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Emily m Klassen

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Memory testing : 4190200KB OK Detecting boot volume... Web software person (TypeScript, some rust, python) Stone/brick butch trans menno-dyke. Unceded territories/stolen land of the Coast Salish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh nations.

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Emily m Klassen @forivall.com · Nov 22

This is the oldest skeet possible

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Emily m Klassen @forivall.com · 3h

Idea: fusion between a Nanaimo Bar and Dubai Chocolate

a Nanaimo bar that substitutes or flavours the custard with pistachio and replaces coconut with kadayif

Nabaimo bar

Emily m Klassen @forivall.com · 12d

Austin Powers, maybe?

Alley-Piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 13d

fighting the problematic stereotype of 'only the bad guys are weird sex perverts' by making the good-hearted protagonist an even weirder sex pervert

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 18d

Miss Major is an incalculable loss for the trans community and a reminder that our movement is always led by Black trans women. Always.

May we all prove to be worthy students of her example.

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 18d

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Emily m Klassen @forivall.com · 17d

Looking at the prompts in the source for some "AI" tools often feels like telling the LLM to be like the Good Doctor "I am a surgeon" meme: "you are an expert!"

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 21d

i made a thing that hopefully makes this clearer or is at least fun to play with: sgd.fyi

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Emily m Klassen @forivall.com · 21d

I'm looking forward to it bsky.app/profile/fori...

Emily m Klassen @forivall.com · 21d

I'm looking forward to the upcoming 4/20

Wrestling meme featuring a terrified A.J. Styles (labeled "Dallas Brodie") looking forward while being intensely stared down from behind by The Undertaker (labeled "Constituents waiting to submit a recall petition on April 20, 2026").

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · Aug 21

Recall petition applications will be accepted starting April 20, 2026.

for Dallas Brodie

elections.bc.ca/events-servi...

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 25d

Here's Hansard's draft transcript of the exchange
www.leg.bc.ca/hansard-cont...

Dallas Brodie: I have a point of order to raise.

I’m looking at section 40(2) and 40(3) of the standing orders. The first one is: “Disrespectful or offensive language forbidden.” That’s sub 2. “Irrelevance in debate.” That’s sub 3.

Sub 2 says: “No member shall use offensive words against any member of this House.” The Premier has repeatedly referred to me as being racist, denialist and hateful. Am I now allowed to use words like “stupid,” “incompetent,” “financially illiterate” and “anarchist”? How far does this go?

The second one is: “No member shall be irrelevant in debate.” He takes shots at me sideways whenever he can, and I’m not accepting it anymore. It’s unacceptable language in this House. I could call him lots of names — believe me — but I’m not taking this anymore.

Raising questions about public expenditures of money in this province is not against the rules. Anybody who takes public money is open to questioning, and you shouldn’t be questioned about whether you’re racist. If you want no questions, don’t take public money.

I would like a declaration from the Speaker about whether people can call each other names in this House anymore.

Hon. David Eby: I feel like I should be paying the member rent for the amount of space I’m occupying in her head.

Interjection.

The Speaker: Shhh. Please.

Hon. David Eby: In my answer, I was specifically referring to the staff member that was hired by the Leader of the Opposition who was fired recently for being a racist residential school denialist — properly fired, by the way. I congratulate him for taking that appropriate stand. A little late, but he did take it. I support it. You wouldn’t find me hiring people like that.

If the member thought I was talking about her, perhaps that’s her issue.

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Emily m Klassen @forivall.com · 21d

I'm looking forward to the upcoming 4/20

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Emily m Klassen @forivall.com · 21d

This was supposed to say fromage

Emily m Klassen @forivall.com · 21d

If it isn't already, "frontage cottage" should be a common homage in French rap/hip hop

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Eric Schultz @wwahammy.com · 24d

In September, the Apache Software Foundation rebranded as the ASF and eliminated all of their Indigenous imagery. It's not my call on whether this fixes the original issue, I will defer to Native people.

I think this action shows how absurd DHH and his anti-woke ilk's identification as builders...

Introducing The ASF’s New Logo - The ASF Blog

Last year we shared that The Apache® Software Foundation (ASF) would be evolving its corporate logo and brand system to better represent our enduring ethos of community over code. Today, we are proud ...

news.apache.org

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Emily m Klassen @forivall.com · 29d

I say gesundheit

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Jen Lee @jenleecbc.bsky.social · 29d

Tragic news in Alberta

The province is reporting its first measles death since its outbreaks began in March

A baby, born prematurely, after the mother contracted measles

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta baby born prematurely dies due to measles, in province's first death | CBC News

Alberta is reporting its first measles death since outbreaks of the highly contagious illness began in the province in March. The province says a baby, who was born prematurely after the mother became...

www.cbc.ca

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Bill R aka N1VUX @bill-n1vux.bsky.social · Sep 29

WRTO pranks and the Terminal Emulator post ...
Back when I was a computer security researcher, we still had real DEC VT100 terminals. I read the manual. I noticed that the Escape code for Factory Self-test could be received on the RS-232 port, didn't have to be typed (makes factory testing easier!)

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Sep 24

Hahaha you stupid assholes!

The Information @theinformation.com · Sep 23

Exclusive: Nvidia discusses a new business model for its megadeal with OpenAI: leasing its chips.

Read more from Anissa Gardizy and Sri Muppidi 👇
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-megadeal-nvidia-discusses-new-business-model-chip-leasing

In OpenAI Megadeal, Nvidia Discusses a New Business Model: Chip Leasing

OpenAI and Nvidia are discussing an unusual way to structure their new artificial intelligence data center partnership, under which OpenAI would lease Nvidia’s AI chips rather than buying them, accord...

www.theinformation.com

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Emily m Klassen @forivall.com · Sep 25

"the statement on the other bullet is false", "the statement on the other bullet is true"

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Witch’s Black Kat Marchán 🐈‍⬛🧙🏼 @zkat.tech · Sep 25

Additionally, there’s an open letter calling for the forking of Rails, and a pledge to adopt the alternative: github.com/Plan-Vert/op...

GitHub - Plan-Vert/open-letter: An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence

An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence - Plan-Vert/open-letter

github.com

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · Sep 24

`stty sane` has been helpful for when I accidentally cat a binary file and it garbled my terminal.

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Emily m Klassen @forivall.com · Sep 24

I can imagine a reason to change ctrl-c: pranks

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · Sep 24

stty

wizardzines.com/comics/stty/

(from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, out now! wizardzines.com/zines/termin...)

your TTY driver has configuration

you can see how it’s configured by running:

stty -a

for example it print out the current window size!
Ctrl+S

by default, pressing Ctrl+S wi(( freeze your terminal (and Ctrl+Q wi(( unfreeze) I have never wanted this in my life, you can turn it off with stty -ixon (fish turns it off by default)

###fun fact: changing Ctrl+C technically you can use stty to set a different keyboard shortcut for Ctrl+C, (ike “u”

stty intr u

this is extremely chaotic and I can’t imagine a reason that I would ever do this though
programs have to configure the TTY driver to get friendly features

developer: I want arrow keys to work in my program!

other person: better tell the TTY driver to turn off canonical mode! (more on the next page)
the TTY driver’s settings are called “termios settings”

for the gnarly details:

man termios

but if you’re writing a terminal program libraries like readline or ncurses will handle setting up the TTY driver
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smiling stick figure with short curly hair: I’ve only needed to use stty once in the last 20 years and I mostly don’t understand its output but I think it’s a fun view into terminal internals!

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · Sep 24

Porco Rosso / Savoia S-21 full-size airplane replica ♥
Displayed at "Studio Ghibli: Architecture in Animation" 2025 exhibition (Tokyo).
Moving to Aichi park on November 1.