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I read this article about someone whose life has been totally up-ended by the legal repercussions after her San Francisco neighbors brought complaints about her habit of grabbing packages off their porches to police. I don't know what to say about it except that when you get down into the details of it there's something deeply, gut-wrenchingly wrong here

"The Porch Pirate of Potrero Hill Can’t Believe It Came to This" by Lauren Smiley

theatlantic.com/technology/arc

The other night I had a dream about hanging out with someone I don't like. Outside their window, a neighbor had painted, directly on the side of their own house, a mural depicting this person as a prison warden.

Imagine living next door to someone who is, over a series of days, gessoing, sketching out in chalk, laying out the flats, then detail painting, a mural-sized unflattering cariacture of you, such that every time you look outside your bedroom window, you are forced to see it.

tech PSA: hating Javascript does not give you the right to write shitty Javascript

Unfortunately the London Marathon committee take a dim view of Any% speedruns and refuse to give medals for it

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Snoopy is a WWI flying ace because 

...he's a dogfighter.

I am honestly so glad to be able to work in computer programming as my career.

relatedly, there is nothing i hate more than computer programming

You try to pull that "Back in 2019 it was a different time, who can say how they identified" and I'll come back as a black cat to eat your face

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When I die, I'm going to haunt the shit out of anyone who misrepresents my gender, or who my ancestors were. It'll be some Shining, Amityville Horror, Poltergeist shit.

Misgender me? You're gonna see a weird doll crawling around your bedroom at 3 am.

Get my family wrong? Blood out the faucets.

Wikipedia's preference for "born to an [x] family", as if children of certain kinds of parents are delivered via stork, and are not necessarily of the the same ethnicity as the entire rest of their family.

I'm considering opening up a PixelFed account. Does anyone have instances to rec? I mostly post street photography, especially shots of graffiti and stickers.

transition goals, old advertising, punk rock, programming languages 

This is an ad for a BASIC programming language tutorial.

I don't ever remember seeing this ad, but I'm glad I grew up into this.

I make fun of Funko Pops a lot but I need to mention that the Suicide Squad Joker Nenodroid is possibly the most aesthetically repugnant thing ever immortalized in plastic.

@wintgenstein I literally, sincerely, and 100% seriously mean it when I say that strippers are braver than the troops

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