Derek Houck is at RailsConf

NEW: 180 Blizzard workers just unionized today.

Blizzard Entertainment

Hell yeah, another Blizzard union
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REVIEW: Kansas City Xtreme Wrestling – Xtreme Freedom (2025) A Live Professional Wrestling Show In July 2025, Kansas City Xtreme Wrestling braved the summer heat and once again set up shop at City House in Independence, MO, delivering another electrifying night of professional wrestling. The card was stacked, with all current championships on the line and momentum building toward the finals of the 2025 Season of Xcellence Tournament. KCXW’s new owner, “The 1 Percenter” Richard Goldman…

REVIEW: Kansas City Xtreme Wrestling – Xtreme Freedom (2025)

A Live Professional Wrestling Show In July 2025, Kansas City Xtreme Wrestling braved the summer heat and once again set up shop at City House in Independence, MO, delivering another electrifying night of professional wrestling. The card…

Every single person in DC that is physically able to get in the streets should do so tomorrow. What he's got planned in the wake of 'Big Balls'' "attack" spells the end of your freedom.

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

Karaoke was always the best event of RailsConfs.

“NFL” Shooting Wasn’t Random Another manifesto gets censored in a case that needs transparency

It's pretty clear by now that the mass shooting in Manhattan a week ago today was not some random act.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/nfl-shooti...

YouTube video by Ruby Central RailsConf 2025 Lightning Talks

The #RailsConf 2025 talks are up on the Ruby Central channel on YouTube, including the lightning talks.

Here's my lightning talk, entitled "The Other Side of Fear." (You should really watch them all, but this link is teed up to my talk at 57:55.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XucQ...

PREVIEW: Kansas City Xtreme Wrestling – Xtreme Freedom (7-19-25)

While the Independence Day festivities may have faded in the past few weeks, KCXW is bringing just as many fireworks and explosions to the table this weekend as your one crazy neighbor who must have mortgaged his house to afford all…

Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.

The camera work was perfect for this Bayley elbow drop!

#WWEEvolution

Seems sensible

"My photographer got hit twice by less than lethal rounds and he's got blood on one of his arms and we just took off running with the entire crowd. It was absolutely chaotic."

a line of heavily armed federal agents in riot gear standing in a field surrounded by tomato plants

The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for.

UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.

Our full statement below. ⬇️
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Hanami and the elephant in the room Let’s talk about Rails.

It’s week 5 of our sponsorship drive, and it’s time to talk about the elephant in the room — Rails.

It's always an odd feeling to be at the end of something. #railsconf

A very serious looking Derek Houck holding up a chalk chat bubble sign that says, "Feeling berry happy right now!" against an abstract backdrop that feels like the fever dream of Salvador Dali if he watched too much Adult Swim.

I had such a fun time at #railsconf this year. Can't you tell?

Yes, please!

@chaelcodes.bsky.social I loved your lightning talk! Great pitch for TDD.

I really appreciated what you said.

I just landed a few minutes ago.

America Has Pulled Off the Impossible. It Made Getting a Passport Simple. Washington is not exactly known for tech innovation. So how did a team of bureaucrats put their stamp on a new program for renewing passports online?

I’m thrilled to see State in the spotlight for this achievement. Also surprised to see no mention of the U.S. Digital Service — a key partner in the approach that @bzcohen.bsky.social celebrates.

USDS ➡️ DOGE in Jan & has since lost much of the talent behind this work.

www.wsj.com/business/us-...

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For those unaware, "Shylock" comes from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. It's the name of the villain: a Jewish moneylender who demands "a pound of flesh" for a defaulted loan and gets put on trial for murder and then forced to convert to Christianity. It's an aggressively antisemitic slur.

Nothing to see here…just the Missouri Secretary of State who ran on “porn in public libraries” and “teachers grooming students with books” taking off his shirt and flexing a bit on stage while speaking to teenage boys at Boys State in St Charles.

The Mamdani Formula, of course, is:

(1) Watch pro wrestling

(2) Learn from pro wrestling how to cut a face promo on a Republican

(3) Profit

Want to run for office? We'll help you.

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‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops A free tool that allows anyone to upload a photo of an LAPD officer to get their name and badge number.

‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops

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