Rich Lafferty
@rich.lafferty.ca
Disaster prevention chihuahua. Reliability at PagerDuty. Living on unceded land in Punamue'katikt, Mi'kma'ki (Dartmouth, NS). May all beings be free from suffering. He/him.
also hachyderm.io/@mendel.
formerly @mendel on twitter.
www.lafferty.ca
also hachyderm.io/@mendel.
formerly @mendel on twitter.
www.lafferty.ca
I hate the reddit convention of marking sarcasm with "/s". You're all on a text-based website! Learn to read nuance! Embrace Poe's law!
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I hate the reddit convention of marking sarcasm with "/s". You're all on a text-based website! Learn to read nuance! Embrace Poe's law!
what did you think i was looking for in that group, facebook
November 9, 2025 at 3:26 AM
what did you think i was looking for in that group, facebook
SOMEONE is extra NEEDY tonight
(the someone is stella)
(the someone is stella)
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
SOMEONE is extra NEEDY tonight
(the someone is stella)
(the someone is stella)
Since it looks like they unstuck the Detroit BIG BOAT STUCK, i'm here to reassure you that the Newfoundland BIG BOAT STUCK, the MSC Baltic III, is still stuck (since Feb 15).
She's in the news today because she took some damage in a recent cyclonic storm. She's going to be salvaged in place.
She's in the news today because she took some damage in a recent cyclonic storm. She's going to be salvaged in place.
November 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Since it looks like they unstuck the Detroit BIG BOAT STUCK, i'm here to reassure you that the Newfoundland BIG BOAT STUCK, the MSC Baltic III, is still stuck (since Feb 15).
She's in the news today because she took some damage in a recent cyclonic storm. She's going to be salvaged in place.
She's in the news today because she took some damage in a recent cyclonic storm. She's going to be salvaged in place.
Halifax folks! I am selling winter tires from a car I no longer have. Bridgestone Blizzak WS90 195/65R15, 9/32" tread left, date code 0223, used two winters, mounted on 5x114.3 rims that are about ten years old. Asking $350.
www.facebook.com/marketplace/...
www.facebook.com/marketplace/...
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Halifax folks! I am selling winter tires from a car I no longer have. Bridgestone Blizzak WS90 195/65R15, 9/32" tread left, date code 0223, used two winters, mounted on 5x114.3 rims that are about ten years old. Asking $350.
www.facebook.com/marketplace/...
www.facebook.com/marketplace/...
I found the perfect curling pants but they're sold out in my size :(
November 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I found the perfect curling pants but they're sold out in my size :(
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November 2, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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reddit is fast with the gif
November 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
reddit is fast with the gif
getting ready for the game tonight
November 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
getting ready for the game tonight
... and people said on social media, "I can't get to my bank, is AWS down again?" then DownDetector will show an AWS outage.
which means you *can't* rely on it during major outages at cloud providers, there's way too much noise. treat it as one data point based on sentiment analysis, that's it.
which means you *can't* rely on it during major outages at cloud providers, there's way too much noise. treat it as one data point based on sentiment analysis, that's it.
October 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
... and people said on social media, "I can't get to my bank, is AWS down again?" then DownDetector will show an AWS outage.
which means you *can't* rely on it during major outages at cloud providers, there's way too much noise. treat it as one data point based on sentiment analysis, that's it.
which means you *can't* rely on it during major outages at cloud providers, there's way too much noise. treat it as one data point based on sentiment analysis, that's it.
Older than I thought for sure! -ize words feel like they should be modern.
here's the whole entry for that sense:
here's the whole entry for that sense:
![A screenshot of the OED entry for "democratize", which reads:
transitive. To make (something) accessible to a wide range of people; to make (something) less elitist, pretentious, etc.
In quotation 1798: (intransitive) to treat all people equally.
1796
To see..virtue aristocratized to trample on it without shame, and vice democratized to commit it with impunity.
W. Smith, Oration 25
1798
Two flaming young Ladies entered, the one of whom is laying close siege to the citadel of the Bishops affections... The folly and pertness and forwardness..amused me for half an hour. I was disposed to Democratize and so laughed with them and at them.
R. Southey, Letter 28 May in New Letters (1965) vol. I. 166
1840
Without wishing to democratize it quite down to a ‘log cabin’, we think a suitable residence might be erected for our Presidents, spacious and elegant while simple and unambitious.
Cleveland (Ohio) Daily Herald 18 August 3/3
1858
Again she attempts to democratize painting in her dear Italy, by inducing painters to draw their subjects from what is immediately about them.
Harper's Magazine April 650/1
1906
Zola has democratised the novel in another fashion.
Edinburgh Review October 448
1928
[The socialists] would also increase and democratize educational facilities.
E. A. Powell, Embattled Borders vii. 244
2011
They were trying to find a route to combine traditional craft techniques and larger production techniques, democratising beautifully crafted pieces and rejecting the horror of the throwaway manufacture that Morris objected to at the Great Exhibition.
National Trust Magazine Summer 58/2](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jldsdoe5mqnqgqcgqdrs44av/bafkreiayksxpymmqparhbjxw4j272qcoovxhf3vrnf243jojslppugmai4@jpeg)
October 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Older than I thought for sure! -ize words feel like they should be modern.
here's the whole entry for that sense:
here's the whole entry for that sense:
i miss Sook! and Campaign and all of their farmhouse ales, they don't do any of those anymore, just popular North American styles. (but they're really good versions of popular styles!)
2 Crows is basically the only farmhouse joint here now.
Found this pic while making sure I had "Campaign" right
2 Crows is basically the only farmhouse joint here now.
Found this pic while making sure I had "Campaign" right
October 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
i miss Sook! and Campaign and all of their farmhouse ales, they don't do any of those anymore, just popular North American styles. (but they're really good versions of popular styles!)
2 Crows is basically the only farmhouse joint here now.
Found this pic while making sure I had "Campaign" right
2 Crows is basically the only farmhouse joint here now.
Found this pic while making sure I had "Campaign" right
🎵 Take meow-t to the ball game... 🎵
(Photo yoinked from Fixed Fur Life Quinsey on Facebook, not my cat!)
(Photo yoinked from Fixed Fur Life Quinsey on Facebook, not my cat!)
October 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
🎵 Take meow-t to the ball game... 🎵
(Photo yoinked from Fixed Fur Life Quinsey on Facebook, not my cat!)
(Photo yoinked from Fixed Fur Life Quinsey on Facebook, not my cat!)
oh i see SOMEONE took an ethics of ai course
October 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
oh i see SOMEONE took an ethics of ai course
