@megancomposer ("Megan Carnes") wrote:
I just finished my taxes and:
In 2020 I made 133 Bandcamp sales, which accounted for around 5% of my income.
In 2020 I also got 18k Spotify streams, which accounted for around 0.3% of my income.
Maybe something to keep in mind when trying to support your musician friends 🎶💸
@msdevUK ("Microsoft Developer UK") wrote:
When you can't get work out of your head...
#DevLife #Developer #Programming
@LolOverruled ("Alex Peter") wrote:
just saw a guy outside in shorts man! what the heck! someone didn't get the memo haha. cold out! that sure made my head spin. wow. what a cool guy. i'll be talking about this for weeks
@LolOverruled ("Alex Peter") wrote:
even now the antifa supersoldiers are training
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@dailylaney ("laney mac") wrote:
A little nor’easter never stops New Yorkers 💪#NewYorkCity
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@SethMacFarlane ("Seth MacFarlane") wrote:
Thanks guys, people usually bury the lead.
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‘Ted 2’ star Tom Brady has retired from the NFL after 22 seasons.
nikvo@esperanto.masto.host wrote:
la vera fina venko estos kiam la interreta komunumo por konkura tetriso uzas esperanton anstataǔ la anglan por organizi maĉojn
la vera fina venko estos kiam la interreta komunumo por konkura tetriso uzas esperanton anstataǔ la anglan por organizi maĉojn
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@JimmyTrillstein ("Jimmy Trillstein") wrote:
BERNIE: here’s the thing Howard, for far too long the working class-
[Robin holding back laughing]
STERN: he’s gotta do it, right?
ROBIN: I mean Mayor Pete did it last week..
BERNIE: *sigh* alright alright
[Bernie straddling sybian]
BERNIE: thhhhhe woo-errrwk-kkking classs-ssszzz
@josephveazie ("Joseph Veazie") wrote:
Guess I’ll join this train.
Wordle 224 3/6
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@RexChapman ("Rex Chapman🏇🏼") wrote:
I cannot believe this app is free…🤣😭🤣
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@TheoShantonas ("Theo Shantonas") wrote:
This guy made Karen the musical 💀😭
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@DankDuneMemes ("Dank Dune Memes") wrote:
Its not about the journey. Its about the gholas of friends that you have manufactured for you along the way.
Thank you, everyone who joined in on the stream. Got the basis done for my room and started laying some colors. Still have some shelf space that is empty. :D Cute and/or spooky items to put into them are welcome!
@hiro_asari ("あさり") wrote:
I just used the subjunctive mood in an exercise in Spanish 🇪🇸 (correctly, I believe), and it feels good. 😤
@Ravennist_art ("Ravennist") wrote:
Latino parties 🎉 (pt. 1 & 2) decided to make some #Encanto fanart cause I can :). Hope you like it !
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@AdamParkhomenko ("Adam Parkhomenko") wrote:
Coke
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@KamalaHarris ("Kamala Harris") wrote:
New small business applications have increased by 30% since before the pandemic.
While there’s more work to be done, we’re rebuilding our economy to lift up all Americans.
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@Zajakot ("Lauren 👾 Hennessy") wrote:
My dad looked up how to make Wordle and found this. I think it’s the closest he’s ever come to understanding what I do. Thanks Wordle 💜
https://medium.com/geekculture/how-to-create-a-wordle-like-game-add7f2794ed7
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@Diane__McNamara ("Cemetery Cat") wrote:
Guys I have a client, a black teen like almost all my clients, who wants to be an architect. Great kid, super smart, and I'd love to hook him up with an architect who can give him some encouragement and advice. I've struck out on my cold calls so I'm cold-calling yall. Help?
@jfbastien ("JF Bastien") wrote:
As the saying goes:
Those who can’t `do` …
@LolOverruled ("Alex Peter") wrote:
5 years ago while I was living in the Bay Area and before I started law school, I visited Alcatraz. You don’t always get to capture a moment when a person’s understanding of the world changes! A strange journey to today. Tear every prison down
This one is fascinating to me because it is transphobia that thinks it is racism?
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@TheRightCant ("The Right Can't Meme") wrote:
maybe try identifying as funny
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
When I say abundant, I mean all the way abundant.
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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @J__mdt:
@J__mdt Still not thinking big enough. Why do you have to pay to upload anything? What are "platforms" and why do we need them?
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@vg_history ("weirdo") wrote:
tunnel runner, television advert, stills, atari 2600 (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kR6cz-rj9s
@33mhz ("Terri Alligator Gar") wrote:
Legends Arceus got here a couple days earlier than the tracking page said it would.
It's funny how they use these side games as a chance to create edgier settings
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@QuinnyPig ("Corey Quinn") wrote:
It took me a while to figure it out, but the reason I adore @b0rk’s content is that she excels at approaching explaining things in a way I can only aspire to. A thread…
technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
I used https://modern.ircdocs.horse a lot which was both very useful and one of the best URLs I've seen in a while
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
I’ve been trying to think of some examples to explain how abundance changes your thinking. But when I examine them, they all end up sounding obnoxious. It’s hard to talk about abundance without making people think of their acute lack of it. I’m trying to be mindful.
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
This is sort of important to my point though. I wanna talk about a world of abundance. In that world, you don’t have to try to see yourself in every scenario. You can decide whether you want to participate or not, and that decision doesn’t have to be based on economics.
@zkat__ ("kat.rs") replied to a tweet by @zkat__:
@polotek A lot of people also don’t remember how it was… not actually a financial hit for artists in the end. I’m not sure it was one for records either
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
It’s really okay if you’re one of the people who didn’t wanna pay for music before streaming. I still see you and you are worthy. I’m not trying to take away your streaming app. These are just tweets.
@zkat__ ("kat.rs") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
@polotek Napster was such a fucking revolution and I don't think a lot of people these days really remember how significant that was for a lot of artists.
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
Yes you would. People spent way more than that before streaming services. Yes even people who wouldn’t call themselves big music listeners. Music is life. We pay a lot for it.
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@eraserheadUK ("Matthew Hutton") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
@polotek I’m not sure that without streaming services that I’d spend $120/year on music. It’s only people who listen to a massive amount of music who really get huge overvalue.
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@wownicebuttdude ("ava") wrote:
"hot girls always have a tummyache 🥺" no they don't. something is wrong with you. go to a doctor
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@PFTompkins ("Paul F. Tompkins") wrote:
If you could purchase the laughter of a child or the tears of a widow,
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@curator1of1 ("Omar Farooq") wrote:
If you could own color on the blockchain—and earn royalties from it each time an NFT that uses those colors trades, which colors would you mint? This is what we're going to make possible at the upcoming @colordotmuseum NFT market.
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@EricBoehlert ("Eric Boehlert") wrote:
I’m guessing Fox isn’t paying funeral costs
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@ehananoki ("Eric Hananoki") wrote:
Robert LaMay, the anti-vaccine state trooper who recently died of COVID, was praised as "a celebrity" by Fox's Laura Ingraham on 10/19/21. She also said she "hoped" they'd awoken "a sleeping giant." (LaMay also used that term previously in the interview.) https://twitter.com/HelenKennedy/status/1487271294005620743
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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
I think we would design software systems entirely differently if the actual goal was abundance. Today we design them largely for *access control*. Because the engine of capitalism is the ability to manage scarce resources. (Whether actually scarce or artificially so)
technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
I think I'm going to use it to make a text adventure
@LolOverruled ("Alex Peter") wrote:
I think it’s good to romanticize your life when you can
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@ElyKreimendahl ("ely kreimendahl") wrote:
relationships take work. being single also takes work. which is why none of us should have to have a job
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
Managing static assets (like music files) and making them available has gotten pretty cheap. There are other things companies try to do that ends up making things expensive again. But what if we stayed laser-focused on “easy access to all recorded music for relatively cheap”?
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
I want to add an actual thought on top of this tweet. Ross is right from a practical perspective today. But I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of abundance, and what it looks like to create a society based around that. Like, what if it *was* sustainable?
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@rossgrady ("Ross Grady") wrote:
I love that people are looking for alternatives to Spotify and I don’t know how to explain to them that it has never been ethical or sustainable to expect to have unfettered access to the entire history of recorded music for $10/month.
technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
oops; I appear to have written a rudimentary IRC server https://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/taverner
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
Oh shit.
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@rossgrady ("Ross Grady") wrote:
I love that people are looking for alternatives to Spotify and I don’t know how to explain to them that it has never been ethical or sustainable to expect to have unfettered access to the entire history of recorded music for $10/month.
@dmitrichurch ("Dmitri Church") replied to a tweet by @LesserIsMorer:
@LesserIsMorer @catgoscovitch @itosettiMD_MBA As even the Times is forced to admit, that was the longest lockdown in China over a two year period, and was only a single month. That is far less restrictions than anyone in the west has had to deal with, and it is an outlier for China: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/12/13/chin-d13.html
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@ChipHarbour ("Katie Porter's Whiteboard") wrote:
Holy smokes!
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@Greg_Palast ("Greg Palast") wrote:
There were 29 phone calls between Donald Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger — twenty-nine — not one. Raffensperger released one, where he looks like a man for all seasons, but what was said in those other calls?https://www.gregpalast.com/there-were-29-phone-calls-between-trump-and-raffensperger/
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@EricBoehlert ("Eric Boehlert") wrote:
how many crises can this WH handle??
@outcontextyuri ("out of context GL") wrote:
Lily Love 2
@33mhz ("Terri Alligator Gar") replied to a tweet by @33mhz:
Actually Querelle would wait until nobody was looking and then intentionally drop the Snickers a few steps before reaching the door
@33mhz ("Terri Alligator Gar") wrote:
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@LolOverruled ("Alex Peter") wrote:
Get yourself a little Italian man to make you pizza
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@LolOverruled ("Alex Peter") wrote:
i became friends with all the people who staff the bar i live on top of and they invited me to a snowed in speakeasy. this is the only cool thing i've ever done
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") wrote:
End the destruction. Renewable is the only way forward
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@SDonziger ("Steven Donziger") wrote:
BREAKING: Major leak from oil pipeline in Ecuador's Amazon happening in real time. Saw many of these in @Chevron's oil fields; they were rarely remediated.
The oil and gas industry treats our ecosystem like a trash bin. Thanks @AFrontlines for exposing.
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Finally managed to get everything working! Stream is coming up in a few minutes! :D
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FCC announces $1.2 billion fund for broadband deployment in rural areas
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced over $1.2 billion in funding through the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund to expand broadband service across 32 states. The FCC calls this “the largest funding round to date,” and notes 23 broadband companies will provide service to more than one million new areas.
In addition, the FCC also introduced the Rural Broadband Accountability Plan, which will double the number of audits and verifications performed this year in comparison to 2021. It will also require the FCC to make the results of verifications, audits as well as speed and latency tests public on the Universal Service Administration Company’s (USAC) website.
The new Rural Broadband Accountability Plan will streamline our...
@bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
The second most annoyingly self-important person on this hellsite is dunking on the most annoyingly self-important person on it, and I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that I find the resulting slap fight to be annoyingly self-important?
@withoutboats ("Saoirse Shipwreckt") retweeted:
@PEWilliams_ ("Paul E Williams") wrote:
The idea the socialism and Yes In My Back Yard are incompatible is dying a slow death, though there is much effort being made to keep it on life support. We need to pull the plug, upzone the rich, abolish classist zoning, and build millions of units of social housing.
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@ProudOwlCrafts ("Zaki (He/Him) 🇪🇬🏳️⚧️🦉") wrote:
To any video game developers who think “historical accuracy = no queer people,” I present to you a thread, brought to you by a queer trans history degree recipient:
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@xekhkl ("madame x ♿️🏳️🌈🧕🏻") replied to a tweet by @xekhkl:
also i just hate that whole concept “reasonable accommodation” but it’s all we’re allowed and so idk it seems that some disabilities are more reasonable than others. And some are completely unreasonable
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@SUEtheTrex ("SUE the T. rex 🦖") wrote:
If littering is illegal then why can Elon Musk throw trash at the moon?
@zilmer ("Priidu Zilmer") wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgRgJJ3lmg0
On an Incubus note, though… WTAF is this?
@zilmer ("Priidu Zilmer") wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg0k8ylbZe0
When you do the original live with 101% precision.
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@sundaysociology ("Chris Schneider") wrote:
We need a convoy of #BluesBros to run these Nazi flag waving assholes off of Parliament Hill @dan_aykroyd #IHateOttawaNazis
@LolOverruled ("Alex Peter") wrote:
Shut up + L + ratio
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@Damocleansword ("K") replied to a tweet by @LolOverruled:
@LolOverruled @chipsandgist Maybe, just maybe, the funeral of a slain 22 year old cop, isn't the best avenue to dunk this point.
Then again it's twitter. If one doesn't foment outrage, even at the most inauspicious time, one isn't living.
Oponu buruku.
NFT Minecraft Project Sells $1.2 Million In Tokens, Deletes Everything A Few Days Later
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: An NFT project sells a ton of tokens, making a shit ton of cash in the process for a thing that _probably_will exist in the future. Then the project and folks involved disappear with the money, leaving those who bought into it screwed. Well, it’s reportedly happened again, this…
@teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:
My bad, http://copy.ai does German. And bunch of other languages incl. Estonian.
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@chris__lu ("Chris Lu") replied to a tweet by @teller:
@teller We have German! Did you find the quality to be lacking?
@trixiemattel ("Trixie Mattel™") wrote:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXaUDcU6KDCj4 This Town was added to the Fresh Folk Playlist! @ShakeyGraves @SpotifyUSA
@katya_zamo ("Katya") retweeted:
What's more terrifying: playing a murder game or doing a number at a private party? @trixiemattel and @katya_zamo have some thoughts...and they are watching SQUID GAME on YouTube.
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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
We all like the idea that we're angry at "the system". But it's harder for us to be honest about the fact that we're angry at each other too.
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@simoncoveney ("Simon Coveney") wrote:
This week I wrote to my counterpart, the Minister of Defence of Russia, to request a reconsideration of naval exercises off the Irish coast. This evening I received a letter confirming the Russian exercises will be relocated outside of Ireland’s EEZ. I welcome this response.
@neilhimself ("Neil Gaiman") wrote:
If you haven't been following the story, the Mayor of Ridgeland won't send the library's allocated funding to them until they remove the LGBTQ+ books from their shelves. They've said no, the books stay. https://www.comicsands.com/gop-mayor-library-homosexual-materials-2656489532.html
Here's their fund appeal: https://www.fundlibraries.org/ridgelandbookbanning#Campaign
@bascule ("Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹") wrote:
Roganites: “Neil Young and Joni Mitchell just cancelled themselves!”
Yeah, about that…
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@staticbluebat ("Jane Altoids") wrote:
Lol
@teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:
What's the http://copy.ai alternative for German language?
@maddow ("Rachel Maddow MSNBC") wrote:
👇❗️
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@donie ("Donie O'Sullivan") wrote:
Russians back off after Irish fishermen vow to disrupt war games https://apple.news/Axkfn9YyqSSCzmKLYFIslRw
@LolOverruled ("Alex Peter") wrote:
make every golf course unplayable
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@jackass_clips ("Jackass clips") wrote:
Golf course airhorn ⛳️
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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
They wanna keep us from talking about our salaries with each other. But they want you to get into crypto. Bruh, I can't.
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
Right. That makes sense.
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@RichRogers_ ("Rich Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
@polotek @kelseyhightower @mecdot Google is beginning to make major investments in cryptocurrencies and blockchain. I think that this is fantastic for the industry.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/27/google-cloud-blockchain-team-to-seek-new-business.html
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@KelgoreTrout ("KELGORE") wrote:
This is beautiful lol
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
I'm still trying to be on hiatus from crypto talk. I might fail at that.
But I gotta drop this thought on people. Are we concerned at all that something that is supposed to be so adversarial to power structures is not actually being resisted by power structures? Just saying.
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@RichRogers_ ("Rich Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
@polotek @kelseyhightower My thoughts align with the points that @mecdot was making when this discussion kicked off. This is a space that many people are passionate about. I say give @mecdot and this century's software engineers room to run. We should all be cheering them on vs tearing them down.
@gcouprie ("Geoffroy Couprie") wrote:
So, who should I talk to for Biscuit implementations in Ruby or Python?
I think those can directly wrap the Rust version, that coukd be done quickly enough 🙂
T-Mobile will reportedly fire corporate employees who aren’t fully vaccinated by April 2nd
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
T-Mobile will fire corporate employees who aren’t fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by April 2nd, according to an internal email viewed by Bloomberg. T-Mobile’s head of human resources, Deeanne King, reportedly says employees who’ve only received one dose as of February 21st will be put on unpaid leave.
There will be “limited” exceptions for certain employees
“T-Mobile’s badge-controlled offices continue to be accessible only to those who are vaccinated against COVID-19,” T-Mobile said in a statement to The Verge, referencing the digital pass system the company uses to keep track of employees’ vaccination status. “We have shared with employees that we are requiring office workers to be fully vaccinated by April 2.” The mobile carrier...
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@agileschools ("John Miller") wrote:
Asking developers to go faster is often like honking at the car in front of you when the traffic jam is 1 mile up the road.
@iambeckyd ("Big buff lesbian icon🇬🇾🏳️🌈") wrote:
This took two takes 💪🏾😂❤️
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@unormal ("🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮") wrote:
As a technologist you must be concerned with the ethics of the technology you are creating.
@unormal ("🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮") wrote:
As a technologist you must be concerned with the ethics of the technology you are creating.
@juliepagano ("julie pagano") wrote:
I am so tired of how terrible interviewing is. Leet-code style coding interviews are especially frustrating because they don’t select for what you need from most people for most day-to-day engineering jobs, and they do select against certain groups of people.
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@tararobertson ("tara robertson") wrote:
"Why are you giving Senior Engineers coding interviews anyway? Do you really think someone who has been holding increasingly more demanding jobs over the past decade or two was faking knowing Python the whole time?" @RainofTerra https://rainofterra.com/interview-theater-f2d749353422
@bradfitz ("Brad Fitzpatrick") wrote:
Today's my two years at @Tailscale anniversary! 🔐🎉
After about 3,000 commits I'm getting closer to understanding networking. (admittedly a BS metric; nobody will truly understand networking)
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JennyFluff@queer.af ("Jennifer =^.^= ⚪") wrote:
Whoa. I managed to change it from pretty boring to really great~
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@theerkj ("RK Jackson | Atlanta 🛸") wrote:
been laughing at this all morning thank you very much.
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![2 wet fluid paintings, with two magenta tones, purple, black and white colors. The middle of each looks kinda calm, to the corners it they look rippled [I'll try to describe this better when I share them individually]](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/107/707/668/905/396/148/original/8d5f431677f3bf19.jpeg){kind=link}
@LolOverruled ("Alex Peter") wrote:
if you're bored you can watch my tales from the stream episode here
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1278397694
@DaveHolmes ("Dave Holmes") wrote:
Headed to @SXMSpectrum to take you through your Saturday night. What can I play for you?