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Nah yeah, we're coming to get 'em! Yeah nah, all good, we're going home now.

26.01.2026 04:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

TBF we're mostly interested in the beans. Im not sure if we can do the trees justice.

23.01.2026 08:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

With just seven and a half hours left of 2025 (San Francisco time) I just need 988,020 new follows to reach one million! Why don’t you help an angry 53 year old gay guy out, eh?

01.01.2026 00:44 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
EsDeeKid x Timothee Chalamet the biggest collab of the century πŸ”₯ #esdeekid #timotheechalamet
EsDeeKid x Timothee Chalamet the biggest collab of the century πŸ”₯ #esdeekid #timotheechalamet YouTube video by TOPSIFY

Okay, sure. This is bigger than boy throb. I'm still expecting the Chalamet singularity for christmas though.

youtube.com/shorts/EosIg...

20.12.2025 07:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I used to find it hard to not give a shit about so many different things that weren't trivial but on balance didn't matter.

Having insufficient bandwidth for everything in life, practicing rapid acceptance and acknowledging the expectations I put on myself are unreasonable, helps. And sleep. ❀️

20.12.2025 04:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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First new iPhone in about 10 years, and this setting on my Mac had me thinking that Apple and iOS had just completely removed all ringing and notifications from their phones.

19.12.2025 00:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

… and he SERVED ✨

06.12.2025 01:56 πŸ‘ 14186 πŸ” 3784 πŸ’¬ 167 πŸ“Œ 81

I'm on the wrong platform, but I'm calling Esdeekid to battle and defeat boy throb on Christmas day.

Half the world will be online and experience the Chalamet singularity. The other half will have just logged off and have no idea what happened.

03.12.2025 06:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Also Hotdog theme.

30.11.2025 04:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Are Windows 3.11 icons public domain yet?

30.11.2025 04:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

just wrote "sux" in a DM for maybe the first time in 20 years. I think we could bring it back.

13.11.2025 06:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

TFW you challenge Mr 11 teaching himself to play Seek and Destroy and he knows what he is doing but you think it should be an Iggy Pop song.

11.11.2025 07:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

yes. Singlets, closed doors, and heat pump weather.

09.11.2025 06:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

same tone, but replace "closing schools" with "harming our communities" would have been a different message all together.

03.11.2025 06:28 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

my morning ritual when the office was empty was often: "I've got a question, but that sounds like some very productive problem solving... should I interrupt or try and figure it out myself? πŸ€”

Knowing the geek tangents happened fast and often and neither of us was that great at staying on topic.

03.11.2025 05:42 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

more loudly than @orthanc.nz?

02.11.2025 09:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Getting there.

01.11.2025 05:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

With the Lourve, I'm putting my money on the bad guys/girls.

29.10.2025 06:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Would you journal more if it was in a notebook titled "unpublished tweets" with little tweet cards to write in?

I'm too lazy to make products, but kinda wish this existed.

Alternate title: Deleted drafts

29.10.2025 06:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Girls did great yesterday.

27.10.2025 04:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's just gummy bears.

Probably humanity's peak.

14.10.2025 08:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Conclusion: Policy.nz entries show templated messaging reused across ACT Local candidate bios, with a localized transport plank in Wellington.

Conclusion: Policy.nz entries show templated messaging reused across ACT Local candidate bios, with a localized transport plank in Wellington.

Maybe LLMs are useful for some things.

03.10.2025 07:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

balance over symmetry is going to be my longest and hardest life lesson.

22.09.2025 08:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty bummed to get a 25% increase in youtube premium today.

It's becoming a low bar being the only service offering full width theatre mode and not being spotify.

20.09.2025 08:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Perfect way to deal with Destiny Church

13.09.2025 00:58 πŸ‘ 276 πŸ” 101 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 10

I think it can be re-enabled on Android phones. But it is buried in settings that cant responsibly be navigated while driving ... after a route has been started. And the capability is different. Massive self own asking a user to enable and learn a new UX while driving.

29.08.2025 02:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

glad this made the list. It had impact ;)

22.08.2025 05:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How do I advise Ms 9 that there is no spoon.

31.07.2025 05:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In Praise of "Normal" Engineers (LDX3) The software industry is obsessed with hiring and recruiting β€œtop talent”, β€œbest of the best”, β€œ10x engineers”, and so on. I think this obsession misund…

This piece was originally commissioned by refactoring.fm, and later picked up by IEEE (career highlight!!), but this is the first time I've published it in full and uncut.

It's also the source material for the talk I gave this week at #LDX3. speakerdeck.com/charity/in-p...

19.06.2025 17:24 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Socrates said, β€œThe misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” He wasn't talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in itself, to sing a poem or tell a story, goes right, goes towards the truth.
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Storytellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.
β€”Ursula K. Le Guin

Socrates said, β€œThe misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” He wasn't talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in itself, to sing a poem or tell a story, goes right, goes towards the truth. A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Storytellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper. β€”Ursula K. Le Guin

"Socrates said 'The misuse of language induces evil in the soul'...A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth & freedom, & so they use them with care...By using words well they strengthen their souls"
-Ursula Le Guin

02.07.2025 06:25 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1