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hi folks, I’ve just been laid off again. I have about 6 years of experience as a (mostly backend) dev at Series A-C startups. I’m living in London and open to remote or local jobs. US citizen, have unrestricted UK visa. thanks.
April 18, 2024 at 11:50 AM
hi folks, I’ve just been laid off again. I have about 6 years of experience as a (mostly backend) dev at Series A-C startups. I’m living in London and open to remote or local jobs. US citizen, have unrestricted UK visa. thanks.
do I embarrass myself? very well then I embarrass myself. I am fucking embarrassing
March 11, 2024 at 1:59 PM
do I embarrass myself? very well then I embarrass myself. I am fucking embarrassing
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February 13, 2024 at 5:02 PM
I miss being the kind of person in the replies
January 21, 2024 at 8:32 AM
I miss being the kind of person in the replies
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You’d expect the rate at which newspapers eliminated jobs would taper off to exponential decay at some point, but no. They just keep firing people like they expect to go to 0 humans employed by 2030
January 19, 2024 at 2:22 PM
You’d expect the rate at which newspapers eliminated jobs would taper off to exponential decay at some point, but no. They just keep firing people like they expect to go to 0 humans employed by 2030
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A Cambodian court convicts activists for teaching about class differences, suspends their jail terms
A Cambodian court convicts activists for teaching about class differences, suspends their jail terms
A court in Cambodia has convicted four land rights activists of plotting to provoke a peasant revolution by teaching farmers about class divisions and has given them five-year suspended prison terms.
apnews.com
January 15, 2024 at 3:27 PM
A Cambodian court convicts activists for teaching about class differences, suspends their jail terms
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This is what BIPOC mean when we say a lot of Europeans and Americans support Ukrainians and not Palestinians bc of whiteness.
Borders quickly show who is racialized and how
Borders quickly show who is racialized and how
January 14, 2024 at 10:21 PM
This is what BIPOC mean when we say a lot of Europeans and Americans support Ukrainians and not Palestinians bc of whiteness.
Borders quickly show who is racialized and how
Borders quickly show who is racialized and how
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Billionaire sociopaths routinely lay off huge swaths of their workforces just to impress their shareholders and then when a chunk of fuselage shears off a 737 in midair they're like "ah yes, DEI did that"
January 11, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Billionaire sociopaths routinely lay off huge swaths of their workforces just to impress their shareholders and then when a chunk of fuselage shears off a 737 in midair they're like "ah yes, DEI did that"
lying down on my side in an S-shape and each of my dogs has claimed one curve
December 21, 2023 at 8:44 AM
lying down on my side in an S-shape and each of my dogs has claimed one curve
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These are the first *four* items on the NYT website right now. Get a grip people.
December 11, 2023 at 10:12 PM
These are the first *four* items on the NYT website right now. Get a grip people.
there are basically no journalists left on twitter and everyone lives in their own world anyway. I don’t feel like I know what’s going on in the world any more.
November 27, 2023 at 2:42 PM
there are basically no journalists left on twitter and everyone lives in their own world anyway. I don’t feel like I know what’s going on in the world any more.
I grew up in the Middle East, with Palestinian refugee parents, and the first time I ever heard of the trope that Jews control the world was at age ~20, in the US, learning of the cancelation of Mearsheimer and Walt
November 17, 2023 at 12:18 PM
I grew up in the Middle East, with Palestinian refugee parents, and the first time I ever heard of the trope that Jews control the world was at age ~20, in the US, learning of the cancelation of Mearsheimer and Walt
this place is so much less war-focused than twitter. I don’t know what to make of it.
November 9, 2023 at 6:58 AM
this place is so much less war-focused than twitter. I don’t know what to make of it.
canceled last year over their covid coverage but I wish I could cancel twice over
November 8, 2023 at 11:14 PM
canceled last year over their covid coverage but I wish I could cancel twice over
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I think about the idea of pre-emeptive aesthetic exhaustion a lot
September 16, 2023 at 3:37 PM
I think about the idea of pre-emeptive aesthetic exhaustion a lot
unspeakably mortifying
All your secret crushes knew, and were generous toward you
June 3, 2023 at 3:04 AM
unspeakably mortifying
was thinking through the economic soundness of paying someone more for a service than you make per unit time and went “I mean unless they’re getting me out of jail or like saving my life or something” and…I just reinvented the class position of doctors and lawyers
May 5, 2023 at 2:42 PM
was thinking through the economic soundness of paying someone more for a service than you make per unit time and went “I mean unless they’re getting me out of jail or like saving my life or something” and…I just reinvented the class position of doctors and lawyers
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plants are both visual and auditory learners so if you want seeds to sprout you should write them a persuasive essay and read it to them and also show them inspirational pictures of their final form
May 4, 2023 at 4:00 AM
plants are both visual and auditory learners so if you want seeds to sprout you should write them a persuasive essay and read it to them and also show them inspirational pictures of their final form
can anyone recommend a game I can play on a nintendo switch while operating an exercise bike? currently the only game I have is mario party and I’m sick of it
May 4, 2023 at 1:00 AM
can anyone recommend a game I can play on a nintendo switch while operating an exercise bike? currently the only game I have is mario party and I’m sick of it
I want to be able to deboost someone for me specifically. like I don’t want to block them out entirely, I just see too much of them and I only want their best work
May 1, 2023 at 2:46 PM
I want to be able to deboost someone for me specifically. like I don’t want to block them out entirely, I just see too much of them and I only want their best work
my sister is trying to start a discourse about el*n in the family chat (which is mostly based outside western countries, normally completely offline and detached from my everyday world) and I am despairing
May 1, 2023 at 8:34 AM
my sister is trying to start a discourse about el*n in the family chat (which is mostly based outside western countries, normally completely offline and detached from my everyday world) and I am despairing