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Yo everyone.

Presidential alerts are written and sent by FEMA. Trump can’t directly send unblockable texts to you.

PSA: If you're in the US, you'll be getting an emergency alert on your phone Wednesday at 2:18pm Eastern time as part of a nationwide test. You'll get it even if you've disabled these alerts previously, have your phone silenced, or volume set to 0. Regardless of volume settings, the alert will emit a siren sound at your phone's max volume.

If you don't want this (frex if you'll be asleep like me :|) you need to have your phone completely off, or in a mode that gives it absolutely no service.

All trans/non-binary people deserve a free Nintendo Switch.

Boost if you agree.

Gotta board the airplane back home.

The last three weeks have been the some of the best of my life.

I miss him already. πŸ˜₯

I just spent some time digging into cross-platform ways to talk to Bluetooth LE devices and the options, as seems to always be the case with talking to hardware, appear to be either β€œgo fuck your self” or β€œuse Web Bluetooth”

and people wonder why web and Electron apps are common

pol & masculinity 

So I want to remind what 'patriarchy' means.

It's not rule by men.

It's rule by patriarchs. Old men. Esteemed men. Men who have performed toxic masculinity the best.

There's a reason every man in politics seems like they're a sex scandal away from losing it. They are.

That is what this system has rewarded. There are rewards for power-seeking, controlling, abusive, authoritarian behaviors.

And now we're changing the rules. And the men who bought in are scared.

OK, I think I do this job thing for real now, fighting my anxiety and depression to do it.

I guess a starting salary of 40,000/year is OK. It's in the range of what people should get in this job and not too much asked, though a little off.

In the end I keep 1,600 a month, but that's fine. I only had something like 1,000 a month before.

Your periodic reminder that in 1997, QNX developed a 1440 kiB demo floppy that contained the following:

* QNX 4 POSIX-compatible realtime microkernel
* Your choice of either Hayes modem drivers, or wired ethernet drivers for a few common NICs at the time (NE1000/2000, DEC Tulip, 3c509)
* VGA and VESA video drivers
* Photon windowing system
* A completely modern HTML 3.2+JavaScript web browser(!), with a bundled JavaScript game (Towers of Hanoi)
* A graphical text editor and a little demo animation
* A package manager to bring other apps in over the internet

http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html has some screenshots and download links.

kinda (-), loops 

I want to pick up music again. And learn to draw. And get fit. And become a really good programmer.

And today I feel really motivated and energetic and I feel like I can start all that.

But at the same time I know it won’t happen. I’ll fall on my face as soon as a start. Or I’ll run out of steam after a couple days. Or I’ll fuck up once and give up because I’m not perfect.

I’ve been caught up in this loop for too long now. It feels like I’m destined to fail.

Woke up this morning to yelling outside, and saw police officers and a city worker taking all of a homeless person's belongings and throwing them on a back of a truck, to be destroyed.

I can't even express how disgusted I feel. The person was begging them not to throw his things out, including blankets to stay warm.

Fuck the people running this city.

ME: Unfortunately not yet, are you planning to send people to Epic training for this project?

HR: No, we're really just looking to [poach people from other, larger health systems who have already gotten the training so we don't have to pay for it.]

ME: Ah OK, well I have worked with their teams extensively and I think I could still add quite a lot..

HR: We'll call you

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for the purposes of this toot please assume that the original version of bowser meets the commonly accepted definition of beauty queen

Protip: no organisation that actually values your privacy will have a popup that says β€œwe value your privacy” on their web site.

#SurveillanceCapitalism

You: English pronunciation is random and lawless. It is a chaos language no one can make sense of.
Me:

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