Many, many years ago, I went on a weekend retreat with a bunch of PHP developers in this huge cabin. Good memories. That was the only time I’ve been, so I haven’t been there with kids though.
A couple of years back, we had a blizzard on the way, so I called in to ask about my eye appointment and was told “sir, I have worked here 25 years and we have never closed for snow.”
Got an automated call at 4:50pm that day asking to reschedule.
“I’ll put this with the other ideas over here”
Within one week, I’ve learned two *unrelated* things:
1. Under new rules, I may now be eligible for Canadian citizenship based on ancestry.
2. This video was made by the United States government with my tax money.
A graphic in pink, blue, and green that illustrates how recent many Black History events are to the current day -- ranging from 1619 to 2024.
I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own.
I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history.
1 square = 1 year.
If I had a nickel for every time someone insisted an open-source alternative was “just as good” as proprietary software, I could retire.
My first time in the desert was hiking in NM at Bandelier National Monument. We drove through the middle of the night, so my first time seeing the desert was dawn. They don’t call it The Land of Enchantment for nothing 🤩
Quasi-related: bsky.app/profile/jlle...
Truth. You do not have to be sad today if you don’t want to let someone continue to make you feel alone and sad.
Thanks for doing this! I got some money from lost + found from when I lived in Texas and donated it to the GFM on the Minnesota site
We’re an Apple/android split couple, so Apple Notes and Reminders are out. Will check the others
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Many public libraries across the US do! Check with your library to see if it’s available.
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Speech to text in the Voice Memos app transcribes Claude Opus as “Claude Ope”.
You’d think that for all the AI out there, Google Maps wouldn’t suggest a Thai restaurant opening at 5pm for the query “brunch”
:lolsob:
yes.
People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.
www.5calls.org
walks you thru it and the phone numbers are clickable
you do not need to read the scripts, you can if you want. one sentence plus your identity info for verification is frankly enough.
I will, can you *69 them so I can call them back?
I’ll have to see if this’ll work for Grand Rapids
Principles only matter when they're hard to keep.
Congratulations, here’s to a million more! 🥂
I use social media like I’m posting the same messages to the world’s most inefficient 4 group chats to reach the same 20-30 people
Nina West, in a Santa suit, carrying a tote bag from the tour. She is walking through the audience and the spotlight is on her.
Didn’t expect to be this close to Nina West this evening, but I’m not complaining! @ninawest.bsky.social
Crazy going into 2026 we are still crushing anyone that doesn't own property under a mountain of housing costs
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I’d watch!
As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year:
A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.
Seeing tons of “who would buy a $7mil, 5000sqft penthouse in Ann Arbor?” comments.
You have to start with “who would build this penthouse in Ann Arbor?” and then you pretty much have your answer.
