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Kitbashing together a twitter account shredding script. The irony of needing to set up an apps.twitter.com account - under the account I intend to shred - is not lost on me.

Love to find someone fronting as a representative of bus drivers telling passengers to "shut the fuck up" about unsafe driving. Can't tell if legitimate idiot or false flag to make the drivers' unions look bad.

Been thinking about this a lot over the past week:

strongtowns.org/journal/2018/5

Particularly:

> "Kids need a sense that they're held within a community, not just a household," Beth explains. "Their sense of safety and security in the world largely comes from knowing that there's a greater container that holds them and loves them and supports them as they grow."

That was how I grew up, despite being in car-centric countryside. It's how I wanna help others grow up.

Sometimes I really hate the feeling of being prepared for something that isn't happening yet, because I'm nervous about the thing and there is literally no action I can take. I just have to wait for it to be time.

A friend and I are contemplating spinning up a clan in Naval Action with a formal, written charter & articles, comme le pirate codes of old. HMU if you think pirates arguing about rules at cannon-point is a fun idea.

my porn feeds have a very distinctive Politics and it's actually pretty great

for example, it surfaced this (sfw) leia-organa.tumblr.com/post/17

This is your annual reminder that Steam Punk needs moar punk, and less Aeronautical Adventures of Little Lord Fauntleroy.

PS i will bake something awesome for whomever can teach me how to say "Eat the rich," in authentic thieves' cant.

tfw I'm reading a ten-year-old piece on Facebook privacy issues and it brings up an at-the-time 10-year-old LambdaMOO privacy issue and everything feels connected again

A Reddit user is reporting that Oracle has asked Apple to take down their App Store app for infringing on trademark registration #2416017 ("JAVASCRIPT"). If so, this is an odd time to start trying to enforce that mark.

Lovely spring day out. It’s barely snowing at all!

This is about game development, but it's _about_ diagnosing how teams fail in technical endeavours. Read it. allarsblog.com/2018/03/16/conf

Gmail enters the "extend" phase of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish by creating new proprietary features for email then forcing non-gmail users the view the mail through a link with Google Login (and sometimes SMS confirmation!)

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/0

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I see you are trying to RUN, COWARD

This weather is extremely and unapologetically bull crap.

I don't talk about this, much, but I follow an _extremely_ eclectic collection of very lewd tumblr accounts.

One of them just started posting drink recipes. Just, like, as a semi-regular thing.

cafelynxelle.tumblr.com/post/1

QOTD from a friend: "Could we write up a spec that is extremely hard to maliciously interpret?"

That gateway opens out into some Interesting historical subjects. In the programming space, Ada is a good example.

In which I take the unpopular position that rights assignment agreements for free software are a good idea grimoire.ca/dev/on-rights