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Director Emeritus of rubycentral.org. Ruby developer and consultant. Parent of an autistic kid. Leave trans people alone. Bicycles are antidepressants. If you made a […]

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There’s a lot of political commentary about Marjorie Taylor Greene resigning, but one important point is this: she entered Congress in 2021 with an estimated net worth of about $700,000, and is leaving in 2025 with a net worth of roughly $25 million.
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...

... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
If you live in a city, or even a small town, I assure you that you do not understand which parts of your cities are tax-profitable and which are a money pit.

Watch the video. It changed my view on almost all local policy […]
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ruby.social
November 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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WATCH: If you STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown & all the urban parts of your city, watch this EXCELLENT video by @notjustbikes with @UrbanThree & @StrongTowns. And then please SHARE it as much as possible. youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI
November 22, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Ruins of Santa Fe Carfloat Pier, Port Richmond, CA, 2011.

All the pixels, slightly used, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/5485081030/

#photography
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Until 1984, the Santa Fe Railroad moved freight cars across the San Francisco Bay by barge. Railroad cars were decoupled from trains and loaded onto special "carfloat" barges, which were pulled across the bay by a small fleet of tug boats, to be re-attached to trains at the other end. The […]
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federate.social
November 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The most prolific at-large murderers in the US are private car drivers. Maybe also road designers.

https://wapo.st/4polhCJ
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 AM
“Hey why don’t talk about politics publicly?”

Because I received this text message today.
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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I’m told the response to this was quick. People turned up within a few minutes when the call went out.

#resist https://mastodon.social/@IveyJanette/115579164082260918
Ivey Janette McClelland (@IveyJanette@mastodon.social)
Oakland. #bayarea https://oaklandside.org/2025/11/19/ice-operation-in-west-oakland-causes-schools-go-into-secure-protocol/
mastodon.social
November 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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This is...sort of brilliant.
November 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
#sfruby conference solves the “extra shirts” problem while also being amazing to watch:
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
#sfruby Parking is plentiful
November 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Last call for a reasonable or free ticket to #sfruby starting tomorrow #sfba #ruby #conferences

This would ideally go toward someone in between jobs, or a student, or someone who can’t orherwise pay for the ticket, but it really just should get used by anyone.

Lmk!
November 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Did you know that there’s a premium version of Whatsapp which :

- Has no advertising
- Has no mandatory AI integration
- Has no tracking and does not gather your personnal data
- Has increased privacy and stronger encryption
- Is exclusive and allows you to chat with other premium members

Best […]
Original post on mamot.fr
mamot.fr
June 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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“Automobile industry analysts say that manufacturers are attracted to high profit margins from SUVs: they can make more money from SUVs even tho they make fewer vehicles.”

"If ranked among countries, the global fleet of SUVs would be the world's 5th largest emitter of CO2…”

We all pay the costs.
November 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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A career tip I'm still really bad at.

Stuck on something, you know someone else more experienced in that thing can probably help you with it, but don't want to bother them because you're embarrassed to not have figured it out on your own?

Ask them anyways.

In general, it's legit people's jobs […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The best solution I’ve found is songkick.com. My flow:

- set your geographic area
- optionally connect Spotify etc to suck in your data
- each event has a “interested” button which, when clicked, shows up on the iCal feed you can subscribe to.
- each artist has a “tracking” button which will do […]
Original post on ruby.social
ruby.social
November 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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There is more than enough to go around. We just need to organise that.
This is how a matriarchal world order would arrange things:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800925003027
November 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Something just occurred to be about that 'ask a chatbot to draw a clock' thing that is going around this morning. If you search the web for "draw a clock", what you get is a bunch of papers on diagnosing cognitive decline. The clocks the chatbots draw look just like the examples in those papers […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Having an inaccurate media environment means we are information-poor and easily manipulated.

When I think about root causes this is a big one (also Citizens United. Also the existence of the Senate. Also…)

Support non-profit news outlets in your area, not just NPR […]
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ruby.social
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 6:36 AM