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Rich Lafferty
@rich.lafferty.ca
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Disaster prevention chihuahua. Reliability at PagerDuty. Living on unceded land in Punamue'katikt, Mi'kma'ki (Dartmouth, NS). May all beings be free from suffering. He/him. also hachyderm.io/@mendel. formerly @mendel on twitter. www.lafferty.ca
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · Oct 19
Well this thing seems to be getting popular. Intro post(s) time!

Professionally, I'm a staff reliability engineer (#SRE) at PagerDuty, where my interests lie in #LearningFromIncidents, #HumanFactors and safety.

Personally... (1/2 - cat pictures to follow)
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d
after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports
Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.
www.consumerreports.org
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 22h
wow drake's STILL losing this fight
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Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 23h
NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 1d
a big drink tumbler (i.e. a "Stanley cup") with a Jays logo on it
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 1d
the writers are really phoning it in this season
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 1d
(espresso, milk disclaimed)
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 1d
checking them twice
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 1d
time for flywheels!!
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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 2d
Happy World Cephalopod Day! 🐙This sucker for adventure feels its way through the world!

With thousands of chemical receptors and millions of texture receptors packed into each sucker, the giant Pacific octopus has a real sense for exploration.
A red-colored giant Pacific octopus with one eye poking out from its body while stretching out its arms, and showing off its white, round suckers
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 2d
like riding with geese
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 2d
Could mount it way up front and give the button to the kids to push. I can't think of any way this could go wrong.
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 2d
OK! ᴼᴷᵎ BLUE JAYS! ᴮᴸᵁᴱ ᴶᴬʸˢᵎ LET’S! ᴸᴱᵀ’ˢᵎ PLAY! ᴾᴸᴬʸᵎ BALLLL!
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 3d
i am also Team Blow-up Pillow (which I think I bought in the mid-2000s) although really I'm more Team Window Seat Lean. I don't know how people can carry those stuffed pillows for their ENTIRE TRIP
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 3d
true, true

(also the temptation to say "too soon" was high)
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 3d
HONK HONK HONK HONK

(Cruise ships Zuiderdam and Queen Mary 2 are both departing Halifax, passing Brilliant Lady who is still at anchor and there is a LOT of HONKING)
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 4d
oh come ON
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 4d
Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 4d
do judges usually schedule 45-minute-notice sunday night hearings when they're happy with defendants
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 4d
Norway
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 6d
good teamwork, good teamwork
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 6d
i hadn't reached the 4m 3-year-old at first but then I was like "wait. perhaps I misunderstand."
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 6d
oh wait that's the DISTANCE lol
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 6d
the scale is right but i think something happened to those labels

that 2.3m 5-year-old gonna have a hell of an NBA career
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 6d
seems that way yeah, see "Special Configurations" here

www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/handb...

(I'm not in CA but that kind of restriction on vanity plates is common i think)
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 6d
I think it means it looks like a non-personalized plate
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Rich Lafferty @rich.lafferty.ca · 7d
courtesy a coworker, apparently there's an album release today or something
the same mean girls scene as in the previous post, except that Jonathan Bennett's head is replaced by Travis Kelce and Lindsay Lohan's with Taylor Swift
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Fred Hebert @ferd.ca · 21d
New SRE team swag is in
A t-shirt showing a pile of tires on fire, saying in large typeface: “fight fire with tire”, with a small byline below saying “SRE: fixing software with more software since January 1st 1970” There are also 3 round stickers: 1. A bus labelled “SRE” dumping shit off a bridge onto a boat (in reference to the Dave Matthew’s bus tour incident), framed with text saying “Shitposting Reliability Engineering” 2. A bee on fire framed with text saying “honeycomb on-call incident commander” 3. A computer on fire with multiple bees flying around framed with text saying “honeycomb on-call incident responder”
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