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a man sitting at a bar with a bottle of jack daniels in front of him ALT: a man sitting at a bar with a bottle of jack daniels in front of him

I guess the Mariners fans can join us Auburn fans at the bar and discuss how our teams torture us

No notes.

[2 months after wedding]

Me: When I said I do, that was off the record

That's a good first step

Longtime DC concertgoer here. I’ve been to many shows at these venues, and I support recognizing the union!

Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

This article by @quinnypig.com nails it

www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...

a cartoon of a man in a suit and tie sitting on a yellow vehicle . ALT: a cartoon of a man in a suit and tie sitting on a yellow vehicle .

"Welcome to Xavier's home for Gifted Youngsters. What's your power?"
"I'm 42 and can detect when AWS US-EAST-1 is down."
"So can my refrigerator."

at this point what does us-east-1 even signify

My leaked texts would reveal thousands of messages by grown ass adults, several of them highly trained logistics specialists, failing to successfully coordinate brunch.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

a cartoon bear is standing next to a body of water . ALT: a cartoon bear is standing next to a body of water .

Not all bears are bad

Why not both???

Today's a fantastic day to make no configuration changes to your production environments. If something goes wonky, you'll go mad trying to figure out if it's the AWS issue (possibly reflected through a vendor of yours who uses them) vs. your own shitty, shitty code.

THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES launch cover depicts three ravens with red text author premee mohamed in conversation with kate heartfield perfect books: 258A elgin street, ottawa, on 7 pm - 8:30 pm october 20

HELLO ALSO! If you are in Ottawa, we would love to see you tonight at Perfect Books for the launch of the final novella in the trilogy, THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES!

The brilliant @kateheartfield.com and I will be talking research, eco-fiction, bears (bears?) and more!

The very imperfect ACA is how I got to stay being a writer, one not reliant on somebody else's health insurance.

The GOP is trying to con Americans into accepting a deal that will make their health care more expensive by fearmongering about health care for undocumented immigrants. Undocumented people aren’t eligible to enroll in Medicare and Medicaid. Don’t fall for their scam.

Pedro Pascal at an outdoor protest holds a bright red and yellow sign that reads “NO KINGS ONLY QUEENS” with a black-and-white photo of Divine and Trump. Pascalis wearing glasses and a yellow T-shirt, pursing their lips playfully while pointing at the sign. They stand among a crowd of people holding various protest signs; the scene appears to be in a city street on a sunny day.

Pedro Pascal was spotted at the LA No Kings protest with the best sign there.

A picture of a foggy street

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

For me it is :)

The real question is of the data centers holds the broken DNS?

But it's just down the stree!!!

AWS Outage #itwasdns

London Overground under the underground

Under Over Over - West Hampstead

So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.

The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.

Current wait times are longer than usual and also there is no war in Ba Sing Se.

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

Organic Diamond Head Delights: Mango Cheeks

Mangos have cheeks?

… which cheeks?

A yard display of famous movie serial killers around a table THOSE TEENAGERS DESERVED IT CHANGE OUR MINDS

They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd) An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore

Kickstarter for a great new anthology of fantasy stories using Welsh folklore in the present day

www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...

MARCH FOR HEALTH & SCIENCE Washington DC, November 5@4PM

Friends, we have another a opportunity to protest the attempts to destroy science and public health by the Trump administration.

We would love to see you on November 5th if you can make it!

Love the sentiment. Really concerned at how much data Nintendo has on me. :)

The only excuse Lois Lane has for why her interviewing Superman isn't unethical, despite their romantic entanglement, is that it would be even more unethical for the paper's other top reporter, who is Superman, to interview himself, yet she cannot say this. This dilemma should be taught in J-school.