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health, negative 

My body temperature is normal and the combination test insists I have neither COVID, nor Influenza A/B, nor RSV, but the pain symptoms sure are telling me that I'm coming down with something

I love the message of this article. Instead of organizations chasing after “10x” “rockstar” engineers, they instead should focus on createing a culture and development pipeline where the average developer does great work.

I’ve seen many unproductive orgs with great engineers stymied by poor dev toolchains & processes.

spectrum.ieee.org/10x-engineer

:boost_requested: Help finding a few PDFs 

* 10.2174/1574892812666170619125503
* 10.2174/1871520615666141210152128
* 10.2174/15680096113139990073

#ICanHazPDF

"The problem isn’t that the fediverse isn’t viable. The problem isn’t that it’s “too complicated.” The problem is that the giants of Silicon Valley have spent 20 years convincing us that anything outside their control isn’t worth our time."

"The internet was meant to belong to everyone. And it still fucking can."

By @Daojoan

joanwestenberg.com/the-fediver

Pet peeve: the waste generated by appliances for which the consumables and/or wear components stop being available shortly after release.

Think air filters, non-stick grill plates, nonstandard vacuum cleaner bags, ear thermometer caps, seal bag rolls, and so on.

Like, you end up with a perfectly working device that you can't use anymore because you can't replace the one part that's worn out despite it being *expected* that that would happen.

Probably the most authoritative crowd counting association in Serbia estimates between 275k and 325k people today. They emphasise that this is likely an undercount due to uncertainties in other parts of the city at that exact point in time.

To put those undercounted numbers into perspective:

- That is between 15% and 19.5% of Belgrade's total metro area population.
- That is between 4.2% and 4.9% of Serbia's total population.

#SerbiaProtests #Serbia #Belgrade

a thing cis allies could do: obtain gender affirming care and publicly acknowledge it to people they know

getting a boob job? HRT for menopause? HRT for low T? laser hair removal?

affirm ur gender and tell ur friends how great it is

that would be dope, thanks

This is the Google Maps "Immersive View," which Google thinks is good enough for prime placement in their app

@hazel the most fun part is that if you look down while it’s happening to find out the password you can’t do it all of a sudden because that’s not what your head is doing in the muscle memory for the password. your own brain just decides it would like to keep it a secret from you

some real left-brain right-brain shit is when you boot your computer and you cant remember your password but your fingers just type it anyway and log in and you still cant remember your password

It is always interesting to me how people never seem to demand evidence that cruelty will be good for "the economy" but no matter how.many studies of kinder things like UBI or housing first we do those who talk about "the economy" refuse to believe they are beneficial.

You know how people in tech often dream of pursuing farming?

uspol, Greenland politics 

Boosting with CW, but I love this take on MAGA.

swiss.social/@swaldorff/114167

lmao. Alton Towers opens new ride themed to toxic fluids, and puts up a 'splash zone' sign somewhere as decoration.

Then on opening day, a sewer pipe of a nearby toilet overflows, and floods the area in sewage.

And I don't even know whether it's delicious irony or a bizarre marketing stunt, because it *is* Alton Towers we're talking about here...

CW request, suicidality, important 

Please for fucks sake CW your posts about transphobia.

Transphobia has a high tendency for making me actively suicidal.

it's pretty good that a king got stabbed and we are still making jokes about it two thousand years later

Look at them shine ✨

(photo: Arhiv javnih skupova / Archive of public gatherings)

#serbia #europe #pumpaj

What appears to be an LRAD fired towards the crowd during 15 minutes of silence (one for each victim of the canopy collapse), causing a brief stampedo (fortunately with no serious consequences).

Students did what they planned to do after a security incident: they took off their reflective clothing and said that the protests are officially over, distancing themselves from whatever happens next.

What happens next remains to be seen, but needless to say, thousands of people are still out there.

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