All in favor of allowing someone who had a moistened bint lob a scimitar at them replace Donald Trump.
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All in favor of allowing someone who had a moistened bint lob a scimitar at them replace Donald Trump.
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starting to think we should give "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" a chance as a basis for our system of government
01.08.2025 00:07 โ ๐ 5063 ๐ 1002 ๐ฌ 152 ๐ 69This times 1000! I write everything down by hand and it helps soooo much with memory and recall. Typing stuff kinda goes in one ear and out the other
31.07.2025 11:38 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Okay so this is the most Iโve ever laughed at a technical specification in my life! Thank you @ericwbailey.website for a moment of joy ericwbailey.website/published/yo...
30.07.2025 21:40 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0This is becoming more and more prevalent. I tried to buy multivitamins and it gave no indication that it was automatically a subscription until I got an email after purchase. You had to call customer service to cancel too, no way to do it online.
30.07.2025 14:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"
Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate
30.07.2025 11:08 โ ๐ 15009 ๐ 4000 ๐ฌ 110 ๐ 169As someone who uses emdashes I hate that I have to feel awkward about it
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29.07.2025 14:37 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0What a piece of shit.
29.07.2025 12:01 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Or just stop pumping money into the pockets of a billionaire who treats the team like shit and wonโt use all the millions of $$$$$ from hardworking fans to actually pay for good players! Fuck John Henry.
27.07.2025 00:40 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I have yet to read a single story about men adopting AI at work (without being told) at a higher rate than women that presents it as anything other than men being smart. Not one story about how it implies they're lazier and less ethical.
Because that's not the narrative that's being pushed about AI.
Lauren Rinaldi @LRinaldiArt Oh no I really hope Bill Clinton isn't in the Epstein files, I'll have to get rid of my Bill Clinton hat and my Bill Clinton sneakers and my Bill Clinton cologne and my Bill Clinton watch and take down my Bill Clinton flag and I'll have to delete my Bill Clinton nft trading cards 10:18 AM โข 7/24/25 โข 362K Views Most relevant replies Lauren Rinaldi @LRinaldiArt What will I do with my Bill Clinton Bible Stephen Conway @StephenMuses And throw away your degree from Bill Clinton University Lauren Rinaldi @LRinaldiArt :(
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25.07.2025 12:01 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I wear a watch every day (thank you, time blindness!) a few months ago I got sick of forgetting to charge my Apple Watch and switched to a Casio baby-G with a Bluetooth step tracker and 3-year battery life, and I will never look back!
25.07.2025 11:06 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A composition of elements from the Monotype Marketing Design System, featuring interactive type specimens, bold typography, and a user-friendly interface. The design adopts a minimalist aesthetic with black and red accents. The caption reads, 'Created the Monotype marketing Design System, developed tools for interactive type specimens, launched the Shopify storefront.'
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21.07.2025 16:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Kinda fascinating that, presumably, chatbots fed with statistics about the pay gap then reinforce the pay gap as a matter of pattern recognition. And by fascinating I mean what a dumb piece of shit technology.
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18.07.2025 16:51 โ ๐ 16517 ๐ 4866 ๐ฌ 99 ๐ 103Iโm so proud to have WGBH as my local station, thank you for your hard work! Time to increase my sustaining membership amount methinks.
18.07.2025 21:13 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Horse shit, we all live inside of a giant steaming pile of horse shit all day every day now, I guess
18.07.2025 01:02 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The same graphic as the upthread post, except the title has been replaced with "Eighty-nine percent of Republicans are objectively evil"
Alternatively:
17.07.2025 14:27 โ ๐ 28 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I see that we are talking about women in tech after quite a long break in the tech community
I'd like to invite men in tech who genuinely care and want to make tech more welcoming to join Diversify Tech's newsletter for allies
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The truth about all the time spent solving leetcode problems.
13.07.2025 04:55 โ ๐ 113 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 4what the study doesn't appear to account for is the time spent weeks later when you're trying to augment or fix code that no one on your team wrote
Me vibe coding: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me vibe debugging: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
I learned that he wrote a Rust blog that was super popular and was translated into multiple languages, if you are a Rust person, give it a look: github.com/pretzelhamme...
10.07.2025 16:05 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My colleague Kirill passed away last week, far too young. I didnโt work with him a lot, but I knew instantly that he was one of the good ones: a brilliant engineer, thoughtful, funny, kind, but took no bullshit. I never really told him how much I admired him, so Iโm telling the world. RIP
10.07.2025 16:04 โ ๐ 29 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 0My grandmother, who grew up in the depression and lived through WW2 taught me this lesson, and I too strive to pass it down despite not being religious. โThere but for the grace of god go Iโ. I wish more people understood that.
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