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miriamposner.com
Whewwww
6:44 ₫ • Bluesky "A WOMAN I did not know in the cubicle next to me broke down. She was literally wailing, inconsolable, because she could not get into a childcare facility she could afford on such short notice. She literally had to choose between her little child and working. Her explaining to her manager the way her child cried and begged Mommy to stay home broke me. Then, as if on cue, an email from a person whose account said they were the acting IRS commissioner arrived in our inboxes, reminding us that it was "Mental Health Awareness" month and that we can do such helpful things as "practicing gratitude" and breathing techniques to deal with stress. It also reminded us we can take time off to seek professional help ... I never saw her again, and her cube is now empty." -IRS employee wired.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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eric-reinhart.com
ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
October 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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lukesteuber.com
yes officer, this is the meme that hurt me
The image shows two sets of toy building bricks that resemble tasks lists. On the left, there's a multicolored stack with individual tasks labeled on each brick such as "walk dog," "pay bills," "wash dishes," "mop floors," and "work on project." The stack on the right is a single green brick with the phrase "do everything at once or you fail today" written on its side, suggesting an overwhelming single task.
April 5, 2024 at 8:20 PM
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barryp.bsky.social
Just got home from the Eric Adams scavenger hunt. We had to find 300 children’s teeth hidden in the alley behind Zero Bond, and use them to build “an electric chair for rats.” The winners got to keep the teeth. I hate this city.
August 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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chompskygoat.bsky.social
“When Mike Shulman said, aloud and in front of a camera, “I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of time they spend making music,” everybody knew he was an asshole with no interesting friends. I think it’s important to include Sam Altman in this category of asshole.“
Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say
www.stilldrinking.org
August 27, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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oddoblivion.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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vgdensetsu.bsky.social
Ryoichi Hasegawa on the localisation process for the Japanese version of Ecco the Dolphin (released in June 1993 in Japan):
xcancel.com/rio_hasegawa...
It was back in the early 90s, a time when there was no internet, no email, no Excel, no text files, no TrueType fonts—nothing of what we have today. I had to come up with a solution to deliver all the text data to the developer in Hungary (Novotrade), where no one spoke Japanese. First, I created bitmap images of all the hiragana and katakana characters, as well as commas, periods, exclamation points, question marks, and two types of overstrikes (two dots/circles), something like this: ・・・■■■・・・・・・・・・・ ・・・・■■・・■■■・・・・・ ■■■■■■■■■■■・・・・・ ・■■■■■■■■・・・・・・・ ・・・・■■・・・・・・・・・・ ・・・・■■・■■・・・・・・・ ・・・■■■■■■■■■・・・・ ・・■■■■■■■■■■■・・・ ・■■・■■・■■・・■■■・・ ・■■・■■・■■・・・■■・・ ■■・・■■■■・・・・■■■・ ■■・・・■■・・・・・■■■・ ■■・・■■■■・・・・■■・・ ■■■■■・■■・・・■■・・・ ・■■■・・・・・・■■・・・・ ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ I then printed all characters page by page and FAXED nearly 100 pages to the developer, and their artist converted them into nicely shaded Japanese fonts. Each character was assigned a code based on rules such as: H for hiragana, K for katakana 01, 02, 03, 04, 05 for vowel rows A, K, S, T, N, H, M, Y, R, W for consonant columns d for overstriking dots, c for overstriking circles sp for space (Note: I might not remember all the rules perfectly now, lol.) For example, the phrase "こんにちは" should be converted to something like: H05K, H05W, H02N, H02T, H01H The developer sent me all the in-game dialogues via fax. I translated them and assigned each string a number for easy reference, instead of saying something like "the third window of the second dolphin in stage 2." Now here's the best part: once I finished translating all the dialogues, I typed them into a word processing program (like an early version of WordPad), then converted each letter to its corresponding code, character by character. I printed all of this out and faxed dozens of pages to the developer, who then had to convert them back into dialogue data. To my surprise, the system we created was quite robust. There were only a few text-related bugs, mostly caused by my typos. I still work in game localization. It feels like we were in the stone age compared to today's methods, but I still cherish those moments.
August 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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logophobe.bsky.social
Here's a free policy idea for Dems: take DHS' entire budget, give it to the IRS, and have them doing no-knock raids in major cities' high-rise penthouses. Throw some guys in nice suits into unmarked vans instead of day laborers and their kids
August 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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antlervel.vet
So all those good, professional, apolitical soldiers who'd never take a fascist order are gonna refuse to deploy to US cities any time now, right
August 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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yjb.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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cosmoslionheart.bsky.social
Rasputin with speech bubble
May 30, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Recommending Balatro to my friends
That episode of Star Trek where Riker was on a sex planet and got addicted to a videogame that is explicitly said to be basically cocaine
May 13, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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mattbors.bsky.social
you'll never be rid of him
April 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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bennygesserit.bsky.social
Ya ever think about how Dartrix looks just like Alan Cumming in 2011
Dartrix Alan Cumming with long hair
April 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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premthakker.bsky.social
Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.
April 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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hoovybaby.bsky.social
Guy in a hot dog costume in a room with other people. I’d face is covered with the Democrats logo, and he’s saying We're all trying to find a guy to do something
April 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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drewtoothpaste.bsky.social
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you don't have to "accomplish" anything chilling is free and you don't need a degree
February 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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robdenbleyker.com
the twitter approach to downsizing is going great I see
February 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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micahh.bsky.social
Atlanta police have set up secret surveillance cameras outside of Stop Cop City activists' houses and gathering spots––and they refuse to answer any questions about the cameras
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Cameras have appeared outside homes of Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ activists. Why are they there?
Cameras are hidden in unmarked boxes on utility poles in a move residents and advocates call ‘creepy’ and ‘corrosive’
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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asherelbein.bsky.social
I hate it when my ailing king is usurped by his scheming foreign vizier
February 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM