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Anathema wrote:

"good posture" is a lie made up by Big Ergonomics to sell more useless bits of plastic and foam.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The morons are getting restless. I'd rather not be murdered in my bed by a chickenshit kook, thank you very much.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/10/19/not-my-neighbors-i-dont-think/

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

That third step was a good'un. I don't know why some people are trying to erase it now.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/10/19/some-are-trying-to-scratch-out-step-3-now/

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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope"):
conservancy@mastodon.technology ("Software Freedom Conservancy") wrote:

✨ Outreachy is hiring a community manager. ✨ You will communicate with @outreachy applicants, interns, and mentors. Open mailbox with raised flag You will work remotely for 30 to 40 hours per week.

Please apply by Oct 31!

https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2021-10-14/hiring-for-an-outreachy-community-manager/

owl@beach.city ("ornery owl") wrote:

Someone said it would snow a lot tonight but SMHI says rain.
Biking home might get gross.

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kaerhon@mastodon.opportunis.me ("fiowona") wrote:

#inktober 17
Winter is gay
#inktober2021 #art

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• Une meuf qui fait un bisou a sa meuf sous la neige (remote)

owl@beach.city ("ornery owl") wrote:

Work laptop has at least 5 different MS methods of installing/updating software.
How did this happen.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Morning commute is getting frosty.

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• A bike path surrounded by trees. There's many leaves and some of the trees are becoming naked. (remote)
• A frosty pale green grassy field with bike paths crossing it. (remote)
• A bike path in a cityscape, covered with leaves. Some houses and trees. (remote)

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

getting a lot more polish on the #lispgamejam front; my kids helped make smoother sprites that join up and @kheya cooked up a super catchy soundtrack!

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• colored blobs falling and then clearing in a chain. (remote)

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:

Published my first crate: https://crates.io/crates/debounce

Guess that makes me technically an open-source maintainer again. Although this time it's going to be different! I'll blog the details.

#rust

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
MacBookPro $3,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me

owl@beach.city wrote:

Æ þetta et undertut en það var ekki fyrr en á þeim tíma sem hann höra hej då till att jag skulle vilja ha en bra dag och jag har en stor del av hela mitt liv och död åt fruktköttet är det något som jag inte har några frågor om man kan hitta på något sätt som med massor av utrymme för cykelvägar i en uppdatering av hela mitt liv och död åt fruktköttet.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Now that there are "data lakes" we will soon have "data bays", and then the homophonic fun can really begin

owl@beach.city wrote:

You should be able to delete any post on this website, to make it more interesting.

owl@beach.city wrote:

It's going to snow again tomorrow

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

That special someone: "Supercapacitors store energy and have several other advantages."

Me: [desperate] "But... But I store energy too!" [shakes gut with both hands] "See!"

Tss: [shakes head sadly and walks away]

(This sad segment inspired by an oddly worded blog post title: https://web.archive.org/web/20211018202032/https://www.mouser.com/blog/new-tech-supercapacitors )

owl@beach.city wrote:

Why did they call it Kojima Productions and not
Hideo Games

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope"):
wim_v12e@octodon.social ("Wim 🅾") wrote:

As promised I wrote an article about my motivation for creating Haku, my Japanese-language programming language.

https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/why-i-wrote-haku/

#programming
#japanese

owl@beach.city wrote:

I'm so tired, can't believe I have to do the whole thing again tomorrow.

owl@beach.city wrote:

spiced dread

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

This seems like a clever design:

https://archive.is/t3W7O

That's a snapshot to here if you've got your ad-blocker on:

https://www.edn.com/3d-printable-oscilloscope-probe-to-wire-adapter/

owl@beach.city wrote:

best thing since sliced lead

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

There is absolutely no consistency in how we cope with the pandemic.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/10/18/were-7-2/

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

How does one eat a gooey chocolate birthday donut covered in chocolate frosting and chocolate ice cream? Face first, obviously. Homer Simpson could take lessons from this girl.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/10/18/shes-three-she-was-two-but-now-she-is-three/

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owl@beach.city wrote:

smarchtwat

owl@beach.city wrote:

smarphtone

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow's linkblog") wrote:

Samuel Bowles and Wendy Carlin have produced an free, open access alternative to the standard Econ texts. It's called "The Economy." It's great. It's free. Its mission? "Teach economics as if the last thirty years had happened."

https://www.core-econ.org/the-economy/?lang=en

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Anathema wrote:

Also they put a GTX 3070 in my computer lol, maybe I should just live in the office, then I'm still working from home right?

Anathema wrote:

People were quite nice, new office layout is much quieter (loud non-techy folk are in another building) and since I'm on the end of a row I procrastinated by looking at Twitter less so my mood isn't down.

Oh no, what if I like this???

owl@beach.city wrote:

I wonder if I can make it always open new windows instead of its own tabs.
Tabbing is a window manager job.