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Rich Lafferty

@rich.lafferty.ca

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Disaster prevention chihuahua. Reliability at PagerDuty. Living on unceded land in Punamue'katikt, Mi'kma'ki (Dartmouth, NS). May all beings be free from suffering. He/him. also hachyderm.io/@mendel. formerly @mendel on twitter. www.lafferty.ca

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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · Oct 19

Well this thing seems to be getting popular. Intro post(s) time!

Professionally, I'm a staff reliability engineer (#SRE) at PagerDuty, where my interests lie in #LearningFromIncidents, #HumanFactors and safety.

Personally... (1/2 - cat pictures to follow)

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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 1h

@nanoraptor.danamania.com possibly your kind of thing

Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 2h

i am only partway through the wikipedia article and hoping this is Chekhov's marshmallow factory

Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 2h

me: Teen Vogue doesn't have a print subscription???

me, a moment later: Right, right, yeah.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 1d

wow drake's STILL losing this fight

Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 1d

the writers are really phoning it in this season

Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 2d

(espresso, milk disclaimed)

Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 2d

checking them twice

Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 2d

time for flywheels!!

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 2d

Happy World Cephalopod Day! 🐙This sucker for adventure feels its way through the world!

With thousands of chemical receptors and millions of texture receptors packed into each sucker, the giant Pacific octopus has a real sense for exploration.

A red-colored giant Pacific octopus with one eye poking out from its body while stretching out its arms, and showing off its white, round suckers

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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 2d

like riding with geese

Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 2d

Could mount it way up front and give the button to the kids to push. I can't think of any way this could go wrong.

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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 2d

OK! ᴼᴷᵎ BLUE JAYS! ᴮᴸᵁᴱ ᴶᴬʸˢᵎ LET’S! ᴸᴱᵀ’ˢᵎ PLAY! ᴾᴸᴬʸᵎ BALLLL!

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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 4d

i am also Team Blow-up Pillow (which I think I bought in the mid-2000s) although really I'm more Team Window Seat Lean. I don't know how people can carry those stuffed pillows for their ENTIRE TRIP

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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 4d

true, true

(also the temptation to say "too soon" was high)

Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 4d

HONK HONK HONK HONK

(Cruise ships Zuiderdam and Queen Mary 2 are both departing Halifax, passing Brilliant Lady who is still at anchor and there is a LOT of HONKING)

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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 4d

oh come ON

ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 4d

Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756

Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 4d

do judges usually schedule 45-minute-notice sunday night hearings when they're happy with defendants

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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 4d

Norway

Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 6d

good teamwork, good teamwork

Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 6d

i hadn't reached the 4m 3-year-old at first but then I was like "wait. perhaps I misunderstand."

Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 6d

oh wait that's the DISTANCE lol

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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 6d

the scale is right but i think something happened to those labels

that 2.3m 5-year-old gonna have a hell of an NBA career

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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 6d

seems that way yeah, see "Special Configurations" here

www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/handb...

(I'm not in CA but that kind of restriction on vanity plates is common i think)