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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 6h

I keep seeing journalism described as an "ecosystem" and I guess that tracks because it's undergoing an extinction crisis caused by billionaires, too.

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 6h

Oh that’s funny. Only if you get a Bahn Card 100 do they send you a physical card anymore. Us plebs on Bahn Card 50s and 25s have to “load our card into the app”.

Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 6h

Offering me a €250 Bahn Card 50 for €50 might even be a good way to get me on the train, Deutsche Bahn. Or at least make me think that it would be. Well played.

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 6h

Them: “Why is this so hard to understand?!”
Me: “Well, there’s a really good reason it’s because… [thinks] wait a minute, I guess it doesn’t need to be this complicated.”
Them: “We could just…”
Me: “Yes we could, let’s change it.”

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 15h

Bumped into the sister of my arch enemy yesterday. My nemesister.

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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 13h

Word of the Day: ANTIMETABOLE - a rhetorical device when words are repeated in successive clauses, but swapped. For instance JFK's "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country", or Snoop Dogg's "With my mind on my money and my money on my mind."

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 6h

Fascinated to find out what the story is here.

Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 7h

I can commend https://tuple.app to you, it’s the best tool we’ve found. Remote pairing is still strictly worse than in-office, but with people who are at least somewhat experienced it works ok.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10h

Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 8h

The apps “look pretty” but they’re impossible to use, full of nonsensical navigation schemes, “who knows what the fuck this button does” mystery meat UI and failure to support obviously useful system feature integrations.

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 8h

Everywhere else in the world has them at the breaker box.

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 8h

I know a couple who have the same (typically perceived as gender neutral) first name. It’s adorable.

Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 8h

Isn’t he the “Norwegian Chef” in Sweden?

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 11h

I do an exaggerated dismissive eyeroll, like they’re not even worth insulting.

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Crowbar @crowbar.wtf · 17h

I wonder if Malcolm Turnbull feels a jab of pain everytime the NBN goes down here and the Teen slides another pin into his Voodoo Doll.

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Charles Miller @carl.fish · 22h

Remembering that San Francisco “crime wave” that magically stopped being a problem the moment the District Attorney the conservatives didn’t like was recalled.

Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 1d

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

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Mark Kriegsman @markkriegsman.bsky.social · 1d

Carl Sagan’s Apple Pie Recipe
Ingredients: 1.5e53 kg matter (any)
Prep time: 121,000,000,000,000.5 hrs
Cook time: 1 hr
Directions: Compress matter until internal temp is 10e15 GeV. Place on countertop, allow to expand & cool, about 13.8B years. Within the result, locate apples, cinnamon, sugar…

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 14h

Paging Matt Levine…

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

"As of writing, Tesla has at least $48.39 billion in debt.

However, Musk has also used his Tesla stock as collateral for SpaceX, Twitter, and Tesla loans. Before he bought Twitter, over half of his shares were collateralised; now, that figure is far, far higher."

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting piece: if Tesla collapses Musk’s entire empire could come crashing down because of the way he’s structured the companies’ finances.

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 1d

Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 14h

Because anyone entering the loo would be at great risk of being smacked in the face by someone exiting a cubicle?

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 1d

"Person waiting for a friend to finish tying their shoes"

x.com/dailyportalz...

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mcc @dryad.technology · 1d

In retrospect, maybe it should have been a red flag earlier that they called my degree a "BS in computer science"

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 1d

[imagines same thing, shudders]

(Seriously tho, the web is a terrible application platform. And I would argue open protocols and native clients count as “the web”)

Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 1d

Checking in for a Ryanair flight and the app wants my date of birth and my expiry date. Dude, Ecclesiastes 9:12?

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 1d

It stops your mutes from being public, is what I meant.

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