailing "DEIAtruth@opm.gov."

chcoc.gov/sites/defaul...
January 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
one of those "accidentally send 150 emails to everyone in engineering" kind of days huh
January 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
today my mom accidentally sent me a pepper bomb for my birthday because she remembered that i like watching hot ones (very sweet) and got me some of the hot sauces (very spicy) and the last dab cracked in the package and got all over my fingers when i opened it (very oops i shouldn't touch my eyes)
August 7, 2024 at 3:46 AM
One thing about me is that I (a vegetarian) believe that Panera Bistro French Onion Soup can cure any malady (and we're not gonna think about what's in the broth)
July 7, 2024 at 3:09 AM
the problem with deciding that i'm sick enough to call out of my work-from-home job is that i am therefore also sick enough that i shouldn't sit at the same desk i work at to play dragon age
July 3, 2024 at 4:51 AM
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all food sold commercially should have a big lump of chocolate in the bottom like Drumsticks
July 3, 2024 at 3:19 AM
Life imitates art
November 1, 2023 at 11:50 PM
I've never been high before but if I had to pick a place to do it, it would definitely be the jellyfish exhibits at the Monterey Bay aquarium
October 30, 2023 at 1:44 AM