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Wow, a smartphone is really useful.

~ Me, the mobile dev who owned a flip phone until last week

Hey are there any extensions for VS Code that number the "columns" -- vertical line numbers, basically?

I have a very long doc right now, where it would be a useful feature, to ensure lines on the same heading level are even length

Wildest fantasy: Nonprofits having any solidarity, at all, with labor

Oh, I'm sorry.

I overestimated.

It's half a percent.

Wtf is wrong with these nonprofits?!

Nonprofits encouraging people to scab for Amazon, so they can get that sweet, sweet 1% or whatever of every Prime Day purchase donated to their dusty coffers.

2019 news headlines like "Stacy from Montana, who lives many thousands of miles away, and has never left her state nor willingly spoken to a person of color before, thinks AOC sucks"

Anyway, glad 2be living in a city that didn't immediately cave to Amazon's greedy demands for tax breaks

Seattle literally has about the same population, and the same ethnic demographics, as Staten Island, the smallest and whitest borough of NYC.

Honestly, in Seattle, a lot of anti-Amazon sentiment is combined with anti-immigrant sentiment, so it's kind of hard to fuck with people who tell you they hate what Amazon is doing to the city, cuz you're just bracing yourself for them to start talking at you about Amazon bringing in too many foreigners.

Seattle is so white that tech is making it less white by hiring non-locals, and that is truly saying something.

Hypebeast Bart with facial tattoos

David Byrne encountering solarpunk as a concept for the first time: If this is paradise, I wish I had a lawnmower!

Morrissey was never on my list because he's even ickier than Nergal Jr, a cartoon character designed to be creepy and whose storylines have a lot of incel/school shooter subtext

Nergal Jr. really resonated with me as a character, pre-transition, because he was a shapeshifting monstrosity that willingly chose to present as a young man with a black quiff and thick glasses. And those were my transition goals.

My style icons:

* Cillian Murphy, actor
* Colin Meloy, musician
* Quentin Quire, fictional character
* Griffin McElroy, Forbes 30 Under 30 media luminary

1990s: Pinkerton is trash.

2000s: Well actually, Pinkerton is a staggering work of misunderstood genius.

2010s: Pinkerton is everything that is wrong with the present cultural climAH AH AH FUCK EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE