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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17h

Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices

Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil

Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world

Founder2: ok that works

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 22h

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 11h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 17h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 2d

Ah yes that’s what was missing from open plan offices: more people talking all the time

Alt text: A tweet from Allie K. Miller reads: “This is absolutely insane and proof that voice is about to transform the workplace. At Wispr, employees use voice hundreds of times a day to multitask across their entire workflow. Here’s one dev using Cursor and Gmail simultaneously, all through WHISPERING, on a $10 mic.” Below the text is a photo of a man seated at a desk in a modern open-plan office, speaking softly into a small desktop microphone while looking at a wide computer monitor that displays code and an open Gmail inbox. The workspace has large windows, high ceilings, and exposed ventilation ducts.

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Cowtown Coder @cowtowncoder.bsky.social · 1d

I blogged again: cowtowncoder.medium.com/jackson-3-0-...

Jackson 3.0.0 (GA) released

(October 3, 2025)

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Cowtown Coder @cowtowncoder.bsky.social · 1d

I blogged again: cowtowncoder.medium.com/jackson-3-0-...

Jackson 3.0.0 (GA) released

(October 3, 2025)

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Spring @spring.io · 4d

‪“Introducing Jackson 3 support in Spring” — @seb.deleuze.fr‬ sharing some insights on the new Jackson 3 support in Spring Boot 4 and related Spring portfolio projects and the guidance for migrating to Jackson 3: spring.io/blog/2025/10...

Introducing Jackson 3 support in Spring

Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

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Cowtown Coder @cowtowncoder.bsky.social · 2d

Liking this idea a lot:

bsky.app/profile/ltro...

but don't know too many artists, alas. But for what it's worth, Jackson project (and I) would be super happy to get a mascot not unlike Avatar I use. :)

Laura Trotta @ltrotta.bsky.social · 11d

as someone with a passion for weird, hand drawn mascots (think gentoo's cow or apache zookeper, hive, tomcat, etc) I'd say the little cowboy is a good candidate :D

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Cowtown Coder @cowtowncoder.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting. But is it too simplistic? cdn.openai.com/pdf/d04913be... (many/most hallucinations due to IDK answer being penalized by evaluations)

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Founder of Antifae @coyoteangel.com · 4d

It's how everyone should preface every comment:

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so we're going to go get pizza."

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 4d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4d

I think something we have to do more of is talk about how kickass a lot of American cities are because right now some people think they’re run by Sharia Law nudists and most of us never thought to counter that argument because it’s stupid and doesn’t make any sense

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.

While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row

Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.

www.choosechicago.com

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Cowtown Coder @cowtowncoder.bsky.social · 4d

Piece of Shite App, company, the whole package.💩💩😵🤡

Cowtown Coder @cowtowncoder.bsky.social · 4d

TicketMaster. Is. THE. Worst.

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Cowtown Coder @cowtowncoder.bsky.social · 4d

Excellent!

Cowtown Coder @cowtowncoder.bsky.social · 5d

Not the perfect start to workweek/day- CenturyLink outage cutting of Internet

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 5d

This. Immigrants are awesome, and I wish we weren’t so afraid to say it.

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 5d

As the people who insist otherwise try to burn the country, it's important to affirm that immigrants, from everywhere, are awesome, and America is better the more immigrants we have. You have to be just empty and vapid and unimaginably small to reject that.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 8d

ICE writing long screeds whining about someone from Cato calling out their bullshit shows how they know they're losing the narrative here. No one likes ICE. No one trusts ICE. And they're flipping out about how weak they look.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 8d

ICE says I cause assaults on ICE by reciting facts about ICE’s recent shooting but refuses to link to the thread. Only posting a picture. ICE lies and ICE hides. You can read the facts for yourselves

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

It’s essential that you find common ground with Trump supporters. For instance, you know that you have many flaws, and they believe you are less than human. Work with that.

—Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7d

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 7d

Absolutely heinous.

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Cowtown Coder @cowtowncoder.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you!

Cowtown Coder @cowtowncoder.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks!

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tinyrobots.bsky.social @tinyrobots.bsky.social · 8d

OpenRewrite Jackson recipe PR:

github.com/openrewrite/...

update for jackson 3.0.0 GA by sullis · Pull Request #26 · openrewrite/rewrite-jackson

What's changed? jackson 3.0.0 GA https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/tools/jackson/jackson-bom/ https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/tools/jackson/core/jackson-core/ https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/tools/j...

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Cowtown Coder @cowtowncoder.bsky.social · 8d

And things improved enough that Jackson 3.0.0 (GA) release is almost a wrap: as usual, Scala module to follow with some delay.
Migration Guide (WIP) at github.com/FasterXML/ja... ; release notes at github.com/FasterXML/ja...

github.com

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