Lisa Q

This is the one night every year when my love of Berlin turns to pure fear.

I cancelled my plans tonight after nearly being hit with explosives. Now I’m sitting alone watching sparks fly off my front windows while the building rattles, hearing constant explosions, screaming, and sirens.

Furcht vor „Böller-Exzessen ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste“: Berlin setzt in der Silvesternacht 4300 Polizisten ein Polizeipräsidentin Slowik Meisel will auffällige Personen über Silvester verstärkt in Gewahrsam nehmen. Mehr als 100.000 gefährliche Feuerwerkskörper wurden in der Hauptstadt schon sichergestellt.

Warum auch Böllerverbot, wenn man dafür einfach Unmengen an Geld für Polizei, Feuerwehr, Rettungsstellen aufwenden kann. 🫠🫠🫠

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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Thanks. So then he was there in March and July.

That’s such a strange choice for them on the date format, but then again, Germans do tend to assume anyone speaking English is American (no clue why this is tbh).

Not March 6. Deutsche Welle, being German, uses DD/MM/YYYY, so that would have been published on the 3rd of July.

one of the most deeply infuriating aspects of american politics is close to half of americans would love if 20% of the country starved to death

v proud of my people 🥺💪💙

is it you or the twin who is dehydrated

🤔 but did I buy it already before

😩 vinyl sold out already 😭

Would love to see a 30 track compilation of artists remixing this just to make a point

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Politics is a game to them

Sanewashing like this is a normal, “meandering” speech “boasting about his record” is as much lunacy and lies as what he actually said.

Tweet from Dan Satterfield Ok, I keep getting asked about how to complain about Kimmel. The best way to complain that will have the biggest impact? See if you have a Sinclair or nexstar station in your area. 2. Watch the local newscast tonight or some time this week. 3. Note the companies that bought tv adverts. 4. Call them and let them know you will boycott them until they quit supporting that media company. Trust me. I worked in tv for 45 years. Nothing you do will have greater impact.

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

Thanks to spellcheck, I know some regulars who have been calling it “Bargain” for years.

Let's all to take a deep breath & understand that we have reached the phase in fascism where if they want to declare you a criminal, you are a criminal. You can not magically avoid it, or do exactly the right thing to stay off the list. Fascism must always have enemies, and one day you will be one.

Usually it’s something like an exec meddled, or product management decided that bug fixes aren’t a priority, a board member hired their friend’s kid to do design, or engineering leadership is too inexperienced.

Who you hire at every level in every department contributes to the end product.

Sometimes when I’m using software, I just wish I could interview people in the company to figure out what decisions led to it being broken or hard to use. It always gets blamed on “the devs” but that is almost never the real story.

Motherfucker you do not want to fuck with Chicago.

Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done."

Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"

ahh I've been a bit homesick today and this was nice to see/hear

We never do this in Germany and the software seems to come out just fine. Hustle culture does not necessarily make better software, it's just cheaper for the employer at the expense of the employee.👎

Nice to hear you play finally! And glad we got to catch up a bit. Safe travels and come back this way soon :)

bombing another country and then saying “NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!” is some full-on 1984 type shit

Reminder that the NYTimes has been attacking ADHD treatment for decades. It’s been a less intense version of what they have done to trans people.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

In before someone tells me to bike - I do but today for example the wind blew over street signs, so no.