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a humble potato who primarily lurks
Substack and Beehiv do. I have a bunch of blogs on those platforms I
on my RSS feed.
January 9, 2026 at 9:27 PM
early adopters of any new tech thing get to spend years making bug reports, which is just thrilling

my employer is an early adopter of a (not AI) product, and I have spent 2 years mashing my face against janky hardware/software and explaining networks to developers who have never managed a network
December 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
His name is Muntadhar al-Zaidi, and he spent his time before trial being held without bail, and then 9 months in an Iraqi prison after being convicted of assault on a foreign leader. He was tortured in prison, and on his release was granted asylum in Switzerland.
November 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
on average a cup of decaf is going to have ~7mg of caffeine still. which isn't enough for most people to notice, but if you're very sensitive you might, or if you drink a lot of it fairly quickly. especially on an empty stomach.
October 20, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Oh, I know her twitter username, I check it every so often to see if she's become a better person or not (also hasn't happened, unfortunately for everyone who does still interact with her), so I'd know if she tried. I think she knows she's got too many skeletons for it, though.
September 15, 2024 at 3:53 AM
I live waiting to find out my mother decides to run for office instead of just trying to be a shitty right wing influencer, so I can write some emails to the local media where she lives. Hasn't happened yet, unfortunately.
September 15, 2024 at 3:49 AM
This article is especially irritating because it presents the main subject Amy's estrangement as simply "ideology". When ideology results in your mother honestly telling you she thinks you're going to hell and then skipping your wedding, that's a big fucking deal!
September 15, 2024 at 12:45 AM
I once used a free trial of splunk for something like two years ago, and I still get weirdly familiar sales emails from them trying to set up meetings
September 10, 2024 at 3:28 PM
gotta love the smell of democracy in the morning
September 10, 2024 at 1:35 PM