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Jess the Gray

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EM Risk/Fraud @Square, Xoogler via Caltech Wife of @pyrojo.bsky.social Yet another Seattle urbanist

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They can be a little soft but I'm used to a delicate flavor. Maybe problem with that source, though Pike Place frontage sellers are usually solid.

07.03.2026 04:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008 and the dot-com bust It's a rough time to be looking for a tech job. Economist Joseph Politano said losses in the industry outpaced those in the last two recessions.

We have crossed 3 years of constant layoffs in tech and it’s now a worse job market than the housing crisis and COVID.

It’s on track to be as bad as the dotcom crash which was a four year downturn, thanks to AI-driven layoffs, since it doesn’t look like the tech job market willl recover this year.

07.03.2026 03:43 πŸ‘ 77 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4

"I have usernames older than you"

(There's no coming back from that)

06.03.2026 03:01 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Kristi Noem before and after her MAGA plastic surgery mistakes

Kristi Noem before and after her MAGA plastic surgery mistakes

dog this is straight up fucking crazy

05.03.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 2878 πŸ” 248 πŸ’¬ 144 πŸ“Œ 184

I loved this show very very much a long time ago

it is long past time to let it (and certainly Whedon and Baldwin) fade away

05.03.2026 21:49 πŸ‘ 1664 πŸ” 152 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 9

Someone very smart (maybe @hacks4pancakes.com ?) once said on reading news about big breaches "Everyone who knows anything is under NDA. So if you see someone talking, by definition they don't know what they're talking about."

It stuck with me. And yeah, that basically applies to everything

05.03.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 129 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

/4 Anyway, a long-time theme of Trumpism, and an increasingly common theme of the Republican Party, is that violence is justified against protesters because protesters are evil. It’s a deeply foul, thuggish, un-American sentiment.

05.03.2026 03:39 πŸ‘ 1329 πŸ” 158 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 3
β€œThey were very productive, so I thought, β€˜Maybe there’s something here,’” he told the Wall Street Journal, referencing when he saw Zyn tins on engineers’ desks. 

After going through two or three pouches a day, he knew he had to stop.

β€œThen, I accidentally got addicted,” he said.

β€œThey were very productive, so I thought, β€˜Maybe there’s something here,’” he told the Wall Street Journal, referencing when he saw Zyn tins on engineers’ desks. After going through two or three pouches a day, he knew he had to stop. β€œThen, I accidentally got addicted,” he said.

Founder FAFO story.

05.03.2026 02:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Also I guess evil is a brand identity.

05.03.2026 02:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oil and mining work may give you cancer, but at least they don't try to say it's a perk.
fortune.com/2026/03/04/p...

05.03.2026 02:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

they really might have ridden the anti-woke train all the way to bankruptcy court, an all time brand fuckup that should be taught as a cautionary tale in business school for decades

03.03.2026 16:55 πŸ‘ 4536 πŸ” 746 πŸ’¬ 74 πŸ“Œ 42

I ate a large clove of raw garlic today (there were reasons) and I gotta say...I can't recommend it. It was a weird enough sensation that I did a bit of a dive on pain receptors in the mouth. Turns out, garlic activates a totally different pain receptor than capsaicin!

04.03.2026 05:41 πŸ‘ 1834 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 112 πŸ“Œ 11

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

04.03.2026 02:51 πŸ‘ 16496 πŸ” 2657 πŸ’¬ 266 πŸ“Œ 135

When someone says β€žScientists do not want you to knowβ€œ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

03.03.2026 12:10 πŸ‘ 9435 πŸ” 4102 πŸ’¬ 77 πŸ“Œ 164

Ah shit is my cozy beaver building game going to get frostpunk vibes? Like I love frostpunk, but explicitly aiming for light at the moment.

03.03.2026 05:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

frankly I was out on that guy way back when I found out he worked for blackwater. completely disqualifying. same reason I'd never vote for anyone who ever worked at mckinsey. or like, owned a car dealership

02.03.2026 16:36 πŸ‘ 1013 πŸ” 83 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 3
Mantrap vs Sallyport vs Interlock... Which Term is the Proper Term?
Mantrap vs Sallyport vs Interlock... Which Term is the Proper Term? YouTube video by DeviantOllam

My video this week asks people a question about terminology and seeks to untangle certain words that are often applied haphazardly and potentially incorrectly in our industry.

Have you ever heard any of these terms being used? (Possibly the wrong way?) πŸšͺπŸ€”

youtu.be/S9-WoHky67A

02.03.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 2
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'I get rid of dogs as soon as they stop being cute puppies' In the past four years, I have fallen in love with four puppies and bought them for hundreds of pounds, writes Shona Sibary. Then, months later, I have turned my back on them and given them away.

ok this actually is someone who gets off on being yelled at
www.dailymail.co.uk/lifestyle/ar...

02.03.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 269 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 2
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new mcmansion hell to cleanse the horrors: mcmansionhell.com/post/8099372...

02.03.2026 01:53 πŸ‘ 1273 πŸ” 296 πŸ’¬ 77 πŸ“Œ 1
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Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making β€œfalse claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

Chlorine dioxide, a chemical used for disinfecting and bleaching.

Pressurized pure oxygen.

Raw camel milk.

Under RFK Jr., the FDA has taken down a webpage warning about these and other dangerous remedies claiming to treat autism.

02.03.2026 00:00 πŸ‘ 981 πŸ” 465 πŸ’¬ 84 πŸ“Œ 86

Honestly both are all in on edge cases, dirty hacks, absolutely bizarre tribal knowledge, and crushing amounts of jargon from what I can tell.

02.03.2026 00:32 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

this is so funny because that’s what I think lawyers think software is

01.03.2026 22:58 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

Like the slang version is probably also true, but literally just fuel is a problem for Iran's government.

02.03.2026 00:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Between Russia's clownishness in Ukraine (17 miles of out-of-gas vehicles) and the limpness of Iran's response here, I think I'm coming to understand how these rogue actors use their militaries - low-tech brutality to harm citizens and weaker neighbors, but on top of that, mostly just embezzlement.

28.02.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 117 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

shockingly people are capable of simultaneously,

1. Hating their government

2. Hating the people who bomb and sanction their country, making regular life impossible and murdering members of their family, even more

01.03.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 6891 πŸ” 1133 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 23

Did he think OPs "has no gas" statement was a slang insult instead of "has insufficient strategic fuel reserves to execute militarily"?

02.03.2026 00:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.

www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

28.02.2026 21:49 πŸ‘ 6324 πŸ” 933 πŸ’¬ 79 πŸ“Œ 60

And the thing that stuck out in his retelling (this is like 20 years ago) is that Phillip Morris had to pay customer service reps a shit ton more than industry standard to do that job, and still had an insane level of churn because those families kept calling.

01.03.2026 00:49 πŸ‘ 340 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

if people are using classified information to place bets, then theoretically others can analyze betting behavior to find signals that reveal classified information.

01.03.2026 03:28 πŸ‘ 3455 πŸ” 943 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 35

Iran literally imports gasoline despite huge oil & natural gas reserves because of limited refining capacity and a massive program of subsidies that have triggered mass outcry when the government tries to reduce them. It's been a well documented dynamic for decades.

01.03.2026 06:10 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0