Cowgirlcoder
@cowgirlcoder.bsky.social
Programmer, baker of bread, pasta and cookies, company gofer. I mill my own grain, and try to eat as much whole grain as possible. (I cook for a chemo patient. Nutrition is important.) On the internet since before there was an internet…
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This is one of the best explanations I've seen of what a cookie is and how they work. And a good explanation of why the web is so hard to use any more.
Why The Web Is Such A Mess
YouTube video by Tom Scott
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:23 AM
This is one of the best explanations I've seen of what a cookie is and how they work. And a good explanation of why the web is so hard to use any more.
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I'm not crying, you're crying.
![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I'm not crying, you're crying.
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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Miss Piggy would have stood up for that reporter!!!
kermit the frog and miss piggy from the sesame street
Alt: kermit the frog and miss piggy from the sesame street
media.tenor.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Miss Piggy would have stood up for that reporter!!!
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It was only a matter of time and that time appears to be now: Winsconsin and Michigan have proposed laws to ban or severely curtail the use of VPNs, which could result in a cascade default ban everywhere.
Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing
It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Pr...
www.eff.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:59 AM
It was only a matter of time and that time appears to be now: Winsconsin and Michigan have proposed laws to ban or severely curtail the use of VPNs, which could result in a cascade default ban everywhere.
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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
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Amazing. Dude is just winking at Cassidy and telling him what a schmuck he is while he kills children.
Apparently RFK Jr. promised Senator Bill Cassidy that he wouldn’t remove the statement
“Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website.
So what RFK Jr. did instead is spit in his face by leaving the statement there and adding this:
“Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website.
So what RFK Jr. did instead is spit in his face by leaving the statement there and adding this:
November 20, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Amazing. Dude is just winking at Cassidy and telling him what a schmuck he is while he kills children.
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Apparently RFK Jr. promised Senator Bill Cassidy that he wouldn’t remove the statement
“Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website.
So what RFK Jr. did instead is spit in his face by leaving the statement there and adding this:
“Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website.
So what RFK Jr. did instead is spit in his face by leaving the statement there and adding this:
November 20, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Apparently RFK Jr. promised Senator Bill Cassidy that he wouldn’t remove the statement
“Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website.
So what RFK Jr. did instead is spit in his face by leaving the statement there and adding this:
“Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website.
So what RFK Jr. did instead is spit in his face by leaving the statement there and adding this:
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I suppose after finding out the New York Times was sitting on info from Epstein that would have implicated Trump it should come as no surprise that the “national paper of record” is trying to sympathize with pedophiles here
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I suppose after finding out the New York Times was sitting on info from Epstein that would have implicated Trump it should come as no surprise that the “national paper of record” is trying to sympathize with pedophiles here
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A trillion dollars is one thousand billion dollars; a billion dollars is one thousand million dollars. Minimum wage has stayed seven dollars & twenty-five cents since 2009. All of this is a choice made repeatedly.
Our self destruction is deliberate and it is well funded.
Our self destruction is deliberate and it is well funded.
In an era of skyrocketing CEO pay, Tesla shareholders overwhelmingly approved a $1 trillion pay package intended to keep Elon Musk in charge of the company for the next decade. https://wapo.st/4oTKbcZ
November 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
A trillion dollars is one thousand billion dollars; a billion dollars is one thousand million dollars. Minimum wage has stayed seven dollars & twenty-five cents since 2009. All of this is a choice made repeatedly.
Our self destruction is deliberate and it is well funded.
Our self destruction is deliberate and it is well funded.
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Btw Trump is literally trying to make the planet uninhabitable, there's also that
Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, demolishing the White House, and blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care
Trump: No
Schumer: Okay
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Btw Trump is literally trying to make the planet uninhabitable, there's also that
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Glad I'm not the only one asking this question. This is what did it, folks.
How long till we learn American, United & Delta worked the phones on Senate Dems?
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Glad I'm not the only one asking this question. This is what did it, folks.
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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Migrating wild birds are spreading the virus to domesticated flocks, increasing the risk of eventually seeing a human outbreak. Scientists are troubled by the muted federal response. n.pr/4913a0E
Bird flu surges among poultry amid a scaled back federal response
Migrating wild birds are spreading the virus to domesticated flocks, increasing the risk of eventually seeing a human outbreak. Scientists are troubled by the muted federal response.
n.pr
November 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Migrating wild birds are spreading the virus to domesticated flocks, increasing the risk of eventually seeing a human outbreak. Scientists are troubled by the muted federal response. n.pr/4913a0E
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Kash Patel was angry about his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician girlfriend perform so he forced out a senior FBI official overseeing aviation, Bloomberg reports
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
November 2, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Kash Patel was angry about his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician girlfriend perform so he forced out a senior FBI official overseeing aviation, Bloomberg reports
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
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Thinking what this will mean for STEM labs and departments, especially at places like UFlorida
Florida's governor is telling public universities to stop hiring anyone on a H-1B visa. Expect other red states to follow suit.
Florida’s Public Universities Should No Longer Hire Foreign Employees, DeSantis Says
The Republican governor’s directive on H-1B visas comes as President Trump has initiated his policy of charging employers a new $100,000 fee to hire people from outside the United States.
www.chronicle.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Thinking what this will mean for STEM labs and departments, especially at places like UFlorida
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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Move over Boaty McBoatface, there's a new contender for silliest name. The British public has voted to name a new leaf-removal train: Ctrl-Alt-Deleaf.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ctrl Alt Deleaf wins public vote to name track cleaning train
Other names on the shortlist included Leaf-Fall Weapon, Pulp Friction and The Autumn Avenger.
www.bbc.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Move over Boaty McBoatface, there's a new contender for silliest name. The British public has voted to name a new leaf-removal train: Ctrl-Alt-Deleaf.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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From the NYT morning newsletter:
“Seven tech companies now account for more than a third of the value of the S&P 500 and trade at prices 70 times higher than their earnings, on average.”
Doesn’t seem like a healthy way to structure an entire economy.
“Seven tech companies now account for more than a third of the value of the S&P 500 and trade at prices 70 times higher than their earnings, on average.”
Doesn’t seem like a healthy way to structure an entire economy.
October 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
From the NYT morning newsletter:
“Seven tech companies now account for more than a third of the value of the S&P 500 and trade at prices 70 times higher than their earnings, on average.”
Doesn’t seem like a healthy way to structure an entire economy.
“Seven tech companies now account for more than a third of the value of the S&P 500 and trade at prices 70 times higher than their earnings, on average.”
Doesn’t seem like a healthy way to structure an entire economy.
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Next time it's taken down, melt it
Into ammo
For the purges
Into ammo
For the purges
Washington Week in Review:
* The East Wing came down
* Statue of Confederate Albert Pike went back up
* The East Wing came down
* Statue of Confederate Albert Pike went back up
October 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Next time it's taken down, melt it
Into ammo
For the purges
Into ammo
For the purges