Daphne Preston-Kendal

Ooh, which archbishop?

Paternal grandfather built aeroplanes at Metro-Vicks in Trafford Park

Maternal grandfather was a theologian and economist

I don't often post about work anymore but I do actually care deeply about the field of software engineering, despite almost everything these days making caring about software a generally miserable experience.

stand up and salute our man at midnight

L.S. Lowry died of pneumonia on this day 1976 at the Woods Hospital in Glossop, Derbyshire. He was buried in Manchester’s Southern Cemetery, beside his parents.

Goddamn, American Manufacturing really is dead if we don't even make consent anymore

Please, don’t trust ANY anti-sex-trafficking nonprofit that refuses to support the labor rights of consensual adult sex workers.

We know for a fact that criminalization leads to exploitation and trafficking.

I would also be wary of those who fund such organizations.

Has been since 2018 :-)

evangelical christians' god is the god of preschoolers and used car salesmen; I'm sorry you can't believe in a God whose creation is vast and mysterious and largely unknowable, I'm sorry your god is smaller than you rather than much much larger

god gave me this gender too tbqh

Brianna Ghey was targeted by classmates who knew her offline. Online, she made friends and a community, and was making content to help other trans kids like her.

This is a grieving mother pushing for legislation that would have further isolated her trans child, that is supported by transphobes.

Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk@chaos.social Help out your local FOSS nonprofit: Smash a fucking piledriver into the skull of a nearby AI entrepreneur This is not an official position of Codeberg e.V., but it should be

this is a member of the Codeberg board btw

this is what we like to see

Add another one to the great big board of "Urban Planning Debates: Academic Research vs. Some Guy"

Most of the Forest of Bowland was made open access land by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000. Still weak compared to the general open access right in Scotland, but …

Was soll ich sagen, ich habe ADHS:

A ufmerksamkeits
D efizit
H uch, schau mal da, ein
S chmetterling!

#illisADHS

watching Paul Graham become a Marxist from first principles is extremely funny

also conspicuous that artists and writers almost universally revile this junk, but there's a subset of programmers going "thank god, i don't have to write code any more"

no one was making you do this?? start a food truck idk

can't wait for the stories about the latter folks getting laid off first because they're not as Productive™

seems conspicuous that programmer commentary on genAI is split between

"oh yeah i use claude all the time now. the 10× programmer is real and he's me. i am a god"

and

"yeah my coworkers use claude all the time. they keep committing crap that doesn't work and now i spend half my time fixing it"

It’s probably actually less than 9,000 because the follower count on Bluesky seems to include accounts that have been banned from the service, or at least has some other factor which makes it usually an overcount. It claims I have 55 followers but if you go in and count them there’s only 25

new jynpost jyn.dev/i-m-just-hav...

A randomly generated finite state machine, made of the emoji 🌱, 🍐, 🍏, 🌳, 🍎

🌱🍐🍏🌳🍎

Lets hope it gets the axe before anything gets painted in this daft color smear. With BR perfection just sitting right there to use, this jingoistic rubbish is Brexit impotence at track speed.

Two tones of blue unnecessary.

Angled repeating downward lines too symbolic of UK trajectory.

0.7/10

Statue of factory co-op pioneer Robert Owen on Balloon Street, Manchester. He spent 13 years working in the city in his youth.

Welsh social reformer Robert Owen died on this day 1858, aged 86. At 21, became manager of Manchester's Piccadilly Mill, where he ran an enlightened regime, joined the Literary and Philosophical Society. Later carried the principles into model community at New Lanark, Scotland.

Oxford Road station steps and the Salisbury, Manchester, photo by Shauna Harrison.