Besides βEat Until I Dieβ, I defy you to find a better version of this song youtu.be/yDFxdAf-cHA
Besides βEat Until I Dieβ, I defy you to find a better version of this song youtu.be/yDFxdAf-cHA
The agency misattribution is due to a bug that will be fixed very soon github.com/cisagov/mana...
Loved the heck out of that Great Grandpa record this year too
A statue we see a pair of legs and a hand holding a briefcase but part way up the Torso the figure disappears into a raw monolith of Rock
Monument to the Unknown Bureaucrat, Reykjavik β MagnΓΊs TΓ³masson, 1994
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If you look at the βcreation dateβ
In Whois, the timestamp is very close to goldcard;gov.
That it shows up in this data now means NS records were added to the domain yesterday github.com/cisagov/dotg...
I play this game except with fictional .gov domains! Hereβs Zootopia with zpd.gov
Sometimes im a spicy πΆοΈennifer, but also a duckface π€³ennifer,
and occasionally larp as a
canadian πennifer www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BAT584/
I spent three hours making this list and I have no regrets
Hereβs a thought for Rep. Stefanikβthe U.S. would do well to first hire and retain (and rehire) all the technologists who already want to serve their country before thinking about a new service academy. Many such pathways to serve already existed and were entirely destroyed by DOGE.
wapo.st/45dVoxX
NYT crossword with 41 across, βgovβ, highlighted. The clue reads βDomain suffix that most civilians canβt registerβ
The worldβs best American government TLD in the Crossword of Record
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
We don't have a definitive count of how many federal agencies exist.
I hope their phone got the worst of it.
Take it easy.
This was really lovely, Chris.
Several members of my team moved to support Direct File and we cheered yβall on from a neighboring domain! Thanks for pushing, moving the rock.
I believe these are @krusynth.bsky.social originals π
On the one hand this is all very funny but on the other hand I wish it had happened before the government was dismantled and all my friends got fired.
Screenshot from support.apple.com for tvOS 18: βSubtitles appear when you mute audio or when you skip back, up to 30 seconds.β
Using an Apple TV? This is a newish feature of tvOS: support.apple.com/en-us/106336
New from Jen Easterly and me: as threats to our critical infrastructure increase, U.S. policymakers need to defend + strengthen the role of security research. This is personal for me, having received legal threats for good-faith security research.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/adva...
Screenshot of beta.weather.gov with an announcement info box saying "beta.weather.gov has been deactivated until further notice." The message continues by mentioning "This page has been deactivated...due to the loss of critical federal staff, which leaves the project without the resources required to continue its development or for routine monitoring and maintenance."
This is what happens when 18F goes away: beta.weather.gov has been deactivated, βdue to the loss of critical federal staff, which leaves this project without the resources to continue its development or for routine monitoring and maintenance.β
18f.org/projects/#:~...
Do you know how lucky you are? Catching a @peeldreammagazine.bsky.social and Friko show hits it home: life is rough, but be kind anyway and savor good things.
The administration got rid of 18F under the cover of night. People who own skyscrapers are afraid of 100 people who make websites.
Not because of the latest tech fad, but because we proved the government can be fixed, the government can be made better and the government can work for the people.
π The 18F site was just brought down: web.archive.org/web/20250222...
I was once told that cars have brakes not so they can slow down, but so they can go fast.
Over the last decade, it was consistently 18F and their TTS peers that did βbrakingβ work which, if followed, made everything go faster. My work has been better, and the publicβs the beneficiary.
Agencies may still do that work! But in the end it will cost more, be done less well, or take longer; pick at least two.
A laptop with several stickers including a black square one that says β18Fβ in white letters
Iβm heartsick thinking about the destruction of 18F. The lights of my own public service turned on when I learned about them in 2014. Iβve worked among them and learned from them, and the American public lost orders of magnitude more than whatever small amount wonβt be expended on work left undone.
Iβm so heartbroken for you and everyone and all of us. Let the credits roll, friend, and see all the good work youβve done.
π£ PSA: I made a playlist that reflects how I feel about this moment in my decade+ of governmenting. Itβs called βPublic Service Accompanimentβ π΅
Devotion, resignation, resolve, disappointment, motivation, loss, hope, and the wild swings between these feelings. It has a happy ending! We deserve one
Far be it from me to assess the entire federal workforceβs performance, but what I can say with no doubt is they are subject to the most oversight and accountability of any workforce in the country.
π RIP Bill Fay. His music is a regular reminder to me that, despite the pervasive dark, thereβs still some light.
This oneβs for the fascists and their sympathizers: youβre wrong, now and eternally
youtu.be/_uZwiZlW-QU
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We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life