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Rich Seviora @richs.bsky.social · 9m

My general philosophy is that you shouldn’t criticize the work other people are paid to do unless you are paid to do that exact same work and are familiar with the context

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 15h

@martindotnet.bsky.social put out a banger of a post on LinkedIn. now is the time for hugops, not saying "skill issue, I would have simply designed better" or trying to sell your architecture cleanup/design/consulting skills.

Don't be the tacky ambulance-chaser.

Rich Seviora @richs.bsky.social · 13m

They did WHAT

Dærick Gröss @daerickgross.com · 8h

the AWS datacenter outage coupled with the understanding that Amazon let go of 40% of its DevOps team in favor of an AI solution has me imagining a scenario where the incident response to an event like this is a couple people furiously entering AI prompts to identify and resolve this crash... 1/2

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Rich Seviora @richs.bsky.social · 7h

I’ve always felt it was extremely defensible. Kill two people (who are by no means innocent or pure) to prevent the deaths and enslavement of billions?

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 20h

New @nberpubs: "Who Pays for Tariffs Along the Supply Chain? Evidence from European Wine Tariffs" www.nber.org/papers/w34392

"U.S. consumers paid more than the government received in tariff revenue, because domestic markups amplified downstream price effects." 👀

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Rich Seviora @richs.bsky.social · 22h

do you ever forget if you’ve taken a shower this evening

thanks ADHD

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 1d

So this is beside the point but GoFundMe didn't even exist until after the ACA passed. What a glib, sloppy tweet

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 1d

Alt text for the screenshot of a New York Times economics reporter’s shitty tweet

talmon joseph smith @talmonsmith
can all the obamacare defenders please chill out. like ok people can stay on their parents healthcare until their mid20s great. and there are fewer gofundmes now.
but the way institutionalists talk about the thing it's like we should all be bowing down with gratefulness. yeah, no

And then there’s a chart:
Peterson-KFF|
Health System Tracker
Cumulative percent change in Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for medical care and for all goods and services, January 2000 - June 2024

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

I like how the post in question is doing a leftish version of "yeah who cares how you feel, look at this graph"

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 1d

Alt text for the screenshot of a New York Times economics reporter’s shitty tweet

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Rich Seviora @richs.bsky.social · 1d

batman logo whirl but it’s a transit schedule

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Rich Seviora @richs.bsky.social · 1d

“So there’s this thing called cash and we would give it to each other. And we’d consult a big paper map to figure out where we were and how to get somewhere else.”

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 1d

Also the premiere no code tool is Excel send tweet

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 1d

Industry has been trying to develop no code tools forever, surely they've cracked it this time!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

When someone uses this emoji 🤣 they are more mad than they have ever been in their entire life

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Rich Seviora @richs.bsky.social · 2d

Hello I’m here to copyright the idea of “sunset”

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Rich Seviora @richs.bsky.social · 2d

So he was 100% wrong about it because everyone knows tariffs raise prices, but from what I can tell Trump seriously believes his tariff nonsense.

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Rich Seviora @richs.bsky.social · 2d

Trump was very clear about his plans to add more tariffs

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Rich Seviora @richs.bsky.social · 2d

If only there was a sign that the tariff otaku would impose tariffs

Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 2d

"A beloved family-run grocery store in Florida may have to close its doors after 43 years because of tariffs." www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/ar...

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Rich Seviora @richs.bsky.social · 2d

well that’s what you get for creating JEs to adjust partially paid invoices with negative balances due to forex changes.

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 2d

Antifa Procurement is currently overwhelmed but is trying their very best to issue 1099-NECs by next April in the event the IRS is functional. HR continues to maintain it's not their problem.

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2d

It’s going to take ages to pay all these people

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Rich Seviora @richs.bsky.social · 2d

Antifa AP is currently unable to process checks as there were no runs scheduled today and they are currently conducting an Oracle ERP upgrade.

The upgrade is running later than planned due to some issues in customizations they made to AP module, and it’s causing reconciliation issues between AP&GL

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Rich Seviora @richs.bsky.social · 2d

As a tech guy I’m not even 100% sure what he means is what he saying

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 3d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 2d

the US government has arrived on bluesky

4 panel comic

Panel 1: A group of people just having a lovely time. Everyone is laughing

Panel 2: An absolute Federal Agent appears in the middle of the group laughing like an obnoxious robot

Panel 3: The group quickly disperses, leaving the gross creepy agent by himself

Panel 4: The agent touches his ear and says “arrest their moms”

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 4d

And here was the inspiration, Michelle Dorrell, the woman who voted Tory and then got upset the Tories cut her working Tax Credits

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Rich Seviora @richs.bsky.social · 3d

Does Andrew Cuomo have people that care for him? Does he need a wellness check?

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

If you think the problem in this city is that my rent is too low, vote for Andrew Cuomo.

If you know the problem in this city is that your rent is too high, vote for me.

Rich Seviora @richs.bsky.social · 4d

Me, out loud, reading that “what the fuck”

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Rich Seviora @richs.bsky.social · 4d

So many chart crimes

Inconsistent Y axis
colour change for some reason
arguably count donors instead of $ value

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