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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Learned that Chris Philip is currently speaking at the Conservative conference because @maccymacx came in, saying, “Some racist man is talking bullshit on the TV.”

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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

"Screen readers aren’t broken. They don’t need "saving" by AI. What needs fixing is the way we, as humans, use language and iconography online. Accessibility is a shared responsibility, and the most powerful tool we have isn’t artificial intelligence, it’s empathy."

Good stuff from @craigabbott […]

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James Smith 💾 @floppy.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 7d

They seem to have left the ending off the Royal Society letter about Musk supporting Tommy Robinson, in which they strip him of his Fellowship. Weird.

https://royalsociety.org/news/2025/10/statement-from-president-royal-society/

A statement from the President of the Royal Society | Royal Society

A statement from Adrian Smith, President of the Royal Society, regarding threats to the values that allow science to flourish.

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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

@floppy “Council believes that it is not the role of the Royal Society to police the personal political opinions of individual Fellows and disciplinary procedures should not be initiated because of a Fellow’s social and political views.” Oh FFS! 😡

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

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 7d

RIP Jane Goodall.

A Far Side cartoon: two chimps sit in a tree. The female chimp (with horn-rimmed glasses) inspects the male chimp’s fur and says, “Well, well – another blond hair. Conducting a little more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”

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Joris Meys @jorismeys.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Dear dr. Goodall, thank you for a life of dedication, and for being an example that inspires the next generation of legends. Rest in peace.

A young Jane stands wih her back to the camera, looking down at a big chimp that stands half a meter to her right. They exchange a banana. The background is a jungle path in an open patch in the jungle.

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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

This flowchart is also super useful for “Do I need a single page JavaScript app?”

https://twoot.site/@luci/115293466350598609

It’s Luci, bitch (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image I made a flowchart to help you navigate the current enterprise IT landscape

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 8d

i dropped vercel when its ceo announced he was super excited about all the changes coming under the trump administration and i would highly encourage anyone considering migrating to another platform to consider throwing @coolify.io up on a vps and saying goodbye to platform providers forever

Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 8d

Developers drop Vercel, call for boycott after CEO posts selfie with Netanyahu - https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/developers-drop-vercel-call-boycott-after-ceo-posts-selfie-netanyahu

Developers drop Vercel, call for boycott after CEO posts selfie with Netanyahu

The cloud platform faces subscription losses as users migrate, amid growing scrutiny of Israel’s wider push to influence tech and social media

www.middleeasteye.net

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 8d

Reebok has ordered Israel to remove its logo from football national team uniforms.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Piccalilli @piccalilli.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

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https://piccalilli.link/md-pre-order-24-hours-masto

Mindful Design

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Amelia Bellamy-Royds @ameliabr.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Sometimes, I wish "software engineer" actually *was* a regulated profession, so we could revoke the licence of anyone who builds a website with links that are not actually links and do not open in a new tab when you Ctrl-Click on them.

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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

https://youtube.com/watch?v=96UtZPLiT90

Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

242 Shepherds Bush Road, site of the Hammersmith Palais. Didn’t take a photo of this, as it’s now a very boring PureGym, just down from the police station. Kind of a shame that they knocked this down.

https://www.urban75.org/london/hammersmith-palais.html

Hammersmith Palais music venue, 242 Shepherds Bush Road London W6 7NL, Hammersmith, London

www.urban75.org

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Gregory Brown @skillstopractice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Being kind is more important than being nice.

Assuming good intentions when dealing with people who have established patterns of abuse is an abdication of responsibility.

People with different values and worldviews can work together, but some values and worldviews are fundamentally […]

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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

“Dos dedos mis amigos, everything’s cool.”

Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Fela Kuti’s house in Shepherds Bush.

A Georgian terraced house in Stanlake Road, with a blue plaque to show that Fela Kuti lived there in 1958.

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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2zlKPgrItwE

Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Starfield Road.

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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Some wisdom from my dad, on the 4th anniversary of his passing.

In the final minute of the game the Vernon Villa number 10 said to me "You are the fucking worst wank referee I have ever seen " ( surely "wank" is a noun, not an adjective? ). I was surprised, as I had not made a single mistake during the whole of the match.

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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

22 St Peter’s Square. The old Island Records studio in Chiswick. Bob Marley, Aswad, and (I think) The Smiths all recorded here.

A large Georgian house with a statue of an eagle above the entrance columns. A blue plaque says: Island Records, 1973 to 2005.

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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Bad word!

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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.org.uk · 9d

Intrigued by this immersive installation that’s opening at the Serpentine Gallery this week.

www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/dan...

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley: THE DELUSION - Serpentine Galleries

A new video game commission and multiplayer immersive experience run on game engines from Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley that explores themes of polarisation, censorship and social connection. A new vide...

www.serpentinegalleries.org

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Here's the CEO of Vercel chatting with Netanjahu about AI _today_.

Great that Mr Rauch is now "Optimistic for Peace, safety and greatness for Israel and its neighbors". People in Gaza will be very happy.

You still deploying all your shit to Vercel and using their software stack?

Sceenshot of a Tweet from Guillermo Rauch (Vercel CEO) about the conversation he had today with motherfucking Benjamin Natanyahu about "AI empowering everyone to build software".

He ends it with "Optimistic for Peace, safety and greatness for Israel and its neighbors".

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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Plan Vert, an open letter calling on Rails Core to cut ties with DHH.

https://github.com/Plan-Vert/open-letter

GitHub - Plan-Vert/open-letter: An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence

An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence - Plan-Vert/open-letter

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