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Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

24.01.2026 16:01 👍 12066 🔁 3409 💬 139 📌 62

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale

Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

19.01.2026 17:04 👍 14129 🔁 4062 💬 78 📌 34

Instead of saying a cat or dog year is 7 years, we should just celebrate their birthdays every 8 weeks.

03.01.2026 22:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

07.12.2025 08:31 👍 14098 🔁 4325 💬 249 📌 98
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one thing worth observing here is that so many of these pundits aren't earnestly trying to understand what happened in the world as much as they are shadowboxing with people they don't like on the internet. stringinamaze.net/p/the-pundit...

03.12.2025 02:39 👍 2801 🔁 336 💬 18 📌 15

Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.

13.11.2025 00:34 👍 3750 🔁 613 💬 51 📌 23

I’m pretty sure all of the Ruby Central drama traces back to someone telling dhh that he didn’t tweet enough.

01.11.2025 16:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hoot Pursuit by Jon Daniel Escape the Witch!

Happy Halloween! My studio's first game, a spooky mini-game, is available now. Name your own price or play for free. jondaniel.itch.io/hoot-pursuit #indiegame #gamedev #halloween

31.10.2025 18:20 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2
The Witches of Ashkelon
The Witches of Ashkelon YouTube video by Miriam Anzovin

Shalom, friends,
#Halloween is a time for our darkest stories. Gather ‘round the phone screen and I’ll retell a classic tale of terror from the #Talmud. A cautionary tale about fear, forbidden power, and femicide.
Welcome to The Witches of Ashkelon
#JewishHorrorStories

youtu.be/Z7KMS_jfVbc

31.10.2025 01:43 👍 28 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 3
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20% rye, 75% hydration sourdough. Pretty happy with it, except for the missed score.

30.10.2025 01:21 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

it’s not a nazi tattoo, but if it is, he didn’t know it, and if he did know, he didn’t mean it, and if he meant it, he’s grown since then

no, fuck you

22.10.2025 00:01 👍 1192 🔁 147 💬 4 📌 0
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A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy What a week it's been as a Ruby Central Board Member.

Freedom, another member of the Ruby Central Board, wrote this post, but it closely aligns with my feelings and experiences as well.

apiguy.substack.com/p/a-board-me...

21.09.2025 19:30 👍 16 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1

And you can get a cup of tea in a real glass!

08.08.2025 12:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We used to put one person’s phone on speakerphone or video call the other persons and leave it behind.

13.07.2025 13:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.

www.404media.co/the-open-sou...

07.07.2025 13:27 👍 130 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 3

💜

04.07.2025 19:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Doing ok, Jon?

04.07.2025 19:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Counterpoint: Module#const_missing

15.06.2025 18:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In the past week I’ve had two people make PRs that had not-quite-wrong but super weird and unnecessary code that “cursor told them to do”. If we’re going to use these things, we’re going to have to be a bit more clear-eyed about it.

12.05.2025 03:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

a frequently useful guideline in 2025 is “if a billionaire says something that might have a reasonable interpretation you agree with, they don’t mean the reasonable version you’re thinking of”

13.04.2025 06:57 👍 2754 🔁 715 💬 15 📌 13

Jamelle Bouie for senate

14.03.2025 11:37 👍 455 🔁 26 💬 9 📌 1

Every tech company* has platform teams trying to build:

1. Heroku, except hand-rolled
2. One giant shared database, so engineers can ignore analytics without consequence
3. If they have a monolith, microservices. If microservices, a monolith
4. A solution to the halting problem

* Hyperbole. I hope

05.03.2025 22:24 👍 445 🔁 94 💬 23 📌 16

Millennials are a goldilocks generation raised in the narrow window between leaded gasoline and social media and hooooo boy is that showing these days

03.03.2025 17:36 👍 5920 🔁 816 💬 84 📌 47

reactionary centrism is best understood as a media establishment which attempts to expand Democrats' ideological responsibility as broadly as possible while diminishing the Republicans' as much as possible

27.02.2025 00:09 👍 416 🔁 77 💬 6 📌 2
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Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”

👍🏻

20.02.2025 03:51 👍 10046 🔁 2742 💬 273 📌 709

There are two wolves inside of you. If the first acquires lock A and the second acquires lock B, and then the first attempts to acquire lock B while the first attempts to acquire lock A, they will deadlock. Teach your wolves concurrency.

17.02.2025 05:58 👍 373 🔁 76 💬 12 📌 2

Lufthansa still has a few of them. I few upstairs in one recently!

01.02.2025 21:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0