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wowww the linked post did not age well, huh?

the album art for the upcoming 10 year anniversary edition of Carly Rae Jepsen's EMOTION with expanded tracks

there's a big problem with the culture here on bluesky, and it's that not nearly enough people are posting about the 10 year anniversary of Carly Rae Jepsen's groundbreaking and timeless album EMOTION being this year and how awesome that is

Thanks for having me! It’s been great to meet everyone this week, I hope you enjoyed my talk!

My 16min travel journey to welly for @rustforgeconf.com day 2

Orhun doing his talk rust rocks

Last talk of the day!

I will be in Te Whanganui-a-Tara at the end of this week as I will be the MC for the Rust Forge Conference

rustforgeconf.com/speakers

To chat - visit the Discord server (you can find an invite link on the conference website)SCHEDULE (New Zealand local times)09:00 Conference Opening09:15 Dav... Rust Forge Conf 2025 - Day 1 - Wellington, New Zealand

Rust Forge is starts today! Tech-willing, we'll be live streaming the talks for anyone who wasn't able to get to Wellington!!
www.youtube.com/live/es48dm...

I literally can’t use up stamps faster than nz post raises the price of letters

Let's use admin data!
This means we will invest more money in back office and IT staff in public services administration, right?
<Padme face>
RIGHT?

I saw this shit all the time in Education and it is why I'm DEEPLY skeptical of anyone who wants to talk to you about your passion because lemme tell you, the more they wanna encourage your passion the less they wanna pay you.

my dad: people today are too sensitive
me: u bitches cried when dylan went electric

Software paid for by tax dollars should be open source. Period.

the thing about farming is that it IS the largest *export* sector, which matters because we import a hell of a lot of stuff. However...that doesn't mean it has to be the largest in perpetuity, nor that we can't reduce imports (a lot of which are, surprise surprise, fossil fuels)

for my next trick, i will make a "video essay" but it will actually be a plot summary

Oh yeah, the Allegro is still alive and kicking, albeit on an extension cord. 😎

It's bad that normies have started using "minimum viable" as a "good thing". It is, if you can test it and patch it infinity times at zero cost. It is not, if it's a gigantic capital outlay that you cannot fundamentally modify for a generation.

This is an important idea! I grew up in an academic family and had a bizarrely detailed understanding of grant processes (on my dad’s side) and IRB/conflict of interest (on my mom’s side) that it never occurred to me that grad students generally wouldn’t know any of this…

A great way to do this for non-compliant managers is to type up your notes from face-to-face encounters and email them to the person to ask if you missed anything in the discussion. I once made a senior DoD manager go apoplectic using this tactic.

Linux's culture as a project is hostile, combative, and unprofessional.

It's not because it's a big project, it's not because it's important and that makes people emotional, it's not because they're Serious Engineers.

imo it's also very weird to act like korean politicians scaling the wall at the national assembly is somehow childs play compared to what our politicians are currently facing. if it's no big deal then find a wall and start climbing!

Jerry Lawson, the inventor of the video game cartridge.

This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm.

The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him.

Happy Black History Month.

Having up to relatively recently been amongst the precarity of post-doctoral academics, this would be like worst nightmare stuff.

Sending all my thoughts & love out.

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.”

The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

a post from r/wellington showing FUCK OFF FASCIST painted on a tesla lot

I love my city

Paragraph from science reform cabinet papers saying "The advanced technology focused public research organisation and platform will be funded by reprioritisation within the SI&T appropriations."

Digging through the Cabinet papers in more detail and also noticed this about funding for the new advanced technology PRO. Cool cool cool cool cool. There's so much money floating around the existing science system to set up a totally new entity. Nobody's gonna lose their job for this, I'm sure.

Photo of Kakaruwai/ South Island Robin taken at Orokonui

44) I like Orokonui Ecosanctuary - Te Korowai o Mihiwaka. Having a local biodiversity haven is great.

what a gosh damn scam IMO

Buying school uniform... Parent in front of us is dropping more than $900 on their uniform needs. Splitting the payment between a couple of cards.

Just three social media CEOs posting on their platform today.