If I don't care about maintenance or integration with anything else, it might go faster (for a while)

This has definitely been my experience as a software engineer. Copilot CAN help me build my API or whatever. But I get best results when I keep the prompt focused.

Where "best results" = I/someone can read that code six months from now & debug it as needed.

"his party"? Absolutely not

How did Mills' entering the race prevent a better candidate from stepping up?

Steven Brust, probably also great, although tiny baby late 1990s me didn't dive into his books as much.

Freedom and Necessity by Emma Bull & Steven Brust. Mystery! Amnesia! Women disguising themselves as men! Magic! The Chartist Movement! (which I had never heard of) Karl Marx is in it as a peripheral character? Kind of a serious & simultaneously bonkers novel. Also, Emma Bull is fabulous.

How many pens can it hold? Better be a bunch. And now I also want it to fall onto its back once it's holding five or six.

Aaah, why didn't I put it on hold at the library when I first heard there was a new one coming? Now there are 14 holds on 2 copies of the ebook.

I hope that's what he means!

What do we think he means about "coarsening & degradation of American life"? More people say fuck in public vs 10 years ago so now we can't hold pedophiles & human traffickers accountable?

You don't need any more information to decide against finding DHS & ICE. Vote no. Actually represent us.

I'm your constituent & I've noticed you keep enabling everything the administration is doing. Maybe stop voting in favor of Trump's nominees? Maybe actually block funding for something? Words are cheap. DO SOMETHING

Just finished The Once and Future Queen by @paulalafferty.bsky.social

Really liked it! Totally forgot until literally the LAST PAGE that it's the first book in a trilogy! 😢

At least Tammy Duckworth & Danny Davis have functioning voice mail. (With thanks as always to @5calls.org for contact info & verbiage)

Another national crisis, another day of Dick Durbin and his lack of voice mail access outside of business hours. I'm sure my strongly-worded message on his website will be very effective.

Sign me up, I'll pay for someone who needs it

I got this one too, one for me & one for my sister-in-law, based on all the raves about it last year. I have high hopes & lots of scone & shortbread recipes ready.

Coward.

*on his website

The fact that you can't even leave him a voice mail outside of office hours is a pretty clear indication of how much he cares about his constituents. I just typed out message of his f-ing website.

Java would never

Just to clarify, this is me giving Roberts a HUGE benefit of the doubt & imagining for a millisecond that he's not just a racist.

I've never understood his position but it finally clicked for me: he's like the doctors 200 years ago who refused to wash their hands when Semmelweis told them to because "doctors are gentlemen & gentlemen's hands are clean." So they just kept freely spreading germs & killing people.

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

Awesome. Thanks for clarifying!

I agree Pritzker is infinitely better than Newsom. Just maybe don't trivialize the justifiable criticisms of Newsom as "turning up your nose".

Why is she the only one they've locked up? Did the others all sign it?

So military jets flying over Chicago sure hits different this year. They're just practicing for the annual Air & Water show. Seems great

I think it's a hermit crab.

So interesting that the first two cities where Trump has deployed his goons are run by Black women.