Oh interesting, people who don’t know how to build software are getting mad at my post about building software. Cute.
Let me be clear, over the next year, the job of software engineer will shift dramatically to no longer have typing syntax into an editor as its primary time sink.
If your job was to know when to hit the semicolon key on the keyboard, I'm sad to say that's not an employable skill anymore.
If you shape ideas into tools and art via code, it's really so much better than ever now, and I don't see that changing soon.
I wish there was a hell so there could be a special place for these folks.
So let’s think about this.
A private company refused - on principle - to yield to the government’s demands.
The government then cancelled its contracts with the company and has set about destroying it
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
This is so cool!
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Yesterday I wrote a short piece about the radical joy in Alysa Liu's gold-medal-winning skate and Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show and how art and joy is a threat to authoritarians. It's resonated with a lot of folks, maybe also with you. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...
THEY RAIDED THE CAMP TO TAKE THE KIDS LETTERS
Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
my hypothesis is
A reminder this happened earlier this week at Trump’s massive concentration camp in El Paso:
“The cases of tuberculosis and COVID-19, two diseases that spread through the air, have underscored concern about the conditions at Camp East Montana and other immigration detention centers.“
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
KPOP feels like the obvious choice.
money can absolutely buy happiness, you just suck at being rich like you suck at everything else in life
Killing the CIA World Factbook might seem like small potatoes, but it was a touchstone of curated facts in a sea of disinformation.
Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time
Hey John, I’m glad you’re here. ❤️
I host a mental health podcast called Depresh Mode. And I live in Minnesota. Here's what I said at the end of this week's show about mental health, life in Minnesota, and their overlap.
You can also listen to it here:
maximumfun.org/episodes/dep...
Starts at about 56:00.
A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN:
"I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind."
and
"The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back."
Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Sending good vibes your way, man. We need some pinball and ice cream in Lyons sooner rather than later.
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
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“Execute Operation Mar-a-Lago…”
Couldn’t have seen this coming.
huh, what a weird coincidence
Read to your kids 📖
No kids? Read to your friends’ kids.
No friends with kids? Make a friend—preferably one who comes with kids to expedite the operation—and start reading!
It is imperative that children are read to ☝️
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that this happened at a healthcare event is just A+, no notes
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