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C Jackmanson @caspia.rocks · 1d

If anyone has anything spare, it would be wonderful to help Tam. I, selfishly, want her back able to work because we need people with her experience in the medical system instead of the callous people currently in charge.

Also she's cool and kind and wonderful.

Tam @c3convertase.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone from the ex-bird site remembers me and has a few dollars spare to throw my way it would mean the world as I no longer have my job as a General Practice Registrar due to being unwell and am going into hospital for my bipolar.

♥️♥️♥️

gofund.me/869b52040

Donate to Living costs of trainee GP out of work due to illness, organized by Tamara Hall

Hi, my name is Tamara and I'm currently a GP Registrar in Sydney, Au… Tamara Hall needs your support for Living costs of trainee GP out of work due to illness

gofund.me

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

early elementary school report: kpop demon hunters has at last dethroned elsa as the costume of choice for little girls

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 1d

The sickos meme but with Commander Sisko from Deep Space Nine

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Christopher @shrydar.bsky.social · 1d

just created a git branch with a name that starts with a digit, AMA.

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Typst @typst.app · 3d

Accessible PDFs can be an intimidating topic (and our guide is looong) — but don't worry: we have published a post with a gentle introduction to the topic on our blog, showing how Typst makes your documents accessible automatically

typst.app/blog/2025/ac...

Typst: How to create accessible PDFs from the start – Typst Blog

Accessibility does not need to be hard. Learn how to create accessible PDFs with Typst without any additional software while reaching new audiences and meeting...

typst.app

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Typst @typst.app · 10d

Typst 0.14 is out now! Get ready for production with accessibility, PDFs as images, character-level justification, and more. Learn about more of the highlights in Typst 0.14 in the thread below ⤵️

Image saying Typst 0.14. It has a holographic effect. The background is a pattern of checkmarks, at the top, it changes to a pattern of the string "0.14". The horizontal bar across the top reads "Title Elementm Skewed Fractions, Table Subheaders, Accessible Documents, Character-level Justification, PDF/A compliance, PDF Images, Typed HTML API"

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Typst @typst.app · 4d

You made Typst the 2nd fastest growing language on @github.com: The amount of Typst code on there more than doubled this year!

Screenshot of GitHub blog post with table showing that Typst is the 2nd fastest growing language with over 3600 users and 108% Year over Year growth.

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 3d

why does my brain automatically read this in the thickest Darwin accent possible

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 4d

Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads

They Oz you up, your mandyias.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They give you vast and trunkless legs
A sunken shattered visage too.
But they were Ozzed up in their turn
By Mandyias upon the sand
Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command.
Oz hands on mandyias to man.
Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can
Ye mighty and despair yourself

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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 3d

$11.5 billion. That's how much Australia's teachers contribute in unpaid labour every year.

Our teachers are overworked, undervalued and facing increasingly difficult and unsafe classroom conditions.

It's no wonder they're abandoning the profession in droves. #WorldTeachersDay

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 3d

a crumb of media coverage, as a treat www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

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Phteven @2fbs.bsky.social · 3d

The Rapist Formerly Known As Prince

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 3d

Tl;dr: the fact we were dealing with Hurricane Melissa is probably "more climate change than not," but the component of the storm that is the "climate part" of it is non-trivial but not massive, and the event could definitely have happened anyway. That's not how people are talking about it on here!

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 3d

But there's a great storyline study on Katrina with a really interesting finding: climate change increased the precipitation, but not necessarily the wind speed - but future warming will increase the wind speed of Katrina-like events www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Anthropogenic influences on major tropical cyclone events - Nature

Climate model simulations reveal that recent destructive tropical cyclones would have been equally intense in terms of wind speed but would have produced less rainfall if these events had occurred in ...

www.nature.com

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Christopher @shrydar.bsky.social · 4d

48 hour rentals are annoying.

what if I want to start a movie tonight but don't want to commit to watching the second half tomorrow night?

Christopher @shrydar.bsky.social · 4d

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".

A red cartoon robot with three head fins and a clear dome.
(Analyzer from Space Battleship Yamato)

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Christopher @shrydar.bsky.social · 5d

I used to see them while walking to lunch back when I was working at a gamedev studio in an industrial estate in the north of England, they were so cute!

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Christopher @shrydar.bsky.social · 5d

My condolences!

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Osama Dorias @osamadorias.bsky.social · 5d

Gamedev friends, this is more proof that we are not to blame for the current state of our industry.

These are the same executives that follow every trend blindly and ignorantly.

Aggressive MTX, everything is a live service, DRM that only punish paying players, NFTs, and now AI.

What a shitshow.

Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 5d

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

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Andy Young @anerdguy.now · 5d

I'm gonna create a free cloud backup service where you can upload anything you want but it must be unencrypted (and legal of course) but in the terms of use I get to browse it because I'm nosy af and want to see what crap you have on your computer.

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🦇 @erikforrestjackson.com · 6d

The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟

Donald Trump appeared to describe a dementia screening he underwent at Walter Reed Medical Center as a 'very hard' IQ test while speaking with reporters inside Air Force One

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Christopher @shrydar.bsky.social · 6d

Hah!

Christopher @shrydar.bsky.social · 6d

Oh neat, Rust is about to stabilise u{N}::carrying_add and friends. Glad they didn't just do it for wider words where it's handy for bignum code, I'm going to find the u8 version handy for some 6502 tooling.

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Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social · 7d

But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Natural Flavor was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a master Flavor, to control all others.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 7d

Excuse me…?

Box of “everything” flavor Triscuit crackers with highlight around text that says: “NATURAL FLAVOR WITH OTHER NATURAL FLAVOR.”

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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 7d

for context: the second edition of "Observability Engineering" starts off swinging with an opinionated chapter called "The Fundamentals of Building Good Software".

which begs the question... what IS ✨ good software ✨?

i'll drop my answers 👇 but curious to hear others.

Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 7d

@charity.wtf asked a great question on LinkedIn today. Her question was: "What is ✨ good software ✨?"

I'd love to hear your answers, but I'd also like to share mine. So if you'll allow me a moment of indulgence... 🧵

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 9d

I'm unreasonably upset at this flattening of Garak into Fashion Lizard,he was the Enigmatic Fashion Lizard and this cannot be erased

Minor Local Celebrity @pferdhosen.bsky.social · 10d

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