garrettc
@garrettc.social
Web developer, music and film junkie, terrible guitarist, average photographer, scifi geek. He/Him.
Hello to Jason Isaacs.
Home: https://polytechnic.co.uk/
Hello to Jason Isaacs.
Home: https://polytechnic.co.uk/
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For those who experienced Internet issues this week due to the #Cloudflareoutage, here is a visual of why so many were affected globally.
Read today's post to learn what percentage of the top 1,000 websites are hosted by which providers in your country pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/how-con...
Read today's post to learn what percentage of the top 1,000 websites are hosted by which providers in your country pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/how-con...
November 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
For those who experienced Internet issues this week due to the #Cloudflareoutage, here is a visual of why so many were affected globally.
Read today's post to learn what percentage of the top 1,000 websites are hosted by which providers in your country pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/how-con...
Read today's post to learn what percentage of the top 1,000 websites are hosted by which providers in your country pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/how-con...
Still buzzing from @sachajudd.com's amazing and inspiring talk from #FFConf on Friday.
thank you #ffconf you are such a great crowd. here’s the text and slides to the talk (it’s a directors cut bc it has 20 mins more than the original version!) 1/2 www.sachajudd.com/the-good-int...
The Good Internet – Director’s Cut - What you love matters
How to escape the algorithmic doom loops and reclaim our digital lives
www.sachajudd.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Still buzzing from @sachajudd.com's amazing and inspiring talk from #FFConf on Friday.
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Scarleteen has been providing accurate, inclusive, joyful, sensitive, trans and queer-led sex, health, and relationships education since 1998. We believe health educators should have healthcare and we’re raising $40,000 to do it. www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Scarleteen has been providing accurate, inclusive, joyful, sensitive, trans and queer-led sex, health, and relationships education since 1998. We believe health educators should have healthcare and we’re raising $40,000 to do it. www.classy.org/campaign/scarl...
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SOCRATES: man i love storing things in these wood boxes
KINDACRATES: its ok
KINDACRATES: its ok
November 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
SOCRATES: man i love storing things in these wood boxes
KINDACRATES: its ok
KINDACRATES: its ok
My body: It’s 1am, I want to sleep.
My brain: It’s 5pm in Vancouver, let’s go to a bar! 💃🏻🕺🏻🎉
Let’s give it up for jet lag everyone 👏🏻
My brain: It’s 5pm in Vancouver, let’s go to a bar! 💃🏻🕺🏻🎉
Let’s give it up for jet lag everyone 👏🏻
November 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
My body: It’s 1am, I want to sleep.
My brain: It’s 5pm in Vancouver, let’s go to a bar! 💃🏻🕺🏻🎉
Let’s give it up for jet lag everyone 👏🏻
My brain: It’s 5pm in Vancouver, let’s go to a bar! 💃🏻🕺🏻🎉
Let’s give it up for jet lag everyone 👏🏻
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When one is in Vancouver one must do the Fringe pilgrimage.
October 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
When one is in Vancouver one must do the Fringe pilgrimage.
When one is in Vancouver one must do the Fringe pilgrimage.
October 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
When one is in Vancouver one must do the Fringe pilgrimage.
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You're Forgiven, the 2nd single from NOT A GAME is out next Friday! Featuring the brilliant @octaviafreud.bsky.social! tigermendoza.bandcamp.com/album/not-a-... #musicsky #newmusic #electro
September 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
You're Forgiven, the 2nd single from NOT A GAME is out next Friday! Featuring the brilliant @octaviafreud.bsky.social! tigermendoza.bandcamp.com/album/not-a-... #musicsky #newmusic #electro
Leaving a little joy in the codebase for future me.
September 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Leaving a little joy in the codebase for future me.
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My Neighbor Demon-Tiger
August 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
My Neighbor Demon-Tiger
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Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political.
Two genders - male, and political.
Two religions - Christian, and political.
Two races - white, and political.
Two genders - male, and political.
Two religions - Christian, and political.
Two races - white, and political.
Workers under cover of night removed a rainbow crosswalk outside of the former Pulse nightclub, apparently as part of state and federal transportation officials’ aim to wipe “political banners” from public roadways. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/21/r...
Rainbow crosswalk outside Pulse nightclub removed overnight
“We did everything according to state law, everything was compliant,” said Patty Sheehan, the city’s first openly gay elected official. “FDOT never moves that quickly with anything.R…
www.orlandosentinel.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political.
Two genders - male, and political.
Two religions - Christian, and political.
Two races - white, and political.
Two genders - male, and political.
Two religions - Christian, and political.
Two races - white, and political.
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Inside you are two wolves, five sled dogs, eight Norwegian research scientists, Bennings, Norris, Palmer, Windows, Fuchs, Nauls, Blair, Garry, and Doc Copper.
August 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Inside you are two wolves, five sled dogs, eight Norwegian research scientists, Bennings, Norris, Palmer, Windows, Fuchs, Nauls, Blair, Garry, and Doc Copper.
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I’m doing a talk at Button, a content design conference, where I’m going to talk about the high cost of tooling in the work we do. I’ve made a survey so I can capture some numbers. If you work in content/design/adjacent (yes, ESPECIALLY if you’re unemployed) this is for you (and thanks!)
Pay to play: content and design tooling landscape
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August 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I’m doing a talk at Button, a content design conference, where I’m going to talk about the high cost of tooling in the work we do. I’ve made a survey so I can capture some numbers. If you work in content/design/adjacent (yes, ESPECIALLY if you’re unemployed) this is for you (and thanks!)
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www.reddit.com/r/transgende...
Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.
Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.
From the transgenderUK community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the transgenderUK community
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August 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
www.reddit.com/r/transgende...
Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.
Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.
I wrote part 2 of the journey to a self-hosted music setup. It's pretty much there, I'm really happy with where I've ended up:
polytechnic.co.uk/blog/extract...
polytechnic.co.uk/blog/extract...
Extracting myself from the Apple Music ecosystem - Part 2 — Polytechnic
The continuing adventures to build a decent streaming music setup at home.
polytechnic.co.uk
August 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I wrote part 2 of the journey to a self-hosted music setup. It's pretty much there, I'm really happy with where I've ended up:
polytechnic.co.uk/blog/extract...
polytechnic.co.uk/blog/extract...
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Friends! I’m going to be looking for new clients from 1 October. If you know of any projects or teams that need (outside IR35) contract support with any of the following, please get in touch:
- Content Design
- Content Strategy
- Design systems management
- Design systems strategy
- Documentation
- Content Design
- Content Strategy
- Design systems management
- Design systems strategy
- Documentation
August 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Friends! I’m going to be looking for new clients from 1 October. If you know of any projects or teams that need (outside IR35) contract support with any of the following, please get in touch:
- Content Design
- Content Strategy
- Design systems management
- Design systems strategy
- Documentation
- Content Design
- Content Strategy
- Design systems management
- Design systems strategy
- Documentation
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Salt n Pepa
“Push it, push it real good!”
Sisyphus
“.. literally not helping.”
“Push it, push it real good!”
Sisyphus
“.. literally not helping.”
August 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Salt n Pepa
“Push it, push it real good!”
Sisyphus
“.. literally not helping.”
“Push it, push it real good!”
Sisyphus
“.. literally not helping.”
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POV: you’re flicking through the dusty pages of your vintage kids’ comics that went on to inspire full movies decades later 😉
August 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
POV: you’re flicking through the dusty pages of your vintage kids’ comics that went on to inspire full movies decades later 😉
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Nerdy joke warning. 😁 I've been planning this since I first saw the Newton for Hyde sign.
August 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Nerdy joke warning. 😁 I've been planning this since I first saw the Newton for Hyde sign.
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I do not say this lightly: better than the legendary Star Guitar vid
Here is a video of viennetta being made in the factory set to darude's sandstorm to emphasise what they took from us. How much we lost. 🙏
July 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I do not say this lightly: better than the legendary Star Guitar vid