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nigel kersten

@etwoy.net

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🇦🇺🇺🇸🇬🇧 immigrant in tech Chief Product Officer @upsun.com ex puppet ex google ex devops electronic music dilettante, lover of bass music, devotee of the justified ancients of mu mu

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nigel kersten @etwoy.net · 16d

Mmmmm, that opsworks deal was a nightmare that just kept on giving.

nigel kersten @etwoy.net · 17d

Passed my Life in the UK test. Spent a while thinking about this mock test question…

Question. What must police officers do?

Options:
Be rude and abusive
Make a false statement
Obey the law
Commit racial discrimination.

nigel kersten @etwoy.net · 17d

My money is on Shia LaBeouf, Joaquin Phoenix, or James Franco.

Newspaper headline saying “Danish authorities say professional actor responsible for airport drone attacks.”

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nigel kersten @etwoy.net · 18d

Not much, how about you Dad?

nigel kersten @etwoy.net · 18d

One of the main reasons I haven’t been posting on socials much over the last six months :)

Upsun @upsun.com · 19d

🎉 We are very excited and proud to announce that today, Platform.sh officially becomes Upsun, the cloud application platform humans and robots love 🎉 bit.ly/46ArX8S

#Upsun #News #TechNews

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nigel kersten @etwoy.net · 26d

There’s no such thing as an internal only product name.

nigel kersten @etwoy.net · Jun 9

Robert Miles - Children may be the greatest ear worm of all.

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Robert Miles - Children (Official Video)

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nigel kersten @etwoy.net · May 31

Is it just me, or was the latest Rick and Morty unexpectedly moving?

nigel kersten @etwoy.net · May 29

In today's episode of "Most of your ancestors were xenophobic", I just discovered the origin of the Australian slang "to carry on like a pork chop" is the older phrase "like a pork chop in a synagogue" 😬

nigel kersten @etwoy.net · May 17

1:33 in - irrepressible stank face and waving finger guns.

nigel kersten @etwoy.net · May 17

For a genre that came out of raves and clubs, dnb/jungle just hits so well on a glorious sunny day. skeemask.bandcamp.com/album/essent...

Essential Mix 2021-05-15, by Skee Mask

1 track album

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · May 14

I haven’t watched Andor, is it a show about Boolean logic

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Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · May 14

'I’m just a girl, standing in front of the British government, asking why they want to give away all my work as part of the UK's 126 billion pound creative arts industry, to serve another industry being run by greedy tech bros, just so they can destroy everything else just that little bit faster.'

Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social · May 14

Felt incandescently angry, might delete later.
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Rage, rage against the dying of the mic!

Look, I have a book I should be writing, but I have so many other words screaming in my head that I need to write them down first. Buckle up, my darlings, because this post is breaking my social media...

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nigel kersten @etwoy.net · May 14

Some of those tax credits are based on publishing the results of research rather than an output asset, and those should be sound if the fundamental approaches are.

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nigel kersten @etwoy.net · May 12

Eating falafel with hummus always feels vaguely wrong and cannibalistic.

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · May 11

Happy Mother's Day

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · May 11

I could watch this over and over again 🤣

TikToker Goes Viral For Creating Real-Life Version Of Infamous 'Wallace & Gromit' Contraption

Wow!

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Mike Dawson @mikedawson.bsky.social · May 10

What George Lucas got right about the original trilogy, but has never managed to replicate since, is that I was a little kid when those came out

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nigel kersten @etwoy.net · May 11

I’ve loved so much of @aptshadow.bsky.social’s sci-fi that the different style of City of Last Chances has been a delicious surprise. Notes of Mervyn Peake with sprinklings of the less goofy parts of Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams, but a distinct voice and style and compelling world building.

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nigel kersten @etwoy.net · May 11

(╭ರ_•́) goddamnit another interesting question ruined by AI swill “answers”.

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Depravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · May 10

"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.

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nigel kersten @etwoy.net · May 8

This! Be free to make terrible meals so you make great ones later.

nigel kersten @etwoy.net · May 8

I’m not a complete masochist David :)

nigel kersten @etwoy.net · May 8

Nietzsche and Foucault blew my mind in lots of ways I’ve found useful as an adult, but I genuinely think PoS shaped me more than anything else I studied in philosophy.

nigel kersten @etwoy.net · May 8

It’s been decades since Phenomonology of Spirit blew my mind as a student but to quote Wikipedia “the recognition of someone you do not recognize as properly human cannot count as genuine recognition” feels pertinent right now…

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