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If you smell toast, you might be having a stroke... a stroke of luck that is. It’s toast time.

03.03.2026 21:16 πŸ‘ 3677 πŸ” 855 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 14
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Igalia 2026 Coding Experience Open for Applications | Igalia Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers an...

Igalia is proud to announce our Coding Experience program for 2026! Open to all new programmers, students and self-learners alike, applications are invited till the 3rd of April in one or more of five areas of Open Source development.

Apply now!

www.igalia.com/2026/02/27/I...

02.03.2026 15:30 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

people love to say "you should read conservative opinion pieces too" and every conservative opinion piece is like "corporations should have the right to vote but minorities shouldn't. source: I made it up"

02.03.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 3967 πŸ” 756 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 47

if they were courageous they would quit. there's nothing brave about killing kids at the whim of an irrational old pedophile

01.03.2026 03:19 πŸ‘ 7944 πŸ” 1597 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 15
A tuxedo cat lying on a bed with her belly exposed

A tuxedo cat lying on a bed with her belly exposed

Hope everything goes smoothly! Here’s my cat

01.03.2026 03:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

no war no borders no cops no prisons no to all of this shit

28.02.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 2863 πŸ” 763 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 10
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Igalia Coding Experience | Igalia - Open Source Consultancy and Development Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers an...

If you're a student or early in your software/CS career, I encourage you to apply to the Igalia Coding Experience program. The deadline to apply is April 3.

People from underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply!

www.igalia.com/coding-exper...

24.02.2026 20:33 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's telling that the "trauma" of seeing a mentally ill homeless person is contextualized as "I shouldn't have to be exposed to this" rather than "It hurts me that someone we live in a society where human beings are abandoned to live like this."

24.02.2026 11:50 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Open Source Product Marketing Manager | Igalia - Open Source Consultancy and Development We’re looking for someone to help spread the word about our Open Source projects to the whole world.

My company @igalia.com is hiring an Open Source Product Marketing Manager. www.igalia.com/jobs/product...

Igalia is a worker-owned cooperative based in A CoruΓ±a, Spain. All positions are 100% remote. Igalia can potentially sponsor visas to emigrate to Spain.

23.02.2026 20:55 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

If you threaten to kill one person that’s a TOS violation. If you threaten to kill a million people that’s discourse.

23.02.2026 04:16 πŸ‘ 830 πŸ” 153 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 6

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

18.02.2026 23:47 πŸ‘ 7845 πŸ” 2532 πŸ’¬ 65 πŸ“Œ 84

I think that’s quote-skeets :)

18.02.2026 04:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Other drivers honking their horns at me is cancel culture

18.02.2026 02:21 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"the left is ignoring the usefulness of AI" no it's more like it is kind of central to left leaning politics that causing massive negative externalities for your own personal convenience is a shitty way to live. you're just saying you do not like the implications of this position

18.02.2026 00:52 πŸ‘ 138 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

how's the "tech is full of wokescolds" bit looking now that anyone critical of the numerous socialised harms caused by genAI is increasingly framed as an anti-progress killjoy even by their own peers

17.02.2026 18:50 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

why would democratic leaders say that, give us that they are currently finding ways to continue to vote for more funding for ICE? why do we keep inventing fake democratic leaders in our heads instead of dealing with the fact that the ones that exist are fully compliant and must be replaced?

17.02.2026 11:33 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Transgender Youth Deserve Access to Healthcare β€” TAKE ACTION

US people: today is your last chance to submit a public comment in support of transition-related care for youth, and against bans on Medicare/Medicaid funding to facilities that provide such care. Personal comments are best!

go.eqca.org/a/cms-comments

17.02.2026 00:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"token anxiety"; or, a slot machine by any other name You're absolutely right!

"by enforcing the use of inherently addictive technology in the workplace, employers are (whether intentionally or not) making their workers addicted to work."

16.02.2026 22:08 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have very serious political beliefs. My main tactic is telling everyone that everything they are worried about is a distraction from the real issues.

11.02.2026 21:16 πŸ‘ 273 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

11.02.2026 20:20 πŸ‘ 4066 πŸ” 809 πŸ’¬ 113 πŸ“Œ 62

Yes, and another important question is: do you trust the government to decide who is evil enough to be locked in a cage? If not, congratulations! You're an abolitionist.

10.02.2026 00:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

it's like our entire sense of morality has been filtered through the act of consumption, and the highest good we can imagine is feeling good and clean and pure as individuals, unpolluted by the obvious evil are around us

meanwhile, real change requires the kind of work you need a drink after

09.02.2026 17:16 πŸ‘ 2212 πŸ” 296 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 21

If there's a moral difference between telling teenagers to commit suicide, and building a company that makes a product that tells teenagers to commit suicide: why?

09.02.2026 20:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My theory that AI maximalists don’t know how to use a computer remains undefeated so far

08.02.2026 21:46 πŸ‘ 1195 πŸ” 248 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 9

in an era when carnivore diet influencers are in charge of the american nuclear arsenal we have to admit the "annoying vegan" stereotype barely ever actually existed and the "all meat diet guy" is real, increasingly omnipresent, and way more annoying and inconvenient to actually be around

08.02.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 4850 πŸ” 981 πŸ’¬ 114 πŸ“Œ 77

"When you stand on the law, you're standing on something that's not yours." -- @nhold.bsky.social

08.02.2026 05:27 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

To wit: this isn’t the easiest thing to do, but if you’re wondering if the new guy at the action/protest is an undercover, and they use the term β€œnarcotic” in conversation, you have your answer. It just slips out of them.

07.02.2026 23:21 πŸ‘ 158 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Throughout the ICE raids, local and state police who answer to Democrat politicians have consistently done the dirty work to enable ICE to continue its campaign of ethnic cleansing.

Politicians who talk about "maintaining order" are complicit in this campaign of terror.

It's up to us. Just us.

08.02.2026 00:56 πŸ‘ 734 πŸ” 277 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 6

Seen: β€œDecolonize Your Vision Board”

08.02.2026 00:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Spicy take: I wonder how much the push for LLM usage in software engineering is about pushing people with a conscience out of the industry

07.02.2026 01:06 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0