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Header: Nichelle Nichols and Mae Jemison, the first Black Women in space (lol), on the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation
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In the spirit of this comic, I armed myself with COVID and flu antibodies this week.
#comic #cartoon #humor #health #apocalypse #food #survival #science
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If You Can Afford to Send Katy Perry to Space — artist unknown in London, UK 🇬🇧
#KohenWiley was lynched by White police officers. There is no justification. There is no other explanation.
Given Mississippi’s vast history of lynching and genocide of diaspora descendants, it fits right in line. America continues its targeted murders of African American babies. Incredibly disturbing.
New Continent dropped; I’m excited for no reason
From: @thecontinent
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Attached: 2 images All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 257 of The Continent Four months ago, tens of thousands of Malawians were repatriated as they fled xenophobic violence in South Africa. Now, the buses are heading back. https://bit.ly/TC_257
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All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 257 of The Continent
Four months ago, tens of thousands of Malawians were repatriated as they fled xenophobic violence in South Africa. Now, the buses are heading back.
Something for the #Kingfish nerds. I helped a little. I think I removed the tracker. Please enjoy.
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@ErickaSimone the fun thing is, we have the exact reverse discourse here in France. Rioting is legitimate as long it's against THEIR stupid president and not OUR beautiful country.
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Did you know Royal Mail tracks posties every move and pings their manager if they stop for 5 minutes? Just signed this, worth two seconds 👉
Stop constant monitoring at Royal Mail
Add your name:
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somebody please take AI away from anybody and everybody involved in commercial food sales, marketing, and/or distribution
@chris sounds like you’re having Californian problems. lol.
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Sure do enjoy this "fair" system where if the left manages to win an election, the radical right extremists rig the system so they win instead, and if the left somehow overcomes this with sheer numbers, the radical right extremists claim fraud and sue to overturn the election they rigged, and if the left somehow wins the lawsuit, the radical right extremists decertify the election and refuse to seat the elected official, and if the left somehow manages to actually get into office, the radical right extremists smear them every day they're there.
But if the radical right extremists win any single election, they win all elections forever and there's simply nothing anyone can do about that.
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The iPod was released 25 years ago today but at the time I had a 64Mb Rio and no money so my first iPod was still a couple of years away.
But I remember April 28, 2003 vividly, the day the iTunes Store and paid downloads came out.
I was working at Creative Commons and our CTO Ben immediately bought a song then shared it with us we could try hacking on its security.
How dare you guys demand that I stay alive and actually show the support to prove as much
How DARE you ask me to stay alive and be great, dagnabit
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Since #PHP is at the top of peoples minds, a short diversion.
In the Before Times of 20+ years ago, I worked for a smallish tech company that did some of everything. One of the #consulting jobs we took on was to #audit a #codebase for a company that was buying another company - the application was the acquiree's crown jewels, and the purchaser wanted a good solid analysis of it.
It was in PHP. I was not looking forward to it. As a betting person you are unlikely to go wrong with "very #niche market-specific software application developed in-house by small company working in that space is likely to be pretty terribly #designed and #implemented", and most of the PHP I had looked at by that point was, well, bad.
And it absolutely was not. It was in the then-new PHP v.5. And it was cleanly designed, nicely modular, very #readable #code and well documented, good #development practices. Sure, there were some things in it that could be improved, mostly more efficient algorithms / data structures IIRC, but all software can be improved *somewhere*. The final report was fairly glowing about it.
Anyone who tells you all code written in $LANGUAGE is awful, or all #programmers who use it are idiots, is showing you their whole ass. Languages are #tools. Some are easier to use for certain purposes than others, but they're all useful for something. Don't be closed-minded.
#engineering #software #SoftwareEngineering #RightToolForTheRightJob #homily
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Glorifying France when they protest against their oppressive systems… but vilifying, demeaning and disrespecting African Americans when we protest and riot against a system that has enslaved and oppressed billions.
Or just outright killing the original Ferguson 6.
Okay. So. I was diagnosed with early stage uterine cancer. It requires an immediate hysterectomy. However. I had to postpone because finances will not allow me to rest, and layoffs are happening at my music label.
As usual, I refuse to ask for help. It feels horrible. But so many of you have offered.
So. If you’d like to donate to “Project Hysterectomy: Yeet that Uterus and Heal 2026,” I’d be grateful.
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