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Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you! Margarita mix + tonic water + ice slushie is my current go-to

Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 2d

This is my toddler’s favorite book right now but this page freaks me out

Two pages of a children’s book, one with a high contrast black and white rendering of a child, and the opposite page with the same image but inverted colors. Red text below reads “children smile”

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Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 2d

My team built this and it’s pretty fun www.heroku.com/blog/turn-id...

Welcome to Heroku Vibes

Turn your ideas into apps with Heroku Vibes. Our AI-powered agent lets you build and deploy simply by describing what you want.

www.heroku.com

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 14d

headline in my inbox: "The War on Tylenol". Except that it isn't? It's a eugenicist war on pregnant people, blaming them and their medical caregivers for autism, which the eugenicists regard as a fate worse than death. Focusing on Tylenol hides that fact.

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Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 16d

there are simply not enough delicious beverages that contain neither caffeine nor alcohol

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Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 18d

a man with red hair and a beard is standing in the woods

ALT: a man with red hair and a beard is standing in the woods

media.tenor.com

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Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 18d

No, ‘tis I who love the trains

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Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 18d

texting this to my husband every time I want to talk about public transit infrastructure

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Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 18d

All of this is ridiculous but it was kind of fun to see a meme be born in real time

Screengrab from a news broadcast with RFK Jr.’s face and “Autism Announcement” printed in large capital letters

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18d

One thing conservatives are gonna do is they’re gonna make sure pregnant people are suffering as much as possible—because, of course, they hate women and want them to suffer!

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Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 18d

this also means that basically everyone takes it at some point during pregnancy because pregnancy is uncomfortable and also very dehydrating (I’m a headache girlie)

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Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 18d

hey so tylenol is the only pain reliever considered safe during pregnancy so by saying pregnant folks shouldn’t take it (in addition to being based on dubious research) is essentially just telling them they can’t have pain relief

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Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 18d

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Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 19d

Sorry to everyone who has followed me recently that I am mostly retired from Posting

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Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 19d

Freedom, another member of the Ruby Central Board, wrote this post, but it closely aligns with my feelings and experiences as well.

apiguy.substack.com/p/a-board-me...

A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy

What a week it's been as a Ruby Central Board Member.

apiguy.substack.com

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Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 20d

Isn’t a lot of what they’re expected to learn at that age those emotional and social skills? I know things like talking and early vocabulary are important, but I’d think that self-regulation is a prerequisite to pretty much everything.

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Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 21d

I think we can definitely consider this and other ways to involve the community more. I would be curious to know how PSF deals with some of these challenges.

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Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 21d

And yes, I limit replies and quote tweets because I don’t want to spend all my time moderating my bluesky, feel free to screenshot and dunk on me as you see fit.

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Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 21d

Also, not for nothing, but the board is made up of volunteers trying their best and not some mysterious evil overlords. We felt this was in the best interest of the people who use our infrastructure, and we do want to work with the community on next steps.

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Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 21d

Just to be clear, Ruby Central has not taken money from DHH/Basecamp.

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Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 21d

Hi Mike! The nomination process is not secret, it’s a public form that is posted on our socials when we have openings. The current process is that the existing board interviews and selects the new members from those nominations, since they have the most context on the gaps we’re trying to fill.

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Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 22d

The intention of these changes was not to shut out past maintainers but to protect Ruby Central and our role in the supply chain as we determine in collaboration now to move forward.

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Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 22d

They are part of an effort to harden our supply chain security posture and will be followed by discussions as to how to develop a sustainable governance model going forward.

I’d refer you to this post for more info: rubycentral.org/news/strengt...

Strengthening the Stewardship of RubyGems and Bundler

Ruby Community, At the heart of Ruby Central’s mission is our responsibility to steward the open source tools that power the Ruby ecosystem. That commitment is only as strong as the people and proces...

rubycentral.org

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Valerie Woolard @valeriecodes.bsky.social · 22d

Hi folks, I am the president of the Ruby Central board. I don’t have time to reply to posts individually, but I do want to make clear that recent changes to permissions in our open source projects were done in collaboration with the organization’s leadership and not by one person unilaterally 🧵

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · Sep 4

An update in the case of a 21-yr-old Kentucky student charged with ‘abuse of a corpse’: The county coroner declined to answer whether the 'infant' in question was full-term despite confirming they have this info, and specified that 'infant' sometimes refers to fetuses:

Kentucky Coroner: When We Say 'Infant', It Could Mean 'Fetus'

Lexington law enforcement knows whether Laken Snelling's pregnancy was full-term—they just won't say

jessica.substack.com

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