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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 13h

Young Republicans group chat.

Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 12h

dammit aaron I was microtargeting a very small niche, the intersection of cloud native & beef and dairy aficionados… admittedly possibly the singleton set {“Aaron Wislang”}

Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 17h

"Mais j'peux pas sauter le déjeuner !"

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 17h

Upstream @ AKS is the number one podcast for those involved, or just interested, in the production, and deployment, of containerized applications on Azure.

If it's not Lachie Evenson, get back in the truck.

#cattlenotpets

(With apologies to the Beef and Dairy Network ... IYKYK)

Aaron Wislang 🇨🇦 @aaronw.dev · 15d

Upstream @ AKS with Lachlan Evenson (@lachie.bsky.social) - KAITO: AI/ML Inference & Tuning in Kubernetes with Ernest Wong

📺 youtube.com/watch?v=ItVN...
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/u...

Kaito: AI/ML inference & tuning in Kubernetes: with Ernest Wong: Upstream@AKS: Azure Kubernetes Svc

YouTube video by Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

youtube.com

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 19h

💪 together, we can make it normal not to spend the first 15 minutes of every call doing a "quick round of introductions"

a group of people on a video call with the name will fellowes

Alt: a group of people on a video call, all clapping

media.tenor.com

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 6d

Which is awesome but then also:
bsky.app/profile/dave...

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 6d

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 8d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 10d

RIP Knödelexpress 💔 wir haben uns mal geliebt, aber jede große Liebe geht einmal zu Ende.
www.rbb24.de/panorama/bei...

Alte Speisewagen des "Knödelexpress" werden im Oktober ausgetauscht

www.rbb24.de

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 10d

🟩 Green Party Conference 🟩

🗳️ ✨ Reforming Trans Healthcare (a Trans positive motion) ✨

✅ Unanimously passed by @greenparty.org.uk members

✅ Every speaker in support

✅ Every vote in favour

The Green Party once again showing what true solidarity looks like

#GPC25
#TransRights

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 11d

Love to dress up for a fancy dinner!

Me in the hall at Corpus Christi college in Oxford in a tuxedo with maroon bow tie.

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 11d

omg it’s literally that meme 🥵

Screenshot with the usual cookie permissions boilerplate (in German) - but at the bottom are two buttons, labeled “Button” and “Button “

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 11d

Definitely on the cards if there’s not enough political pushback.
Please sign the petition!!!
agir.greenvoice.fr/en/petitions...

Note there’s also fault on the SNCF side because they got subsidies on the promise of daily service but only do 3x/week.

I’ve got tickets for Nov, maybe last chance.

🚂 Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne

Signez la pétition maintenant !

agir.greenvoice.fr

Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 12d

With government shutdown I was expecting some level of market drop but today and yesterday I’ve been checking my portfolio and it keeps going up. Explanation (beyond “this market is not rational“)?

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 13d

i feel seen

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 14d

Today I’m remembering Yee, an extraordinary human, who departed this earth too soon.
youtu.be/_kd0GuXloYw?...

Yee Lee's practical path to saving the world | Mercury Spheres

YouTube video by Mercury

youtu.be

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 14d

📣 Happening now in Berlin: All Systems Go!, the foundational user-space Linux conference. 👏 Awesome work by Chris Kuehl and all the ASG volunteer team to keep it going.
Especially interesting to see them move to a sponsor-free model 💰❌ — allowing the focus to be 100% on the tech 🧑‍💻
all-systems-go.io

All Systems Go!

all-systems-go.io

Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 14d

The work done by our eBPF Tools team is some of the most exciting not just at @microsoft.com, but in the industry. They're putting incredible capabilities in the hands of mere mortals (and AI agents).
Something you'd like to be part of? They're hiring (US): jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

A hacker of indeterminate gender (at least that's what I asked Copilot to produce -- looks a bit male presenting though, tbh) sits at a laptop with eBPF, Microsoft and Linux stickers. On the wall in the background is a neon sign, "we're hiring"

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 16d

🚂 A peine lancés et déjà supprimés ? Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne, un voyage bas-carbone largement plébiscité par ses utilisateurs
agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...

🚂 Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne

Signez la pétition maintenant !

agir.greenvoice.fr

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18d

"How many traitors are in Farage's new party?" would, I suggest be a better line than Digital ID.

To beat Reform, make wavering voters ashamed to back them.

Spotlight on Corruption @spotlightcorruption.org · 18d

🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges

Gill admits to eight charges while an elected member of the European parliament

www.theguardian.com

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 18d

those are rookie moves. you'll never get it in 2 like that!

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 19d

Proud Wordle moment - my guesses were identical to the Bot. (Not sharing the exact words here so as not to spoil for anyone… but they were all the same.)

Screenshot from the Wordle bot report showing I had the same guesses as the Bot.

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 19d

a man and a woman are looking at each other and the man says watch it earth girl

Alt: David Tenant, as Doctor Who, says "oi! watch it earth girl!"

media.tenor.com

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 19d

nice. you could add that microsoft and google are customers of nvidia

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 19d

Quality graffiti in Berlin-Wannsee

“Digital macht dumm” (digital makes you dumb)

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 21d

RIP Dickie Bird, 8 short of a century.
"I never married because in cricket you are never at home. I thought it would never work. It would have been wonderful to have a lad and watch him play. I missed that. But you can’t have everything. I gave myself to cricket and it has given me a real good life"

Dickie Bird wearing a sun hat on top of a flat cap, making the hand gesture indicating a player is out.

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